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When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, an infamous woman acquitted of two cold case slayings, she senses something is not right and wonders if she is in the presence of a manipulative murderer.

A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love.

Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But when despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen kitchen, Annie realizes any one of the Canteen's luminous volunteers could be guilty of the crime. To catch the killer, Annie falls in with Fiona's friends, a bitter and cynical group; each as uniquely unhappy in their life and career as Annie is in hers; that call themselves the Ambassador's Club. Solving a murder in real life, it turns out, is a lot harder than writing one for the stage. And by involving herself in the secrets and lies of the Ambassador's Club, Annie just might have put a target on her own back.

They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can?t ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But there are many things about the past that Nina doesn?t know, and Maggie is going to keep it that way, even if it kills her. Because in this house, the truth is more dangerous than lies.

For a competitive price, Donnie and Frank Burgers? Funeral Home will help bury your loved ones. For the right price, Frank Burgers will dig them back up. clayThis scheme brings in extra money for the home but lands Frank in a morbid mess. Picking up where The Burgers Brothers? Family Funeral Home left off, Frank discovers an anonymous package left at his front door. Inside is damning evidence of his lucrative grave robbing.

Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can?t get distracted. Not now. When her inability to ignore mistaken calculations propels her into a new position, Annie finds herself torn between her ambition, her heart, and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true. Can she overcome her doubts and reach beyond the limits of time and space?.

Sunati and Austen's relationship is growing stronger by the day. Austen is working hard to overcome the limitations of Egan's Syndrome, a very rare condition that rejects body modifications, which is making school difficult. But while Austen is forced to confront her plans for the future, Sunati receives a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity; on Saturn's moon, Enceladus! Will Austen find her way? And will Sunati leave Austen when she needs her most to follow her own dreams of space exploration?.

One obsessed predator, One exhausted workaholic, One mind-blowing collision of souls.

When they arrive at Meroe Island, a remote island paradise in the South Pacific with a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and murder, six adventurous travelers find their dream vacation turning into a nightmare when history starts repeating itself.

David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. They grew up in an overbearing religious community on the isolated mountain Red Peak; and they were a few of the only survivors of its horrific last days. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind. And when a fellow survivor commits suicide, they reunite to confront their past and share their stories. As long-repressed memories surface, they begin to recall different images of that final night. Images that raise questions with no easy, or even believable, answers. Together, they will return to Red Peak. But discovering the terrifying truth might make escaping a second time almost impossible.