To avenge her mother’s death, a young aspiring journalist breaks into an egg farm and stumbles upon a cover-up of bird flu, but when a runaway farm worker is found half-dead at the roadside with the virus, he gets framed for infecting the livestock.

After breaking into an egg farm in order to expose a corrupt food industry giant, Alex comes across deformed, dead chickens in tiny cages covered with edemas and purple discoloration. As he only narrowly escapes armed guards, he realizes that he has witnessed a cover-up of an outbreak of bird flu. Merry Farm is about to receive a government approval for a merger that would bring in several billions of extra subsidies every year. Alex turns to his best friends Hashim and Maryam for help, and together they decide to go hiding until they figure out what to do next.

When a runaway farm worker is found at the roadside half-dead and diagnosed with a novel strain of bird flu, Merry Farm launches a massive fake news campaign to frame Alex and Hashim as bioterrorists responsible for infecting the livestock. As the deadly virus starts to spread undetected among the displaced workers of the egg farm and beyond, Merry Farm sends a team of killers to hunt them down. However, the three best friends must first come to terms with their past in order to find what it takes to expose the callous cover-up and stop the virus before it turns into a pandemic.

The Rise up trilogy is a coming-of-age story about Hashim, Alex and Maryam, three best friends on the threshold of adulthood. Before they can find their place in this world, they must come to terms with their past and learn to confide in each other as they are confronted by intolerance and ignorance, corporate greed and governmental inaction that threaten to rob them of their future. Inspirational, harrowing, intense and deeply moving, this trilogy presents a ray of hope amidst terrible hardship, misfortune and loss.

Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the Roman world. Stephen: handsome Syrian boy, wizard’s apprentice, palace eunuch. And Secretary to the Empress. How does this unlikely pair become such allies that one day Empress Theodora asks Stephen to write her biography?

From a very young age, Theodora, daughter of a circus bearkeeper in Constantinople, sets her sights well above her station in life. Her exquisite beauty sets her apart on stages and in the eyes of men.

Stephen, a Syrian lad of striking good looks, is sold by his parents to a Persian wizard, who teaches him a skill in languages that will serve him well.
By the time Destiny brings them together in Antioch, Theodora has undergone heart-rending trials and a transformation, while Stephen has been sold again . . . and castrated.
Discover the enduring bond that, however imperfect, prompts Theodora—as Empress—to request palace eunuch Stephen to write her biography.

He’s an extraordinary ruler. But he’s no ordinary royal…

Of demon descent, Damien is powerful, formidable—and immortal. As king of the land he’s conquered, he now fights to maintain peace between the paranormal and the humans. Yet one fatal encounter causes the two worlds to collide, and Damien finds himself facing the object of his secret obsession, mortal Jade Deville.

Enraged by broken human-demon treaties, Jade confronts Damien, knowing the peril she puts herself in by doing so. Yet she’s determined to protect her kind. Never in her wildest imagination, however, could she have fathomed the demon king to be so commanding in presence, so intensely intimidating, so…hot. Their attraction is instantaneous and fiery—also potentially deadly. Damien tries to stay away. But Jade is surrounded by danger, targeted by a sinister force…and not exactly everything she appears to be. An epic battle looms on the horizon that will test their skills, their loyalty and their love.

And that’s only the start…

Welcome to Keating Hollow, the village full of love, magic, and cupcakes, and where nothing is more important than family.

At age eighteen, after a potion tragically backfired, Abby Townsend left Keating Hollow and her magic behind to find redemption. Ten years later, after being summoned by her family, she’s back. As soon as she drives into town, she’s already plotting her inevitable exit, but she can’t quite escape the pull of the tightly knit magical community or the soulful gaze of the one man she’s never forgotten. And when an eight-year old witch not only leads her back to her magic, but also steals her heart, Abby’s about to learn what it means to embrace the soul of a witch.