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For A Lark: A Novel

From Debut Author, Seth Goodman, comes a tragic tale of love, helplessness and desire. A new age story of a young and innocent girl breaking through molds to find her place in this world.

Melody “Lark” Larkness is trying to run from her past. Working at Scottsdale’s most exclusive Gentlemen’s Club—Starlight—feels like a step toward stability. But when the new floor manager’s dangerous obsession puts her in his sights, she realizes nowhere is truly safe.

Romeo Mendes has always played it safe. A food service manager with a long-distance girlfriend and a
predictable life, he isn’t looking for complications. But when Lark’s world collides with his, he can’t turn away. The friendship they build is a risk he shouldn’t take—but one he can’t resist.

When violence erupts, Lark disappears, forcing her to confront the ghosts of her past alone. Romeo is left to pick up the pieces, torn between returning to the life he knows and chasing something he never expected.

If their paths cross again, will love be enough to bridge the distance, or will the past pull them apart for good?

One Step Ahead

Jill Towers died in an accident. At least, that is what the newspaper suggests.

After Jill Towers falls to her death from a cliff during the Island Walk, the glue that held her friend group is gone forever. Two years later, mourning her death, four friends come back to Jersey for a charity walk.

But broken friendships have prominent cracks and these cracks hold dark secrets that come up to the surface when Haydon, Yesenia, Gary and Maisie reunite. After all, Haydon left the island soon after the death, Yesenia withdrew into her shell, Maisie ran until her heartbeat overpowered the thought of Jill’s death…and Gary went on about his business dealings as if it was just another Tuesday.

Their friendship goes through another test when they all set off for the Island Walk, but it seems like they all have their own agenda to finish the walk, which may or may not have to do with Jill.

With Jersey Beans, the local news portal, dishing out one scoop after the other, tension rises with the entire island scrutinising their every action. Will the gruelling 48.1 mile get them before the truth does? Will one of them crack and reveal what actually happened on that day? Or was it really just a freak accident?

C. L. Peache’s One Step Ahead pulls you in for a walk of a lifetime , as secrets get revealed with every step to finding out the truth. A story about loss wrapped up in suspense where everyone had something to gain…

Peculiar Occurrences in the 18th Century Town of Sillyshire

Set in the windswept coastal town of Goodwood, Peculiar Occurrences in the 18th Century Town of Sillyshire begins with a romance that was never meant to survive.

Henrietta, dreamy and misunderstood, falls for the troubled and obsessive Burton. In 1742, their story ends in horror when she plunges from a cliff into the roaring sea—her body never recovered, her death transforming instantly into myth.

A year later, Henrietta returns. Alive. Unchanged. And yet entirely other.

Drawn from the ocean with an eerie calm and impossible beauty, she mesmerizes the townspeople who once pitied or mocked her. Soon, fear gives way to devotion. Whispers of miracles spread. Offerings are made. And then the sacrifices begin. Those given to the sea do not simply die—they transform, joining Henrietta in a strange underwater kingdom that grows stronger with each passing week.

As Goodwood empties and the line between hysteria and faith dissolves, the town must confront an unsettling truth: is Henrietta a monster born of tragedy, or a queen forged by collective guilt and longing?

Blending gothic folklore, dark humour, and creeping cosmic horror, this novel explores how easily communities surrender to legend—and how quickly love can evolve into worship.

Gather round. This is a story worth hearing.

The Birdcage

For fans of the domestic drama The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, and Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, The Birdcage looks at reversed-gender roles, women breaking workplace barriers, and how secrets can hurt us.

One true love. Under fire from all sides. They’ll need each other to escape their birdcage.

Matt’s in awe of his wife.

Feisty, intelligent, capable, and now excelling in her first executive sales position. But Jillian’s job requires long hours, and Matt can’t help but suspect an affair. Jillian’s become more suited to her impressive boss than the hapless schoolteacher she’s outgrown.

Jillian’s marriage is slipping through her fingers.

Jill loves meeting the challenges of her new job, despite the unreasonable demands of her misogynistic boss. But she needs to find the balance between being a woman, wife, mother and hard-charging Vice President. Even a patient man like Matt won’t tolerate her neglect for long.

Set in corporate Canada, The Birdcage is a fast-paced novella that will inspire you, scare you a little, and feed your heart and mind. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Elin Hilderbrand.

Freeing Madame X

Escape has never felt like an option. Until him.

For years, she has lived under the control of Dave Compton—the arrogant, possessive son of the man who owns the town as surely as he owns its people. To Dave, she is obedience personified, a body to claim and a will to break.

Until…

Raphael is the magnetic artist who has it all, fame, charm, money—everything except her. An artist who sees more than what Shanaya’s been reduced to. With him, she begins to imagine a life beyond survival. A self beyond submission—showered with passionate love.

Desire, for the first time, feels like a choice rather than a demand. Lust takes the centre stage as they are both drawn to each other, knowing very well about the risks involved.

But Dave is not a man who releases what he believes belongs to him. As control tightens and lines are drawn, she is forced to confront what freedom truly costs—and whether she’s brave enough to take what is rightfully hers. Between possession and passion, fear and ecstasy—a reckoning awaits.

Will Madame X finally claim her own pleasure?

Or will Dave refuse to let her go?

The Novel Year

What happens when a planet of people are pushed into their homes indefinitely and without warning?

What would happen to lives so abruptly turned upside down?

How would people find solace and community and hope in this time?

Follow along with multiple first-person perspectives of people struggling through a pandemic, and you will find an honest reckoning of how people cope with the world when they are exposed to their darkest thoughts and basest impulses. You’ll find someone with mental illness, a teacher, a nurse, an activist, along with plenty of those who want to exploit the pandemic for their own benefit- and those who succumb to them. What will the mix of all these different strains result in, when they are all suffering under the brunt of this novel virus strain?