Generational Stories

Breaking a curse isn't easy, especially when your great-great-grandmother was a Victorian witch who spelled her own family. Join 16-year-old Lily Killough on a magical adventure through time to heal ancestral wounds and break the ties that bind in this intergenerational YA mystery.* All her life 16-year-old Lily has dreamed of attending the annual Victorian Ball in her hometown of Waxahachie, Texas. When she lands her first job with the company catering the party, Lilly gets a glimpse of the opulent event from behind the scenes. As she pokes around the Queen Anne-era Victorian mansion Twin Oaks House, Lily discovers a thrilling secret. The original owner of the property is her great-great-grandmother, a once-powerful matriarch disgraced over accusations of infidelity and witchcraft. With the help of her departed ancestors, Lily is transported through time to attempt to right the wrongs of the past. But after revealing the disturbing origins of a generational curse imprisoning her family and their magic, will Lily have the power to break the chains and rewrite history? Only time will tell.... and, unfortunately, the clock is ticking. Lily must solve the mystery and return to the present day before the Victorian Ball is over at the stroke of midnight.

In a world of Oracles, every miracle has a receipt. For eight years, Leila M'Karo has been paying hers. As a survivor of the 2017 Kalimba Square Bombing, a tragedy that killed her human friends and shattered her life, her "receipt" comes in the form of blinding migraines and nosebleeds, the agonizing Cost for her rare temporal power. Now, in 2025, her obsessive hunt for answers finally bears fruit. She and her cousin uncover a ghost in the archives: the "Relic Signal," a hidden audio file from the day of the blast. The file proves the bombing wasn't a random act of terror. It was a calculated execution. The discovery plunges Leila into a shadow war she never knew existed, a "60-year secret war" her own grandfather, the legendary peacemaker Elias M'Karo, fought to keep buried. Hunted by a silent, mirrored agent of the shadow-organization "The Ascendants" and forced into a tense partnership with a cold, logical analyst, Leila is trapped in a deadly "cat-and-mouse" game. Her only weapon is the "ghost" images of the past; her power lets her see a power that may not be enough to stop a conspiracy that's been in motion for half a century. Leila is hunting a killer, but the Burden of Truth she's uncovered might be the most dangerous weapon of all.

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Grief has a way of clinging to places. For Cecilia Whisper, it lingers in her grandmother's house - in the soft creak of floorboards, the scent of dust and rosewater, and the faint tick of an old clock that hasn't stopped since the day she died. But grief isn't the only thing that remains. Hidden in the attic lies a box marked Memoirs. Inside: letters, fragile with age and heavy with words that were never meant for Cecilia to read. Their ink bleeds with a love too strong, too complicated, and too dangerous to have survived its time. As Cecilia begins to uncover the truth behind the letters, she learns that the past is never really gone - it waits, patient and persistent, for someone to listen.

The Thuggish Ruggish Bone- book four of Shut Up & Listen Series: Lonnie, the eldest of his siblings, seems lost to everyone around him. But he's never been more sure of himself and what he needs. On the other hand there's Dame- he seems the most put together but his world on the inside is full of turmoil. While so completely opposite they seem, these brothers, Dame and Lonnie, will soon find that at the core, down at the bone, they couldn't be more similar. no.1 in #innercity no.2 in #innerchild no.2 in #bougie

When 24-year old Ivy Carter moves into her late grandmother's forgotten lakeside cottage for the summer, she expects nothing more than peeling wallpaper, quiet mornings, and time to think. Instead, she finds a box of letters hidden beneath the floorboards, love letters written to her grandmother by a man who isn't her grandfather. The deeper Ivy dives into the secret romance that changed her grandmother's life, the more unsettling the parallels become with her own tangled heart. She's been with Etham, her steady and reliable boyfriend, for five years, but when she meets Luca, the passionate stranger restoring the cottage next door, the letters start to feel less like history and more like a warning. Some choices echo for generations. And Ivy must decide whether to repeat the past...or rewrite it. Ivy Carter - A reflective, cautious soul still figuring out who she is. Torn between security and passion. Ethan Miller - Her long-term boyfriend, patient and loyal but increasingly distant. Luca Reyes - A charming, spontaneous carpenter who challenges Ivy's view of love. Margaret Carter - Ivy's grandmother, whose hidden love story mirrors Ivy's own in unexpected ways.

Bella Thorne is a young artist who paints with fire in her veins and truth in every stroke. Her parents call it a phase. Her boyfriend walks away when her canvases begin asking questions he can't answer. But Bella refuses to shrink. Then, one quiet evening at the gallery, a spotlight shifts, and everything changes. A priceless painting disappears. A shadowy network rises. And Liam Sterling, a reserved benefactor with secrets of his own, steps into a fight that will test law, love, and loyalty. As the gallery becomes a battleground, family rivalries flare, an arranged-marriage debt threatens Liam's future, and Bella's secret pregnancy turns a public war into the most personal choice of her life. One side wants control. The other wants the truth. Bella wants both, and she refuses to

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A Novel of Curses, Love, and the Allure of the Screen --- Every generation of the Vaelor bloodline has been forced to surrender something priceless: their sanity, their voice, their shadow-or their heart. In the storm-lashed Calderan Isles, Neriah Vaelor is the last heir of a house drowning in debts and shame. When the producers of "Aurora Channel" offer her a chance to save her family by starring in a worldwide televised courtship, she agrees-believing she can keep her heart safely barricaded behind duty. But as cameras capture her every glance, Neriah finds herself drawn to Thorn Rivenn, a rival noble whose own family is cursed by the same ancient bargain. Beneath the studio lights and whispered confessions, a darker power stirs: the demon Aethyrian, whose pact with her ancestor still demands its due. If Neriah surrenders to love, she could doom them both. If she denies it, her family's curse may finally claim everything she has left. Sweeping and sensual, "Eclipsed Destinies" is a tale of forbidden desire, ancestral sins, and the perilous cost of being seen.

A park bench remembers the love, loss, and life it witnessed beneath the setting sun.

Impulses can lead you down paths with no escape and no second chances. For the Tapped in, coming of age is a rarity and an honor because most don't make it to adulthood. Aaliyah Tipton is a focused upstate New York woman just trying to navigate life and survive all aspects of it. From a stern mother to endless work nights, Aaliyah finds herself content somehow. That is, until one impulsive choice puts her in a situation that no Tapped in wishes to be in. Unforgiving, this fate is because when you're Tapped in, inevitably, things tap back.

Imara has always been taught to bloom quietly-never too loud, never too bright. But beneath her calm surface lies a storm waiting to rise. Trapped in a world of expectations, silence, and invisible wounds, she begins to feel the sharp sting of a truth long buried: she was never meant to be tame. When the thorns that have held her for so long begin to bleed, Imara finds herself on a journey of painful transformation. Each cut reveals strength, each struggle peels back layers of fear, and from the tangled vines of her past, she begins to rise. A haunting, poetic tale of freedom, identity, and healing, Thorns and Roses is a powerful portrait of a young Black woman's awakening-one thorn at a time.

Nobody's innocent

Beneath Nebraska's endless skies, Johnny Winds carries a legacy of silence and strength he never chose. In a town where roles are carved in stone and winters cut deep, he wrestles with who he is and who he's meant to be. When love breaks through the cold, Johnny's world shifts-forcing him to reckon with the truth hidden beneath years of quiet survival.

A family's love and routine mask an invisible battle-a psychological war waged through texts, phone calls, and the haunting legacy of generations. Nora tries to be a good mother, partner, and daughter. But as her own mother's influence creeps deeper into every decision, the boundary between care and control blurs. Her husband Mark sees the cracks forming. Their three children sense the tension, each coping in their own way as ordinary life becomes a slow-motion thriller of secrets, guilt, and manipulation. As pressure mounts, old wounds reopen, and the line between protection and possession threatens to break them all. How do you save a family when the enemy is already inside?

A tender, time-looped micro-story that blurs the line between then and now. Where memory clings like lather and the past returns with every swirl of a shaving brush.

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From the killing fields of Vietnam to the killing floors of American capitalism, Senator Alejandro Ramos-Alejo has witnessed a lifetime of state violence-and participated in it. As he lies dying in a New Mexico hospital, watching the January 6th insurrection unfold on television, his mind cycles through the moments that shaped him: learning about the My Lai massacre that radicalized a generation, discovering the history of La Matanza that his family had lived through, riding a Greyhound bus to Washington D.C. in 1969 with a dog-eared copy of an underground antiwar newspaper. His family's story is America's story told from the bottom up-Bracero Program workers pushed from state to state, organizers beaten and abandoned, children born into poverty and taught to be grateful for the chance to work themselves to death in someone else's fields. But Ramos-Alejo chose a different path: he went to Washington not as a protester but as a senator, believing he could change the system from within. Now, as his longtime aide abandons him and his body shuts down, he's forced to confront the possibility that his entire political career was just another form of extraction-taking the moral authority of his family's suffering and spending it to legitimize the very institutions that caused that suffering. A devastating portrait of political compromise and the seductive power of proximity to power, "El Tiempo Cura las Heridas" asks whether time really does heal all wounds, or whether some wounds are too deep, too systematic, and too profitable to ever truly heal.

Told through the eyes of a daughter searching for meaning in the ashes of her mother's life, Wind and Fire is a hauntingly intimate portrait of a woman who loved too hard, hurt too long, and left too soon. Amira Grace Byers was only Six when her mother, Novalee, died by suicide. In the aftermath, Amira is left with questions no one can answer and memories that won't stop speaking. Determined to understand the woman who raised her-and to finally make peace with the pain she left behind -Amira begins to write. What emerges is a breathtaking account of Novalee's life: a spirited Black girl with a too-big heart and too-little guidance, growing up in a world that mistook her tenderness for weakness. From her troubled teenage years filled with older men and whispered mistakes, to becoming a mother far too young, Novalee's story unfolds with raw beauty and quiet tragedy. Amira pieces it together not just from what she remembers, but from what was left unsaid-from journals, photographs, stories passed down, and the silence in between. As Amira writes, she begins to heal. Wind and Fire becomes more than a memoir; it becomes a letter to her mother who wasn't able to save herself and a daughter still trying to forgive herself. Heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure, this story is a meditation on grief, generational trauma, young motherhood, and the legacy of love.

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