Power is rarely given. It is seized, defended, and covered in blood.In Famous Crimes of the Middle Ages: Power and the Crime, Mara Voss strips away centuries of myth and propaganda to uncover the dark reality of medieval statecraft. Far from isolated acts of violence, the crimes featured in this volume were pivotal moments that altered laws, shattered dynasties, and reshaped European history.Rather than retelling sensationalist tales, Voss examines...

A town of eleven thousand people watched a man die on a livestream. Not one of them saw it happen.Nora Calloway's entire job is controlling what her town says about itself — three drafts, every fact verified, nothing that can't be defended. Then a councilman dies in the municipal parking lot, exactly on schedule, minutes after an anonymous comment on her own livestream said he would.The comment vanishes before anyone else sees it. The official recording is ...

The numbers always tell the truth. In Harlow, somebody has spent forty years making sure no one could read them.Wren Calloway didn't come to Harlow to solve anything. A two-week bookkeeping job three hundred miles from her old life was supposed to be the quietest place she could find to disappear — count the numbers, cash the check, leave before anyone learned her name. But the numbers don't lie, even when everyone around her does. A set of coded ledger pages leads...

History is written by the victors—but what if the victors lied?For centuries, the dark history of the Middle Ages has been veiled in bloodcurdling legends, state-sponsored propaganda, and confessions extracted under brutal torture. We grew up believing the terrifying tales of medieval monsters, rogue outlaws, and shadowy sects. But how much of what we accept as "history" is actually carefully constructed political fiction?In Famous Crimes of the Middle Ages...

Every afternoon, by law, this town goes completely silent. One day, someone used that silence to get away with murder.Audiologist Nell Colby came home to bury her mother and take over the family hearing clinic — not to investigate a killing her entire town witnessed and somehow failed to hear. But the more she listens for what Corrow Falls isn't saying, the more she suspects the silence that let a man die wasn't new. It was a habit. One this town has been quietly practicing for yea...

Can you put an entire society on the couch?In Test Your Society, Mara Voss reimagines seven of the most famous psychological experiments in history—not to analyze the individual, but to hold a mirror up to the collective group. By translating clinical tests into precise social instruments, this book reveals how crowds behave when faced with ambiguity, moral dilemmas, and the overwhelming pressure to conform.Through a compelling breakdown of human behavior, you will...

Who Is Lilith? The First Eve, Mother of Demons, and the Dark FeminineBefore Eve, there was another woman.She was formed from the same dust as Adam — not from his rib, not beneath him. When he demanded her submission, she spoke a forbidden name, took to the sky, and vanished into the wilderness rather than kneel. For four thousand years, her name has survived what almost no other ancient figure has: erasure, demonization, silence, and reinvention — again and...

A dead man can't explain why his name appears twice in her ledger. Someone in Bellwood Falls can — and they need her to stop asking.Nora Vance has spent nine years keeping the ledger at Hendricks Funeral Home spotless — every name checked, every date correct, every grieving family given exactly the truth they came for. It's quiet work. It's safe work. It's the only kind of order she's had since she lost her husband and kept going, alone, for her daughter's...

She came to the Shadow Court with a stolen name and a borrowed smile. Her mission: seduce the king, earn his trust, and disappear before he learned the truth.Elara has spent years hiding what she is—a healer whose touch can unmake as easily as it mends. When the Shadow Court summons her as a political bride, she sees only an opportunity. The king is cursed. His court is crumbling. And someone powerful wants him dead before the next new moon.King Caelan knows she is lying. H...

After a painful divorce, Emma Cross thinks she’s finally found peace in a quiet countryside home with her golden retriever, Cooper. But when Cooper begins fixating on the same section of wall night after night, her fragile calm begins to crack. Something is wrong inside the house something watching.Her new neighbor, Dr. Ryan Hale, a calm and steady veterinarian with his own scars, offers to help. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he does believe in instincts and Cooper’s behavior d...

When Elise and Damon return to the long-abandoned Crimson Hall, they tell themselves it’s just one night to face the past, to forgive, to move on. But as midnight nears, the ballroom stirs. Whispers rise from the cracks in the walls, carrying the memory of a love that never found rest.Bound by desire and old guilt, they stumble upon the legend of the mistress in crimson a woman doomed to dance each New Year’s Eve, waiting for two hearts to finish what she began. The deeper Elise an...

When investigative journalist Lena Cross breaks into the sealed remains of an abandoned military base, she expects nothing but silence and dust. Instead, she finds a secret still breathing a man who isn’t entirely human.Once known only as Project Azrael, he’s intelligent, lethal, and heartbreakingly lost. Beneath his altered form, Lena sees what others never could a soul reaching for something it was never allowed to have. But uncovering his truth means exposing the experiment that...