Featured on BBC Radio 4's Open Book * Featured on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking * An ELLE Magazine cultural pick * Reviewed in the Observer 'Beautifully written' Joanna Cannon 'Fascinating ... full of personality' Guardian'Brilliant ... What a debut' Pandora Sykes 'How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything about each other, the most monumental thing to ever happen to me was buried and covered over? For the sake of my reputation, my future, my sister's and cousins; the family honor sat on my little shoulders, so no-one could ever know.' Dahlia has two lives. In one, she is a young woman with a good job, great friends and a busy social life. In the other, she is an unmarried daughter living at home, struggling with a burgeoning anxiety disorder and a deeply buried secret: a violent betrayal too shameful to speak of. With her thirtieth birthday fast-approaching, pressure from her mother to accept a marriage proposal begins to strain the family. As her two lives start to collide and fracture, all Dahlia can think of is escape: something that seems impossible when she can't even leave the country without her father's consent. But what if Dahlia does have a choice? What if all she needs is the courage to make it? Set in contemporary Kuwait, The Pact We Made is a deeply affecting and timely debut about family, secrets and one woman's search for a different life.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attaining that dream. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day—they are all doctors. This is a story about joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most... together.

Like millions of couples before them, Chris and Carol Green stood before a pastor, in front of family and friends, and recited the wedding vows. However, a few months later, they couldn't have a simple conversation without a very strained atmosphere. All they had was silence and disillusionment. In a last desperate attempt to save their floundering marriage they sat down together and made a PACT. They didn't know that their special promise would carry them for more than thirty years. Today they share their 'PACT' as a life-principles guide for couples that sincerely desire to build a legacy of love in spite of family histories that may be riddled with desertions, divorce and disappointment. Through their raw and bluntly honest stories, memories, reflections and anecdotes, you will relive Chris and Carol's journey, gleaning answers, wisdom and understanding for your marriage and family relationships. Now, as part of their mission to rebuild, restore and renew hearts and homes in the urban community they are sharing the precepts that preserved, sustained and elevated their relationship.

It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off to the Milky Way and turn into brilliant stars. This year, Ben and his classmates are determined to find out where those lanterns really go, and they made a pact with two simple rules: No one turns for home. No one looks back. The plan is to follow the river on their bikes for as long as it takes to learn the truth, but it isn't long before the pact is broken by all except for Ben, and (much to Ben's disappointment) Nathaniel, the one kid who just doesn't seem to fit in.Together, Nathaniel and Ben will travel down a winding road full of magic, wonder, and unexpected friendship*. *And a talking bear.

Lion, bear, and wolf shifters and their mates heat up the pages in these swoonworthy romances. From crime bosses with hidden agendas to evil doers with plans for a shifter types and brave and curvy women who are ready for their mates, the stories in this series will melt your heart. JACE A lion shifter. In a clan of shifters, the lions are considered most powerful and respected. Jace is headstrong, willful, has fun with women but doesn’t see the big rush to find a mate. His father lays it on the line: If he’s to head the clan one day, he needs to find his bride. He resents being told what to do. A desperate hottie. Gemma’s got her own set of problems, and saving Jace from a group that collects shifters for sport and research shouldn’t be one of those problems. So what made it her problem? A mutual problem and raging hormones. LEVI A tiger shifter. Levi just wanted to have a good time. Or so he thought. A sex club for shifters. What could go wrong? A frantic hottie. Becca shouldn’t have taken the job. Never let desperation guide your decisions, right? Wrong. Sometimes one wrong move can lead to all the right things. Or can it? Now she’s frantic to escape the sex club she never should have taken a job at. Except that she’s considered property, and her owner isn’t eager to have his property stolen. CORD A bear shifter. Being protective isn’t something Cord does, it’s who Cord is. That’s his greatest quality, and his most devastating flaw. An inquisitive hottie. Lucy can’t resist a good story. So she asks her editor if she could look into the shifters, maybe do a story or a series. Against hired assassins, against territorial clan leaders, against all odds… Lucy won’t be kept from her bear. Her bear shifter Cord won’t be denied his mate. Can a war between rival clans keep them apart? TREK A wolf shifter. Tucker doesn’t do rules. He should have. Nearly being killed put him in the lust crosshairs of a very sexy nurse that he can’t stop thinking about. A healing hottie. Nurse Rachel’s got a fine life—okay, maybe a boring life is a better description. Until she nearly kills a wolf shifter. A clan war gives rise a very unlikely union. Rachel can’t deny her nightly dreams about the wolf shifter she saved. Tucker can’t deny that Rachel makes his blood travel south. This shouldn’t happen. It shouldn’t. But God, it is. And oh man, is it ever. DEMON A wolf shifter. Damien’s always followed rules. He’s nothing like his twin, Tucker, the rule-breaker. Until he breaks one rule. And damned if it isn’t a big one. A rogue hottie. Fox shifter Sierra had this great social life—drinking, partying, shopping. Until she had a rude awakening, one that shoved her out the door and into the swamps. The Paris Hilton of shifters went from manis and pedis to scavenging and practically dumpster diving. An explosive unearthed secret forges an unlikely union. When Damien and Sierra learn of the secret which could bring the clans’ hierarchies to their knees, they find themselves in a unique position. Not to mention, the positions they find themselves in when they yield to their mutual desires. PATRIARCH A lion shifter. Vincent’s oldest enemy is his brother. And now he’s brought before the Council of Elders to determine his fate and Vincent is called as the solitary witness. A lioness shifter. Veronica’s first love is back. That was a lifetime ago, before he left his clan and her behind. She’s built a new life, and clearly so has he. Why can’t she convince herself of that? Sometimes the past refuses to stay in the past. Once upon a time, these two shifters were fated mates. Then circumstances parted them. Has it brought them back together just to keep them apart again?

Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman follows the author on her journey from a drug-addicted thief who felt trapped in an abusive relationship to a confident and capable marathon-runner. It is filled with intense drama, troubled romance, and all sorts of dirty little secrets.