Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in her first actual abortion procedure, crossed the line to join the Coalition for Life.Unplanned is a heartstopping personal drama of life-and-death encounters, a courtroom battle, and spiritual transformation that speaks hope and comp...

The only thing worse than fake marrying a woman for a job is falling in love with her! An opposites-attract lesbian romance that puts the ache in fake relationship.Driven, reserved businesswoman Mackenzie Watson has one goal—take over her family company and secure her little sister's future. The only wrinkle is her late grandmother's decree that her company's CEO must be married.Adding marriage into Mack's well-ordered life is a recipe for disaster. Her oh-...

'Second Chance Cafe' is a Christmas collection of four tales of romance and second chances by Susanne Bellamy, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Noelle Clark and Abbie Jackson. Susanne Bellamy's The Wish List continues the author's track record of rural romance set in Australia as well as contemporary and suspense romances set in exotic global locations. In the south-east Queensland city of Toowoomba, handsome accountant Jack Schulz sweeps into Julie Aster's life. He is the answer to her dilemma and...

They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable. Or at least I was . . . until her.LOGAN: I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can...

Lana: I didn't expect him. I didn't want to fall in love. But I can't let him go.Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place. He's brilliant. He's a hero. He locks away the sick and depraved. But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead. They should have made sure I stayed dead. Now I'm taking from them. One name at a time.Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. H...

To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul . . .Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more . . . one day.But how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well?He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits o...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our October 2024 issue (#217) contains:* Original fiction by Abby Nicole Yee ("A Space O/pera"), Nigel Brown ("The Buried People"), Fiona Moore ("The Children of Flame"), Arula Ratnakar ("Fractal Karma"), Louis Inglis Hall ("Fishing the Intergalactic Stream"), Mike Robinson ("Midnight Patron"), and Damián Neri ("The Fac...

Hush, little baby, don't say a word . . .Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?It's time to fuck with their minds. It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red . . .Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters.Contains mature themes.

To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me . . . I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case. I don't even know what side I'm on anymore. I don't understand how this town ca...

Beverly Lewis has received numerous awards-including multiple Silver Angels-on her way to becoming one of the world's most popular inspirational writers. Twenty-seven-year-old Amish woman Joanna Kurtz has been a bridesmaid plenty of times, but never a bride. And despite having a secret romance with responsible young Amishman Eben Troyer, their relationship can only go so far because the two are always kept apart. Will Joanna ever know the joys of marriage?

A new beginningHollywood actor Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are married and living in Bloomington, Indiana, where Dayne has found a solution to his on-camera love scenes—he wants Katy to star in his next film. Katy wins the part and is cast opposite her super-star husband. The story of a small town girl’s dream come true is too much for the press to resist, and in an effort to appease them, the couple agrees to a 12-episode reality show. It seems like the perfect compromise but by ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Like You comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and an age-old promise, proving it’s never too late for love.Years ago, the day before Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat beneath the Spanish moss of an ancient oak tree and wrote letters to each other, sealing them in a rusty old metal box. The plan was to return eleven years later...