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When little Henrietta decides I'm trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders. Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold. Our best hope for ourselves and for Henrietta and Charlotte is that the truth really will set us free.

We All Need to Eat is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family, and her sexuality.

What has become known as “The House of Sand Killings” ended Detective Jake Anderson’s career with a psychotic break. Now, four years later, it continues to haunt him, as a familiar face embarks on a murder spree unlike any other, with Jake and his family in the crosshairs. With supernatural abilities that defy explanation, the killer weaves a tapestry of violence across multiple cities, taunting Jake at every turn and leaving him desperate to catch up. What’s happening shouldn’t be possible. What Jake has seen can’t be real. But his obsession won’t let him quit.

Anthony and Mira are summoned to the side of a dying dragon. Glycinda's last deed on Earth was to hand over a book she had been protecting for years. A book that would lead them to a castle that had been lost for centuries. Anthony, Mira, and their friends set off on an adventure to find the kingdom, where they encounter a ghostly couple who need help to confront their murderer.

Nobody should ever have to hear a doctor say, "You have cancer." This sentence strikes more fear than any other into the human heart, especially if you've lost loved ones to the disease. You may believe cancer is a death sentence, even if it isn't one. At the time of this writing in 2017, with all the advances in medicine, its unknown origin and progression still terrify.

On her 15th birthday, Mira Storm Weather made a wish to not be sent on any more dangerous missions; but destiny, it seemed, had other ideas. Dark Wizard Damien Charmer has escaped from prison and is somehow more powerful than ever. With the fate of the world in their hands, it's up to Mira and her friends to discover Damien's plan and stop him by any means possible, even if it means breaking a few witch rules along the way. During this time, astonishing secrets about Mira's father and her own identity are revealed to her. Is she a witch? A human? Or something else entirely?

Cerah Passel is a farm girl, a shepherd, but a seemingly accidental animal attack sets in motion an adventure that spans a planet. Along with her brother Beru, Slurr a boy who grew up with her family but who she can barely tolerate, and Kern, the healer of indeterminant act, they must discover the source of the great evil that is befalling the planet of Quadar.

Seven years after the defeat of Beldazon, Dorian and his friends encounter an even greater threat. A union of wrathful dragons, each of its members pining to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, vow to bring Zannondale to its knees. Dorian and his friends must stop this new threat, before it consumes the land in a wrathful fire of revenge.

The ancient and enigmatic continent of Zannondale had seen its fair share of sorrow. Tortured and despoiled by the wars that had devastated its once glittering realms, it still felt the aftereffects centuries later. And now, from far back into the past, a new and more powerful evil than ever is rising, one that threatens to turn Zannondale’s fields to dust and her cities to ashes. The brutal and merciless Baron Chronus hasonly one desire and that is to rule over all, no matter what. And for two young men, Dorian and Dain, it means the end of their carefree lives forever.

Mira Storm Weather often wondered why people thought she was strange. She always thought she lived an ordinary life. However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira just how extraordinary her life could be. She had inherited magical powers. Now, Mira must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village and find her true destiny as a witch.

Farya Navurian seems like an ordinary young woman trying to get ahead in the city while struggling with depression. But her depression is anything but ordinary - it has the power to destroy time and space. Growing up the moody daughter of a space-faring hero of The Greater Anointed Imperial Ohioan Commonwealth, Farya annihilated most of that world and its history, leaving behind the husk-like Buckeye State.

The situation is dire for the Free People as Cerah, the Chosen One, leads her army northward in pursuit of Surok, intent on destroying the monstrous force that threatens her beloved Quadar. But inside Cerah, other battles rage—a broken heart from the loss of her true love, Slurr, and her own nagging self-doubt.

A Single Candle, the third book in the Cerah of Quadar series, picks up the action where book two leaves off, bringing the forces of good and evil face-to-face.

I didn't expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother. But then, I didn't expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well.