In the mid-nineteenth century, a strange new fire swept across the American landscape. It was Spiritualism: the radical belief that the living could—and should—commune with the dead. While historians have long looked to the North for the heart of this movement, John Benedict Buescher reveals a darker, wilder, and distinctly Texan story.Lone Star Séance is a journey into the borderlands of belief, where parlor tables rattled in the same rooms in which pistols were drawn. Fr...

When a colleague's patient suffers a bizarre reaction in the operating room, Luke Daulton, a newly minted anesthesiologist, volunteers to help. Despite the surgical team's best efforts, the patient succumbs to a rare anesthetic complication. Luke becomes perplexed, even suspicious, over their inability to save the woman. Is it possible that the diagnosis was wrong? Or, worse yet, was the diagnosis faked? Luke even wonders if his boss Dr. Katz is involved.Too busy with the rigors of...

Politics determine the laws, the finances, the freedoms, and even the morality of a country in many ways.Politics is a negative word for many. Citizens often dismiss politics as corrupt and of no interest. However, the meaning is full of responsibility that every citizen should respect for politics determines how a country operates.Who is responsible? Primarily, the voters determine who controls these issues that make a country. Certainly, politics in America is worthy of a...

'Denver thought he knew who Luke Christian Cabrera was-charming, confident, everyone's favorite boy at school. But one visit to Luke's house changes everything. Because Luke isn't the only Cabrera.What begins as a simple school project turns into a story of secrets, longing, and the kind of love that both heals and hurts. When Denver's past collides with his present, jealousy brews, hearts break, and trust begins to fade.In the chaos of choices and misunderstandings, one tr...

Echoes from the Canopy is a collection of poems that traces the sorrowful and often turbulent journey of a teenager navigating the complex terrain of family, friendship, peer influence, and love. With lyrical precision, the collection delves into the emotional upheaval of growing up, offering an unflinching look at the inner struggles of youth.The collection is woven with a recurring metaphor of the "canopy," symbolizing both the protective shelter of family and society, and the st...

When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th...

A cop and a mysterious vigilante search for vengeance in this romantic suspense series opener by the USA Today–bestselling author of The Blackest Crimson.Detective Bobbie Gentry has one objective: to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child and her life. Nick Shade understands Bobbie's pain—and her desire for vengeance. He's on a mission of his own, and the murderer known as the Storyteller is next on his list.Nick kno...

A romantic mystery from Mara Jacobs, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Worth Series.I could tell you my name, but then I'd have to kill you.Forced to live in seclusion, my only contact with the outside world is with my online chat buddies. I give out different screen names with every person except one. Confessor. To him, and only him, my name is Blackbird. He is my soul mate. At least online.I make...

**A “**timely, tense, and thought-provoking” Gardiner and Renner thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Kind of Wicked (Hank Phillippi Ryan).“Lisa Black always delivers.” —Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter seriesWhen it comes to the dead, forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner has seen it all. But detective Jack Renner knows there are always more ways to die . . .The Cleveland Herald...

Coined by early explorers as the Atlantis of the North, the Arctic is a desolate, intense land colder than even Antarctica. Anthropologist Kate Foster accepts a job at an isolated research facility on a remote island surrounded by a vast ocean of crushing Pack Ice. Her scientific expedition becomes a mission of survival when she is joined by Detective Jack Decker with the Alaska Bureau of Investigations. Kate and Decker’s team of criminologists race against time to solve the gruesome and m...

First in a spinoff of the Claire Morgan crime series. “[A] nail-biting case . . . what a suspenseful thriller it is!” (Fresh Fiction)Bad MemoriesNot many people know their way through the bayous well enough to find Will Novak’s crumbling mansion outside New Orleans. Not that Novak wants to talk to anyone. He keeps his guns close and his guard always up.Bad SisterMariah Murray is one selfish, reckless,...

In this white-knuckle thriller for fans of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter, a brilliant, troubled forensic psychologist finds herself matching wits with a frighteningly talented sociopath.Dr. Iris Ballard’s glory days are behind her, so when Luke Hudson, her former FBI partner and onetime lover, asks for help constructing a psychological profile of an elusive serial killer who murders single mothers and dumps their bodies in the woods, Iris turns him away. She jus...