Fern Over Here & There

18-year-old Thai American Bree Thomas’ world is shattered.

Thrown out of her adoptive home just before graduation, Bree is broke and homeless, her college ambitions are ruined, and her best friend, Juju lies in the hospital with a shattered face–a tragedy Bree blames on herself.

Hope arrives when the shadowy Meng Foundation offers Bree a lifeline: A free college education once she completes a two-year altruistic apprenticeship abroad. With the payment of Juju’s medical bills even included in the deal, it’s an opportunity Bree can’t refuse.

But the promise of a brighter future quickly unravels into a perilous ordeal. Instead of the charitable work she expected, Bree finds herself plunged into grueling military-style training at an isolated jungle camp.

Her assignment? To carry out daring rescue missions into backwater hellholes, delivering enslaved men, women, and children to the sanctuary of Meng’s private city, New Lingyang.

Bree becomes enamored with saving the oppressed downtrodden masses until discovering that behind the philanthropic facade of New Lingyang lies a shocking truth making her an unwitting participant in Meng’s horrific global enterprise.

The stakes quickly escalate into a desperate race against time. Bree must save those she unwittingly put in harm’s way, rescue a young girl from a horrible fate, and bring down a web of deceit that stretches farther than she could ever imagine.

When best friends Delaney and Blake get married in order to satisfy a clause in Delaney’s inheritance, their long-ignored chemistry is suddenly so much harder to deny, especially when they travel abroad for a steamy fake honeymoon.
Blake London, after finishing his cardiology fellowship, moves to Boston with a single hope: fix as many hearts as he possibly can… including his own. Considering the one woman he’s ever loved — his best friend from medical school — got engaged to another man, he needs to move on.

But that’s easier said than done, and Delaney proves harder to escape than he expected.

Wendy Walker is walking dogs… and walking in on dead bodies. Back home on Sweetwater Island after a decade long absence, Wendy is looking to start anew. Armed with a place to live and her trusty dog, Trixie, all Wendy needs is… well, everything. Money. A job. A plan. When one of the locals on the island assumes she’s a dog walker, she jumps at the chance to make a little money. But walking dogs leads her directly into the path of Caroline Ford. Or, rather, the body of Caroline Ford. An unfriendly police chief soon suspects that Wendy might be involved in the crime and she immediately sets out to prove her innocence. As she works to clear her name, she meets several islanders who already have the wrong impression about her… and who might be the one responsible for Caroline Ford’s murder. The situation turns dire when Wendy realizes she’s not just a suspect… she might soon be a victim, too. She knew coming back home wouldn’t be easy. She just didn’t expect it to be deadly, too.

The clock is counting down. Aliens have been planning the attack on earth for decades. They have slowly infiltrated the human race and manipulated them whilst increasing their own loyal followers until it is time to strike. But these aliens don’t appear to realise that they have been noticed and knowledge of their existence on earth is starting to spread. Is it too late for humanity to stop this invasion? Follow both sides of the conflict as both aliens and humans race against each other and the clock.

Twenty-seven-year-old Clarissa Abbot is a minister who has just gotten her first full-time position as pastor at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey. A member of her congregation dies in the hospital under suspicious circumstances before he can pass along information about a mysterious event in the past. Feeling guilty because she couldn’t convince the man to confide in her before his death, Clarissa begins an investigation to find out his secret. This soon leads back to an unsolved murder that took place in Shore Side over fifty years ago. In addition to this, a shady real estate deal potentially involving the church brings her into contact with a handsome young lawyer whose interest in her is more than professional. All this leads Clarissa to conclude that being a minister is more complicated than she ever expected.