A marriage proposal gone wrong—and a second chance to get it right.When practical, cautious architect Marley Patterson started dating fun-loving contractor Von Ryan, she never expected him to drop to one knee after only six months. Panicked by the serious commitment and convinced they are just too different, she breaks his heart and walks away.Von blames himself for not reading the signs, throwing himself into his successful construction company to heal. He...

“We, the Jury has what most legal thrillers lack—total authenticity, which is spellbinding.” —James PattersonOn the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife’s skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder—or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense.Told from the perspective of over a dozen participants ...

Gold winner of the 2025 IBPA Book Award in the categories of "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy" and "Best Audiobook for Children or Young Adults"The stars speak in a language of secrets, yet their stories cannot remain hidden forever.Billions of years ago, on one of the first-ever Earths, a boy named Skylar will walk away from his home for the last time. Beset by dreams where he flies through the early universe as a sentient starship, he will never be safe ...

In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canonFor the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: a...

He has billions in the bank, but he’s about to lose the only thing that matters.Iris Jacobs has been billionaire tech mogul Dash Cabot’s best friend, housekeeper, and emotional anchor for years. She handles his schedule, his home, and his life perfectly—but she’s done handling his heart. After being completely forgotten by him at Christmas, Iris realizes she has spent a decade putting her own dreams on hold for a man who takes her for granted. Determined to stop wa...

One beach cottage, two strangers, and a mistletoe kiss that changes everything.Sheridan DeMarco wants to be anywhere but home for the holidays, eager to escape her parents’ new blended families. She thinks she’s found the perfect solitary retreat house-sitting a charming beach cottage in South Carolina. But when she arrives, she discovers she isn’t as blissfully alone as she planned. Michael "Mikey" Patterson needs to stay completely out of sight until his attorney...

Declan Taylor is furious at the world. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. And instead of spending the summer with his friends, Declan is forced to get a job to help his family out. On top of that, it seems like his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan’s crush and always ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue...

From Beat It to Billie Jean, the songs we know and love take on a brand-new, thrilling connotation in this anthology edited by Don Bruns.In this second collection in the Music and Murder Mystery series, nine award-winning, bestselling authors have written their own interpretations of the Thriller song list. With original work from some of the best mystery authors out there, the anthology includes stories from Heather Graham, Jeffery Deave...

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post.Collected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished authors, including Michae...

The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, “one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts)These seventeen tales take listeners into the uniquely twisted mind of “one of Canada’s most promising new horror writers” (Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation between a security g...

She’s desperate for a commission to survive. He’s a suspicious billionaire searching for a mountain escape away from gold diggers.Real estate agent Cambria Baker desperately needs to make a sale, or she’ll soon be facing homelessness. When her broker asks her to handle a showing up on Mount Hood, Cambria jumps at the chance to save her livelihood. The only problem? The potential buyer is as gruff as he is gorgeous, and he is thoroughly unimpressed with both her and...

Representing the dark underbelly of Romanticism and beyond, these stories reach the shadowy corners of the human soul as seen through the writings of some of the most prominent authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.