Fans of Melissa Marr's tale of lush secrets, dark love, and the struggle to forge one's own destiny will thrill at this revealing 43-page prequel to Carnival of Secrets. This is a captivating glimpse into the world of the Untamed City—before the savage, deadly Carnival that changed it all. Aya is a champion fighter, but because she's a girl, she's not allowed to take part in the competition. Her betrothed, Belias, can't understand why she insists on entering . . . but he doesn't know that Aya plans to win her independence from their preplanned union by taking home the top title. Aya dreads defeating Belias in the ring, but she'll do it if it means keeping her deadly secret under wraps for a while longer.

Trapped at the mysterious Carnival, witch-turned-vampire, Rina, knows there's something not right about the way things are run. Unable to do anything about it, she spends her time practising her lion taming act, hanging out with her best friend, and falling for her former sweetheart for the second time. - Carnival Of Lies is a prequel to the urban fantasy series, Carnival Of Blades, which includes a low heat m/f romantic sub-plot, vampires, and a sinister carnival. Author Note: Caoimhe is pronounced "Kee-vah".

Nakota Machwaya is not your typical nineteen-year-old. Being raised by her fortune telling gypsy mother and performing as the infamous Dancing Doll for the famous traveling Mazzeroni's Crazy Carnival has guaranteed her life to be one full of intrigue and mystery. The closer she gets to her twentieth birthday, the reoccurring dream that has plagued her since childhood has her guessing her own identity. She swears the little girl in the dream is her and the little boy.... is Dante. Dante, her Dark Angel, the love of her life.... She is surrounded by lies and secrets that are keeping her from finding out the truth. When the truth is finally unveiled, she realizes how much of her life was a lie. Can she find her place in this new world or will she long to be with those that lied to her? Will her love for Dante survive or will she succumb to the pressures of her father's ambitions? What would you do if you found out everything you have ever known was just a crazy lie?

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A shocking, ambitious mystery full of twists and turns from the globally embraced author of Between

Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is problematic, reproducing simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.