An NPR Best Book of the Year 2025An atmospheric, haunting novel about the Sawbrooks, a family of bootleggers with a troubled history and a deep connection to the Michigan land that binds them.The Sawbrooks have spent decades crisscrossing the waterways and vast forests between Northern Michigan and Canada to make their way as smugglers. Those hidden routes through the border's nooks and crannies are their legacy, but they no longer pay the ...

Brighton Stanley lived under the control of his strict parents until he finished college. After toughing it out another year and saving every dime he made, he was all too happy to be in his first apartment away from their meddling. But that didn't matter to them, and they kept his room just as he'd left it, awaiting his return. But Brighton knew there was nothing that would make him ever go back.Finally free, and with a place of his own, he spun around the vacant space, and was far...

A tense cat-and-mouse game and a brilliantly realised story of hope in a seemingly hopeless placeA LIFE IS IN HER HANDSThe last thing Percy expected to find in the local drug den was a baby girl. Now she needs to get the baby to a hospital, and fast. But there’s a blizzard outside and soon two-bit criminal Shelton Potter has woken up and is on the hunt for whoever has taken the baby . . .‘Read-in-a-day, stay-up-all-night compelling’ Stylist...

This summer is his last chance to win his first love.Wardenclave has always been a place of secrets and sway. For most of the year, the remote mountain village is closed off from the rest of the world, but each spring, they issue invitations to the most promising young reavers all over the world. Summer skill camps provide opportunities for the elite to train with the best. And by longstanding tradition, for teens of the In-between to evaluate the compatibility of ...

'A one-man, one-cat mission to cheer people up' - The MirrorWhen Travis Nelson arrived in London, he expected to embark on a new life and a new job. Coming from California, he'd uprooted his wife and his cat, Sigrid, and planned to be here for the long haul. Then Covid-19 struck. Travis's new job vanished as the company cut staff. For two years, and through successive lockdowns, he was stuck in limbo in an unfamiliar city, trying to find his way.To keep him...

In a time when many are questioning or leaving the church, disillusioned by hypocrisy and the damage caused by rigid belief systems, The Mystery of Faith: Why The Gospel is Good News calls readers back to the heart of Christianity--Jesus himself. This book explores how the person and work of Christ form the foundation of Christian faith, a reminder that Christianity isn't about moral perfection, political alignment, or institutional loyalty, but about the good news that Christ has died, Ch...

Exciting new thriller short readHe fixes houses. Until they gave him a reason to break people.Ax Hawke fixes houses. That's all anyone in Calder, California knows about him.No friends. No past. No questions.Then trucks start coming down Ridgemont Road in the dark. A boy is used to deliver threats to his mother. And the empty house at the end of the street isn't empty anymore.Ax knows he should walk away. He'...

Evolution: The Long Journey Home was written for anyone who believes in their heart and soul that God exists, but questions or disagrees with religious dogma. I understand science, physics, mathematics, and evolution. There is no denying the truth of these topics. I dont feel my belief in God contradicts any of these subjects. I expect the day that physics proves the existence of God. That day is closer than most realize.I understand the mathematical odds of humans being the only in...

Travis Nolan is back in town and doing everything he can to get right back out of it again. Finding out that his father devised a way to keep him locked in the small town of Fairplay, even after death, has him doing everything he can to complete his new obligations. But now there's a small pixy red-head that just won't get out of his way and out of his mind.Holly just wants to finish remodeling her business and apartment so she can get the annoying Travis off her back, but working c...

Book Eight in the MacFarland Ranch series, The Cowboy’s Unshakeable Love, is Travis and Retta’s love story.Travis left Montana years ago, along with Cash and Mav MacFarland and a bunch of their friends. After serving in the Navy together, he stuck with Cash and Mav when they set up their own private security company.His last few visits back to Paradise Valley have made him wonder if it’s time to come home. He’s the life-and-soul-of-the-party kind of guy and ever since he fi...

There’s a corpse on campus in this mystery from an Agatha Award finalist who’s “a rare breed of writer” (The Plain Dealer).Melanie Travis loves her teaching job at Connecticut’s elite Howard Academy, where plans are underway for a Spring Pageant to honor the school’s fiftieth anniversary. Immersed in the preparations, Melanie is hurrying to retrieve a painting of one of the illustrious co-founders when she comes upon a disturbing scene: Eugene Krebbs, the ...

For all that Jason's new life is amazing, he is about to learn that all his new power, wealth and influence comes at a price.Riding high on success, he and his team are looking to the future, preparing themselves for the challenges to come. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the lessons his enemies have to teach. When magic is involved, the stakes can be even greater than life and death.While Jason's personal enemies make plans, the greater foes plagui...