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Publication Date: April 13, 2015
Judged, Bullied, Attacked - What Hasn't Destroyed You Can Make You Stronger.
Distrust bursts into the fires of passion.
To keep her mother’s reputation from destroying her, Ashley Dix Gibson had to learn at an early age to persevere and tune out the lies, gossip, and the bullies. Detective Michael DeMarco has no desire to team up with a woman with ties to the underbelly of the porn industry but if he wants to solve his case, he has no other options. He has a dead body. She has the seedy connections. To solve the crime they are forced to combine their resources to find a brutal killer.
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Publication Date: May 28, 2014 | Age Level: 12 - 18
Elizabeth Blake is a seventeen-year-old girl from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Although a bit of an introvert, she has always had good, close friends. She lived next door to her best friend Gwyneth. Gwyneth’s mother, Clara Hill, was like a second mother to Elizabeth. When Mrs. Hill died, Elizabeth was devastated. She found the perfect opportunity to escape by completing her final year of high school in the south of France.
Soon after her arrival in France, Elizabeth befriends Sophie, her allocated roommate. Sophie introduces Elizabeth to some of her schoolmates from her posh boarding school in England. Elizabeth meets and falls in love with William Shaw, an English boy from a traditional family. William and Sophie are childhood friends. As such, everyone, including their families, expects them to end up together. But, William never shared Sophie’s feelings.
That Christmas, William invites Elizabeth to stay with his family. Through a series of strange occurrences, Elizabeth discovers that the Shaws are witches and that she, too, is a witch—a descendant of the Harlow family, one of the oldest and most powerful witch families to ever exist. Elizabeth’s oma was the last known surviving ancestor, but she was forced to go into hiding to protect herself and her children.
Meanwhile, the Elders—the most powerful coven of witches in the world—have been tracking Elizabeth since her birth. According to an ancient legend, a battle led by “One barely born existing to lead” would cause the downfall of the Elders. Fearing that Elizabeth is the heir to this legend, the Elders try to destroy her before she can bring it to fruition.
With the help of both the Shaw family and her oma, Elizabeth travels to Greece to prove to the Elders that she is not a threat and to ask for their permission to live in peace.
With spring break approaching, Elizabeth’s family surprises her with plane tickets home for both her and William. A pit of nerves, she is both excited and scared to show William the one aspect of her life that he hasn’t yet infiltrated. She is also unnerved at the prospect of having to explain to Gwyneth that she is the reason for her mother’s death.
While home, Elizabeth makes a most anticipated visit to her oma’s house—her first visit since discovering that she was a witch. During this visit, Elizabeth’s oma shows her family heirlooms that she has been collecting and concealing over the years.
It is during this visit that Elizabeth’s oma promises to confide secrets and powers in Elizabeth once she masters the skill of blocking her mind. Elizabeth also discovers that a “Shadow” has been following her, watching her every move, and reporting back to the Elders.
Upon their return to school, William asks Elizabeth to go on a trip to Nice with him for Easter break—just the two of them. Their lack of experience but complete love for each other ushers them into romantic situations that they neither are ready for, nor have previously discussed. With temptation at every turn, they must figure out what they want and whether or not they are ready to take their relationship to the next level.
Left with the devastating revelation that they would be torn away from each other once the school year ends, William and Elizabeth need to devise a plan if they hope to stay together. When Sophie learns about their plan, she is outraged. While visiting the Shaws, Sophie attacks Elizabeth, giving the Shadow an opportunity to act on behalf of the Elders’ instructions to destroy Elizabeth so that she cannot fulfill the prophecy.
The battle that brings to light powers that weren’t known to exist before, brings William and Elizabeth closer together at the very moment that they have to say good-bye.
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Publication Date: March 22, 2015
When I was fourteen years old, I killed for the first time. That day I learned cruelty wasn’t only within the walls we had just escaped.
It hasn’t been easy growing up in the middle of a war. A struggle to find shelter. Fighting to protect our bodies against the corruption of the streets. Nobody cared about the street kids who had to beg and steal to eat.
We are the Portland Street Kings – A family forged through loyalty not blood. To get through this life of broken dreams alive, we’ve become hard, uncaring and merciless. We do what must be done to keep our family safe, we will harm those who stand against us.
We have it all, feared and respected by those on the streets. Then she collided into my world, and with her came demons from my past, back to haunt us all.
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Publication Date: May 30, 2011
The Keeper is a thought-provoking contemporary drama that explores the mysterious power of friendship and love. The atypical romance within this PG-rated novel weaves its way through a psychological story of human relationships and social satire.
The protagonist, Dr. Christopher Seacrest, is chief of staff in a renowned medical facility and is one of the world’s shining stars. Immersed in his self-sufficiency and false ideals of perfection, he lives immune to the fact that he has somehow disavowed life itself. A brief patient-doctor meeting in an exam room between the arrogant Chris and the unpretentious Caitlin Rosenberry soon changes all of that.
Initially the powerhouse surgeon finds little of interest to him in the young, post-stroke patient, but their meeting results in the physician’s perfect façade developing a hairline crack. Fate brings the unlikely pair together again and again, and sets a series of cataclysmic events into motion from which there is no turning back. When Dr. Seacrest finds himself in love with Caitlin and she vows never to see him again, he can no longer deny life’s invitation to his own healing.
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Publication Date: August 12, 2014
In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. In spite of his superiors’ concerns that he is not up to the challenge, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United Planets in its fight against the Titan invaders.
Serving on the first FTL prototype, the Intrepid, on its maiden voyage to Tau-Ceti, Gallant finds a lost human colony on the planet Elysium. Elysium’s leader, Cyrus Wolfe, has allied himself with an ancient Artificial Intelligence which had lain dormant on the planet for millennia, but is now willing to protect the colonists against the Titans.
Gallant allies himself with Alaina Hepburn, the leader of the democratic opposition. With Alaina’s help, he discovers that the ancient AI has a sinister ulterior motive and he must match his exceptional mind against the complexity of machine intelligence to escape the ultimate trap and prevent the extermination of humanity.
In Lieutenant Henry Gallant, one man pits the naked human mind against the perspicacity of machine intelligence.
