When Mara Sullivan inherits a decommissioned lighthouse on the remote cliffs of Blackwater Point, she expects a crumbling tower and a view of the sea. What she doesn't expect is the logbook left by the last keeper—her great-uncle, who vanished from the lighthouse forty years ago.The logbook contains a rule: *Never let the light go out.* But the lighthouse has no electricity, no oil, and no way to light the lamp. Yet every night, a beam sweeps across the water, and Mara can see it f...

She came home to bury her mother. Instead, she dug up her own stolenpast.June Marlowe has spent her whole life feeling like an outsider. She'sthirty-six years old, a librarian in a small Ohio town, and she'salways been too quiet, too careful, too afraid of the world. Her mother,Helen, raised her alone, and June never asked too many questions. It waseasier that way.Then Helen dies.While clearing out the house, June finds a hidd...

When Elara Voss receives a letter from a lawyer she’s never met, she learns that her estranged aunt has died and left her an inn at Blackwood Pass—a remote mountain crossing that has been closed by snow for weeks. With no other options and a life in ruins, Elara travels to the inn in the middle of a howling blizzard, only to find the old building not as empty as she expected.A handful of strangers have taken shelter there, each with their own reason for being stranded. But the inn ...

When Clara Marsh receives word that her grandmother has died at the old Mercy Hill Sanatorium, she inherits the building and the land around it—a decaying hospital that once treated tuberculosis patients and, later, the mentally ill. The sanatorium has been closed for decades, but the villagers of Blackwater claim it never truly emptied.Clara goes to the sanatorium expecting an abandoned building and an easy sale. Instead, she finds the lights still burning on the third floor, a pa...

Introduction to "The House on Ash Street"Delaney, a Boston woman whose life is falling apart, unexpectedly receives a letter from a lawyer: her great-aunt Edith Marsh, whom she never knew, has died and left her the old house at 14 Ash Street in the town of Harrow's End, Massachusetts. She drives to the remote and peculiar small town, where she finds a black house that has been empty for forty years. In the only locked room in the attic, hidden behind a black cloth, stands an ancien...

A widowed mother moves to a dying desert town for a fresh start—until her teenage son vanishes during his night shift at a roadside market, and the only clue is a four-second voicemail of him whispering: *“Mom, they’re loading her into the truck.”*

A late-night radio host returns to her dying desert hometown to care for her mother—until a caller starts talking about her sister's unsolved murder, and she realizes the voice belongs to the killer.

Claire Dodd has been married to Ben for twelve years. They've had their problems—his distance, her drinking, the slow erosion of intimacy that neither of them knows how to stop. So when Ben suggests a weekend away at a remote lake house, Claire says yes. A chance to reconnect. A chance to remember why they fell in love.The cabin is beautiful. Isolated. No neighbors for miles. No cell service. Just the two of them, the water, and the silence.Then Claire finds the phone....

When Maggie Wren receives a letter inviting her to the Hollow Hotel, a place she has never heard of, she nearly throws it away. But the letter contains a photograph of her brother, Aaron, who vanished five years ago. The photo is recent. And the invitation is written in his handwriting.The Hollow Hotel sits at the end of a road that no longer appears on maps, in a town called Stillwater that no one has ever visited. The hotel is grand, beautiful, and completely empty—except for a d...

Mara Holt grew up in Calloway, a small farming valley that was flooded forty years ago to create the Blackwell Reservoir. Her family lost their land. Her grandfather lost his church. Her sister, Lena, was lost on the night of the flood—a drowning, they said. A tragedy. A body never found.Mara became a hydrologist. She studies water. She learns how it moves, how it rises, how it takes. She tells herself it's just science. She tells herself she's fine.Now the reservoir is dro...

This is the first book on Asian countries’ strategies towards the EU. Since the introduction of Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1993 and the publication of the EU’s first strategic document on Asia one year later, hundreds of books and journal articles have been dedicated to the study of the EU policies towards Asia as a whole, or to individual Asian countries. However, very few of these researchers ever intended to explore the strategies of Asian countries, and Asian leaders’ mindse...

Food and Feed Safety Systems and Analysis discusses the integration of food safety with recent research developments in food borne pathogens. The book covers food systems, food borne ecology, how to conduct research on food safety and food borne pathogens, and developing educational materials to train incoming professionals in the field. Topics include data analysis and cyber security for food safety systems, control of food borne pathogens and supply chain logistics. The book uniquely cov...