The Lighthouse At Land's Edge: A Short Story - format ePub

"We are..." He paused, thinking. "We are...Intermediaries." In Montana, a boy in distress is pushed to the edge. A firefighter holds the lives of both himself and another by a thread in New York. In...

Angels. Spirits. Superheroes. Gods. Whatever their name, they are always watching. A frightened runaway in northern Massachusetts. A traumatized widow in Missouri. A tense barroom altercation in Texas....

Experience one of the first short stories ever written by TAYLOR DYE… The wide expanse of freshly cut grass. The dirt of the infield, churned and smoothed. The newly lain, bright white paint, outlining...

Also includes "Flight to Dover", a never before published short story by Taylor Dye. "We're right here with you, and we always will be." September 11, 2001.What begins as an ordinary day…can become extraordinary...

Where do animals go when they die? For millennia, the answers, based upon the most modern understandings of science and religion, have amounted to mere guesswork. But, in Taylor Dye's "Cat, Inc.", the...

On the uneven bars, it's easy to miss. Reaching out for the bar too late, flipping too fast or too slow, a grip not fully secured—there are a thousand ways for a routine to go wrong, and only one way...

A few fallen leaves twist and tumble across a sidewalk. Flags wave and flutter in the breeze. It's so quiet, you can hear the clips of the flags as they tap against the poles. The various buildings on...

The Embark Square Aquatic Sports Complex. The 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay. The national championship is on the line. The pressure, along with the noise from the crowd, continues to build as you step...

A new short story from the creator of The Intermediaries… Surviving the harsh, mountainous terrain of Jacob's Peak can be a challenge at any time of year. Much more so in the heart of winter. And much...

"We are..."He paused, thinking."We are...Intermediaries."In Montana, a boy in distress is pushed to the edge. A firefighter holds the lives of both himself and another by a thread in New York. In Georgia,...

“Look at me.I’m right here.I’m not leaving you.”A national tragedy at a school in Washington. A boy bullied and abused in Maryland. A girl suddenly collapses in Illinois. The search for a special gift...

Angels. Spirits. Superheroes. Gods.Whatever their name, they are always watching.A frightened runaway in northern Massachusetts. A traumatized widow in Missouri. A tense barroom altercation in Texas....

From the creator of the Intermediaries series...   SOMETIMES, superheroes are born. Or created. Manufactured. Invented.   But sometimes, they arise out of CIRCUMSTANCE. A certain series of events taking...

A new short story from the creator of The Intermediaries… There are good basketball players. There are great basketball players. And then there's Augustus Jones. Step onto the court with one of the greatest...

WARNING: This story involves potentially triggering language and subject matter, and is intended for mature audiences only. Discretion is strongly advised. Sometimes the mind is a terrible thing… Perhaps...

From the mind of Taylor Dye… An unspeakable tragedy. A beloved child—all of ten years old—is found dead overnight, brutally murdered, his bed the site of a bloody crime scene. A traumatized mother, shocked...

“Tender, thoughtful, and beautifully rendered. . . . A banger debut.” Téa Mutonji, author of My Person“Jasmeen A. Siddiqui just wrote my favourite love story. . . . I couldn’t put it down.” Anne T. Donahue,...

The lives of four sleepless strangers intersect late at night as they attempt to solve not just their own anxieties but also the mysterious disappearance of one of their own, from New York Times bestselling...

Two violent crimes challenge the investigative skills of young Daniel Pitt and his wife, Miriam, in the final novel of iconic mystery writer Anne Perry's beloved Daniel Pitt series.“A towering achievement...

"Warm, smart, hilarious, delicious, riveting."—Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy “Powerful… There are multiple messes in Leave Your Mess At Home; I loved reading...

'The Substance meets Yellowface' PEOPLE'A juicy, twisty take on aging, success, and race . . . sure to be one of the hottest books of spring' MARIE CLAIRE----------------THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO GET...

The Celestial War shattered the Heavens; after millennia, the battle still rages.On the most important day of Zahra's career at the Gallery of Time Museum, everything unravels. A mysterious package arrives...

"'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart," writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to this retrospective collection of twenty-five stories written...

From the author of Hearts Still Beating comes a chilling and romantic supernatural novel set in a small town with dark secrets, about a teen girl who falls in love with a ghost.No one is safe in Blackridge.Not...

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the...

“By turns bonkers, blissful, hilarious, and full of sorrow, Harmless drinks at the bar with McCarthy’s The Group and Dunham’s Girls.”—Emma Copley Eisenberg, nationally bestselling author of HousematesA...

The Antediluvian Extravaganza's Fortune Teller has spent the last months taking care of a complete stranger, a woman. Gemini was found in the woods, unconscious and left to the elements. The highly traumatized...

Gareth Ellis is forty-four, works in the Aberystwyth housing office, and just wants to eat his chips in peace. But a wet Wednesday on the promenade goes wrong when a spectral corgi interrupts his dinner...

Violet Dey gets a frantic call from her childhood friend, Fiona Madison. Fiona's husband vanished after a night out. The local sheriff was quick to close the case.But Fiona knows her husband, the good...

Sima Shaikovsky has always had a knack for finding strays. So when she's on her way home from the Mackenzie Farm and sees a stray hanging out on a street corner, of course she stops. But this stray isn't...

When the master book of fairy tales is shaken by a wayward human, the stories within are thrown into chaos — and Bella's quiet village is the first to feel the consequences.Instead of taming a cursed...

When your name is Daisy, you get used to flower jokes. When your name is Daisy and your family owns a flower shop, your life becomes the joke. Event planner Daisy Greene never wanted any part of running...

She came to Brighton to save her brother—she never meant to steal a king's fortune… or his heart.Charlotte Bathurst has spent years scraping together every spare coin to bring her ailing brother to Brighton,...

Award-winning Ukranian author Artem Chapeye’s new novel follows a young couple who escape city life to the mountains in Ukraine, only to discover an altered reality upon their return. As in Ling Ma’s...

Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian language poet, Milo De AngelisAn arrow hits a grape and carries it through the air, a hand...

An epic, Lovecraftian horror novel in the vein of Black River Orchard and American Elsewhere about a small town that becomes obsessed with a series of random objects left strewn across their town in the...

In this blend of police thriller and poignant autofiction, a writer revisits a tragic crime from his adolescence and reckons with a dark, underexplored side of Spain.On Christmas Eve 1995, Miguel Ángel...

Dark, Southern gothic tale of homicide detective Raven Burns, with a complicated past and a desperate case to solve. Black Girls Lit recommends the first book, A Killing Fire "to crime fiction and mystery...

A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who...

Darkness lurks in the shadows as a betrothed princess wrestles with a dangerous new magic that threatens her bond with her beloved horse—and a forbidden love for the enemy sworn to protect her.Zara has...

To imagine a world that gets it right, we must confront the betrayals that brought it where it is. For fans of dystopian and speculative fiction, God Bless You, Mr. Trump prompts each of us to decide...

A floundering twenty-something who’s sworn off romance finds herself roped into her meddling sister’s matchmaking business in this sparkling debut romcom that asks: Can we protect ourselves while falling...

A superstar lineup is included in this urban fantasy collection featuring short stories from New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Holly Black, Kim Harrison, Faith Hunter, and more …In this...

In this witty and delightful follow-up to the “glam and glorious” (Kat Ailes, author of the Expectant Detectives Mysteries) Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder, Pom finds herself in the middle of a murder...

A provocative, fast-paced novel about two creative women—a young writer fighting to be heard and an older producer clinging to relevancy—and the age reversal treatment that intertwines both of their lives…from...

In this spellbinding fantasy debut set in a future where language magic reigns, a young Hawaiian woman must solve a murder to clear her name.Kea Petrova is dealing with more than her fair share of trouble....