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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is relevant in the news today, rightfully so with the staggering statistics of racism, indifference, and the lack of historical pursuit for justice. This novella is fictionalized accounts of what our Native American women and girls lived through and died by the hands of assailants of all backgrounds that think indigenous women are invisible.

Shadows don't fade with time. They whisper, they follow, they carry us home. When sixteen-year-old Aspen James's quiet world collides with the sudden disappearance of classmate Brinlie, every unspoken fear comes rushing to the surface. Together with Brinlie's friends, Aspen is drawn into a search stitched together by cryptic sketches, half-truths, and the weight of secrets no one dares to name. But Aspen carries shadows of her own-anxiety, silence, the intrusive thoughts that twist reality into something fragile and strange. To bring Brinlie back, Aspen must confront not only the darkness ...

Every heart has its own alphabet of survival. At Starlight Recovery Center, seventeen-year-old Ruby Lark is learning how to eat, sleep, and stay. Eighteen-year-old Aniston Vale is learning how to live with wanting to disappear. They meet in the quiet hours—between therapy sessions and unspoken confessions—and begin to translate their pain into something almost like love. Through twenty-six words, from Admission to Zero Hour, Ruby and Aniston discover that healing isn’t a straight line but a language—fragile, unfinished, and alive. The Alphabet of Almosts is a lyrical portrait of two...

Told in alternating timelines, this romance novel with a murder mystery twist takes place on the 16-acre island of Garden Key, the second largest island of the Dry Tortugas, a group of sandbars 68 miles southeast of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s home to Fort Jefferson's hexagonal fortress. Beyond the moat, where you'll find on two sides the docks, primitive camping grounds on the southern part of the island, picnic areas under swaying palms, and immaculate white sand beaches. This is where darkness descends, and then murder and madness ensue.

Piper Quesenberry has always known how to survive: keep your head down, keep people out, and never let anyone see the cracks. Slater Hartmann knows what it’s like to be on the outside too as he’s fighting a body that won’t cooperate and a world that stopped making sense after his life was turned upside down. In a town where everyone knows your name, and your secrets, Piper and Slater aren’t supposed to be friends. But when they stumble upon something dark and dangerous happening behind the neon lights of Whispering Hills Casino, they realize they’ll have to trust each other to ...

From riveting and tumultuous trauma-based dissociation that keeps you trapped and challenged, you may find ideas for assisting you to connect more mindfully with the present moment in this part memoir, self-discovery, and self-help. Unlike clinical books that approach the subject from a distance, Bedridden & Gutted to Mindful is written by a depression sufferer who understands that it's more than just "cheering up." The author's decision to write this book stems from an intense desire to help others navigate similar struggles. Bedridden & Gutted to Mindful is a canvas painted with ...

Dessa Thane isn't suicidal-she's terrified, not of dying¿ but of the split-second visions showing her how it could happen. When intrusive thoughts hijack her mind—step off this ledge, jerk the wheel into traffic, drag that pencil across your skin—Dessa checks into Willowridge Behavioral Center, desperate for answers. There she meets Orion Alexander, a boy whose own flashes are darker, sharper, louder. Rumor says he tried to die. The truth? He never wanted to. His brain just shows him the worst every time he's close to the edge. Under the guidance of Dr. Xavi Faust, Dessa and Orion ...

Spirit Pass: Revised and Expanded Edition is the compilation of Jessica Stone Novellas #1-3 plus a bonus chapter of the upcoming installment in the series titled A Soul Darker Than Midnight. More than four out of five indigenous women report they have been victims of violence. For decades, indigenous women have faced a murder rate higher than the national average. It is part of the spectrum of violence experienced by Native women. This fictional collection of novellas delves into these types of missing and murder cases. It shows what obstacles exist for tribal law enforcement and the extent...

Told in alternating timelines thirty years apart and set in Watertown, South Dakota, Long Since Buried is a haunting and twisty tale of a set of twin sisters as they navigate deadly circumstances.

Living beside the water should be peaceful until the bodies of mystery infants wash ashore. A nightmare scenario unfolds: the third in a string of dead bodies turns up in the suburban lake, rekindling the mysterious occurrence.

Noxious peers. Worse high school. Embarrassing moments. Danger lurks. Young love. Reality? What happens to one on an unraveling journey? And what is it like to question one's own sanity? Adria is a high school junior with a penchant for painting and a clear goal: hide the changes from anyone and everyone lest being called mad by noxious peers at the travesty known as high school (post-secondary classes).

A collection of five erotic stories with mixed submission and domination themes from Xcite Books, winners of ETO Best Erotic Book Brand 2010 and 2011. A collection of five erotic stories with mixed submission and domination themes. Personal Trainer by K D Grace.

What would you give to keep a story alive? This cozy fantasy book is for cat and bookstore lovers. By day, Marisol Callan drafts blueprints of lobbies and stairwells, her compass and vellum shaping the bones of buildings. By night, she tends the shelves of Ink & Ivy, a tucked-away bookstore where Finn, her green-eyed, stub-tailed Manx cat, keeps watch with uncanny purpose. But when whole sections of the shop begin to vanish, spines turning blank, stories dissolving into silence, Marisol discovers Ink & Ivy is more than a bookstore. It's a kingdom of memory and meaning. To save it, Marisol ...

Told from two different perspectives, Leah and her brother Jake, this suspense novel tells about when a forty-two-year-old married park ranger and mother of two grown children goes missing during the suitcase killer spree; everyone believes the serial killer is at fault. A serial killer known to decapitate and dismember his victims, stuffing most of the body parts in a suitcase but leaving the head or a limb around town to frighten unsuspecting passersby.

Part Paper Towns, part Bridge to Terabithia, Whimsy and Bliss is a luminous coming-of-age novel about friendship as first love, the ache of change, and the kind of magic that lingers long after goodbye. Abigail Whimsy has always been the dreamer. Lainey Bliss, her best friend since forever, has always been the realist. But the summer before senior year, when Bliss is accepted into a prestigious college program across the country, their world tilts. Desperate to hold on, Whimsy proposes one last adventure: finishing her late grandmother’s “map of thin places,” secret corners of their ...

Even the smallest worlds can hold entire universes. When fifteen-year-old Zibby enters a psych ward for treatment of her eating disorder, the last thing she expects is to fall for sixteen-year-old Nico, a boy across the hall battling depression and anxiety. Between art projects, greenhouse afternoons, and stolen laughter in the small gymnasium, their six weeks together bloom into a fragile, unforgettable first love. But hospitals are made for leaving—and when the doors close, so does their world. But first love leaves the deepest coordinates. Tender, raw, and unforgettable, Zibby & Nico's...

Eighteen-year-old recent high school graduate Ivy Lancaster now has some negatives to add to her blonde hair, suede blue eyes, alabaster skin, and svelte body. She's recently started rapid-cycling through manic and depressive episodes that leave her with guilt, embarrassment, and shame. Ivy now wakes up, looks around, and doesn't recognize evidence of what she's been up to for the last 24 hours. Add to that the fact that she's obsessed with a recent, local murder of one of her classmates.

Prologue to an Epitaph is an exciting, moving account in which the author relays a compelling narrative from four different viewpoints - the diametrically opposing perspectives of a neonatal intensive care unit nurse, the teen mother, her younger brother, and the preemie herself.

Spirit Pass tackles an all-too-real issue that gets all-too-little attention - the disappearances of young women on Native American reservations. This concept alone ensures plenty of emotion for the piece and the novel does a good job of showing the full scope of those affected. This is especially poignant when we see old friends Agnes and Bernice, who find themselves possible rivals following Claudia’s murder. That there are so many suspects for this killing is also a nice touch - this keeps us on our toes and guessing until the reveal in the climax.

The subject of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls fails to get the attention it deserves. Facts show that Native American women and girls are twice as likely to be assaulted than any other race, and their third leading cause of death is injury. And out of nearly 6,000 missing and murdered cases, just shy of 200 are in the national law enforcement databases. We need to do something about this epidemic.