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Welcome to Rabbit Creek.... City girl Elizabeth Reynolds hopes to find peace and contentment in the small Appalachian town of Rabbit Creek. Okay, so the bucolic cottage she's rented turns out to be a dilapidated cabin without phone service, but the people she meets are wonderful. Friendly and down to earth, they welcome her with open arms. It's just like moving to Mayberry...if Andy and Aunt Bea were wolves. Only an outsider would call them werewolves.

Lone wolf and Special Investigator for the ubiquitous Eugene Begley, Challenger McCall is sent to the town of Gold Gulch to take care of a problem that might involve the exposure of the wolver community. For McCall, it's like stepping back in time - 150 years back in time. Gold Gulch is a tourist attraction where the wolvers take their work so seriously, they continue their Victorian lives long after the tourists have gone home.

Her name was Crimson...and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights.

With one sniff, sex researcher Leigh Fromm recognizes that any offspring she might have with the mysterious stranger would have a better-than-average chance of surviving any number of impending pandemics. But when Leigh finds out that the handsome "someone" at her great aunt's wake is Prince Roman Habsburg von Lorraine of Austria, she suddenly doubts her instincts - not that she was intending to sleep with the guy.

When her disastrous marriage ends in the most humiliating way, Meg Hanson doesn't know what to do or who to turn to. Unhappy with her life as it was and unwilling to become what her mother and sister envision, she retreats to the little Appalachian town of Preston's Mill, the place where her father was raised. Meg has promised herself six months away from the influences of home to find out who she is and what she really wants out of life.

Jack is a man with no memory, awakening in a dark and dangerous metropolis on the eve of its destruction. The only clue to his former life: a handwritten note in the pages of a book of faerie tales entitled Forevermore. Marked for death in a peacekeeping force sent to quell the riots, he finds sanctuary and survival with other renegades on the streets of Dead City.

Bookish Hero Fenster and heir to a duke Arthur Watterly share a common passion: the Legend of King Arthur. When the pursuit of the original manuscript of Malory's Le Morte d'Artur leads them to be trapped overnight in a bookshop attic, they find themselves unexpectedly married. They might be happy. If only they'd admit their biggest secret: they love each other even more than they love books.

Short Stuff is a compilation of both narrative and poetic forms. I have always loved writing, but it took some jolts from my life journey to lead to more introspection and more freedom to hone these writings into some publishable form.

Lucy Luo. Author, Artist, Curator. Born in Beijing, China. Studied in London, Britain. Lives in NY, America.

Summer of 2020 presents a poetic voice unearthed by the backdrop of the mind-bending events in 2020. Devastating the sensibility of reasonable men and women. Black and white…all colors in between. Events that have stirred us from speechless to responsive. Responding in ways with the expectation to change a nation by rending its heart with truth. There are many who share this land. Yet only two, on who, the events of 2020 were planned. Enter at the beginning. Recall the days. Conclude for yourself, color or fade.

Maria Magliani, a forty-something single mom, finds fate to be unfair and unkind. Since her husband Michael died—purportedly by his own hand—she and her son Chip must fend for themselves, relying on acquired skills and experiences from a parochial Irish-Italian background.

Timing is everything. Sometimes what you see is not what is really taking place.

As I journeyed through this part of my soul, I fell in love with myself and gained more passion for what my life could be. Poems of all styles flow freely in this book displaying all aspects and perspectives of my life: history, woes, troubles, circumstances, ideals, spirituality, graciousness and raw self expression. In this book, I provide a window to my soul, a legacy for the world. I hope that one day these poems will be studied by my descendants far and wide. Just like my heroine Chimamanda Ndichie.

Narrated by a much-loved grandchild, herself now old enough to be a grandmother, the story is about two young people, betrayed by their first loves, who found one another in an unexpected way. Because they’re first cousins, some considered their blossoming love anathema. They didn’t care and spent the rest of their lives unashamedly loving each other. It is also the story of a family, a mother, father, son, and daughter who loved and were loved by the two titular lovers. The book brims with love between mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren, people and pets!

Do you know God? Can we know God? How does one get to know God? Who is God? What God do we want to know? Spending time in God’s presence is the way to get to know him.

The Exorcism is a book addressing the causes of my feelings of being unwanted. We all have our battles and I needed to clear my conscience which has led me to writing The Exorcism. Mental health is a big part of my life and this world, so I feel like it is very important that we address and solve the problems we have so we don’t continue to lose our friends/ family members to suicide. Depression, anxiety, etc., are illnesses that are downplayed and it’s long overdue for it to be taken seriously.

Deehabta’s Song is the story of a woman’s struggle to find herself and return home. A captive who does not consciously know she is a captive, she is forced to fight external and internal foes. With the help of others, she is set free and learns to accept the person she always was, a reality that was hidden in the dark world of her own subconscious mind. A warrior from start to finish, she acts without hesitation to fight against any powerful force, be it a tyrant or the empire itself, to protect the people of her world.

In this second book in the Spot On series, join Lynn and her rescue dogs for another adventure. Animals go through some terrible things in order to survive on their own, which is why Lynn’s rescues are so beloved. This time, they go to Mexico, where a mystery causes chaos at the dog rescue. A scandal evolves. Meanwhile, Lynn is on vacation, hoping to swim and water ski. Instead, she is confronted with unexpected intrigue.

In 2010, I experienced a divine encounter that would change my life forever. God, in his infinite compassion for me, allowed a channel of love to open. Through this channel, God brought teachers, guides, and a loved one who would lead me to my place of surrender. In this space of unconditional love, I was set free from a life of addictions and learned, for the first time, how to live fully as the person God intended me to be.

In this book, Elena has opened her heart and soul to share her thoughts and feelings with her listeners.