A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song." Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow." In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nature, the poet gives voice to animate and inanimate figures such as woolly mammoths, star-nosed moles, cells, mylar balloons, and puzzle boxes. Her vivid poems obscure the line between what is literal and what is figurative. The result is alchemic and ethereal—each verse intricately layered with sharp observation as well as emotional and intellectual exploration and questioning. Collectively, the poems draw significantly on Japanese culture and language in their imagery, with cultural nuances and implications embedded in words and expressions. They tend to be tied, not to subjects, but to ways of seeing and considering the world. Noll's lyrical voice reflects a curious and imaginative approach that results in tight poems, typically enjambed, which build together into a thoughtful collection. Her work offers ways of seeing and considering the world that exceed our lived experience, begging the reader to consider how far we are willing to go when faced with roadblocks, doubts, and uncertainties.

After a day out with a group of her friends, Chloe Winters, disappears. Held prisoner in luxurious surroundings, forced into a degrading and isolated life, leaves her coping with depression and desperate loneliness.

Mixed bloodlines and a surprising urge to find a mate drive Scarlet into the arms of the one male in the Crossroads bar that isn't looking.

With most of her past still a mystery and the man who tried to kill her dead, Scarlett thought she could live a normal life. She was wrong. As rogue shadow-military units and world governments vie for control of a new nanite technology, she has to face them both to discover the truth of humanity's future - and how she's involved. Once again, she'll have to become the Scarlet Angel in order to protect everyone and everything she cares about. But when the plasma blasts start flying, she may just find that the harsh truth of the future could cost her everything.

Traumatized at a young age, Scarlet is learning to live a normal life in Drakonia without her parents. She must take care of her little sister, who is harboring a dark and dangerous secret. It is soon discovered that Scarlet is in possession of special abilities, which unfavorably catches the eye of the Dragon King. Now on the run, she makes unlikely friends who help her to survive the wrath of the King and the creatures he sends to thwart them. In order to prevail, she must learn to control her newfound abilities as well as to teach her sister to master her own. When the past catches up to her, Scarlet is faced with destruction that will lead her revenge in the ultimate family betrayal. About the Author Megan Hopps is an American author who has a degree in Liberal arts. Her goal is to become a publisher herself and to write many more books for her readers. She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire where she wrote her first novel, Scarlet's Retribution. She does a lot of reading in her spare time as well as writing her next book.