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With her beloved cat’s poor health weighing on her, Caroline makes an unexpected friend in Aimee, the darkly troubled girl who lives next door to her family’s farm.
Genevieve is a little shepherdess with a big imagination. When she finds a sad, pale rainbow, she tells him funny stories until he cries happy tears and his colors return.
A fast-paced international business thriller that takes us inside the lives of high-powered executives and the lengths they will go to achieve results.
Can Multima Corporation withstand another attack from organized crime?
Who is in the crosshairs of a crime syndicate called The Organization? Howard Knight, its financial mastermind, is now in hiding.
Tasked with an impossible-to-solve investigation with only the heel of a shoe and three drops of blood, Detective Roberts must work with a reluctant Interpol officer to get a break.
Steve is just an ordinary guy living in a rural town north of Toronto. And when the world goes to shit, everyone looks to him for help. Heck, he even gets a girlfriend out of it.
The world is full of surprises. Not only is the Earth screwed up, but corpses are walking, and they are hungry.
Jake pulls every trick in the book to enter enemy territory. Will he rescue his one true love from an excruciating death without betraying his country?
Jason puts his super-nerd hacker skills to work uncovering the dirty secrets of some rich, powerful, and deadly people.
The Eye to All Worlds is a hidden castle located where the fabric of the universe is weakest, creating gateways to other worlds.
Everything is thrown off course with the arrival of Annetta’s great-uncle and his proclamations which leave the members of Q-16 questioning their lives.
A mysterious illness takes hold of the Prince of Gaia, forcing Annetta to return to Earth in search of answers.
Corpses Gone Rogue ~ When the silent alarm blinks to life in the middle of another lazy morning all hell breaks loose.
Newbie Nightmares ~ Dodge and Yoli jump on a cold case linked to the local Bobcat burglar … and end up in hot water.
Doctored Intentions ~ When a beautiful mythological bird aids the sick. it attracts the attention of the local doves with unexpected side effects as these peaceful birds turn fowl.
When an entire town is locked in Déjà vu, the D.E.M.O N. agents link the disappearance of two young boys to time-altering supernatural clouds invading Keswick.
First date in magic underwear? Tonya is shocked when the hunk of her daydreams asks her out. He must be toying with her, or is he?
First-year student Tonya isn’t privy to her family’s darkest secrets, but when campus is overrun by a deadly eating epidemic, only she can resist the hidden, mind-controlling entity behind it.
Quinn is cursed. Bobbi’s a magical screw-up. Together they make a great pair. As ley-lines swell, thinning the veil between worlds, the witches of Hidden Coven guard their most precious resource—magic.
When Kyra finds an abandoned baby dragon, she doesn’t want to bring him home, but until she hunts down the brute trying to kill all the dragons and start a civil war among the fae, she’s on babysitting duty.
Don’t whistle into the wind. Don’t cut your tea with a knife. Don’t underestimate the cunning of a water dragon. And never, never fall in love with a customer.
She believes vampires are monsters. So why is she risking her life to help one? Kelsey Davis opens a bookstore café at the crossroads where several hypernatural communities converge.
They expelled him for summoning a demon. When he finds the real culprit, it could spell the beginning of his end.
A witch who demands humanity. The immortal families who denied her of it. Two mortals commanded to right the wrong.
Bill Scolinski is one of those people who thinks the world is out to get him. Unlike most such people, Bill is right. Sort of. But now, the world is upping its game.
Shiv Kobodan is a travelling performer with a hundred talents and a morbid fascination with knives.
Lex Page is a reporter who has stumbled onto the story of a lifetime, and a crazy old man who insists that all conspiracy theories are true. It’s obviously nonsense.
Savvy tabloid reporter Lex Page’s quest for the truth takes him on board an experimental spaceship whose operating costs are funded with a reality show of its crew.
Sapphire, an orphaned farmhand, joins a mercenary group to see the world.
Ban, the man of many minds, has been kidnapped and his band of mercenaries will stop at nothing to find him. But therein lies the problem.
To be a Spear is to protect the Realm from those who mean it ill. It is the mantra sung to all training to be a Spear, and one of the last things chanted to those who pass.
Three Spears—fighters barely beyond childhood, impeccably trained in fighting, moral values, and endurance, the defenders of the people—rise to battle enemies who threaten to destroy lives and the political structure holding their Realm together.
They trained for the adventure. And when the time the assignments were given out, Thomasyn, Bethany and Jon knew this would be a deciding time in their lives.
There is more than one perspective to every story. On Qarradune, it takes two points of view to make sense of the world. What you know depends on whose story you are following.
This novel continues where Love at First Plight left off, as Megan Wynters and Irys Godeleva find themselves tangled in a web more intricate than either could ever have imagined.
Sometimes, even when you’re surrounded by people, you’re still on your own. Megan and Irys understand this better than anyone. Both women have been pulled away from the paths chosen for them and are beginning to take charge of their own lives.
Irys and Megan have been thrown into the centre of a fundamental shift in power, and their lives have been equally thrown off kilter as they must navigate the very thick of it.
Today, Sir Thayn Varda may be Commander of the Knights, but there was a time when his life had been much simpler. FInd out how this self-made man rose to become the golden-tressed hero we now know him to be.
An unassuming Victorian scholar receives a mysterious package from her Aunt Sara, urging her to locate Moses’ rod – the most powerful weapon in history. The world is doomed if it lands in the wrong hands.
Rick Tompkins, never considered a career in politics until a good friend asks him to run for office. He accepts the offer, with the understanding that he probably wouldn’t win.
Dix Jenner, a self-proclaimed slacker, is the first chef to live–and maybe die–on Mars.
Whether you choose the self-publishing route or a traditional publisher, good revision skills are essential for every writer.
In times of chaos, it’s normal to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it’s also possible, even amid upheavals, to self-soothe and cultivate calm. Begin by saying, “Enough already.”
A washed-out train ticket. A peculiar head wound. A corpse It started out as a normal day for two young boys playing on the wharf before the Christmas break ended. Normal until they found the bludgeoned body of a young man washed up on the shore.
The tranquillity of a tight-knit neighbourhood in Victorian Toronto is shattered when a young girl becomes the next victim in a string of robberies, missing persons and murder.
A long over-due visit by Detective Hodgins’ brother and his family promises to bring a special cheer and excitement to the holiday season. But, a body is found propped up against his daughter’s school, tainting the happy family reunion.
A farmer’s cries of murder burst through the station house doors, shattering Detective Hodgins’ quiet day. Someone has bludgeoned elderly “Bucky” Buckingham and left him for dead in the barn.
What do a trunk full of vintage clothes, a handsome land developer, and a fifty year old diamond heist have in common?
When Sage Miller’s sister decides to host a fashion show as a grand opening for the new location of Vintage Sage, she’s not amused. Even less so when she discovers a Hollywood fashion designer dead in her store.
Gilda Wright thinks she’s landed a dream job as the receptionist at a karate school except she’s surrounded by handsome instructors, a local bookie, and more mysteries than she’d counted on.
Paulina Chourney fell deep into the dark side of life and is lucky to get out before her boyfriend kills her. She escapes to a small town – a blessing in disguise. The men she worked for would never think to look for her in a lazy, backwater place like Packham, right?
Audra Clemmings loves Halloween. At least until she sees the display of voodoo dolls in the shop next door that resembles nearly everyone in Sugarwood, Ontario—including her.
Graduation can be killer… Beth pushes beyond her comfort zone to prove a sociology thesis. She turns a chance meeting with a known player into a personal experiment on first impressions.
Five Days with the Enemy Amber leaves a college scholarship when she discovers her father keeping secrets. But, instead of facing long-standing family issues, she rolls the dice on Josh and agrees to help her ex- with a crazy scheme.
Cops and Robbers Isn’t Just for Kids Shell Rockwood’s family has her life all planned out, but she’s got a secret to help her break free and jump into the driver’s seat.
After a three-year struggle with a shattered heart and a stalled career, Ellen Haddigan once more feels as if her life is on track. Then Gabriel Duncan, the man who stole her heart and abandoned her after one night of passion, is assigned as her new client.
Headlines report Dani’s mother under arrest for murdering Dani’s father twenty years ago. Dani’s ex offers her a shoulder, but she’s done with his abuse, and her smart, hunky limo driver has caught her eye.
She avoids people. He’s the ultimate schmoozer. Can their love survive a vicious saboteur who’ll stop at nothing to destroy them?
Emily Atterberry has left her life of crime behind. Or so she thinks until she stumbles on a piece of her past holding clues to her biological family’s identity. Detective Lecavalier is investigating recent luxury car thefts and is convinced Emily knows more than she’s saying.
Top chef Katrina Sherrer should have left Marc Johansen out in the cold. That’s where she’s headed if she can’t change his mind. But the All-Star defenseman is determined to buy the family-owned Inn and tear it down.
I can’t do this without you. I need your help. There is an invasion coming, one that will strip us of everything we have. And we will be powerless to stop it. Unless you lend me your strength. Are you with us?
A tortured planet in its final agony. Can the mind of one woman subdue nature herself?
Humankind on a frenzied journey to self-destruction. A multiverse of anguish and despair. Will even Kayla be overwhelmed?
Dancer, Maid, Bastard … and Sometimes Hero A young maid is catapulted into an inventor’s explosive world. Will a brazen tongue and a desperate attempt to save his life destroy her future?
The girl without a name straddles the law to take down an evil mastermind. Time is fleeting as Louisa hunts to discover where the next crime will take place, without revealing her identity to the one man who’s sworn to help her.
Murphy’s Law: Rule #1 What Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong One kind gesture ignites a series of events that shatters Louisa’s world.
Jutaya has a bad habit of pushing: boundaries, limits, patience but that’s because no one believes a teenager – even if she’s the best. When someone finally takes her skills seriously it’s for a seriously insane job guiding a bunch of noobs into the Forbidden Deserts on some fool-hardy quest.
Three generations ago, the Modernist Mission arrived on the ice planet Tählti to find it already inhabited by the Firsts, humanoids who have evolved an antifreeze glycoprotein in their blood.
Suddenly Kyle’s whole life is here, deep underground in the hidden Black Snow Temple. Somebody is after him, but now he is safe. For a while. But sooner or later they will find him, or he will find them.
Not killing her might be the death of him. Black-ops Assassin Michael Valiant questions his agency’s motives when he’s ordered to silence a group of UFO enthusiasts who look less like terrorists than they do housewives and nerds. ~ Jason Bourne meets The X-Files.
Have you tried Mindfulness but find your brain does not stop? Do you long for a mind that defaults to quiet relaxation? Ever wonder what meditating with both sides of your brain is like?
Do you believe there is more to healing than meets the eye? This book combines the latest in scientific research into placebos and belief including the amazing surgery that works to relieve symptoms even when the surgery is fake!
Faith, religion & spirituality are in constant combat with modern life. In this day-in-age it is so easy to forget what matters most – love, respect, and kindness. Take a moment to reflect on the 7 ways that you, too, can used to obtain divine gifts & powers.
Can we overcome the division, discrimination and despair that plague the world today? Racism, misogyny, and hate dominate the headlines. Where is the love? What can you do to make a difference?
