Cindy

Melanie Donavan is in love with writing, in love with the charming borrowed cottage on Swan Lake, and is accompanied by part of her beloved collection of vintage purses and designer shoes. When a surprisingly cute guy knocks on her screen door one morning, could it be romance knocking? She has heard echoes of the young musician’s singing from across the lake. Nor she’s curious to visit the camp where he is living. Is it a scout or drama camp, a spa or rehab? It turns out to be a private estate.

Fourteen-year-old Myles Cook is having a rough time. Not only has his mother run off with Jocelyn, her yoga instructor, but Myles and his dad have moved to a tiny rural island on BC's west coast to live in a log cabin. Garcia Island is nothing like Myles' old home in the city; there are no stores, the WiFi is sketchy, and let's face it, the people are strange.

At four years old, Selys Rivera’s life had already changed forever. As her biological parents separated, she had to leave the comforts of her Puerto Rican homeland for the unknown landscape waiting for her in Massachusetts. In An Unconscious Mestiza: A Collection of Memoir Stories, Rivera openly shares her mental health challenges and grief as she tries to figure out what being Puerto Rican, American, and a (cisgender) woman means to her. Her shattered youth and move to a new culture created the challenges that she faces in the stories that unfold into an intricate mosaic.

Samantha is a vegetarian, with a husband who is a hunter, experiencing a marriage crisis of consciousness. The major dilemma being murder. But when Johnny goes hunting and Lilac goes missing, Samantha is the only one home. Lilac is a 16-year-old girl climbing the ladder of success one step at a time. She's found social fame on the internet and has even patented her own Bluetooth earbud earrings. A teenage influencer with confidence and fearlessness, she falls for a boy just as popular as her. But not everything is what it seems on the internet.