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Familiar stories. Unfamiliar magic.Everyone knows what happens in a fairy tale—as long as everyone stays on the path.But step into the woods, wander beyond the familiar story, and things become a little less predictable.A Rapunzel with hair of teeth and claw must decide whether the tower is sanctuary or prison. A girl cursed to speak in toads discovers that an apparent affliction can become an army. Red ventures into the forest for a wolf rather than away from one. And a golden-haired girl returns to an enchanted wood where bears, princes, and old magic are not quite what they seem.Along the way, there are marvelous boots, dangerous witches, a scarred war prince, a dashing Bandit King, and more than a few consequences for anyone foolish enough to underestimate a fairy-tale heroine.Straying from the Path brings together two novellas and four short stories inspired by familiar tales including Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Diamonds and Toads, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.For readers who like their fairy tales clever, slightly dark, and full of unexpected magic.Because anything can happen when you stray from the path.

One hacked website. One school-wide dating boycott. One complete social meltdown.The boys of Olympia High have a secret.The girls have a plan.And Camy Cavanaugh is stuck in the middle.When Camy discovers The Hotties of Troy, a hidden website where the school's most popular boys rate and gossip about their female classmates, she knows someone has to do something. She just never expects that "e;something"e; to become a full-scale dating boycott.Now the girls refuse to date anyone connected to the site. The football team is falling apart. Homecoming is approaching. And everyone wants quiet, dependable Camy to fix the problem.The popular girls want dates with boys from the nerd herd. The A-list boys want introductions to girls from the honor roll. Even Gavin Madison—the quarterback, Camy's former friend, and the crush she has never quite gotten over—wants her help.Soon Camy is arranging unlikely couples, navigating secret alliances, and trying to identify the mystery boy behind the website. But the more she interferes in everyone else's love life, the harder it becomes to ignore her own.Especially when Gavin starts looking at her as though the last three years never happened.Packed with matchmaking mishaps, high-school rivalry, geeky humor, and unexpected romance, Dating on the Dork Side proves that sometimes the best matches are the ones no one sees coming.

If Katy and Malcolm want a future, they'll need to survive the past. When Katy and Malcolm discover a secret stash of Springside ghosts, they can't tell if they're on a rescue mission, walking into a trap—or dealing with something far more sinister. But the simple act of freeing the ghosts sets the past on a collision course with the present. Katy has always known the past can haunt. Usually, that's something she can fix with freshly brewed coffee and some Tupperware. This time, old enemies lurk in the shadows, pulling strings and weaving inescapable webs. When she falls in, survival may be impossible. But to escape, Katy must navigate threads from the past, deal with capricious spirits, dubious allies, and ruthless adversaries. And if she fails? No one she loves will have a future. Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance serial told over multiple episodes. This series bundle contains all three novella-length episodes of Season Four: Episode 1: The Ghosts You Left BehindEpisode 2: Misty Sandborne and the Vampire HusbandEpisode 3: The Necromancer's Nephew

The shyest girl on the speech team has exactly one goal: make it through the season.Sophomore Jolia never wanted to join the speech team.She'd rather hide in the back of the classroom than speak in front of it. But when failing speech class threatens her future, joining Fremont High's fiercely competitive team becomes her only option.Now she's spending every afternoon practicing speeches she can barely get through, every Saturday competing against schools that take speech way too seriously, and every tournament trying not to embarrass herself in front of judges, teammates......or Sam Romero.Sam is the star speaker from rival Winnetka High—the school Fremont loves to beat and rarely does. He also happens to be Jolia's long-lost summer best friend, and somehow he's volunteering to help her become a better speaker.Keeping those secret coaching sessions from her teammates is hard enough.Pretending she doesn't look forward to them?Impossible.As tournament season turns rivals into friends, friends into something more, and every competition raises the stakes, Jolia discovers that finding the courage to stand behind a podium might be easier than risking her heart.Filled with unforgettable teammates, academic rivalry, first love, laugh-out-loud humor, and the wonderfully chaotic world of competitive high school speech, The Fine Art of Keeping Quiet is a feel-good YA romantic comedy about finding your voice—even when you'd rather disappear.

Reluctant necromancer Katy Lindstrom is worried about mixing business with pleasure. All she wants is a few hours alone with her more-than-a-business-partner, Malcolm Armand.Before they can sort through their feelings over a cup of Kona blend, another necromancer lands on Katy's doorstep.Malcolm's father.He brings with him tales of old betrayals and fresh lies. But a bigger danger lurks in Springside—a powerful ghost sent to destroy Malcolm's brother.This is just the start.After Katy uncovers long-held family secrets, she finds herself entangled in past and present—and on a mission to find the truth. To unravel the mystery that links her family with Malcolm's, she'll need to bargain with a powerful entity and face retribution from the necromancer community.Where Katy must go, Malcolm can't follow. This time around, she'll need to make the ultimate sacrifice. This time, to save Malcolm, Springside, and everything she loves, Katy will need to give them up forever.This series bundle contains all three episodes from Season Three of Coffee and Ghosts.Episode 1: Ghosts and ConsequencesEpisode 2: A Few Good GhostsEpisode 3: Nothing but the Ghosts

If time is money, someone is robbing Sadie Lin blind.Lately, Sadie can't seem to hold on to a single minute. She misses appointments, loses track of entire evenings, and watches helplessly as her grades, music, and carefully planned future begin slipping away.Then Gordon Bakersfield—the boy behind her most humiliating ninth-grade crush—offers an impossible explanation: someone is stealing her time.That someone is Maya Milansky, Sadie's former best friend and fiercest academic rival. But Maya isn't the only time thief at school. Gordon has secrets of his own, and helping Sadie may not be the only reason he wants to keep her close.To reclaim her life, Sadie must learn to control a power she barely understands. Because time can be stolen. It can be hoarded. And perhaps, in the right hands, it can be given away.A clever young adult paranormal short story about ambition, betrayal, first love, and taking back what belongs to you.

The hardest secrets are the ones we inherit.Seventeen-year-old MacKenna Meyers has spent her life navigating the minefield of her father's moods—and preparing to follow in her late mother's combat boots.Her plan is simple: earn an Army ROTC scholarship, prove she belongs, and convince her former-Ranger father that she's every bit the warrior princess he raised her to be. Instead, he forbids her from joining the military and refuses to explain why.Then MacKenna's grandmother gives her an old Iraqi ammo crate filled with her mother's belongings from the first Gulf War. Hidden beneath a false bottom is a journal written in poetry—and a secret her mother took to the grave.As MacKenna reads, the heroic story she has always believed begins to fracture. Her parents' past is far more complicated than she imagined, and the truth may explain the grief and fear her father has carried for sixteen years.Meanwhile, MacKenna's own carefully controlled life is coming apart. Her place on the synchronized swimming team is in jeopardy. Her best friend is pulling away. And Landon Scott—the boy who kissed her and then vanished five years ago—is back, carrying dangerous secrets of his own.Caught between the future she wants and a past no one will discuss, MacKenna must decide what courage really means: following the path her mother took—or finding the strength to choose her own.A moving young adult novel about first love, family loyalty, and the hidden wounds of war.