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Still recovering from a recent institutionalization and unable to trust his own mind or magic, Adrien is drawn into the witch hunt as suspicion falls upon those closest to him. The city's inquisitors and witchfinders are losing control, the magicians are growing more and more resentful, and the scars from Adrien's last brush with disaster refuse to fade. To put an end to the innocent deaths, to keep his dearest friends, and to prove himself worthy of a potential new romance, Adrien is forced to confront his own blind spots before he's fatally ensnared by the angel of death's machinations.

From the outside, Daphne Zeledyne and Hazel Wright look like an impressive power couple—being that Daphne is a practicing doctor and an even more brilliant inventor, while Hazel is well known in the courtroom for taking on some of New York’s more prominent cases. Heavily layered with sophistication and refinement, no one can see that their marriage isn't what it appears. Told through the perspective of Hazel, who is secretly being controlled by her wife via a mind-control device, she recounts their daily lives and history while struggling to break free.

After her deadly brush with the paranormal, Flynn just wants to get back to her life: construction work, semiprofessional bowling, and her fiancée, Genesis. Unfortunately, Flynn’s abilities have caught the attention of the National Psychic Registry, and they have their own agenda. Wherever Flynn goes, the registry follows, hounding her to attend the conference in Atlantic City for evaluation and training. Flynn can handle the registry’s heavy-handed tactics, threats, and guilt trips. But the offer to heal the wounds she sustained in Dead Woman’s Pond is much more tempting.

What begins as a vacation in Italy for Professor Hillary Broome’s family turns into a nightmare when her gay teenage daughter Claire disappears. Hillary uncovers an ominous plot led by Father Tommaso, who aims to reverse women's rights progress. Battling personal demons and confronting her past, Hillary races against time to save Claire. The story intertwines themes of family, redemption, and societal progress, set against a backdrop of religious conspiracy.

Fehmi and Şener have been together forty years—no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed doors, their life on Büyükada, an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that needs only one spark to blow. That spark soon comes in the form of Deniz, the wildly handsome and troubled teenager next door, who immediately catches Fehmi’s eye.

Injured in a brutal hit-and-run by a serial killer, sidelined to desk duty, and staring down her fifties, Diana is running out of chances—and patience. Then a late-night call pulls her back into the field. Witness to a murder, Naomi Happleburn is a withdrawn graphic designer whose acute hearing and quiet life make her an unlikely key to the case. But Naomi saw something she wasn't meant to see. Now she's being watched—and hunted.

Broken trust. Shattered hearts. Secrets exposed—and yet still no closer to the truth. When Malcolm and Seong-Jae's relationship hits a wall, their partnership fragments as well . . . and they may not be able to withstand the crushing tide when protests over Tomasz Kowalczyk's death turn into deadly riots. Too many familiar faces return, and one will be leaving in a body bag. But for the puppet master guiding their every move, the chaos that descends on Baltimore is the perfect opportunity to capture his mark.

Two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of environmental collapse. Participation offers a prescient look at communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. As the groups consider—or neglect—their syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor disappears, a translator questions his role, a colleague known as “the capitalist” becomes a point of fixation, and “the news reports” filter through in fragments.

Agent Knight looked up at the garden wall. It was easily eight feet tall or more. “The...abductor threw your sister on its shoulder and leaped over the wall?” “Not over it,” Eden said, her brow furrowed as she recalled the horrifying event. “To the top of it. A wall this tall is also deep. It's about four feet thick. It stood on top of the wall and...and...” “And what?” Knight's voice was low and persuasive. “Howled!” Eden slapped her hand over her mouth as if trying to keep the words from tumbling out. “It howled like a wolf.”

"At once suspenseful and tender…a queer horror masterpiece." —Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself In this chilling contemporary horror novel, a phony spiritualist returns to her hometown to assist in an investigation that eerily mirrors her sister’s death, forcing her...

Tyler can't inherit unless he gets married... and when Glen proposes, hijinks ensue. Follow the guys on their world-spanning adventure as they defeat mobsters, an evil step-mother, a rakish brother-in-law and pirates. No, really - pirates! Plus, there's an underground super-base. And hockey. Come for the romance, stay for the hockey.

The Middle East War is finally over, and veteran Cole Everett is trying to build a new life in Los Angeles, California, and hopefully reconnect with his cousin, Sean Martin, a private investigator. His hopes are stalled when he discovers that Sean’s live-in lover, Arturo, is a vampire.

A group of men who feel ostracized from society take on a world of organized crime, each for their own personal agenda. These men, who all come from several backgrounds, form a special brotherhood to obtain the success they seek. Throughout the adventure, many trials and tribulations will form. These events will test these men to their ultimate potential and self-worth. How far will these men go to achieve what they truly want? What risks will they be willing to take along the journey? Will they learn any important lessons along the way?

Chicago Journal reporter Mark Manning has been called in to replace a colleague on a big story. Famed Swiss astrophysicist Pavo Zarnik has just stunned the science world with his announcement that he’s discovered a 10th planet in our solar system. Manning is skeptical of Zarnik’s claims and believes he’s a fraud. His suspicions grow when his fellow reporter - award-winning journalist Clifford Nolan - turns up dead, his laptop missing.

Dr. Madeline Lovette built a life on language. As a respected Shakespeare professor and columnist behind the viral “Ms. Shakespeare” series, she’s spent years dissecting love, tragedy, and betrayal on the page, never expecting to live them so literally. After fleeing an abusive ex and a failed trial that left her labeled a victim, Maddie sought refuge in New Orleans, hoping to disappear into poetry and distance. What she found instead was Peyton: a brilliant, obsessive sculptor who carved love out of clay and shadow. Their affair was fast, intoxicating... until Maddie tried to leave.

Governor Sandra Murphy is rethinking the sanity of allowing her mother to talk her into considering becoming the democratic party’s choice for the presidential nominee. Sandra has enough to contend with after surviving a bomb attack, thanks to the brave border control agent working alongside the clever undercover FBI agent. Now, she has to worry about a pesky reporter who seems to be everywhere, scoping stories Sandra would prefer Wynter Holmes steer far away from.

Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter, and he must ask himself a horrific question. With the help of assault counsellor Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be the end of it. But it’s only the beginning....

Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The Language of Bodies probes the seduction of vengeance using vivid, sensual imagery to explore how love transcends the particulars of body parts and how revenge blurs the line between victim and perpetrator, hero and villain.

EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town. While dodging danger and digging up dirt, Brighid faces the ire of small town politics, crooked cops, and an ever deepening hole of deceptions, all the while struggling to cope with the constant deployment of her wife Major Sarah (Sam) Ann Musgrave.

It seemed like a great idea—a chance to get everyone back together and go to Burning Man. Kaylee Wu and Elise Macdonald, owners of Knit Jam Knitting Boutique, reunite with their friends to create an art piece at the famous event. But whenever this group of adventuresome friends gather together, murder and mayhem are not far behind. Bedlam from day one when the Morrison Treasure is set to go on display at the famous de Young Museum but is stolen, followed by two brutal murders on the Playa, all while an apparent serial killer is on the loose in the City by the Bay.