In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens in 1994, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley’s twin sister Sabrina has been having an affair with a mysterious older man and then both sisters vanish. Years later, newly instated Police Chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly cracks open the cold case, sending shockwaves through generations…
Category: United States
Pretty Dead Things
In 2000, Isabelle Whitmore vanished at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace. Twenty-five years later, the annual Lone Star Princess Pageant brings old grudges roaring back to the surface as four women, each carrying their own secrets and trauma, collide under one roof. When a record-setting storm knocks out the power grid and…
Marion
Marion has stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, but when the bus breaks down late at night, the only place with vacancies is an old set of cabins run by a charming young innkeeper named Norm. When Norm pulls back the shower curtain…
By the Bootstraps
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…
Headlights
FBI Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready to walk away from the job for good but on his last day, he’s pulled back to Denver with a chilling message: it’s happening again. Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway wearing the skin of victims they’ve never met, each with a…
The Shippers
JoJo Burton has been bad at love her entire life and she’s decided to fix that once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. Her plan: woo the neighborhood guy who was her first crush and first kiss for some long-overdue closure. The problem? She ropes in her childhood best…
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…
Brimstone Hollow
PI Annie Gore is back and this time she’s heading into the hollers of Eastern Kentucky to investigate the death of one of Appalachia’s last snake-handling preachers. His estranged daughter Katie May thinks someone rushed the funeral and the whole thing feels wrong. Annie takes the case because she sees herself in Katie, a woman…
Handle with Care
Handle with Care by Marybeth Whalen follows three women who walk into a small-town post office on an ordinary spring afternoon, only to find themselves held hostage when a domestic dispute spirals out of control. A husband pulls a gun and barricades himself inside with his wife and three strangers: a young woman searching for…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan takes up the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and keeping busy the way she always has, especially in the thirty-plus years since her eighteen-year-old son Erik vanished on a boat in Puget Sound. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a curmudgeonly giant…