Justina Luther's debut series Step into Darkness blends young adult and new adult into a psychological thriller which follows seven-teen-year-old Justine Leonard through the twists, turns, heartbreaks, and scandals that follow her father's sudden death. Are you brave enough to step into the darkness?
Beatrix Lenora Tannely’s life has been abnormally idyllic. Not so much as a broken bone in her childhood, graduating at the top of her class from the college of her dreams, and now she and her fiancé have just opened the first in what they hope to be a successful chain of sub shops. But the pendulum of life must always swing. back and hers is about to. Bethany Lisa Tannely’s life has been a nightmare from the day she was born. Left at a fire station shortly after she was born without so much as a letter of explanation, she’s had to fight for every scrap she’s gotten. She’s always wondered who she is, a gaping hole that’s only grown wider and darker with age. Now she knows she’s a Tannely with a twin sister and she’s coming for what’s hers.
Nicholai Lebedve was kicked out onto the streets of New York, bloodied, on Christmas Eve as the snow fell after his mother’s funeral. He had come home to find his father in bed with yet another mistress. That was eight years ago. In that moment, Nicholai swore to build a new life for himself. To make it one even his father, in his glass tower built of lies, would be forced to crane his neck to. As years pass, bruises fade, but the scars of the heart remain, turning it to coal. A man of business now, Nicholai remembers his father only in passing until one Thanksgiving, when a little girl in a wheelchair with his father’s eyes, lands on his doorstep. The government says she’s his problem now, and she has a dream only Nicholai can fulfill. Will Nicholai be able to open his heart to this tiny dancer? Or will she be turned out into the snow to face the world alone?
Camille Jensen grew up to be Camille Leonard, and then Camille Martin, but where did she begin? An army brat, Camille has an overwhelming love for her father who rules with an iron fist and a short temper, and a mother who raises her on a steady diet of wedding dreams and fairy tales. Moving from state to state with a constant worry about her blood sugar hanging over her head, she chooses to spend her time in the world of her dreams; until the summer she meets Caleb Arthur Leonard, a self-proclaimed bad boy and the key to the rest of her life.
Martin Douglas Earl, Dirk as he would come to be known, may have grown up to become a monster who haunted the dreams of many a young girl, but he began as a boy who dreamed of the love of a family. Abandoned as a toddler, Martin bounced from one home to the next in the foster system until landing with the Church family. Who knew a family with such a wholesome name would set him on such a dark path?
Colton and Spencer Briggs are brothers in arms and brothers by blood. They think life will be a breeze when they leave the military and start up their own security business. What’s the worst that can happen shuffling prissy popstars from one show to the next? Little do they know what will happen when they stop by their favorite little coffee spot on the way to their next job. Elenore Shotts’ biggest worry is making enough in tips to cover her bills, that is until a strange man with deadly intentions walks into the small coffee shop where she works. His sights are set on her and her back is to the wall until two of her regulars step in to offer a helping hand. Shots will fly and passions will flare. Will anyone be left standing?
Ever since she was a child, Miriam (Mimzie) Montebello has loved macaws. Her adoration for these beautiful creatures began with her grandmother’s macaw, Major. Loud, intelligent, and a handful, she saw herself in him. It’s no surprise to anyone who knows her when at twenty-six she founds Mimzie’s Macaw Mafia, a sanctuary for these beautiful and often misunderstood birds. When macaws and other large parrots begin to pour into the sanctuary at an ever-increasing rate, Mimzie sets out to discover why. Single father Avery Grayson runs exotic pet shop Taste of the Wild, and business has never been better. Happy customers come and go from his shop daily, especially since he began carrying exotic birds. Who doesn’t love a pet that can talk? Carrying birds is something Avery promised himself he would never do, but when his business began to fail and it came to a choice between keeping food in his daughter’s stomach, or letting a few owners learn on the fly, he learned to overlook a few things. When a loud-mouthed woman comes snooping around his shop demanding he stop trading in these winged meal tickets, will he tell her to test her wings off a cliff, or will sparks fly?
Cherry Miller doesn’t know where she fits in life. With a restless spirit, an ailing grandmother whom she loves dearly, and painfully awkward social skills, what’s a girl to do? Each afternoon while her grandmother sleeps, Cherry walks down to the fifty’s style soda shop a few blocks away to sip on a marshmallow cherry float and daydream about the shop owner with broad shoulders and a smile to outshine the sun. When he offers to walk her home one night, Cherry finds she’s not the only one restless to get her out of the house.
My name is Angela Miller and I’m your average teenager, aside from the fact that I’m not. There’s a battle happening in my shallow, sleepy little town. No one has a clue about it and I’m the only one who can save them. They can’t see The Shadow, and they ignore my boyfriend Ronni, my Mom, and my little sister; all while they call me ill. Ronni thinks we should bring this place to the ground, but I’ve talked him into giving me more time. He says deliverance is destruction so what will my little town’s fate be?
From the start, Nikki Rainiers has had to fight for what most people take for granted. Abandoned by her teenage mother after being born with a bleed in her brain and a subsequent surgery to save her life, her grandparents raised her working alongside them in their small bakery.After her grandparents’ passing it’s Nikki’s turn and she’s determined to do things her own way and make Cherry Sunrises the doughnut shop of her dreams. But when old health issues resurface to threaten everything, Nikki must fight for it all once more.Male nurse Wes Owens is a man used to the daily teasing of his colleagues, but he’s never let it stop him from giving each patient his all. However, when he meets Nikki, a woman determined to succeed at the cost of her health, will giving his all mean losing his heart?