Ava was human! So why had the Council ordered her to Phoenix Academy—a place teeming with supernatural beings where the only other humans were donors? Ava's plan to keep her head down and survive until they realised she didn't belong there was shattered from day one. Clashing with the insufferably arrogant Zeke made keeping her mouth shut impossible. In his final year at the Academy, Zeke was set to become Alpha of the largest pack in the country. His first act of power would be to take revenge on the pack that killed his mother. But the arrival of a stubborn human girl with the most intoxicating scent threatened everything he’d worked for. A human should never have survived even a day at the academy. Yet despite the taunts, the ‘accidents’, and the threats to her life, the little human did. And every day that she did, his control slipped. Even with everything he stood to lose, he ached to make her submit to him in every single way.
This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.
From a hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, thirty-nine-year-old Ava Klein makes one final ecstatic voyage. People, places, offhand memories, and imaginary things drift in and out of her consciousness and weave their way through this beautiful, poetic novel. In this celebration of life, Carole Maso captures the poignancy of mortality, the extraordinary desire to live and the inevitability of death. Ava yearns and the reader yearns with her, struggling to hold on to all that slips away.--back cover
When Tom Hansen invents the quantum chip, he is surprised to discover that three years later that the military had taken his technology and built the world’s first quantum computer called Ava, (Advanced Virtual Algorithm). The only thing missing enabling Ava to reach her full potential, is the programming codes Tom has hidden away in his mind, and now they need him, alive, to finish the project. Kidnapped and trapped deep below ground, he soon realises that his life and his families, is in danger and must now find a way to finish what he started. Inspector George Billings is woken early from yet another drinking binge, and with another hangover, is informed of the multiple killings the night before. As the pieces start coming together, and camera footage that reveals something so fantastic, he never thought possible. The real reasons why these seemingly innocent people have been murdered starts coming to light. With the military trying to cover everything up, he is on a mission to try to find the truth, before it all lost, buried deep beneath a secret military underground facility where Ava is learning, and ultimately planning what to do with the troubled people of Earth! Will she succeed? Or will we remain oblivious to what is really coming our way! With an alien signal to decode, time is running out, to find a way to save planet Earth and now Ava is born, the human species future hangs in the balance of the world’s first Quantum computer.
A musical career in the making. A popstar in the crosshairs. Touring with the band just got deadly. Bombshell (Ava #1): Ava dreams of building a better life for her daughter through her island pop songs. Her new temp job leads to a once-in-a-lifetime shot at a record deal, but before she can pack her bags for New York, she discovers a dead body outside her office building. Horrified, Ava recognizes the murdered sex worker as her childhood friend. Before Ava can move on to a bright future in music, she must confront the truth behind her dark past to catch the murderer or she'll be next on his kill list. Stunner (Ava #2):After battling breast cancer, island pop singer and single mom Ava thought she could handle anything her concert tour threw her way. But when tragedy strikes her album launch party, she realizes she may have underestimated the price she’ll have to pay for fame. And the cost skyrockets when someone attempts to murder her headlining act. Knowing her future hinges on staying in the spotlight, Ava must track down the murderous stalker before the final curtain drops. Knockout (Ava #3):Everyone wants a piece of Ava’s skyrocketing star power… including her serious boyfriend and her deadbeat baby daddy. But when she visits the future site of a controversial resort and stumbles upon a dead body, Ava thinks she’s finally found a worthy cause for her newfound celebrity. Determined to catch the killer and stop the construction of the eco-unfriendly tourist trap, she plans to put her sex symbol status to good use. To solve the murder and save her career, Ava must find a new way to take down the multi-million-dollar nest of corruption before her dead body joins the construction heap. Buy the Ava Box Set to get into the rhythm with THREE fast-paced pop murder mysteries today! ˃˃˃ See why Pamela wins contests and makes best seller lists. USA Today Best Seller #1 Amazon Best Seller Top 50 Amazon Romantic Suspense and Mystery Author Silver Falchion for Best Adult Mystery USA Best Book Awards Cross-Genre Fiction Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Romance, Quarter-finalist ˃˃˃ Once Upon A Romance calls Hutchins an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer." If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney who splits her time between Nowheresville, Texas and the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming, Pamela lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this series during that time. ˃˃˃ The Ava series reviews are in, and they're good. Very, very good. "Just when I think I couldn't love another Pamela Fagan Hutchins novel more, along comes Ava. She's smart and sassy, with a story full of juicy plot twists." — Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven "To finally get a whole book of Ava's beautiful voice and attitude was so much fun. And then to see that her outer armor was mixed with the very real insecurities and struggles that we can all relate to was magical." — Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club "Entertaining, complex, and thought-provoking. Each book gets better and better and better." — Ginger Copeland, power reader ˃˃˃ Catch more adventures with Ava and her friends in the What Doesn't Kill You romantic mysteries. Scroll up and grab your copy today.
To Seek Revenge, You Must First Manage to Survive Ava O’Hare just wanted to love her child and live in peace, but a normal life was never her destiny. One stark day in 1745, everything she loved was taken from her, ripped away by the very man who should have protected her. Somehow, miraculously, Ava survived. Now it was time for revenge. Long before Ava O’Hare became the successful leader of a modern-day Renegade cell, she had other battles to fight. If you’ve enjoyed the Unbounded series, you will love this extra peek into the events that shaped Ava’s life and made her a Guardian of Humanity. Please note: Ava’s Revenge is a novella, not a full-length novel. It is separate from the main series and can be enjoyed at any time. However, the last scene is present day and fits into the Unbounded timeline just after the end of The Change (Unbounded Book 1), so readers may better appreciate Ava’s Revenge after reading the first book. Praise for the UNBOUNDED series: “Excellent and well written!” “I recommend reading the entire series” “Thoroughly enjoyable” “High action and adventure” “Teyla Branton belongs right alongside Patricia Briggs, Kim Harrison, Jennifer Estep, and Kelly Armstrong.” Unbounded Series 1. The Change 2. The Cure 3. Protectors (which contains Ava's Revenge, Mortal Brother, and Set Ablaze) 4. The Escape 5. The Reckoning 6. Lethal Engagement 7. The Takeover 8. The Avowed More coming soon!
For fans of Lore Olympus and Teen Titans: Raven comes the game-changing multimedia webcomic and Kickstarter sensation from acclaimed creator MICHELLE FUS. When a shy young girl named Ava discovers that the demon who haunts her is actually the spirit of an ancient alien queen named Wrathia, the two form a dangerous pact. But in exchange for a better life, Ava must help Wrathia seek revenge against TITAN…the most powerful being in the universe.
He is...Creed, a soldier lied to and turned into a weapon by his own country. She is the light to the darkness inside him. The only person who can save him from the monster he might become. The only person who can save the world from what he might become. Creed is one of the soldiers who were lied to and injected with an experimental serum at Area 51, a soldier whose unique ability to travel within and communicate with the wind makes him his country's greatest weapon. Within him is a great power, and a darkness, he secretly fears he cannot control. He is losing himself and his humanity and he doesn't know how to stop it from happening. But then he meets Addie, the beautiful and intelligent scientist and the daughter of the man who did this to him, who's come to right her father's wrong. The minute they connect, he feels drawn to her. The minute he touches her, he feels the darkness inside him calm, and an obsessive passion stirs between them. Possessiveness rises inside Creed and his desire for her is all consuming. Soon though, they will learn that Addie is his one true mate, his lifebond, the light to his darkness. A phenomenon no one quite understands and must be kept secret. But even as their bond develops into something greater than they imagined possible, danger erupts as some of Creed's kind rise up and become a threat. Creed is the only soldier powerful enough to end it all, but as he calls on that part of himself, the darkness stirs. The bond between Creed and Addie might be the only thing that saves the world. It also might be the death of Addie.
How many of us are fully making sense of our lives? Ava's Bedside introduces a fable in which a dying hippo struggles with this question. Through conversation with other hippos, she finally realizes what is missing from her life. This book also contains a detailed commentary on the fable. The commentary discusses the importance of secure child-parent attachment for a meaningful life, referring to ideas in attachment theory.
