If your story isn't working, flip the script."Exactly the kind of no-nonsense and loving advice you'd expect from a big sister or longtime friend." —Franchesca Ramsey, creator and host of MTV Decoded and author of Well, That Escalated Quickly"There is no better time than right now to get honest about who you are, and to perform the fullness of who you are," shares Shelah Marie, founder and CEO of Curvy, Curly, Conscious. Too many Black women are living other people's stories for your lives. You're a wife or a mother, a sister or a daughter, a CEO or a creative. You make yourself smaller to serve other people or society's expectations. But, as Shelah says, "This is your story, so why not make it a true one?"Discover your truest self and write your truest story through Unruly. Shelah teaches the Unruly Philosophy: "a whole and compassionate acceptance of your inner diversity." Being Unruly isn't about changing yourself but...

Lose yourself in this dramatic Viking tale filled with explosive secrets and scorching passion!"The lady is already married.To me." A year ago, Viking Stefan's clandestine marriage to Saxon maiden Ædwen was torn apart by the shocking discovery that her father murdered his family. Unable to forgive his wife for hiding the truth, Stefan left. Until word reaches him that Ædwen is about to wed again... Forced to marry at her father's command, Ædwen's stunned when Stefan bursts through the church doors and announces that she's already wed—to him! As the warrior steals her away, passion reignites, but can Ædwen ever trust him again, when Stefan left her alone, devastated—and carrying his baby...!From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he’s curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society. But with power comes a price, and the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. David’s days are numbered, and death looms at his door. Reluctantly, he reaches out to the only person he’s ever trusted, his ex-boyfriend and secret Society rival Rhys, for help. However, the only way to get to Rhys is through his wife, Moira. Thrust into each other’s care, emotions once buried deep resurface, and the trio race to figure out their feelings for one another before the Devil steals David away for good… The...

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“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.”  —Hernan DiazFrom the writer Anthony Doerr calls “a massive talent,” the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countrysideThe Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to ritzy catering gigs in London’s Notting Hill, until one day their oldest sister, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the...

“A fascinating exploration of the dangers of social media . . . smart and timely.”—Carola Lovering, author of Tell Me Lies and Bye, BabyFor fans of Ashley Winstead, Jessica Knoll, and Jo Piazza, an electric debut thriller about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age grows up . . . and goes missing.Hazel Davis is drifting: she’s stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister, @evelyn, a mega-popular lifestyle influencer. Evie came of age online, having gone viral at five years old for a heart-tugging daddy-daughter dance. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to dodge the family YouTube channel—so although she can barely afford her apartment, at least she made her own way.Evie is eighteen now, with a multimillion-dollar career and unlimited opportunities, but Hazel is still protective of her little sister and skeptical of the...

Thirty ultra-short science fiction stories from Rich Larson, award-winning author of Ymir, Annex, and Tomorrow Factory. The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches collects the best of Rich Larson's flash fiction, stories told in a thousand words or less, into a fusillade of futures. Within these pages, you'll journey from a biolab bunker under the earth to a fungi forest on an alien planet, from possible tomorrows to the heat death of the universe. You'll encounter emulated minds, rented bodies, hijinks in deep space and eldritch horror at the seaside. Thirty new worlds await inside The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches. Just be careful: reality is not what it seems, and some glitches are more dangerous than others.