Witnessing the horrific demise of everyone he knew and loved has made Derrick Dawson strong, but it has also made him cold and broken. Tormented by his past and fears for the future, Derrick drowns himself in alcohol and drugs to dull the pain he can't seem to escape. When Rose, the granddaughter of his sworn enemy, suddenly appears in his life, his world turns upside down. The wall he has built to protect his heart is crumbling. Will Derrick ignore what he feels or will he let the wall fall? Francesco has felt alone and miserable all his life. The loss of his family and the harshness he receives from his constantly intoxicated older brother has left a void inside him that he thought he would never fill. Until a young princess named Rosa stumbles into him and changes his life forever. There's only one thing that stands in his way-King Antonio has forbidden Rosa to have anything to do with a Dawson. 17 + only.

When her first love falls apart, a Filipina-Canadian foodie is devastated. To salvage their relationship, Maria joins a social-media cooking contest despite her family's advice to move on. Her efforts draw him back until he reveals his loyalty to his new girlfriend. Crushed, Maria uproots her life to move to Thailand to teach English. As her vibrant photos and contest posts catch her ex's interest, the feelings she tried to suppress resurface. The stress of being a new teacher and handling Adrian's mood swings pushes Maria to her breaking point. As her new friends, including her flirty next-door neighbour, encourage her to move on, she must decide between her ex's apologies and promises, a fling with her hot, commitment-phobic neighbour, or time alone to heal and find herself. More to Life is Book 1 in the More to Life series. [Rated mature for the topic of self-harm and emotional abuse] Copyright © 2022 All Rights Reserved Cover images: Grimnoire (Emy) from Unsplash

In a land known as the Paragrim, the four marches--North, South, East, and West--are finding themselves at war with one other. With the help of an unhappily betrothed second son, a seer locked in a tower, a rogue sitting on death row, a black market alchemist, an arrogant summoner, and a not-so-powerful lesser demon, the four marches will soon find out that they're the least of each other's problems. These six teenagers must learn to work together, to evade the laws which outlaw any and all forms of sorcery, and to be strong where their teammates are weak, in order to fight against the dark, bloodthirsty, and downright sinister otherworldly entities that others are too willfully blind to see, and which threaten life as they know it.