Table Of ContentsThe One That Got Away by Devorah FoxLike to fish? How about a fishing story, with an unexpected twist?Facades by Clare FrancisViolet is the beautiful daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, growing up with all the privileges enjoyed by her station. But nothing is as it seems in this who-dunnit set against the turmoil of nineteenth-century Savannah.After Zion by Josh PenzoneIn wondering why he’s not more upset about the death of ...

Ever wonder what your neighbors are really like? What they may be hiding?The Neighbors features twenty aspiring writers wishing to entertain you with their short stories inspired by these very questions. From humorous conflicts with the home owners association to a seedier malevolence, suspicious behavior to a welcomed change, there is something for everyone.The next time your neighbors invite you to dinner, you may wish to think twice!

In a contemporary novel "full of hope and heart," a midwife in need of reinvention escapes to a remote island—and takes on a new identity ( Booklist).West Virginia midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her patients. But when her life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs. She decides to take drastic action, running away to a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind.On Canada's remote Sea G...

Timothy Carrier is an ordinary guy who enjoys a beer after work. But tonight is no ordinary night. Instead, Tim will face a terrifying decision: Help or run. For the jittery stranger sitting beside him at the bar has mistaken Tim for someone else—and passes him a manila envelope stuffed with cash and the photo of a pretty woman. “Ten thousand. The rest when she’s gone.”Now everything Tim thinks he knows—even about himself—will be challenged. For Tim Carrier is the one man ...

The truth can't stay buried foreverThe McCaffertys: SladeSlade McCafferty was a bachelor through and through-too busy raising hell to settle down. Case in point: fifteen years ago daredevil Slade had taken wild child Jamie Parsons's innocence, and then had broken her heart. But Jamie is back in town, a lawyer, all confidence and polished professionalism. And seeing her again is setting off a tidal wave of emotions Slade thought he'd dammed up ages ago. Bac...

One man’s gifted daughter may be the cure to a mysterious illness causing hallucinations and death in this horror novel by the author of Little Girls.First the birds disappeared.Then the insects took over.And the madness began . . .They call it Wanderer’s Folly—a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out humanity.After two years of creeping decay, David Arl...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Rita Mae Brown's The Big Cat Nap.Ah, spring! The brighter days and singing birds have a way of lifting people’s spirits, as well as those of their animal companions. But the season can also bring out the first blossoms of murder. As the redbuds open in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is especially excited—until a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and pro...

A man she can''t say "no" toSharp-tongued, independent firestorm Tabby Glover will do anything to get Greek billionaire Acheron Dimitrakos to support her adoption claim over his cousin''s small child. The last thing she expects is his outrageous marriage proposal!She has no choice but to say yes, even if the arrogant tycoon can''t stop looking down his nose at her for one minute! Tabby can see that there is more to this proposition and this devastatingly handsome man than m...

Jen Lancaster's cultural inferiority complex had to come from somewhere...and now fans can find out where in this hilarious New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of Bitter is the New Black.Before she was bitter, before she was lazy, Jen Lancaster was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn't know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding executive who found herself bewildere...

A story about taking love off the page and into real–life…Zoe Loyola is keeping a secret between her and her sketchbook. She loves sculptor Nick Gordon. Her drawings of him are hot…and naked!Nick has a secret, too. He's being blackmailed. Protecting his family means ignoring his desire for Zoe.But in the world of art, passion breaks every rule and secrets are made for sharing.

'Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times' Thomas PynchonIn PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a slightly skewed version of modern America. A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is an instantly punishable offence. A born loser attends a self-help seminar where he is encouraged to rid himself of all the pe...

Baiting a serial killer is risky enough. But FBI Special Agent Mick McCane knows he's in real trouble when he and by-the-book Cassie Miller have to pose as loving newlyweds to do it.Ever since their one sizzling night together, she's determined to keep their relationship strictly business–even as an undeniable attraction pulls them deeper into their undercover personas. Then their real identities are discovered and the hunters become the hunted. Now, the only way for Mick to protec...