That’s Not Hows It’s Done

They were childhood friends, so sharing a house will be fun, won’t it?
When Gina advertises for a lodger, she never expects her childhood best friend to turn up at her door. What could be better, she reasons, than having a lodger who she already knows rather than a total stranger.
As they rekindle their friendship, Gina recalls the long ago summer when they spent every day together. Gina believed then that they’d be best friends forever.
But Lissa thought differently.
With the benefit of hindsight, Gina now realises that Lissa unfriended her in the most brutal way possible. With a growing awareness that Lissa might not be the perfect person she always believed her to be, she’s beginning to wonder if she can even trust her.
Because what Lissa wants, Lissa gets.
Has she made a mistake by asking Lissa to move in? She thinks that maybe she has, but Lissa makes no secret of the fact that she has no intention of going anywhere…

When scandal is afoot and Vicki leaps in to solve a murder, you know it’s gonna be big.

‘Cause this here’s Texas.

Don’t you dare call Victoria Bohanan a debutante. That cozy life is firmly in her rearview mirror after striking out on her own. Nowadays she’ll earn every penny of that twenty dollar tip by guessing your favorite drink faster than you can belly up to the bar. Sharp wits have gotten her out of more than one disastrous affair.

Until the mouth sinks her right into another.

When an old high school flame returns to town with a pastorate position lodged under his belt, life becomes tangled. This time it’s not between the sheets. Quicker than Vicki can score a shot of Jack, her former boy toy is embroiled in a mystery guaranteed to implode the megachurch his parents built and send the gossiping gaggle into a tailspin faster than a quarterback sack on Sunday.

She’s smart. She’s sexy. With an attitude the size of Texas only a mother could love. But when the cow chips are down, Vicki’s the one to uncover the killer and solve the case of who murdered the preacher’s wife.

They fight the wars nobody else wants to.

The Frontier Corps are the Terran Empire’s repository for failures, malcontents, criminals, and other people with nothing left to lose but to sign their names on the dotted line of a ten year contract for another shot at life.

But flung across the stars to face horrifying enemies, it may as well be a death sentence.

Pari Petrosyan is a grizzled veteran of the Corps. With only a few months left of her contract, she has her mind on her discharge papers. Her easy path on her way to freedom is interrupted when a new commander arrives, ready to launch a large-scale military offensive to finally end the conflict she had spent her entire career fighting.

Caught between the grinding war machines of the empire and the inhuman monstrosities known as the Resh, Pari has to try to survive if she ever hopes to be free.

There was a time when Roddy Crippman used to have it all; a home, a wife, and everything he had ever imagined for himself. That time is long gone now… Nowadays Roddy pursues a lonely and nomadic life as a trapper in the wilderness of the Wet mountains. He wants nothing more than to stay invisible, far away from the memories and the tragedies of his past.

He has nothing to fear since he has already lost everything, hasn’t he?

Zadie Smallwood is a saloon girl that gets kidnapped by road agents in the service of a mysterious, wealthy man. She manages to escape but is terrified they will find her again. When she crosses paths with Roddy, he appears to be her only hope to escape her kidnappers and survive these treacherous, snow-covered mountains.

Will Zadie manage to find the strength inside her, when she won’t have Rody to rely on?

As winter blows in full force, Roddy vows to do whatever it takes to help Zadie, while forcing himself to keep his emotions in check. The two of them will find courage in the bond that grows between them, but whether it can withstand the danger and the forces of power and greed is far from certain in this wild, unpredictable land…

A missing nuclear bomb. A ruthless conspiracy. And a plot that could ignite global war.

Half-buried in the sand, an enormous black casing bears the faded markings of its former owner — USAF. Lost just off the Georgia coast more than sixty years ago, the now-legendary nuclear weapon resurfaces, discovered by two young boys and their scheming father.

But the bomb won’t be returned to the military.
It’s going to The Cause.

Led by former Texas governor Margie Franks, the secret cabal known as The Cause plans to use the weapon to destabilize global markets by targeting critical energy infrastructure. As their plan unfolds, British intelligence intercepts chatter pointing to Oxford University as a hub for a radicalized terror network — led by a legendary extremist known only as The Wolf.

The FBI turns to Special Agent Frank Deal and his elite WMD team. To avoid tipping off the enemy, Deal deploys his most unorthodox asset: four talented American students posing as exchange scholars. When the group uncovers next-generation drone prototypes capable of delivering nuclear payloads across the UK, the threat becomes terrifyingly real.
With time running out, Deal and his allies must unravel a hidden link between The Wolf and a broader conspiracy — one more ambitious than spreading terror alone.

And as they close in, a single question lingers:
Have they been misled by the mastermind behind The Cause’s endgame?

What if a simple pilgrimage became the setting for one of the greatest storytelling gatherings in literary history?

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer brings together a vibrant cast of pilgrims — knights, scholars, merchants, cooks, nobles, and rogues — each offering a tale that reveals their hopes, flaws, humor, and humanity. Blending drama, romance, comedy, morality, and satire, this masterpiece paints a vivid portrait of medieval life and the timeless complexities of human nature.