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Peace demonstrations and sit-ins following the escalation of the Vietnam War are leading to a catalyst known as the Sixties. A musical revolution, flower power, hippies, and drugs are carrying - young and old - into a new decade. All the while Mary Monroe is caught between being an innocent good girl and an autumn of drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

Underneath the facade of the normalcy lies a creeping darkness in the town of Oakhaven. If you look closely, you might see faded flyers seeking the whereabouts of a missing girl, weather-worn and all but forgotten. Every town has its cold cases, but Oakhaven has a string of them. Beautiful girls all missing, in a pretty row. While Autumn can't seem to separate herself from the series of cold cases, everyone else in Oakhaven goes through extensive measures to move on. But Autumn and her friend Becca take different paths.

Cat Anderson doesn’t want much out of life. Give her a circle of friends to giggle with, a few cute boys to flirt with, and she is good to go! She is perfectly content...until a scheduling mishap on her first day of 8th grade places her in a culinary arts class. Food, it turns out, is a very big deal. In her family there is a secret, too big to stay hidden any longer. A secret too fantastic to be real. Something happens when Cat bakes. Something impossible. Can it be true? Or is it bake believe?

Twelve-year-old Grace and her feline best friend Midnight have a secret: Midnight is a ghost. But then, again, so are the rest of Graces' friends. Since she's the only person in hundreds of years with the ability to see them, the many ghosts of Tansy have flocked to Grace since birth. She doesn't mind. She prefers the company of the dead to that of the cliquey kids at school.

My life is chaos. Everybody thinks my new abilities mean endless power. Some say I could be the one to save us from the monstrosity Dorian has in store. But I’m freaking out. I did a stupid, stupid thing, and made a deal with a Seer. So, if I don’t kill the Ancient within a year, well…game over for me.

Marly refuses to believe her friend Rae committed suicide. Even though her wrists were slit, Marly knows her beautiful, vibrant bestie would never do that. Even though the two had drifted apart, Marly and Rae made a blood promise long ago. Even in death, Marly intends to honor that vow. Determined to find Rae’s killer, Marly faces a long list of potential suspects. It seems everyone has secrets or lies that they are covering up...including the boy she loves.

June's sister, April, is getting married. The lucky guy? A businessman whose cousin is Jasper King, the art maniac loner of her high school.The hate between them is mutual, but they can't avoid one another before the wedding. That becomes impossible when the two are thrown together into a car and forced to drive down the East Coast from Boston to Jacksonville for the wedding. Along the way, June must re-evaluate her relationship to Jasper. Sparks fly and ignite, and what happens next will go down in road trip history.

Still reeling from her best friend’s betrayal and saving her Alpha boyfriend from a near-fatal attack, Sydney must learn to accept her new life in a world she doesn't understand yet. As far as she’s concerned, she can survive it if Aiden is by her side. But when an Ancient comes for him, a turn of events pulls Sydney further into disaster…and the consequences might be deadly.

Lia Abbie has the easy life - kicking it back with old-school video games, hanging out with her best friend, Barnabas, and alternating her living schedule between the apartments of her two dads and her mom. Kiev Jimenez is a theater geek who loves him some Shakespeare and taking care of his pet armadillo. He has one set goal in life: obtaining the role of Horatio for the Hamlet school play. When a showdown between Lia and Kiev lands them in the principal's office, they're forced into volunteer work at the cringe-worthy Piggy Palooza Festival or risk being suspended.

He said there was still time for me to escape the supernatural world. What he didn’t know was it had already claimed me. All 18-year-old Sydney wants is to be a professional ballerina, but the night before a life-changing audition, she stumbles into a supernatural war. The only one who will save her is 20-year-old Aiden, the future Alpha of the Shadow Grove wolf pack. But when his rescue attempt backfires, she witnesses things she never should have seen, throwing her into the grasp of his world.

Eighteen-year-old Allyssa Baylor lives a sheltered life of privilege. Not anymore. Now she is lost in the wilderness below the arctic circle with little more than the clothes on her back. A battle is coming and if she’s going to survive it, she must lose who she was and discover who she is. Ever since her mother’s horrible death, Allie wants nothing to do with her family, particularly her sister, Grace, whom she blames for the loss of her mother. But Allie is persuaded to join her family on one last vacation, one last chance to heal the breaches among them before college.

Kathy Barrister's life has never been better. Owner of a thriving massage school, Kathy loves passing on her knowledge of a healing profession to others. But when one of her students is murdered, Kathy must face a darker world than she ever knew existed. A serial killer using online advertising services is targeting prostitutes, and it appears Kathy's student has become his latest victim. What Kathy doesn't know might kill her...

This story is about a typical young girl in the form of an adorable, wiggling little minnow. She has a lot of fun in her youth and works through a few challenges, concerns, and realities of young adulthood. Wiggle with her as she makes her decisions and discovers some very important lessons about life.

I Love Me: A Love for Every Girl testifies of every girl's potential, her greatness, and priceless worth. The character has a unique beauty, which needs to be seen by every girl. Her message to every girl is that she is gifted with a unique and intentional design by her creator. That greater purpose is revealed as she grows. Our character encourages confidence in one's appearance, identity, value, and purpose. She teaches that every girl is unique and beautiful just as she is.

Etta Litali has grown accustom to the superstitious behavior that comes along with being in an Italian family. But when her dad begins to spend his nights stealing signs from every city pole within three miles of their home, her house becomes overrun with dirty poster boards, and the neighbors begin to notice.