Raven loves the night life, chasing women, and her next high. Men and women fall under her spell at first sight, but she only has eyes for women. She accepts all shapes, sizes, and forms, for they are mere pawns in her quest to feed her cravings. She has a little secret, though, that could cause catastrophic results for anyone who encounters her, and it could potentially lead her into a sticky situation, but her cravings are too powerful for her to resist. Will her little secret come back with a vengeance? Valencia longs to be loved. All she has is her best friend, Sena, who is there for her through thick and thin. Going home to an empty bed every night is starting to wear thin . . . until she meets Wanya “Kidd” Brown, who quickly sweeps her off her feet. Unfortunately, she insists they can never be together, because even if Kidd has stolen her heart, her body belongs to someone else. A low-key assassin working for the notorious Mr. Jackson, Kidd wants nothing more than to be out of the business. He is smitten with Valencia’s beauty and her caring ways. Just when he thinks he can get out of the game and pursue Valencia wholeheartedly, Mr. Jackson calls in a favor—that rocks his world to the core. Will his heart overrule his loyalty to his boss?

Long ago the world suffered a terrible war, leaving behind only a select few hundred people. Believing that strong emotions fueled the war, those who survived created a town named Lunamoon, where each new human would be altered to be unable to feel emotion. They decide to choose only one man in each generation to be named the dream maker and he would create dreams for everyone to tell them what their jobs and life outcomes would be. The dream maker is able to live in solitude for the duration of his life, but the moment that the current dream maker is born, everything changes. Shawneleigh, a premature child who was born with narcolepsy on the same day as the dream maker, lives on her own in the hospital. Through her sporadic sleeping spells and the connection they made at birth, she and the dream maker are able to connect through her dreams. They become friends and then fall in love. Beautiful Nightmare is a tale of love and faith, showing how we can stand up for ourselves, while standing against those who want others to fail. For through it all, in the end, there is love. First-time author Ashley Marie Nestler grew up in Westminster, Colorado. "I have lived right by the mountains all of my life and the beauty really inspired me with this novel." Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/AshleyMarieNestler

Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately four minutes, a nod to a social experiment that put forth the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them. A meticulously crafted social novel, Four Minutes takes a difficult, uncompromising look at modern life in Eastern Europe.

His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.

A Beautiful Nightmare is about an entrepreneur who decided to create a life of freedom, limitless boundaries, and wealth. Through hope and ambition but lacking a solid plan, she soon discovered that the game of entrepreneurship is played by unspoken rules--rules that govern getting paid, being hired, being accepted, and ultimately whether you fail or succeed. Lauren spent ten-plus years trying to land a deal, find investors and, most importantly, secure a paycheck. Her path started in Atlanta, Georgia, where her foundation for failure (though unbeknownst to her) molded her into what was yet to come. After unwelcoming and devastating results, she pursued a bold and spontaneous move to Chicago, Illinois, where her true journey begun.

Once upon the summer of 1987, there was a very good girl who had done everything right. She was smart, athletic, friendly, independent, responsible, ambitious, and...she was in love. She was a good girl with a hopeful future, and she was very happy. But then, just a few weeks before her triumphant senior year, she made a mistake. Just one mistake, but it was a big one. And in a single moment, all the good things she'd done became irrelevant. The happily ever after she had so carefully cultivated was shattered like a carelessly-dropped glass slipper. How can she find the path back to the life of the good girl she used to have? Maybe that life, that girl, is gone forever.

'Monster, monster, come out to play. Monster, monster, I've been waiting all day.' Everything Fortuna believed has been revealed as illusion and lies. Everything has changed. Now a prisoner in the Seelie Court, Fortuna discovers the game she has been playing is deadlier than she could have imagined. There's no time for pain or healing. There is only survival. Because a new threat is emerging from the shadows. An opponent who doesn't fight with swords or magic. An adversary she cannot overcome. It turns out Fortuna didn't know the meaning of fear... until now.

High school student Alexa Bowman moved to Savannah, Georgia to get away from her old life. Too bad her past is a Google search away and her family’s criminal past quickly made her an outcast. From tormenting cheerleaders to dreamy football players, Alexa can’t keep up, especially when Fae, Skye, and Chloe take her into their group of outsiders. But after a night in the woods, a power has awakened within them, a power that’s equal parts magical and terrifying. But there are no coincidences in Savannah, and once they find out how to control their powers the town is in for a rude awakening.

Isabel's first date with The Boogeyman didn't go according to plan, but she's about to give it another try. Warning: This story contains explicit language and mature content.

Luke Hastington, 29 years old A Billionaire that really loves work more than anything. Call him workaholic because he loves to sit in his office for hours without getting tired. He loves silence and only talks a lot among his friends. He was known as a cold man in the business world because of his seriousness about work. Hailey Anderson, 23 years old One word to describe her : a Princess. She's been a princess since she was born, her parents love her so much until almost everything that she wants her parents got. She's loud and a very cheerful person that people love. She's lovely, beautiful and smart but when she wants something she gets ambitious.