New Year's Eve is a collection of short stories produced by an online workshopping group formed by the Australian Writer’s Centre. The stories are based around the theme of New Year's Eve and span different genres; some embracing celebration, others following a darker journey into the New Year.The Anniversary - Louise GuyJason's New Year's Eve plans reignite family heartbreak. The significance of the day has the potential to either heal or ...

Rachael will do anything to protect her bakery from the evil Bakermatic Baked Goods Company. Does that include murder?A fast-paced cozy mystery from USA Today Bestselling Author Stacey AlabasterRachael is a pastry chef with a boutique bakery. When a food critic dies after eating a pie from Rachael’s Bakery, she is quickly labeled the prime suspect. Faced with a police investigation that doubts her innocence, she has no choice but to find the real killer. Wi...

**In evocative shards of memory, a terminally ill young woman pieces together her family’s difficult past in this “**lyrical, delicately affecting tale” (Publisher Weekly).At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying, even as breast cancer eats away her strength. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she's adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed forever.It was back then that...

Fall Head-Over-Heels…From wedding days to special anniversaries, steamy one-night encounters to everlasting loves, Truly, Madly, Deeply takes you on an unforgettable romantic adventure where love really is all you need.This collection brings together all-new specially selected stories from star authors from the Romantic Novelists’ Association, including international bestsellers Adele Parks, Katie Fforde, Carole Matthews and Miranda Dickinson, and ...

A New York Times bestseller "has moved in on Hilderbrand's home turf with a humorous and smartly written story of two generations of love and vacations" ( Wall Street Journal).The ocean, the wild roses on the dunes and the stunning Cliff House, perched atop a bluff in Sconset, Nantucket. Inside the faded pages of the Cliff House guest book live the spellbinding stories of its female inhabitants: from Ruby, a bright-eyed newlywed on the eve of World...

The case of a runaway teen forces a jaded Vancouver woman to confront the ghosts of her past in this intriguing psychological thriller series debut.The call comes in just after five in the morning. . . .It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years—since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to ...

This morning, I woke up on the ceiling …So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she’s an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school....

The Millionaire’s Rebellious MistressArrogant property developer Alex Merrick is Sarah Carver’s worst enemy: his business destroyed her family! So when Sarah steals one of Alex’s business deals, she relishes her triumph. But then the gorgeous Alex proposes a deal Sarah can’t refuse – and being his mistress is part of the bargain!The Venetian’s Midnight MistressNiccolo D’Alessandro is shocked to discover that the mystery woman he mad...

A fresh voice in YA fiction brings a charming heroine to life in this series debutSixteen–year–old Pippa Greene never goes anywhere without her camera. She and her best friend/supermodel–in–training Dace long ago mapped out their life plan: Pippa will be the noted fashion photographer, and Dace the cover girl. But ever since last spring, things have changed for Pippa — and her junior year at Spalding High proves to have its own set of challenges. Not only is Vantage Point,...

Just your average boy-meets-girl, boy-kills-people story.The Native American Navajo tribe has stories of a monster so wicked, so blood-thirsty, that they are to be hunted down and slaughtered. But are they just legends? Or is something sinister lurking in the shadows? The Yee Naaldlooshi—skinwalkers—have the ability to transform themselves. And they can be anyone. Anything.The Hunters—a group dedicated to tracking the creatures—are hot on their trail and they won't stop unt...

In booming postwar Brooklyn, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend, Marianne, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame - t...

"So there's been a murder. My murder, in fact, but please don't waste time feeling sorry for me. Your tears and platitudes are of no use to me now. I need your help to solve this thing, and I need it fast... Help me work out whodunit before that bloody light extinguishes all hope of ever knowing."With her dead Grandma beckoning furiously from the tunnel, Ludovica (Lulu) Gold is desperate to solve the mystery of her murder before she heads off into eternity. Not because she's especi...