Misty Provencher

Glendon Haddix

CORNERSTONE is the story of Nalena Maxwell, a girl who's been dubbed The Waste at her new school, due to her mom's obsessive paper hoarding. Nalena desperately needs something to change in her life. But when she receives a sign (and it's the wrong dang one) that invites her into an ancient community, EVERYTHING changes- what she knew of her family and her life and her future. While seventeen years worth of family skeletons come crashing into Nalena's life, it is the boy...the one with eyes as clean as Jesus...that steps up to help Nalena figure out what he already knows about her...

Cornerstone

CATEGORY: ADULTCONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE AND HOT, GRAPHIC SEX. NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG ADULT READERS OR THOSE PRONE TO HEART PALPITATIONS (UNLESS YOU LIKE THAT KIND OF THING).The Earth's atmosphere is swiss cheese. To avoid the oncoming oxygen crisis, black-sheep heiress, Maeve Aypotu, has been chemically suspended in one of the Archive's plush, multi-million dollar chambers, located underground. Scientists claim they can patch everything up in about 15 years, so, just to be safe, the Archive programmed the chambers to open in 17 years.And then, everything on Earth went wrong. Up on the surface, Pluto has taken control of the planet, scorching away all signs of human civilization and reconstructing the environment to suit the Plutian's lucrative dragon trade. Humans that survived were forced to be laborers, divided into five Houses, each handling a different stage of the dragon harvest. Survival and repopulation have become a currency among the Houses. To make matters worse, Rha Diem, the rugged leader of the Fly House, has gotten word that the cost of existence just rose to a price that no human should have to pay. And now there is a whole Archive of survivors that will be expected to pay too. Learning to trust one another may need to start small—with the fusion of one powerful Rha and one bad ass black sheep—before a damaged race can even hope to regain control of their alien Earth.

The Fly House

Hale Simmons's life is already bottoming out and she's only eighteen. Struggling on welfare and trying to keep her alcoholic father on track her dreams of career and love and a future fade a little more each day. But, when her dad witnesses a brutal accident at the bar one night, it changes the entire course of Hale's life. Thrust into an arranged marriage with Oscar Maree, the playboy son of a wealthy man, Hale must learn to trust and rely on the stranger that will soon be her husband. And she needs to know if love can ever happen by accident.

Hale Maree

James Stryker, the bad boy of our neighborhood, had a voice that could put babies to sleep. His name still punches me in the gut, along with the lie he tried to hide. I entrusted him with all my deepest, darkest secrets. I was positive that I knew all of his too...until the end of summer, in 1985. But I didn't. So what did I do? I bailed. Without another word to James, I left home and planned to stay away. But now I have to go back and face the boy who stole my heart, and never returned it, once again. And I just can't shake the gnarly feeling that the most careless whispers are the ones I haven't even heard yet.

Misty Provencher

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