Fiction

When Cayatu, a Chumash Indian woman, is banished from her village, she is taken by two Franciscan priests to join the new Mission Santa Barbara. She is baptized there along with several other new neophytes and begins a restricted life far beyond what she...

A titillating, backstabbing look at what happens when three women's lives intersect with the same objective: get that perfect man, no matter what. On the outside, Aruba Dixon has a life other women envy: a beautiful home, her handsome husband, James, and...

Not only is Phobetor real, he's about to destroy life on every world with sentient beings. You could say he's becoming a bit of a problem.Unless I'm somehow the hero of an ancient prophecy-and let's face it, I'm not-everyone I care about is in major...

The god of nightmares is real? How fun.A mystery dreamwalker is trying to turn me homicidally insane? Business as usual.But when a legendary seer gets involved, we end up on a world populated by necromancers. Oops. I'll have to put on my big dreamwalker...

Broken-hearted, Stephanie Ray leaves behind her friends in Texas and moves to Louisiana for a new start. Things take a thrilling - and terrifying - turn when she meets the alluring Aidan Bane. Thrust into a mystical world of dark magic, Stephanie finds...

Life, death, and rebirth, Isis's and Osiris's future hinges on all three. A century ago, the Dragon Kingdom of Nebty was lost to darkness. Invaded by demon hordes hellbent on stealing two powerful scepters, the Demon King claimed the preternatural realm...

Sure, I can rock a tank top and ponytail while collecting ancient relics, but don't call me a tomb raider. I knew the guy who built the pyramids... and I mean in the biblical sense. Archaeologist, fashionista, and an ancient immortal with a serious...

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year: bestselling author Walter Mosley "is back with a whole new character to love...As gorgeous a novel as anything he's ever written" (Washington Post). Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest...

The stories in Down River were collected in the 1950s and 60s by Nonie Creaghan, whose family has lived in the area for generations. The Miramichi River winds its way through a beautiful valley and flows into a bay of the same name. In Down River, we...

HOME IS THE PLACE WHERE WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO THERE THEY HAVE TO LET YOU IN. Eden, Arkansas is a town you are from, not move to. But when divorce, foreclosure, domestic violence, and an all-expense paid trip (also called prison) disrupt the Washington...

WINNER OF THE 2003 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WRITING AND THE BLACK CAUCUS OF THE ALA LITERARY AWARD Frederick Douglass, the great African-American abolitionist, was a man who cherished freedom in life and in love. In this...

The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at...

Everything they know is about to explode.Dexx finally has Paige back, and just in time to bring two amazing balls of world-wrecking joy into this world. But as he and Paige settle in to prepare to finally see their unborn babes-twins, if you can believe...

Turned at a tender age, and left with no memory of her human life, Elisa, the beloved adopted daughter of Talante, has had many obvious difficulties in her near two centuries of life, but by product so frustrating as her inability to find love - that is...

Turned at a tender age, and left with no memory of her human life, Elisa, the beloved adopted daughter of Talante, has had many obvious difficulties in her near two centuries of life, but by product so frustrating as her inability to find love - that is...

Turned at a tender age, and left with no memory of her human life, Elisa, the beloved adopted daughter of Talante, has had many obvious difficulties in her near two centuries of life, but by product so frustrating as her inability to find love - that is...