Candace Smith: 6 books

Miranda is beautiful, but deep within her is a fire that is not of the Earth. She knew she was different, but she could never have imagined her love, the huge warrior waiting far across the Galaxy. There are other forces at work, and Miranda unknowingly holds secrets of the Celestial Ancients. Her huge, muscle-bound warrior must possess her totally – just as she must possess him.

From ragpicker, to thief, to whore. For a girl brought up in the slums of New York’s Five Points, born to one of the immigrant families whose dreams of a new life ended right there, that was her most likely career path. Some, maybe, would find a husband, and perhaps he would neither spend their...

Essie was a pilot, flying missions against insurgents in the desert. She was efficient and beautiful, and the object of desire of every young man. She never made mistakes. Never. Except… just once, on her last mission before leaving for a new job at NASA, and it was a fatal mistake. She kept the...

Daphine lived on Earth, in an alternative dimension where women were expected to be totally subservient and docile. She always knew there was something wrong with her existence, but what was the alternative? To be exiled, to live among the hunters outside the safety of the cities, where life would...

In the world of sex slave trading, the carefully cultivated “flowers” produced by Cynthia, her husband Alexander, and their four sons, are much sought-after. When one of the sons brings back a girl who is clearly very different from the others and has apparently fallen in love with her, it is the beginning of some major changes in their family and in the way they live.

From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today. Everyone’s...