Ember and Steel

A brutal and fast paced debut, introducing a new and distinct voice in dark fantasy.The gods are gone. Magic is lost. Vengeance is nigh.There is death in the north; entire settlements slaughtered in the night by unknown hands. But dead things do not rest. Mages and scholars from across Breitho search for answers, to no avail. The church clings to a whispered prophecy to bring back the gods and end the horrors in the dark.But none of them understands what is truly at stake.In her tiny village, Sarah Brandt has her own problems. She has witnessed her friend’s murder and is now running for her life.Her frantic escape takes her to a circle of Druid stones, where something ancient and powerful is waiting in the darkness. When she encounters the burning presence within the stones, Sarah’s world changes forever.Now it isn’t just justice she seeks, but salvation.Not for herself, but for all humankind.

Porch Swing Girl

What if friendship cost you everything?

Stranded in Hawaii after the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old
Olive Galloway is desperate to escape. She has to get back to Boston
before her dad loses all common sense and sells the family house. But
plane tickets cost money—something Olive gravely lacks.

With the help of Brander, the fussy youth group worship leader, and
Jazz, a mysterious girl with a passion for all things Hawaiian, Olive
lands a summer job at the Shave Ice Shack and launches a scheme to buy
a plane ticket home before the end of the summer.

But when Jazz reveals a painful secret, Olive’s plans are challenged.
Jazz needs money. A lot of it. Olive and Brander are determined to
help their friend but, when their fundraising efforts are thwarted,
Olive is caught in the middle. To help Jazz means giving up her ticket
home. And time is running out.

I Used to Be Fun

“A richly satisfying family dramedy for any woman who has ever asked: Whose life is this?”A Seattle wife and mother who gave up everything to raise her family — and is about to take it all back.Jessica Holloway is miserable. As mom to two ungrateful, almost-grown children and wife to one appreciative-but-needy husband, 46-year-old Jess has all but abandoned the extraordinary — and extraordinarily fun — woman she used to be. She may be smiling while she volunteers at the school’s dog wash fundraiser, but inside, she’s seething with perimenopausal rage.Having scored in the top five percent on her LSAT before family changed everything, Jess decides it’s time to go back and finish what she started. She lands a job as assistant to a hopelessly disorganized Seattle lawyer, signs up for night classes, and starts clawing her way toward the life she was supposed to have.But somewhere between the night classes and the chaos of her boss’s filing system, Jess makes a discovery she didn’t see coming. The dream she’s been mourning for twenty years? It doesn’t fit anymore. And what she finds instead — in the most unexpected of places — turns out to be exactly what she was looking for.For every woman who dog-eared Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret as a girl and is still waiting for someone to write the perimenopause sequel.Genre: Women’s Fiction · Family Dramedy · Domestic Life FictionTone: Funny · Laugh-out-loud moments · Honest · Uplifting · Emotionally satisfying endingThemes: Self-discovery · Perimenopause · Female entrepreneurship · Marriage · Identity · Domestic lifeSetting: Seattle, WashingtonContent Notes: No explicit content · Family conflict · Career sacrifice and reclamationFor Fans Of: Gail Honeyman (Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine) · Marian KeyesPerfect For: Book clubs · Women 40–55 · Fans of funny, honest women’s fiction · Readers who loved Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret as girls

Badfreaky – The meanest witch

Once upon a time, in a forest known as Bright, Marily, a four-year-old girl, lived happily with her parents; a good witch named Goodypie and her husband, Mr. Goodweather.

All the creatures of the forest loved Goodypie because she is able to protect them by ruining the evil potions created by Meanloudmouth, a very bad witch.

One day, while Goodypie was boiling some plants and flowers in her big cooking pot, Marily noticed a little house appear inside the pot. Suddenly, Marily fell into the pot and by the time she was rescued she had been magically turned into a mean-spirited and wicked witch.
Marily ran into the forest and away from home.

As her parents desperately tried to find her, they discovered that she had been transformed into the notorious Badfreaky, the meanest witch in all the world and stars.

Will Goodypie and Mr. Goodweather be able to save Marily before Badfreaky wins the day? Or will the wicked witch use her ultimate power and turn them to stone… forever?

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Badfreaky – The meanest witch

Once upon a time, in a forest known as Bright, Marily, a four-year-old girl, lived happily with her parents; a good witch named Goodypie and her husband, Mr. Goodweather.

All the creatures of the forest loved Goodypie because she is able to protect them by ruining the evil potions created by Meanloudmouth, a very bad witch.

One day, while Goodypie was boiling some plants and flowers in her big cooking pot, Marily noticed a little house appear inside the pot. Suddenly, Marily fell into the pot and by the time she was rescued she had been magically turned into a mean-spirited and wicked witch.
Marily ran into the forest and away from home.

As her parents desperately tried to find her, they discovered that she had been transformed into the notorious Badfreaky, the meanest witch in all the world and stars.

Will Goodypie and Mr. Goodweather be able to save Marily before Badfreaky wins the day? Or will the wicked witch use her ultimate power and turn them to stone… forever?

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