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Publication Date:  July 11, 2023 Format:  E-book Genre:   Horror Publisher:  Tor Nightfire Length:   352 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within. Soon, boys begin acting differently, forming group...

Publication Date:  July 24, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fantasy Narrators:  Sierra Grace Publisher:  Bryant Street Publishing Length:   7 hours 56 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis After cheating death twice in one night, confessing her true nature to her werewolf soul mates and being asked to kill one of her closest friends, Secret took a much-needed vacation. By running away. Now she’s back in town—dragged kicking and screaming—determined to clear Holden Chancery’s name. Right after she finds out what he’s accused of. It shouldn’t be hard—Holden has a habit of using their new and scintillating psychic bond to break into her thoughts and dreams at some very, shall we say, awkward moments. Just a ...

Publication Date:  April 29, 2020 Format: Kindle Genre:   Fantasy Publisher:  Quick Quill Publishing Length:   386 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Nothing comes for free, especially magic.  Sarah’s escape from the Hallowed Hills is a bitter one, having left Arty behind. It’s only a matter of time until Janice finds Sarah and her new friends. But instead of tricking her, in true Fae style, Janice snatches a child and  lures  her.  Sarah can’t save anyone without a plan and allies, and Nick is the only one she can trust. But Nick has his own objectives. Can Sarah get in and out of the Hallowed Hills without being caught up in the Fae games again? Or will she stay and dis...

  Publication Date:  July 12, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fantasy Narrators:  Sierra Grace Publisher:  Bryant Street Publishing Length:   7 hours 44 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Some secrets are dangerous. This Secret is deadly. For Secret McQueen, her life feels like the punch line for a terrible joke. Abandoned at birth by her werewolf mother, hired as a teen by the vampire council of New York City to kill rogues, Secret is a part of both worlds, but belongs to neither. At twenty-two, she has carved out as close to a normal life as a bounty hunter can. When an enemy from her past returns with her death on his mind, she is forced to call on every ounce of her mixed heritage to save herself—a...

Publication Date:  March 29, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Thriller Narrators:  Angela Dawe Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   8 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Deep rooted secrets.  A twisted family history. And a house that will never let go. Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person's face. It causes stress. Acute anxiety.  It can make you question what you think you know. When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a...

Publication Date:  July 11, 2023 Format:  E-book Genre:   Mystery Thriller Publisher:  Poisoned Pen Press Length:   352 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters and rapidly dropping temperature, Christa believes they'll be safe as they wait out the storm. She couldn't be more wrong. Deep in the night, their tour guide goes missing...only to be discovered the fol...

Publication Date:  July 11, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Thriller Narrators:  Angie Hickman Publisher:  Dreamscape Audio Length:   9 hours 59 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Cheyenne Ashby knows the dark and disturbing history of her hometown of Blue Cliff, Virginia all too well. It’s why she left. Growing up deep within the woods with her eccentric mother, Constance, she was raised on the unusual customs and generational superstitions linked to the local legend of an evil entity that haunts the forest. Five years ago, the bodies of three children were found in the woods. It was a man—not a mythical beast—named Jasper Clinton who was convicted of these heinous crimes. For five years the town bre...

  Publication Date:  Jully 6, 2023 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Suspense Action Publisher:  Raven Street Publishing Length:   331 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Do you believe Will took his own life?’ The question echoed off the white tiles in the hospital’s cold, cavernous morgue, and I studied my husband in peaceful repose. I leaned down and put my forehead against his. Silent tears ran down my cheeks. They felt hot, and he felt so cold. It was five days since his death, and my grief felt heavy, like a vast, dark mass pushing down on me. When Maggie’s husband, Will, is shot dead in their London home, she thinks he is the victim of a burglary  until the police tell her the shocking news it was Will who pulled the trigger. Maggie is consumed with grief and questions.  Will wasn’t suicidal. He had so much to live for. After the funeral, Maggie travels to their holiday home on a small Croatian island to escape Londo...

Publication Date:  July 11, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Thriller Narrators:  Kathleen McInerney Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   9 hours 25 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate gets to know his devastated family and the people—both English and Amish—who loved him, the more determined she becomes to solve the case. Aden Karn was funny and hardwork...

Publication Date:  June 26, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Thriller Narrators:  David Chandler Publisher:  Bookouture Audio Length:   12 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis They lie on the hillside, wearing matching white dresses, tiaras in their blonde hair. Each of them clutches a red rose. They could be sleeping, but frost shines on the lashes of their wide blue eyes, frozen open forever… Detective Lexi Bennett  is devastated when she finds the two teenagers lying side by side on the quiet green hillside, their throats cut. Convinced this is no ordinary killer, she vows to draw on all her profiling experience to find justice for these beautiful girls who will never have the cha...

Publication Date:  June 7, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Romance Narrators:  Moira Quirk Publisher:  CamCat Books  Length:   10 hours 37 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Breena MacRae, a healer from Skye with a touch of witchery in her blood, embarks on a dangerous search for her missing father. She arrives on the Isle of Coll, seat of the vile Campbells. There, she encounters the debonair future chief to the Dunbar Clan, Egan, who rescues her from a Campbell sentry.  Egan Dunbar is on Coll to keep the peace between the feuding Campbells and Dunbars. But when he catches Breena in a lie, he agrees to help her find her father to pay back an old debt and get to the bottom of the secrets she's hi...

Publication Date:  June 6, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Fiction/Mystery Narrators:  Jodi Harris Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   11 hours 19 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis 1920s London isn’t the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions, but research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to beat the odds in a male-dominated field at the University College of London. She embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual clues, he asks for her assistance. The victims, all women, received bouquets filled with poison...