They call him The Wife Breaker, and I'm his next victim. He's the man the rich, corrupted members of the cartel send their wives to. The mysterious beast who breaks and molds women into the perfect meek companions for their husbands. I'll never pledge my submission to anyone, let alone a man who prides himself on cruelly breaking others. The Wife Breaker will never make me obey. I'd rather die than kneel for him. Until I find out who he is... and realize I once loved him. The Wife Breaker is the first book of the Dark Vows duet. It is not a standalone book.

We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light.

Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." —Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book Don’t miss the other books in the series: The Drowned Cities Tool of War

When it comes to love, all bets are off... Failure has never been an option for self-made billionaire Blaise Mortenson. So when his friends suggest a wager to see who will be the last bachelor among them, he takes the bet. He has no doubt he'll win-especially after he hires Hadley Lowell to find perfect matches for his friends. Now all Blaise has to do is ignore his growing attraction to the gorgeous, demanding matchmaker. Hadley runs her business like a clandestine military op, precisely controlling every feasible outcome. But falling for a client? That was a possibility she never saw coming. Blaise's drive, determination, and the softer side he tries to hide from the world appeals to her on a gut-deep level-but while her matchmaking success rate is unbeatable, finding love for herself has been nearly impossible. There's no way her happily ever after could come in the form of a tech billionaire who isn't even looking for love...is there? What should have been a simple business transaction quickly turns into something way more complicated, and Blaise starts to wonder if he's in danger of losing more than just the bet when all is said and done...

An inspiring true story, perfect for fans of Hidden Figures, about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions. A YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST • A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Elizebeth Smith Friedman had a rare talent for spotting patterns and solving puzzles. These skills led her to become one of the top cryptanalysts in America during both World War I and World War II. She originally came to code breaking through her love for Shakespeare when she was hired by an eccentric millionaire to prove that Shakespeare's plays had secret messages in them. Within a year, she had learned so much about code breaking that she was a star in the making. She went on to play a major role decoding messages during WWI and WWII and also for the Coast Guard's war against smugglers. Elizebeth and her husband, William, became the top code-breaking team in the US, and she did it all at a time when most women weren't welcome in the workforce. Amy Butler Greenfield is an award-winning historian and novelist who aims to shed light on this female pioneer of the STEM community.

From author Amy Campbell comes a thrilling new weird western epic fantasy featuring reluctant heroes, magic cowboys, and found family with a dash of pegasus, magic, and LGBTQ representation. His magic is a curse... until it becomes his only hope. Blaise Hawthorne just wants to bake, but his dangerous magic has left him an outcast, his kitchen a sanctuary. When the iron-fisted Salt-Iron Confederation hunts him to exploit his power, Blaise flees. He finds refuge with outlaws in the lawless Gutter, forging an unlikely alliance with a sugar-loving pegasus, a notorious gunslinger, and a charming but secretive entrepreneur. But the Confederation's hunger for control threatens even this haven. Can Blaise master his magic before the Confederation destroys his newfound family? This pulse-pounding first book in the Tales of the Outlaw Mages series catapults readers into an Old West-inspired realm where magic intertwines with grit, and the bonds of chosen family are tested by fire. Perfect for fans of heartfelt sagas, LGBTQ+ inclusive narratives, and the charm of the unconventional. 2021 Equus Film & Arts Fest Reserve Grand Champion - Equine Western Fiction "A well-crafted series opener with vivid characters, organic worldbuilding, and magic-fueled suspense." -Kirkus Reviews Keywords: weird western, western fantasy, epic fantasy, found family, LGBTQ, queer, asexual, bisexual, gay, magic, mage, pegasus, wild west, old west, fantasy western, magical western, magic western, reluctant hero, historical fantasy, anxiety, cowboy, gunslinger Related authors: Liza Street, J.R. Frontera, David J. West, David Bain, Michael Newton, Rachel Aaron, Joseph P. Bailey, Lila Bowen, Harmon Cooper, M.M. Crumley, Related Books: Gunsmoke and Dragonfire, Home on the Strange, The Cowboys of Cthulhu, Gideon Thorn, The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow, Infernal Fire, Wake of Vultures, Cowboy Necromancer, The Immortal Doc Holliday, Spellslinger, Charmslinger, Blood Bounty, Unicorn Western

The FREE sneak peek into a brand new arranged marriage, dark cartel romance. Are you ready for the darkness? My dark guardian lavishes me with expensive gifts... but now he wants so much more. I've lived my life in seclusion, sheltered, hidden and taught to be obedient. Every year on my birthday, my guardian comes to visit. My parents say he's cruel, vicious and unforgiving, but all I see is a man who wants to give me everything. But on the night of my seventeenth birthday, everything changes... He says I'm no longer a little girl, and the time has come for him to collect his debts. And this debt is one only I can pay for. The Cruel Guardian is the short prequel to the Kingpin's Property trilogy. It is not a standalone book.