The Red Winter is a dark historical fantasy that blends folklore, history, and horror into a brutal retelling of the legend of the Beast of Gévaudan. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives word that the infamous Beast, thought to have been killed decades earlier, has returned to terrorize the French countryside. A monster hunter with…
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The Ghost Women
The Ghost Women blends mystery, history, and the supernatural into an atmospheric story set at a secluded art academy with a dark past. When a student at St. Luke’s Institute of the Arts is found hanging in the woods, his body posed exactly like the Hanged Man tarot card. Detective Lola Germany is called to…
Muscles & Monsters
Tegan literally runs into Atlas (a wolven who owns a gym) and ends up enlisting his help moving a cake, after a wedding cake disaster leaves her scrambling for her backup cake. After their chaotic meet-cute, she ends up joining his gym, Leviathan Fitness, where training sessions, lingering glances, and growing attraction quickly turn into…
The Anniversary
On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley are strangers whose lives collide in ways neither could imagine. Jules, the high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town, survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer; a predator who strikes every May 1st and then disappears without a trace. That same…
Parents Weekend
I love a good Alex Finlay thriller and am always excited to jump into his page turners. It’s Parents Weekend at a small private college in Northern California. Five families wildly different families are gather for dinner, expecting their children to join—but the students never show up. Initially dismissed as typical college behavior, concern turns…
Only If You’re Lucky
Another great mystery from Stacy Willingham to get the year started! After the death of a college student, Lucy Sharpe is missing. Her larger-than-life personality is what drew Margot to her at the end of her freshman year at Rutgers. Finding herself living with Lucy and two others (Sloane and Nicole) in an off campus…