Romance-novel-obsessed Luna Starr decides to turn her cowboy fantasies into reality by purchasing a tiny farm in Celestial, Texas after life throws her a curveball. Enter Tate Jacobs, the town’s handyman and high school football coach who ironically hates cowboys despite his family owning the largest ranch in town. As Tate helps Luna fix up…
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The Jellyfish Problem
Marine biologist Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Since her best friend Aldo died seven months ago, she’s been hiding away at an underfunded aquarium, finishing the jellyfish guide they were writing together and keeping his voice alive through his notes in the margins. When Nadia, one of the few other humans she’s ever…
I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
After spending decades in prison for serial murder, Carol is thrilled to trade her tiny cell for a spot in Sheldon Oaks, a luxury retirement home where she plans to make friends, take up baking, and leave the killing behind. That plan falls apart fast when a fellow resident, a former police commissioner, drops dead…
Innocence Road
Detective Leanne Everhart swore she’d never return to her hometown near Marfa but after her father’s death and with her brother needing support, she finds herself back in a town still fractured by a decades-old murder. When a Jane Doe is discovered at the edge of the desert, Leanne begins to suspect the new crime is…
A Box Full of Darkness
Violet, Vail, and Dodie return to the home they fled eighteen years earlier, summoned by the ghost of their long-missing brother, Ben, and his unsettling plea to “come home.” Fell, New York has always been a place where strange things happen: a mysterious drowning at the local motel, a young girl found dead by the…
Beast of the North Woods
When a local ice fisherman is brutally mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, the only explanation offered is a hodag, a mythical creature long believed to be nothing more than a local hoax. The claim isn’t taken seriously by the townsfolk, especially since the hodag is deeply tied to the town’s identity and tourism. As…
Keep This for Me
Jennifer Fawcett weaves together a haunting and emotional mystery about grief, family legacy, and what we inherit from the past. In 1993, Fiona Green’s mother vanished after being abducted by a truck driver, who was later convicted as a serial killer. Decades later, with the killer on his deathbed claiming innocence in her mother’s case,…
Haven’t Killed in Years
Marin Haggerty, now living under the name Gwen Tanner, has spent two decades hiding from her past as the daughter of a notorious serial killer. She’s managed to build a quiet, anonymous life until someone starts sending dismembered body parts to her doorstep with one chilling message: I Know Who You Are. To protect her…
The Hitchcock Hotel
The Hitchcock Hotel follows a tight-knit group of six friends who left college nearly fifteen years ago, only to be drawn back together by an unexpected occasion and some unresolved business that makes this reunion far from safe. The Hitchcock Hotel had a lot of promise, and for most of the story, I was really…
The Vanishing Place
A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush draws Effie back to the place she swore she’d never return. Once a child who escaped her parents’ terrifying obsession with nature, she now faces the wild forest again when the only witness to the crime is a little girl who looks just like her. Effie must…