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Every choice you make is a lie. Raven Blackwood has spent her life invisible. The quiet girl no one notices. The one no one chooses. Until she learns how to make people choose her. With a single thought, Raven can slip into your mind and change your decisions. She can make you stay. Make you go. Make you say yes when you meant no. At first, it feels like freedom. A way to finally take control of a life that never felt like hers. A way to keep the attention she’s always been denied—even convincing her best friend to spend more time by her side when she’d rather be anywhere else. But ...

Carter Ash wakes up with no memories in a virtual basic training. All the recruits will die within the next six weeks. Lucky for them, they’ve all got three lives. He’s assigned to a squad with his goofy friend and another captivating cadet, Iris. They have to keep each other alive as long as possible because when they die, they get assigned their permanent character class. And everyone in the squad wants a valuable class, ideally the kind where you don’t get killed immediately.

In the fading grandeur of Southern Grace Stables, where Spanish moss drapes over regal oaks and the scent of magnolias mingles with mildew, Margot Sterling clings to the remnants of her equestrian legacy. Once the jewel of Lafayette’s dressage scene, the stable now teeters on the brink of ruin. Margot’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of Zara Bloom—a brash, young social media sensation with a rescue horse named Chaos Theory. Zara, unimpressed by Southern elegance and armed with a penchant for unconventional training methods, becomes an unlikely beacon of hope for the ...

Grab your copy and enjoy the ride! Dive into Samantha's unexpected journey! From selling horse tack at dressage shows to unearthing dark secrets and hidden bodies, her life takes a whirlwind turn. The acquisition of "The Family Jewels," a stallion with a cryptic secret, leads her to confrontations, friendships, and an ever-watchful ghostly guardian. Venture into a tale where Texas nudists meet Oxford mystics. Worried about the horses? 🐎 We promise, they're safe! Will you unravel the enigma?

In the elegant world of elite dressage, perfection is everything—and someone is willing to kill to protect it. Mara Thorne knows horses, discipline, and the dangerous politics of the show ring. But when a top rider dies in what officials call a tragic accident, Mara’s instincts tell her something far darker is at work. Her suspicions only deepen after her own horse reacts with chilling certainty to a series of threats no one else seems willing to see. As whispers of sabotage spread through the circuit, Mara finds herself trapped in a glittering world of power, money, and ruthless ...

The Threshold Moment The future did not collapse. It stabilized. In a world where artificial intelligence manages care, where universal basic income has ended material want, and where every crisis is met with calibrated “wellness,” humanity has entered a new kind of peace—quiet, efficient, and profoundly unsettling. But something is missing. Work has vanished. Purpose has eroded. And beneath the language of support and safety, a deeper question begins to surface: “What is a human being for?” As Counselor Class systems expand their reach into homes, clinics, and communities, they ...

In the elite dressage circles of New Orleans, where tradition and excellence reign supreme, Grant faces an unexpected challenge. As a seasoned and classically trained dressage instructor, he has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of horsemanship and guiding his students. But his steadfast commitment is put to the test when Melody McFarland, the barn's influential owner, introduces a new trainer. Kitty Beauveloir, a spoiled debutante fresh from a brief stint studying riding in Europe, arrives with an air of entitlement and a penchant for disruption. Delighting in tormenting Grant, ...

In the glittering, cutthroat world of elite dressage, reputation is everything, scores are currency, and one bad ride can ruin a life. Liza Bennet has built her career on instinct, grit, and an unshakable belief that horses are not machines. She knows talent cannot be reduced to data points, no matter how badly the rich and self-important want to package excellence into something measurable, marketable, and obedient. So when the powerful Fitz Darcy unveils a gleaming new system designed to quantify compatibility, predict performance, and reshape the sport from the inside out, Liza is not ...

Scarlett Prynne, Runeclaw, The Spell Riders, and the Witches on Wheels beat down the Chrome Ghosts and disrupted the Luminous Veil's plans once again. The Veil didn't like that. Not one murderous bit. And if Scarlett shows up in their sights again, they won't hold back. And, of course, Scarlett being who she is, she's looking for an opportunity to do just that. The Veil's mind control collars are a looming threat, and Scarlett and her allies are doing their best to get the dirt on them. Step one is breaking into the mansion of the one Bald Baddie they've identified.

High Stakes and Regency Intrigue "Beyond the elegant ballrooms of Regency England lies a web of deadly secrets. Elizabeth Harrow's desperate search for answers thrusts her into a dangerous world of 'smuggling' and 'blackmail'. After witnessing Thomas pay a 'scarred man' tied to the notorious 'Grayson', Elizabeth finds herself facing down a corrupt 'Squire Langley' who threatens to 'brand [her] a lunatic' and blame her for a 'missing maid'. With Clara, her maid, terrified for her own life and a chilling letter from Grayson warning 'Cease your questions, or the maid’s fate is yours', ...

Graham Sterling likes numbers because numbers behave. They balance. They obey. They do not lie. Horses, however, are another matter. When his larger-than-life uncle asks him to spend one weekend looking into a glittering investment in the elite world of dressage breeding, Graham expects a routine favor—quiet due diligence, polished barns, pedigrees, and a few too-expensive handshakes. Instead, he steps into a world of antiseptic perfection, whispered rivalries, and fortunes built on bloodlines more valuable than gold. At the center of it all is a legendary stallion whose legacy should ...

Nora Beckett never meant to qualify for a regional dressage championship. A scoring mistake at a forgettable summer horse show suddenly launches Nora and her quirky, big-hearted Thoroughbred, Duke, into the polished, intimidating world of elite competition—where everyone seems richer, sharper, and far more prepared than she is. Ridgecrest is supposed to be for riders with flawless geometry, expensive warmbloods, and nerves of steel. Not for a woman who still doubts she belongs in the ring at all. But once Nora says yes, there’s no going back. With a brutally exacting mentor pushing her ...

Sophie Laurent has spent years rebuilding her father’s ruined legacy, transforming L’Auberge into one of Paris’s most coveted restaurants. With a Michelin star glittering over her future and the world’s most prized white Alba truffles at the heart of her menu, success is finally within reach. Then the truffles vanish. What begins as a devastating theft quickly turns deadly when Sophie’s supplier turns up murdered and the evidence points straight back to her restaurant. With a ruthless inspector circling, dangerous men closing in, and her family name once again on the edge of ...

At The Lantern & Ladle, memory is always on the menu. In the heart of Lafayette, Amélie Duval serves dishes no ordinary restaurant could dare offer: a lost promise folded into dessert, a first love stirred into sauce, a vanished moment of courage returned in a single unforgettable bite. For the desperate, the grieving, and the haunted, The Lantern & Ladle is not merely a place to dine. It is a place to reclaim what life has stolen. But every bargain has a price. When strange lapses begin rippling through the city and a ruthless rival restaurant appears across the plaza promising success ...

When elite clients need impossible properties moved quietly, Francine Dubois is the broker they call. Cold, brilliant, and exquisitely controlled, Francine has built a career turning supernatural liabilities into irresistible luxury assets for the wealthy and the damned. She is one deal away from leaving it all behind for a sun-drenched villa on the Mediterranean—if she can survive her most volatile listing yet. Perched high in Bel Air, the property looks like a sleek modern masterpiece. But behind its flawless glass walls lies a guest house with shifting dimensions, dangerous bass-driven...

Mara knows horses, hard work, and the quiet politics of a world where legacy families, polished rivals, and high-dollar breeding deals can turn a competition ring into a battlefield. When a magnificent champion horse suddenly goes lame just moments before a major class, officials are quick to call it an accident and move on. But Mara knows what she saw—and so does her sharp-sensed dog, Gus. As whispers spread through the fairgrounds and powerful people close ranks, Mara follows a trail that smells wrong from the very start. What she uncovers points to something far uglier than bad luck: a...

At Maison Dubois, perfection is the only standard—and failure is never forgiven. Pastry chef Clara Holt has spent a year surviving the pressure cooker of one of the world’s most elite fine-dining restaurants, where every plate must dazzle, every movement is judged, and every service can make or break a career. But when a notorious food critic is found dead in the restaurant’s wine cellar just as Chef Antoine Dubois is reeling from a devastating theft, the glittering facade of culinary excellence begins to crack. Suddenly, Clara is trapped in a nightmare of secrets, rivalries, and ...

At a refined Louisiana dressage barn, nothing is ever as stable as it looks. Behind polished boots, perfect half-passes, and immaculate white fences, reputations are fragile, loyalties are tested, and desire has a way of complicating everything. When a driven horsewoman finds herself caught between professional ambition and personal vulnerability, the barn becomes more than a place of training—it becomes a battleground. As rivalries sharpen and secrets surface, the line between partnership and betrayal begins to blur. The horses sense it first. The people follow soon after. In a world ...

Zara Bloom’s got 230K followers, a scruffy bay rescue horse named Chaos Theory, and a knack for turning dressage into a millennial TikTok empire—until her bourbon-soaked train wreck of a mom, Darla, crashes the Barn Burners Gala with a thermos of “tea” and a pyrotechnic disaster that’d make a gator blush. Southern Grace Stables was supposed to woo investors with classy demos and a fake fire, not erupt into a glitter-gargling, swamp-siren shitshow featuring Darla’s line-dancing chaos, a rogue chopper pilot named Remy, and a kid who thinks “Auntie Darla” is a superhero. Now ...

Written to be sold under the pseudonym of "Mark Harvey", this 20,000-word novella was never published in Vonnegut’s lifetime. Basic Training is a bitter, profoundly disenchanted story that satirizes the military, authoritarianism, gender relationships, parenthood, and most of the assumed mid-century myths of the family. Haley Brandon, the adolescent protagonist, comes to the farm of his relative, the old crazy who insists upon being called The General, to learn to be a straight-shooting American....