This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war.Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and ...

In 2195, GreenCorps controls the arid western lands of the former United States. They regulate water and sell only terminator seeds-forcing ongoing dependence on the corporation.Elsa has the key to the Doomsday seed bunkers; taking it north to Canada is the only way to ensure its safety.The rebels send help, but her group is betrayed before their departure. Fleeing in the night, Elsa and her friends disappear into the mountains, only one step ahead of GtreenCorps soldiers.

This “claustrophobic and dark” sci-fi thriller debut is “full of twisting ship corridors and unreliable characters” as it explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change (Kirkus Reviews).Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s madness—or risk succumbing to it herself.Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to ...

A SWAT officer in small-town Tennessee will do anything to protect an innocent woman targeted for murder in this Southern romantic thriller.It can't be a coincidence that in the past twenty-four hours, three different thugs have tried to kill or abduct Ashley Parrish. Sexy SWAT team leader Dillon Gray saved her, but now he wonders why someone would want to murder the beautiful accountant—and why he finds her so infuriatingly attractive.Then the FBI comes afte...

Be careful what you wish for . . .Living in poverty in the Kentish marshes, young Kate dreams of a life of abundance and riches in the castle that towers over her village. So when the beautiful Lady Evelyn descends, requesting Kate to be her personal maidservant at the castle, it looks like the first stage of a dream come true.But there are blackhearted men to contend with, evil in thought and deed, and they have a sophistication well beyond that of anyone ...

Episode Three of the Not Looking for Love series. For the full enjoyment of the series please start with Not Looking for Love Episode One, as this is an ongoing series. Secrets have a way of messing everything up.Very little made sense in Gail's life before, and now nothing does. She's not even sure how to begin picking up the pieces of her life, let alone start putting them back together. But perhaps things just need to get worse before they get bet...

A second mystery for thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of this stylish new detective series.Agatha Oddlow’s set to become the youngest member of the Gatekeepers’ Guild, but before that, she’s got a mystery to solve!There’s been a murder at the British Museum and, although the police are investigating, Agatha suspects that they’re missing a wider plot going on below London – a plot involving a disused Tube station, a huge fireworks dis...

Five years ago, she went missing, presumed dead.But she’s alive—and in a killer’s sights.Adam Trent just found out the woman whose life he saved in a shoot-out has been dead for five years. Chattanooga nurse Skylar Montgomery’s case went cold after she disappeared. Now Skylar’s ready to stop running, and she needs the widowed ex-cop to help get her life back. As Skylar and Trent work together to smoke out a killer, mutual trust flares into deep attraction. B...

Winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award, a novel about an otherwise sensible woman's descent into the obsession and delusion of unrequited love.Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks and she acts according to her principles.Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and when the two meet afterwards, he has the same e...

From author Lena Gregory comes a tasty summer murder mystery...Danika Delaney is thrilled that her old fashioned malt shop, the Coffee & Cream Café, has gotten a catering contract for the biggest party of the season, the Rutherford Manor Fourth of July gala. She'll be providing desserts for the party as well as attending the exclusive event on Eastern Long Island.However her path to the gala quickly becomes a rocky road...Dani arrives at the event, only to find the ...

HAWK is the sixth book in the Devil’s Nightmare MC series by USA Today Bestselling Author Lena Bourne. It is a standalone story with a guaranteed HEA ending, no cliffhanger, and no cheating!HawkI lusted after the gorgeous female MMA fighter Yanna for years through the computer screen, where I spend most of my time as the hacker for the notorious Devil’s Nightmare MC. When I finally meet her in person, she’s everything I hoped she would be. And more...

ZANE is the fourth book in the Rogue Angels MC series by USA Today Bestselling Author Lena Bourne. Can be read as a standalone. HEA Guaranteed!ZaneTen years ago, I killed a priest. Not for money. Not for revenge. For her.Sienna was my first love. My only love. When she told me what the priest had done to her, I made sure he would never hurt her again.I thought I was saving her. Instead, I lost everything. My freedom. The years spent...