"Lag returns from his training to find Amberground in chaos. The government is crumbling, revolution is underway and the sun itself is going out. The Letter Bees' last chance is to penetrate Akatsuki, the mysterious capital of Amberground and the source of the sun's power. But who will be the one to enter Akatsuki and forge a new world--Chico, who's prepared to make any sacrifice for her people, or Lag, who holds out the impossible hope that every...

"Jessica Harrow Goes To Hell! While Jess, Lilah, and Eddie feel the touch of hellfire for the first time ever, Jess begins to build an army as fears of an all out war arise, and knows it will be up to her to take back the Afterlife! But sometimes Hell is all it's cracked up to be. Jess and Eddie search for an alternate portal to the infernal hereafter they'd left behind, and a mysterious European town may be the key... but the balance of authority...

The linked stories in UNBEND THE RIVER are set along a forested stretch of land between Lake Erie and the upper Allegheny River in Western New York, places dense with rivers, hills, and forest. The characters, all of whom are tied to a modern knife manufacturing plant, illustrate all the ways love and longing shapeshift over the course of a long life. A host of elderly hockey players, Franciscan Friars, loser heroes, budding conmen, and unintentional...