Dieselpunk and decopunk are alternative history re-imaginings of (roughly) the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We Can Do It' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz and speakeasies.

The stories in this volume add fairy tales to the mix, transporting classic...

A woman with a hidden past. A new love on the horizon. Will the truth set her free or cost her everything?

Madeleine Ross has meticulously organized her world to leave no trace of her criminal past. After creating a new identity for herself, her only remaining connection to her previous life is the security work she does for a small-town insurance company...

A story of second chances that's impossible to put down “Everything the world loves about British comedy.”— USA Today bestselling author Shannon Mayer

“Like if Nick Hornby wrote a time travel, body swap adventure!”— New York Times bestselling author Mimi Strong

Jo's world is about to change forever, and it’s about time Her marriage is on...

'You don't wake up expecting to die.' Katie is thirty-two, single, and used to work in advertising. She's also dead. A lost soul hitching rides with the dying, trying to find her way to... wherever she's supposed to be. And whoever she's supposed to be with. Heaven, it seems, has a thousand rooms. What will it take to find hers?

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Hell crumbled and out they crawled… Seventeen-year-old Cia is resourceful, tenacious, and a survivor. She has to be to stay alive in a perilous, post-apocalyptic world teeming with horrors. When she finds a terrified autistic boy, hiding from the creatures who’ve killed his parents, she decides to take care of him and comes to love him like a brother...

In Emmiel, a tranquil village in the heart of western Lanacoby, young Dorean is set to follow in his father’s farming footsteps; but the words of a prophecy, spawned centuries ago, have committed his life to a much greater purpose. When a mysterious man arrives, unannounced and uninvited, in the winter before Dorean’s eighth bornday, the peace of Emmiel...

Gwynn Dormath is a teenager who understands the pain of loss. So he's decided to avoid getting too attached to anything and spends his days head down, letting the world pass. After a surprising invitation ends in disaster, Gwynn finds he can't ignore the world any longer because he knows a secret. Our Earth is one of many. And the veil between them is...

At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. In A.D. 197, Emperor Septimius Severus led one of the largest invasion forces in Rome’s history against the Parthian Empire.

Among the men of thirty-three legions is Lucius Metellus Anguis, a young man from an ancient Equestrian...

After suffering a devastating loss, artist Sandra Lyall runs south to Mexico seeking solace from her grief. She finds refuge in a small Baja hotel on the edge of the sea to which she returns each winter to continue the healing of her heart. But this year’s stay would be different. When a scruffy Englishman with a posh accent offers to buy the painting she’s...

She never realized until she lost him that he was the only man she’d ever love. Katy and Steven were the loves of each other’s lives until a tragedy and the fallout of Steven’s injuries drove the couple apart. They share a son, but Katy and Steven have moved on with their lives, dating other people, and neither has seen the other in five long years...

Thirty-six-year-old Olivia is an artist who’s just been let go from her day job. Also, the presumed love of her life has suddenly decamped to another continent to avoid a lawsuit - but all of this pales when Olivia finds out that her beloved grandmother, the woman who raised her, has had a stroke. Olivia rushes back to her hometown of Stafford Falls to...

A brutal murder on a quiet, residential street leaves police with more questions than answers. An investigation reveals that the deceased, Amy Whitaker, had a secret second life, which family, friends and colleagues knew little about. DCI Tony Lane and his team are assigned to the case. Lane’s attention quickly turns to Amy’s husband, Lewis Whitaker, but...

Consumate storyteller, Lorina Stephens, returns with a novel of grief and the power of forgiveness

There is a conversation that should have happened between Vi Cotter and her mother. Now it’s too late.

But sometimes the dead speak through the legacy they leave, and in this case Vi’s mother bequeaths her, among other things, her journals. Do we sometimes...

A knock on the door of his dockside home one evening reveals an attractive woman who tells Frank Anderson she may have found a body floating on peaceful Awan Lake. A normally solitary but well-respected contractor and handy-man, Anderson recognizes a lady in distress, but his willing response leads both of them into a fourteen-day search for answers that...

Taylor Sinclair makes an explosive return to Toronto after a grueling North American tour to promote her book, Leila’s Locket. The media has been murderous, but it’s about to get worse with Sarah Johnson’s trial just days away. Adding more stress, Taylor learns that NNN is about to air interviews with Sarah and Darryl Johnson which could reveal any number...

A mysterious prisoner, long forgotten. Ancient blood ties of horrifying significance. A sly trap is sprung with terrifying consequences. Kara, heart bearer of Bastion, returns to Gaia to begin her mission. Aided by Chryso, her djinn Dragonmerger and a feisty dragon named Beryl, they fly into the core of the dangerous stronghold of the emperor. Her...