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In her newest book, a collection of short stories, Mary Tonetti Dorra has amassed a group of characters based in part on her own real friends and relatives who interact with those which are purely fictional.

In 1957, Gwendolyn is living the domestic dream as the prized wife of the dashing Dr. Paul Stanley Bollinger, with three beautiful, healthy children and a charming Edwardian home in the historic town of Cape Girardeau. Enter Eddie, an inebriated monkey brought home as a poker prize by her equally drunk husband. Thus begins Gwendolyn's yearslong struggle to domesticate two unruly fellas. Eddie is a hilarious handful but no match for Paul Stanley and his increasing penchant for bourbon and nurses.

She longed for freedom and adventure... but was she truly ready? Twenty-year old Jacqueline Bouvier is anxious to leave her overbearing family for the chance to study in Paris. Aching for freedom from difficult family relationships--and the constant pressure to find a husband--she wants to submerge herself in academics, the arts, and all Paris has to offer. As she sets sail, she has no interest in falling in love. However, her striking beauty catches the eyes of Paris' most elite bachelors--and a mysterious rogue.

How had things gone so wrong? Caelyn's small hands, raw with broken blisters, were no longer able to grasp the oars. It mattered little that the wind was dying and the sky was almost clear. Without fresh water, they would not survive. Exhausted, she rested against the oar handles crossed in an X before her and sobbed, cursing the strange aversion that kept her from doing the one simple thing that might save them. But only for a few moments. She may not be stronger than her phobia, but neither was she weak of constitution and determination.

For decades, CeCe and Diane ruled New York's elite—frenemies locked in a glitzy battle for social supremacy. Then the FBI showed up. Their husbands vanished with millions in stolen money, leaving the queens of couture with nothing. No assets. No homes. Not even a yacht to fight over. Penniless, homeless, and humiliated, the longtime rivals have no choice but to take refuge in the only place they have left—a crumbling house in Ruinville, Louisiana, inherited from Diane’s long-lost aunt.

In Origins, dive into Alexandra Heale's witchy whirlwind of a childhood, marked by her mom's firm rule to keep her magic under wraps. Growing up, Alexandra faced the daunting task of concealing her burgeoning powers, leading to a series of enchantingly awkward moments and magical missteps. Amidst learning to tame her unpredictable abilities, she navigated the perils of keeping her true self hidden, all while dealing with the everyday challenges of adolescence. In Origins, dive into Alexandra Heale's witchy whirlwind of a childhood, marked by her mom's firm rule to keep her magic under wraps.

Downwind is not the same as downstream, though life, like time, flows only in one direction. Had I the perspective of midlife or, better still, old age, I might not have been in that boat; my brazen countenance might have softened with the years, so too my sense of agency. But I was twenty-four, and a year ago I had finished grading the morning’s exercise and looked out of that classroom window onto the playground in Arizona, watching the children at recess without seeing them, still believing that teaching was my calling, yet unable to quell the yearning for something more.

Welcome back to the third installment in the enchanting world of Castle Point, where Alexandra now rules as the fierce Dagon Queen, calling the shots over her devoted squad of witch hunters. But hold onto your broomsticks, because Blake just stumbled upon a major revelation – his "dead" parents are alive and kicking, and they've been hiding from some seriously nasty enemies. Family secrets, anyone? Alex isn't one to back down from a challenge, fueled by her sheer determination to crack the enigmatic code locked within The Book and reclaim her badass powers.

Castle Point's nunnery is wreaking havoc on Alexandra Heale's personal property. The nuns, under the rule of an ancient demon, are acting anything but holy. Alexandra's best friend and fellow witch, Penny, is missing, presumably kidnapped and being held by the Witch Hunters in the bowels of Castle Dagon. Alexandra, now High Priestess of the underground witch population, is already at the mercy of Blake Sheraton, Deputy Sheriff sworn to uphold Earl Dagon's ancient law against the practice of witchcraft.

In the third volume of Roberta Dawn McMorrow's Road to the Remembering series, the adventures of Leader and her camp of survivors take a chilling turn as they prepare for battle against soldiers of the Orthodoxy.

While society called his disability an obstacle and limitation, Neil argued that his "flourishing dystonia" allowed him to think, explore, and create art in a way most people cannot. True to his words, Neil embraced every opportunity to experience life to its fullest, from navigating the Alaskan wilderness in a wheelchair to commanding the spotlight on stage. In this deeply personal account, Neil invites listeners into his world as he remembers adventures and escapades, triumphs and disappointments.

Betty Burke has just awakened from a long coma, but there's a problem; she's not Betty. Whip-smart hypnotherapist Alexandra Heale leads a double life. A natural-born witch, she lives under a death sentence. But she's been too clever to get caught. When she tries to help Betty; a woman possessed by a traumatized spirit, Alex finds herself under attack.

Part of the Evelyn E. Smith science fiction series published by Unforgotten Books, THE VILBAR PARTY AND OTHER STORIES contains some of the author's sharpest and wittiest works.

I had it all: an estate in Belize, and a great marriage to my husband, Michael. In the blink of an eye, a horrific car crash on a Mexican highway took Michael's life and left me hurt and alone in a country where I didn't speak the language. I thought I had lost the love of my life forever… until he started speaking to me from the other side... So, apparently, now I can talk to dead people. Lots of dead people.

In 1932, Boston’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Haley Higgins is called to view bones at the crypt at King’s Chapel. Finding old bones in a crypt isn’t unusual, but finding new bones is! Together with her good friend and investigative journalist Samantha Hawke and in cooperation with the police, Haley works to unravel the mystery behind the lost soul abandoned in the crypt. Who was the victim and why was the body left in the crypt?

Tremont Row, a bustling shopping and theatre district, is exactly the kind of place Haley and Ginger, along with Samantha, love to hang out. Until a death at a play on opening night interferes with their shopping plans! Haley and Samantha, continuing to fight the patriarchal barriers in their respective fields, work together to find justice for the latest victim. Is it a crime driven by the desperation of poverty, or is the motive far more sinister?

True stories of murder, manslaughter and madness in on of America's most exclusive communities.

Bringing Evelyn E. Smith’s public domain works to life again, after a publication lapse of nearly three quarters of a century, has been a passion project for us. The satire and symbolism of her work is as relevant today as when these tales were written, in the latter decade of the 1950’s. Then, her stories and novellas were categorized as futuristic fantasy (or gothic romance, in some cases) for a relatively small market. One senses in her writing that Ms. Smith was creating her fiction more to amuse herself than to leave any lasting legacy — though she most certainly did so.

In the second volume of Roberta Dawn McMorrow’s THE ROAD TO THE REMEMBERING series, Leo, Conan and Inanna find themselves in an isolated paradise canyon with a crazy shaman who is determined to further their spiritual education. Meanwhile, a group of children and teens who have survived the Three Days of Darkness follow their own path of awakening in coastal California that seems strangely to mirror that of The Three.

The Wilder Widows are heading out for round three! A few near-death scares haven’t stopped the fabulous foursome from continuing their new tradition of a yearly bucket list adventure. With the world as their oyster, they pluck their wishes from the knitting basket one by one and embark on their next journey to fulfill their wildest dreams.