New Releases by Lisa Williamson

It''s Ollie''s turn to tell his story in the latest addition to the Bigg School series. Explores the pressure to fit in and be accepted and what it means to be a good friend with a light touch and lots of empathy Explores the pressure to fit in and be accepted and what it means to be a good friend with a light touch and lots of empathy. Jess Bradley''s hilarious illustrations brilliantly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters.

Bethany is the last of her kind. A tiny voiceless dancer who enthralls those who watch her dance. She speaks with her hands, her eyes and her body all the things that she has not voice to say. Matthew is the Fae Surgeon, thought by many to be cool, arrogant and snobbish. Introduced by a friend of them both they slowly fall in love. She sees the real man behind to facade he puts up. The kind healer who does much for the city unheralded. He sees the depth of her emotions in her silent steps. Together they find peace and love but it only last so long. For Michael has a brother, a twin who takes Bethany to a very dark place, forcing his brother to return to the Fae Realm to rescue her from the darkness that is the truth power of the Blood Fae.

Donna Hamilton has been living and working what some might think is a dream. Working in the corporate world, living in the big city with all its distractions and bright lights. But to Donna the life she lived to make her parents proud is a nightmare. Expectations of upper management, little or no free time and having to dress in the corporate uniform is stifling. So when she receives a registered letter from a law firm she decides to make a change. To leave her life in the big city and return to the farm of her childhood. As she slowly returns the farm to its once glorious state she learns that all the things she thought of as dreams or fantasies were real. The creatures out of myth and legend all walk her lands and a man she has secretly lusted for is much more than she ever thought. Inheriting the Farm opens a whole new world for her.

Once a Church Knight, then a straight edge reporter, Michael Dorogon, known as the Dragon he found his life taking a path he never thought it would. The night someone breaks into his uncle''s tower office he is called to come in and catch them. Little did he know that a woman from his past, one he isn''t sure he can trust would help him find the answer he was sent to find. Frey fell far when she was betrayed by her partner. Now she has the information needed to clear her name and hopefully find her missing family. When her former partner makes a play at a gathering of the rich and corrupt she is shocked to see a man who she once trusted. Why is he there and is he in on what happened years before? Book four of the Angel City Romances

Angela has spent the past five years living a quiet life, using her talent and raising her daughter in peace far from the land of her birth. When a stranger needs her help she does what she can. The secrets held for years come to light when she finds out he is from land land she fled from. Can Aiden protect Angela and her very special daughter from a man who wants to take the child and control their fate?

Its been almost a year since Thomas dealt with the pack of child stealing werewolves but the Queen City hasn''t gotten any easier. His gift is giving him trouble finding a missing person who he knows is in the city. He finally asks Kaden for help worried that his gift is fading. The missing they find is more than a human or other and is definitely not a child. There are dark mages in the city and they have plans for this missing, and worse they want Thomas and Kaden to be a part of them. Blood iron, dark mages and missing unicorns, Thomas has his work cut out for him. Can he save the missing members of the blessing or will he become their next target. Book two in the Guardians Manchester series

Dante St James has been hiding in plain sight for over a century. A god who hides his power because in today''s world being something other than human is a quick way to end up in someone''s lab.. Then Eva came into his life. A beautiful woman who doesn''t know what she really is and he finds himself distracted by her. When Dante is taken by a power hungry dark mage can Eva find him with the help of an old friend of his? Will she get there before the mage drains his divinity or will she need to avenge him? The real question is how can she? This is the third Angel City Romance book

Rita was a lonely woman. For years she worked in an office and went unseen by most. Then one day she saw a child about to be hit by a bus and she darted out to push him out of the way. Next thing she knew she woke up not in a hospital but in a clearing, naked and alone. When she is startled by a deer it hits her, she is dreaming, but she can''t seem to wake up? When she wakes up after a long week to two sexy gargoyles in her bed, she realizes that maybe she doesn''t want to.

My name is Thomas Lionsey and I come from a long line of Guardians. My father was a guardian, my uncle was a guardian, my grandfather was one too. My cousin is Harry Lionsey, bearer of the family sword and the Guardian of the Gate city. I am the first of the Lionsey line since the inception of the guardians to be turned away from the Rites. Instead of following in the footsteps of my family I have taken on a different role. That of a Finder. In the Queen city there are children of all kinds who need my help. With the 'gift's my mother's blood gave me I track down the missing, abandoned and kidnapped children. I save them from those who do not have their best interests at heart. Most times I find them and help them heal up, sending them either back to their families or onto new ones who will protect and nuture them. Sometimes all I can do is get them justice. The city of Manchester has become a lawless zone after the death of the last Guardian. I do my best to help, heal and counsel those human and Other who need help when I am not Finding children, but this time an old enemy has been taking very special children and I may have to pay a cost to rescueing them. I'll pay it, because I am the son of a Guardian.

In the Guardians universe there arethose who help the guardians keep people safe. They are friends who lend aid to the Guardians as they can with skills that are outside of those the Guardians have. This collection contains stories of three such friends. Sheldon is a dragon with the title of Lore Keeper. He gathers information as his horde and he shares what he learns with Harry in the Gate city. James is a Knight of the Ways who came to Harry's world when he was forceably retired from his duties protecting the ways between the worlds. And lastly is the Alchemist, the secretive creator of medicines needed by those who protect the world and those who can't go to the human run doctors, pharmacies and hospitals. Together they are three of the many friends that Harry is glad to have in his life. Some of these stories are republished here in this collection and there are three complete new stories inside.

What if the simple, everyday world you are living in is not the place you think it its? Julia is a librarian with a love for video games and a crush on her friend Toby. When the city shut down due to a major storm she and Toby used the day to play their favorite MMORPG on the libraries computers. When it got late he offered to drive her home. When a rare weather phenomina snatched her up Julia woke up in a different world, a place a lot like the game she used to play. Was it real? Why was everything so familiar and who is Jonas? Could it be true that this was the real world and the world she had been living in was a dream? Book two of the Games of Rebirth series

The remarkable true story of Margaret Anne Bulkley - aka Dr James Barry - a surgeon who lived as a man for their entire life Margaret Anne Bulkey desperately wants to be a surgeon - but only men can train as doctors. Fifty years later, Dr James Barry is famous, serving as Inspector General of Hospitals throughout the British Empire. A brilliant surgeon, bold reformer and prickly individual known for his fierce tempter, he fought a duel in South Africa and clashed with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. But Dr Barry has a secret that he is determined no one should every learn...

Paramedic working for Other Medical Transport, an ambulance service that is called out for the nonhuman residents of Angel city. If a dryad needs dialysis or shifter needs to be transported to Jones EMS for treatment after an attack, Erika and her rookie partner are called in. She works hard, being one of the very few paramedics who can be reliably called on to deal with any of the many varied races living in and around Angel city. Her roommate, Rain Swiftwing is a hot Hunter, one of the secret police force that both protects and defends all races inside the city limits. Thanks to their schedules they rarely get to even say hello and goodbye but one night when Erika had fallen asleep in the tub after a double shift Rain comes home injured. She treats his injuries and they finally Angel City has over two million inhabitants, not all of them are human. Erika is a ptalk, learning that they both share an attraction. Will it go anywhere or will their lives and the danger growing in the city get between them before it can?

Alisha the one of a rare group of people who work to balance out the magic. She is a Magician, not a mage but an Magician and she walks the streets of Barrie balancing the ever present magic so that the average person has no idea it is out there. Each day she walks and most days she only needs to tweak the magic to balance it but an old enemy has come back and is leaving pools of dark magic that traps the unwary. Can she stop the deaths before the secret world among us is revealed or will her brother finally win their deadly game?

A new contemporary series from Lisa Williamson about an ordinary class of kids with extraordinary stories - teamed up with the hilarious and award-winning illustrator, Jess Bradley. The first book follows Lola going from primary to secondary school with her best friend.

Waking up three hundred years after you laid down for surgery was something hard to understand. Angel wasn't sure just why she was, but the man in her bed explained it. Takeshi and Angel were called the Returned and they were something unexpected to come out of the genetic tinkering done to human dolls. They remembered their past lives. They escape their owners and start a journey toward freedom. When Angel's memories truly return there is a lot she has to deal with. From just how long it has been to the family she has that she has not really met. Can Angel and Takeshi make it to their family or will the Institute recapture them and put them down for good? This is an adult science fiction romance. It contains erotic content, voilence and references to mental, sexual and physical abuse. This book is not meant for minors. This is the first book of the series

When everyone thinks of shifters, they think of wolves, bears or even dragons. No one thinks of house cats. Sophie has spent the least ten years living in hiding. She helps the small fae and creatures who need healing, but she spends most of her time alone, flying under the radar of most people. That is until she one of her few friends is attacked by a thug. She breaks out of hiding to scare off the thrug and is hurt in the process. She wants to run, but she can no longer hide in plain sight. She just hopes that the man who killed her parents doesn''t find her. The third book in the Guardians: Barrie Stories This book contains fantasy violence

Vincent is running for his life. Being bullied most of his life he had found one friend in the small town he lived in with his mother. Now she is dead and all hands are pointing at him. The only thing he can do is run, run into the lands where the werewolves roam.

Enya was driving through bombs one moment and found herself sinking into water the next. The bright light was not a bomb esploding but a ate opening between one world and another. She finds herself in a world very different from the one she left. A world where you can''t tell anyne yourtrue name or trust most beings you come across. Enya meets beings ofraces tht she neverdreamed existed and one that was right out of the legends her grandmother told her long ago. Randal isan actual elf, one much older than anyone on thi new world knows, or he remembers. Going by the use name of Damocles, he rescues Enya and gives her the use name of Athena. Together they work toward finding and rescuing people until an old enemy of Randal''s raise his head. Can they survive the anicent enmity of Randal''s Past? Thisbook is a drak fantasy and contains adult themes Trigger warning for abuseand sexual situations.

Kate McIntosh is a private investigator. She mostly works for clients of the Other kind, but from time to time she lends a hand to the special unit of th Bodies are dropping around Lake Simcoe. A serial killer is leaving tiny bodies impaled with Fibulas in the center of ritual symbols and Kate needs to use her special abilities to help track down the murderer before more turn up. Can she figure out what the killer is doing before he moves onto bigger targets? The first of a new series f stories set in the Guardian universe, these are set in a different country.

The Gate city has grown too large for one Guardian to protect and the Powers That be have Decided Harry needs some help. Maeve Trolls Daughter runs from Boston to Nashua to escape the clutches of Simon head of the vampire Clan Toriba. Working as a private investigator she investigates fir both human and Others. She has a secret that she keeps under wraps. She is a nascent wizard and when things get interesting she and one other are tested to become Harry's assistants.

Meet DWAYNE 'The Rock' Johnson, the World Wrestling Entertainment phenomenon who turned his talents to movie acting and became a Hollywood megastar. Find out:- Why fellow high school students thought he was an undercover cop- Why his wrestler dad was dead against Dwayne following in his footsteps- And why he sneaked a fart machine onto the set of The Scorpion King.Get to know DWAYNE on First Name terms.

Introduces readers to Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl who stands up and speaks out for every child's right to education.

Meet MALALA Yousafzai, the brave and brilliant activist who survived being shot in the head aged 15 to keep fighting for all girls to receive and education.Find out:- How an earthquake literally rocked her world,- Why everyone forgot her twelfth birthday- And how she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Get to know MALALA on First Name terms.

The Breakfast Club meets One Day in Floored, a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood. When they got in the lift that morning, they were strangers. Sasha, who is at the UK's biggest TV centre desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's by far the richest – and best-looking – guy in the lift; Velvet, who regrets wearing the world's least comfortable shoes to work experience; Dawson, who isn't the good-looking teen star he was and desperate not to be recognized; Kaitlyn, who's slowly losing her sight but won't admit it, and Joe, who shouldn't be there at all, but who wants to be there the most. And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year . . .