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Estranged from her family, grappling with pressures at work, and trapped in the suffocating grip of depression as a result of childhood trauma, magazine executive Mia Hill tries to claw her way out of despair. But her life unravels when she stumbles across a note hidden inside a painting gifted to her by her late mother.

There are moments in life that are mountainous. They are big, scary, and insurmountable. For Demetrius Sky this moment is the death of his only son. After finding a great love in the alluring, hippie, songstress, Charlie, he thought he'd found his forever. But when grief causes a rift between them he must decide where his loyalty truly lies. With an allegiance to his ex-wife, Lauren, the divorcees must face a sorrowful goodbye, and the only way to get through it is together.

Charlie and Demi are the most unlikely of suitors. They are polar opposites in every way, but somehow fate still brought them to one another. After hearing Charlie sing one night in a random smokey bar, Demi finds himself revisiting the hole in the wall just to see her. When given the chance to know her, he realizes that the life he's been living for fifteen years has led him in the wrong direction. With love as their compass, Charlie and Demi must trust themselves enough to get lost in love and in one another as they fight against gravity to let their love fly high.

Anastassia has always had her entire life planned. Determined not to become like her mother and rely on a loveless marriage for survival, Stassi built a successful event planning business. In a world where her next client could be anyone, from a famous ball player, to a corporate millionaire, she has made it a point to keep her name clean. But when her sister Charlie gets mixed up with a married man the scandal is disastrous. Stassi loses it all just by association, and when the opportunity to earn it all back comes along she must decide what the price is for her soul.

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist, historian, novelist, and playwright. Brown was an African-American pioneer in various literary genres. His novel Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), was published in London, England in 1853. It is the story of Clotel and her sister Althesa who are fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and explores the destructive effects of slavery on African-American families, the difficult lives of people of mixed-race, and the degraded and immoral relationship between master and slave.

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is considered the first important Black American novelist. The Conjure Woman is a collection of seven stories that began appearing in magazines in 1887 and were first published together in 1899. The narrator of The Conjure Woman is a White man from the North living in the South who passes along the stories told to him by the ex-slave Julius McAdoo. The narratives provide a realistic picture of the pre-Civil War South, including descriptions of brutish slave owners.

Când o femeie ucisă este găsită într-o cutie străpunsă cu săbii, poliţia este descumpănită: a fost un număr de magie care n-a mers cum trebuie sau o crimă extrem de brutală? Mina Dabiri lucrează la poliţia din Stockholm și primește ajutorul lui Vincent Walder, un mentalist și expert în limbaj corporal și magie. Mina și Vincent fac legături cu cazuri mai vechi și își dau seama că sunt pe urmele unui criminal în serie nemilos, care trebuie oprit înainte să mai facă și alte victime. Însă personalităţile dificile ale celor doi complică situaţia.