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When Hope grows massive wings and learns to fly, her elders declare her their only hope, the savior of the Hopi people, and make plans to gather everyone in the tribe back to the reservation in southwestern Colorado. After learning of prophecies predicting a war that could end society, Hope is frantic...

World-renowned painter Thom Tyler is murdered in Georgian Bay, Canada. The consensus is that Tyler had no enemies. Why would anyone murder him? Detective Sergeant Eva Naslund goes to work with a homicide team from OPP Central. They find no useful blood, print, or DNA evidence. They turn to...

When two Brooklyn horror writers meet up for drinks and a little adventure they end up in a lot more trouble than they bargained for. Armed with only their knowledge of the supernatural and their storytelling skills, they face off against an arcane evil determined to consume them both.

Mia Ryan used to think things like this didn’t happen to girls like her. Barmaids from small Irish towns didn’t get song-writing jobs with LA record labels. Girls like Mia also didn’t land rock-star boyfriends like Joel Coben. But one night changed everything. The last thing Mia...

A fairytale wedding she’d always dreamed about. An unexpected “Fairy God-Father” she’d never imagined. A grandmother she’d never known. Add a deranged uncle obsessed with revenge. An impending crisis as the earth’s ozone layer diminishes, which leads to a job offer for Brad that could...

She should have grown up in a life of luxury and ease—instead, she was thrust into one of danger and deception... Forced by her scheming mother to pretend that she was a boy, Vanessa Fordella becomes Van, the Dark Knight, in twelfth-century England. But when her now-dying mother demands...

In Taking What I Like Linda Bamber reinvents some classic texts, mostly Shakespearean. Like Shakespeare himself, she sometimes showcases the brilliance of her models and sometimes plunders the past to make something new. As entertaining and contemporary as these stories are, they also revel in the plays...

When struggling barmaid Mia Ryan is scouted from behind the beer taps of Dublin’s Temple Bar and placed on a flight to Los Angeles, she can hardly believe her luck. Years of struggling to become a musician have seemingly paid off. When she’s picked by lucrative Sixth String Studios to write songs...

Clare is a twenty-four-year-old woman who faces life with quiet confidence and inner turmoil. She experiences love, hurt and uncertainty, sexual harassment in the workplace, and tragedy. She meets and falls in love with Evan Garner in their first year of college. But after graduation, Evan contracts...

She hates to lose… Competitive barista Brenna Kinkaid loves a challenge, and she’ll do whatever it takes to win, especially when it comes to her nemesis, Dante Caravicci. But when forced to team up to save their best friends’ wedding, Brenna recognizes that Dante might just be her ultimate...

In the remote village of Hamburg in Northern New Jersey, over the course of a few days, four young people go missing. The townspeople whisper about a “Pied Piper of Hamburg” leading children away—an appropriate analogy since the country village includes a decaying gingerbread castle and a barren...

This collection of three short stories, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, is about humans trying to understand themselves and each other, specifically across cultural borders, against the backdrop of war, and within the confines of marriage.

HALF AND HALF ROSE is an edgy story about a quirky heroine and a sweet, hunky hero, married to each other and insatiably in lust, only to be torn apart by a tragedy neither one seems able to overcome. After binge drinking, Michael rolls the car on a forest road, killing their unborn child....

A looted Nazi painting…A former IRA commander…The tie that binds is murder Emmeline Kirby is back in London, determined to make a success of her new job as editorial director of investigative features at The Clarion. Three months have passed since her trip to Torquay and the devastating...