All her life, Ella has tried to keep her world small and controlled, spending her time painting dreams and doing her best to keep everyone at a distance. A constant battle with sickness keeps reality at bay, but the universe has other plans for Ella. A chance encounter forces Ella into the darkness to help a stranger. Her moment of bravery brings a wave of dangerous, thrilling, and unusual people. They carry secrets, pasts, and legacies for which the world is not ready, but is destined to receive. As she struggles to maintain control of the ever-changing path of her life, she is faced with the revelation of an existence bigger than she could ever imagine: A job only a few can carry, and a burden that we all have to survive.

A young man awakens in a treacherous jungle, surrounded by three extraordinary women. Their bond is forged in survival, and their desires are ignited by isolation. But this is no ordinary jungle. Prehistoric creatures roam, ancient secrets lurk, and the line between humans and beasts blurs. As they navigate a perilous landscape, uncovering a mysterious metal bunker, their journey becomes a test of courage, loyalty, and the limits of human endurance. With each step, the bonds between he and his companions deepen, and the stakes grow higher. Will they find a way to escape this primordial prison? Can they survive the clash of species and the storm of emotions raging within them? Discover a world where desire and danger intertwine, and the only certainty is the fight for survival.

Ella Keyes thought the death of her twin brother Stuart was the last time she'd let life surprise her. She's up for tenure at her university, she escaped a doomed engagement, and her fluffy cat knows exactly when to expect her home every day. But when her grandmother passes and leaves Ella her house, Ella discovers that the third floor corridor of keys is more than just a family pun. The seemingly-unremarkable keys don't unlock any doors in the house, but each time Ella touches one, something in her life shifts. Her life's carefully-grown roots are ripped out of their soil. Flowers bloom in the middle of a Buffalo winter. A blind date with the wrong person ends up being just maybe the right one. Her grandmother's batty twin sister turns up every day searching for something even she doesn't know how to identify, and Ella's parents refuse to return her calls. Worse, she finds trinkets from Stuart everywhere she goes, ghosts of a game they used to play. The leash she's kept on life's surprises for three years has snapped, and Ella will have to learn that the road to peace starts with letting go of control and that sometimes the best family you have is the family you build.

Editorial Reviews “Ms. Hardt did a great job of portraying the tenderness and emotion between Ella and Silver Raven. It is clear from the moment they meet, they have chemistry to burn. The love scenes between the two are very touching and well written.” –Long and Short Reviews Synopsis Ella Morgan loves her mother and father, but she's grown weary of their overbearing protectiveness. She longs for excitement, adventure, and most of all, love. When she finds an injured Lakota warrior hiding in her barn, she's intrigued by the brave and handsome man. Silver Raven has found his soul mate in the woman with eyes the color of violets at first bloom. Can he convince her to leave her home and family and take her rightful place as his woman? Or will Ella's father and the prejudices of society keep them apart?

Created around the world and available only on the web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The fifth in a series focusing on the largely undocumented world of internet TV, this book covers 573 children's series created for viewers 3 to 14. The genre includes a broad range of cartoons, CGI, live-action comedies and puppetry. Alphabetical entries provide websites, dates, casts, credits, episode lists and storylines.

Shelly, bright, young, beautiful and with the world at her feet. A steady relationship and a promising future. Death brings a change to her cocooned world, her sanity is challenged, relationships destroyed, her reputation in tatters. Can the one thing that has ruined her life become her salvation? Can she begin to truly see herself? To see her world for something utterly different than what she thought it was? This gripping, edge of your seat thriller will have you guessing at every twist and turn. Join Shelly as she learns the dark truth about what lies behind her vivid eyes. Things will never be the same again... (Book #1 Second Sight Series)

Andrew Christiansen, a war photographer turned cabdriver, is having a bad year. His mother has just died; his father, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, gets arrested; and hes married to a woman he doesnt love. Keeping Andrew sane is his beloved camera through which he captures the many Torontonians who ride in his taxi.