Fire Cursed

Elemental magic, souls doomed to eternal reincarnation, and an ancient cult with sinister devices. Phoenyx Blake has a dark secret, one she’s repressed since her father died in a mysterious house fire a decade ago. When she wakes in a dungeon with three strangers, she’s forced to face that secret, w ...

Portal Slayer: Path of Deceit

What if the demon to slay was your own? Raelyn Witt’s life has imploded. Holding tight to devastating secrets, she’s spent a year putting the pieces back together. But when her brother falls victim to a baffling and deadly illness, and desperate for a cure, she puts everything else aside. In her fre ...

Locked Out of Heaven

A reluctant queen. A dark king. Their war will write the first Fae legacy.

Locked Out of Heaven is the explosive first book in the Legacies of Light & Dark Mythic Fantasy series. Perfect for fans o ...

The Big Sleep Mode

The return of the world's first Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator, Raymond 3000. Sentenced with other Andro-Americans to a concentration camp for alleged crimes against the state, Raymond is temporarily freed to help find who is behind a series of terrorist bombings targeting the city.

Scars of the Defiant: Kohath Series Book 1

A Five-Star Reader's Favorite! After her brother takes his own life, Wrenn Jodh’s life unravels. With nothing left of him but a pair of journals she can’t bear to read, Wrenn retreats to the stability of her job as an aid worker for Kohath’s refugees. On the way, she finds herself thrown togethe ...

At The Mirror's Edge (Salt Songs II)

Tausi, son of the legendary Captain Ngala, has risen to the edge of power as higher glories await him on bloody horizons. Now the lord of his own ship, The Ube, he reaves the Mirror Sea to spread the fame of Song City, once a den of monsters in Shallow Bay. Every doubt he meets with the end of a swo ...

Princess of Sky, Earth, Fire and Water

In 1772, amidst the ancient ruins and standing stones of western Ireland, a young woman inherits an army, a fleet of ships, and special powers. To keep her magic, she journeys to the East Kingdom and meets her greatest challenge -- a warrior prince whose love threatens to destroy them both. Together ...

The 7th Lie

After the death of her mother and grandmother, and the same prognosis for her father, Sabine Harper is desperate to save the last of her family. Sabine survives her grueling training by the Vortech Agency, but now she must protect the world from a devastating solar flare by finding seven energy s ...

Trouble Throne

Isabelle’s father is missing, and the only person who could help her is asking a steep price. Gustave offers help on the condition that she marry him, yet Isabelle has witnessed his true character and would never agree to such a proposal.
By sheer luck, Isabelle comes across a clue that points ...

Cocooned

For forty years, the Hiver menace has left devastation in its wake: prisoners bound in cocoons, trapped in living death, with no known way to safely free them.

You Had Me At Hell

Now embraced as an integral member of the pack, Aria finds herself entwined with Rafe, the enigmatic alpha who ignites a passionate connection within her. However, amidst the tranquility of Moondrift, a sinister presence lurks – the Daemonium Factiosi, thirsty for Aria's extraordinary power. As t ...

Afterlife (4 Book Series)

From Book 1: >The Amazon All-star Bestselling Author Willow Rose draws you into a place that you never want to leave! Death is only the beginning!Meghan is 16 when she dies.

She wakes up on a flying steamboat on her way to a school run by Angels in a white marble castle.
...

The Dream Thief

We are guarded by immortals when we dream.

Dream thieves watch over the unconscious wanderings of the human mind, plucking out the most dangerous dreams before they can take root and turn us into monsters. Malcolm Jones has been a dream thief since the dawn of time, but for once, he has f ...

Wizard Search, The Magic of Larlion, Book 4

(5 stars) "Great books, kept my interest from page one. But now I have to wait for the next one (sad face). I love this series." -- Judith J, Amazon reader. The adventure continues in WIZARD SEARCH, The Magic of Larlion, Book 4. The war ends in victory for the young wizard Beneban and his friends, b ...

Ishtar's Blade

The court of the gryphon king has ever been a dangerous and seductive place where Ishtar’s blessing is both the hot breath of passion and the cold kiss of steel. Yet as the childhood companion of King Ditanu, Iltani never doubted her place in either his kingdom or his heart. Then duty called her awa ...

Never Steal from Dragons

In Hub, a city of treachery and deceit, Gelsey, a pixie, is one of the best thieves around. When a smash and grab assignment turns into a job interview with a powerful dragon, Gelsey finds herself a part of a crew including five more of the best criminals Hub has to offer. Her crew includes Silai, ...

The Decemites

"Combination of The Hunger Games, The 100 and Divergent!" They said nothing could survive outside. They lied… Welcome to Echelon, a domed city that protects the survivors of a ravaged Earth. Here, the wealthy elite live in Sky, high above the poor dwellers of Dirt. And Dirt children known as Decimit ...

Settling Dust

Detective Ava Maxwell is about to make the biggest bust of her career with the Oklahoma Arcane Police Department. She has a promising suspect on his way to custody and a sample of the dangerous drug circulating the Oklahoma City metro. All she needs now is the name and location of the sorcerer respo ...

A Lead Pill

My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and ...

The Last Mile: A Chronicles of the Necromancer story (A bonus story from The Dark Road)

Cam of Cairnrach has one job--to reach the king of Isencroft with a desperately needed elixir before dark magic claims the monarch's life. He's traveled across two kingdoms on his urgent quest, but he finds that the last mile of the journey is the hardest. Set in the world of The Chronicles of the N ...

The Fox and the Flame

In Kingsgarden, magic and prosperity go hand in hand, and the future is limitless... if you're a man.

Unladylike, bookish, and wholly uninterested in being a princess, Arismendi has one dream: to open Kingsgarden’s first school for girls. But such a dream is expensive—too expensive for ...

Whispers in the Waters

Ladies don’t shame their families.

Ladies don’t confront Otherwordly threats.

Ladies certainly don’t admit some taint of the fae has touched their souls—unless they wish to find themselves confined to an Institution.

Gently-bred herbalist Jessa Caldwe ...

SHORN: Book One of the Sky Seekers

Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series, says "Shorn is a striking debut, filled with skilled world-building” and “complex psychological tension.” Kirkus Reviews calls SHORN a “grand-scale fantasy” with “remarkable depth” and characters that are “emotionally relatable and endearing.” ...

Fool's Proof

A jobless jester and a misguided magpie wander into a land where technology is booming… but trouble is brewing! Dame Elsebet de Whellen has ruled her mildly magical, high-tech country for 50 prosperous years. Now it's facing a crisis three generations in the making, and the bold steps she's taken to ...

Broken by Blood: Santa Cruz Vampires 2

A vampire who's lost everything he cared about searches for solace in all the wrong places. Zacharias, a former flight trainer in Gabriel's Legion, was accused and convicted of an abominable crime, then banished to Earth. Now a vampire in the Santa Cruz nest, he struggles to find the confidence h ...

Ruthless Kingdom

Born under a scarlet moon, Avianna Morningstar should have been revered and feared, as the prophecy proclaimed. But Avia is taken to a remote realm where she would be safe from the anarchy festering in the Kingdoms, meanwhile her potential as a sorceress is all but extinguished.

A sinfull ...

Tegen Alliance

Sanctuary's Warlord

A post-apocalyptic zombie thriller romance by International Bestselling Author, Nikita Slater. Only the strongest can survive in a hostile world ravaged by a disease that turns humans into primitives. Taran. I am the Desert Wren, a rebel bent on providing safe passage to illegal refugees en ...

Babylon Shattered

When Clemintine LaSalle steals her mother’s Indenture contract papers from the blackmailer’s safe, she accidentally gets his blackmail list too, and someone wants that list badly enough to frame her for murder… Shangri-la was designed to be the next utopia. But it’s flawed and someone is attempti ...

Luck Maker

Mae Lin Zhou has struggled to live up to her father’s expectations all her life. When her dying grandmother chooses her to carry the family’s ability to make luck, she thinks this is her chance. If she can learn to control her new power.

Whisked away to Kismet Academy, Mae Lin finds herse ...

The Keep in the Marsh - Escaping Dragons, Book 1

A village blacksmith from the middle of nowhere, Thomas seeks adventure after surviving a plague that eradicated his homeland. Following his father’s advice and heading east, Thomas finds himself entwined in a surge of attacks by a thieves’ guild knows as Neydis. Similarly lost adventurers soon join ...

Prodigy's Loss

Brandeis Clark has grown bored with spaceflight academy, so when the government offers her an assignment hunting interstellar pirates, she jumps at the chance. But Brandy’s home planet, Thurman, has never had a military and doesn’t know how to run one. Her training officer does little beyond yell ...

Survivors in the After

When tyranny rises from the carnage of nuclear autumn, can superpowered people save themselves from a campaign of revenge?

New York City, Post-Third Global War. Sebastian McConnell dreams of a better world for all. As a human with enhanced abilities, the dedicated hero ...

Wasteland Marshals: Volume One

The world ended. Then things got tough. Shane Collins and Lucas Maddox are the last two US Marshals after a global cataclysm that destroyed most of modern civilization. They’re still on the job, fighting the good fight, although they’re no longer fully human and maybe not entirely sane. Witches a ...

Shadows of Tramonton: Vigilants of Tramonton Book I

Ancient guardians. Hidden threats. Epic adventure.

What are your plans for summer?

Jay Blotter’s summer was supposed to be simple: soccer with friends, part-time job.
Then the shadows came.

It starts with a strange creature only he can see and a creeping sense that ...

Scourge: A Darkhurst Novel, Book One

In a city beset by monsters, three brothers must find out who is controlling the abominations. The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant princes and guild masters wager fortunes to outmaneuver League rivals for the king’s favor and advantageous trading terms. Lord Ma ...

Newborn Pink

Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats - until his body turned against him. All Paulie ever wanted was to live his boring life inside the We-Store storage facilit ...

Perishables

“Stephen Colbert meets Stephen King” - Book Nerd’s Brain Candy Winner of the 2012 Laine Cunningham Award!

Withrow Surrett is more than just his neighborhood’s resident curmudgeon. He’s the self-declared vampire lord of North Carolina, a once-renowned painter, and he can make a mean batch ...

Dragons Walk Among Us

Shutterbug Allison Lee is trying to survive high school while suffering the popular girl's abuse. Her life is often abysmal, but at least her green hair is savage. Her talent for photography is recognized by the school paper and the judges of a photo contest. While visiting her friend Joe, a homeles ...

No Promises

I used to be a hero. Then I grew up.

I’m Kieran Thorne, the world’s only living half-fae. The gig comes with a few perks—immortality, magic I can’t control, fae assassins constantly on my heels. And the chance to protect the good and the powerless against those who are neither.

...

Vengeance: Darkhurst Book 2

The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant Princes and Guild Masters wager fortunes to outmaneuver League rivals for the king’s favor and the best trading terms. Ambitious and ruthless leaders use betrayal and assassination to gain their ends. Blood magic conjures monste ...

Apocalypse Babes The Complete Series: Persephone In A Pink Tracksuit

No mad skillz, no sacred destiny, just a pink tracksuit that will take her places she never wanted to go... In this Gothic science-fiction novel series, a stylish group of twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past ...

Madness

ARE MONSTERS BORN OR ARE THEY CREATED? Once inseparable, their friendship shattered under the weight of envy, inviting an insidious darkness that lurked in the shadows. But what truly transpired between these brothers before their fates were forever intertwined? Brace yourself for a revelation th ...

The Defender's Throne

The ancient world reveres and dreads the fierce ha-mazaans. Now, an Oracle has prophesied their destruction. Heir to the Defender’s Throne in the city of Themiscyra, Cyra is eager to fulfill her role as protector of the ha-mazaan sisterhood. Instead, she is betrayed, kidnapped as war-bounty, and shi ...

Spellmeet: Faerie Crossed Book 3

Faerie and the human world may have survived near-annihilation, but that doesn’t mean everything is flowers and singalongs for the residents of the now-combined lands. Humans are coming to terms with finding chunks of a realm they didn’t know existed dumped into their neighborhoods, plus the Fae ...

Cradle of Fire

A desperate woman takes a perilous gamble to save her family from a brutal murderer, they go through an illegal portal to the Forbidden Colony of St. Antoni. But it proves a dangerous haven, whose citizens have created a society as different from the Post-Apocalyptic Earth t ...

Closed Campus

Jane is on her first night shift at the university radio station when the apocalypse begins… Will she be safe in the cozy studio as the snow-covered world outside turns into a blood-spattered nightmare? An unputdownable horror thriller.

The Rising : Awakening

What’s buried in the sand has slept for centuries. Some things should never be exhumed... When Egyptologist Samuel Clayton inherits a gold talisman with unusual markings, he’s driven to uncover its secrets. Where did it come from? What do they mean? And why when receiving it did a flood of forgotten ...

Purple Kitty: A Dystopian Crime Novel (A Serena McKay Novel Book 1)

Not so cute and cuddly! Not a cozy mystery! Not like any crime story you've read. Serena McKay, P.I., lives in a post-apocalyptic dystopian time where the rich get richer and the poor are homeless. Existence in August City is nightmarish at best and disastrously chilling at worst. Serena has suffere ...

Prince of Frogs

A deadly bargain. A cursed prince. One kiss could break everything. 
When Evonna strikes a blood bargain to find her missing brother, she’s given a single impossible task:
Kill Prince Alaistar of Darkhar by the full moon… or forfeit her own life.

They call him the Frog Prin ...

Divinely Gifted

Heaven’s security is threatened after an Ancient makes the ultimate sacrifice, thrusting ...

Wolf Moon

Aileen McKenna arrives in Wolf Creek to study wolves in the wild only to learn Rhys Lindgren has a unique connection to the local pack. Frightened townspeople fear the three men found dead and mutilated in the woods were killed by a wolf. Rhys doesn’t believe that any more than does Aileen. But c ...

The Fountain of Youth: A Small-Town Southern Fantasy Novel

ROBBED OF HER LIFE… …when 82-year-old Eula is stripped of her home and possessions by a scheming banker and her scoundrel son. Suddenly she is forced to begin a new life in a brutal assisted living facility. Feeling lost and broken, she soon learns that a vicious nurse is determined to make her life ...

Found Objects

Penny Briggs is a perfectly ordinary woman. Until her life takes a left turn at Albuquerque… I thought my marriage would be a fairy tale. Instead, I’ve put a thousand miles between me and my broken dream, starting over with temp job in Albuquerque. Prop shopping for a TV production takes my mind off ...

The Girl Who Broke the Dark

Sometimes, breaking the curse is only the beginning…

Princess Eliana of Ymittos has long anticipated the day she gets to make the rules — and use her magic without fear of penalty. But until she ascends the throne, Eliana’s days are devoted to practicing diplomacy on i ...

The Institution

For Sage, fitting in with her new classmates is a matter of life or death. Literally. Dragged out of hiding after her parents are killed, Sage is forced to enroll in the Institution. There, she’ll learn to be a model citizen of Eprah. But model citizens are murderers. And when everyone is granted au ...

Reckoning: Darkhurst Book 3

When Corran, Rigan, and their friends became outlaw monster hunters and fled beyond the walls of Ravenwood City, they thought they had defeated the source of the abominations that killed so many of their friends and loved ones. But the more successful they become at destroying the creatures, the mor ...

Little Store of Destinies

Welcome to the Little Store of Destinies. What you’ve lost can be found… but at what cost?

There is a store hidden in the forgotten corners of the world, a place that shifts in and out of existence, waiting for those who need it most. It has no address, no grand entrance—just an old ...

Endless Winter

A brutal new Ice Age covers the Earth…

When an experiment to reverse climate change goes disastrously wrong, Jarred and his daughter Hope are forced to head south in search of warmth. This man-made eternal winter shows no signs of stopping, and with temperatures continuing to plummet, fea ...

Sellsword's Oath

Buddy flick epic fantasy! The second in the Assassins of Landria series from the award-winning, bestselling author of Scourge: A Novel of Darkhurst and The Chronicles Of The Necromancer books! Wandering mystic Yefim Makary, known to his followers as the ‘Witch Lord’, disappeared before he could b ...

Tales of Nightmares

There’s something magical about that sense of terror that grips you in the middle of sleep, when your heart pounds, you can’t catch your breath, and you know the monster is seconds away from grabbing you. While these pages occasionally record the odd hallucination or vision from beyond, you’ll find ...

Crossroads of Awakening Memory

The Horror Within

It’s 1919.

Home from the war in Europe, Eryk Laska faces two new foes. One poses a threat to his personal happiness. The other is a threat to the lives of every man, woman and child in Floodwood Station, Ohio at the edge of the Hocking Hills State Forest.

As the gruesome body coun ...

The Tracker's Mate

He has a secret, but when mine is exposed… his will look like child’s play. Two years ago, a hot werewolf stole my heart. It was bliss until he disappeared like a shadow in the night. I picked up the shattered pieces of my soul and opened an agency to use my tracker skills and help others find the l ...

The Blue Djin and the American Dream

I Dream of Jeannie meets The Office...

Two young men discover an all-powerful blue djin and battle for control of his powers in a Detroit Suburb in 1985

Marvin is fresh out of community college and convinced he'll work his way out of the mailroom up to the executive offices. But h ...

One Bounce Away from Crazy

A retired female cop…a sexy hero…an adorable dog…interdimensional travel…monsters galore… a recipe for pure unadulterated FUN!

Fermi's Pair of Socks

Join six teenagers on a mind-bending journey to unravel the mysteries of Fermi's paradox. Traveling through alien worlds and times, discovering love, loss, and the secrets of Earth’s position in the Galaxy. Discover the shocking truth behind why they were selected, as their future is forever alte ...

Witchbane: MM Supernatural Romance Adventure

Seth is used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart. Seth Tanner swore to avenge his brother’s death. But when his quest for vengeance brings him to Richmond to stop a dark coven’s next ritual murder, he’s hell-bent on keeping Jackson Evan Malone from becoming the warlocks’ next ...

The Fate of Our Sorrows

Set in Carlisle, England, in 1287, The Fate of Our Sorrows is a tender and haunting prequel to JC Wade’s Thistle and Sword series. Before rebellion and prophecy, before war tore her world apart, young Edyth De Vries lived a quiet life beneath the watchful eye o ...

Prophecy (The Owens Chronicles Book One)

He’s been hunting my family since the 1600. Now he’s after me. Eighteen-year-old Lucy Owens is "that weird Owens girl" to the entire New England town she grew up in. She dreams of starting fresh at college in the fall, but prom night changes things. A mysterious threat forces her into hiding, and le ...

Gem Powers Series (3 Book Series)

From Book 1: "A bright fantasy for readers who are tired of exaggerated violence and slippery morals." -- Kirkus Reviews

Lana can draw arcane powers from gemstones. When she started reading the folklore, it sounded farfetched. Maybe she should have closed the books right then an ...

The Curse

The first book to the spiritual fantasy series - The Path of None - The Curse is A.G.ZoderoT’s spiritual grimdark fantasy horror masterpiece set a sinister fantasy world as we know it Not, and serves as an origin story of the Dark Messiah, unraveling the Darkest of Legends, the Darkest of worlds' Cu ...

Fire & Flood (Mythverse #1)

Gods, monsters, and magic school. Class will never be the same. I thought that I was just a normal girl. Well except for being sickly with a bad back and asthma. But then my family was lost in a tragic accident and then next thing I know Hermes is knocking at my door. Yeah, that Hermes - the Greek g ...

Fugitive's Vow

Rule-breaking, unconventional assassins Joel “Ridge” Breckenridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennar are back, and the stakes have never been higher. The Witch Lord remains at large, orchestrating his plot against Landria’s throne from the shadows. Then tragedy strikes, the kingdom is in jeopardy, and Ret ...

Spark of Destiny: A Jake Desmet Adventure Book 2

When Brand & Desmet airlift occult valuables out of Havana during the 1898 naval conflict with Spain, they get far more than they expected. A shipwreck with experimental tech and magical relics sparks a race to retrieve the goods—and the winner might turn the tide of the war and the balance of power ...

The Fourth Age Shadow Wars:  Conspiracy

Lithir and Bruno are sent to find the traitor who plotted to kill Alfrahil. If they are to be successful in their mission, centuries of distrust between their races must be overcome. As the unlikely duo enters the Dwarven mines of Nerea, they confront a maniacal sect, whose power threatens to consum ...

Blood Debt: a Darkhurst short story

Corran Valmonde stepped up to take care of his two younger brothers and run the family undertaking business when their parents died. Darkhurst has a king who cares little for his people and corrupt guards who care more about extorting protection money than actually protecting the residents. When ...

Camera Eyes

*This is General-Literary fiction and Magical Realism or Science Fiction. Death parts us all. A magical real quest to find home in a place no one can see. When a combat cameraman falls into a coma, the military takes advantage of his state by implanting new technology into his brain—technology that ...

Bloodstained Skies: The Core of Rage

In a world torn apart by war, Charon Antares, a rebellion leader, finds himself at a crossroads as he a faces a heartbreaking choice. One bad decision may cost the lives of thousands of his beloved people. Meanwhile, a young girl named Cerridwen seeks vengeance for a tragedy that has shattered ...

Kill The Night

Kill The Night is an adventure that stretches from Paris to New York, through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the Old West. Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are in a race to see who will lead the Twentieth Century into the Electric Age. But the night holds tightly to its dark corners. A mysterious an ...

As Above

When Riley’s secret friend, Eren, vanishes from the woods where he hides, Riley starts to think he imagined him. After all, what little boy would have fangs, a red, pointed tail like a devil, and no need for food?  Over thirty years later, Riley is taken prisoner in the Fallen realm where angel ...

Rose of the Oath

Picking a rose was a stupid way to trigger a curse, in Elissa’s opinion. But there’s no arguing with the strange, scarred host of a hidden valley who’s taken her brother captive.

Without the resources to mount a rescue, Elissa desperately settles for the next best thing: exchanging her fr ...

Dragonfriend (4 Book Series)

Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick over. The traitor Ra’aba tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet’s paw, and the courage of a girl who refused to die. Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of ...

The Assassins of Landria series

Friends since their orphanage childhood, Joel “Ridge” Breckinridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennard rose through the ranks of the Landrian army together, from teenaged conscripts to seasoned fighters. Together, they became the most feared team of assassins in Landria, surviving longer that most in thei ...

Hammer and Anvil

It’s her first test and it might be her last. Soriya has worked her entire life to become the Greystone—protector of her city, Portents, against the growing shadows of myth and legend. All her efforts are in jeopardy when she is struck down by the destructive power of the Minotaur. Soriya must ...

Dawn of a Demon

The fight to save my city has only just begun. It's time to sharpen the cat claws and unleash the spider fangs because this hybrid shifter is out to catch her prey.

I've already lost a close friend to the toxic memory-warping drug breaking the minds of everyone in the city. To make ...

The Dragon King (Episode 1)

Marked by magic, tested in blood and fire, King Hesleof is the ruler of Calibran, a bridge to his people and a bulwark against the wild chaos that once decimated his kingdom. Accompanied by his loyal sergeant-at-arms, the minotaur Ruric, Hesleof rides to meet the wise dragon Lyrroth the Benevolent, ...

Fulcrum: Season One

A fourteen-year-old bar owner, a cagey fugitive, and a badass monkey. When magical mayhem meets bloody brawls, can they survive the violent darkness?

Jack wouldn’t trade his brutal life for anything. Hardened by the merciless nature of war, he’s carved a dangerous niche running a post-a ...

The Broken Heart of Arelium

None can resist the ravages of time. Knowledge is lost. Memories fade. But some things must never be forgotten. Over 400 years ago, twelve great warriors united the beleaguered armies of men and scoured the war-torn lands of evil, pushing the enemy back into the underground pits and caverns from ...

Escape From Harrizel

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Fallon is like every other Arrival brought to Harrizel—an alien planet restoring the human race after a fatal war left Earth in ruins. But once viewing the all-day work camps and the nightly, org ...