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The Finest is a podcast dedicated to celebrating excellence in every facet of pop culture. Listen to black, geeky and queer siblings Erin and Leon on their quest to find the best pop culture has to offer. Together they will dissect, debate and determine who or what is...The Finest.

Maggie the Magnificent, the spunky new kid at school, struggles to win over her standoffish classmates with her not-quite-perfect magic tricks. When this fails, she finds herself promising to magically fulfill one wish for each classmate the very next day. Although she instantly skyrockets to mega-popularity, she soon realizes she'll be magnificently unpopular the next day when her magic tricks do not succeed.

Bree’s destiny had always been kept. Like a dirty secret, it was nearly impossible to escape a certain dark fate. Just when she was beginning to turn things around and had repaired her relationships came the final blow. Locked in isolation and desperate for someone to put her trust in, Bree began talking to a mysterious man over the Internet. Placing her trust in him was the biggest mistake of her life. Now, caught in his evil web, she must decide - once and for all - how to take control of her life.

You can’t pick your kin or the risky games they play. Every family has its secrets, but for Elise Reddick, entangled roots have turned deadly - leaving her torn between twisted memories and cold realities. Estranged from her family of origin after a horrific crime, Elise tries to move on in the tiny town of Red Leaf while under investigation for her ex-boyfriend’s murder. There, she forms new relationships and encounters more lies as she slowly unravels the truth behind her pedigree.

We all do it. It's part of what makes us human. There are names for it - jealousy, envy, and sometimes even greed. We daydream about what someone else has. We convince ourselves that things would be better if we were someone else altogether: The grass is always greener, we believe. Or is it?

Violet Hoffman is a planner. She's had more than enough time - especially on holidays - to think this through. There's really no point in turning back. Now, armed with a plan, Violet only needs to pull the trigger. She runs through her list of essentials: Motel room, check. Bottle of pills, check. Razor blades, check. Knife, yup. Purpose, check. Voice ready to be heard. Got it. Revenge, coming right up.

Emma Harrison has been in all the wrong relationships. Her past is nothing she wants to talk about. She thought she finally got it right when she got involved with Riley Torres, a "nice" guy who was only trying to protect her when he lingered just a little too long. At first, it was cute - the way he checked up on her. She loved how he defended her, even against her sister Abby, who could be a bit of a meddler. He made her feel important when he stayed up waiting for her to return from exam study groups. It was sweet. Until, it wasn't anymore.

Jayne has hidden behind a disfiguring facial birthmark. Nothing has helped to overcome a scar she cannot hide from. Tortured by peers, and even in her adult life, Jayne has finally accepted the hand she’s been dealt. She’s vowed never to let anyone under her skin again. Trust is for the foolish.

Trigger warning.That’s what the front entrance should say. Instead, it lies the same way the outsiders do. Week after week, it cheerfully ushers unsuspecting loved ones and visitors to the registration desk where they’ll sign day passes to visit us: the broken girls. The lost. The forgotten. The damaged. The twisted. Every Saturday—Sundays on holidays too—outsiders will visit with no clue what really goes on in the place they’ve sent us to where nothing ever changes. With dull eyes and plastic smiles, we’ll nod, grin, and take their hopeful offerings of trinkets from a deceitful...

***Can be read as a stand alone*** ‘Beyond the Veil.’ It’s the expression people use for life after living – the mysterious place all souls linger after inevitably vacating earth and floating to finality. To arrive, one must first experience death. It can be quick or slow and torturous. Death can happen again and again. Forever – none of us can Escape Reality. Each time, Mistress Death brings with her a lesson. That’s what it feels like for Mary and Hudson. Since the moment they said their vows, they’ve died a hundred deaths. What started as ‘true love’ quickly became ...

The rules were simple:We were to accept His testimony.We were to want no worldly goods.We were to give up our ties to the outside world.We were to finish strong.We were to know this wasn’t our world.That would come and only He could deliver us.For now, we were to live in His Village; granting only Him the authority to change our souls.

Tent City. It was where everyone headed when they were down on their luck. It was a place where you could reinvent yourself and cans of chili could be bartered out for smokes. There, you didn’t have to have jobs and as long as you didn’t steal from your neighbors, well, things worked out. But when Tent City closes and Layla and Gene have nowhere to go, the next best bet is to again hit the road. With seven dollars, a van, and a full tank of gas, it’s time to get back on the grid. Only, where will they go?

Take a few unhappy couples. Add broken hearts, anger, envy, betrayal, and hope. Stir continuously for 50-minutes. Simmer and repeat. Soon, lives collide in yet another of Dr. Katherine Murphy's group therapy sessions. Who will bubble over this week? Might it even be Murphy, who struggles with her own relationship demons? Sometimes it’s not about a happy ending; it’s all about the crazy journey.

This is book 12 of the Escape From Reality Series but can be read as a standalone! One woman and the five men who loved her. It didn’t sound so unusual. The only problem? They are all married to her. Meet the fools: Our wife is a lot of things. I’d waste the day and even more time if I attempted to list them. But the one thing she isn’t is a quitter. To her, divorce is failure. It’s taken more than a year and a shit ton of therapy with Dr. Nora Cunningham to figure out that Apryl is a love addict and, frankly, so am I. In the end, it’s neither here nor there. I just need Apryl to ...

It ain’t all about soda shops and busted scams. Sisters have to stick together and Jade and Violet know it’s always sista’s before mista’s. After a failed go at Crazy Train Soda Shop, half-sisters Jade and Violet head to Vegas and try their luck with another business venture.This time, it will be the Crazy Train Bar – where chaotic cocktails are half price on Tuesdays.But the hustle and flow of the big city does nothing to calm them down. Things only get more complicated when Jade's ex-husband is caught and points the finger at Jade.Can the con sisters get Jade out of another ...

Bored with staying at home, Petunia believes the only way to be a proper wife is to learn to cook. With her eye on the Food Network and a national cupcake bake-off contest, she’s determined to make her Guy proud. Armed with the help of her whorish cousins, Petunia enlists the silicone family into the biggest adventure of them all…

It wasn’t Gene who fell in lust with a rustic kitchen, wanted to lay roots, and decided to invite the guys along for the ride. No. That was Layla. Crazy for love, and just touched enough to pull the trigger, the dynamic duo will hit the road again – this time with passion at every wrong left turn. But the road always has surprises, roadside attractions, and a little crazy in store. This time, will the ladies of the road be able to stay on track to their final destination, or will it be time for a full U-turn?

New York Times bestselling author Von Bentley’s backlist was nothing to smirk at even before he knew something was wrong. He’d devoted his life’s work to bringing characters alive in passionate contemporary romance novels that made women swoon. Well into the first chapters of his latest draft, the plot twist came when Von received a terminal diagnosis. For the first time in his adult life, he was forced to put down the pen and step away from the characters. A year later and determined to make his swan song novel his best work, his only option is to hire an assistant to help him put ...

Lifelong best friends Elaine and Katie had heard all the stories about the dilapidated shack in the woods. For years, area teens had braved spending the night in the shack’s mysterious clutch. Like clockwork, one or two of them came up missing every time. But the girls weren’t so sure they believed the rumors made up by locals to excuse disappearances. The reasons for missing teens in the area could have other plausible explanations like kids being sent to drug rehab or secret family issues. It wasn’t like Katie and Elaine weren’t familiar with how the adults in town worked. ...