UPDATED EDITION WITH OVER FIFTY NEW STORIES'A FIRST-RATE BOOK' - THE OBSERVERLaura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140 miles away in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence?Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe who...

For thousands of years, they have lived among us — unseen, unknown, and determined to stay that way.Koda knows the most important rule his people have lived by for generations: humans must never know we exist.He already broke it once. Now the consequences are coming.As ancient enemies close from one direction and the modern world encroaches from another, the fragile secret that has protected his kind for millennia is beginning to crack. A r...

In the ancient forests of the Olympic Peninsula, where shadows hold secrets and legends still roam, a young Sasquatch is born into a world on the brink of change. Born Wild: Koda's Odyssey invites readers into a hidden realm where the mysterious creatures known as Sasquatch fight to preserve their way of life in the face of increasing human encroachment.As his clan faces mounting threats from both human expansion and a dangerous rogue of their own kind, young Koda must nav...

Li Ming Yu grows up in a poor rural village in Korea, living a quiet and disciplined life with her hardworking mother. Their small home and constant financial struggles teach Ming Yu the value of patience, humility, and perseverance. An unknown benefactor mysteriously pays for her university tuition, allowing her to attend college where she quickly earns a reputation as an exceptionally intelligent, reliable, and hardworking student. Ming Yu dreams only of graduating, finding stable employ...

Silver City is shaken when Jesse Mason, a skilled gunman with a past, stops the brutal Bolton brothers during a bank robbery, saving the town but earning their vengeance. After a violent shootout and pursuit across the desert, Jesse ends the threat, though he knows more danger may return. Days later, a refined European chef, Isabella "Bella" Laurent, arrives by stagecoach and transforms the struggling frontier town with her extraordinary cooking and calm grace. She opens a restaurant with ...

Some secrets are buried for a reason. Others are buried to protect us.Marcus Stone hadn't spoken to his father in twenty-three years. Skipped the funeral. Forgot the way home. Then a lawyer's letter and an old iron key pull him back into the Virginia mountains — straight into one chilling line in his father's handwriting:"There's a trunk in the cellar. Read what's inside. Then decide what to do with it."What's inside will unravel everything...

What does it really take to transform a broken culture?Not a new strategy. Not a reorganization. Not another all-hands meeting with a slick slide deck. It takes a leader willing to do the hard, human work of building trust, naming the truth, and sailing into uncertainty with a team that believes in the journey.Navigate: Guiding Teams Through the Voyage of Culture Change tells the story of Lucy Beag, a seasoned technology executive who joins a techn...

Queen of the Pirates is a sweeping historical adventure set across the violent and unpredictable waters of the Caribbean during the height of the Golden Age of Piracy. At the center of the story stands Isabella Devereaux, a fearless and brilliant pirate captain whose name becomes legendary from Tortuga to Nassau. Known across the seas as the "Queen of the Pirates," Isabella commands not only fear but loyalty, carving out a place for herself in a brutal world dominated by ruthless ...

Jina Kim leads a double life in Seoul, South Korea. By night she performs at the Velvet Halo, an elite underground club in Gangnam where she works as a seductive, highly skilled dancer. To the audience she appears as an elegant, aloof entertainer, but beneath the surface she is constantly observing her environment like a trained operative. During a performance, she detects unusual behavior among patrons and security—signs of tension that suggest something is about to go wrong.When ...

Step into the shadows of the unknown with "Sasquatch Unleashed: The Truth Behind the Legend," where former law enforcement officer and seasoned investigator Brian King-Sharp takes you on a suspense-filled journey to unravel one of nature's most enduring mysteries—the existence of Sasquatch.In this gripping book, King-Sharp weaves together a tapestry of scientific inquiry, personal field research, and captivating storytelling that will leave you questioning the line between myth and...

The first story follows Allyn Miller, a quiet rancher traveling through Apache territory in September 1882. He discovers a young Apache girl near death from heat and thirst and rescues her, eventually returning her safely to her people. Her grandfather, Chief Iron Wolf, believes Allyn's life-saving act creates a debt that must be repaid. He offers Allyn the hand of his daughter, Aiyana, in marriage. Although Allyn is surprised and initiall...

Dundee’s official history as a burgh stretches back more than 800 years, though there is much evidence of settlement in the area long before that. The nineteenth century saw the town’s expansion into a large industrial city. Dundee suffered more than most cities in the mid-twentieth-century drive for modernisation as not only long-established buildings but parts of the ancient street pattern were swept away in large-scale demolitions in the 1960s and 1970s. At the same time, the city lost ...