A RICH titan of industry. A POOR girl with nothing left to lose. And a marriage of convenience that was never supposed to get complicated.Elena Vance’s life shatters when her uncle leaves behind millions in embezzled debt. Enter Julian Blackwood—a cold, calculating Manhattan billionaire whose reputation is carved in ice and steel. To save her family from ruin and secure his corporate empire, Julian offers Elena a binding contract: play the devoted wife for twelve m...

In the high-spire courts of Oakhaven, weakness is a death sentence—and Lyra Vance is drowning in it.As a low-born archivist forced to catalog the dark, forbidden artifacts of the Fae aristocracy, Lyra keeps her head down and her magic locked away. That is, until a catastrophic vault breach binds her life force to Prince Kaelen—the dangerously seductive, notoriously ruthless heir to the Shadow Throne.Kaelen is cursed to feel every physical pain he inflicts, and Lyra...

Stress Management Tools and Strategies provides practical, evidence-based approaches for identifying, understanding, and managing stress effectively. The text focuses on actionable techniques including time management, mindfulness practices, relaxation methods, cognitive restructuring, and lifestyle modifications. Through student-friendly language maintaining academic rigor, the material makes stress management accessible while grounding techniques in psychological research. Each chapter b...

The Broken CrownChronicles of Aeloria — Book OneCast of CharactersKAEL ASHVANE: 27, human warrior, second son of King Aldric of Valdris. Dark-haired, grey-eyed. Carries Dawnbreaker, his dead brother's sword. Protagonist.LYRA SILVENITH: 312-year-old elf ranger (appears mid-20s). Copper hair, storm-grey eyes. Proud, sardonic, secretly lonely. Kael's love interest.BRONN IRONMARK: 140-year-old dwarf shie...

The rain fell in a soft, steady rhythm against the windowpane ofElara’s bedroom, a perfect backdrop to the melancholy that hadsettled in her heart. From her vantage point in the sprawling,manicured gardens of the Sterling estate, she could just see themodest, whitewashed cottage at the edge of their property. Morespecifically, she could see the battered blue taxi parked outside, andthe boy leaning against it, looking up at the sky as if chall...

Meet Sissy, a small striped cat with a big heart and an even bigger imagination, in this cozy illustrated adventure for young children. Told in Sissy’s own gentle, funny voice, Sissy Finds Home begins on the day he leaves for a brand-new house and follows his emotional, heartwarming journey as he learns to trust, explore, play, and belong.With loving humans, a rainy-day blanket fort, softbedtime moments, and a world full of curious smells and surprising discoveries...

In the wind-swept village of Alderwick, Clara Wren has spent her life hemming gowns for other women and keeping her own hopes stitched tight beneath a quiet smile. When she is unexpectedly summoned to the great, half-shadowed house at Merefield to read to its reclusive mistress, Clara steps into a world of candlelit corridors, winter roses, and dangerous expectations.There she meets Adrian Vale—proud, reserved, and burdened by a family estate that is crumbling as surely as the old ...

Some doors were never meant to be opened. Some keys were never meant to be found.Seventeen-year-old Sera Voss has spent her life ignoring the strange things she sees—the shimmer at the edges of mirrors, the whispered names in empty rooms, the way shadows sometimes move against the light. When a letter written in smoke arrives on her doorstep the morning after her mother disappears, Sera is pulled into Aethermoor Academy, a school of ancient magic hidden at the edge...

ABOUT THIS BOOKWhen twelve-year-old Mara Ashwood discovers a door that shouldn't exist — carved into the cellar wall of her recently deceased grandmother's estate — she has no idea she is about to step into a dying world.Beyond the door lies Emberveil: a realm trapped in eternal twilight, where the sun was stolen three hundred years ago by an ancient force known only as The Unweaving. Its rivers run black. Its forests whisp...

In Aurora Vale, dawn arrives inside a lantern.Every winter, the Great Dawn Lantern is lit atop Frost Tower, and morning spills across the snow like gold. But on the longest night of the year, the Storm Queen rises from the ice, steals the light, and traps brave Elara in a frozen spell. Suddenly, the kingdom is locked in endless night.Only Mira—small, quiet, and often overlooked—hears the last ember of dawn still singing. With a tiny lantern, a loyal snow fox, and a heart mu...

A Story of Competition, Cooking, and Unexpected LoveTABLE OF CONTENTS#TitleWhat Happens—Prologue: The NoticeMarisol reads the email that changes everything — one spot, one apartment1The Parking Lot of DestinyShe taps his truck. They shake hands. The rivalry begins.2The TastingTh...

When thirteen-year-old Iris Vale follows an ember-eyed fox through a locked railway door, she enters Lhovarre—a world of midnight trains, listening forests, and mirrors that remember what has not happened yet. Beneath its beauty, something ancient is waking.To stop it, Iris must cross a land where names can be stolen, shadows can wear familiar faces, and a sleeping crown lies buried beneath a frozen sea. With only a sly fox, a frightened boy, and a lantern that burns on truth, she ...