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A precarious royal court. Two thieves with everything to lose. Caught robbing the Governor's mansion, Blythe is given a choice: steal the crown jewel of Ostrait's greatest enemy, or her papa and friends all die. Forced undercover as a candidate in the Fletch King's marital competition, she must survive the cut-throat court under the watchful eye of the Governor's pet assassin. But how much of herself will this mission cost her? Kalen got ...

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A precarious royal court. Two thieves with everything to lose. Caught robbing the Governor's mansion, Blythe is given a choice: steal the crown jewel of Ostrait's greatest enemy, or her papa and friends all die. Forced undercover as a candidate in the Fletch King's marital competition, she must survive the cut-throat court under the watchful eye of the Governor's pet assassin. But how much of herself will this mission cost her? Kalen got ...

The Eleusinian Mysteries is a poetic subversion of the ancient Greek myth of Persephone, in which the young goddess abducted by Hades is not a passive victim but a cunning protagonist in her own right who actively resists the narrative that has historically held her captive. Over the course of a series of interrelated narrative poems, she discovers the secrets of her mythological cosmos and ultimately rises to challenge the gods who rule it.

In Roadworthy, poet Dave Mehler offers readers the bizarre and unique opportunity to view the world through the lens of a "hauling witness" -- a long-haul truck driver in the US and a short line (or regional) truck driver in Colorado/Wyoming and the Pacific Northwest. The poems relate experiences in narrative and lyric based from life and work on the open road, ranging from ecstatic treatments in dense lyrical lines to prose poems, and even a ...

WE LIVE IN AN IMMORAL AGE.Humanity suffers from "nature deficit disorder." We have lost touch with the Earth, the Great Lawgiver. These poems unveil a moral code derived from the Earth. Part I reveals the moral code of the Lakota Sioux, a Plains Indian tribe whose way of life was taken from them. Part III shows the moral code of a former US Army sniper, an Indian killer who took part in the destruction of the Lakota. Both are moral codes of ac...

Enter the wondrous world of the Selkie.According to Celtic legend, a selkie is a seal underwater and a woman on land. Sometimes she emerges from the ocean, shedding her white selkie-coat to dance on the sand in moonlight. In the liminal space of the shore, she is vulnerable to capture by a man, and she may become a man's wife and the mother of children. In Song of the Selkie, the Selkie voices her experience of being caught between two worlds:...

Six years after experiencing what a boys' state basketball championship did for her small prairie town on the Montana Hi-Line, Jamie Graham, fourteen years old, embarks on her own journey to bring that joy and excitement back to her town. Jim-Jamie's dad and respected teacher and coach-coached the boys' championship team and inspires her to choose the goal of winning State. Jim's unwavering belief in Jamie provides her with confidence and moti...

High Tide . . .On the one hand, high tide can mean "surf's up" on a beautiful beach. You might be there with friends or family-waves big enough to ride, sun high in an azure sky.On the other, there is Dylan's sinister warning: "It's bad out there. High waters everywhere." Those waves that seemed friendly before can be dark, ominous-dangerous. And a memory of a family walk on the beach, of childhood days spent on the Outer Cape in August, can s...

WE LIVE IN AN IMMORAL AGE.Humanity suffers from "nature deficit disorder." We have lost touch with the Earth, the Great Lawgiver. These poems unveil a moral code derived from the Earth. Part I reveals the moral code of the Lakota Sioux, a Plains Indian tribe whose way of life was taken from them. Part III shows the moral code of a former US Army sniper, an Indian killer who took part in the destruction of the Lakota. Both are moral codes of ac...

Everybody knows that Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland. The last of humanity has lived on Mozaan--a healthy, domed chunk of land suspended above Earth--for almost two hundred years. Renee thought life on Mozaan was good. It had been, until the night they came. Renee and her friends each have a strange ability--which they hadn't hid well enough to save them from the Takers. When Renee's life and family are destroyed, she and her friends must ...