And ghosts.All the logic and reason in the world can’t protect her from the truth—she can see and communicate with spirits. But Akira is sure that her ability is just a genetic quirk and the ghosts she encounters simply leftover electromagnetic energy. Dangerous electromagnetic energy.Zane Latimer believes in telepathy, precognition, auras, and that playing Halo with your employees is an excellent management technique. He also thinks that maybe, just maybe, Akira Malone can help his family get in touch with their lost loved ones.But will Akira ever be able to face her fears and accept her gift? Or will Zane’s relatives be trapped between life and death forever?

    He follows Blake to the island and attempts to kill her, but instead, he dies in an accident while fleeing the police. His malevolent spirit returns to the cottage to finish what he started. The haunting intensifies when Blake reconnects with her first love, Clint. Will Blake discover how to banish Parker before it’s too late?

    Faced with a future trapped in another dimension, Anna turns to Rei for help. Now the two of them must find a way to get Anna back into her body and stop Taylor from accusing an innocent friend of murder. Together Anna and Rei form a plan but it doesn't take into account the deeper feelings that are beginning to grow between them.

    Jayce Ventura, ghost detective, has nothing but the deceased as friends. With no love life, no social life, and only Ben and Jerry who'll put up with her, something's gotta give. But what? When Drake Edwin comes to her for help in finding closure with his nephew's death, Jayce is dragged out of her apathy and into the weird and wonderful world of emotion. Only trouble is, Drake's nephew didn't OD, he was murdered, and Jayce is the only one who can make good this situation. Mixing work and pleasure is never the best idea, but when you throw murder into the scenario, it gets a thousand times worse. Only a helping hand from the other side will get this duo together, but even ghosts can be bitter. Will Drake and Jayce ever make it? Or were they broken before they managed to meet...? Jayce Ventura - Ghost Detective is a Stand-Alone, No Cliff-Hanger novella, however, it does lead on to another book in the series, with characters you will meet in the upcoming novels. This book is a sweet, paranormal romance with a kickass heroine who isn't afraid to swear, eat too much ice cream, or come face to face with things that go bump in the night. What does freak her out is LOVE. Watch out for more of the raunchy romance you've come to expect from Serena Akeroyd's books in the upcoming series. This book was originally published in 'THEIR DARK PASSIONS - SINFUL SUPERNATURALS.'

    The fact that she has to spend most of her free time caring for her little sister and Alzheimer's-stricken grandfather doesn't help. But Holly has no idea that as she goes about her days, Rob's ghost is watching over her. He isn't happy when he sees his best friend, Jason, reach out to help Holly with her grandfather but as a ghost, he can do nothing to stop it. Is his best friend really falling for his girlfriend?As Holly wonders whether to open her heart to Jason, the past comes back to haunt her. Her grandfather claims to be communicating with the ghost of Rob. Could the messages he has for Holly be real? And if so, how can the loved ones Rob left behind help his tortured soul make it to the other side?Told from the perspectives of Holly, Jason, and Rob,Wherever You Go is is a poignant story about making peace with the past, opening your heart to love, and finding the courage to move forward into the light.

    William Koval, a pragmatist with little faith in humanity, prefers to dwell in the eerily comforting microscopic realm, where he is master of his domain. But his worldview is upended when he decides to go on the English walking tour his wife had been planning before her murder three years earlier. Only when William confronts his past, including his troubled marriage, will he find a way to rejoin the living, to move forward, and perhaps love again. The real journey, he discovers, lies within.

    When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, Sarah finds herself tortured by the past—what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?

    Erin is a perfectly flawed heroine.” ~ Semifinalist, 2017 BookLife Prize (10 out of 10 in All 5 Categories Judged)Erin Reardon gets her first kiss from Jim Morrison and loses her virginity to David Bowie. When she flunks out of college, Bruce Springsteen comforts her, and Elvis Costello breaks her heart in Europe. So what happens when she finally meets a rock star in the flesh?Erin’s a lonely misfit with an eating disorder and a wild imagination. She believes she was born to save—and love—at least one tortured musician, and is willing to risk almost everything to fulfill that destiny.“...gracefully grapples with several important issues, including alcohol and drug addiction, loss, grief and sexuality... There are also many entertaining pop-culture references to offset the weighty themes... An intriguing novel that looks at the ways that people cope with the pain in their lives.” ~ Kirkus ReviewsEVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a newly revised and edited second edition of a critically-acclaimed, award-winning literary/women’s fiction piece sure to compel you to keep those pages turning. [DRM-Free] Books by Mary Rowen: Leaving the Beach Living by Ear (Coming Fall 2019) It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way (Coming Winter 2019/2020) More Great Women’s Fiction from Evolved Publishing: Participant by Carmen Kemp All the Tomorrows by Nillu Nasser The “Borderline” Series by Taya DeVere Yours to Keep or Throw Aside by E.D. Martin White Chalk by P.K. Tyler Cassia by Lanette Kauten

    She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's Magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike.But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Now, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother's unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only friend is her dog, Eli. But when her mother dies, Tilda goes back to Brighton and with the help of her beloved Queenie sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel and discovers that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all ... Mothers and daughters ... their story can be complicated ... it can also turn out to have a happy ending.

    Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate overlooking Puget Sound. Trevor’s bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House with a goal: to join forces with his sister, Serena, dispatch Grandpa Samuel—who is flickering in and out of dementia—to a graduated living facility, sell off the house and property for development into “tract housing for millionaires,” divide up the profits, and live happily ever after.But Trevor soon discovers there’s someone else living in Riddell House: a ghost with an agenda of his own. For while the land holds tremendous value, it is also burdened by the final wishes of the family patriarch, Elijah, who mandated it be allowed to return to untamed forestland as a penance for the millions of trees harvested over the decades by the Riddell Timber company. The ghost will not rest until Elijah’s wish is fulfilled, and Trevor’s willingness to face the past holds the key to his family’s future.A Sudden Light is a rich, atmospheric work that is at once a multigenerational family saga, a historical novel, a ghost story, and the story of a contemporary family’s struggle to connect with each other. A tribute to the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, it reflects Garth Stein’s outsized capacity for empathy and keen understanding of human motivation, and his rare ability to see the unseen: the universal threads that connect us all

    Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years.When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue her from the curse that seems to shadow his family?Ophelia “Phee” MacPhee, granddaughter of the eccentric old man who sold Braden his cello, believes the curse is real. She swore an oath to her dying grandfather that she would ensure Braden plays the cello as long as he lives. But he can’t play, and as the shadows deepen and Phee finds herself falling for Braden, she’ll do anything to save him. It will take a miracle of forgiveness and love to bring all three of them back to the healing power of music.

     At least that’s how it seems to former crime journalist, Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect ... she sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian who insists Willa solve her murder. Luckily, she has lots of help, including a quirky cast of small-town characters, the cat she’s inherited from her grandmother, and her best friend, Pepper, who claims her herbal teas can work magic. But just when Willa thinks she’s discovered who the killer is, she finds out that things are not what they seem in Mystic Notch, and the case takes a strange turn that has Willa adding even some of her long-time friends to her suspect list. Can Willa find the real killer in time to keep the magical balance in Mystic Notch on the side of good, or will evil prevail?

    Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station—she never knows where she’ll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life.When a chance touch leads her to pick up the insistent spirit of a girl who was brutally murdered, Anna is pulled headlong into a deadly conspiracy that extends to the highest levels of government. Facing the forces behind her new hitcher’s death will challenge the barriers, both good and bad, that Anna has erected over the years and shed light on her power’s origins. And when the covert organization seeking to recruit her crosses the line by kidnapping her friend, it will discover just how far Anna is willing to go to bring it down.

    But now, one of his prospects is dead and the man’s beautiful daughter is standing in the Wolfpack Security lobby asking uncomfortable questions about why her father even thought he needed Logan’s services in the first place. There’s only one problem: Logan has no idea. But now, there’s break-ins in her dad’s old office, cryptic invoices, and a missing shipment of materials that could be very valuable to some interested, third parties. Deadly interested third parties. ALEX Alex Grisham is a bodyguard by trade, and now there’s a rising social media star being stalked and terrorized. Hired on short notice by her record execs, he’s shocked by the beauty of her current handler, former DEA agent Olivia. But, as the attempts on the young star’s life begin to take a different turn, their attention turns to Jezzie’s former-DEA bodyguard, and her past. Could they have been wrong all this time, and the young starlet was never the target? Is it really tied to Olivia’s murky past, or is it just an overly obsessive online culture that’s grown up around Jezzie’s beautiful, single bodyguard? CORBIN Oil and gas are coming to Silverlode, and they’re bringing a murderer with them. Corbin is drawn into the sheriff’s investigation of a brutal murder suicide, but something immediately smells off. Is the crime really as everything appears, or are there more powerful forces at work? As he becomes more entwined in the investigation, he finds that the trail of violence leads right to the door of the beautiful woman who took a shot at him the night before. Can he and Angela learn to trust each other in time to find who’s really behind the rash of violence in town? Or will they both become his next victims? COOPER The mountains of Colorado are littered with fool’s dreams and old mines, tunnels digging deep into the earth. They’re also home to Cold War-era decommissioned bunkers. Cooper’s been hired to break into one that’s become a vault for the world’s ultra wealthy and test its security, but there’s one catch: he needs to take a partner the clients hired. He’ll have to believe in this beautiful woman, with a shadowy past and no name, or the payday Wolfpack Security desperately needs to keep its doors open will disappear like an early morning dream. MICHAEL Shifters aren’t all good and wholesome, constantly stopping to help the needy and in trouble. Some are like the Ravagers, a wild band of outlaw bikers who live on the fringes of society. Now, the Ravagers have a dedicated leader with one crazed dream: to build a world that only allows shifters. Embedded within the biker gang, Michael discovers there’s more to this dream than he could have ever imagined. Not only does Caesar lead the Ravagers, but he also has Jessica, Michael’s mate. And he needs her for more than just her companionship. Together, he and Jessica will have to outwit a mad man, a town full of shifters thirsty for their blood, and destiny itself if they want to find their love for each other once more.

    But even in this most remote place, these bears are searching for a love that will warm their frigid hearts. Read All Four Stories Of Meg Ripley’s Bestselling Werebears Of Glacier Bay Series In One Collection, A Wild Ride Brimming With Twists and Turns, Mystery, Emotion, Humor and Sizzle! The four 30,000+ word stories of this compelling anthology include: Alpha’s Secret Baby Mated To My Brother's Best Friend Snowed In With The Soldier Bear Shared Mates This paranormal romance collection features steamy shifter scenes and is intended for readers 18+.