Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep<\/a><\/center>
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn\u2019t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world\u2019s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can\u2019t refuse. One sham interview later, she\u2019s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state\u2014one with proprietary AI implanted in his head\u2014from California to the East Coast.<\/p>\n
To sum up in Julia\u2019s own words: \u201cYou want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.\u201d In a word, yes. But he\u2019s not dead dead.<\/p>\n
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he\u2019s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn\u2019t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls \u201cBernie\u201d from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was\u2014and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.<\/p>\n
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The River She Became<\/a><\/center>
Yaseema is a brilliant scholar and loyal servant of the Empire\u2014or so they think. By day, she catalogs the fae relics of her conquered kingdom. But by night, she reclaims the artefacts in secret to restore magic to her dying land.<\/p>\n
Until she finds the long lost key to cross the River into the fae world and save her people. But a ruthless realm awaits her there, ruled by monsters wearing beautiful skin\u2014especially the cold-eyed captain who sees through her lies. But even he isn\u2019t what he seems\u2014under the guise of upholding a cruel regime, he works to overthrow it from the inside. To succeed, he needs the same lost relic Yaseema seeks: the crown of an ancient Fae Queen.<\/p>\n
With magic that is a mystery even to her, Yaseema can help him find the crown and save his family from a fate worse than death. Unless she steals it first to help her own.<\/p>\n
To survive, they must work together to outwit ancient curses, battle creatures born of nightmares, and find a power that could resurrect their worlds. But as secrets unravel and loyalties blur, they face the greatest danger of all: losing their heart to each other.<\/p>\n
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The Winged Game<\/a><\/center>
Carriwitchet, the violent, rugby-esque game played atop winged beasts, was once Taissa Cho\u2019s whole life, and she was once the United Kingdom\u2019s most promising player. Until her nemesis, rival player Kion Locke, destroyed her career in a single moment. Expelled from the sport in disgrace, Taissa has spent the last two years dreaming of nothing but revenge and relishing watching Kion\u2019s team plummet to the bottom of the league.<\/p>\n
So when Taissa is offered the chance to redeem herself and her career, she can\u2019t refuse\u2014even if the offer is coming from the very man who ruined everything in the first place. It\u2019s close to a dream come true . . . except for that pesky clause in her contract that demands she and Kion enter a fake relationship in order to garner some much-needed positive PR for the team. This could not be a worse match. Taissa and Kion only have two things in common: their love of the game, and their undying hatred for each other.<\/p>\n
Yet as a mysterious illness befalls the winged creatures of the entire league\u2014putting both the beasts\u2019 lives and the very sport itself at stake\u2014the athletes find themselves partnering up in other ways, determined to crack the case of the eerie sickness. As their investigation takes them on a whirlwind adventure, Kion and Taissa are prepared for anything . . .<\/p>\n
Anything, that is, but their fake-for-the-cameras relationship to maybe, just maybe, become something real after all.<\/p>\n
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Moss’d in Space<\/a><\/center>
Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia\u2019s assessment, it was not \u201ca meteoric sign of stupidity.\u201d Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now\u2026 but it\u2019s Torian\u2019s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex\u2026 ah, captain\u2026 said.<\/p>\n
Except Torian\u2019s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic computer with a snarky attitude and serious abandonment issues. The target of its loathing? The immortal alien who built it (and then parked the starship, with Moss inside, and forgot about it). The same alien who just found Torian and accused her of \u201cstealing\u201d the ship.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s entirely possible that Amelia was right about this meteoric stupidity.<\/p>\n
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Knead for Speed<\/a><\/center>
As the bookkeeper and new co-owner of the Dragon Diner, Rylana Avandar is determined to see the business become successful. Despite an inauspicious beginning, her partner Jildarin\u2014founder, chef, and dragon\u2014has come to trust her, and she doesn\u2019t want to disappoint him.<\/p>\n
But when a troll curse and an ancient secret threaten Tranquility, Rylana will have to do a lot more than crunch numbers. If she and Jildarin can\u2019t figure out how to appease the troll gods, the diner and the entire city could be doomed.<\/p>\n
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The Shampoo Effect<\/a><\/center>
When Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she falls head-over-heels for Van Whittaker, a fleece-wearing, litter-collecting kayak enthusiast with long, floppy hair and the personality of a Border collie. Born and raised in this picturesque coastal village, Van runs with the same crowd he did as a kid: His ex-girlfriend, Bailey, a beautiful girl who attracts men like moths to a flame; Augusta, old money, horsey, and snobbish; and Fran, surrounded by brothers and sons, too fed up with boys to ever consider marrying one.<\/p>\n
Together, the group runs wild through the marshes, beaches, and bars of Greenhead, drinking on houseboats, spending long afternoons sunbathing with their children, and playing games the way they always have. But when Bailey discovers that she is pregnant with Van\u2019s baby, the delicate balance of the group\u2019s friendship is thrown off. Soon Caroline is cast out of the circle and what she does next\u2014in a potent mix of fury and heartbreak\u2014exposes long-held secrets and works the entire town of Greenhead into a lather.<\/p>\n
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The Housewife<\/a><\/center>
Jodie always dreamed of being the perfect housewife. And after a whirlwind romance, she marries renowned psychologist Dr. Roy Davies and moves into his perfect Beverly Hills home. But the fairy tale fades fast. Roy is distant, his friends view her as a gold-digger, and the house still reveres his late wife, Deborah, whose presence looms over everyone and everything.<\/p>\n
When Jodie learns that Deborah became a recluse before her death, she begins to suspect Roy was behind it. And the deeper she digs, the darker Roy’s past appears\u2015obsessive, controlling, unfaithful. Jodie knows she should go to the police but she has her own secrets, such as three dead bodies and a prison sentence she still claims was a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
But Jodie doesn\u2019t care how long it takes. She\u2019s going to clean every inch of that house until she finds proof that Dr. Davies killed his first wife.<\/p>\n
And then, she\u2019ll make him pay.<\/p>\n
Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n