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“What if,” asked the raven, “all those old faerie stories weren’t really about being good and honest and obeying your mum and dad? What if they were a warning, telling you about *real* dangers, licking their lips just beyond the firelight?” 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. Fates intertwined, the duo enters the realm of the Family LeFae, a riffraff band of faerie criminals locked in a brutal struggle against an oppressive monarchy. There, she faces down a cast of misfits including a foul-mouthed goblin, a sasquatch assassin, and the mysterious Faerie Godfather. It’s only when Miriam sees her own misfortune mirrored in others that her heart undergoes an even bigger transformation. A dangerous deal is struck with Death incarnate to try and break the chains of the enslaved faerie folk. But it may cost Miriam the one thing she set out to save: her soul.\ \ Dark humor meets genuine heart in this funny, haunting fantasy.

TREASURE SPIES is a fast-paced, middle grade summer adventure about four nerdy friends matching wits with high-tech treasure hunters in the search for a billionaire’s lost diamond ring. What begins as a race to the reward becomes a sprint against time to save their sleepy beach town from an eco-disaster.

When an accident on the water leaves his father unable to fish, Jim Hobbins begins taking out the family skiff after school to keep the business afloat. A secret fishing spot and the promise of high-dollar snapper lure the boy on a nighttime adventure 20 miles offshore. But instead of a monster haul, Jim gets lost in the night and finds himself adrift in the Gulf. Ever hopeful, the boy invents a survival school at sea and assigns himself projects to overcome his lack of food, water, and shelter. Most of his projects fail, but he manages to stay alive. Soon enough, he’ll have to face even harder challenges including storms, sharks, and a mysterious presence he imagines on a ghostly vessel. Attacked by jellyfish, tangled in underwater nets, and with his skiff beginning to slip beneath the waves, Jim refuses to give up. But how long can he hold out when nature itself seems determined to keep him from ever making it home?