Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

Asher Rashid Dixon was a very mysterious, dangerous man. Being a part of the Black Mafia, he was a hired contract killer. He was a man who believed in love and all it had to offer until his now ex-wife did the unthinkable that almost cost his him his life. Being gone for a few years, he made his return, but didn’t expect to be attracted to a beauty by the name Destiny Waters. Destiny Waters was a successful hairstylist in Atlanta. Everything seemed to be going good in except for her love life. The man she was seeing turned out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. After he embarrassed her ...

Meet Dynasty, a twenty-six-year-old chick from the hood. She’s beautiful with a banging body and a nasty, savage attitude. Growing up, she didn’t have the best life, which caused her to search for love in the wrong person. Her current boyfriend showed her firsthand just how toxic he was. Things take a drastic turn and Officer Nathan Daniels enters the scene. One look at the red-haired beauty, and he was instantly smitten. What seemed to be a budding friendship turns into a whirlwind of drama he wasn’t expecting. A tragic event has Nate running to Dynasty’s rescue. After all the ...

Deidra Moses, a thirty year old interior decorator has had with men not being able to give her what she is looking for. Through disappointments, wasted time and heartbreaks, Deidra focuses on herself and her career. After finally moving to Atlanta her business is flourishing more and her bank account is looking real nice. Deidra gets an email from someone by the name of Maze Wilcox. He was looking for someone to decorate his newly purchased home. Maze Wilcox is a successful business man who is always on the go. He didn’t have much time for anything until he lays eyes on the beautiful ...

Riley James was just elected the CEO of Petro Incorporation. Things seem to be going good in her life. She has who she thinks is the perfect fiancé. Life has a way of showing you differently; especially for Riley. Davin Sumpter is a jealous man on a mission after Riley’s father grants her the position that he thought was meant for him. With Riley’s best friend Larissa being on his back about taking care of her, he does what he as to do to make things happen.​ Davin calls upon someone that he hung with back in the day. Mecca Anderson was hired and paid fifty G’s up front to kidnap ...

Pastor Jackson Jones is a man that hides behind Greater Emmanuel. He has let money, power, greed, and sex get in the way of him serving God. Jackson’s world gets shook up when someone from his past comes back. Andre Sullivan is shaking things up with his return. Jackson does everything in his power to keep him away from his daughter, Summer Jackson. While sleeping with her best friend, Lauren, he thinks that he has everything under control until one fateful night Summer and Andre hit it off. Things seem to be going good until secrets are slowly revealed. One secret could very well shatter...