Rising Action Publishing Co. – serie

In 1978, as the Cultural Revolution fades into history, Lei is bartered away into marriage for two cartons of cigarettes and a handful of eggs. She finds herself in the unfamiliar village of her new husband where she is met with indifference. When a disaster upends their world, Lei and her husband are forced to join China's vast wave of city-bound, rural migrants, leaving behind children whom they may never see again. Sixteen-year-old LuLu arrives in Shanghai with nothing but ambition. Denied a factory job and determined to keep her family from starving, she turns to sex work, navigating the dangers of the city's underbelly with sharp wit and a fierce will to survive. When a powerful client offers her a chance at security, LuLu faces an impossible choice: seize a future that could lift her family from poverty, or risk everything for a life on her own terms. Immersive, evocative, and impeccably detailed, And The Ancestors Sing is a sweeping, multigenerational story of sacrifice, survival, and the unbreakable pull of home.

Sloan Sanders' perfectly curated online life is in shambles. Dumped the same day her dream business collapses and rocked by a shocking DNA test, she escapes to her aunt's farm to regroup. Instead of peace, Sloan finds herself knee-deep in manure and butting heads with Parker, the annoyingly hot stable hand who seems determined to make her life difficult. She thinks he's shady. He thinks she's an entitled princess. But as sparks fly and secrets come out, Sloan realizes the line between enemies and something more is getting blurry. When a chance comes to prove herself and reinvent her future, Sloan needs Parker's help. Transforming a dusty hayloft into an Instagram-worthy event space might just change everything - if she's willing to show the world her unfiltered self. Perfect for fans of Jen DeLuca's Well Met and K.A. Tucker's The Simple Wild, JUST MY LUCK is a heartwarming rom-com about identity, family secrets, and finding love where you least expect it.

Former detective and perpetual grouch Charlie Smeg is old-at least that's the way he feels-and newly retired from the Edmonton Police. He's washed up, burnt out, and unappreciated by younger cops clawing for his job. He'd been a good detective but methods change, times change. He's looking forward to a life of solitude, a good book, and staying indoors during the winter months. Unfortunately, his former boss has other plans. He's not even a week out of the job when she asks him to mentor rising star Meaghan Byatt-one of those upstart detectives-on her first case in the homicide department. The case is an odd one from the get-go, enough that Smeg decides, against his better judgment, to help. With a jobless stepson living at home who won't stop encouraging him to get with the times, and his growing fondness for Byatt making him begrudgingly look forward to human interaction, this case might be what Smeg needs to get back in the game.

Every night in Patagonia, Arizona, ex-Marine Armando Vega finds himself drawn to Claire Wilson, the mysterious woman who keeps her past tightly guarded. But Claire is really Rachel Hayes, living under a false identity after testifying against the mafia. When she is kidnapped and nearly killed, Vega rescues her, plunging them both into a deadly world where no one can be trusted. Fleeing through desert canyons and dusty highways, Vega and Claire dodge snipers, escape ambushes, and uncover a shocking truth. The threat is not just the mafia but a dangerous trafficking ring using bee trucks to conceal drugs, weapons, and abducted children. Vega must battle his own painful memories and the deep feelings he is developing for the woman who has turned his life upside down. In a final showdown in a ghost town, Vega and his former military brothers go to war against ruthless enemies determined to silence Claire forever. When freedom seems finally within reach, a fiery explosion on the tarmac threatens to destroy everything they have fought for, including their chance at love.

Secrets are often liabilities, but sometimes they are power. Lucas Rhine has seen enough violence. When the Empire of Colours slaughters 17,000 of his silver-eyed kin, Lucas buries his hatred, hides his eyes behind coloured lenses, and vows to become the imperial gendarmerie's commander. He will liberate his annexed island home through a diplomatic secession. Usurped prince Faye Phlorik wants his throne back. When violent revolutionaries help him escape from prison, he joins them. They need a silver-eyed champion to rally the people, and he needs their resources to defeat the gendarmerie protecting the usurper. When Faye's escape costs Lucas his promotion, Lucas adds revenge to his list of reasons to stop the bloody revolution. While the two hunt each other across the country, the Empire's warships are landing in two weeks to exterminate everyone with silver eyes. If Lucas and Faye can't unite their forces against the imperial fleet, there will soon be nothing left of the people they're both trying to liberate.

In the Shadow of Empires, One Child Holds the Key to a Forgotten Legacy... Year of Our Lord, 1230. Europe is ablaze. Kingdoms clash, faiths fracture, and the echoes of the Crusades still thunder through the land. Amidst the chaos, a child is brought to Rome under the veil of secrecy - rumored to be the last living descendant of Godfrey de Bouillon, the First Crusader King of Jerusalem, and, some whisper, of Christ himself. But the Holy See refuses sanctuary. Robin, a disillusioned English crusader, and Sibilia, a fierce Cathar spy haunted by the horrors of the Albigensian Crusade, are unlikely allies. Forced to safeguard the Grail Child, they find themselves hunted across a war-torn land. Their path leads to Beziers, a city still stained with the blood of a massacre, where the Inquisition's grip tightens and a young noblewoman's life hangs in the balance. As swords clash and faith is tested, Robin and Sibilia must confront not only the enemies who pursue them - but the secrets they keep from each other. A sweeping tale of faith, betrayal, and love, The Undying Lamb is a spellbinding Robin Hood adaptation that delves into a forgotten corner of history where the line between legend and truth blurs.

Beylynn never meant to join a cult - at least not the kind without incense or scripture. This one comes wrapped in pastel branding, protein shakes, and the promise of a Skinny, Happy Life(TM). As the rising star of the SHL Lifestyle MLM, she's cashing in while teaching other women that joy comes with a shrinking number on the scale. But everything changes when Beylynn vanishes during an exclusive incentive trip. Her disappearance is the company's worst nightmare: their glossy, influencer 'boss babe' has either been murdered. . . or she's finally had enough and escaped. Either way, it's a PR disaster waiting to explode. Behind the filtered photos and motivational mantras lies a world steeped in obsession - social media manipulation, dangerous ambition, illicit affairs, and money powerful enough to make people kill. SHL isn't a sisterhood; it's a cult built on control. And if Beylynn wants to survive, she'll have to find a way out before the perfect life she sold becomes the one that destroys her.

It's 2008 and Lizi just can't catch a break. On the heels of a nasty divorce and a paltry settlement agreement - barely enough to reload her Starbucks card - Lizi is laid off from her job during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Flat broke, Lizi takes a job at Whole Foods where she meets Frankie, a twenty-seven-year-old artist half her age whose overly simplistic worldview is exactly what Lizi needs to get on with her life. But after an unfortunate incident involving her ex-husband, his pregnant girlfriend, and a carton of cage-free eggs, Lizi finds herself, once again, out of a job. So what does a fifty-four-year-old woman with no money, no job, and no prospects do? She sells all her possessions and goes to Paris in search of her long-lost dream: to write her first novel. But when the airline loses her luggage and offers her a meal voucher for the famed Hotel Jolie, Lizi pounces on the opportunity while unwittingly setting off a chain of events which land her at the center of the notorious Harry Winston jewel heist. And when her young partner-in-crime joins her in Paris, the two must outrun the Serbian mafia while trying not to trip over the dead bodies left in their wake.