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I wanted Asher and I to move past his confession. We’ve been friends for so long, we can get over anything, right? Wrong. Not only has our relationship fundamentally changed, but he disappears for a month and comes back to Harmony, engaged. Apparently, he rekindled his relationship with his high school girlfriend. Gloria insists that I write the expose on their wedding. Asher’s fiancee is the daughter of the Mayor of New York City. It’s the kind of story that will restore the town’s trust in the paper after the Proctor disaster.

As the first Black woman to anchor the Boston-area evening news, Liz Walker found herself in an industry that defined the neighborhood of Roxbury largely by violence. But when she became a pastor there, Walker grew close to households marked not only by trauma but by courage—including the family of Cory Johnson, a young father who was murdered. In the wake of their worst nightmare, the family reached out for help.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

In Breaking Free, Trish Valleys draws from her own experience of escaping an abusive marriage and rebuilding her life offering a beacon of hope for women everywhere. Her personal anecdotes, practical advice, and empowering strategies, provide a roadmap for reclaiming self-worth, building resilience and achieving financial independence. This transformative self-help book and guide is an essential companion for listeners wanting to embrace their agency, rewrite their narratives, and step boldly into a future of authenticity and financial freedom.

Kiki's got a secret mission on Willow Shade Island—to sneak a peek at the daughter she had to give up. But life's got other plans when she lands a job as her own kid's nanny! Talk about complicated, right? And don't even get me started on Tobias, the hunky single dad who's got Kiki's heart doing somersaults.

A storm comes, with demon faces. Jak has made it this far, escaping the clutches of the monster, Cain, and reuniting with her friends and the Fae, but not without cost. Now an army waits to destroy them as the enemies of the Fae increase in number. Jak must do all she can to protect them, but she may not be strong enough to defeat the queen's army alone. A special council of the Fae and human armies has come together to decide what to do next. But even when they stand on the precipice of a potential peace, the emergence of a new, destructive Fae threatens to tear it all apart.

Millie has given up on love. After all, men never seem to show up when they’re supposed to. Joseph is trying to atone for his mistakes that he made before his daughter passed away. He’s left behind his privileged life to travel from town to town, paying off stranger’s medical bills. They were perfectly happy living their single lives until Millie rear ends Joseph in the parking lot of the hospital where she works. Fate intervenes and they find themselves thrown together. But love isn’t that simple.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this Century of profound change for women our Atlantic neighbours produced authors of extraordinary ability that dazzled us all with a range of ideas, characters and stories of such magnificence that literature would never be the same again. Genius is written in their names.

Stranger in the Mind is a supernatural thriller blending history, mystery, and the unexplainable. Mystery and murder swirl around a dangerous doctor. One detective vows to unravel the truth. 1920s Liverpool—a city shrouded in fog and secrets. Detective Amelia Dei uncovers a string of unexplained comas in Liverpool’s most notorious infirmary. As she digs deeper, she faces a sinister psychiatrist and a truth darker than anything she’s imagined..."‘Stranger in the Mind’ quickly draws you in and does not let you go till the last word." Reader Views • 5 stars • 5 stars

Kann aufkeimende Liebe stärker sein, als all die Gefahren, die ihr entgegenstürmen? Samantha steht endlich auf eigenen Beinen: Eine neue Wohnung, ein neuer Job ... vielleicht eine neue Liebe?! Nur eine Unsicherheit hält sich beständig: Ist es nicht zu früh, einen neuen Mann in ihr Leben zu lassen? Insbesondere in Anbetracht der Schatten, die Ryan und sie aus der Vergangenheit verfolgen. Ryan kann es nicht fassen, dass Samantha durch ihn ins Fadenkreuz eines unbekannten Psychopathen geraten ist. Ganz abgesehen davon, wie schwer seine Tochter es ihnen beiden macht, sich näherzukommen.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. It is difficult to propose a more gifted exponent of the short story than Kate Chopin. Her individual jewels may be brief but are laden with atmosphere and character as they run their enchanted course. Her genius will always endure.

Ted, Christy, and Leo are teenagers out for the day at their local amusement park. It's now getting near the end of the day, and the lights of the arcade are bright and beckoning. At the arcade, the coming night makes all the lights seem brighter. But be careful, for if you use the dark token you will enter the DARK PARK and it could be game over!

When Puck offers to let her tag along on a mission to root out rogue Guardian groups, she jumps at the chance to help. But along the way, Sunday discovers that maybe the Guardians aren't the good guys she thought they were.

Same old sleepy small-town France. I spend my days serving patisserie badly to the outlandish crowd at the café, and writing folklore research papers that will never, ever be published. That’s until my clanger of a drunken hookup with the town’s hot new doctor, who turns into a hideous drac and eats Grampi’s favourite goat. Oh, and not to mention, a troop of ragtag fae storms my home, a fatal illness devastates the town, and a fae curse threatens Grampi’s life.

A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by Haleh Liza Gafori, an American poet of Persian descent. Rumi’s poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for inspiration and succor, as well as aesthetic delight.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.

Naomi thought she’d eliminated the threat. She thought wrong. Female shades are being murdered faster than they can be discovered and Naomi has never felt more helpless. She sends her protégé, Sunday, to Tombstone, Arizona to keep her out of harms way only to discover she sent her right into the snake den. Torn between going after the murderer and rescuing the girl she promised to protect… Naomi’s choice is literally life and death…. Download now to find out if Sunday can survive…. This title previously released as Secrets: The Thorn Chronicles Book 3

Heiress MARY CATHERINE MASON has no need of a husband. Shipped off to London to hunt a title—and the pasty lord who would unfortunately come with it—the talented photographer has dodged every suitor her tycoon father has thrown at her.

Gifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid the looming shadow of war, Kathryn is invited to the London Museum as a guest curator to create a groundbreaking exhibit on Jack the Ripper and his reign of terror. As she delves into her grim research, she uncovers a chilling truth: Her own sister is destined to become the Ripper's final victim decades earlier.

Mischievous and precocious, Becky Bexley causes havoc and hilarity. This child genius talks from birth, starts school at just one, embarrasses herteachers, plays tricks, writes naughty poems and even disrupts church services. You'll love Becky ... sometimes, laugh at her antics, and sympathise with her poor mum.