Q: What do you get when you cross Avon Ladies with Charlie’s Angels? A: A world-class intelligence organization run by women who really know their foundation. When Nikki Lanier signs up as a cosmetics rep at Carrie Mae, it’s hardly her idea of a dream job. With a degree in linguistics and a hard-core workout regimen, the twenty-six-year-old redhead once had hopes for a real career. But unemployed and desperate to escape life at home with her nagging mother, she’ll try anything—even selling makeup to housewives. Soon, Nikki learns that the powder and lipstick are simply cover-up for the Carrie Mae Foundation: a secret organization of international espionage and high-tech mascara founded for the purpose of “helping women everywhere.” Whisked off to Thailand with the legendary Carrie Mae agent Val Robinson, Nikki is soon in over her head. Between investigating the abduction of a human rights activist, tracking down a murderous arms dealer, keeping up with her wildly dangerous new partner, and occasionally trying to date a hunk who may or may not be CIA, Nikki has to use all the courage and cosmetic technology she’s got to bring down the bad guys and get out alive. With the support of the colorful Carrie Mae crew, Nikki will overcome even the most harrowing obstacles—including incessant phone calls from her mother—or die trying.

Q: What do you get when you cross Avon Ladies with Charlie’s Angels? A: A world-class intelligence organization run by women who really know their foundation. When Nikki Lanier signs up as a cosmetics rep at Carrie Mae, it’s hardly her idea of a dream job. With a degree in linguistics and a hard-core workout regimen, the twenty-six-year-old redhead once had hopes for a real career. But unemployed and desperate to escape life at home with her nagging mother, she’ll try anything—even selling makeup to housewives. Soon, Nikki learns that the powder and lipstick are simply cover-up for the Carrie Mae Foundation: a secret organization of international espionage and high-tech mascara founded for the purpose of “helping women everywhere.” Whisked off to Thailand with the legendary Carrie Mae agent Val Robinson, Nikki is soon in over her head. Between investigating the abduction of a human rights activist, tracking down a murderous arms dealer, keeping up with her wildly dangerous new partner, and occasionally trying to date a hunk who may or may not be CIA, Nikki has to use all the courage and cosmetic technology she’s got to bring down the bad guys and get out alive. With the support of the colorful Carrie Mae crew, Nikki will overcome even the most harrowing obstacles—including incessant phone calls from her mother—or die trying.

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you are perceived, and live a more fearless life. Becoming Bulletproof means transforming yourself into a stronger, more confident, and more powerful person. Evy Poumpouras—former Secret Service agent to three presidents and one of only five women to receive the Medal of Valor—demonstrates how we can overcome our everyday fears, have difficult conversations, know who to trust and who might not have our best interests at heart, influence situations, and prepare for the unexpected. When you have become bulletproof, you are your best, most courageous, and most powerful version of you. Poumpouras shows us that ultimately true strength is found in the mind, not the body. Courage involves facing our fears, but it is also about resilience, grit, and having a built-in BS detector and knowing how to use it. In Becoming Bulletproof, Poumpouras demonstrates how to heighten our natural instincts to employ all these qualities and move from fear to fearlessness.

Welcome to the universe of Galactic Dreams, where fairy tales are reimagined for a new age—the future. On the planet Arsu, Bella Glass steps into a rose garden and is thrown 140 years into the future, crashing into the life and vehicle of Kai Craig. Kai is a man dying by inches, struggling against the last vestiges of a war that has ravaged the planet, his body poisoned by radiation from a bomb that turns men into monsters. As Bella faces a world she doesn't recognize and tries to figure out how to return home, she finds herself falling for Kai’s kindness and loyalty. But when they discover that someone has traveled through time to Bella’s past intent on changing the outcome of the war, Bella must choose between Kai and preventing a devastating alteration of the timeline. As Bella races to save her planet, she must leave Kai alone just as the effects of the bomb to turn him into a rage-filled beast that threatens everyone close to him. With time running out, Bella and Kai have only one chance to prevent losing a war that’s already been won and succeeding might mean that they must give up a love they were never meant to have. Galactic Dreams is a unique series of science-fiction novellas from Blue Zephyr Press featuring retellings of classic tales from different authors, all sharing the same universe, technology, and history. The Beast of Arsu is also available as part of the Galactic Dreams Vol. 3 Collection. If you liked Marissa Meyers’ Lunar Chronicles or James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse, you’ll love Galactic Dreams. Buy this adventure-filled, intergalactic fairy tale series today!

You never know what’s beneath the surface. When Seattle native Tish Yearly finds herself fired and evicted all in one afternoon, she knows she’s in deep water. Unemployed and desperate, the 26 year old ex-actress heads for the one place she knows she’ll be welcome – the house of her cantankerous ex-CIA agent grandfather, Tobias Yearly, in the San Juan Islands. And when she discovers the strangled corpse of Tobias’s best friend, she knows she’s in over her head. Tish is thrown head-long into a mystery that pits her against a handsome but straight-laced Sheriff’s Deputy, a group of eccentric and clannish local residents, and a killer who knows the island far better than she does. Now Tish must swim against the current, depending on her nearly forgotten acting skills and her grandfather’s spy craft, to con a killer and keep them alive.

Christmas is a lot more dangerous than it used to be. Graphic designer Violet “Merry Christmas!” Harper is usually found at her local Starbucks. Roman “Bah Humbug!” Knox is usually carrying a gun. But on a cold Christmas Eve, a barista, her idiot ex, and childhood game of “Are You Smarter Than a Criminal” will bring Roman and Violet together… in a bank vault. It’s a mess, a robbery and almost the worst day ever, but maybe a Christmas miracle can get them out of the bank and into love.

Think you’re alone in this city? Think again. Goblins, faeries, vampires, and werewolves are all clawing for their piece of the American dream in Tacoma, Washington. Ariana Grace is not just your average antiques dealer. This half-faery can sell you all the best “assets” – a great sense of humor, a new memory, or just the right amount of luck. If your problem seems impossible, if no one else can help, then Ariana Grace might have just the right asset for you. But be warned – magic has a mind of it’s own – everything may not go as you planned. – The Dragon Incident, Spells of Murder, and The Devil’s Invitational have all been collected into one volume featuring five additional tales that reveal more about your favorite characters! Follow Ariana through 8 tales of mystery, murder, and adventure as she shows us just what’s lurking in Tacoma’s alley’s, pool halls, and brothels.

Former actress Tish Yearly washed up on her grandfather’s doorstep after being fired, robbed, and evicted all the same day. Now, two years later Tish has a burgeoning business as the owner of a wedding and events venue on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. But when Hollywood knocked on her door, Tish found herself turning down the part of a lifetime for a new dream – being a producer. But having persuaded a bevy of Hollywood insiders to film a movie on Orcas Island, persuaded her boyfriend that she's not leaving him to be a star, and persuaded Matt Jones, the islands most reputable drug dealer, to help bank roll the film, Tish Yearly has a lot riding on things going well. But when the movie's director turns up dead, Tish can see a storm is about to hit. Now Tish and Tobias are racing against the clock to solve the case before the movie folds or Tish ends up in jail for a murder she didn't commit.

Sometimes the hardest move is making eye contact. Lexi Byrne, neurodivergent, UW grad student and part-time nanny, is working on cutting edge bionic eye technology. Lexi believes in evidence, facts, and that she might never feel comfortable in yellow. Lexi’s boyfriend, Tanner Driscoll, is the science department’s most eligible bachelor. Lexi's best friend, Shea Yamaguchi, a volunteer operator on the suicide hotline, is a devastated college drop-out who is still coping with the loss of a caller. And Carter Zheng is the mysterious new arrival in the science department who Lexi thinks might be a plagiarist—an epically good-looking plagiarist. Other than dealing with a potentially friendship-ending fight with Shea, and struggling to deal with dating-while-on the spectrum, Lexi’s life is a regular routine of work, school, and watching big time wrestling with her nanny charge, Olivia. But Lexi’s normal, safe, science-based life takes an abrupt left turn when her prototype is stolen and Lexi learns that not everyone on campus is who they say they are. Now Lexi is scrambling to solve the mystery, recover her prototype, and protect her loved ones from thieves who believe that technology and ethics don’t go together.

He'd take a bullet for her. His key witnesses dead, Texas Ranger Garrison Travis had to protect innocent bystander Kenderly Tyler. Her crucial evidence had two very dangerous Texas crime families willing to do anything to keep her quiet. But Garrison's undercover status had branded him a killer, and now the bad and the good guys were after them both. Hiding out with a handsome protector, on the run for her life, was so beyond anything Kenderly had imagined. While there was more than just adrenaline pulsing between them, the Ranger vowed his job was his life. Dare she wonder what would become of them should they actually make it out alive?