Still reeling from the untimely demise of a relationship that she thought would last forever, work strain, & longstanding family drama, she is in dire need of respite. A freak occurrence coupled with a little bit of desperation to get away from it all leads her on an adventure—a cross-country road trip back to her hometown of Ragston, MI. At the end of the long road home, Emerson hopes to find peace in more ways than one. Roosevelt Ashe is in desperate need of a new start. Still reeling from the loss of his grandmother, he heads back home to Chicago to settle her affairs and jumpstart his life. The only problem? Home is where the heart of his drama lies. A chance meeting between these two strangers as they traverse the country with similar missions sparks an undeniable connection. ***AUTHOR'S NOTE*** Books Two and Three in this series are forthcoming, but not written by me. Book two will follow Roxanne and will be written by Te Russ. Book Three will follow Charlene and will be written by Bailey West.

    And so worth it. Detour, Joyride, and Scenic Route. The first three books in the Beautiful Biker series about The Dominion Brotherhood MC are here in one box set! Detour Book 1: Deacon (hot, possessive, book husband material) and Ella (conservative girl-next-door and bored out of her mind). Deacon sets eyes on Ella and decides for the first time in three years he wants a relationship. Ella hears all sorts of negative talk about him and there's danger all around. Deacon is determined to keep her safe and give her a wild ride toward Happily Ever After. Joyride Book 2: Rider (sexy, swagger, a bit of an alphahole) and Jenna (good-time girl, petrified of heartbreak). Jenna falls hard and fast for Rider who is totally NOT her type, but Rider hurts her feelings so she retreats. Suddenly, Jenna is in danger and Rider is determined to keep her safe. The sparks fly between them, but should Jenna keep her heart guarded with what she knows, the fears she has? There's also that very incriminating video she saw of him... Scenic Route Book 3: Spencer (protective, bad boy, chip on his shoulder) and Pippa (caring, but broken by domestic violence) Spencer seemed like a real jerk in books one and two, but we got hints about there being more than meets the eye with this bad boy biker. Spencer wanted Pippa, but she belonged to someone else. He finds her beaten and bloody in an alley at the hands of the man who was supposed to protect her and he decides to fight to not only keep her safe but mend her broken heart, too. He's also got some demons to be battled. Is Pippa too broken to be up to the task? Take the wild, sexy, and angsty ride to Happily Ever After with The Dominion Brotherhood MC. Each book is standalone but linked. These stories have love, suspense, action, friendship, dirty talk, laugh-out-loud moments, angst, and FEELS. Five more books are coming!. Fall in love not once, but three times, and no need to say goodbye to your favorite characters in each book as main characters in one book feature as secondary characters in the other books.

    Before she knows it, Tilly has said goodbye to her family and is behind the wheel--ready to embark on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict. Just as it will for each and every one of the elders on the trip, who soon dub themselves "the Crazy Eights." Tilly and the Crazy Eights each choose a stop to make along the way--somewhere they've always wanted to go or something they've wanted to experience. Their plan is to travel to Las Vegas, Sedona, and the Redwood Forests, with each destination the inspiration for secrets and stories to be revealed. The trip proves to be powerful medicine as they laugh, heal, argue, and reveal hopes and dreams along the way. With friendships forged, love found, hearts broken and mended, Tilly and the Crazy Eights feel ready for anything by the time their bus rolls to a stop in New Mexico. But are they?

    After the tragic loss of her brother, she partied her way to oblivion, estranged her best friend, Cass, and pushed away her now ex, Finn. But when her destructive behaviour reaches dangerous heights, Zoey realises she needs to pull herself together and get her old life back, including her ex. There’s just one complication: Finn is now dating Cass.Now, it’s the last week of summer and Zoey, Cass and Finn are setting out on the road trip of a lifetime to see their favourite musician, Gray, perform live, joined by Finn’s infuriatingly attractive bad-boy cousin Luc and his vibrant younger sister Jolie. Zoey thinks this is her chance to put things to rights and convince Finn they should get back together. But she wasn’t counting on her friends’ lingering resentment, Luc’s disarming sincerity, and Jolie’s infectious love for life to turn her plans upside down.

    Angélique Lacroix is haymaking when the postman delivers the news: her father is dead, killed on a distant battlefield. She makes herself a promise: the farm will remain exactly the same until her beloved older brother comes home from the Front. "I think of it like a magical spell. If I can stop time, if nothing ever changes, then maybe he won’t change either." But a storm ruins the harvest, her mother falls ill and then the requisition appears... In a last-ditch attempt to save the farm from bankruptcy, Angélique embarks on a journey across France with her brother's flock of magnificent Toulouse geese.

    What’s even more insane is I somehow find myself agreeing to it—thanks, alcohol, guilt, and bribery. I’m determined to undo the arrangement, but then I meet Gwen, this sexy redheaded hurricane of energy and brains. And then she kisses me. Just like that, I’m driving her up the coast, on our way to a wedding with a mess of complications. With each hour and each stop, I’m falling harder and harder for a woman who doesn’t know my actual name. I’m trying to do the right thing. Or the lesser of the wrong things. All my life I’ve had to clean up my brother’s messes, but for the first time ever, I’ve landed the upper hand in one of our switcheroo schemes. Now I’ve just got to come clean and convince Gwen that I’m the brother she should be with.

    On this trip an emotionally detached child prodigy with a history of therapist visits encounters a cast of quirky characters who validate his wishes to live his life independently. But none of the characters found on the road end up being as path-altering for him as his own immediate family. There are many lessons along the way. The most important being that wherever there is motion, there is bound to be friction, and within this lies the secret to wisdom and the strength to break free.

    He likes being invisible to all around him; it keeps life safe and predictable. In his attic bedroom, he experiences a world far from the drama of his family. He doodles, listens to music, and contemplates the troubled souls he observes when attending self-help meetings designed for people with problems he doesn’t have. Renzy lives his life like a spectator, always on the outside of life’s games, looking in at others.Everything changes when Seven and Morning Moreau-Maddox relocate from their glitzy lives in Paris to boring, picturesque Redcliff Hills, Missouri. Tall, platinum blond, and as put-together as a pair of European high-fashion models, the sophisticated siblings befriend Renzy, drawing him in and then pushing him away. What starts as nothing more than a means to an end for Seven, however, quickly becomes something more. Could icy-hearted Seven be thawing for the silent, quirky charm of Renzy Callen?Determined to find the cause of Renzy’s selective mutism, the three teens set off on a road trip, during which they discover that flawless physical facades can conceal the most scarred souls, and that sometimes silence is better than golden.

    Smothered by survivor’s guilt and his close-knit family, he makes a break for the open road. He doesn't know what he's looking for, but he's got the whole summer to figure out who he misses more: his boyfriend, or the person he thought he was. It’s just him and his memories . . . until he almost runs over a hitchhiker.Nick Hamilton made some mistakes after his younger brother died. His violent ex-boyfriend was the most dangerous, and the one that got him shipped off to Camp Cornerstone’s pray-the-gay-away boot camp. His eighteenth birthday brings escape, and a close call with an idiot in a station wagon. Stranger danger aside, Nick’s homeless, broke, and alone. A ride with Ethan is the best option he’s got.The creepy corners of roadside America have nothing on the darkness haunting Ethan and Nick. Every interstate brings them closer to uncharted emotional territory. When Nick’s past shows up in their rearview mirror, the detour might take them off the map altogether.

    But he takes some hard hits the summer before his senior year when his nearly perfect brother Manny returns from a tour in Iraq with a devastating case of PTSD.In a desperate effort to save Manny from himself and pull their family back together, T's fiery sister Xochitl hoodwinks her brothers into a road trip with many stops along the road to visit loved ones from their past.

     What Trystian Pendragon doesn’t know, is it will take a Dhragain’s breath to protect him. * Briton’s heart already bears the scars of Roman, Scotty, and Saxon swords alike. However, the Goddess needs but only one bloodline, to remain true to the old ways of the Druis, in order to keep her spirit and people thriving for ages to come. A legacy which started long before the tales of the mighty King Arthur arrived. Even today, Celtic Pagans whisper their story… of the Anáil Dhragain and of the legendary bloodline… the Pendragon. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Serving as a Brittunculi Legionnaire in the very occupation he hates the most, Trystian has yet to labour through some of the hardest lessons of life. Fourteen years of his youth have been conscripted by the deceitful Legatus Legionis Gallus through impossible choices forced upon him; that time is gone, but now, so are the Romans. Free after so long, Trystian’s only desire is to go home— to the family he fears has been destroyed, even after he’d remained dutifully under the regime, and to the one with whom he left his heart. In a time when so few dare to pray to her any longer, he hopes his devotion to his Goddess is strong enough to wake her from the slumbers of abandonment, so that she may see him through his ultimate and most brutal path yet ahead. The one that will finally return him home. It is this journey, at the most dismal point in his life, that forces him to reconcile with his past, and make peace with the choices that had been made for him long ago. It’d started when he’d been a young man, struggling with how to contain his discontent of the Roman occupation of Briton so as not to shame his father. Nevertheless, not even the receding Roman reign had come soon enough for Trystian. But back home in Penrith, Cumbria, the ominous Roman presence wasn’t the only thing that caused Trystian a troubled mind. As a young man coming of age, he found there were some things he didn’t have in common with other young men, and an encounter with a secret Welsh noble with exotic eastern features both terrified and excited Trystian. However, life for Trystian wasn’t just his own or simple enough for him to have the time he had wished for to explore. Such feelings, stirring within him— they remained untouched as he was tutored and conditioned to be something greater for their people and the family’s future. After all the misfortune and misery of the past, Trystian now forges towards a future he never once imagined as his fate. For the Goddess never truly abandons her children born from the blessed rites of the Calan Mai. For Trystian Pendragon isn’t just high born, he is Sliocht na Péiste— “born of the dragon”— and his future belongs to the Goddess and to the destiny of the royal Pendragon bloodline. Survive it all, and the Goddess Morrighan just might bless him with a reunified bond he’d once made within the Anáil Dhragain. Pre-Arthurian Historical Fantasy / Epic Adventure / UK English Editing / Graphic Content 18+ 257,000 word count

     At their friend Justin's funeral, once-best-friends Derek and Hunter meet again almost four years after their monumental falling out. Hunter kissed Derek, and Derek freaked out and chose a college on the other side of the country. If they had a choice, both of them would walk away and never see the other again. Except Justin has given them a mission: an epic road trip to scatter his ashes all over the Midwest, complete with cryptic notes, new friends, and a whole lot of sexual tension. Can Derek and Hunter finish Justin's road trip without ripping each other's heads—or clothes—off? This is a stand-alone 65,000-word m/m novel with an HEA ending.

    

    When Becca asks her to be the maid of honor in her wedding, there’s no way Sophie can say no. Even if it means driving cross-country to get there. Circumstances go awry when Sophie discovers her partner cheating on her the night before the big trip. Devastated, Sophie isn’t sure she’ll make it to the wedding. Becca won’t take no for an answer. She arranges for Nika, her sister, to pick up Sophie in the morning. Sophie wants nothing to do with Nika. She has always been this gorgeous, infuriating woman who acts like she’s got a grudge to hold. Especially against Sophie. Sophie has never told her best friend that she had a fling with Nika in high school. All these years, she’s kept that secret for fear of losing Becca’s friendship. When Nika shows up on her doorstep, Sophie’s emotions are thrown into overdrive. A three-day trip in a car with the girl who hates her? Not the best idea. Will they be able to make it to the wedding without going at each other’s throat or will old flames rekindle?

    "Deep in the hills of Southern Kentucky, a group of trans weirdos with magical powers have gathered, building DIY cabins in the woods, tending to herb gardens, and sharing zines, tattoos, feasts, and gossip: Summer Shade.As the community prepares for their big Equinox party, Alix, a scrappy punk trans girl whose antennae give her glimpses of the sensations and memories of people around her, is on her way there, guided by a sense that at Summer Shade, she’ll be able to be part of something bigger than her own worries and memories and insecurities.Summer Shade gives us a world where strange and powerful people come together to take care of each other and build a community."

    Taxed with curbing the extravagant prince’s spending, Henry juggles the prince and the difficulties of preparing the venue, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. While touring Vauxhall, Henry encounters a gang of thugs and is taken prisoner by a disreputable criminal who calls himself the Duke of Vauxhall. The pleasure gardens are the duke’s domain, and he wants Henry gone. For good. A woman with a secret… When Kate Dunn sees Henry Selkirk again, she hardly dares to believe her first love will remember her. It’s been years since the two played as children together on the streets of London. She uses her influence to see him set free from the Duke of Vauxhall’s clutches, but when Henry refuses to give up his position at Vauxhall Gardens, his days are numbered. To add insult to injury, Henry warns Kate that it’s she who’s running out of time. He knows her secret, and once the gang finds out, she’s as good as dead. As the night of Kate’s greatest heist ever approaches, she must choose between failing the gang and losing her life or disappointing Henry and losing her only chance at true love. How to Steal a Duke (in Ten Days, Give or Take a Few Days, But Definitely in Less Than a Fortnight) Dominick Spencer, the Duke of Tremayne, is a powerful man used to having his way. When he sets out to find the lost volumes of The Duke’s Book of Knowledge to present to his favorite Oxford professor, Dominick takes his task seriously, even hiring a cat burglar to help him gain entry to a remote castle in Cornwall inhabited by a mad earl. Rosalyn Dashner knows accepting the duke’s assignment is dangerous, but her impoverished family and sick brother need the money. The daughter of a gentleman, Rosalyn is not impressed by titles. She’s not impressed by the haughty duke until she comes to know the kind but lonely man under the gruff exterior. The duke might be looking for a manuscript, but she’s found a man she loves. When Rosalyn must risk her life to obtain the manuscript, will Dominick choose her or his quest for the Duke’s Book? **These novellas were previously published in the anthologies The Dukes of Vauxhall and How to Find a Duke in Ten Days.**

     Both still aching from recent breakups and vowing to avoid romantic entanglements for the foreseeable future, Les and Sly set out from Phoenix, Arizona on parallel holiday road trips to reach Chicago by Christmas Eve. Good-natured happy-go-lucky Les is great at friendships and a failure at love relationships. He relocated to Phoenix to stick by his best friends and immediately jumped into another painful dating situation that ended in a parking lot Christmas tree market. Sly is eager to leave one of the worst years of his life behind. The end of a two-year romance and the death of his stepfather cast a cloud of gloom over his December. He’s determined to have a better Christmas with his grieving mom in Chicago. By the time Les and Sly unexpectedly cross paths for the third time in their journey, they suspect it just might be more than coincidence. Love for Christmas is a 35,000-word holiday romance and includes characters from the book Love Next Door, but it is easily read as a standalone holiday romance. It features Christmas carols, Cadillac Ranch, burgers on the road, lots of cookies, and a big Christmas boost from Santa Claus.

    Single and alone, she enjoys exploring the back roads America has to offer. But then she breaks down in the small town of Hope, Alabama, where she meets a woman who instantly takes her breath away. Lace is beautiful, sexy, and everything Doll needs in life. The question is, is Doll ready to move on? Nothing exciting ever happens in Hope for Lace Hunter. That is until the tall, sexy and confident Doll shows up, and then Lace’s life changes in an instant. New feelings come to the surface, and Lace realizes the questions she has been needing answered may reside with the woman who has suddenly come into her life. Taking what may be her only opportunity to get out of Hope, Lace begins the long road trip with Doll, not knowing what lies ahead. For Doll, she knows the obstacles and needs someone by her side, even if she really doesn’t know her. A friendship is formed and secrets are shared, and as the two women grow closer together, the road takes an unexpected turn. In order for these two new friends to move forward and find the love they both need, Lace will have to rid herself of the guilt from her past, and Doll must find a way to see a future with someone new.

    Then Mai came into the picture, the love of Hank's life during his CIA days in Saigon, desperately needing his help to save the son he'd never known he had. Boredom was over, as Hank and Norm hit the road, following the few clues Mai could give them in search of a man who desperately wants not to be found. What they find is a slew of lies and hidden truths, strange characters, improbable danger that has them fighting to survive, and the happy lesson that their lives are far from over.

    Moms and dads making long commutes. Teenagers headed to the beach. Bands on their way to the next gig. Truckers pulling long hauls. Families driving cross country to visit their kin.But there are others, too. The desperate and the lost. The cruel and the criminal.Theirs is a world of roadside honky-tonks, truck stops, motels, and the empty miles between destinations. The unseen spaces.And there are even stranger things. Places that aren’t on any map. Wayfaring terrors and haunted legends about which seasoned and road-weary travelers only whisper.But those are just stories. Aren’t they?Find out for yourself as you get behind the wheel with some of today’s finest authors of the dark and horrific as they bring you these harrowing tales from the road.Tales that could only be spawned by the endless miles of America’s lost highways.So go ahead and hop in. Let’s take a ride.Line-up: Introduction by Brian Keene doungjai gam & Ed Kurtz — “Crossroads of Opportunity” Matt Hayward — “Where the Wild Winds Blow” Joe R. Lansdale — “Not from Detroit” Kristi DeMeester — “A Life That is Not Mine” Robert Ford — “Mr. Hugsy” Lisa Kröger — “Swamp Dog” Orrin Grey — “No Exit” Michael Bailey — “The Long White Line” Kelli Owen — “Jim’s Meats” Bracken MacLeod — “Back Seat” Jess Landry — “The Heart Stops at the End of Laurel Lane” Jonathan Janz — “Titan, Tyger” Nick Kolakowski — “Your Pound of Flesh” Richard Thomas — “Requital” Damien Angelica Walters — “That Pilgrims’ Hands Do Touch” Cullen Bunn — “Outrunning the End” Christopher Buehlman — “Motel Nine” Rachel Autumn Deering — “Dew Upon the Wing” Josh Malerman — “Room 4 at the Haymaker” Rio Youers — “The Widow” Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths. Interview with the editor:So what makes Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road so special?Lost Highways comes at the theme of road stories with the desire to push the boundaries of what that theme means. Because of that, it collects authors of diverse levels of experience and notoriety in the worlds of horror and dark fiction. This brings together voices like Joe R. Lansdale, Cullen Bunn, Josh Malerman, Damien Angelica Walters, Rio Youers, Bracken MacLeod, Rachel Autumn Deering, Matt Hayward, doungjai gam with Ed Kurtz, and Kristi DeMeester. All of these unique voices bring a fresh and often unexpected take on the theme.What made you think of this theme for the anthology?Road trips can be fun but they can also be long and boring.

    A former federal employee recently returned from many years overseas, Heather was determined to better understand her own people. She quit her job, bought a trailer, and set off with the family dog into the unknown wilds of America. What results is a sparkling tale of a cross country adventure that shows what life is still like for many people in America today.

    For you, the journey is just beginning.Michael Shotter is a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a lover of science, fiction, and fantasy, his works aim to push beyond the boundaries of traditional genre fiction into new and exciting realms born from literary craftsmanship."309" represents his most ambitious effort to date and is sure to thrill fans of both science fiction and high adventure.

    Australia's Ultimate Bucket List is your guide to the most iconic and diverse destinations across this stunning country that you really should see in this lifetime. The 100 destinations featured have been curated by Jennifer Adams and Clint Bizzell from Network Ten's popular travel show Places We Go. Through Jen and Clint's experience, and with the help of public voting on the Places We Go website, this list covers every state and territory. You'll find famous destinations as well as lesser known places, including the shifting colours of Uluru, the immense desert landscape of the Nullarbor, and the vast marine organism that is our Great Barrier Reef. Featuring beautiful photography from each location, and with a map of Australia to help you pinpoint each destination, this book is the perfect gift for every Australian.