What if the warning signs were there all along?When Cassie's best friend suddenly disappears from her life without explanation, she finds herself anxious and searching for a sense of purpose. Reinventing herself as a tarot reader from her Glasgow flat, she throws herself into spirituality, manifestation and the hope of a fresh start.Then Finlay walks into her life.Charming, intense and searching for answers about his missing girlfriend, Finlay quick...

Rona had thought her divorce from Harry had been her rock bottom. Her greatest shame and failure in life.But then, she met Peter. Drawn further into the partying lifestyle, Rona doesn't seem to notice just how much of her life is slipping out of her control. Until, thanks to Peter's questionable business practices, the ground beneath Rona's feet is firmly pulled out from under her.Becoming Ordinary follows Rona's story in dual timelines as she is forced to confront...

Shades of Sheol explores one of the Hebrew Bible's most haunting and least settled questions: what happens when life ends?Philip Johnston guides readers through the shadowed world of Sheol - the underworld of the dead - where biblical writers wrestle with grief, burial, ritual impurity, ancestral memory, necromancy, and the silence of the grave. Drawing on biblical poetry, law, prophecy, archaeology, and the literature of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Ugarit, this study ...

"RECIPROCITY asks the reader to ponder the morality of darkness," writes author Mathieu Cailler about this debut novel from award-winning short-story writer T.D. Johnston. When a third Mafia boss in a third major city is murdered by an unknown entity, FBI organized-crime agents Jack Hanratty and Neville Parker are assigned to lead the national investigation of what the media dubs "The Godfather Assassinations." As the cabal continues to eliminate the leadership of the powerful Maf...

Beneath Southern Stars is an all new smalltown, single dad romance from author Andrea Johnston set in the fictional town of Magnolia Grove. It can be enjoyed as a standalone but be sure to check out the rest of the stories from this collection.LANEY: Small town life isn't for everyone. At least that's what I’m told. To me, it's everything. Growing up in Magnolia Grove my neighbors are like family and every memory ...

The compelling story of the end of Henry VIII’s reign—and how the fate of England was determined by the king’s secretary and minister, William PagetIn the closing years of Henry VIII’s reign, the future of England hung in the balance. The king’s potential heirs consisted of two daughters of disgraced parentage and a young son too inexperienced to rule. With a French invasion imminent and the royal dynasty in crisis, England’s noble families vied to manipulate the s...

Down on her luck and tired of being denied the pretty things she craves, a young woman makes a reckless decision that sets off a chain of events she never could have imagined. A moment of petty theft turns into a desperate flight through the city, ending at the doorstep of a grand mansion where she seeks refuge. But the mansion holds a dark secret, and when she is locked in a study with a murdered man, she becomes the prime suspect in a crime she didn’t commit.As a determined detec...

Phantom Watch is a Cold War naval thriller grounded in the daily reality of life aboard a U.S. Navy warship. Two young men join the crew of the fictional frigate USS Buidhe (FF-1039). Mike carries the weight of a multi-generational Navy family and the ideals of service. David arrives with a far more dangerous purpose—he has been carefully prepared since childhood as a sleeper agent for the Soviet Union. As the ship deploys into the Mediterranean and the broader contest of the Cold War, the...

It was after Culloden. Though I, David Scott, was an unimportant person yet I lay in the Tolbooth, in Edinburgh, with my betters. I was a young man—twenty-two. I had fought for the Stuarts at Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden, without the least question that I can remember arising in my mind, that being the politics of my chief and my family and nearer acquaintance. Now I made as little question that I would not lie there in irons if I could help it. No, nor be shipped to Barbados or Virgi...

When I return to Bishop’s Bay after my mother’s death, I’m determined to revitalize our family’s flagging lakeside resort. But my siblings would rather stay on their ranches, the resort staff doubts my every decision, and the one move that could secure its future? It’s blocked by one stubborn strip of land.Enter Jasper Duke—laid-back, charming, and apparently allergic to ambition. When I quite literally drop my grief and my expectations on him, I never imagine offering him a job…or...

The world is a dangerous place for a child when no one's watching.In post-World War II Scotland, a seven-year-old boy should be walking to school. Instead, he's shipped off to Australia.Trapped in a world of anger and violence with nowhere to turn, young Johno clings to the hope that a policeman might help him. But life has other plans.Decades later, after years of denial by governments and cover-ups by institutions, Johno begins to uncover the trut...

He arrived in America with little more than ambition and a gift for dreaming bigger than anyone around him dared. Samuel Goldwyn — born Schmuel Gelbfisz in the tenements of Warsaw — would go on to reshape the very face of Hollywood, building an empire of glamour, scandal, and unforgettable cinema through sheer force of will. Alva Johnston's The Great Goldwyn, published in 1937 at the height of the golden age of film, pulls back the velvet curtain on one of the most colorful, contradictory,...