EIGHT WOMEN. FOURTEEN MEN. ONE WOMANTHEON.Woman. The foundation. The cradle of existence. The bearer of life. The seeker of happiness. To a certain degree, all women desire to be loved in some form or fashion. However, the path to love is not always fully understood, therefore is not easily traveled.Women go through a series of stages in their mission to discover love for not only others, but more importantly, themselves.Erection. Celebration. Destruction. Redemptio...

New Orleans, Louisiana. 20th Century.You can either be part of the problem or part of the solution. That is simply a life decision. Regardless of what others may say or think, people are a product of their environment. In that same regard, people are also a product of their life experiences. If they are good, then in most cases, the individual will turn out good. But, if they are awful, the propensity for an individual to venture on a destructive course will be greatly increased. A...

Take a journey into the worlds of Jamin Edson, Lindsay Beauregard and Hope Edson, in order to see how lives are forever changed. Witness the trials and tribulations, heartache and pain, successes and shortcomings as the result of one fateful decision. There are many lessons to be learned. Life goes on, brings new experiences and challenges. What will you do when life catches up you?

Clayton Reid, a would-be playwright and sometimes bartender, is downtown St. John’s iconic man-about-town. Near-crippled by booze, drugs and dirty sex, Clayton, amongst the dozens of other burnt-out ghosts of Water Street, stumbles up and down the road of self-destruction, holding out a shallow hope that real life will one day fall from the sky. Then Clayton meets Isadora, a woman who stirs something achingly human in him, sending him on the ultimate bender of his life.Told with th...

From the author of Me & Emma comes a dazzling novel of two unforgettable families bound together by their deepest secrets and haunted pasts—perfect for fans of The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes and The Book of Bright Ideas.Nine-year-old Carrie Parker and her mother, Libby, are making a fresh start in the small town of Hartsville, North Carolina, ready to put their turbulent past behind them. Violence has shattered their family and left Lib...

For the last eight months, Mandy has lived across the hall from a caveman.He won't trim his beard, he mostly talks in grunts, and he'll hardly emerge from his cave of an apartment. Ben might be a grumpy mess, but she kind of likes him anyway. She's not attracted to him, of course. Not at all. Those stray feelings are merely a fluke. She's looking for a man who has it all together, and Ben isn't even close.Benjamin Damon is heir to a billion-dollar corporate empire, but he h...

Ex-ballerina Ellie Bell has twenty-four days left until her self-imposed man-less year is up. No more falling for the wrong kind of guy—charming, sexy, bad. Why can't she find someone sweet like Charlie, her soldier pen pal? His e-mails meant the world to her, and she can't stop thinking about him…until she meets Hunter, whose muscles and cocky smile threaten to have her relapsing.Before Charlie "Big Game Hunter" Johansson's last tour of duty, he'd gone through women like crazy. Bu...

So far, it's been a long summer for Parker Wells. Working the graveyard shift at a gas station in a rural Mississippi town, Parker is saving for college and looking forward to his freshman year at Queen's Landing University. But the young jock's world is forever changed when a mysterious midnight shopper turns out to be a criminal who wants more than just the gas station's safe…Volume Seven of The Sagas of Queen's Landing. This dark fantasy contains bondage, peril and kink. This no...

"Brilliant. . . . .a classic Southern tale. . . . The author's gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved." — Seattle WeeklyThe companion novel to Rebecca Wells's celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodWho can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda—a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of t...

When her father got remarried fourteen years ago, Zach first entered Missy's life. The marriage only lasted a year, but her ex-stepbrother kept hanging around.Now Zach works with her in her father's landscaping business, and he's sweeter, funnier, and sexier than ever. And Missy can't help but wonder if it's wrong to think about him in a different way. He was only her stepbrother for a year, after all, and now he's acting like he wants to be a lot more.

Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author AwardEveryone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody.Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom: "Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last semester...

Carl Weber brings together two popular literary divas to give readers what they’ve been asking for: stories about big, beautiful women. Age is just a number, and whoever said that full-figured women don’t know how to bring fire to a relationship was sadly mistaken.Symone Davenport is a 22-year-old college senior who has set herself up for a very secure future, but all her achievements feel more like a duty than a labor of love. Her true love is singing R&B, but she doesn’t...