New Age Fiction

In the Aldridge family, nothing's off limits - no dream is too big, no achievement is unreachable, and there are no rules to hold anyone back. It's 1980 in New Rochelle, New York, and 17-year-old Shawn, the baby of the family, is a lost soul trying to find his own way in the grit and grime of nearby New York. As the rest of the family focuses on making his violin prodigy sister famous and rescuing their cousin from a cult, Shawn dates not one, but two girls - one a Times Square peep show dancer and the other a virginal neighborhood girl.

Ruth gets removed from her biological father’s care and is sent to live in the countryside.

He's the forbidden fruit, my best friend's arrogant and untouchable bad boy billionaire brother who I've always despised. But after two decades of simmering resentment, I hatch a devious plan to bring him down a peg by fake dating him. In school, his family's wealth and status made him the center of attention, but I never fell for his charms. I saw how he treated my hardworking aunt, who was employed by his family. So when he appears at my bookstore twenty years later, all grown up, exuding a dangerous charm like candy, that I can't help but devour with my eyes… But as we pretend to be in...

Being ordinary is all I've ever craved. One formidable obstacle, however, stands between me and normalcy: Unbridled Magic. It's wild, unpredictable, and threatens to upend my life at every turn. When my mom relocates us to her dream town, I see it as a golden opportunity – a fresh start, a new circle of friends, and a place to tame my unruly powers. But just as I begin to harness my abilities, an unexpected incident shatters the tranquil town – my mom's friend, Maggie, mysteriously vanishes. The terrifying sight of two men abducting Maggie is etched into my mind, but my claims fall on ...

In the uncharted depths of space, challenges await that will push them beyond their limits… After testing their new ship the Hermes, gifted to them by an advanced species from the distant planet Pandooma, charismatic teenage adventurer Samantha and her multi-talented young crew head back out into space, hungry for new discoveries. However, attacked by pirates determined to resume their reign of terror, the crew has to flee the planet they were exploring—leaving two of their number behind. When two more crew members disappear, the priority of those left on the Hermes has to be to save ...

Meet the Stonewardens... The youngest member of the Stonewarden family, Charlotte (Charlie), is 18 years old. As with everyone in her family when they reach that age, she's been told that when she turns 19, she'll be recruited into the family business. She has her warning that she has one year to do anything else she wishes to do - travel, study, work. Whatever she wants to do, she has 365 days to do it. On her next birthday, her life will effectively stop being her own. But Charlie wants nothing to do with the business. The youngest of six, with five older brothers, she wants a different ...

Two worlds collide... For the first time in the long histories of two families, a night is coming when both will be present with their eyes on the same prize. On one side is a family who work theft with precision. They have the charisma and charm to create an image … an illusion. When they're around, something can be there one minute and gone the next, never to be seen again. On the other side is a family with members who are rash, impatient and violent. They won't pretend to be what they're not and they waste no time on such things as charm. On one night a clash of methods will result in...

No one ever thinks after building a good life with someone they love that they will have to start over, but that is exactly where Margaret Brooks finds herself. The death of her husband of 30-plus years leaves her grief-stricken and uncertain about the future. Her children recognize her struggle and step in to take care of her. However, it’s not so much taking care of as taking over! Margaret realizes she must strike out on her own to find her way as a newly single middle-aged woman.

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Katherine Maddock's life goes from medically predictable to dishing one near-death occurrence after another over the course of a summer she will never forget. She's almost sad to see it end, thinking her return home means a return to maintaining her mother's issues. It doesn't. The home Katherine returns to is not the one she left, and as the secrets she's grown up with unravel around her, she's left to deal with the fact that it never really was.

Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features thirteen short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake—superheroes don’t have to just be generic handsome white dudes.

Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he's been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a 'blip' everyone else is convinced was a panic attack. (Which it most definitely was not.) And even though Marco's trip is supposed to provide answers - about himself, about his family - all he finds on board the Ocean Melody are more and more questions. But then his best friend CeCe proposes a new plan: for someone who has always done the right thing, in every possible way, it's time for Marco to get a few things wrong.

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family’s funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but she’s good at it. Life and warmth comes from the men she meets online - combining with someone else’s body at night in order to become something else, at least for a while. But when a sudden loss severs her ties with someone she loves, Amelia sets off on a 72-hour mission to outrun her grief - skipping out on the funeral, running away to stay with her father in Tasmania and experimenting on the local BDSM scene.

Sechs Monate ist es her, seit Ashlyn mit ansehen musste, wie alles, was sie besaß, in Flammen aufging. Sechs Monate, seit sie die Stimme gegen ihren gewalttätigen Stiefvater erhob und mit einer gebrochenen Rippe vor die Tür gesetzt wurde. Das Letzte, was sie gebrauchen kann, ist noch mehr Ärger – vor allem wenn dieser in Gestalt des Tätowierers Lane Garrett daherkommt. Denn Lane ist zwar unglaublich attraktiv, aber der totale Bad Boy. Noch dazu interessiert er sich kein Stück für sie. Doch hinter seinen Tattoos und seiner ruppigen Art steckt ein Geheimnis, von dem Ashlyn noch nichts ahnt.

It was love at first sight; a story that was supposed to last forever. A young heart that had never known true love, and a lonely soul seeking something real. I was that soul, and Elizabeth Brown was my beautiful heart, innocent and full of lawless passion. She made me believe that love can change anything. And it did change me… It broke me, it shattered me. The betrayal that I never saw coming, was like a dagger straight through my heart. In the blink of an eye, my love was replaced by endless hate and pain that I thought I would never be able to forget. But who would have thought that ...

From the moment she arrived to California, architect Lia knows her working trip to the West coast is a disaster. The company that hired her seems determined to discredit both her work and her professionalism. For some strange reason, her house never looks the same twice. Lia’s only consolation is Aiden: The sexy stranger she met on Venice Beach. As mystery piles on mystery, nothing remains constant. Even Lia’s own nature comes into question, as a dark force seeks to claim her for its own evil ends.

AN AMAZON BEST-SELLER For fans of YA romance, this story brings together lifelong friendships and second chances to paint a heartwarming picture of what it means to love. Salem and Savannah have known each other since childhood, and nearly every memory they each hold, they share together. But when Savannah tells Salem that her family is moving to South Carolina only days into their sophomore year of high school, Salem is devastated. They vow to spend the rest of Savannah’s time in their small hometown, together, rewinding the last ten years of their young lives, until one day, Salem wakes...

When the Big One finally struck, it wasn't just a Big One; it was almost the Last One. The earth had been shattered almost everywhere mankind lived. Millions had died within seconds of each other. The world was in turmoil. The masses that had survived were looking for an answer to the enigmatic force that had struck the planet from deep within its core. A Special Forces Team had been sent inside the planet to discover who was behind the disaster. None returned. And now the Big One wasn't over. There were After Shocks. Many of them. Some as big as the largest quakes known to man before the ...

The Turning of Our Tides Raine wanted to make more out of life. Her father abandoning her, abandoning her family however destroyed that dream. Now in the face of tragedy she finds herself surrounded by a new enemy, one that she cannot quite put a name on or find a face for. All she knows is that she can feel it breathing darkly into her life much the same as when she felt her father eerily stealing her life’s breath away from her so long ago.

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan have only one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. In 12 hours, they'll be heading to opposite ends of the country, and they're anxious to resolve things before they go. But the quiet night they had planned quickly turns into an unexpected adventure, a roller-coaster ride through their past that leads to family and friends, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations.