Winter and Isidor are two sexy Siblin brothers have been sailing the world in search of searching for their father, Maren. They take their ship, The Singsong, through the dangerous Brecca Strait where sirens have been singing to sailors and wrecking ships for over two hundred years. They In the mouth of the Strit is Nanine Island, where they find their father’s ship, The Wandering Eye. There, the brothers meet Soule, a beautiful red-haired siren their father adopted when she was a child. There, the brothers also learn that Soule is their anthata, a lifelong bond between a woman and two Siblin brothers. Isidor and Winter take Soule to try to persuade the Siblin Council to recognize her as their anthata. But they are opposed by two Siblin brothers whose parents were killed by a siren. Winter and Isidor resolve to go back to the Brecca Strait to learn how to stop the sirens who are still wrecking ships. Sailing in The Singsong, Winter and Isidor take Soule to Halit Island near the Brecca Strait, pursued by Havish and Leet. On the island, a flash flood comes. Winter is swept away. Isidor lies unconscious at the bottom of a deep fissure. Soule is alone with the brothers who have sworn to kill her, and the water is rising fast.

"Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it"--

For three hundred years, the men of The Fifty have sworn to sacrifice themselves to defend the border of Calthus from their enemies. Hawthe, the high-ranking military officer of The Fifty, is patrolling when he finds a strange, small animal in a smuggler’s wagon. It is injured, with cruel clamps piercing its shoulders so it can’t fly. He helps the animal and brings it back to Anwen Citadel, where his men adopt the creature. The animal lives with them for a year, becoming a part of the lives of the soldiers who live in the Citadel. One day, an eagle attacks the animal. When Hawthe catches up with the eagle and the creature, he finds a beautiful woman unconscious on the ground. He brings her back to the citadel, where he interrogates her, and soon gives in to his desires. She says her name is Argen. But there is a spy in The Fifty who wants them all dead, and Hawthe isn’t sure what Argen wants at Anwen Citadel—or with him.

A SciFi Fantasy Tale. Attacking the Usur’s forces, Shep-Alij, the ruthless Maeser of the Resistance, captures Maeva. She is the Usur’s daughter and the last vanata, a hybrid species. She’s “the only vanata left in the world. Those gold rings in her eyes prove it. And the usur’s daughter had golded, which meant she’d found a mate. But she wasn’t fully golded. She hadn’t screwed him yet. Shep looked at her again. They’d gotten to her just in time. If she’d mated with some usur officer, the war would have been over for the resistance right there. They couldn’t sustain their fight through the reign of a new usur. They would lose.” Maeve’s death will be the key to winning the war and freeing Shep’s people from a decade of oppression. But when Shep delays executing her and takes her to a secure location to find out for whom she has golded, he finds it more and more difficult to carry out his plans. He’ll face a choice between loyalty to his cause and his growing feelings for Maeve.

An erotic and suspenseful tale about a young woman navigating the criminal underworld despite her own moral conflicts. She ran away from home as a teen to escape her overprotective and heavily religious family, but now Trenda Fuqua finds herself seduced by the very life she was warned against. Drug running, theft, and murder are part of the world she lands in, and soon Trenda is on the run for her life. Complicating matters is Darius Kain, a rogue cop, who is also after her. Trenda has some critical information that could end not only his career, but his life, and Kain will stop at nothing to silence her. Suddenly far away from the safe haven of her family and everything she once knew, Trenda needs to find her way back…and fast. A masterful blend of thrills, action and erotic elements, Sins of a Siren is sure to keep readers flipping the pages.

Examines the significance of sibling relationships, or the lack of them, as portrayed in literature. Many of the 13 essays compare two or more novels, most of which are from the Victorian era or the 20th century. Paper edition (613-X), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

“Plural identity is where respectful practice begins.” Who are you? Just the one body and mind? Does your story begin with your birth? Or how far back would you go? The Oldest Word spans ten thousand years and more than a dozen settings. Human contradictions are reconciled time and again, with tragedy and humor feeding off each other. From the twin mirror mazes of history and psychology, amid ever-shifting social and natural landscapes, enduring patterns emerge. The story opens with the discovery of a mysterious box from the distant past. Its makers are five orphaned friends who hope to help civilizational knowledge survive disruptive climate change centuries in the future: the ending of the Ice Age. The bar is continuously raised as the box travels through space and time to the present day. Readers are tacitly encouraged to partner with the author and fill in the blanks by considering their metaphorical boxes, lessons for the future from their past.