"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...

"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and one life-changing secret. What she doesn't know about love could fill a book. With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie's more than good. She's killing it. Then she's given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work...

How can you live with someone for so long and not know anything about them? It's not until Tremayne Bancroft lies dead in a cane field, and the police are asking embarrassing questions about him, that his wife realizes she knows nothing of her husband's background, his family, or anything else about him. Join her in her quest to uncover the truth, and perhaps come to know the man she married. This undertaking causes her, to reflect on her own life,...

Every person, place and thing in fiction needs a name. This book helps you find them.One of the ongoing chores for a writer is naming: naming people, places, or things. This book is designed to help every writer find, or make up, the names to make a fiction fly.

The rose is bursting with meaning: over the centuries, it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life's seminal moments. Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has attached itself to us, its needy host and servant, to become one of the most adored flowers across cultures....

Have you ever wondered why government programs seem to have a reverse Midas Touch, turning gold into failed programs? Why doesn't spending more money ever appear to solve homelessness, congested roads, or social inequity? How about why those pesky libertarians are always screaming about taxation being theft? If it is illegal for politicians to get bribes, why are they all rich? Bureaucracy, it seems, always makes things worse, but why is that?

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CRIME STORIES THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP LATE TONIGHT! Mind the blood, hide any weapons, and get an alibi. Murder is not for the faint of heart, nor is this collection of stories set in Eastern Washington. Join an array of characters as they struggle through the worst moments of their lives. A husband hides his wife's terrible crime. Two contract killers deliver a final punishment to a mob informant. A remorseful man is forced to share his prison cell...

Stasi Romanov uses just a little witch magic in her lingerie shop, running a brisk side business in love charms. A disgruntled customer threatening to sue over a failed love spell brings Trevor Barnes to town. Trevor's the best attorney around, and he just happens to be a wizard. Everyone knows that witches and wizards make a volatile combination-sure enough, the sparks fly and almost everyone's getting singed. Add to that Cupid playing a practical...

This story was originally published in The Moorhead Friends Writing Group Anthology, "Tales of the Frozen North". Holly Frost has a problem. She can't make it snow in Innocent, Minnesota. As a descendant of Jack Frost, she should be natural, but something is very wrong. She needs help so she goes to Sheriff Andy Finn. Andy Finn is a grouchy, not-yet hibernating bear shifter. All he wants is for the snow to fly so he can get some sleep, but it's forty...

Tara Triannon is no stranger to trouble. She's yet to find an enemy her skill with a sword couldn't dispatch. But, how can she fight one that attacks through her dreams? With her nightmares worsening, Tara seeks answers but finds only more questions. Then her sister, Laraina, reveals a stunning secret that forces Tara to go to the one place Tara's sworn never to return to. Her troubles multiply when Jovan Trevillion, the secretive soldier of fortune...