Full Metal Alchemist meets Vampire Diaries in this fun and clever dark academia series . . .
High school is supposed to be about studying, socializing, and marching-band practice. Not fighting vampires. Then one night flipped my world inside out-now, my life sucks. But it isn't all bad. I'm at a slayer academy, learning things like the real origin of vamps and how to make serious weapons out of thin air.
Every last one of them will pay for what they did. I'm doing great.
Until I come face-to-face with the actual vampire prince . . . and I'm not sure of anything anymore. Vampires are supposed to be soul-sucking demons. But Khamari is . . . something else. He's intelligent and reasonable-and he seems to know things about me that could change everything.
He's also hiding something big, even from his own kind. And when a threat from an ancient evil is so extreme that a vampire will team up with a slayer to take it down, it isn't just my need for revenge that's at stake anymore.
It's the whole damn world.
Three very different women. Only one thing in common. But when their family patriarch dies and they must share his estate, the truths they discover will test them--and everything they think they know about each other. Beloved Georgia judge Joseph Donaldson was known for his unshakable fairness, his hard-won fortune--and a scandalous second marriage to his much-younger white secretary. Now he's left a will with a stunning provision. In order to collect their inheritance, his lawyer daughter Maya, her stepmother Jeanie, and Jeanie's teen daughter, Ryder, must live together at the family lake house. Maya and Jeanie don't exactly get along, but they reluctantly agree to try an uneasy peace for as long as it takes... But fragile ex-beauty queen Jeanie doesn't know who she is beyond being a judge's wife--and drinking away her insecurities has her in a dangerous downward spiral. Fed up with her mother's humiliating behavior, Ryder tries to become popular at school in all the wrong ways. And when Maya attempts to help, she puts her successful career and her shaky love life at risk. Now with trouble they didn't see coming--and secrets they can no longer hide--these women must somehow find the courage to admit their mistakes, see each other for who they really are--and slowly, perhaps even joyfully, discover everything they could be.
When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they cant help wondering what happened to the hopeful, confident, driven women they used to beand how to get them back Radio personality Raina, known as the black Delilah, hates the wholesome persona thats made her a success. Doling out syrupy versions of her grandmas wisdom feels worlds away from the sarcastic, tell-it-like-it-is woman Raina really is. Kara Jones was sure shed be a master sommelier by thirty. Life and loss interfered with that plan. Now she has one more chancebut its taking a toll on her self-esteem and her marriage. Nikki Grayson hardly recognizes the stay-at-home mom shes become. When her band signed a record deal, she swapped the limelight for a minivan and a sensible do. Now shes wishing she had followed her heart. Instead, shes drowning her regret in alcohol. Public defender Sienna Njeri willingly put her city council aspirations aside to support her fiancés bid for office and now shes wondering if her loyalty is misplaced. Longing for the support, advice, and tough love they once shared, all four resolve to start meeting up again. After all, their dreams may still be within reach. But are they worth the price theyll pay to achieve them?
