Why didn't you just leave?It's the question every survivor of domestic abuse hears―as if leaving were simple. As if love and manipulation didn't become impossibly tangled. As if breaking free from an abusive husband didn't also mean losing the family you'd built your entire life around.Neely Ellison escaped her emotionally distant mother by marrying into Jeffrey McMahan's loving Southern family. But Jeffrey's devotion slowly transforms into control, and his mother'...

Every implant is humanity lost to corporate greed...The tech company Rebutia has taken over the city of Los Santos. The slums are a smudge on the glittering city, where people who can't afford implants are left to be forgotten. People like Myles Walker, a Surge dealer in a street gang.A deal gone wrong leaves their biggest customer dead. Myles gets benched from dealing and winds up chaperoning a board member's son sent from their private academy-Aiden Turne...

Conspiracies. Betrayals. Murder.Daughter of the Monarch, young Flynae desires the traditional, peaceful life of her elf-like people. One fateful morning, her world is shattered by the most unlikely of culprits, a mere human.With the single swing of a sword, her existence degrades into an abyss of abuse and misery. A strange, unknown voice in her head provides her only solace.In a cruel twist, fate inextricably links the young girl to her father's murderer. Unable to...

"“Wow, what a book!! I don’t think I drew a full breath for the entire time I was reading… I took it everywhere I went… I needed to read it at every opportunity!… Unbelievably twisty… I loved every word of it!” Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Jo pulled together the victims’ pictures. In all cases their arms were askew, in a way that looked like—what? It was like they were freeze-framed in the middle of some action. It was like they were dancing.When l...

Frost Zone Stories book 4 offers eleven all new tales of quiet horror, supernatural, strange, haunting, dark stories.Authors:Kristal StittleIan InglisH.V. PattersonPete WardJames HobbsChristian MacklamElizabeth GuiltMark KeaneNissa HarlowKimberly Y. ChoiLawrence DagstineEdited and designed by M.M. MacLeod

On the eve of Mexico's Day of the Dead, two bodies are found floating in a luxury villa pool…The wealthy Milton family have gathered to celebrate a lavish wedding anniversary during the weekend of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). But behind the champagne and diamonds lies a ruthless hunger for money and power – and people willing to do anything to get their hands on both.Among the guests is Lily, a struggling actress secretly working a...

I need an intern.But my day goes from bad to worse…when my ex-husband's stepson walks in!He can't work for me.He definitely can't look at me like that.And I absolutely can't want him back.Everyone knows sleeping with the intern never ends well.

The fight for survival has begun.The Dalinda are no longer whispers of legend. They are real, and the church will do anything to erase them. With only a handful aware of the truth, the First Elder knows his grip on power depends on silencing the Dalinda forever.To endure, the Dalinda Council must gather for the first time in a century. But reaching their ancestral home means braving enemies on every road, betrayal at every turn, and the relentless pursuit o...

How far would you go for family?Anna's done bad things before. Neglected and unloved as a child, she had to do whatever it took to keep herself and her little sister, Birdie, safe. But the worst thing she's ever done is let her sister walk out of a diner when they were teenagers. She would never see her sister again.Years later, and Anna is a new person. After a whirlwind romance, she's married handsome, successful, and generous G...

“Had me hooked from the first page to the last with a heart-wrenching story and explosive conclusion. I love psychological thrillers and police procedural with strong female leads so I felt as if I won the jackpot with this one.” Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The woman stumbles through the woods, face burned from the sun, feet aching with fatigue. At last she catches sight of a road and limps towards the first store in sight. The kindly storekeeper rushes towards her, “Are...

On 9 August 1969, news trickled in that the pregnant movie star Sharon Tate and her friends had been brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Seen as a turning point in the cultural history of America, the Manson murders shocked the world and fanned the flames of a backlash against 1960s youth culture. But as the nation’s journalists circled Cielo Drive, all were wondering who would take home the ultimate blood prize – the chance to write the definitive book on the Manson trial.In A D...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West.To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M....