Joan G

DARE TO BE TAKEN I had never expected to find love in this foreign land. But this knight had risked everything for me, his position, his life, his entire world. In the midst of all the danger,I realized I was falling completely for him. For centuries, as summer gives way to fall, the elves of the enchanted forest emerge to claim a single woman—a mysterious tradition shrouded in whispers of magic and sacrifice. Alanna has spent her life protecting her city, hardened by duty and resigned to a love that will never come. Taken from the safety of her world, she is thrust into the arms of ...

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.