When two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb over one terrible weekend, school counselor Abby Rosso begins to suspect that her own son Benjamin was secretly involved in their lives and possibly their deaths. Abby doesn’t want to believe her son could hurt anyone, but she’s seen the warning signs before:…
Category: Texas
The Best Little Motel in Texas
Cordelia West has spent years building a quiet, respectable life in Dallas and putting as much distance as possible between herself and her chaotic hometown of Sarsaparilla Falls. Then she gets a phone call: a great-aunt she never knew existed has died and left her the Chickadee Motel. The catch? It can’t be sold until…
The Burning Side
Sarah Damoff’s The Burning Side is a beautifully layered family drama about marriage, memory, and what survives after disaster. After a house fire forces April and Leo and their young children to move in with April’s family, old wounds and buried secrets rise to the surface, testing not only their marriage but their understanding of…
The Odds of You
Sage Collins traded her data analyst career to chase her dream of becoming an author, but after a whirlwind debut and a brutal case of second-book syndrome, she’s not sure she’ll ever write again. When a chance encounter on a flight to Comic Con accidentally links her to Theo Sharpe, a breakout British actor on…
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…
No Road Home
Single father Toby Tucker has spent years shielding his queer son, Luca, from a cruel world but marrying into the powerful Wright family thrusts them directly into it. The Wrights are wealthy, deeply religious, and led by a notorious televangelist patriarch whose influence looms over everything. When a storm traps the family at their isolated…
The Bright Lands
The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. When star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, fear grips this small Texas town. Joel Whitley, shamed out of Bentley ten years ago, returns from New York to confront his past and help find his brother. Alongside Sheriff’s Deputy Starsha Clark and Dylan’s…
The Midnight Knock
The Midnight Knock is a haunting blend of horror, mystery, and science fiction. The story follows a group of characters who are each confronted by a chilling supernatural phenomenon known only as “the knock” a midnight visitor that seems to bend time, blur reality, and pull them into a terrifying web of secrets tied to…
Party of Liars
A Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen with a body count? Count me in. Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox is a fresh, twisty take on the locked-room whodunnit. The story kicks off at Sophie Matthews’s over-the-top birthday bash, hosted in her father’s newly renovated, maybe haunted, cliffside mansion in the Texas Hill Country. Just as the party…
I Was a Teenage Slasher
Small town teenager Tolly Driver had all the potential, until he was cursed to become a Slasher in his small West Texas town and gets even with those that have treated him wrong. Told in a memoir format, Tolly gives us his perspective on going from a normal teenage in 1989 to a murderer in…