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His neighbor is dead. His wife is missing. At least there’s a pool on the roof.

“A diverting whodunit with an unconventional sleuth. Harper does a deft job of producing red herrings that will misdirect even the savviest of armchair sleuths.” – Kirkus Reviews

Paul, a part-time actor and full-time egoist, just knows that his wife is having an affair with the dog trainer who lives in their luxury apartment building. But when he tries to catch them in the act, he finds their neighbor’s corpse instead. And now he can’t find his wife anywhere.

With only the building’s alluring front desk woman willing to help him, Paul must find the killer before the cops pin the murder on him. Soon, he discovers that his fellow over-privileged tenants aren’t as bland as their jobs in digital marketing suggest, and he is drawn into a hidden world of greed, lust, and misused animal narcotics. But Paul’s biggest obstacle to solving this mystery lies within himself. Can he stop lying, navel-gazing, and indulging in his own depression long enough to do some actual detective work? Or is the pool on the roof too damn enticing?

While serving up a whodunit in the vein of Anthony Horowitz’s Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Additional Attendee delivers comedy similar to Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.

He never stopped looking for her.
She never stopped needing him.

Dallas Dodge has spent his life chasing adrenaline — first in the foster system, then in the rodeo arena. Riding bulls is the only time he feels alive, the only thing that quiets the scars he’s carried since childhood. But when Sarah Anderson — his former foster sister and the girl he’s never stopped thinking about — shows up on his doorstep, the past he buried comes roaring back.

Sarah has only ever trusted one person. Dallas. Years ago, they were just kids, pulled apart by the system and sent down very different roads. Now, Sarah is on the run from a threat she thought she’d escaped — and Dallas is the only man who can keep her safe.

Bringing her home to Gold Valley should be simple. But the deeper they fall back into each other’s lives — and into something neither of them ever really let go — the harder it becomes to pretend their connection was only ever in the past.

She’s not the same girl who left. He’s not the same boy who tried to save her. But some things never change.

In the remote Chilean countryside, a lone dairy farmer witnesses the unthinkable — a rocket soaring into the cold dawn sky from deep in the Andes Mountains. After NORAD confirms the unbelievable event, world leaders demand answers from Chilean officials, only to be met by unexpected denials and escalating threats.

Special Agent Frank Deal and his elite WMD-hunting team are dispatched to quietly infiltrate the country, trace the rocket’s origin, and uncover its purpose. What they discover is far more ominous than anything man has yet placed in orbit — a satellite network with the power to weaponize space and much more.

But the surprise launch was just the beginning. With time running out and global stability on the line, Deal’s team must unravel the full scope of the danger unleashed by a shadowy organization known only as The Cause. And they must do it before The Cause executes their final, catastrophic plan.

When young farmer Syrdan arrives in the mythical city of Averot’h, everything seems perfect. Humans and wizards live together in peace and harmony, four Spires shine brightly high in the sky, wizards soar through the air on their tephirs, and the Arena — a place for magical tournaments — is simply breathtaking. But within the City of Mages, something is terribly wrong. What was meant to be a brief trip turns into a battle for Syrdan to save his brother, his newfound love, and his own life from the most powerful of mages. This entertaining young adult novel set in a unique fantasy world is just the first book of the Averot’h saga.

It’s supposed to be the perfect vacation. When Katie Johnson and her husband Jason arrive at Hotel Necro, they think they’re going to enjoy a few days of peace, pampering and relaxation.

On the first morning, however, Katie wakes up feeling ill, and she has a strange scratch mark on her waist. She quickly realizes that something’s very wrong, and that dark forces are at work beneath the hotel’s facade. Strange nightmares interrupt her sleep, filling her head with hideous images. Meanwhile, the scratches keep appearing.

Soon, Katie discovers that Hotel Necro is far more than just a luxury hotel. As she ventures into the depths of the building, she realizes that something truly horrific is happening in the shadows. Can she and Jason escape before they become the hotel’s latest victims, or does an even more awful secret lurk behind the one of the heavily-secured doors?

Escape From Hotel Necro is a horror novel about a woman who discovers just how far she’ll go to save herself, and about an organisation that exists to save people from their own darkest fantasies.

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When a child’s remains are found at a demolition site — a former children’s home in Norwich — forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to examine the bones. She quickly notes that the skull is missing. Is this a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand in this gripping British detective novel?

Ruth and DCI Nelson seek out the priest who served as the home’s operator. Father Hennessey reports that two children had gone missing there, about forty years earlier. They were never found, creating a haunting cold case. Is this one of them, finally unearthed? Or another child altogether? Ruth is drawn into the case, but soon it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the trail by frightening her, and her unborn child, half to death.

The hero of this mystery novel, Daniel Somerset, is determined to solve the murder of a famous writer. Daniel must track down the writer’s hidden manuscript and face the suspects, the rich and famous in the Hamptons.
Searching for love, reconciliation with his father who has a secret, and an identity he can live with, Daniel finds himself struggling to maintain his moral guidance system in a dangerous and confusing world.

The only thing worse than hating her, would be falling in love with her.

Shelby Leigh
I love food. I love everything about it.

My dream has always been to land a job with the Food Network channel, and I’ve spent years as a food critic, blogger, and chef, tasting my way across the South to develop recipes that are a twist on the classics and uniquely my own. When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes calling, I’m shocked to discover I’ve been paired with him, the worst blind date ever — bless his heart, and I’m determined not to let anyone get in my way. So, I buckle my designer heels, tighten my apron, and vow to myself there’s nothing in his playbook that’s going to stop me from tasting success.

Zach Wolff
I love wine. It is my life. What I hate are critics.

I hate everything about their dream-killing souls and elitist attitudes. So, when she shows up in the tasting room of my winery in northern Georgia, the devil in disguise wearing a pair of long legs and beautiful hazel eyes, I know just the plan to make and how to use her to get what I want. What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her, because in the end, I will win. I always do.

Two weeks. His wine. Her recipes.
A feature article in a special issue of a world-renowned magazine.
Pairing wine with food is one thing, but two hearts is another.

Ziri Mokuru has lived her entire life in the rural village of Arden Hollow on the planet Tersi. While her parents are off having adventures and being Very Important People, she’s struggled simply to find a place where she belongs.

Then an armored man pops into her home and kidnaps her, stealing her away on his spaceship to fight in the Choosing on his adoptive planet.

Ryn abid Alna has dreamed of having a family of his own since his parents were murdered during an alien invasion. After one look at Ziri’s sweet smile, he knows she’s the right bride for him. She can fix anything she touches, so why not the loneliness piercing his heart?

But even the best laid plans can go awry. When Ryn and Ziri’s ship is attacked by the same vicious aliens who killed his family, they have to fight for each other… or forever lose the love growing between them.

Emily Hayes used to be a tenured psychology professor with a corner office and a thriving marriage. Now she’s divorced, unemployed, and living in a shoebox apartment that smells faintly of despair. Her only hobby? Late-night arguments about ghost sightings on a paranormal forum with a woman who reads tarot in dive bars.

That woman — Juniper Quimby — owns exactly one leather jacket, lives out of a van painted with moon phases, and has “commitment issues” tattooed across her entire personality. Together, they’ve decided to reinvent themselves as paranormal investigators (because apparently “financial security” was too mainstream).

Their first big case? A creepy Victorian cemetery being bulldozed to make way for luxury condos. But when the foreman turns up crushed beneath a piece of equipment that was supposed to be locked down, the job goes from spooky to murder-y. Now Emily and Juni have to navigate skeptical cops, construction workers with secrets, and an infuriatingly handsome billionaire developer who may or may not be hiding a body or two under his penthouse floorboards.

And if the cemetery’s ghosts don’t get them, the killer definitely will.

On Boxing Day 1964 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey left home to go to the fair. Her older brother, Terry did not go with her because he was ill with flu. Not accompanying her on that fateful day would haunt Terry for the rest of his life. Lesley was abducted by Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

This is their heart-breaking story, told by Terry.

This fascinating and tragic story also includes family photographs and letters from Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

In the post-apocalyptic world of Half Past Midnight, Mark Roesch was the quiet guy – the gentle giant. The people of Rejas learned to count on him during the hard times after D-day. But every survivor had a story from before… and most of those stories dealt with the deaths of friends and loved ones.

Mark is no exception. Pain, loss, friendship, and wonder await him along The Road to Rejas.