Stacy Gonzalez

In the near future, humanity hasn't avoided the worst of climate change: wildfires, rising oceans, mass migration, and skyrocketing inequality have become the daily reality. Just when it seems that it can't get any worse, a movement of workers, migrants, and refugees inspires the world to band together, save the planet, and rebuild a society for all. This is The Great Transition. Emi Vargas was born post-Transition, a utopia compared to the world...

Twelve-year-old Henna loves living on Earth's End, the smallest and remotest settlement in the Gardenia Isles. As one of her island's three residents-the other two are her papas-she spends most of her free time in the garden, coaxing beautiful blooms out of her beloved plants. But when her papa Niall suddenly becomes seriously ill, Henna's perfect world is uprooted. So when she hears of a legendary, long-lost plant with miraculous healing powers,...

"Angel's View Ranch has always been special to Annelise McCade. Once upon a time, it was her family's land, until her grandfather sold it to billionaire Wallace Sheridan. Now employed as the live-in caretaker, Annie is just trying to make it through the holidays with both her sanity and her niece's and nephew's faith in the magic of Christmas intact. The six-year-old twins recently lost their mother, so Annie tells herself it wouldn't be a problem...

"Welcome to Sunset Academy, the most coveted elementary school in Miami Beach, where there are three categories of families: rich, wealthy, and ultra-wealthy. Perfectly tanned and smiling Charlotte Giordani is Sunset Academy's alpha mom. With a sleek blowout and relentless charm, Charlotte's brashness serves her well. She's up for election as the PTA president and is riding high, having just secured a massive donation from billionaire Don Walker and...

Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma's queer scene, where skirts and trousers don't signify and everyone's free to suit themselves. Then two local men end up dead, with all signs pointing to the opium...

1970s. Parson, Texas is a small town ravaged by a devastating hurricane and the Vietnam War. Lou is diligently renovating a decaying old mansion for Miss Kate, the elderly neighbor who has always been like a mother to her. Mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, Lou dreams of enjoying a more peaceful future in Parson. When Miss Kate is murdered, no one but Lou seems to care about finding the killer. Joanna-- Miss Kate's long-estranged daughter and...

"On Christmas Eve, eighty-five-year-old Miriam Gardiner walks onto the vast frozen river behind her home. As a younger woman, she used to steal out on winter nights to meet her lover, walking straight across the ice to their secret meeting place. She knows the way--but not the year. Miriam, her mind clouded by dementia, doesn't hear the snap of thin ice until it's too late. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or worse: did someone urge the old woman onto...

"Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The 'poor handsome man.' Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra 'Alex' Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration; she won't let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex...

"Jolene loves watching The Desert Aviator, a livestream of twelve-year-old "Addie Earhart" flying her ultralight plane and exploring the desert....Then it all goes wrong: Addie's engine abruptly stops, and Jolene watches in helpless horror as the ultralight crashes and the video goes dark. With no one to turn to for help and only a hand-drawn map and a stolen cell phone to rely on, Jolene must find a way to save the Desert Aviator." -- Page 4 of cover....

This was not the Friday night they had planned... Chloe, Avery and Madison can't wait to camp out in the backyard. It will be a night of telling scary stories and trading secrets while roasting marshmallows. Elijah, the kid next door, keeps trying to prank them, but it's all in good fun. Who doesn't like a little scare after the sun has set and the moonlight casts creepy shadows everywhere? As the three friends slide into their sleeping bags, a scratching...