Outside the palace of Versailles, it’s modern day. Inside, the people dress, eat, and act like it’s the eighteenth century—with the added bonus of technology to make court life lavish, privileged, and frivolous. The palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it’s about to become a very beautiful prison. When Danica witnesses an act of murder by the young king, her mother […]
Felicity is no stranger to adventure and peril, in her books or real life, so not much surprises her any more. Even if it’s a visit from an old enemy! But when she sees something that looks suspiciously like smoke in the mountains near her home, Felicity realizes that she’ll need to use all her smarts and courage to help her friends. Especially when a […]
Two haunting novellas… two paranormal fairytale retellings by bestselling authors. Cinderella’s Phantom Prince by Jenni James Prince Adrian died tragically twenty years before, and until he met Adeline, his life had been quite lonely indeed. Suddenly, it is full of intrigues and a yearning desire to get to know the contradictory maiden. One moment, she is a prim and proper miss, and the next, a […]
Michael is enhanced by both genetic tinkering and mechanical implants. Melissa is from a small town and finds the enhanced to be… different. They have both accepted the invitation to join the first colony ship to another planet. But there are some on Earth that don’t want to let them go, and will stop at nothing to destroy them. The first expedition to another star […]
Independent young Kate Porter envisions a future far greater than the middle-class existence she’s always lived, and her work as a governess is simply a means to an end. The glittering world of a society wife calls, and her new position as a private tutor for the children of Mr. Alonzo Colaco is a step in the right direction. She merrily imagines the grand house […]
On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, 250 miles away in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, there was an even more devastating fire. Twelve-year-old Ailis and her younger brother, Quinn, survive, but their family does not. Ailis and Quinn are taken by a family acquaintance to live in a boarding house in Chicago, where they meet six-year-old Nettie, an orphan displaced by Chicago’s fire. […]
It was Price Hudson’s mother who died, but Price feels like it was him. Everything that he used to enjoy—baseball, comics, even girls—seems petty and pointless now. He wants nothing more than to forget his old life and start over somewhere new, where no one knows him and no one expects anything from him. So when his dad decides to move them an hour away, […]
Unexpectedly reunited after six years, high school sweethearts Devin Shanahan and Grace Harrington cross paths and have a whirlwind wedding. A lot can change in six years, however, and they must figure out how to make their two independent lives mesh. Unable to disclose his CIA job to his new wife, when Devin is assigned a top-secret mission to Hong Kong, he tells Grace part […]
Evie Messenger knows that her family is different from other families. But it isn’t until her fifteenth birthday that the Messenger gift is revealed to her. Evie has the family’s gift—a special power. Soon she realizes she is able to see and talk to the dead—ghosts—often with no idea who the person was. Or as Evie says: “I see Dead People. It’s a Messenger gift.” […]
“Jesus, you have guests.” Mary coaxed him out of his shyness as she leaned down, playing with his curly chestnut hair. She then held her graceful hand out, and Jesus grasped two of her fingers. She guided him from behind her robes. He had his mother’s nose and mouth, but his eyes… Nike had never seen such eyes. The clock is ticking as two great […]