Darkness Embraced By: Winter Pennington Synopsis Two hundred years ago, Epiphany was reborn a vampire. Sired by Renata, the Queen of the Rosso Lussuria, Epiphany willingly played the role of the queen's beloved pet-- until she was cast from Renata's bed and lost her protection from the elder vampires. Ephiphany has done her best not to become a target, trying to remain as inconspicuous as possible, light along forgetting memory huddling beneath the mantle of Vasco's power her one true friend among the Rosso Lussuria. Now Renata has called Epiphany forth the face the challenges ahead that could elevate her clan status to the ranks of an elder. But Epiphany has few friends and many enemies and the chances of surviving the challenges are slim. Surrounded by harsh vampire politics and secret ambitions, Epiphany learns that an old enemy is plotting treason against the woman she once loved, and to save all she holds dear, she must embrace and form an alliance wi...
Blueprints For Better Worlds By: Tenea D. Johnson Synopsis Two girls barely in their teens devise on escape from a world abandoned by the privileged, ravaged by climate change, and losing its way. Will they find what the world has lost and what they've a so far only found in one another? Can a manufactured heaven floating amongst the stars provide more than illusions of perfection? How might it improve the world that its customers vacated? When all you have left is the space between you, can you overcome the distance, and what might be lurking in the things that you don't say, the days can't share, the secrets you keep from your self? In the absence of government, how can the people left behind avoid a grim fate of air thinner by the day, hope thinner by the hour? Is home where you're from or how it treats you? How much a home is a place where you're not equal? Might you change that by stepping into another person's life? Or stepping into new territories with...