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Seoul, 2180Science has finally made a breakthrough: the creation of an adult human "in vitro". However, the project is terminated prematurely by its leaders, it's final product--the first and last of its kind--hidden from the rest of the world. The product, Adam, has lived a life apart from his origins but is summoned back to the land of his birth to irrevocably end another research--one that seeks to use pilfered research data to replicate the same that had created him: a metahuman. Only to discover that the project had gone further than that of his creator. Adam is not alone.…

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South Korea, present time. In the midst of unmasking a terrorist plot involving the UN Secretary General, three souls unwittingly meet each other: a priest on a journey of passion, a man on his quest for meaning, and a girl discovering sacrifice.Find the connection.…

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Empires are founded in blood and stone...and end the same way.The Duke of Ammar has been front and center of a rebellion against the Vasserian Empire for five years and Emperor Gaul finally decides to end the war no matter the cost, designating the unwilling Adaris, Duke of Mharath, to command the Imperial Army. Left with no choice, Adaris sets out to meet the rebels on the battlefield, unaware of how Fate had other plans for him in the war...Thousands of miles away, a solitary figure waits in the shadows, carrying a message, a portent of death, and a past that threatens to unravel dark secrets and centuries' old traditions...In this fantastic tale, two souls embark on parallel journeys where death is the only path to the truth and to victory.…

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Mine enemy is growing old, --I have at last revenge.So Emily Dickinson wrote.And for Regina Watson, the slow passage of time was all she needed to make her vengeful comeback-to the town and people that made her childhood a living hell-sweeter. Now a world-famous pediatric neurosurgeon, Regina has been asked to do free surgeries on several patients, one of whom brought her back into the center of Bradford, Illinois, the town she cursed. Bullied until the day she left for college, Regina swore the town will get its comeuppance, one way or another, especially that awful human being Eric Graham. But is it worth the life of an innocent child to keep on punishing those who had hurt her? Is there a way to not just forget but to forgive, to move on and be at peace?Eric Graham has done some things in his life that he was not proud of but if there was one good thing that came out of a mistake, it was his son, Joseph. As a father, he would do anything to keep his son alive-even if that means begging on his knees in front of the hate-filled woman who alone can help his son. As time ticks on his son's life, Eric must come to terms with his past, in the form of the girl he once harmed, and who has now returned to feed him and the town their just desserts.Was there still any way to fix things with Regina before his son gets caught in the crossfire? Will Regina open her heart once again? After all..."Hope" is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -Emily wrote that, too.…

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Isabelle Mercier has always been seen as weak-too young, too pretty and too innocent to be told the truth about what happened to her family in France. As an act of rebellion, she shuns the mores imposed on her gender by the English upper class and leads a life away from the people and the house that sheltered her in her youth. But as the years of her life slowly trickle away, the fear of aging and dying alone grew in her mind. Figuring it was already too late for her to catch any gentleman's attention-if not affection-she dares approach the one person who promised to aid her.Francis Thornton has been sailing the seas of the Atlantic and Mediterranean most of his life, with a sterling reputation that was hard-earned, but no storm has ever left him stunned beyond belief as the azure-eyed young girl whom he had rescued from her family's enemies. Now a vice admiral for His Majesty's Royal Navy, he does not have the time or physical will to finally settle down as his family desires him to. He helped French émigrés escape the Revolution-that was his expertise. Yet when Lady Mercier recklessly asks for a specific skill he supposedly possesses to help her in an insane plan, the notoriously indomitable lord of the sea suddenly finds himself-and his heart-in a quandary.…

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Aurora Abbott, eldest of three sisters, is current Chief Executive Officer of a Chicago-based pharmaceutical company her father raised from the ashes. Besieged with internal problems and the Workers’ Union threatening to boycott and quit their jobs, she momentarily escapes to the family cabin near Lake Michigan, where she encounters Debbie Stewart, a single mother. The two strike up a friendship until Aurora has to go back and face her problems. Her life suddenly takes a different turn, however, when Debbie dies and leaves Aurora her children—a seven year old boy and month old twins. Matthew Dawson, a British-expat, is known for his ruthlessness and corporate law savvy. With Abbott Pharma on the verge of folding, he decides it’s time to swoop in and claim victory. And a difficult past with Aurora Abbott certainly added to the thrill of the chase. What he never expected was for his lovely nemesis to suddenly give up so easily. And when he finds out the reason, the impression she left on him all these years quickly begin to disappear……

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When Sofia Thompson gets an urgent call that her family's apple orchard is in trouble, she is left without a choice but to take a leave from her patients and head home, where her heart was shattered many years ago, to take charge.But going back also meant confronting demons in her past, lies, and coming face-to-face with their consequences. Adam Pierce left The River Orchard out of anger and regret when his mother was wrongly accused of thieving from the Thompsons. Now a successful business executive, he never intended to go back and be reminded of all that he loved and lost. But when his own mother could not refuse a plea for help from the same people who drove them out, he makes a decision that will soon bear fruit he could never have imagined.…

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Southern France, 1798The French Revolution has drastically changed the nature of France and for almost ten years, its people lived in terror, more particularly those of the nobility and the religious. An abbey and its occupants are held hostage by a group of Revolutionaries from Paris. All that stands between a massacre and mercy is a young novice and her acceptance of her fate--a forced marriage to a man who deserved to burn in the fires of Hell. Yet it is herself that she finds burning...William Devereaux had one mission--get the hell out of France. And he was willing to go far beyond the call of duty-and a promise from his youth-to achieve it. It brought him instead to a godforsaken abbey where an unforgotten face appears to him again after many years. She has secrets that plague the Revolutionaries and the guillotine is not far behind her neck. In order to save them both, he has to make a deal with the devil himself...and seal their doom with a promise and a kiss...…