Lindsey Dorcus

The snootiest cat, a mysterious new neighbor, and a spy plot is hatched... Princess the cat discovers that the new neighbor may be her worst enemy yet-and the most powerful. She receives a secret message from a spy, a friend goes missing, and she uncovers a traitor in her own domain. Can Princess defeat an enemy with unheard of powers and strength?

Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace-they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in Finland is rendered silent by her dislocation and loss of language, the mother of a severely disabled boy writes him postcards he'll never read on a cruise...

Athena Ellison, a powerful young mage from an Old Family who spurns expectations to become a bounty hunter, has a geomancer's talent for finding things-but sometimes the things that find her first have teeth and a thirst for magical blood. She's the first to find Kellan Mordigan, a mage who's the main suspect in a triple homicide; and as a bonus, the Mordigans and the Ellisons have been feuding for about a century. But right after Athena enthusiastically...

High school teacher Kristin Caine has a black belt in settling for less and a dying mother who doesn't mince words when it comes to voicing how disappointed this makes her. But when Kristin's status quo is rocked by an unexpected pregnancy and the consequent breakup with her less-than-enthusiastic boyfriend, things change. Suddenly, agreeing to help her overbearing mother complete a bucket list before the big C wins seems not the worst thing in the...

WAR IS HERE . . . Breaker did the one thing he swore he'd never do: leave his little brother Brody behind. All for a chance to save the planet he hates from a mad queen. But the Queen Mother is determined to find the galaxy's biggest payload of dark matter, which means Scarlatti is still in danger. And the clock is ticking. Racing across the galaxy, Breaker returns to Scarlatti to find the home he once knew has changed. Worse yet, he discovers a...

A STOLEN BRIDE. A TERRIFYING BRIDEGROOM. THE GAME THAT WILL DETERMINE THEIR FATES. I'm a practical girl. I can resign myself to an unwanted marriage — and I had. I just didn't expect my first potential bridegroom to be murdered by the second and all because I broke the Law of Greeting. No one warned me the law existed. No one told me breaking it would mean I'd be swept up into the arms of a powerful and beautiful immortal bent on taking me as...

Distributed agile teams have a terrible reputation. They don't deliver "on time," and too often, they don't deliver what the customer needs. However, most agile teams, have at least one remote team member. And, agile approaches are here to stay. Don't blindly apply agile practices designed for collocated teams. Instead, learn to use three mindset shifts and the agile and lean principles to create your successful distributed agile team. Use the tips...

She's the last person he has time for, but Finn's never been able to turn his back on someone in trouble. Can the kind-hearted offensive lineman be won over by Nelson High's party girl?It's nearly spring break. Mack is leaving for New Zealand to win back his girl, and he asks Finn (Tank) to do him a favor-keep an eye on his little sister, Layla. Finn has his reservations about the party girl, but he isn't about to let one of his best friends down,...

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.

The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their

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In this suspenseful YA thriller from debut author Marie Hoy-Kenny, four former friends-each with their own dark secret-must team up to solve a murder. Calista, Zoe, Holly, and Denise were inseparable best friends when they spent their summers together at sleepaway camp. But after an unexplained tragedy forced the camp to close, the girls drifted apart. Years later, reunited at their beloved camp counselor Violet's funeral, the four former best friends...