A romantic road trip with my best friend? Braxton I’ve always been the designated friend to Hadley Dawson, and I’d do myself good to remember that. Heck, I’m only on this road trip because she broke up with her boyfriend. But can I confess something? I’m in love with my best friend, and I have been for twenty years. This romantic road trip to her friend’s destination wedding is the perfect opportunity to make her see me as more than her loyal Labrador and more like the type of lover she swoons over in those romantic suspense books she reads. Hadley I thought I’d found the one, then he cheated. So now I’m stuck going to a southern wedding ALONE, which is taboo in my culture. Unless… I ask my best friend, whom I’m very much attracted to but definitely do not deserve, to tag along with me. I mean, he’s never said no to being my stand-in date before. The problem? I planned this road trip to Virginia for a couple, which means one-bedroom hotels, romantic cabins, and don’t even get me started on the activities. Oh heavens, I’m toast. The Designated Friend is a best friends-to-lovers road trip Christian romance filled with faith, humor, and swoon.
Aliens invade Earth in November 2051. A war sparks in every major city across the globe. The real story starts two years later; a peace accord has been signed, and the aliens all but announce that they are here to stay. We Are Earth: Still Standing follows the Appage family and their community in Crete, a small American town that symbolizes human resistance. Twelve-year-old prodigy Zen Appage is uprooted from her home, her family, her friends and sent to Elystra, the Altiad command center on Earth. Thousands of miles away, her father, Neil runs a rebellion while her brother, seventeen-year-old Charlie navigates caves and builds an underground base for the resistance. The Altiad envoy Shea says Zen is gifted. That humanity has promise. That together they can build something better. Maybe they can even find a lasting peace. Zen knows her father is out there, and he's coming for the Altiad eventually. What she doesn't know is whether she'll still be the daughter he lost, or something the occupation made that he won't recognize. More importantly, when the war between them finally explodes, will she know which side she's on?
Exiled fae lord Lancelot never thought he would make it back to the Mist Lands and his ancestral home. Now that the magical realm of Avalon has ended his exile, he’s not losing out on the chance to win his throne back from his power-hungry brother, Aberlin. He just needs to convince his former ally, King Arthur, that backing Lance’s power play is the right decision. But King Arthur and his knights are not enamored with the idea of another fae war. Despite Lancelot helping them defeat the fae tyrant Mordred, Arthur refuses to provide military support. With the help of his police partner, Gwen, Lance convinces Arthur to send an armed force to fight Aberlin. Progress is made to push back enemy forces until tragedy strikes. Aberlin kidnaps Gwen. Knowing his brother’s twisted nature, Lance has only a small window in which to save the woman he secretly loves. But with the other two fae courts looking for weaknesses to exploit and his alliance with King Arthur crumbling, Lance isn’t sure who he can turn to or trust. Now Lance is on a mission to rescue Gwen and prove to the other fae courts that he is a worthy ruler and powerful enough to rebuff their invasion. Between a harrowing rescue mission and then an epic quest, Lance must decide if he will also fight for a relationship with Gwen after her romance with the human knight Orin falls apart. If Lance cannot ascend to the throne and convince the other fae courts of his power, then the Mist Lands will devolve into a full civil war. Mortals and fae alike will bleed. Lance must stop the looming conflict; otherwise, his people will be destroyed, and he will lose any chance to love the woman he so desperately wants.
It’s Ivy O’Connor’s last day alive, and for Hugo Wright it’s just another Thursday. But the Hicks-Cooper Comet is about to pass the earth for the first time in over a decade. And nothing will be the same ever again. Among the wreckage of the fallen Hicks-Cooper comet, Ivy wakes from a suicide attempt and discovers that her body will rapidly heal any wound inflicted upon it. Hugo is able to move things with his mind, fulfilling his childhood dream of wielding superpowers. Far from solving their problems, however, these abilities bring new challenges. Ivy is plagued by guilt over this miracle she does not feel she deserves, and haunted by ghosts from her past. Hugo is burdened with the need to save everyone he can, from the best friend he’s been fighting with for months to the niece haunted by nightmares. As the teens and their city of Cottonwood Rapids reckon with the fallout of the Hicks-Cooper, one question remains. Will they be able to bring light to the darkness within the city and themselves?
The poems collected here examine themes of peace, hope, and joy found through nature and our relationship to it, to others, and to ourselves, good and bad, addressing the little things that peek out from life, that intimate the larger things. These are all experienced in moments of observation, encounter, and reflection—moments of all of us.
Her mentor and his family saved her. Now he’s dead and she must save those he left behind from the secrets he took to his grave.After her beloved mentor, Ed Heschen, dies in a car crash, Sierra Bauer, aircraft mechanic, returns to her alma mater to eulogize him. Ed and his family were her lifeline six years ago after she survived a violent attack.Though local law enforcement assures her that Ed's death was an accident, Sierra is certain it was something more when she finds a warning hacked onto his plane and learns someone threatened him before he died.When Ed's widow receives a package Ed sent to himself after his death, more questions arise. What was he hiding from everyone? Did those secrets cost him his life?As Sierra and her boyfriend Quinn Moore, a detective out of his jurisdiction, get closer to the truth, the more someone tries to keep those secrets buried, putting Ed's family in jeopardy.Sierra and Quinn must protect Ed's family and uncover the truth before his deadly secrets silence them forever.
