Catrina's Cowboy


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Catrina Pearson accepts an invitation from her estranged maternal grandmother in hopes of learning the identity and truth about the father she never knew and why her mother took that secret to her grave. As a photographer who's travelled the world, Catrina is ready to face any challenges the rugged Utah landscape may throw at her, but she's not prepared to handle the reclusive cowboy who ropes her heart. Betrayed by his heritage and family, Clifford White Fox is determined to purchase the acreage surrounding his ranch and build a private world safe from judgment and emotional intrusion. His lifestyle and hard-won serenity are threatened when he stumbles across a naked woman sunbathing on the last parcel of land he needs to acquire




The Heir's Duology


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Leah never understood why her mom made them move so much. Or why her family of freaks can extend vines from their wrists. After getting caught shoplifting, again, Leah is forced to start over. But her unlikely new friends bring her world crashing down. They're like her. And they aren't ... human. Digging deeper, Leah uncovers the secrets her mom kept from her all these years. Her dad didn't die in a tragic accident. He was a king, murdered by his sister for his throne. Pregnant with Leah, her mom fled the besieged palace for the human world. Driven by vengeance, Leah plans to assassinate the queen who destroyed her family and her future. The key to her plan is a boy with a crush on her and connections to the palace. He may be handsome and sweet, but Leah's objective is clear: Date him. Get an invite to his brother's wedding, which the queen will be attending. Kill the queen. But the plan does not go off without a hitch. Caught between her quest for vengeance and her growing feelings for her boyfriend, Leah must decide her new future, unravel the dark legacy of her lineage, and confront the true cost of her choices. In this young adult fantasy duology, secrets abound, and betrayal is all but inevitable; love and revenge blur, and a young woman learns the true meaning of redemption. This omnibus includes both books in The Heir's Duology: Book 1—The Heir of Exile (Book 4 in the Seeder Wars series) Book 2—Soren's Legacy (Book 5 in the Seeder Wars series) Bonus scenes also included: Story 1.5—To Love a Monster: A Villain's Love Story Featuring illustrations, and annotations by the author. The print versions have specialty page edges! READING ORDER: The Heir's Duology is a spinoff duology from the central Seeder Wars trilogy. It can be read as a standalone, though it's recommended to read it after the central trilogy. Either experience gives you a unique reader experience! *The Heir's Duology contains major spoilers for the Seeder Wars trilogy.




Beneath the Screen


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Swallow's Tail


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The Swallow’s Tail – yesterday’s pivot point – tomorrow’s transformation promise. Rone is on the cusp of devastation with the Dalin Clan at its epicentre. The realm is crumbling and each player has his own set of rules to win the game. In Cragholme, home of the beleaguered Dalin Clan, newly ascended Warlord Ratha seeks to purge her people of all connection to the past. With a view toward a future of her own making, old comrades are abandoned or imprisoned, while new allies – living and dead – are recruited in an attempt to realize her vision. Religious leaders in Dunthallen, seat of House Vanne, recognize the instability of the Dalin and seize the opportunity to muster an army and march north with conquest in mind. The former Warlord Gor and his allies, having traversed the cosmos to the Outside in search of vengeance, find that in Hell they come to resemble that which they revile. Despite pain and crisis, seeds of new love are sown. They realize that their path lies in the World of Men, and toward an evil that lurks in the jungle. A new breed of genre fiction – dark, literary, and provocative –Swallow’s Tail continues the gripping saga of Rone, a unique and imaginative world even more compelling for its similarities to our own. As World’s End draws ever nearer, it becomes clear that there is more to fear than just the dark.




Catrina's Nightmare


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Twelve-year-old Catrina has already felt the pain life can brutally throw at you. Her father, once a brilliant neurosurgeon, is now crazed and delusional. He was using his daughter as a guinea pig, experimenting with DNA and gene alteration, searching for a breakthrough formula to create advanced human cloning. Catrina finally found the courage to run away from home, living the life of thievery to survive. She would eventually learn the shocking truths about her family while associating with some unlikely characters: Fernando Bently, the charismatic curator; Rocco Cooper, an ex-con locksmith; and Ziggy, an outspoken homeless person. Over time, Catrina experienced spine-chilling side effects from her father's unproven, careless experiments, changing her genetics, altering her thought patterns, but mostly, and inconceivably, it changed her appearance. Catrina and her best friend Michaela became inseparable, thick as thieves, unaware that their lives will be transformed from their passion for stealing to fighting evil. Their jolting discovery leaves them with no choice; however, evil breeds in many forms, and things are not always as they appear.This novel has two completely different endings for your enjoyment, two shocking conclusions you won't see coming.




The Haunting of Alejandra


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A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review). “Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet.”—Paste A POPSUGAR AND CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors. Because the crying woman was with them, too. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness. But Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers—and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever.




Junior High Journalism


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This revised edition of the perennial classic includes the latest information on the changes and trends in the world of journalism. It includes information on the exciting frontiers in digital journalism, including the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media to spread news. Also covered are the rise of citizen journalism and the new business models being considered because of the troubling times that print newspapers have faced. Students will be poised as tomorrow's journalism professionals with translatable skills no matter what conditions the future brings.




Witch Hunt


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As bestselling novelist Rebecca Spencer, trying to put an ugly divorce behind her, prepares to move back home to Texas, she receives a letter from her high school nemesis, Catrina Sullivan, now on Texas death row for the brutal murder of her 3-year old daughter. What could she possibly want??? Rebecca tosses the letter in a desk drawer and forgets about it. As she is settling back into life in the small East Texas town of Oleander, and struggling against her growing attraction to her high school sweetheart, Sheriff Russell Jareau, Rebecca decides to read Catrina’s letter, only to find that it’s a plea for help. “My appeals are running out. You’re the only one I can trust.” Why me??? Rebecca wonders. How can I be the only one you can trust??? And trust with what??? Curiosity wins out and Rebecca visits Catrina who vehemently denies her guilt. She wants Rebecca to research her case, write her story, and hopefully find something that will exonerate her. Skeptical and unsympathetic, Rebecca agrees to listen to her story, only to come away with growing doubts about Catrina’s guilt. Against everyone’s advice, she begins to delve into the heinous murder, and Catrina’s warning comes back to haunt her: “Be careful. As long as I’m in here with the world thinking I’m guilty, the killer is safe. When you start asking questions, somebody might get worried.” Soon somebody is very worried. People Rebecca interview about the crime begin to die. As the body count rises, she narrowly escapes one attempt on her own life ... and it won’t be the last.




The End of Everything Forever


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Fallen gods. Cloned queens. Psychokinetic squirrels. Atomic werewolves. Hippie zombies. Jell-O monsters. Butter monsters. Booger monsters. An army of philosophers bent on world domination. A cybernetically-enhanced donut maker. The horned-up ghosts of elderly lady serial killers. The frozen head of Walt Sidney. Earthquakes. Fire tornados. A global volcanic winter. A supermassive extradimensional black hole. Dr. Vanilla Ice II. And that's literally not even the half of it. Five books. Seventeen stories. More f-bombs than Microsoft Word can count. Ten years of EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE are collected into a single volume, an omnibus that, like a stoner's rug, ties everything together, from the first doomsday to the very last. THE END OF EVERYTHING FOREVER is a fifty-year epic of extinction events, the genre-spanning saga of a planet in perpetual peril, a world that can't seem to stop itself from ending – and all the nihilists and nutcases, the anti-heroes and con artists and mad scientists and slackers, that keep trying to save it. Even if it is only because there’s nothing on TV that day. With a foreword by Danger Slater. "If The Avengers was written by Terry Pratchett and directed by Kevin Smith, you might end up in the same dimension as the Exponential Apocalypse series." – Kat Clay, Radiant Attack




Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six


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Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this atmospheric and gripping locked-room thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger.