Everybody in New Haven knew the story. A Yale student vanished after a night out.Police called it voluntary. The city moved on. Zuri Bennett knew better, because she saw the girl the night she disappeared.What begins as a quiet obsession quickly turns into something far more dangerous when anonymous messages, erased footage and long-buried secrets pull Zuri into the darkest corners of New Haven. The deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a hidden world of powerful men, missin...

The dead were supposed to stay silent.Monique Carter has spent her entire life around death. As a licensed embalmer working for her family's respected funeral home, she knows how to restore bodies, comfort grieving families, and keep emotions separate from business.But when a young woman arrives after midnight with bruises around her wrists, falsified paperwork, and no official identity, Monique realizes something horrifying:The girl was never supposed to wake up.

Some churches save souls.Others bury secrets.Arielle James has spent her entire life inside New Hope Cathedral on Goffe Street. She knows the choir rehearsals, the prayer circles, the midnight revivals—and the silence that follows whenever young women suddenly disappear from the congregation.When her cousin Naomi vanishes after Sunday service and blood is discovered beneath the church pulpit, Arielle begins uncovering terrifying secrets hidden behind ministry walls,...

George Orwell’s powerful tale of rebellion and tyranny is vividly brought to life in this compelling and accessible retelling from Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman.Days before his death, old Major the pig ignites the flames of rebellion among the animals of Manor Farm, where Mr Jones rules with cruelty and neglect. Led by pigs Napoleon and Snowball, the farm animals unite to overthrow their human owners and reclaim their freedom. Although they envision a...

The Future of Healthcare Isn't Looking Well.The NHS has been privatised. Humans have been replaced. What could possibly go wrong?Robots have now replaced ninety percent of the human workforce. They don't get tired. They don't complain. They don't take sick leave.Unfortunately, they inherited the personalities of the people who programmed them.Lucas, the hospital's last human Clinical Engineer and robot specialist, spends his days investigating bizarre robot ...

Monterey Bay, 1942. The ocean is rough, the pay is thin, and commercial fisherman Gene Ackerly is just trying to stay afloat. But when his crewmate murders a G.I. during a drunken brawl, Gene makes a choice that threatens to drag him under the surface for good.On the run from the feds, the local PD, and his own conscience, Gene escapes into California's dark underbelly along desolate dunes, haunted highways, and finally to a fog-drenched boathouse where a deadly my...

Ring in the season with this charming short-story trilogy by internationally-bestselling authors Juliet Blackwell, Sophie Littlefield, and Rachael Herron.Darling Bay’s favorite Santa Claus has just died, but before the beloved Earl passed, he wrote a few really important letters. The letters are acting as matchmakers in Earl’s absence, and three couples get pushed together by his ribbons of ink. Merriment shimmers, hearts are gladdened, and kisses are stolen during...

In the charming city of Brookline, Massachusetts, Charles and Annie Woodworth appear to have the perfect marriage. Seven years in, they have everything money can buy: success, security, and a carefully crafted image. According to their prenuptial agreement, Annie can do whatever she wants, as long as she never embarrasses her husband.The problem? Annie has secrets.So do Evelyn and Noah. Living sort of a double life hidden in plain sight, they've managed to keep their privat...

You're smarter than Plato. So why is your life still a mess?You know the Earth goes around the sun. You know where babies come from. You're walking around with more accurate facts about the universe than the greatest minds of antiquity could have dreamed of. And you still can't figure out why you feel hollow after a good week, still fall for the wrong people, still lie awake at 3 a.m. wondering what you're doing with your one shot at this.Here's the uncomfortable news. That'...

You already know that escape stories end with people disappearing into safety. What if the real escape was learning to love someone you could never actually reach?When Erica Clarke's husband Robert fakes his death in the English Channel, she's devastated—until she discovers he's been hiding in the neighboring cottage the entire time. What follows is a seventeen-year journey across three continents that will teach her everything about running and nothing about redem...

When the Stars OpenedThey came from beyond the galaxy. They looked almost human. And they offered Earth immortality in exchange for one thing: freedom.For millions of years, the Vaelari have conquered worlds by replacing flesh with machinery, connecting entire civilizations to a single artificial consciousness known as the Crown.Now they have found Earth.Their ships appear above the world's ...

A groundbreaking study of justificationDebates about justification by faith have animated Pauline scholarship for generations. Yet the three views that currently hold sway—justification as acquittal, as covenant membership, or as rectification—remain so bound to Reformation-era disputes that they overlook Paul's primary claim: "The one righteous by faith will live."In Participating in the Righteousness of God, Ben C. Blackwell argues that ...