After being sent back in time to 19th-century Scotland, a girl meets her ancestors--but will this change her own life? She didn't know why she felt the urge to wear the old necklace. It just seemed to have a magnetic pull on her. When Sophie wears the heart-shaped locket, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about her ancestor. Charlotte Mackenzie and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty Scottish island. Then disaster strikes and it seems the girls will lose everything they love. As the girls outwit greedy relatives, escape murderous bushrangers, and fight storm and fire, Sophie shares in their adventures. But how will her travels in time affect Sophie's own life?

The Storyteller of Dreams grants Shakeeta three wishes.

The Locket, Book 2 in the Keeper Lake Series *this is a standalone What would you do if the locket that you were given was possessed by the spirit of a dead girl and she needed you to solve her murder? After a four-year long relationship ends with her being jilted at the altar, freelance travel writer Everly Martin is anxious to get away and dive into a new adventure. When an assignment in a sleepy Georgia town becomes available, she readily volunteers for it. Keeper Lake is everything she thought it would be and more: quaint, picturesque, full of small-town charm. But a chance meeting with a kindred spirit soon reveals that secrets lurk behind the tranquil façade. A mysterious locket may hold the key to a missing person’s case. As Everly tries to unravel the mystery she encounters a cast of quirky characters who may have some knowledge of what happened, but getting them to open up proves to be more mind-boggling than the powers behind the locket. With the help of Houston York, a handsome Keeper Lake police officer and his friend, a well-meaning psychic, Everly tries to hunt down the answers and make sense of her growing attraction to Houston. Can she find the answers she needs to finally solve the case before her time in Keeper Lake is up? This book is great for fans of supernatural suspense and paranormal mysteries with ghosts and a touch of romance!

In the late 1850's, thousand of poverty-stricken Scandinavians were lured to America by missionaries of the Latter-day Saints with promises of great prosperity. Ingrid Thirkelsen was assigned to the Martin Party of immigrants, and for the first time she encounters the horrors of polygamy, blood atonement and blind obedience to cult leaders. As she makes the handcart trek across the Plains and Rocky Mountains, a locket she has promised to deliver in Zion and her Ma's Bible giver her comfort and the strength to endure the unendurable.

The Locket's Secret In the picturesque town of Loughborough, England, two strangers are inexplicably drawn to each other by an antique locket and the faint echoes of a love they cannot remember. Elena, a gifted artist grappling with amnesia, finds solace in her paintings, while Kian, a renowned architect, seeks answers in the ruins of his past. As they navigate the labyrinthine corridors of memory and uncover a web of secrets, they discover that their destinies are intertwined in ways they could never have imagined. A chance encounter, a shared dream, and the haunting melody of a forgotten love song lead them on a journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and ultimately, a second chance at happiness. With their hearts as their compass and hope as their guide, Elena and Kian embark on a quest to reclaim their lost love and unlock the mysteries of their past. But as they delve deeper into the shadows of their forgotten lives, they realize that the truth is far more complex and dangerous than they could have ever imagined. "The Locket's Secret" is a sweeping tale of love, loss, and redemption, a captivating journey through the landscapes of memory and the enduring power of the human spirit. It is a story that will stay with you long after the final page is turned, a testament to the enduring power of love and the resilience of the human heart.

Discover the award-winning debut novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, a “majestic collision of sci-fi thriller and love story” (Bustle) about a young woman struggling with questions of love, trust, and ethics as the line between dreams and reality dangerously blurs. When Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe, they embark on an experiment that changes their lives. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: by teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he believes he can relieve stress and trauma. Over the next six years, Sylvie and Gabe become consumed by Keller’s work, following him across the country. But when an opportunity brings the trio to the Midwest, Sylvie and Gabe stumble into a tangled relationship with their mysterious neighbors—and Sylvie begins to doubt the ethics of Keller’s research. As she navigates the hazy, permeable boundaries between what is real and what isn’t, who can be trusted and who cannot, Sylvie also faces surprising developments in herself—an unexpected infatuation, growing paranoia, and a new sense of rebellion. With stirring, elegant prose, “Chloe Benjamin has crafted an eerie, compelling first novel which, like the lingering effects of a vivid dream, resonates long past its finish” (Karen Brown, The Longings of Wayward Girls).

Sophia is hired to excavate a pond at an old palace where a human skull has been discovered. With some help, she systematically begins her work only to find that she has unleashed more than just sediment...An experienced field archaeologist, Sophia, embarks on a new project at a run-down palatial estate where the gardener has uncovered some human remains in a drained pond on the property. Kelley helps her excavate the site and together they make a most disturbing find. The current residents at the palace, Prof. and Mrs. Brooks, provide some missing pieces of the story patched together from historical documents and local folklore. What emerges is a tragic tale of escape, love, and loss. The tale is not finished, however, and it progresses in the modern storyline through what is the water corridor.

The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author’s wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an important way of creating cinematic meaning. Taking as her subject all of film history, the author traces out the history of the flashback, illuminating that history through structuralist narrative theory, psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity, and theories of ideology. From the American silent film era and the European and Japanese avant-garde of the twenties, from film noir and the psychological melodrama of the forties and fifties to 1980s art and Third World cinema, the flashback has interrogated time and memory, making it a nexus for ideology, representations of the psyche, and shifting cultural attitudes.

Drake desires one thing — to claim the only woman he has ever loved, but doing so places her life, her immortal soul in unavoidable danger. In order to protect her, he must go against his very nature and openly seek a bond with another. That heart-rending decision will undeniably place them both in mortal danger. For the power lies within two souls made of one. The solution to the present divide lies in the past—a past that Madison Marie is hell bent on uncovering in order to protect the man that brings rapture to her soul and completion to a life that she has longed for throughout eternity. Special note to the reader: The INSIGHT series is part of the “Web of Hearts and Souls Universe,” where several series combine into one large story. All series can be read independently or as one. The reading order for the Insight Series: • Insight • Embody • Image • Vital • Vindicate • Enflame Rivulet (Phoenix’s Story) • Imperial (Story of the Sovereigns) • Blakeshire (Drake’s Story) • Emanate Reading Order for the Complete Web of Hearts Universe: • Insight • Embody • Image • See • Witness • Vital • Vindicate • Synergy • Enflame • Redefined • Rivulet • Imperial • Blakeshire • Derive • Emanate • Exaltation* • *If you are a fan of Adult Paranormal EDGE can be read with the Web of Hearts, before or after Exaltation—the stories share the same characters.

THE ONLY WAY OUT IS AWAKE. Eighteen-year-old Rafa Cruz has aged out of foster care and is living on the streets. He’s a busker and a petty thief. By a strange quirk of fate, a smartphone that he has stolen wins him a slot as one of the few beta-testers of a revolutionary technology called “SKYE”. OmniSys, the world’s largest technology company, has discovered a way to combine lucid dreaming with the experience of RPG. They select five young adults from across the globe to take part in the trial run of SKYE: a backpacker, a veterinary student, a fitness motivator, a brittle bone disease survivor and… Rafa, a pickpocket. The Astralblazers, as they’re fondly dubbed by the press, will journey through the highly unpredictable environment of their collective dream to meet a mystical character known as Atom the God of Creation. The Astralblazers must learn to harness their imaginations and innate mana, which take the guise of guardian spirits called Anima. Along the way, they’ll encounter unicorns, dragons, Orcs, Goblins and a host of other fantastic beings. With each monster battle they face, they earn XP, stats and equipment, becoming powerful and hardened survivors. The game designer, however, has been keeping secrets from the Astralblazers. One of their teammates, in the waking world, has suffered hemorrhaging in the limbic region of her brain. If her character dies inside SKYE, the other players will become trapped in the game.