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 only quiet door in the house is the bathroom door. You lean against it for ninety seconds, scrolling, crying, laughing at something wildly inappropriate-and then you go back out to take a blood pressure reading, refill the pillbox, or explain again what year it is. Caregiving can feel holy, but it is also stupid, boring, terrifying, hilarious, and so lonely it hums. Love sits right next to rage. Gratitude shares a toothbrush with resentment. The system that's supposed to help seems des...

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...

Every ignored request leaves a record.A chef covers a funeral dish she should have served. A hotel auditor keeps extending a dead guest's stay. A debt clerk receives proof of payment from a person who died before the company existed. Across nine linked stories, receipts, ledgers, contracts, photographs, charts, keys, and blank index fields become the instruments of a supernatural accounting system.The dead do not always ask for revenge. Sometimes they ask to be witnessed. S...

Everyone in town remembers the book club. Almost no one remembers finishing the book.The community reading program was supposed to be simple: choose a novel, host a few conversations, prove that the library still knows how to bring people together. Instead, the town is left with half-read copies, overconfident volunteers, nervous trustees, and a public event that is already on the calendar.Nora is brought in to make the whole thing look intentional. Pippa sees a chance to t...

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...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs comes Book 1 in the Anna Dawson mystery series.My name is Anna Dawson, and I'm a gambler.And like any gambler will tell you, sometimes that’s good, and sometimes...not so much. And sometimes it’s an outright problem.I love Vegas, and I love the life I've built, but when one of my friends is murdered, and another one shot at, I know I need to take a serious lo...

Book 1 in the Freshman Roommates Series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs.I didn’t believe in love at first sight, until I first saw Lucas Kade.I was giving swimming lessons to children when I first saw him. Turns out one of the kids was Lucas’s little brother. So, I’d be seeing a lot more of Lucas. And that was just fine with me.I had a lot going on—a freshman at an elite college, first time...

Books 1-3 in the New York Times bestselling Worth Series3 best friends - 3 new lovesBook 1:Worth The WeightA New Body...A New Life...An Old Flame?Lizzie Hampton is literally a shadow of her former self. Having lost half her body weight, she's headed to her small hometown to test out her new body on an old flame.Just a harmless fling to get h...

Who Would Win? meets Animorphs in the second book in Maddy Mara's new adventure series! Perfect for young readers who love fast-paced action.Max is . . . a tiger? The amulet has again transformed him into an apex predator. And just in time, too. Real tigers are on the loose! Now Max has to figure out how to keep himself and the escaped tigers out of trouble. Danger is everywhere. The tiger is ready to strike to protect her cubs. The humans who are after the tigers ...

Book 1 in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Worth SeriesA New Body...A New Life...An Old Flame?Lizzie Hampton is literally a shadow of her former self. Having lost half her body weight, she's headed to her small hometown to test out her new body on an old flame...

A peaceful building with cozy apartments, and neighbors who keep to themselves; it seemed like a perfect place for Lena to run away to after her life in Finland met a dark end. This beginning grants her a new home, a new remote job...and a new, ever escalating problem.First start the tortured screams. Then a stench starts to waft through the vents, crawls past the floorboards, and clings to her clothes. Is it just spoiled meat from a broken freezer or is her next door neighbor perh...