Men, Love & Power is an emotional, action-packed drama. It's a story of deception, heartbreak, love, lust and betrayal. The drama and mayhem are just getting started in this family soap opera.Four african american female cousins from a small town must face their respective secrets, for revealing them will change their lives forever.In Drama Queens Book 1, Selah looks like she has it all - the house, the job, the husband but —boom—he...

#1 Essence® bestselling author La Jill Hunt presents Drama Queen, a hilariously funny, fast-paced novel that will drag you away from your own problems and bring you into someone else’s.Kayla Hopkins is young, beautiful, and can’t win for losing. That’s why everyone calls her the Drama Queen. She doesn’t go looking for drama; it just happens to find her. Take, for instance, her love life. Kayla’s not satisfied with just one man. She has two—one she...

National best-selling author La Jill Hunt has earned widespread success with popular novels such as Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda. Drama Queen features Kayla Hopkins, a woman who finds herself in a complicated situation. Kayla is in love with a man, but the matter is complicated by the fact that the man she's in love with isn't the father of her unborn baby. Now she's got some serious juggling to do before all her hopes for the future come crashing down.

When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone's coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick's nephew Joe hates all of her ideas and two, Laini has to admit he's right -- she's a disaster at design. Still, she can't risk losing the job. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up.Their relationship is moving along, so when new guy Officer Mark Hall implies that Joe's family is tied to the...

There is only room for one drama queen – which one will take centre stage?When Lola moves from New York City to boring Dellwood – "Deadwood" – Falls she thinks her life is over. But she soon discovers a way to shake things up – and it involves taking on the high school's biggest bully, getting the lead in the school play, not to mention crashing a rock star's party! Set in an American high school, this is a fast and funny account of the rivalry between Carla, the resident drama que...

Catriona McBryde laughs too loudly, has never met a stranger, and enjoys making men blush.With her unrestrained behavior—which includes rolling in the hay with many of the single men in her town—Cat might not seem like the ideal tour guide for British actress Dame Violet Ramsey, but no one knows Foster's Creek better than she does.When Violet's sexy bodyguard Kiran Madan doubts Cat's ability to be discrete and trustworthy, she sets to charming the pants off of him, but he p...

When Jessica's parents split up she is confused. Jessica can't understand how people can fall out of love any more than she can understand how her best friend can fall in love with a boy called Cedric who wears a luminous anorak, when Jessica herself will settle for nothing less than complete perfection. And what about her art teacher, Mrs Mills? How can she be single when she's so pretty without her glasses? Jessica can see that her help is needed and just like a modern day Emma, sets abo...

Jane Boyers, sleek, gorgeous and highly successful TV executive, barely has time to eat and sleep, let alone keep up with old friends. Especially ones like Miranda, who has rejected glamorous New York in favour of settling with the love of her life in rural Ireland. But when Jane's career comes crashing down, her panicked response is to jump straight on a plane to Dublin and throw herself on Miranda's mercy. Life there is definitely not what Jane is used to, and the culture shock goes both...

Eleanor has always been called a drama queen - and for a longest time, she believed it was a flaw. She feels everything too intensely, loves too deeply, and cries at endings no one else notices. Every heartbreak, every silence, every accusation of being “too much” has shaped her into someone who survives her own emotions with fierce, stubborn grace.But life has a way of surprising even the most guarded hearts. When Eleanor meets Daniel, someone who doesn’t flinch at her intensity, ...

At the book fair in Rimouski, a woman picked up my first book to read the back cover. She put it back down, avoiding my eyes. It's heavy, cancer and death and all that. I wish books were more interactive. Like video game controllers. They could vibrate at the end of each chapter. But that's not how life works. I wonder what death is like. Do you vibrate? Do the words GAME OVER appear?In 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour and wrote a book narrating her ...

So BIZARRE It’s Gotta be True!Filmstar, writer, singer, painter, candlestick maker – Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, dips in and out of her life, taking us through a hormone-driven period, five years post marriage, divorce, fame and everything else that a girl could possibly want – to the present.Now a single mother suffering the crippling effects of ‘Aphallatosis’ – a rare mental disorder arising from lack of sex – she is only looking for the happy-ever-after of ...

Never work with children and animals... or monsters.Broadway hopeful Caitlyn Smith is about to give up on her dreams when famed director and playwright Elliot Dunn invites her to workshop a lavish musical retelling of Dracula. After a castmate disappears and crew members turn up dead, Caitlyn begins to wonder if the playwright's mysterious muse is to blame. But the show must go on!Will Caitlyn make the final cut or lose her grip on reality?