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by Ember Rose Hollis

The Lustful Blade of the Celestial Frontier **A FILTHY LITTLE SCI-FI FAIRYTALE FOR GROWN-UPS.** Think old-school bodice ripper meets galactic treasure hunt. With pirates, filthy fairytales, and absolutely no respect for the laws of physics. Vera Nyx is a treasure hunter, former pirate captain, and a woman with expensive tastes, sticky fingers, and an unreasonable affection for stickers. Glitter is practically a religion. She also has a habit of acquiring things that technically belong to other people. Like her ex's spaceship. He'll get over it she says. Ryker Starshadow is a swordsman with a cybernetic eye, a very large weapon, and nine years of unfinished business with the woman who broke his heart. He's deadly with a blade, knits in his spare time, and has a fondness for trashy romance novels. Vera introduced him to those books years ago, and he found them a fascinating way to explore the feminine mystique. He's been studying the subject ever since, although he occasionally questions the anatomical possibilities described in certain chapters. Unfortunately, they're both after the same legendary treasure. And they're not the only ones. **Enter Captain Clarence.** A dangerously seductive Void Siren, collector of rare treasures, lover of beautiful things, and another of Vera's exes. He's charming, extravagant, shamelessly flirtatious, and entirely too pleased to find himself competing with Ryker. **Then there are the Seven Widows.** Seven of the most feared and dangerous women in the galaxy. They didn't earn their reputation by being reasonable, and anyone foolish enough to underestimate them is unlikely to survive the experience. **And Barnaby Quill.** A brilliant treasure hunter who's been dead for years but still insists on commanding his ship, *The Last Testament*. Death is a minor inconvenience when there's treasure involved, and Barnaby has absolutely no intention of letting it interfere with his ambitions. Between murderous fairytales, ancient magic, lost civilizations, pirates, and a galaxy full of creatures who would happily eat them, Vera and Ryker have quite enough to worry about. Unfortunately, there's also the small matter of nine years of unresolved heartbreak, unfinished arguments, and a physical attraction that refuses to behave itself. **Nine years apart. One more chance. And an entire galaxy about to regret their reunion.** *The Lustful Blade of the Celestial Frontier* is an explicit adult sci-fi romantasy filled with second-chance romance, dangerous adventures, outrageous humor, and enough romantic complications to make a marriage counselor request hazard pay. A love letter to the gloriously scandalous romance novels of the Fabio era, with a little Indiana Jones, a little Romancing the Stone, and a whole lot of trouble. **#FabioInSpace**

by Bill Turner

"Un2Dead" (un-undead) is the story of Danny "Wit" Witmoore, a one-time vampire, finding the blush has returned to his cheeks after a feeding gone very, very, wrong. His attempt to find the reason behind his un-undeadness leads him, and his best friends Joey (a vampire), Gary (a dayhound), and Leslie (a gym rat and 70's throwback) to De Leon, a youth-obsessed one-hit wonder, and his plan to revive an ancient breastplate that allows its wearer to experience time travel. Their quest leads them through twists and turns (and several restaurants), each with its own effect on the traveling companions. Their paths cross with otherworldly creatures, including, but not limited to a love interest turned henchman, a clairvoyant granny, and a magical giant koi

by Petal project

When a rabbit looses her party and her mysterious crest turns everyone away from her what happens when someone who falls from the sky and owns a calamity book called celicas embers and her crest starts to burn differently find out in this story.

by Marilyn Q

He came for Thanksgiving. He just didn't know what was on the menu! When Tucker, a plump and rather self-important turkey, arrives at a cozy little farm just before Thanksgiving, he's absolutely convinced he's the guest of honor! With his magnificent tail feathers, proud strut, and enormous opinion of himself, Tucker is certain the entire celebration is being planned in his honor. But when his new barnyard friends start acting strangely, and he discovers what Thanksgiving dinner might actually mean for a turkey, Tucker decides it's time to make a run for it! Suddenly, our brave (well, mostly brave) turkey finds himself lost in the woods, facing frightening creatures, unexpected adventures, and the realization that being on his own isn't nearly as wonderful as he imagined. Will Tucker find his way home before Thanksgiving? And will he discover that being loved is far better than being important? Filled with laughter, lovable characters, and a heartwarming surprise, The Turkey Who Came for Thanksgiving is a delightful holiday adventure about friendship, family, courage, and finding where you truly belong.

by Larry Lee Rhoton

**They came for their home. They accidentally took their $60 million.**   Homer Hoskins expected a quiet retirement at the Meadow View Assisted Living Center. Instead, he finds himself staring down the barrel of an international drug cartel after a ruthless criminal syndicate evicts twenty seniors to convert their home into a smuggling hub. But the cartel made one fatal mistake: they forgot that Homer had spent forty years as a deep-cover detective. Refusing to be thrown out onto the street, Homer and a rogue crew of stubborn retirees stage a midnight heist, steal the cartel’s massive Silver Eagle touring bus, and hit the open road. Only when they are miles away do they open the luggage bay to discover six heavy duffel bags filled with sixty million dollars in cold cartel cash. Now, pursued by a frantic motorcycle gang, tracking aircraft, and a clinical executioner known as El Verdugo, this armed senior-citizen family must rely on high-voltage stun guns, a 30,000-volt electric-fence crisis, and a highly weaponized bus sewage tank to survive. To save his friends, Homer must return to the lion’s den alone and pull off the greatest, most chaotic psychological frame-up in thriller history. Packed with high-octane suspense and laugh-out-loud humor, this heartwarming road-trip thriller follows a family of misfits who prove that while aging is mandatory, backing down is entirely optional.

by Marilyn Q

Pip has one very important Halloween job: say “BOO!” But every time he tries, something completely different comes out. MOO! TOOT-TOOT! YEE-HAW! Even… POTATO! Pip is sure he’s the worst Halloween pumpkin ever—until he meets Lucy, a little girl who thinks Halloween is just a little too scary. Together, Pip and Lucy discover that Halloween doesn’t have to be frightening to be fun. A silly, sweet story about being yourself, finding courage, and discovering that sometimes laughter is the very best kind of Halloween magic.

by Marilyn Q

Gus is a ghost. He can float through walls, make doors groan, and even give a pretty good “WooooOOOOoooo!” There’s just one little problem… Gus is afraid of the dark. So when the Annual Midnight Haunt sends him into the darkest room in the whole house—the creepy old attic—Gus is sure he’s in for the scariest night of his life. But when a strange little noise leads him to someone who might be just as frightened as he is, Gus discovers that being brave doesn’t mean you’re never scared. Sometimes, it just means you don’t have to be scared alone. A sweet and funny Halloween story about friendship, courage, and one very lovable little ghost.

by Marilyn Q

Mikey knows there’s something under his bed. He just never expected it to be a monster who’s scared of him!   Meet Boogle—a fuzzy little monster with crooked horns, purple feet, and one very wobbly fang. He’s supposed to be terrifying, but kids, teeth, teddy bears, and even broccoli are enough to send him running.   When Halloween arrives, Mikey and Boogle discover that even kids and monsters get scared.   A silly, sweet Halloween story about bravery, friendship, and the funniest monster under the bed.

by Marilyn Q

Sometimes the greatest Christmas gift isn't found beneath the tree. It's finding someone who loves you just the way you are. Deep in the snowy wonderland of Pineberry Woods lives Pickle, an adorable little skunk with a crooked white stripe and one very big wish—to find someone who will love him despite being different. While the other animals avoid him, Pickle dreams of warm hugs, Christmas magic, and a family to call his own. So he writes a heartfelt letter to Santa, asking for just one thing: a child who won't run away. Meanwhile, a lonely little girl named Becca makes a Christmas wish of her own. She doesn't want toys or fancy presents. She wants a special friend—someone who needs her as much as she needs them. When their wishes find their way to the North Pole, Santa and his elves discover that sometimes the most magical Christmas presents come in the most unexpected packages! Filled with beautiful illustrations, holiday wonder, tender moments, and a little Christmas mischief, Pickle's Christmas Wish is a heartwarming adventure about friendship, kindness, acceptance, and the joy of belonging. Perfect for family read-alouds, bedtime stories, and creating treasured Christmas memories. This Christmas, discover how one little skunk with a very big heart learns that being different can be the most wonderful gift of all.

by Isaac Y Brooks

**One text message. One spiritual catastrophe. Two hundred and eighty-eight bundles of sage. And one very, very tired boyfriend.** Daniel thought dating Akira, a gorgeous visual kei twink with immaculate eyeliner and a flair for the dramatic, would be relatively normal. He was wrong. When a conversation with an acquaintance leaves Akira convinced that his spiritual cultivation has regressed and his very soul is shivering, Daniel makes the obvious suggestion: block the guy and move on. Unfortunately, Akira is a Sagittarius, Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio, and blocking someone is apparently a primitive response to a sophisticated metaphysical emergency. Enter Master Nishihama, a specialist in visual kei twink spiritual crises, who prescribes a thirty-five-and-a-half-hour purification retreat in a rustic mountain cabin. The shopping list includes aquamarine crystals, living lavender plants, shamanic rugs, unfiltered seawater, and a horse to transport their profoundly unimpressed cat, Mochi. Then there are the scallops. Nobody knows why there are scallops. As Daniel struggles to procure increasingly inexplicable supplies, his boyfriend's spiritual emergency attracts a suspiciously helpful mountain lion, a culinary experiment involving exactly one-tenth of a potato, and the possibility that the entire universe has personally declared war on their household. Daniel loves Akira. He really does. But love has its limits, particularly when the grocery budget has been sacrificed to the cosmos and nobody can explain what the scallop tears are for. **My Vkei Twink Boyfriend Is Having a Spiritual Crisis** is an absurdist relationship comedy about supernatural nonsense, excessive sincerity, and the exhausting logistics of loving someone whose soul shivers at the slightest inconvenience. Sometimes love conquers all. Sometimes you just have to triple the sage.

by Penny Miller

**The Kitchen Lab Fair Experiment — Summary** Professor Reuben surprises the Kitchen Lab crew with a trip to the state fair aboard a bright red biplane! The flight is full of laughter and mischief. Duncan struggles with his flapping ears, Rosie can barely contain her excitement, and Sadie worries about everyone following the rules. At the fair, the crew meets Clover, a friendly dairy cow, who introduces them to a delicious scientific challenge: How can liquid cream become spreadable butter? Through curiosity, teamwork, and hands-on experimentation, the animals discover that science is everywhere—even in the foods we eat. The story combines humor, friendship, food science, and adventure while encouraging children to ask questions and investigate the world around them. It’s designed for young readers who love animals, discovery, and a little bit of chaos! 🐴🐾

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by John Doe

Based on a true story of a search for a better life worth living and the need for redemption . A journey  from the UK to the USA to Canada and Ireland to an old jetty and a floating dock by a beach in the heart of south east asia . And to a point of no return  Featuring themes of spirituality self discovery mortality and regret. Have you ever asked yourself how much would you'd be prepared to give to find out truly who you are , would you even want to know .  If you're looking for a better life and wonder is the grass really greener on the the side.. Perhaps you should take a pause . My advice just be careful what you wish for  John doe

by Isaac Y Brooks

# TWIN PEAKS TWINK THROUPLE TROUBLES *An Ethically Sourced Romantic Disaster* Love is complicated. Love in San Francisco is expensive. And love in a throuple where everyone has a sustainability manifesto is a full-blown municipal emergency. Meet Gaius, Auberge, and Ruslan: three men, one relationship, and absolutely no ability to let anything go. A questionable avocado becomes an ethical crisis. A twenty-third birthday requires a memorial service for lost cheekbones. Fine lines are diagnosed as Stage Four Crow’s Feet. A prescription medication triggers an existential reckoning with the porcine industrial complex. And meeting the parents? That means navigating Sedona crystal evangelists, Russian borscht diplomacy, and a Texas barbecue patriarch whose Republican politics nearly bring the entire relationship to its knees. Naturally, the solution to every problem is a conference, a committee, or a resolution circle nobody asked for. But when these three attempt to plan a wedding that is emotionally sustainable, ethically sourced, and liberated from the wedding-industrial complex, they discover that even true love has its limits—and that sometimes the most radical act of all is eating the damn cake. Set amid the fog, fabulousness, and occasional existential collapse of San Francisco’s Twin Peaks, *Twin Peaks Twink Throuple Troubles* is a wildly camp, gloriously absurd comedy about queer love, performative virtue, family dysfunction, and the exhausting business of trying to be a good person in a world where even your sandwich might have questionable origins. **Three men. One throuple. Zero ethically uncomplicated avocados.** Some relationships need couples therapy. These three need a city permit.

by Lane Bellweather

Eden Walsh has ninety-nine problems, and the ridiculously handsome man turning her historic inn into a paranormal tourist attraction is quickly becoming number one. After trading corporate hospitality for small-town charm, Eden is determined to make Briar House Inn a success. But between demanding guests, expensive repairs, and a ghost in Room Thirteen who apparently refuses to respect checkout time, her dream is looking more like a nightmare. Enter Kit Wilder. Charming. Infuriating. Unfairly good-looking. And the owner of the ghost-tour company responsible for half her headaches. When a last-minute disaster leaves the town’s biggest Halloween masquerade without a venue, Eden sees an opportunity to save her struggling business. There’s just one catch: she’s stuck planning the entire event with Kit. Suddenly, her October calendar is packed with haunted history, late-night meetings, dangerously flirty banter, and a man who seems determined to make her forget every rule she’s ever made about mixing business with pleasure. Kit might believe in things that go bump in the night, but Eden knows better. The real danger isn’t the ghost haunting her inn. **It’s the man making her heart forget how to behave.** *An irresistibly cozy, deliciously spicy Halloween romantic comedy featuring enemies to lovers, forced proximity, a hero who falls first, and a happily-ever-after worth getting haunted for.*

by B. shock

Exiled and left to die on a hostile alien planet for a crime she didnt commit, alita is saved by a alien native who wants nothing to do with her... Or so he thought. \ `Xanadis...A world deemed uninhabitable by humans and made into a penal colony where deathrow convicts are sent to serve out the rest of their lives, forced to fight to survive or subcome to the harsh enviroment and fall prey to the many creatures that live there. `\ \ `After being convicted of a murder she didnt commit alita is left stranded on the hostile world filled with carnivorous plants, ruthless criminals, hostile natives, and bloodthirsty monsters. `\ \ `She comes to realize the world isnt as unforgiving and cold as it seems. She's saved by a native who dislikes humans as much as the next guy but shes intent on sticking by his side in order to survive. The only issue being is the last thing he wants is a pathetic, weak human girl following him around.`\ \ \ \ \ `(Limited time only read!) `\ \ \ ` (THIS IS THE RE-WRITTEN VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL STORY AND WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TEMPORARILY)`

by Sammie Settlemire

"I Can't Make This Up" is a humorous and heartfelt memoir about one woman's ongoing battle with bureaucracy, bad luck, and baffling human behavior. Through a series of unbelievable but true experiences, she recounts everything from scam emails and vehicle registration nightmares to canceled medications, a traffic stop involving "weed" that wasn't weed, and the loss of a cherished home. Along the way she reflects on modern society, common sense, education, family, disability, and the resilience required to keep moving forward when life seems determined to pile one absurd challenge after another in your path. Equal parts comedy, frustration, and perseverance, this collection of stories proves that sometimes the only way to survive life's chaos is to laugh at it. Back Cover Blurb If someone told you this stuff happened in a novel, you'd say it was too ridiculous to be believable. A vehicle registration renewal becomes a bureaucratic obstacle course. A WiFi adapter is mistaken for drug paraphernalia. Medications disappear without warning. Scam artists promise millions. A beloved fifth wheel home vanishes from reach. And somehow, through it all, there's still room for family, stubborn determination, and the occasional glimmer of hope. With sharp humor, unapologetic honesty, and plenty of "you've got to be kidding me" moments, I Can't Make This Up is a memoir about surviving disability, bureaucracy, bad decisions, and the endless parade of absurdities that make up everyday life. Because sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. And sometimes a whole lot funnier.

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by Isaac Y Brooks

Juniper Reyes has a type: emotionally complicated men, questionable romantic decisions, and people whose birth charts suggest they should come with a warning label. But even Juniper’s deeply opinionated polycule, The Sanctuary, has its limits. Enter Reggie Vale: devastatingly handsome tech billionaire, human tax bracket, and an Aries. Their meet-cute involves lavender matcha, a ruined designer coat, and enough astrological hostility to trigger a collective emergency meeting. The Sanctuary is unanimous: absolutely not. Unfortunately, Reggie is persistent, Juniper is intrigued, and the chemistry between them is considerably harder to explain away than Mercury retrograde. Soon, Juniper finds himself swept into a world of private jets, extravagant surprises, and a billionaire who might actually be capable of loving someone beyond his own reflection. But falling for Reggie means navigating the friction between Juniper’s chosen family and a man whose idea of solving a problem involves throwing money at it. As the relationship deepens, everyone must confront uncomfortable questions about intimacy, independence, commitment, and whether an Aries can ever truly be trusted. Featuring a gloriously chaotic polycule, an emotionally indispensable lemur, billionaire excess, and enough astrology to make an entire zodiac wheel reconsider its life choices, *My Polycule Hates My Billionaire Boyfriend Because He’s an Aries* is a wildly funny romantic comedy about unconventional relationships, chosen family, and discovering that sometimes love refuses to follow the rules—even the ones written in the stars. Because the universe works in mysterious ways. And apparently, sometimes those ways involve a private island.

by Isaac Y Brooks

Adrian owns three international shipping companies, commands a private jet equipped for international diplomacy, and has survived the sort of boardroom negotiations that would make lesser men weep into their quarterly reports. He considers himself a rational adult. Then he falls in love with Lucien. Lucien is beautiful, emotionally delicate, and apparently capable of turning a perfectly ordinary Tuesday into a full-scale metaphysical emergency. He also has Blaze, his spiritual emergency contact, and Saturn, a man whose relationship with reality is best described as complicated. When Lucien experiences a cosmic crisis of truly unprecedented proportions, Adrian does what any devoted, obscenely wealthy boyfriend would do: he mobilizes private aviation, international wellness specialists, luxury mountain estates, and enough crystals to destabilize a small economy. What follows is an increasingly absurd international wellness expedition involving emergency healing circles, mysterious astronomical phenomena, spiritual containment protocols, and a support team whose collective grasp on reality deteriorates by the hour. Meanwhile, Adrian's long-suffering assistant Marianne is discovering that there are limits to human endurance, even when the espresso is excellent and the expense account is effectively bottomless. Because money can buy private jets, exclusive retreats, and the finest spiritual practitioners on three continents. What it cannot buy is a straightforward explanation for why the moon has apparently become a workplace emergency. *My Emotional Support Twink is Having a Cosmic Crisis* is an absurdist comedy about love, wealth, wellness culture, and the extraordinary lengths one man will go to for his boyfriend—even when absolutely nobody can agree on what the hell is happening. Some relationships require compromise. Others require international logistics, emergency incense, and a very patient executive assistant.

by Isaac Y Brooks

Featuring a spiritually exhausted Pisces, an infuriatingly attractive spy, international chaos, weaponized emotional unavailability, and enough questionable relationship decisions to concern several intelligence agencies, *OMG My Super Secretive Boyfriend Might Be a Spy… I Think* is an absurdist romantic comedy about love, lies, and discovering that sometimes the biggest red flag isn't that your boyfriend might be a spy.

by Isaac Y Brooks

*Small-town crime has never been this stupid.* Welcome to Desert Blossom, where the crimes are petty, the schemes are spectacularly stupid, and one exhausted police officer is about to lose what remains of his faith in humanity. Meet Catalytic Kyle and Methanny: two small-time schemers with big dreams, absolutely no business sense, and a seemingly supernatural ability to turn the most worthless junk imaginable into their next terrible idea. Their entrepreneurial ventures include selling stolen pallets for $9.83, acquiring questionable dollar-store cosmetics, preparing for the apocalypse with twenty-five bricks, and establishing a boarding school for imaginary Chihuahuas. Their latest business opportunities are always just around the corner. Unfortunately, so are the police. Enter Hal, a long-suffering Desert Blossom police officer whose career has devolved into an endless cycle of emergency calls, inexplicable animal encounters, spectacular property damage, and repeat visits to the jail's unofficially reserved *Honeymoon Suite*. Whether he's investigating a stolen Christmas manger, dealing with a mountain lion named Trotter, or responding to a Valentine's Day coyote caravan that goes catastrophically wrong, Hal knows two things: Kyle and Methanny are almost certainly responsible, and his shift is about to get a whole lot worse. And just when Hal thinks he's finally escaped the madness, Kyle unveils his next business venture: **brand-new used catalytic converters.** Because in Desert Blossom, the only thing more unreliable than the local economy is Kyle's next get-rich-quick scheme. *The Adventures of Methanny and Catalytic Kyle* is a gloriously ridiculous comedy about small-town chaos, spectacularly bad decisions, and the unfortunate police officer who has to deal with all of it. Perfect for readers who enjoy absurdist humor, deadpan comedy, and characters whose terrible ideas somehow keep getting worse.

by Donald N Walker

*"What happens when a fifteen-year-old dishwasher discovers that professional kitchens and hard liquor both offer the same thing? An escape from the noise inside his head."*\ \ For Donald N. Walker, the answer is a thirty-five-year journey through some of America's finest kitchens and darkest corners—a story of extraordinary culinary achievement built on a foundation that was crumbling from the very first drink. At thirteen, Walker blacked out for the first time.\ At forty-eight, standing in a parking lot in Victor, Idaho, with everything he owned in a borrowed pickup truck, he'd been fired, laid off, or escorted out of more kitchens than he could count without a piece of paper. He had five DUI arrests across three states. He had slept in a homeless shelter while employed at one of the most exclusive resorts in the American West. And he was about to do the single best thing he would ever do. This is the instruction manual on how not to do it—and the hard-won wisdom of a man who finally learned to put down the shovel. **How NOT to Do It** weaves three powerful narratives into a singular, unforgettable memoir. First, it's a culinary coming-of-age story that takes readers from the chaos of an Ohio smorgasbord's dish pit to working alongside Certified Master Chefs at elite country clubs, from the pirate-ship energy of Florida's Mad Hatter restaurant to catering thousand-person events with Secret Service oversight. Walker apprenticed under some of America's most decorated chefs, learning mother sauces, classical technique, and the particular satisfaction of plating food that earns a nod from people who don't give easy praise. For anyone who has ever loved the controlled chaos of a professional kitchen, this is your story told with the precision of a chef's knife and the honesty of a man with nothing left to hide. Second, it's an addiction and recovery memoir of brutal honesty. Walker's first blackout came at thirteen with a glass of mixed liquor stolen from his parents' cabinet. What followed were fifteen years of drinking without attempting to stop, then fifteen more years of starting and stopping, then finally—on January 1, 2022—sobriety that held. Between those bookends: multiple DUIs, jail time, lost relationships, geographical solutions that stretched from Ohio to Florida to Maryland to the Florida Keys to Idaho, jobs abandoned, opportunities squandered, and the slow, grinding realization that the thing he was running from was inside him the whole time. This is not a redemption story wrapped in a bow—it's the raw, unglamorous accounting of how addiction works, how it doesn't, and what it finally takes to stop digging. Third, it's a coming-of-age narrative about a boy who grew up on an Ohio apple orchard with a beloved Irish Setter named Sandy, watched his schizophrenic brother's eyes go empty, survived the bankruptcy that took the family farm, and learned early that the storm always felt more exciting than the calm. Walker carries readers through the geography of American restlessness: port cities and country clubs, college attempts and spectacular failures, the basement room with the back door that let him slip in and out unannounced, and the long road to Sweetwater, Tennessee, where he would finally stop running. For readers who love memoirs of resilience, Kitchen Confidential-style kitchen culture, or the hard-won wisdom of recovery literature, **How NOT to Do It** delivers all three with unflinching prose and dark humor.

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by Sammie Settlemire

How To Be White For Dummies A completely unofficial, wildly unnecessary field guide to suburban white culture. Have you ever wondered why otherwise rational adults become emotionally invested in grass? Why Costco feels like a religious experience? Why people spend entire weekends putting up seasonal decorations only to spend another weekend taking them down? Or why being asked to "bring a dish" can trigger a full-scale existential crisis? In How To Be White For Dummies, author Sammie Settlemire takes readers on a hilarious tour through the customs, rituals, and contradictions of suburban American life. From HOA enforcement squads and lawn maintenance warfare to pumpkin spice season, garage clutter, small talk etiquette, and the mysterious power of the fitted sheet, nothing escapes observation. Writing from the unique perspective of life in a fifth-wheel RV and trailer park communities, Settlemire contrasts suburban culture with a world where survival, resourcefulness, and community often matter more than appearances. The result is a funny, affectionate, and sometimes painfully accurate look at the ways people try to create order in a world that stubbornly remains chaotic. Perfect for fans of observational humor, social satire, David Sedaris-style storytelling, and anyone who has ever: •Argued about trash cans •Purchased something unnecessary at Costco •Pretended to care about grass •Folded a fitted sheet and lost the battle •Smiled through an awkward conversation about the weather No membership card required. Readerful Tags / Keywords •Humor •Satire •Cultural Humor •Suburban Life •HOA •Costco •RV Living •Trailer Park Life •Social Commentary •Comedy Essays •American Culture •Observational Humor •Lifestyle Humor •Small-Town America •Memoir Humor •Funny Nonfiction •Community Life •Modern Life •Lighthearted Satire •Everyday Absurdity Genre Primary Genre: Humor Secondary Genres: •Satire •Social Commentary •Humor Essays •Cultural Observations •Memoir Humor

by J. Rose Beckwith

She's hiding a limp. He's been hiding something a lot longer. Sloane Deshazo is the twin who never needs help and the outside hitter who plays through everything. So when the ache in her leg gets worse, she hides it. She forges an elevator pass, ices her thigh at 2 a.m., and keeps landing kills like nothing is wrong. Until the night she can't get up off the hallway floor. Chandler has been her brother's best friend since kindergarten, and he's the only one who noticed the limp. He's also the only person besides Sloane that Dashiell, a terrified rescue terrier, will walk up to. If Dashiell is going to pass his evaluation in March, Sloane needs Chandler on the training room floor every Saturday. He's been in love with her since they were five. She has no idea. And the promise he made her in the ER could cost him his best friend. Then chemo takes her hair and her season, and every kind thing Chandler does starts to look like pity. So she pushes him away. He shows up at 7:29 every morning anyway. The girl across the hall gave her a list of things sick girls don't get to do. Number seven is him.

by Michel Gerren

Peter Pen and Michael Needles are two broke Los Angeles dreamers convinced they’re one great idea away from making a fortune. Pen spins advertising signs for a living and longs to become somebody people notice. Needles sells “enriched” tube socks through a questionable multi-level marketing business and lives by one unshakable philosophy: **profits are better than wages.** After a string of disastrous business schemes and romantic disappointments, the unlikely partners stumble onto their most outrageous idea yet: **Passports to Love**, an international matchmaking service promising lonely American men the chance to meet their perfect “good girl” overseas. What begins as another get-rich-quick scheme unexpectedly takes off. Soon Pen and Needles are juggling eccentric clients, prospective brides, government scrutiny, romantic misunderstandings, and the uncomfortable realization that the people in their catalogs have lives, dreams, and choices of their own. Things become even more complicated when love finds the two men themselves. Pen grows closer to the sharp, independent Bunny Divine, while Needles discovers that his obsessive search for the perfect woman may have kept him from recognizing Sara—the very woman capable of challenging everything he believes about love. As their business grows and their friendship is pushed to the breaking point, Pen and Needles must decide what matters more: the fortune they’ve spent their lives chasing or the people they could lose along the way. **Passports to Love** is a fast-moving romantic comedy about friendship, ambition, bad decisions, second chances, and two hustlers who try to sell love—only to discover that love is the one thing they can’t put a price on.

by Sammie Settlemire

The HOA does not just run the neighborhood. The HOA is the neighborhood: a group of adults who gather voluntarily to enforce rules nobody asked for, like the PTA and the IRS had a baby that grew up to police the color of your mailbox. A comic anthropology of modern suburban life, taking on lawns as identity, Costco migration patterns, the fitted sheet crisis, the emotional support houseplant you are going to kill, and what all of it looks like from a trailer park and a 94 Bounder.

by Sammie Settlemire

Welcome to the end times. Not the biblical ones — those would be easier. I’m talking about the kind of apocalypse where a man wearing a foil hat shaped like a swan tries to sell you a broken vape and a conspiracy theory at three a.m behind a Dollar General. Why would you even have been behind there to see them at three a.m?     This is not a drill my friends. This is not a simulation where you wear those simulation glasses and can be stopped at anytime. This is not even the worst Tuesday I have personally have had. Let me tell ya I've had some bad ones too.   This is the Tweaker Apocalypse, and if you’re reading this, congratulations — you’ve survived long enough to need a field manual.

by Sammie Settlemire

How to Survive a '94 Bounder Without Losing Your Shit is a raw, funny, and painfully honest documentary about life inside a worn-out 1994 Fleetwood Bounder. What begins as a simple plan for freedom quickly turns into a relentless battle against breakdowns, leaks, electrical gremlins, mechanical failures, and the daily reality of living in a machine that's older than some of the people offering advice online. Armed with limited money, questionable repair skills, and an unhealthy amount of determination, the filmmaker documents every setback, small victory, and hard-earned lesson from the driver's seat of an aging RV. Along the way, the film becomes more than a story about fixing a motorhome. It's a story about resilience, self-reliance, and finding humor when everything seems to be falling apart. Part survival guide, part road diary, and part cautionary tale, How to Survive a '94 Bounder Without Losing Your Shit proves that sometimes the road to freedom is held together with duct tape, zip ties, and sheer stubbornness.

by Christoph Woods

The Undead Wars — Abyssalfang Book 2 Veyloria survived the Hollow King. Now the dead are rising. A possessed child walks out of the dark with a message for Maximus: "Don't keep me waiting." Morikk — his own brother, unmade three centuries ago — has rebuilt himself, and he's coming for the Heartstone buried beneath the Old King's Fall. The tomb isn't a burial site. It's a prison. And the seals need two Ancients to open — which means every step Maximus takes toward it is loosening the lock. With Queen Lyra, Pip, Seraphina, and a young summoner at his side, Maximus descends into the dark to stop his brother from unmaking the world. But Morikk doesn't want to destroy it. He wants to "fix" it.

by J.L.K. Taylor

In 1979, Jason Beannú Elias was playing dive bars in Reno, Nevada. He had no idea he was about to become one of the most powerful beings in the world.\ \ Neither did the four men beside him. The ones who would become his Brotherhood, his warriors, his brothers in the truest sense of the word. To the world, they were just a hard rock band called Battle Cry, five musicians with more talent than anyone had a right to. To an enemy who had been anticipating their generation for nine centuries, they were something far more dangerous.\ \ All it took was one old man, one wooden box, and one night in a San Diego hotel room to prove it.\ \ Singer Connor Braydee couldn't silence the flood of voices suddenly crashing through his mind. Guitarist Ricky Strathan blinked and found himself across the room without having moved. Bass Player Erik Hahn touched a table, and it collapsed like paper. Keyboardist Nathan Dallenger burned from the inside out. And Jace — their drummer, their anchor — died on the hotel carpet, rose in a column of living light, and came back to himself with an ancient voice echoing in his bones.\ \ \*"You are the Guardian of Aelin..."\*\ \ The next morning, a man named Sidney Greene stepped over the door Erik had pulled clean off its hinges and began to explain what none of them yet had words for. Five musicians. Five titles older than any nation they had ever played in. Five amulets that could not be removed until their work in this world was finished.\ \ They didn't ask for this destiny. None of it. But the world had been waiting nine hundred years for them to arrive.\ \ \*The Powers Bestowed: Origins.\*

by J.L.K. Taylor

In 1979, Jason Beannú Elias was playing dive bars in Reno, Nevada. He had no idea he was about to become one of the most powerful beings in the world.\ \ Neither did the four men beside him. The ones who would become his Brotherhood, his warriors, his brothers in the truest sense of the word. To the world, they were just a hard rock band called Battle Cry, five musicians with more talent than anyone had a right to. To an enemy who had been anticipating their generation for nine centuries, they were something far more dangerous.\ \ All it took was one old man, one wooden box, and one night in a San Diego hotel room to prove it.\ \ Singer Connor Braydee couldn't silence the flood of voices suddenly crashing through his mind. Guitarist Ricky Strathan blinked and found himself across the room without having moved. Bass Player Erik Hahn touched a table, and it collapsed like paper. Keyboardist Nathan Dallenger burned from the inside out. And Jace — their drummer, their anchor — died on the hotel carpet, rose in a column of living light, and came back to himself with an ancient voice echoing in his bones.\ \ \*"You are the Guardian of Aelin..."\*\ \ The next morning, a man named Sidney Greene stepped over the door Erik had pulled clean off its hinges and began to explain what none of them yet had words for. Five musicians. Five titles older than any nation they had ever played in. Five amulets that could not be removed until their work in this world was finished.\ \ They didn't ask for this destiny. None of it. But the world had been waiting nine hundred years for them to arrive.\ \ \*The Powers Bestowed: Origins.\*

by Christoph Woods

​**Abyssalfang** is a dark fantasy saga centered around **Maximus Artemis**, an immortal warrior bearing ancient runic markings and wielding a mysterious longsword named **Abyssalfang**. Accompanied by **Pip**, a snarky fairy bard, Maximus travels the realm hiding an extraordinary past. The series tracks his journey through the subterranean kingdom of **Veyloria(the dark elf kingdom)**, his involvement with its ruler **Queen Lyra Sidious**, and his central role in an ancient conflict against resurrected evils.

by Christoph Woods

When an ancient warrior named Maximus Artemis and his fairy companion Pip are captured by Dark Elf soldiers, they are brought in chains before Queen Lyra Sidious in the underground kingdom of Veyloria. Maximus conceals his true origin, but the ancient runes on his unblemished blade and violent subterranean tremors soon reveal a catastrophic reality: the Hollow King, a First-Age demon Maximus sealed away centuries ago at the cost of his fallen companions, is breaking free from the deep bedrock beneath the palace. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Maximus, Queen Lyra, Commander Kael Draven, and High Archmage Seraphina Vale descend into the subterranean depths to confront the rising threat. As the ancient seals collapse, the Hollow King unleashes a horde of reanimated ghouls, mocking Maximus’s past failures and threatening to drag Veyloria into ruin. In a grueling duel against his ancient foe, Maximus is pushed to his absolute limit. Forced to reveal his true strength, he ignites with blue fire, summons his legendary Crimson Dragoon armor, and channels the full power of his blade, Abyssalfang, to utterly shatter the Hollow King. However, the victory is short-lived; as the demon dissolves, he reveals he was merely a pawn freed by a far more dangerous entity named Morikk. Far across the world, Morikk observes the battle's end through a pool of dark magic, declaring that the hunt for Maximus has officially begun again.

by Sammie Settlemire

Sammie didn’t expect to watch her own death from above her body. But when her heart stopped, reality split open. In the chaos of an operating room, she became both witness and patient — hovering outside her own shell while surgeons fought to pull her back from the edge.She saw everything: the wires, the screens, the frantic hands working inside her. She heard the words no living person should ever hear spoken about themselves — time of death. And she felt the terrifying truth of being conscious, aware, and unable to make anyone understand she was still there.This is not fiction. This is not embellished. This is a true story based on real events — the moment Sammie slipped out of her body and into the space between life and whatever waits beyond it.As she drifted through darkness, tunnel vision, and the suffocating weight of her final breath, she discovered a clarity that only comes when everything is stripped away. And when she fought her way back into her body, she carried with her the knowledge that every second matters — because once it’s gone, it never returns.Between Breath and Darkness is the raw, unfiltered opening to Sammie’s memoir: a visceral descent into near‑death awareness, dissociation, and the fragile boundary between existence and oblivion. It is a story of survival told by the only person who lived it.

by Sammie Settlemire

Sadie Harper is barely keeping her life together. Between the heat, the exhaustion, and the constant feeling that she’s falling behind, she’s convinced she’s just one bad day away from breaking. But when a strange symbol forms in the sky — sharp, metallic, and pulsing like it’s alive — Sadie realizes the world is breaking first.Her phone begins rearranging its own numbers. Clouds twist into shapes that point directly at her. And no one else seems to see it.As the sky’s signals intensify, Sadie is pulled into the hidden world of the Watchers — rare individuals born with a connection to the sky’s ancient language. Some can bend light. Some can stabilize storms. Some can read the patterns that shape reality itself. Sadie, however, is something different. Something the Watchers haven’t seen in generations.Her awakening draws the attention of an older force — a presence that has been waiting for her since before she was born. It knows her name. It knows her past. And it knows what she’s capable of, even if she doesn’t.Now Sadie must navigate a world she never asked to enter, uncover the truth behind her connection to the sky, and decide whether her gift is a warning… or a weapon. Because the signals aren’t random. They’re a countdown. And Sadie is the one they’re counting down to.

by Sammie Settlemire

Wren is three when her mother asks who she wants to live with. It is not a question. It is a trap, and the answer she cannot say splits her childhood in two. What follows is the story of a girl who learned to read rooms before she could read words, and the people who saw her when her mother would not.

by Diann Cabler

**Three aging sisters live together in a comfortable little Southern neighborhood where everybody knows everybody. Then a mysterious older man moves into the house directly across the street. He doesn't wave or smile. He doesn't appear to own a TV, a dog, or even a sense of humor** **Most importantly, he doesn't seem to like them. Naturally, the Bellamy sisters find this completely unacceptable.** **Vivian, 78 is the oldest and absolutely refuses to behave like it. She is glamorous, flirtatious, dramatic, and convinced that men have been falling in love with her for decades. Whether they actually did is debatable. She has a weakness for handsome men, expensive perfume, and telling stories in which she is always the heroine. Her favorite phrase is: "Honey, I've still got it." Her sisters aren't entirely convinced.** **Martie, 74 is the practical one. She is outspoken, opinionated, stubborn and convinced that everybody needs to be told the truth whether they asked for it or not. She has a heart of gold, but the bedside manner of a chainsaw. She is a wonderful cook and takes enormous pride in feeding people. Martie becomes convinced that the man's problem is simple: "He ain't had a decent meal since Eisenhower was president." She makes it her personal mission to feed him.**  **Lou, 68 is the youngest of the sisters. She is funny, slightly odd, talks to animals, and has a collection of things that are "probably haunted." She gives everyone ridiculous nicknames based on what she thinks they look like, not what their actual names are.** **Art Caldwell, a 79 year old widower moved in across the street. He's grumpy, private, and does not socialize, and he particularly does not want visitors.**  **And he has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't need anybody. Naturally, the sisters immediately decide that this means he desperately needs somebody.** **Art isn't mean. He's simply shut himself away, since his wife died several years earlier. He has a daughter whom he hasn't spoken to in years. He moved to this town because he wanted to disappear. He believes if he doesn't get close to anyone, he can't lose anyone.** **The sisters don't know any of this at first. They only know: The man is a grouch. And they intend to fix him.**

by Vexen Spell

**You find yourself in the zombie apocalypse with a Serial Killer, a Mafioso, a Loser, a Hockey Player, a Bounty Hunter, and a Preacher’s Son.**   **What could possibly go wrong?**   Welcome to the end of the world.

by Sammie Settlemire

After dying, waking, and dying again, Sammie watches her own body from above as doctors call her time of death and prepare to let her go. What follows is a chaotic, brutally honest journey through survival, brain damage, disability, humor, trauma, and the stubborn refusal to stay gone. From waking up with tubes down her throat to navigating life in a beat‑up RV with a misunderstood XL bully service dog, Sammie fights her way back into a world that keeps trying to erase her. This memoir is a raw, unfiltered account of the moments between life and death — and the messy, ridiculous, painful, beautiful fight to keep living once you return.

by Mike Cohee

Retired teacher Logan Chase invests his late wife’s savings to revive the long-shuttered Burleigh Hardware on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, only to discover the old store is very much alive with ghosts. What begins as harmless hauntings quickly escalates into dangerous supernatural chaos, from rogue animatronics to creatures assembled from scrap lumber. With the help of his sharp-tongued, clairvoyant assistant Mallory Daniels and an unlikely team of librarian turned ghost hunters, Logan must uncover the truth behind a restless spirit tied to a century-old injustice. To save the store, and the town, they must finally pardon the ghosts of Burleigh.

by Mad Writer

Thomas Rogers had resigned himself to a life of obscurity, preferring to fade into the background. One day, he stumbled upon a single wish that held the power to alter his destiny. Suddenly, he's transported to a different world, where he's frantic to find a path back home.

by Jane Austen

Lady Susan Vernon is newly widowed, short of money, and the most accomplished flirt in England. No longer welcome in the house where she has been staying, she invites herself to her brother-in-law's estate and promptly sets about charming her sister-in-law's young brother. Meanwhile she is determined to marry off her shy daughter, Frederica, to a rich and foolish suitor the girl can't stand. Told entirely in letters, Austen's short early novel gives all the best lines to its villain, and it is wickedly funny. Whit Stillman filmed it in 2016 as Love & Friendship.

by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse has lived nearly twenty-one years in the village of Highbury with very little to distress or vex her. Bored, confident and certain of her own judgment, she takes up matchmaking, starting with her sweet, impressionable friend Harriet Smith. Her schemes go wrong in every direction. The vicar proposes to the wrong woman, a charming newcomer is keeping a secret, and the one person who tells Emma the truth, her old friend Mr. Knightley, is the last person she wants to hear it from. Austen expected that no one but herself would much like her heroine. Two centuries of readers have proved her wrong.

by Paul Blakemore

Ava Reynolds has spent six years building the life she always wanted. As Vice President of Strategy at Chicago's fastest-growing advertising agency, she's respected, successful, and finally on track for the promotion she's worked toward her entire career. The last thing she needs is a reminder of the man who walked away from her. Unfortunately, Ethan Hayes has just walked back into her conference room. Six years ago, Ethan left Chicago for a dream job in Los Angeles, leaving Ava with a broken heart and a future she never expected to face alone. Now he's back as a high-profile consultant, and their boss has assigned them to work together on the most important account of their careers. The assignment should be simple: combine Ava's talent for finding the emotional heart of a brand with Ethan's cutting-edge digital expertise and create a winning campaign. The reality is anything but simple. Long nights, shared takeout, creative breakthroughs, and lingering memories quickly blur the line between professional collaboration and personal history. As old feelings resurface, Ava and Ethan must confront the questions they've spent years avoiding. Can trust be rebuilt after betrayal? Can ambition and love coexist? And is a second chance worth risking everything they've worked so hard to achieve? Surrounded by a cast of eccentric coworkers, impossible deadlines, and the relentless pressure of the advertising world, Ava and Ethan discover that the hardest pitch they'll ever make isn't to a client. It's to each other.

by Rose M Joy

"If you insult a god, he'll probably curse you for life". "Prove it".   Genessa Till has been shipped around like a good all her life. From thriving kingdoms to simple towns to refugee camps and places many don't even venture. At 19 years old, she is sent to Marin, one of the riverine areas in her country, a place her owners promise her is the last one. Genessa is ready to spend her life peacefully there, till she sees something so surreal it's hard to decide if she will do the logical thing and tell, or enjoy this little bit of attention?

by Dan Dooley

Elijah Weatherspoon's world is turned topsy turvy when he unknowingly releases a genie from an old clock he had just bought. Just a plain old windup clock in a brass housing which is formed in the shape of a castle. Who would have known what was inside the old clock?\ \ But now here he was sitting on a park bench, and on a bench across from him, the strangest of characters. A genie, so it turns out. But now that the genie is free from the clock which had been his prison for more years than he would tell, he owes Elijah the customary three wishes. But will he pay up?\ \ Genies are not all the legends and old stories tell them to be. One can not always expect them to fulfil their promises. Three wishes? Elijah Weatherspoon was soon to find out the true nature of those promises. A comic tale of facing mizerhood head on, and learning what really matters in life. When one is fortunate enough to find a mysterious lamp, rubbing the lamp will free the genie who has been imprisoned within that lamp for a thousand years. Out of gratitude, the genie is empowered to grant you your desires in the form of wishes. Usually three wishes. But what happen if the genie has a whole different idea about gratitude for his release and your wishes are turned upside down? Instead of good fortune, you receive the opposite. And the genie seems more interested in playing tricks on you than on granting your wishes. That's what Elijah Weatherspoon found, to his dismay. Seeming all misfortune contrary to the wishes he asks for. He asks for riches. He asked for good health and a long life. He asked for prestige and influence within the circle of important men. What comes his way seems to be the very opposite. Now his world is turned topsy turvy. And he wishes he had never bought that cursed clock.

by Mike Miski

by Lura Mckinnon

A girl born in the early 60s learns that in life, there's not always going to be someone to save you. The story captures the resilience, strength, courage as well as ways to get even against people who have hurt her, or her friends, in comical actions. Her father George became her silent hero, and with his silent actions, taught her the ups and down in life. *Life taught me to be strong.* *The men who cheated on me...* *Well, they taught me to be creative.*   People have asked me about the title of this book. Some assume it's about anger. Others think it's about revenge. It isn't. Wrath isn't always loud. Sometimes it's quiet. Sometimes it's walking away. Sometimes it's refusing to let someone else's betrayal define your worth. And sometimes... It's a harmless prank that reminds a person they should have treated you better in the first place. I never believed in cruelty. Life had already shown me enough of that. But I did believe in consequences. Especially the kind that could make you laugh years later. If that's wrath... Then I suppose I'm guilty.

by Jeff B White

Octavia survived banishment to the crushing depths of the Trench by carving away the merman she was expected to be. She's managed to build a life for herself where she is genuinely happy and able to give back to those less fortunate than her. And what does she get for it? Deadnamed by her brother-in-law and blackmailed by her trashy niece. She gives her niece legs in exchange for her voice so that the stupid girl can go to the surface and try to bag a prince. But the girl's beauty was a trick played by the distortion of water. She ended up a drooling mute with bad hair and trollop vibes. So Octavia says goodbye to her hips and watches her own breasts fade as she stuffs herself into a man shaped suit and heads to the surface to help the helpless. But the Prince is a Queen, so to speak and he has other plans. Based on Andersen's *The Little Mermaid*, this campy and irreverent fairy tale retelling pays homage to John Waters and the late Harris Glenn Milstead with a girthy celebration of drag and filth that is not the fish story that you're used to.

by J.D.Milligan

**What if the most powerful girl on the island was the one who couldn’t use magic?** Rose Grey is a 205-year-old sea nymph who looks twelve—and she has a problem. On the mysterious Isle of Lumiere, magic is everywhere, pirates hunt magical beings, and Rose is the only one of Poseidon’s daughters who seems to have been born without powers of her own. But Rose is far from ordinary. Armed with an invisibility cloak, a stubborn streak, and a talent for finding trouble, she is drawn into an adventure filled with dangerous pirates, a mischievous elf, ancient secrets, a mysterious sorceress—and one cigar-smoking monkey named Smokey. As pirates close in on the elusive sea nymph, they have come to call the **Phantom Nymph**, Rose begins to discover that the truth about who she is may be far stranger—and far more powerful—than anything she imagined. ***Rose Grey and Pirates, Nymphs, and A Smoking Monkey*** is a whimsical middle-grade fantasy adventure filled with mystery, humor, pirates, mythology, friendship, and a heroine searching for where she belongs. Written by **J. D. Milligan**.

by Jane Austen

Catherine Morland is seventeen, good-natured, and has read a great many Gothic novels. Taken to Bath for the season, she makes a fast friend of the flirtatious Isabella Thorpe, is pursued by Isabella's boorish brother, and falls for the clever, teasing Henry Tilney. When the Tilneys invite her to their family home, Northanger Abbey, Catherine arrives expecting secret passages and hidden crimes, and goes looking for them. Austen's affectionate send-up of the horror novels of her day was one of the first she wrote, and it was published only after her death in 1817.

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by Gemma Therese

Sixteen-year-old Melanie Howard's world is fractured on her birthday when she discovers her magical angelic bloodline and processing her brother, Eli, gets dragged into the shadows of danger. Thrust into Bloodbound Academy, a pre-Civil War institution for the descendants of the Angelic Realm, Melanie discovers that she possesses the rare talent of psychometry, a gift that allows her to catch glimpses of her kidnapped brother. Desperate and struggling against time, Melanie has only one priority: to bring her brother home safely.

by S. Rogers

Clara Bellwether is the queen of romantic mishaps. As the host of the hit podcast *Unlucky In Love,* she dissects her own disastrous dating life for the entertainment and commiseration of thousands. From the agony of the 'almost' date to the perils of digital romance. Clara's candid confessions offer a hilarious and painfully relatable look at modern love... or the distinct lack thereof.  But when a near-death experience with a sleek limousine introduces her to Julian Vance, the notoriously reclusive CEO of Vance Industries. Clara's carefully curated world of romantic misfortune is suddenly upended. He's powerful, intriguing, and utterly unlike anyone she's ever dated. Could this unexpected encounter be the one thing that finally breaks her unlucky streak, or is Julian Vance just another chapter in her ongoing saga of romantic chaos?

by Stuart Grant

**For twenty years, Stuart Grant stood inches from the spotlight while witnessing everything audiences were never supposed to see.**   **Remember, I’ve Seen You Naked: A Backstage Memoir pulls back the curtain on life behind some of America’s biggest touring theatrical productions. As a hairdresser, makeup artist, wardrobe professional, and quick-change expert, Stuart traveled from city to city helping performers become glamorous, heroic, terrifying, and occasionally presentable—often while complete chaos erupted around them.**   **Backstage, personal boundaries disappeared quickly. Actors undressed without hesitation, wigs malfunctioned at the worst possible moment, costume changes became full-contact sports, and conversations took turns no ordinary workplace would survive. Stuart found himself surrounded by outrageous personalities, unexpected hookups, touring disasters, sexual misadventures, nightclub escapades, and situations so absurd they could only have happened in show business.**   **But beneath the laughter is the story of a demanding and deeply intimate world built by people the audience rarely notices. It is also a remembrance of the friendships formed on the road, the people whose curtain came down too soon, and a career Stuart believed would last forever—until an injury abruptly took it away.**   **Candid, adult, darkly funny, and unexpectedly moving, Remember, I’ve Seen You Naked celebrates the people behind the scenery who make the magic happen, clean up the disasters, and return the next night to do it all again.**

by Toxiktweet

In the magical world of Tropius, gods, goddesses, and demi-beings possess extraordinary powers and experience every emotion imaginable—except for one goddess. Flora, the most beautiful goddess in existence, has never understood happiness, sadness, anger, or love. When she accidentally unleashes a mysterious power while trying to help a young demi girl, Flora is exiled from her home and sent to the mysterious world of Mirrorland.\ There, enchanted mirrors reveal the lives of people across countless worlds. Flora becomes fascinated by Nyla, a twelve-year-old girl struggling to survive in the dangerous streets of Oaktown. Through an extraordinary twist of fate, Flora's journey becomes intertwined with Nyla's, forcing her into a world filled with violence, friendship, heartbreak, and sacrifice.\ Alongside her loyal companion Grillo and her courageous new friend Jordan, Flora begins to experience emotions for the very first time. As a ruthless killer named Silas hunts her down, Flora discovers that the mysterious power hidden within her is tied to an ancient destiny that could change both the human world and the world of the gods forever.\ Flora is a captivating fantasy adventure about friendship, courage, self-discovery, and the transformative power of emotions. It is the story of a goddess who must learn what it truly means to be human before she can become the hero both worlds desperately need.

by Sammie Settlemire

Sorenson: 9th & Ash follows a woman standing at the fault line between her past and the world she refuses to inherit. In a neighborhood where every street remembers what you survived, Sorenson becomes a mythic‑surreal portrait of resilience — a story where trauma has teeth, hope has a spine, and the ordinary corners of 9th & Ash crack open to reveal the strange magic of rebuilding a life from the ruins.

by T Rolan

TOO FAR TO WALK.TOO SMART TO QUIT. Siul just wanted to egg an old lady in Brooklyn. Instead, he ends up on a starship 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Chazlyn just wanted to avoid people. Now, she's the second-in-command of an Earth-based international crew of twenty. Twenty children with three things in common: They are all eleven years old. They are all on the Autism Spectrum. They are the only ones who can see the broken pattern. Recruited by an Al named Protocol, Team Twenty (T-20) has been brought to the Andromeda Galaxy for a mission that shouldn't exist: navigate the Möbius Loop while avoiding the Vessel Protection and Interception Force. But the police aren't the only threat. Orbiting the massive planet Big Papa, the crew must survive static-charged aliens, sentient floating turnips, Mr. Jiggles, enemies that won't die, and a glitch in reality that suggests their whole mission might be a lie. Armed with gravitic nanites, hyper-focused genius, and a penchant for chaos, T-20 must master the Pattern to survive. Because out here in the void, being different isn't a disability-it's a superpower.Welcome to the Cutlass. Don't forget to feed the cat.

by Michelle Luise

Shana is on a mission to become a famous Christmas squirrel, so she can eat all the hazelnut Christmas cupcakes she desires. But when she discovers she's not actually a squirrel, her dream is in jeopardy. A joyful holiday adventure about identity, belonging, and the magic of embracing who you are meant to be. I love reading the reviews! They mean so much to me!

by Arin Lee Kambitsis

by Lisa Troy

On a fictional Greek island, Anastasia Livanitis solves murders and other crimes with her ghostly sidekicks, and her journalist best friend, Nikos.

by Fred Koehler

Miriam Lockhart never believed in faeries—until they killed her. Now trapped in the faerie realm as a wandering spirit (and none too happy about it), Miriam must discover her unfinished business or remain a ghost forever. Her only guide is a Death Raven named Lucky I-Ain’t-You, whose record of escorting souls to the Great Beyond stands at, well, zero.\ \ Along the way, she'll meet a dastardly collection of magical misfits including a sasquatch assassin, a goblin snitch, and the murderous Faerie Godfather. \ \ If you like dark humor and genuine heart, you'll enjoy this funny, haunting fantasy.