Chelsea Stephens
1) Rhapsodic
Author
Series
Bargainer volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want...
Author
Series
Bargainer volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited second book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to. She survived the mad king...but the nightmare isn't over. Siren Callypso Lillis still wears the physical reminders of her time as Karnon's captive, even after reuniting with soulmate Desmond Flynn, the King of Night. Not only that, but mounting evidence...
3) Dark harmony
Author
Series
Bargainer volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited final book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to. There are worse things than death. Things that lurk in the shadows and slip into dreams. Things that once slept...but have now awakened. For Callypso Lillis, the fae magic that now runs through her veins is equal parts curse and good fortune. While it bonds...
Author
Series
Undertaker's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After her father's murder, Rowan Dupont returns to Winchester, Tennessee, to run her family's funeral home, where she tries to stop an obsessive serial killer and reconsiders her mother's and sister's earlier deaths.
Author
Series
Undertaker's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it's only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn't know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved killer actually know her mother? And how many lies have been spun in the years since she took her own life? Working alongside her childhood friend Police Chief Billy...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"There's no action too small when it comes to creating better habits in your life.Whether you want to boost your grades, make a new friend, or save money for something special, creating healthy habits is the key to success both right now and in the future. Mini Habits for Teens shows you how to build good habits that stick, with easy advice for practicing little, everyday changes that help you work toward your goals one step at a time." -- Back cover....
Author
Series
Undertaker's daughter volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For months, Doctor Rowan Dupont has been staring death in the face. It followed her back to her hometown of Winchester, Tennessee, ten months ago, cloaking the walls of her family’s Victorian funeral home like a shroud. In investigating the mysterious deaths of her loved ones, Rowan has unearthed enough family secrets to bury everything she’d previously thought true. But each shocking discovery has only led to more bodies and more questions; the...
Author
Series
Bargainer volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited third book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to. In the beginning, there was darkness. Before he met his soulmate, Callypso Lillis, and before he became the Bargainer or the King of Night, he was just Desmond Flynn, the bastard son of a scribe. A boy born to a weak mother in a lowly city, cursed with little...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Abish "Abbie" Taylor returned to the mountain town of Pleasant View, Utah, hoping for a quiet life. But that hope dissipates when she wakes to an unsettling phone call. Arriving at the scene of a fatal car accident, she discovers that the victim was one of the most beloved leaders of the Church--and an old family friend. Abbie is skeptical when her father insists the death was not an accident, but in an attempt to patch up their relationship,...
12) Sycamore circle
Author
Series
Rumors in Ross County volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There's a lot going on in Joy Howard's life. She's got an ex-husband who starts acting like he doesn't want to be an ex anymore, a sixteen-year-old daughter in need of a guiding hand and a lot of rides to dance practice, more orders for paintings than she has time to paint, and a roster of tutoring clients who sometimes need far more than she can give. What she doesn't have is time for a new relationship. Samuel "Bo" Beauman is a lot of things. He's...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles... Campus is empty, a winter storm is blowing in, and someone is lurking in the shadows, waiting for their chance to kill again. Forest, North Carolina. Under the instruction of enigmatic Professor Joe Lyons, five graduate students are studying the tedious science behind the acts of lying. But discovering the secrets of deception...
14) Edgewater Road
Author
Series
Rumors in Ross County volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Jennifer Smiley's grandmother, Ginny, leaves her an old farmhouse on Edgewater Road in seemingly quiet Ross County, Ohio, Jennifer can't pass up the opportunity for a new beginning. Almost immediately she meets a group of men who generously help her move in. When she realizes that they work for Lincoln Bennett, her next-door neighbor, she's intrigued. Lincoln is gorgeous and has dark, lapis-blue eyes she could get lost in...but he doesn't seem...
15) Aesthetica
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the "black and white store," peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual transformation. She too is seeking rebirth. She's about to undergo the high-risk, elective surgery Aesthetica, a procedure that will reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self. Provided she survives the knife. But...
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie's skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane... Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn't want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn't want to deal with Amy's take-charge...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false belief. It might seem that there's an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hugely popular social media influencer, Alex relies on her personal assistant AC to help her manage each day, but when a controversial post goes viral, AC goes missing, and a woman is murdered, Alex finds herself thrust into the spotlight with no one left to trust.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Zoe Hallett and her sister, Ava, are the precocious offspring of two pioneering scientists, but the sisters have been estranged for years. WHen Zoe reads a news story about Ava's mysterious disappearance, she assumes it's just another of her sister's twisted fictions, designed to blame Zoe and destroy the peaceful life she's created with her husband and beautiful step-daughter in Houston. But Zoe's email is hacked to send threatening messages to...