"Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story... in a word: Awesome" —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season.The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in this timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to fight her fate at the dawn of World War II.Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens.Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything—not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams.Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side—and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she... Views: 268
Imagine you're a matchmaker and you realize too late you're in love with your childhood best friend. You only have yourself to blame—you're the one who matched him and now he's engaged to be married. When you find yourself in this position there's a few secrets you're going to need to keep... Secret #1 – Smile when he tells you the happy news, even if your heart cracks in half. Secret #2 – Don't compare yourself to his beautiful French fiancée. You're just as beautiful. Secret #3 – Don't tag along to the tux fitting with him alone. Just no. Secret #4 – Don't help him learn to dance to his wedding song. Secret #5 – Erase all memories of the two of you through the years when lines blurred for even the briefest of moments. And the one you never saw coming... Secret #6 – Definitely, don't... Views: 268
Life in George Washington Township and the surrounding areas has once again been shaken to its core. Young, unwed mothers are being found hacked to pieces after crude caesareans and their babies are nowhere to be found.While overseeing the investigation, Captain Liam Goodnite receives some surprising news that just might give him the push that he needs to make the sexy Medical Examiner, Emma Parker, his once and for all. Only Emma isn't one to forgive and forget.Good thing life has taught Lee some tough lessons and now he's willing to do whatever it takes. Views: 268
"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone." From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and... Views: 268
Note is now part of the Arrivers, but he knows better than to think he has it made. More training awaits him, not to mention unprecedented danger lurking in the dungeon... Rather than making it big, he should be worried about making it out alive. Views: 268
