BLACK/LINE: THE FIRST FRACTUREFour operators. One extraction. A conspiracy far larger than any of them expected.Daniel, Mike, Sofia, and James are among the best operators in the world—four specialists who have spent years learning how to move as one seamless unit. Daniel is the disciplined leader. Mike is the breacher whose humor masks years of buried grief. Sofia is the signals expert who can see patterns nobody else can. James is the ghost: a reconnaissa...

In a world where information is power and loyalty is nothing more than a variable, three operatives are sent into the shadows to do the work no one else can—or will—touch.Jon Reed. Elena Vega. Eli Parker.Known by the designation C-SOE-7, they are highly trained, highly controlled, and considered expendable. Their missions are carefully constructed by the Federal Continuity Administration and overseen by the secretive Special Oversight Directorate, where eve...

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR!A fanny-tastic board book about farm animal sounds...and behinds.From the creator of the beloved Butt or Face? picture books comes a board book companion. Guess which butt you're looking at, then turn the page to discover the animal's name, face, and sound. Little learners will love the rhyming read-aloud text and colorful photographs of each farm animal. With cows, sheep, ro...

In the dying coal town of Sable Fork, the mountain keeps what it is given.Gabriel Mercer has learned to live with grief. Once a trauma doctor, now a tattoo artist who turns loss into permanent ink, he carries the memory of a child who died under his hands like a quiet, unbreakable weight. When Adele Cade walks into his shop with a photograph of her missing husband and a voicemail that should be impossible, Gabriel hears the echo of a nightmare he thought he...

Three years ago, the Harper family escaped Marrow Wood.They survived the impossible. They left the darkness behind.Or so they believed.Now, scattered across different cities and desperate to build ordinary lives, each member of the family begins experiencing something they cannot explain. A fence is mysteriously opened every night. A college student sketches impossible maps while she sleeps. A grieving mother hears a rhythm no one else should know. A twelve-year-old...

After the devastating loss of their youngest son, Daniel and Nora Christianson leave everything behind for a fresh start in the isolated village of Hesper's End. Hoping to rebuild their fractured family, they move into the aging Marrow House, a forgotten home standing at the edge of the ancient Marrow Wood—a forest the locals refuse to discuss.Their son Theo insists a lonely boy waits for him by the trees. Their teenage daughter Wren feels an unsettling pull toward the dark woods, ...

DON'T FORGET MEBy Michael Lavelle Jr.Ethan James has spent twenty-seven years building the perfect life.A loving wife. Two beautiful children. A quiet home far away from the darkness of his childhood.But some promises are never forgotten.When his young daughter begins talking to an imaginary friend named Charlie, Ethan dismisses it as harmless make-believe—until she starts revealing memories no child could possibly know. Memo...

Concert pianist Mary Ellen Harnett marries lawyer Frank Lavelle and music is the sweetness that balances their challenging life events. Four children include a younger son with an onsetting mental illness. When they leave Washington, DC for Chicago, demanding commitments lead Mary Ellen into a lonely stress that begs for escape into alcohol. An impressive Winnetka AA community brings her a new sober life that also inspires Frank to go to Hazelden. New challenges emerge, but they are strong...

PENSIVE...PATRIOTIC...PARENT...PARADOX leading to these FRINGE...FATHERHOOD...FIDELITY...FABLES!!!Thank you for taking the time to consider reading my work. It can be best summed up as a journal of a dedicated husband and Father of two young sons, describing the emotional roller-coaster I was on, as I navigated through 2022. I have taken to writing poetry using classical poetic forms from all over the world and inserting modern day content and critique.During Covid I became...

A Child's Faith introduces children to faith and love in a world of uncertainty. Here, you'll meet Tasha, a little girl in foster care who feels all alone. Tasha dreams of one day being adopted and accepted in the world. One day, her dream of adoption becomes a reality. She's adopted by a loving family and finds the most caring and thoughtful friend in Thomas. After being teased by the other children at school, she thinks she's better off without Thomas. Tasha learns that she had everythin...

For tourists, the London Eye is a central attraction and thousands queue every day to obtain a panoramic view of the city. But for Kevin, a homeless man living on the river embankment in the shadow of the London Eye, viewing its fairy-like lights through the branches from his home in Cardboard City, it is a symbol of his life going round and round and getting nowhere.The novel provides an insight into the injustices in the lives of the homeless. Kevin befriends Jock who has an alcohol prob...

Between the two world wars my father took an interest in poems and rhymes from the Great War and wrote some 30 of them down in a notebook along with other poetry. This book is based on those poems and the Great War.In 1914 Britain was reluctantly drawn into war with Germany in support of France, an inevitability that had been forecast since the signing of the Entente Cordiale. Germany had the biggest army in the world and was the belligerent by declaring war against Russia and thro...