Books in Dead Things series

The balance will be maintained...by any means necessary.For every life given, another must go in its place. Ember is learning this the hard way. Saving Quinn has cost another their life and also cost her the love of hers. Mace has disappeared, maybe for good, and Ember’s the only person who seems to care…except for Quinn.Some dead never die. Someone or something has gone to great lengths to prove that to Mace, killing him, over and over again, while forcing him to relive his past. Through it all, he dreams of the present. Of Ember.Quinn had resigned himself to a life as the only human among the superhumans, but now, that’s all changed. He’s changed. He has a new face, a permanent darkness, and an insatiable hunger that’s slowly driving him mad. With everybody wrapped up in their own drama, Quinn turns to the only person who understands what it’s like to not know who you are anymore. Ember.With Tristin seething over Quinn and Ember’s friendship, Kai is forced to deal with two problems he never anticipated: cannibalistic cheerleaders and having Rhys as his boyfriend. One small error has his alpha questioning whether Kai and Rhys can work together, but with half the pack spiraling and the other half missing, they might be her only option.The Oracle has spoken. Ember, Kai, and Tristin are all a part of an ancient prophecy, but they have no idea what that entails. Mace is missing, people are dying, Quinn is changing, and all of their powers are growing. Can they solve the Wolf Creek murders and unmask the unseen villain behind the crimes before it’s too late?

Twenty-two-year-old alpha wolf, Isa McGowan, is busy. While most people her age are finishing college and starting their careers, Isa’s raising four pre-teens and running a restaurant. She doesn’t have time for dating and she especially doesn’t have time for the lunatic standing on her porch claiming to be her betrothed…no matter how pretty he is. Wren Davies has a dangerous problem and Isa is his solution. When he arrives in Belle Haven to explain his plight, the last thing he expects is a punch to the face…but that’s exactly what he gets. Instead of finding a politically savvy alpha with a large wolf pack, he finds a barely five-foot spitfire with a mess of kids, a mean right cross and a million excuses why she’ll never honor their betrothal. Now Wren has two problems…

Will one final ritual finally set the pack free or tie them to a fate they never asked for?With the pack still reeling from the loss of one of their own, Ember questions whether she belongs with her newfound family and whether she’ll ever control the powers growing stronger and more potent with each passing day.Mace hasn’t experienced genuine human emotion in a hundred and fifty years, but thanks to an accidental bond, he’s now experiencing Ember’s feelings as if they were his own, and he wants no part of it. Being tied to Ember leaves Mace hobbled and hungry—not a good combination for a monster on the wagon.Kai was on the brink of having everything he’s always wanted when the Grove swept in and took it all away. Now, Tristin has lost her mind, Ember has lost her heart, and Kai finally understands what it means to lose a soul.As more family secrets are revealed, Ember and the pack must try to move past their grief before anybody else gets hurt. But an unseen enemy lurks in the shadows, and they have no intention of letting Ember go unpunished.Can she finally control her powers and meet her enemy's demands, or will she accidentally set in motion a chain of events laid out long ago?

Out in the swamps of the Florida Everglades lies the key to unlocking all the Grove’s secrets.Just when Kai thought being trapped in a car with his crush, Rhys, would be the worst thing to happen to him, a witch known as Ms. Josephine has revealed the truth about Ember’s powers—a truth Kai thinks would ostracize Ember from the pack. He just has to find a way to convince Rhys that keeping this secret is the right thing to do.Tristin doesn’t trust her cousin, Ember. She also doesn’t like her, but that’s beside the point. Tristin’s inner banshee is screaming at her, letting her know that there’s just something not right about Ember’s magic. A lead from an unlikely source sends her back to New Orleans to dig up dirt on Ember’s father, leading to an outcome she never could have imagined.While Kai and Tristin try to get to the bottom of their cousin's powers, Ember and Mace are forced to make an uneasy alliance—an alliance filled with zombies, sexual tension, and exploding corpses. As secrets are revealed, the pack starts to unravel. Hurt feelings and misunderstandings overshadow the clock ticking down on Kai's and Ember’s heads until a standoff leads to tragedy.Can the pack pick up the pieces and come together to right past wrongs, or is history destined to repeat itself?

17-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider; like she was different. She was right. She’s a reaper like her mother; like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes they are part of a prophecy to save them from an evil known as the Grove. Ember just wants to survive high school and fix the fallout from bringing back her friend. Old enemies are lurking; waiting for their opportunity to strike but the pack has a new problem. A group of legendary hunters has resurfaced, threatening the reapers and anybody who stands with them. They are making good on their threats too; attacking those closest to the pack.Their only hope of defeating the Legionaries involves trusting a stranger to perform a dangerous spell to advance Ember and her cousin’s powers. But Ember has a secret; a secret she can’t tell the pack. One that leaves the pack vulnerable.An attack on pack allies, leaves one member of the group injured and another missing, along with a mysterious girl named Evangeline who may play a bigger part in this than any of them realize. As the Legionaries are closing in, the pack must trust their enemies, enter hostile territories, and play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopath. Their entire plan lynches on a dangerous bargain, but rescuing one member of the pack could mean losing another in their place…possibly forever.

Welcome to Belle Haven where the paranormal is normal and being human is a liability.Kai Lonergan is struggling through math class when he gets a new charge to cross over. It’s just another day for a reaper until he sees the name. November Lonergan. Before he can question how he’s supposed to cross over a soul who’s been dead for years, his twin sister, Tristin, screams. No big deal, that’s what banshees do. Except, Tristin lost her scream the day November died.Mace is a mercenary monster who hunts other monsters, so when he’s hired to trail one ordinary girl, it seems like overkill. Until Mace witnesses her powers firsthand and he realizes there’s nothing ordinary about Ember Denning. He finds himself unnaturally drawn to her, which might be a problem since he just threatened to kill her.Ember Denning prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in the cemetery and her nights working at a funeral home to avoid her alcoholic father. But that won’t be a problem anymore. He’s dead, and Ember is about to learn her life until now has just been a series of carefully crafted lies and her real life…well, it’s a lot stranger than she’d ever imagined.Reapers, witches, shifters, and fae all converge in a town in the middle of the Florida panhandle where Ember must learn a hard to swallow, terrifying truth. She’s not a human, but a supernatural ticking time-bomb, and figuring out how to disarm her means reconnecting with people she can’t remember, trusting a family she never knew existed, and accepting that the only person who can save her is the beautiful boy who just tried to kill her.

Laurence Muleh's THINGS series is designed to engage infants and toddlers from ages birth to 3. Each picture book in the THINGS series presents over 30 illustrations on a single subject, such as eggs, gardens, trucks, cats, and the ocean. The structure of each book is framed around it's own haiku, with each line of the haiku presenting the theme for each chapter. With three chapters in each picture book, you are provided with a wide range of rich and beautiful illustrations to engage in with an infant or toddler. Children will learn the skills of categorization, and comparing and contrasting, and will benefit from exposure to new vocabulary and imagery. The vibrant, stylized illustrations will provide a fun platform for discussion. The THINGS series is a fun and captivating way to connect with your infant or toddler while making the ordinary THINGS of their world into something extraordinary.