USA Today bestselling author B.J. Daniels offers three short stories set in her beloved state of Montana.In The Snow Woman, an avalanche in the mountains forces Reese to leave his pregnant wife Casey. Married to a snow expert, Casey knows that the "other woman" in their lives is the mythical Snow Woman. While Reese is fighting the snow on the mountain, Casey is fighting her own battle for the survival of their baby.In the Perfect Proposal, things get complicated after Jenny's boyfriend Matt has been spotted in the jewelry store buying an engagement ring.In Remember Me, Dulcie begins to get little gifts signed only "Remember me?"

This is the story of two ordinary humans living ordinary lives half a world apart, until they day they were chosen by the Gods to fight a battle for the fate of their world. One Avatar fights for the Light and one Avatar fights for the Darkness, and both learn wielding the power of a god is not what they thought it would be.Kimberly Jordan never meant to hurt anyone.But once a DNA test reveals her longtime boyfriend, Damien, is her half-brother, plus she finds out she’s pregnant, she will go to any length to hide her horrible secret. Unfortunately for Kent Davenport, he’s the perfect fall guy for her plan, having recently revealed his love for her. But unfortunately for Kimberly, dirty little secrets always come out.A Tangled Web is the first book in the Dangerous Secrets series—a series of unrelated stories involving interracial romances with one other thing in common: one or more of the main characters has a secret so big, it threatens to derail, or even destroy, their most important relationships, their personal character, or their entire lives.The secrets are ‘dirty.’ Scandalous. Taboo.Secrets anyone would be wise to remain tight-lipped on.But in these tales, one way or another, that horrible secret gets out.Let the fallout begin.

Dark magic has a price.While the kingdom's witches and warlocks were slaughtered to fulfill the queen's insidious plans, Maggie White, the last pureblood sorceress, escapes with the help of her best friend and seven dwarves.Maggie enchants a forest with a blood spell to keep them hidden from the evil queen. But the queen's army of the dead are immune to the enchantment and bypass Maggie's protections.Even though Maggie has been battle-ready since the day she went into hiding, she is not prepared for the army of the dead or their tainted blades.If Maggie loses her fight, not only will she watch those she loves die, but her life force will be sucked from her bones, and her magic will give the queen the ultimate power to enslave the world.

**The war on drugs. A deadly cartel. One Marine fighting back. ** It's 1983 and we're losing the war on drugs. When a network news report exposes the flood of narcotics coming into the United States through the Caribbean and South America, the President has had enough. He tasks his inner circle to take the fight to the Medellín cartel. To even the playing field. But with fragile alliances on the line, the White House wants to keep the fight off the front pages. Time to deploy one of the Marine Corps best. Sergeant Lenny Cox. No one knows how to cause trouble like Lenny. When Lenny is witness to the sad reality of the drugs on Washington streets, he becomes even more motivated to hunt down the people responsible. But as he follows the trail into the Caribbean, he finds that even people within his own government have ulterior motives, and Lenny is being set up to fail. But Lenny has a secret weapon: An old friend from the Australian Army with a penchant for mischief—Lucas Burnside. Together, Lenny and Lucas will take the fight to the cartel, with deadly consequences.

A mysterious gift bestowed by Christopher Kringle sends Flurry and his friend Honja 7,000 years into the past. They arrive in a land ruled by the evil Jack Frost. Before either of them have time to think, they are thrown into the midst of a raging conflict.All the land cowers in fear at Jack's name. Flurry dares to challenge the evil red panda's reign of tyranny. His courage inspires many brave samurai to unite and stage an all-out assault on Jack Frost.This growing band of warriors is led by the legendary Tomodachi. Little does Tomodachi know that Flurry's presence is a brush with fate, and his life will never be the same.The question remains - should they prevail, will Flurry and Honja make it back to their own time?

While the rest of the world lives in a time where young people are often discredited, unheard, and underestimated, "Snow Angels" takes you on a journey into the lives of two seemingly broken young adults, who find love, each other, and most importantly, an everlasting faith. Though cancer is the battle these two were chosen to fight, the underlying message is to believe in the power of God.In “Conversations with Clete,” Cletus Rossiter, a man in his mid-sixties, is concerned about his snoring and sleep apnea, and records himself while sleeping in order to find out how bad his apnea is. But he gets far more than he bargained for when strange voices show up in the recordings and he even hears himself speaking German, a language he doesn’t know. He encounters Kruger, a Nazi soldier; Zeralda, a widow from the 1880s, and a club boxer, Kid Pierpont. Clete is left to wonder if these are dreams or if he is dealing with ghosts from the historic past?

Woodcutter or witch? Alchemist or scientist? Can Sorin's duality save their nation? Born the heir of a master woodcutter in a queendom defined by guilds and matrilineal inheritance, nonbinary Sorin can't quite seem to find their place. At seventeen, an opportunity to attend an alchemical guild fair and secure an apprenticeship with the queen's alchemist is just within reach. But on the day of the fair, Sorin's mother goes missing, along with the Queen and hundreds of guild masters, forcing Sorin into a woodcutting inheritance they never wanted. With guild legacy at stake, Sorin puts apprentice dreams on hold to embark on a journey with the royal daughter to find their mothers and stop the hemorrhaging of guild masters. Princess Magda, an estranged childhood friend, tests Sorin's patience—and boundaries. But it's not just a princess that stands between Sorin and their goals. To save the country of Sorpsi, Sorin must define their place between...

Across wars and worlds, through death and life, in mortal and immortal hearts, the binding of the phoenix holds. Aili Fallon is determined to escape her past, focused only on training as a combat nurse. But when the woman she loves binds her with blood and disappears in flames, Aili gambles with her own existence to find her again. Crossing into a forgotten life and death, Aili is trapped in a curse a thousand years in the making. As human wars rage and demons hunt the defenseless phoenix, Aili and her beloved Liu Chenguang fight to heal the wounds of two lives, with their own hearts and millions of mortal souls at stake. The Crane Moon Cycle Duology contains the full books of The Phoenix and the Sword and The Shoreless River, a complete epic fantasy of queer love, loss, and redemption, set in a world of spiritual powers, past lives, and beings of myth and legend.

Anna J. is back with a riveting novel depicting the devastation caused by cocaine use in a Southwest Philadelphia community.You have to use what you got to get what you want. For Journey Clayton, this statement rings more than true as she struggles under the weight of her mother's cocaine addiction. She learns from a very young age that family doesn't offer as much help as she hoped they would. It's not until she befriends Khalid, the son of a neighborhood drug dealer, who is trying to stay above the struggle himself, that she starts to believe there might just be hope . . . even for little girls in the ghetto.Snow White is a story of survival, betrayal, strength, and courage. It will pull you in from the very beginning and won't let you go until the last page. As seen through the eyes of a young girl coming of age, observe how Journey struggles to survive amidst the deception, violence, and murder that surround her.

Imogen has the life she's always wanted. Her farm is thriving, as is her family. But a guest comes to the farm, bringing trouble in his wake.When Imogen's son disappears, how far will she go to get him back?Previously published in Panverse Two, by Panverse Press.

When Captain Reilly Campbell and her gunship crew left the ISUs they thought they could finally live life on their own terms. With their demons behind them and a lucrative business venture as part time mercenaries and full time interstellar transporters, things were looking up. But when a retrieval mission on a remote moon goes bad, the crew is forced into a new battle, one they never saw coming. Pursued by high tech enemies and caught in a power struggle between two psychopaths, Reilly and her team once again find themselves on point, fighting for the galaxy they call home and the people they love. Time is short, difficult decisions will be made, and truths will come to light that will make the crew question everything they have known.....and this is only the beginning.

A bloodline completely slaughtered by a pack of shifters. Two sisters that lived to remember part of that tragedy, but can no longer shift. Jordan Raven has been having nightmare's of that awful night that took place so long ago. Thankfully Jordan and her sister, Sonja were saved by the Warren's pack and have lived with them for the last 14 years.Jordan fell head over heals for Noah Warren and was to mate with him on her 21st birthday, that is until another Kodiak shifter killed him. Now living in Anchorage, she continues to have nightmares of that brutal night her family was slaughtered. The nightmares & memories don't make sense, they don't fit...She can feel her inner animal locked up but can't release it. When Jude Warren shows up in Anchorage and her dreams and visions become more vivid she starts to question everything and everyone around her. After finally mating and and still not being able to shift, she knows something is wrong. Is it just her? Or has everything just been a lie? **

With just three novels to their credit-as well as rave reviews and a shelf full of awards-the duo known as P. J. Tracy are on the fast track to superstardom. Already major bestselling authors in the UK, the brilliant creators of the Monkeewrench team and their law-abiding counterparts on the Minneapolis PD are setting a new standard for the modern thriller, combining brilliant plotting, razor-sharp dialogue, and vivid characters into a potent brew. And now, with Snow Blind, this duo gives us their most original and irresistible novel yet. Nothing's bleaker than Minneapolis during the winter, the season that, to some longtime residents, lasts eleven months of the year. So what better way to bring a little cheer to the good people of the city than by sponsoring an old-fashioned snowman-building contest? In a matter of hours, a local park is filled with the innocent laughter of children and their frosty creations. But things take an awful turn when the dead bodies of Minneapolis police officers are discovered inside two of the snowmen- sending the MPD and Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth on high alert. The next day, Iris Rikker, the newly minted sheriff of rural Dundas County, comes across another dead cop. Fearing that Rikker's inexperience will hamper the investigation, Magozzi and Rolseth head north-in a blizzard-to hunt for clues. As Grace MacBride and her crack computer jocks at Monkeewrench comb cyber-murder websites for connections, a terrifying link emerges, connecting the dead cops, Magozzi and Rolseth, and Monkeewrench-a link that must be broken, before it's too late.

They say that snow covers everything that is mean and sordid and ugly in the world...but beneath the carpet of white, the ugliness remains. 11 November 2012, London. Long-smouldering feelings come to a head in a burst of shocking violence. A young Muslim man is brutally murdered by a masked gang. There is just one witness to the horrific crime: DC Lacey Flint. Or at least that's what she thinks...

Edie Kiglatuk’s discovery along Alaska’s Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracyM. J. McGrath’s debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smilla’s Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series.In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers—a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect—but Edie’s instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations take her into a world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself confronted by a painful secret from her past.Review''The two-week 1,150-mile Iditarod dog sled race from near Wasilla to Nome, Alaska, forms the backdrop for McGrath's outstanding second mystery featuring half-Caucasian, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk . . . McGrath has a firm grasp on a little known culture, its values and language, and excels at bringing to life such characters as conniving Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg and his power-hungry wife, Marsha. This affecting novel should melt even the most frozen human hearts.'' --Publishers Weekly (starred review)''Edie is fierce in her desire for justice . . . [She] finds herself at mortal risk from the cold, so masterfully described that it chills the reader.'' --BooklistAbout the AuthorM. J. McGRATH is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and the novels White Heat and The Boy in the Snow. She was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best Commonwealth writer under thirty-five and currently lives in London.