Two determinedly single brothers. Two women who may change their minds! Book 1: Against The Tide Wedding planner on a cruise ship? Worst. Idea. Ever. Not only is she scared of water, Keira’s done with love. So the last place she should be is on a wedding cruise, working with sexy Captain Aiden. An ex-marine back from a tour of Iraq, Aiden’s heart is as wounded as Keira’s. Problem is, his dark eyes and rugged good looks have mounted an attack on her good senses and the Majestic cruise ship is drifting into dangerously romantic waters. But how will these two shipwrecked hearts ever find safe harbor? Step aboard the Majestic and let love sweep you off your feet! You’ll love The High Seas Wedding Series because this sexy, romantic series is guaranteed to make you smile. 5* “I really enjoyed this charming story. The characters were witty, real and had great chemistry. I look forward to reading more by this delightful author in the future.” Book 2: Waves of Passion Is there anything sexier than a piano player? Not that Chloe Patterson is interested. It was bad enough that a terrible accident destroyed her career. It devastated Chloe when her family and boyfriend desert her. Making her way to Sunrise Beach, determined to start a new life, she finds a job as an assistant wedding planner. Starting at the bottom is the hardest thing she’s ever done. Once a sought-after piano player, Gabriel Williams fights his demons, one day at a time. Everyone wanted a piece of him, and eventually his world shattered. Picking up the pieces under his brother’s shadow is worse than he’d imagined and it’s taking all his resolve to keep on track. For two wounded souls, is love too much to hope for when hearts are shattered, and self-protection means everything? 5* “With a sparkling cast of characters, this is the perfect escape novel. You will not be disappointed.” High Seas Weddings Book 1 Against the Tide Book 2 Waves of Passion

After being flooded out of his home and swept out to sea, Montigue the mole finds himself leading a crew of shipbound mice on a daring rescue.

A huge whirlpool threatens the city of ATLANTIS and TOPO THE OCTOPUS must come to the rescue.

Describes, in simple text and illustrations, the lives of pirates, the ships they sailed, and the type of treasure they stole.

Describes the 12-day voyage of 4 crew members aboard a ketch from Oriental, N.C., across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean island of Antigua.

Charlotte Alcott passes herself off as Charley, an apprentice physician. When American privateer David Fletcher swoops down on a British ship, he takes the gold and Charley, demanding she cure his injured brother. Charley will have to keep her secret in enemy territory while fighting her attraction to her handsome captor. Finalist, Beacon Award

The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Clark shows in his new work of practical analysis, a good novel is as carefully formed as a good poem. From Paragraphs to Plots uncovers large compositional features of narrative construction, thereby excavating elements that constitute the architecture of the novel. Clark begins by discussing the segmentation of narratives, from the paragraph level up to the whole novel, with case studies of the composition of Jane Austen’s Emma and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. The next chapter explores an important, though often neglected, feature of narrative architecture called ring composition: a particular kind of repetition where the beginning and the end of a text are the same or similar. From there, Clark analyzes in detail two novels, Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, identifying the repetitions, inversions, links, and fragmented narrations that comprise each narrative. The book’s second half focuses on simple and complex plot forms. Examining iterations of simple forms—plots that begin with a specific initiating event and proceed in an essentially regular chronological progression from beginning to middle to end—Clark outlines several common beginnings (Arrival, Departure, Meeting, Need, Birth, Death) and endings (Departures, Returns, Marriages, Need Satisfied, Death), along with a short account of less common ways to begin a novel. Subsequent discussions examine devices used in complex plot forms, such as Beginning with the Ending, Second Chapter Retrospects, Ghosts from the Past, Multiple Retrospects, One-Day Novels, One-Year Novels, Mirror Plots, Simultaneous Narration, Unnatural Chronology, and Non-Narrative Elements. The final chapter draws together the preceding discussions with a detailed case study of a recent novel, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Sympathizer. By analyzing common practices of narrative construction, From Paragraphs to Plots identifies sources of beauty and meaning in literature, approaching the aesthetic and the thematic as simultaneous and inextricable.