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Can before and after become now? Valancy has lived two lives: before and after. Before grief devastated her, she was bold and fearless, with boundless dreams. After, she pulled into herself, leaving that life and its people behind for one of routine and order that promised safety. A decade later, her well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when Will, her best friend from before, shows up in her after. As the two reconnect, Valancy's old dreams begin to rekindle and she wonders if her before and after can become a better now.

Madeline Fellow returns from eight years overseas to Brentwell, her childhood home, just a little late for her own mother’s funeral. Uncertain of her future, she takes a chance by becoming the temporary manager of a quiet little café on the edge of Brentwell’s Sycamore Park. At first life seems to be going well for Madeline, then her ex-boyfriend, Luke Lewis, comes back into her life. Has he really changed from the spoiled, bratty young man she remembers, or hasn’t he?

Having fled a relationship and a previous life she would rather forget, young teacher Jennifer Stevens throws herself into a demanding new job at Brentwell Primary. Charged with marshalling a group of unruly eight-year-olds to the autumn harvest festival, her only solace is the peace of nearby Sycamore Park.

Tired of the city, Grace Clelland returns to Blue Sands, the quiet Cornish seaside village where she grew up. There she will meet old flames and old friends, rekindle old loves and ignite new ones in a novel that will have you dreaming of the soft crash of the waves on the shore, the feel of sand between your toes, overloaded ice-creams and smoky beach barbeques.

A telepath with a lethal twist. My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a wolf shifter, I'm not much of a threat. But as a telepath-spiker, I'm deadly. For six months, life has been peaceful. Business at my panaderia is holding steady, alpha leader Lucas Blacke and I are in a devoted relationship, and the kidnapping attempts have slowed to a crawl.

My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain. Since narrowly escaping a paranormal prison with my life, I made a promise to use my abilities to protect myself and my friends—including my boyfriend, alpha leader, Lucas Blacke. No more hesitation, no more second-guessing, no more rules.

Betty Lennox is an elemental witch on a mission to leave her desert hometown of Smokethorn, California, for good. But first, she needs to sell the property she inherited from her mother to someone who, among other things, doesn’t mind living in a paranormal seniors' trailer park in a town where it’s so hot in summer that the local demons head back to Hades to cool off.

Betty Lennox is an elemental witch in a desert town that gives Hades a run for its money in summer. Her magic is tied to the land under a paranormal seniors' trailer park she inherited from her mother, land that hasn’t fully accepted her. Because of this, her power has become unpredictable, unreliable, and unbelievably inconvenient.

Siren Emmaline Spirett thought she'd escaped her violent past when she rescued her wolf-shifter brother and fled a deadly paranormal organization. But when her past not only resurfaces but snatches her off the street and holds her against her will, she realizes it might not be so far behind her after all. Wolf shifter Juan Martinez is the alpha leader of Texas's largest and oldest pack. Intelligent, protective, and controlling, he's faced down more than one murderous paranormal group.

The second book in the Glorious Summer series from CP Ward, author of the Delightful Christmas series.

Will Mark Matthews accept Redcliff's terms for his daughter's release, surrendering both body and mind to the enemy? Petal's sanity depends upon the fact, for in the sixth and final book of the Pony Tales she is to discover that the fate in store for her at Albrecht is not a pretty one. Shipped off to Leyland Forbes in a steel cage, the pony girl will have to endure all sorts of imaginative bondage and BDSM at his palatial manor, as her body is photographed intimately by several of the world's top photographers.

Self Healing is a handbook to help listeners attain a state of physical, mental and spiritual well-being by taking proper diet, doing proper breathing exercises and embracing a natural lifestyle. The author describes in detail the nutritive value of various foods and their benefits. Almost every disease, every food and every nutrient has been covered. Bodily functions, their rupture and their specific treatment have been discussed.

Lily Markham is having a hard time with things. In the space of a week, she loses her job, breaks up with her cheating boyfriend, and is kicked out of her London flat. With her world crashing down, Lily does the only thing she can: retreat to her charming hometown of Willow River to lick her wounds.

Unlucky-in-love and long-term loner Lucy Drake can find no excuse not to join her parents on a Christmas trip to the Cornish coastal town of Tintagel, not when her father's company is sponsoring the inaugural Christmas Extravaganza. Hoping to hide an embarrassing secret and generally keep out of sight, Lucy finds herself attracted to local surfing dentist, Dan. But when his ex-girlfriend and social media starlet Elizabeth Trevellian shows up to expose all of Lucy's insecurities, Lucy will need all of the magic of Christmas to help her untangle the ensuing mess.

After losing her flat to a fire, thirty-something and single Natasha Bright’s fortunes appear to be on the rise when a friend asks her to look after a beachside summerhouse in the quaint Cornish village of Penkoe for a few weeks. Together with Hannah Lucas, her bubbly and equally-homeless neighbour, Natasha sets off for her Cornish paradise. However, the promised glass palace turns out to be … well, less so, it rains endlessly, the village is a nightmare of oddball locals, and the man next-door is a chauvinist pig.

Annalise never meant to cross the enchanted gates. She was smuggled in after getting dusted with sleeping powder. Once inside the Four Forests, a magical realm filled with magic and creatures she once believed were only stories, nothing was as simple as finding her way back home anymore. Her plan to return to the human realm came to a devastating halt. She had learned the truth of her lineage: she belongs to the Winter Forest. But the Four Forests were dying. Shade magic is spreading, corrupting everything in its path.

Life isn’t going well for forty-something Josie Roberts. Her marriage has dissolved, and the narcissistic songwriter ex-husband who took everything just happens to be the current darling of the music industry with a nationwide viral hit. Without a job and with her home on the market to pay for legal expenses, she lets her best friend Hilda convince her to make a move to the south Cornwall coast. There, Josie struggles to find her feet, with her beloved daughter dropping out of medical school, and then the remnants of a reclusive cult sabotaging her attempts to revive a long-abandoned campsite.

Logan Storm, an ex-Delta Force sniper, with scars on the inside, is drifting through life on his way to nowhere. While trying to make peace with his past, Logan encounters a young bar owner and her brothers, with trouble brewing the size of Montana. Skylar James is worn out. She's trying to raise her two teenage brothers and hold on to the only home they’ve ever known: Five hundred acres won by her father in a poker game before they were born.

Calla Lily Armstrong spent her whole life shielding her heart. Now, she's ready to break down her walls and see what's hiding on the other side. With the help of her new friends Poppy Gentry and Sienna Miller, the three band together to find their happily ever after. One wallflower at a time. Former Atlanta homicide detective Devin Hawthorne moved to Savannah for a change of pace and a fresh start as a private investigator.

Moving effortlessly through a range of styles, from contemporary realist fiction and episodic adventures to three-act plays and polyvocal narratives, Boyko’s chameleon talents reveal the thread that binds his disparate characters and plots: the hunger to hold power and all the ways we are consumed by it. Clear-eyed but not cynical, satirical without being sarcastic, The Children’s War is as entertaining as it is insightful.