novels

"Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous--even suicidal--the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. On a routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, his fate has been sealed. There's a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties"--.

"Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant Caz--a magically sentient spider plant--have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire's most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city's elite. Then a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames. She and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she'd see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy--and very handsome--neighbor who can't take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she's fed and help fix up her new home. In need of income and reluctantly inspired by the beauty and people of the island who have welcomed her into their hearts, Kiela discovers something that even the bakery in town doesn't have: jam. With the help of an old recipe book her parents left her and a bit of illegal magic, her cottage garden is soon covered in ripe berries that become the town's, and her handsome neighbor's, new favorite confection. But magic can do more than make life a little sweeter, so Kiela decides to open the island's first-ever and much-needed secret spellshop. Her plan comes with risks--the empire condemns the use of unsanctioned magic, and the consequence of sharing spells with commoners is death. But Kiela has only just found a place that feels like home and people who feel like family, and she'll risk anything for a chance at happiness."--.

Overworked city gal Grace Evans is ready for a relaxing getaway on a Wyoming ranch, where the owner is handsome Calvin Wells. But when she hears of a missing woman, things soon change for the worse.

Nine survivors of a decades-old tragedy come together each year to commemorate a high school tragedy, but when two of the survivors commit suicide in different years on the anniversary of the event, the remaining members come together to support one another and uncover the mystery of why the survivors are dying.

Book smart teen Lola's summer plans are derailed when she is sent to live with her grandmother in Mexico City and learns a family secret that changes her life forever. With the help of two new friends, Lola sets out to break a family curse and learns more about herself than she ever thought possible.

For their Nana's eightieth birthday party, Daisy Darker and her entire estranged family assembles on Nana's tidal island and in her disintegrating, Gothic house. When the tide comes in, the whole family will be trapped together on the island for eight hours, and, when a storm hits at midnight, one of them finds Nana's murdered corpse. Her death is followed one hour later by that of another family member, and Daisy realizes there is a killer among the Darkers.

After his father is killed in car accident, seventeen-year-old Hemingway Jones takes his father's body to Lifebank, the cryogenic preservation research center where he interns. Hemingway succeeds in bringing his father back to life, but he questions the life he has given him as his father's skin has turned ashen gray, he can't exist in temperatures above fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and hydrogen sulfide has become his only source of food. Facing arrest for his actions, Hemingway is given an offer: go to prison and leave his dad to die a second time, or replicate the experiment for the owner of the lab.

Four girls from a defunct thrill-seeking group descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a subterranean lake that local legends claim has the power to change things for those who can confront their deepest fears.

Freelance book editor Jessica Reid lives in small-town Redford, Georgia with her father and likes the steady pace of life there. When the town's benefactor, Jasper Wilhelm, dies, residents are thrown into a state of upheaval when they're paired off to compete in a series of competitions for his fortune. It's there that Jess meets Japser's grandson, Carter Barclay, an Atlanta financier who is among the contestants. While the two develop an attraction to each other, they are both set on winning his millions and staying in the towns where they live, which could end their relationship before it has a chance to develop into something more.

Eight years ago, Grace Holloway was kidnapped and narrowly escaped death at the hands of her abductor, so now she spends her days running a small inn in Rock Harbor, Maine. But her past comes back to haunt her when girls start to go missing from Rock Harbor, girls who look a lot like Grace did when she was kidnapped. As much as she wants to stay out of it, Grace knows she can't sit idly by, and she soon realizes she might have the answers to the investigation.