Midway through her 3rd year of university, Heather MacLean hasn’t had a date in seven months. With nothing new in her love life, she starts to fall back into old habits—and old insecurities. Her first love, Ben Jones, is back after two years in Switzerland. Maybe there’s still a chance he can make Heather happy for life. And then there’s the more dangerous prospect of […]
In The Candy Shop War, friends Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon met the evil magician Belinda White, whose magical confections enabled the kids to do incredible feats of strength and magic. In this sequel, Nate and his friends meet Mrs. White’s brother, Mr. White, who owns Arcadeland, a local amusement center. At Arcadeland, kids can play games and earn thousands of tickets, which are redeemable […]
Things are getting better—right? Her final year of high school in a small “Mormon town” starts out fine for perennial new-girl Heather MacLean. She’s dating her dream boy, Ben, and she’s set to become the town’s first female valedictorian. But when Ben leaves for university, Heather makes friends with the town’s resident vampire-boy. Will she make it out of high school unscathed? Read excerpt Title: […]
The letters of the note swam away in the flood of tears that dimmed his vision. He brushed them away, and the name of the author appeared below the note. Written in bold, painstakingly formed letters, it leaped at him: Wilhelm Krause. Old Bill. Mark never imagined that preparing for his mission would mean caring for an aging invalid like Old Bill. The experience is […]
In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi — the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament exposes his disability, and Taemon is exiled to the powerless colony. The “dud farm” is not […]
You can’t change the past but you can choose the future! Twenty-five years ago… Emma Sanderson’s life was completely overturned. Her baby sister was kidnapped, right there in Comfort Cove, and her family fell apart. Now… Emma lives quietly, cautiously. Until suddenly she finds out that the cold case involving her sister’s disappearance has been reopened. Then, she ends her engagement—and meets another man. Chris […]
Some secrets are too big to keep. Amelia is used to being upstaged by her charismatic younger sister, Charly. She doesn’t mind, mostly, that it always falls to her to cover for Charly’s crazy, impulsive antics. But one night, Charly’s thoughtlessness goes way too far, and she lands both sisters in serious trouble. Amelia’s not sure she can forgive Charly this time, and not sure […]
There is a place where sorrows pile up like snow and rest in your hair like cherry blossoms. Boys have wings, monsters fall in love, women fade into nothingness, and the bones of small children snap like twigs. Darkness will surely devour you–but it will be exquisitely lovely while doing so. Mercedes M. Yardley’s Beautiful Sorrows is an ephemeral collection encompassing twenty-seven short tales full […]
Ella Davies hates Christmas. Every year she spends the holidays working, trying to forget the pain of a childhood tragedy that left her all alone. But this season, Ella’s about to learn something that only an angel can teach her. With the help of an unlikely friend, Ella gains new hope and discovers the truth about her past, learning the power of forgiveness along the […]
Marva Ferguson has a very personal Christmas tradition that happens every December 26. As an aging widow, the tradition means more to her now than it ever has. Her newest neighbor, nine-year-old Charlee, loves Christmas too. But her family has fallen on hard times and things get worse when Charlee becomes critically ill. On December 12, Charlee makes a wonderful discovery. A mysterious note is […]