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Emily has a long day. After fending off another villainous attack during the night shift at Big Burger, all she wants to do is to go home and get some sleep as the sun rises. What's an unpowered girl to do in a super-powered world when she gets home to find the most notorious villain of Big City in her kitchen? An even more dangerous threat to the city takes precedence as after Containment's detention facility is damaged, dozens of criminals escape. But the biggest threat? The person hired to replace the Chosen One as the city's protector...Mega-Girl!

Amber LaLanie burst upon the music scene a decade ago like a ball of fun energy. Her "live for the day" attitude has hid her insecurity and extreme loneliness in the sea of people around her. Then she met a production intern, Kylee, who has a way of drawing out the real Amber that lies within. This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book.

While out celebrating her 21st birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world. She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicate the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not. When she finds herself with wings as a result of an errant wish, she must enlist the help of some new friends to try to end the curse that plagues her line.

Best friends Katy and Leigh start college and it is a whole new terrifying universe for Leigh. She is extremely introverted and plagued with anxiety around other people, whereas Katy is fun, social and outgoing.

Found unconscious in an impact crater in the Cascade Mountains, with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Sloan Tesha attempts to start a new life as she tries to discover who she really is. As she recovers, the tattoos that cover her body begin to move and morph under her skin, the threads of ink reweaving to reflect the life all around her. Along with officer Andreya Lisbon, Sloan learns that she is one of the three fabled Fates, the Maiden, and dark forces are on her trail, intent on ending her.

Marina Caliban and water have had a close relationship her entire life. So much so that a life in the Coast Guard was almost a given. She has hidden away her inhuman abilities when she is out in the waves from everyone. A rescue mission on a floating power generation platform in the Pacific Ocean during what is being called the storm of the millennium, changes everything for her. Along with her family and Doctor Selina Selkirk, Marina is thrust into a world of supernatural myth that could spell the end for all of mankind.

This novella occurs 15 years after Ichabod Crane rid Sleepy Hollow of the wraith of a fallen Hessian soldier, the Headless Horseman, which terrorized the village. Now word has spread of the Horseman's return. Ichabod's daughter, Imelda, answers the call to investigate and stop the Horseman at all costs. Armed with her father's sword, fighting prowess, and sharp mind, Imelda uncovers the secrets the Hollow has hidden for so long. New suspicions and old loves complicate her mission, as she finds that all is not as it seems in the little New England town.

This short novella follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime in another adventure. As as Prime comes out of its perihelion orbit at the end of the pass, a new peril raises its head and only Fixit, Vega, is in any position to save the star system from calamity. Vega and Glitch must put all of their knowledge, skills, and creativity to the test to go off world to save Vashon and the population of the floating cities of Prime from certain death. Familiar friends and new enemies abound as Fixit races against time in the harshest environment she has ever faced...space!

Crystal is straight. She went to an exclusive lesbian bar, the Ballyhoo Club, to cheer up her gay best friend after bad breakup. There Crystal meets Riley, a spunky and charismatic girl who mocks her about straight girl dating skills. The two bet each other that they could take the other on a better date, the loser has to humiliate themselves at Ballyhoo. In a battle of escalating seduction the girls take each other on a series of dates where the lines between the game and the heart are blurred.

A year ago, Cameron Tourvell had a really bad day. That day she was killed in a literal train wreck. The only problem was that she forgot to die. She found out that for her, death was only the beginning. Hunted by the black-site government group Lazarus, Cameron must avoid capture as she comes to terms with her new reality. Whenever she is injured, she simply loses pieces of herself as they are replaced by a transparent ectoplasm. She realizes she is no longer a normal maladjusted woman in New York; now she is sort of ghost-ish.

June's London Harmony is relentlessly searching for an elusive musical genius. The mysterious Minuette. She enlists the help of a young woman named Annette to assist Fran in that pursuit. Annette must navigate the a thin line between deception and aiding the people at London Harmony who quickly become more like family to the awkward and obsessive compulsive girl.

The playfully evil sisters, Zoey and Eve, play matchmaker from their bakery, The Pike, in Pike Place Market in Seattle. Ligaya is a quantum physicist working in a research lab at the University of Washington. She is seduced by the numbers and math with a drive that excludes everything in her life including social interactions. Emotions have always been hard for her to understand or express. When she meets an ex-firefighter, Allison, she finds herself fighting to understand all the new feelings rising inside.

Eliza Montrose lives an unorthodox life, backpacking through Europe with a string bass, Audrey, on her back. She plays her doghouse bass in jazz clubs in every port in her wanderings. She doesn't need anyone but herself and her Audrey. On the last leg of her journey, she finds herself in London to try to get a chance to play in the last two venues on her list before going back to the lonesome life she left behind in Seattle all those years ago.

In this short story, Vicky is introduced to Oxford and quickly shuffled off campus as not to embarrass the Dean. She finds a new roommate, Candice, and decides it is her duty to find her a boyfriend. Because "I'd so make an awesome matchmaker!" She inadvertently succeeds in her own hyper-loveable fashion. We also learn some of the reasons behind her dichotomy of genius and scatterbrained personality, and the reason she left her friends and family to attend Oxford.

Fixit is faced with the recall of Glitch, the pinger who is her oldest and best friend dirtside. She has to fight to prove his sentience and prevent him from being deactivated and torn apart to be examined. Favors are called in and secrets revealed while more questions are brought to the surface. Can Vashon and Fixit bring Glitch home safely, or will the techs topside at New Terra be his end?

Abigail suffers from two conditions that allow her to experience the world around her in such a unique manner that she can literally see and feel the music around her. On a chance meeting at a music repair shop, she meets a tinker Isabelle, who is unlike anyone she has ever met. Together, they work to get Abi's unique music noticed. After a near tragedy, they discover that unbeknownst to them, she already had.

For almost two decades, Penny ruled the punk rock world. But then it all fell apart when she decided to leave it all behind. Losing her family, her fortune, and her fame, what else could happen? Her routine physical answered that for her. She decides to end it all, but stumbles upon a woman, Sandra, who shows her the power of true selflessness and love. This is set in the same world as Music of the Soul but is a standalone book.

Emily is a normal girl working at Big Burger who has the unfortunate luck to look exactly like Big City's superhero darling, the Chosen One. It has been the bane of her existence, as it disrupts her life and the lives of those around her when supervillains come knocking, wanting to prove their mettle by fighting the Chosen One. With common sense and years of rage built up inside, she usually serves their butts to them on a platter, asking, "Did you want fries with that?"

Finnegan Temperance McLeary-May, dog walker extraordinaire, has had an eventful time in Manhattan since she first moved to New York City. Her unique profession and quirky, bubbly personality endear her to everyone who meets her. Finnegan sits this one out as she recovers from an injury from her last misadventure so her daughter Luce picks up the reins of trouble magnet extraordinaire.

Finnegan and her detective wife, Jane, are asked by the owner of the mega dog walking conglomerate, Rafiel's Canine Walkers, for a favor. Dogs are vanishing from their homes after dog walkers from RCW drop them off after their walks. There are no signs of forced entry, and nothing in the homes are missing. So, the dogs are written off by the NYPD as runaways. Fin, Calvin, Jane, and even Fin's daughter, Luce, get embroiled in a case that is much more than it seems. It will take all their resources combined to bring the dog-nappers to justice.