The bombs dropped all over the world. They survived. Skylar Ross is ten that day when she’s ripped from dance classes and sleepovers to being an orphan in a prepper’s paradise of a mountain bunker. Her determination to protect her baby brother keeps her locked away with nothing but responsibility and loneliness. Her father’s words […]

Our society can barely account for evil in males, let alone imagine it in females. The female nests, creates, and nurtures doesn’t she or is it that we just want to believe in the intrinsic non-threatening nature of women? Yet, history is full of instrumentally violent women: women who have fought wars and battles throughout […]

We were Torrent Bay Academy royalty. But the king is dead, and now every pretty thing we had is broken. Gunnar Rayne. Heir to the biggest financial empire in the state. Smart, handsome, charismatic. And my best friend. Or he was. My most powerful ally has become my most devastating enemy. Devious, manipulative, cunning — […]

Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston’s preferred coping strategy is escapism. She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago. Now she escapes life daily via her one-click addiction. However, when a family tragedy forces her to return home, Ashley can’t escape the notice of Drew Runous—local Game Warden, bear wrestler, […]