J A Pak: 11 books

Food, obsession, heartbreak. Three stories. (These stories first appeared in the literary magazines Quarterly West, Tatlin's Tower and VerbSap.)

Fired from her dream job, broken-hearted Smithie goes back home to recover from the shock. Her new job is as dead-end as they come. But her new boss is something entirely different. She's finding that he's so very easy to love. And that's a problem. “Don't get vulnerable with a guy. Don't...

Her heart shattered, Lily cries on the shoulder of a mysterious stranger. He mends her heart but has dark secrets of his own. Secrets that span thousands of years. A story of love, revenge and redemption.

Lonely and friendless, Arlene lives in a flimsy walk-up. One day a glamorous woman moves in upstairs. Can they become friends? (An original short story.)

"Your eyes are so black. So black. As black as the heart of the devil," Esmene's grandmother tells her. All her life, Esmene's had an uncanny feeling of unbelonging. And then one day she meets a boy whose eyes are as black as hers. Taking her hand, he slips her into a world of strange beauty and great danger. The Djinn world.

In a crumbling garden of stone, a lonely little girl meets a mysterious woman. Is the lovely lady a ghost? A witch? Good or evil? (An original short story.)

The deconstructed adventures of Bellwyn, a most uncommon witch. For all you accidental nonconformists in the making. About Bellwyn, Danzing says: “She lives mostly in her head. Bellwyn’s oblivious to everything around her most of the time. The first time I saw her, she was flying straight...

Lottie is a little girl who works on a farm. One evening, after a long day working in the fields, she meets two unusual cats. Not only can they talk, but they seem to know Lottie and tell her that they must all hurry to the temple. “What temple?” Lottie asks, stunned. “Follow us...

Love potions & lost souls swirl inside a house of cascading memories. More and more, for Megan LeMaster, each beginning was its own end. She couldn't bear to buy flowers or dresses that seemed too beautiful. Friendships formed, endured, gave out in a handshake. Each deed in life had an...

Chick lit for smart chicks, a fun novel full of old crushes and new loves.

Willow Nickel owns a small regional chain of automotive repair shops. He's forty-seven, single, a never-been-married, and fond of a small growing beer belly. Chess Sommer's also an entrepreneur. She owns a boutique lab that formulates cosmetics. She's forty-two, single, a never-been-married, and so...