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Karl Mackenzie Knows the Song became a Benedictine monk in Montana by default after a drunk driver took the lives of his wife and children. Now known as Father Jacob, he hasn't quite forgiven God and...

Father Jacob Mackenzie Knows the Song grew up in an abusive home. When he discovers bruises on eight-year-old Paul, the ward of the monastery, his carefully sequestered past breaks into his present life....

The cloistered world of St. Alberic's Monastery becomes a battleground of secrets, spiritual quests, and human frailty. Fourteen-year-old Paul, raised among monks who both nurture and dismiss him, faces...

Cosamian Dastou is the last living Saint. His immunity to the Social Cypher, a system of mass-hypnotism that regulates and controls modern life, means that some people worship him, and many think of him...

Foxmeadow and Maria go on a quest to find the missing Scepter of Imagination. They become lost in time and must find their way home.When the quest turns into another, Maria is faced with a decision only...

Missing ring. Stolen passport. Dead body. Getting engaged can be murder. A dead man was found with my passport…but how did he get it? To make matters worse, my engagement ring is missing. I'd planned...

After a freak accident killed his wife and son, Pritchard slipped into alcoholism to drown his sorrows at a blue-collar bar nearby to avoid the dead and empty house. But then a teenage girl asked for...

Welcome to Fairbanks Cove, where sea breezes carry secrets and cats know more than they let on. Lily Fairbanks thought she was just taking her usual morning walk along the beach with Milo, her unusually...

Samar Habeen is a warrior waging two wars—one against the Nightmares that prowl the forsaken streets of Oganja, and another within the silent chambers of her own heart. Grief clings to her like a second...

Plucked from his home by forces unknown, a man finds himself lost between myriad worlds of science and magic, past and future. Saddled with an AI brain passenger, magically morphing armour and burgeoning...

I was sworn to keep the peace, not fall in love.Claire Hollister is trouble. Not because she's reckless, but because the second she came back to Mustang Mountain, I knew I wouldn't let anything touch...

Raven is convinced the world beat her down. Bitter and resentful, she blames everyone but herself for her miserable trailer park existence on the outskirts of Stevats. But when she buys a cheap Santa...

Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. But she can't...

After a thousand years alone, Marcus didn't care when the hunter found him. Rather than kill the vampire, the hunter took Marcus prisoner and from him to aid in the hunts. Neither expected what that beginning...

Delivering LoveWhen small-town midwife Poppy McCrae meets city-trained paediatrician Jake Sheppard, sparks fly—and not the romantic kind. Jake makes no secret of his distrust of Poppy's alternative methods,...

Alex Drydon retired as a rifleman after the Napoleonic wars. In 1821 he sails across the world searching for his pirate brother Bram. His quest leads him to the islands of New Zealand where musket wars...

A punchy Sci-Fi tale of death and disaster in a frozen landscape where it takes every every ounce of courage and resource just to survive.Dressed for the cold, Tab repairs the skater ship detector arrays....

I was his prisoner. Now, I am his only hope. We survived the escape from Aethelgard, but we crashed into hell. The Himmapan Zone isn't just a jungle. It's a bioluminescent graveyard of ancient tech and...

Anchored Hearts: The Promise (Book Four)A faith-filled love story where covenant is tested, surrender is required, and God's promise is revealed.  Every mile, every silence, every prayer has led here...

A slave with forbidden magic. A lonely prince. A love that could burn an empire.Sylvarin is a human slave, born into the royal household of an Incubus clan. To his immortal, lust-eating masters, he is...

A single text shatters Marisol's world: her Army husband's hand laced with another woman's—right there on her phone amid the coffee shop chatter at Fort Bragg. Humiliation ripples through the wives' circle,...

In the kingdom of Bravenstone, peace is a fragile thing.As the annual Reaping approaches, King Aldric Duskheart rules a realm shadowed by the sudden death of his Queen. Though the castle stands calm and...

When the bell tolls thirty-two times in a single Sunday, seventeen-year-old Nomvula  starts counting. By Thursday it has tolled sixty-seven times. By Monday morning she has a question for her teacher,...

Love is never just one thing.The Dichotomy of Love reveals passion in all its forms—sweet, sacrificial, rebellious, and dangerously consuming. From tender young romance to devotion that slips into obsession,...

Exalted has always craved adventure; she finds it in spades, hearts, and stars.This novella is inspired by the world of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-glass", and a bit of old...

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of hope, disappointment, and the slow, silent drift that comes when every month brings fresh heartbreak. Sophie and Daniel Ashford thought a fresh start in the Cotswolds...

A respected rector. A forgotten girl. A truth buried for thirty-two years.When Thomas Nkosi arrives in Makhanda to celebrate the legacy of a beloved school founder, he expects admiration — not absence....

Ollie the octopus loves to play!But his favourite game isn't tag or hide-and-seek. It's splashing his friends with a giant cloud of inky, sticky goo!At first, he thinks it's hilarious. But soon, the little...

LoganA year ago, I made a choice. A bad choice. Out of the blue, I got a shot at moving up from the ECHL to the AHL, probably my last shot at a higher hockey league at age 33. Except at the same moment,...

Wolf Pelt: Cold War in Greece, Love, and Trust Revealed In 1951, the newly established American CIA was getting its feet on the ground. A bankrupt British empire sells its cash-happy cousins a mole-ridden...

Elias never wanted to become a vampire. After a frustrating Northern summer learning how to be a proper fledgling, an ultimatum looms: If he can't embrace his new reality, both his place in the coven...

Quinn West doesn't chase the spotlight. As an author, she's most comfortable behind the pages—observing, entertaining, and never letting anyone get too close. But when her work takes her across cities...

They told her her baby was dead. They lied.Dr. Mao Song was one of the best neurosurgeons in the country until the night her husband died, her life was destroyed, and she was buried alive inside a prison...