In the highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon, two neighboring communities — Oku and Mbessa — share the same hills, markets, and history. But when inter-communal conflict erupts, that shared history fractures. And the deepest fracture runs through the hearts of a forgotten group: the children of both.They are Oku by father, Mbessa by mother. Or Mbessa by father, Oku by mother. In peace, they are bridges. In war, they become questions with no answer. Their own communities te...

Towards What Hurt is a debut poetry collection structured as a ceremony.In three movements - The Portal Opens, The Wildfire, and The Return - Detroit writer adria moses takes the reader from preparation, through fire, and into return.Drawing on 15 years of writing through chronic illness, major surgery, domestic violence, and childhood abuse, these poems treat the body as archive and altar. They refuse the demand that healing be soft, wort...

Lynn is in her mid 30's. After a bad marriage, a period of discovery, and the finding, and loosing of the man of her dreams, she is working on herself. She is back to school for a new career, taking care of herself and casually dating a woman. She is at a place of satisfied balance. She meets Paul. He is younger, driven and also in school. This is the story of their meeting and first "date".

Some nights change everything.At exactly midnight, Mara Cole receives a message that makes no sense: someone is watching her, and the person she trusts most may know more than they are saying.What begins as a frightening message quickly becomes a trail of hidden records, secret photographs, unanswered questions, and a truth that someone desperately wants to keep buried.Then there is Eli. The boy Mara has started to trust may be connected to the mystery, forcing her ...

March 1895. London suffocates in fog and apathy, until a baffling "locked-room" mystery awakens the matchless intellect of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Thomas Egerton, the pillar of British commerce in the Canary Islands, has been found dead at his estate in Santa Brígida with an inexplicable grimace of terror on his face, showing no signs of violence nor any trace of known poisons. Hired urgently by the shipping company, Holmes and his faithful chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson, tra...

Wren Callahan sees everything. The lie behind a smile. The crack in a story that doesn't quite add up. The thing you're trying hardest to hide. It's why the whole town whispers about her eyes, one gold, one brown, like she's looking straight through you. It's also why, two years ago, she saw something that could destroy the most powerful family in Marrow Lake, and why she's been drowning in silence ever since.Then Eli Cardenas sits down beside her on a set of bleachers and refuses ...

Nia thought she knew Caleb. Then one message changed everything.Two years ago, Nia and Caleb discovered something they were never supposed to see. They made a promise to keep it secret until they understood the truth. Since then, they have tried to move on.But someone remembers.A mysterious message pulls their old secret back into the present, and suddenly Nia is questioning everything she knows about the boy she has started to care about. Caleb has secrets of his o...

What happened that night was supposed to stay between them.Lila thought the past was finally behind her. Then an anonymous message arrives, reminding her of a night she and Noah promised never to discuss.Now someone knows their secret.As strange warnings, hidden records, an old photograph, and a mysterious recording begin to connect, Lila and Noah are pulled deeper into a truth that could change their families, their friendships, and everything they thought they kne...

Zara Daniels has one rule: never let anyone get close enough to discover what her family has been hiding.Then she meets Caleb Rowe.He is charming, guarded, and carrying secrets of his own. What begins as an unexpected connection soon pulls Zara into a mystery surrounding an old fire, a missing witness, and a truth their families have spent years trying to bury.The closer Zara and Caleb become, the more dangerous the questions become. Someone is watching them. Someon...

Maya Reed thought the hardest part of senior year would be choosing what came next. She was wrong.Two years ago, Maya and Ethan Cole made a promise beside the river. They had seen something they were never supposed to see, and they agreed to keep it secret until they understood the truth. Then a message appears, proving that someone else knows what happened that night.As old evidence resurfaces, Maya and Ethan are pulled into a mystery that reaches into their families, thei...

Ivy Bennett never wanted to move to Cedar Hollow. She never wanted to live beside the lake that took her sister two years ago, and she never wanted to fall for the one boy whose last name is written all over the cover up.Kai Whitfield is everything her family warned her against. His father's company built the bridge that failed. His family fought her parents in court and won. And the moment she looks into his eyes, she knows loving him will cost her everything she has left....

Hana's Betrayal is a psychological thriller about a girl from rural Japan with dreams of becoming a model. After sneaking away during an international college tour trip in Los Angeles, she meets up with someone she's been messaging online, someone who promised to help launch her career. But the agency waiting for her isn't what it seems. It's a front for a dangerous crime organization and instead, she is drugged and sex trafficked. Now her father, an ex-hitman for a Japanese crime syndicat...