Luella Campbell is having the weirdest day ever. Getting fired from her job at the sunscreen factory for no good reason is bad enough, but when a mysterious dog brings a tempest into her former workplace, Luella’s life is completely upended by the sudden gift of wild and windy magical powers.With the help of her ride-or-die best friends, her motorcycle-riding mother, and a romantic blast from the past, Luella must find a way to make ends meet while unlocking the mysteries of her ne...

Her marriage was magical. Until it wasn’t…With divorce looming, Paige MacInnes isn’t sure what to do with herself. She’s spent so much time being everything to everyone else that she’s pretty sure she’s forgotten how to just be Paige, the woman.Maybe she’ll be able to find herself again in Magnolia Bloom…With the help of loved ones and lifelong friends (and maybe even a sexy Scotsman), Paige will need to figure out how to preserve the leg...

A hilarious and heartwarming romance series about three sisters trying to find their love songs, from the bestselling author of Pack Up the Moon:Adele, Molly and Lana were once the world-famous country band, The Darling Songbirds. The sisters were tighter than string wrapped around sticks of dynamite, but they stopped talking and, like the dynamite songwriters they were, their relationship exploded.Dive deep into the world of hilarious reconciliatio...

As performed by the award-winning Xe Sands.Luke and Lyle have gotten used to investigating lost pets and cheating spouses.Then Marva DeLonghi walks into their office. Someone's out to kill her but her story's vague.When a tip from a gambling river rat leads them to a rundown gentleman's club to question a mysterious suspect named Laser, the night ends fatally for Luke and Lyle.How then does Luke end up outside her office eavesdropping on Marva propositioning...

Fresh-out-of-a-bad-relationship New York City single Sofia La Scala, carves out time each week for happy hour with her best friend Chloe in search for Mr. Right. But when Chloe can’t make it out one night, Sofia meets seductive British billionaire, Alexander T. Chambers. The two immedietly connect and begin flirt–filled exchanges that heat up rapidly and lead to a steamy new romance.The relationship challenges Sofia’s norms and flings her into a world of fantasy, role playing and l...

Since H. P. Lovecraft first invited colleagues such as Frank Belknap Long and Robert Bloch (among others) to join in his creation of what has come to be known as the “Cthulhu Mythos” (over Lovecraft’s less invocative name of “Yog-Sothery”), dozens of authors have tried their hand at adding to this vast tapestry with varying degrees of success. Some, like the then teenage Ramsey Campbell, used the Mythos as a starting point to his own career while still finding his own authorial voice. Othe...

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them.The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mothe...

Almost nothing is only what it seems to be at first glance. Appearances can be deceiving and first impressions often lead us disastrously astray. If we’re not careful, assumption and expectation can betray us all the way to madness and death and damnation. In The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan’s fifteenth collection of short fiction, nineteen tales of the unexpected and the uncanny explore that treacherous gulf between what we suppose the world to be and what might actua...

What exactly is the difference between a love letter and a suicide note? Is there really any difference at all? These might be the questions posed by Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlin R. Kiernan’s fourteenth collection of short fiction, comprised of twenty-eight uncollected and impossible-to-find stories.Treading the grim places where desire and destruction, longing and horror intersect, the author rises once again to meet the high expectations she set with such celebrated ...

Author Foxx Nolte gives listeners a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the surface, past the blanket of pixie dust, is a story as vivid and bizarre as any. It is a history of corporate politics, urban planning, crazy ambitions, and failed schemes. The Hidden History of Walt Disney World takes you on a journey that stret...

A spellbinding confession of what it means to abandon one life for another, The Devoted bristles with psychological and erotic tension.“She comes early, wet with rain, and confronts him in the back hall of the Zendo. ‘I need to know some things,’ she says. ‘You better come in,’ he says, and holds open the door …”Nicole Hennessy’s life revolves around her Zen practice at the Boston Zendo, seeking spiritual solace in the tenets of Buddhism. After a decade of grueling...

Heartache is par for the course.Fifteen years after her troubled daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky Sawyer couldn't possibly be her granddaughter—or could she? With her sort-of-functional life sinking into a full on mulligan—and let's not get started on her soon-to-be-married ex-husband—Beth meets Barry, a...