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Olivia Northman's world shattered the day she lost her wife to a drunk driver. Three years later, she still struggles with grief and the demands of being a single parent to their autistic son, Ben. After her first attempt at a new relationship crumbles, Olivia retreats to the simple, the predictable. It's what's best for her son and her heart.Ellie Vasquez isn't simple or predictable. In fact, she's charmingly impulsive, as well as gregarious, confident, and attracted to Olivia, which she reveals in an unguarded moment. Olivia doesn't know what's more surprising-Ellie's interest, or her own-but a quiet conversation over drinks soon spins into something more. As Olivia's caution gives way to hope, she sees another chance at love, both for her, and for Ben, who takes to Ellie with a tender openness. Ellie is fearless about love in a way that makes Olivia want to be brave, but the deeper their passion, the closer she gets to drowning-in grief, in fear, in guilt. To have a future with Ellie, Olivia must come to terms with her past. If she can't, she risks losing the second love of her life.Anne E. Terpstra's Beyond Any Experience is an intimate, emotional debut that explores grief, parenting, neurodiversity, and the vulnerability of love after loss.

Venice, 1368.War hovers in the wings with the fate of the Republic at stake when the old doge dies. Fourteen-year-old Nico, a street urchin from the poorest Venetian parish, is chosen at random to tally votes in the upcoming election for a new leader. Uprooted from his old life and transplanted to the doge's palace, Nico becomes an alienated outsider at the mercy of scheming nobles.Andrea Contarini, sixtieth doge of Venice, wants the ducal throne less than Nico wants to be ballot boy. Both walk a golden tightrope over treachery and deceit. When he witnesses a court clerk burned at the stake for being gay, Nico despairs. His romantic attraction to men is as powerful as his fear of fiery death and an eternity in Hell.Taking advantage of the fraught transition in the Doge's Palace, the hostile duke of Austria pushes Trieste to rebel against Venetian domination, jeopardizing her mastery of the Adriatic Sea. The Venetian nobles split, trapping the doge between hawks rabid for war, and rich merchants desperate for peace. With his own life on the line, Andrea Contarini opts to attack decisively and end the crisis swiftly, but his gambit is sabotaged. Trusting only the boy at his side, Contarini sends Nico to Trieste to be his eyes and ears. As the Venetian commanders wrangle over tactics, Nico falls for Astolfo, the young, charismatic lord of Castle Moccò, an indispensable but unreliable ally.Will Nico return to Venice a celebrated hero? Or will he be forever haunted, guilt-ridden, and still concealing his deepest secret?

It''s Jennifer''s 24th birthday and she planned to spend it having fun with her friends. Instead, she ends up running for her life through the dark streets of London.Her world is torn apart by a new disease, the likes of which have never been seen before. The government''s decision to conceal its deadly nature exacerbates the panic, and in all the confusion Jennifer is bitten by an infected person.That''s it, right? Her life over.Wrong.Immune to the virus''s ravaging effects, Jennifer finds herself with a small group of survivors. Together they must fight to stay alive long enough for a cure to be found. Humanity won''t be beaten so easily.But madness looms large, and safety seems forever out of reach.

When his father died, David Mulkerin gave up teaching in Sydney to come home and run the family farm in western NSW. He is driven by personal demons and family tragedy to see it through, despite his love of teaching and the ongoing drought and debt.When David meets the new local doctor Martin James, there is a meeting of minds and dark pasts. Martin is intrigued by David''s closed demeanour and makes an effort to reach him. They strike up a friendship, able to understand the pain in each other''s past. When David discovers that Martin is gay, he feels duped and betrayed, but the revelation forces him to confront what it means to love someone and how sometimes we don''t get to choose.

Luxor City, a once lawless metropolis on the brink of civil war, is now at peace, but even in lighter times there are always shadows. In the technicolor streets of the Southern Empire, Junsu Sun, the Alpha heir to one of Luxor City''s great crime families, busies himself by dealing with a blacklisted group known as the Underground.After taking down one of the Underground''s notorious leaders, Junsu assumes he''ll be given time to rest and recuperate, but his mother, Alpha Xijuan Sun, has a new mission for him, involving a luxury cruise and a new mate, Omega Kaito Yamaguchi, of the powerful Yamaguchi family. Ever the dutiful son, Junsu obeys his orders as if it were any other mission, but this sort of engagement isn''t exactly the type of thing he''s used to and Kaito Yamaguchi certainly isn''t the sort of Omega he''s used to either.Kaito is impatient, impassable, and impossible. He''s a spoiled Omega who is pissed off that his family have reorganized his life and thrust him into this arranged mating with some Luxor City Alpha he''s never met before. Kaito hasn''t even seen a picture of Junsu Sun, a fact that Junsu uses to his advantage.Faced with a week spent trapped on a luxury cruise with a rude, bratty Omega who doesn''t even know who he is, Junsu decides to play a little trick on his future mate. But just how far will he let things go and where is the line between a little trick and a painful deception?Meanwhile, other secrets floating between empires and continents are about to spill out onto the deck.