Stained Charades

This lie of ours is stained with truth. To them, I’ve always been the charming, least conniving Sinclair. I've never been more than a dancing doll with strings. But that all changes when my childhood friend, Eleonora O’Malley, asks me to be a part of her grand scheme. She needs a fiancé—a fake one. And she wants it to be me. For reasons of my own, I take on the role of her doting future-husband. At first, it’s easy—like putting on a mask for the public. But the mask gets harder and harder to take off, and stolen touches and kisses when no one is watching are blurring the lines. After tens of fake pictures, fake dates, a two-carat ring and an elaborate love story, the scheme is big enough to blow up in everybody’s faces But guess what? It’s blowing up in mine too. And soon, our charade is about to get stained with blood. Note: This book is the first in a duet and ends on a cliffhanger. While it is recommended, you do not have to have read prior books in the series to enjoy this one. Book includes mature subjects suitable for 17+.

We were made to be sinners, so we sinned He’s my childhood rival: Arrogant and cruel. She’s my downfall: Beautiful but lethal. My family is dead, and now the elite of St. Crow is awaiting my fall so they can trample over me. Everyone’s competing over taking her down—but I’ll be damned if I let anyone catch my prey. Our lives entwine and when we’re shipped off to New York together, I figure out just how much River Sinclair gets under my skin. Emory Lauder has always been stuck under my skin. River thinks he’s invulnerable, but everyone has that one fatal flaw. I know everyone has a soft spot. I guess I just didn’t think mine would look so much like her. Note: This book is the first in a duet. The second and final book Rebel Kingpin is also out.

This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth. From the subtropical lushness of Queensland's Tamborine rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital's characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-hold secrets of her family origins.

Newly married and established in her career as an award–winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother’s. As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing. “You are braver than you think,” her mother always insisted. That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked through seventeen countries―visiting all the places her mother, struck with early–onset Alzheimer’s disease, could not visit herself―encountering some of the world’s most striking locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother. Interweaving travelogue with family memories, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, white–water rafting on the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt. By embarking on an international journey, Downs learned to make every moment count―traveling around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world. Perfect for fans of adventure memoirs like Wild and Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Braver Than You Think explores grief and loss with tenderness, clarity, and humor, and offers a truly incredible roadmap to coping with the unimaginable.

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Ephemeral Earth is a journey, through glades, vales and valleys, Into decrepit, dark alleys. Across stormy seas and barren deserts, Through my subconscious, As my pen bleeds ink, With me, You too shall sink.