Best friends don't lie.Best friends don't ditch you for a guy.Best friends don't post your deepest darkest secret online.Bailey's falling head-over-heels for Ryder West, a mysterious gamer she met online. A guy she's never met in person. Her best friend, Meg, doesn't trust smooth-talking Ryder. He's just a picture-less profile.When Bailey starts blowing Meg off to spend more virtual quality time with her new crush, Meg decides it's time to prove Ryder's a phony.But one stupid little secret posted online turns into a friendship-destroying feud to answer the question: Who is Ryder West?Praise for Send:"Blount's debut novel combines an authentic voice with compelling moral dilemmas." —VOYA"A dark, captivating, and powerful story!" —Crazy Bookworm Views: 95
An intimate, touchingly messy story of mental health, anxiety, and a young woman's love of friends and music. Great for fans of: Adib Khorram's Darius the Great is Not Okay, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower. BookLife Reviews - 2022. Stuck in the darkness of her mind - can Charley break free and find her true voice?Aspiring singer-songwriter Charley is a smart, intuitive and talented sixteen-year-old. But she has thought tangles, that's what she calls them. She thinks she has them under control, but when they get in the way once too often, her hopes of going to music college are threatened and she becomes increasingly overwhelmed.Balanced on the edge, she is thrown into a tailspin when friends shut her out of her social circle and she is sexually assaulted. Her anxiety spirals into dangerous self-harm.After she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric unit, Charley bonds with three other patients. It is through their... Views: 95
Ever since his partner died, Frank has resigned himself to staying single. He wards off the loneliness by spending time with friends on the paintball field and running his high-end brothel, the Market Garden.After one of his most lucrative rentboys quits, Frank is thrilled when a gorgeous replacement walks through the door. A former US soldier, Stefan is hot, bold, and perfect for the Market Garden's clientele, especially those with a thing for camouflage and drill sergeants. He's perfect for Frank, too, except Frank has a rule about not getting involved with his own rentboys.During a frisky game of paintball, Stefan makes it clear that he doesn't care about the rules. Not the rules of the game, and definitely not Frank's refusal to get involved. He captures Frank on the field using stealth and cunning, and makes it clear that he'll do anything to keep a hold of him off the field too. Views: 95
The October sun was setting over a wild, wide waste of waving grass, growing dry and yellow in the autumn winds. The scarlet hips gleamed between the whitening blades wherever the pale pink roses of summer had shed their fragrant leaves. But now the brief Indian summer was drawing to its close, and winter was coming down upon that vast Canadian plain with rapid strides. The wailing cry of the wild geese rang through the gathering stillness. The driver of a rough Red River cart slapped the boy by his side upon the shoulder, and bade him look aloft at the swiftly-moving cloud of chattering beaks and waving wings. For a moment or two the twilight sky was darkened, and the air was filled with the restless beat of countless pinions. The flight of the wild geese to the warmer south told the same story, of approaching snow, to the bluff carter. He muttered something about finding the cows which his young companion did not understand. The boy’s eyes had travelled from the winged files of retreating geese to the vast expanse of sky and plain. The west was all aglow with myriad tints of gold and saffron and green, reflected back from many a gleaming lakelet and curving river, which shone like jewels on the broad breast of the grassy ocean. Where the dim sky-line faded into darkness the Touchwood Hills cast a blackness of shadow on the numerous thickets which fringed their sheltering slopes. Onward stole the darkness, while the prairie fires shot up in wavy lines, like giant fireworks. Views: 95
It's a race against the clock—and natural law—when a murderer seems to return from the dead, hellbent on killing again."Sexy...Breathtaking...Full of suspense and drama...A wonderfully original read." —Jane Feather, New York Times bestselling author of AN UNSUITABLE BRIDEClio Thornton's interest in solving the mysteries plaguing 16th-century London has put her at odds with her wealthy family. Stumbling upon a grisly murder, she's determined to investigate it, even when all of her discoveries point to an impossible killer: the Vampire of London, vanquished by Viscount Miles Loredan, the soon-to-be husband of her cousin.Miles Loredan killed the Vampire of London three years ago. When Clio comes to him with her theories, Miles finds them impossible to believe. But intrigued by her passion and her beauty, Miles agrees to hire her and support her investigation. What starts as a professional relationship soon becomes personal—and dangerous. Because... Views: 94
What are you waiting for? Let the amazement begin!The best of the best know that no matter how great the product or service, getting and keeping customers requires delivering an amazing experience, every single time.In Amaze Every Customer Every Time, customer service expert Shep Hyken offers 52 proven tools and ideas for transforming your company into a seriously customer-focused operation—with a serious competitive edge. Views: 94
