The Gold Coast swelters in record temperatures, and car salesman Gary Braswell's hot under the collar. With sales at rock-bottom, and up to his neck in debt to loan shark Jocko Mackenzie, Gary's sweating on a fat commission from a mysterious Russian couple.<br /> <br />If the loan is not repaid, there's more than Gary's kneecaps at stake – his long-suffering wife's also in peril. But Jocko demands more than r ...
1988 is the era, Detroit is the scene, and crack is the movement. It’s a time when young black men can become self-made millionaires seemingly overnight by selling dope. The crack era has become to Blacks what Prohibition was to the Italians—a time to get over! It’s a time that inspires generations of street dreamz. . . <BR />  <BR /> Fresh out of high school, young Wink has but one thi ...
Lucinda’s boyfriend Dracula claims to be the Dracula?he sleeps in a coffin, hunts pigeons for blood, and only goes out at night. But is he really? Unsettlingly, there has been a spate of recent disappearances and Dracula may be connected. Lucinda doesn’t know for sure or which is more dangerous: dating an immortal vampire or a UPS driver with a night shift who thinks he’s one? While Dracula sleeps, Lucinda works at a smoothie shop where ...
2020 Gold Medal Winner in Literary Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards In this elegant and honest debut novel by Cynthia Newberry Martin, Cass and Ethan must navigate that fine line between the things they want for themselves and the life they want together, and it appears each will have to make a choice—the person they love or the life they want. Mary Cassatt Miller falls for famous photojournalist Ethan Graham. For months ...
Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she’s a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pr ...
Layla ist verzweifelt und einsam! Sie vermisst Roth, den teuflisch attraktiven Damonen-Prinzen. Und ihr bester Freund Zayne, der sie vielleicht uber den Verlust hinwegtrosten konnte, bleibt dank ihrer seelenverschlingende Kusse fur sie tabu. Dass ihre sonst so fursorgliche Gargoyle-Ersatzfamilie auf einmal Geheimnisse vor ihr hat, macht alles schlimmer. Schlie?lich entdeckt sie auch noch neue Krafte an sich. Dann taucht vollig unerwartet Roth wi ...
