When murders in your average city isn't e5, it becomes not just another bloody nightmare but murder for profit in an underground world of misery,where murder is a business you don't want to be a part of.

"RECIPROCITY asks the reader to ponder the morality of darkness," writes author Mathieu Cailler about this debut novel from award-winning short-story writer T.D. Johnston. When a third Mafia boss in a third major city is murdered by an unknown entity, FBI organized-crime agents Jack Hanratty and Neville Parker are assigned to lead the national investigation of what the media dubs "The Godfather Assassinations." As the cabal continues to eliminate the leadership of the powerful Maf...

In the E.Q. of a Lyricist Volume I, every poem isa. conversation with the heart. Through themes of love, healing, grief, hope, identity, and growth, this collection reminds us that our emotions are not weaknesses- they are the language of being human. Honest, intimate, and timeless, these poems invite readers to slow down, reflect, and find beauty in both the broken and the whole.

Leo Garrick thought he was taking control of his life when he accepted his first directive from an anonymous digital collective. Driven by the burning humiliation inflicted by his powerful father, Leo launches a devastating cyber strike against the town's corrupt elite.But every action has an "automated" reaction.As corrupt board members fall and old family secrets explode into the light, Leo and Randy are pulled into a clinical, mechanical meat grinder. When the Council na...

In 1980, college sophomore Alec Van Horne approaches his final months as a teenager dreading the shame of eternal celibacy. But to lose his virginity he must first break out of the closet. He hatches a plan. Stay on campus over summer recess and spark a romance with a handsome upperclassman. Alec's mother has other ideas. Wracked with fears of mortality, Audrey decides that Paris is the perfect consolation prize for turning 50. Still viewing her youngest offspring as a child, she insists t...

A hot visitor intrudes on Bryce's solitary existence, staying with his family for a time, and Bryce will never be the same. David is wild and crazy, and it doesn't take long before he's pushed Bryce to the edge. But there's another side of David as well, sensitive and kind, and it seems like maybe he's interested in Bryce, as well.David makes Bryce look at things a different way, and Bryce starts to wonder if he could actually, in a conservative town in 1986, lead a happy life with...

A gentle children's story that helps young readers understand a powerful truth: they are not broken. They simply think differently. Through the world of Hotrod and the steady guidance of Steven, children learn that fast thoughts, big feelings, and unique ways of seeing the world are not problems to fix, but differences to understand. With kindness and simple pit stop" moments, Hotrod discovers how to pause, reset, and move forward with confidence. A reassuring reminder for children-and the...

Life is a journey, it's said.One place to another.One environment to another.Transitions.A series of departures, arrivals and the travel itself.This collection of poetry by T. D. Fuhr takes the reader on journeys that are personal, physical and spiritual. They illuminate travel to distant and familiar places as well as the unpredictable paths of relationships. In Transit immerses the reader in times, places, emotions and memories that resona...

Ava is thrust into a world she never knew existed. After the tragic loss of her husband she finds love in the most unlikely place. When they mystery unfolds she find herself falling deeper into the world of mythical creatures. Fighting for her life she finds herself waking up not quite the same.

At Piper's Academy, magic takes decades to master -- meaning shy, awkward Charley has all the time in the world to let his slow-burn romance with his crush, Geoff, develop. Until a midnight rogue ruins his perfect routine.When Charley catches a mysterious student skulking through the dorms after hours, he ends up immobilized by a powerful spell and left with a fierce warning. But the dangerous stranger isn't just a threat to the school; he's magnetic. And the spark of attraction be...

Eli is a young farmer, unhappy with the lifestyle and with his borderline abusive father. He's an animal lover and would rather hug one than kill it, but killing a pig is exactly what his father wants him to do. Eli refuses and runs away, not really having a destination in mind.He ends up in the mysterious woods feared by locals, feeling reckless and really not caring about his fate. There he runs into a bizarre young man named Jin, who lives in the forest amongst the magical creat...

As sexual and reproductive repression increases around the world, engaging with reproductive politics has become acutely urgent. This reproductive repression exists alongside pervasive economic precarity, untenable costs of living, and pressing demands for higher labor productivity. What feels like the emergence of a novel reproductive and economic dystopia, however, is a long-lasting reality for poor Black women globally. Comparing Senegal and North Carolina, T.D. Harper-Shipman shows how...