For seventeen years, Room 8 at the Reston Motor Court has been listed as occupied.No guest has ever been seen.Rhea Calder knows better than to ask questions at the aging roadside motel where she works. Her job comes with a cramped apartment above the laundry, and losing it would mean losing her home. But with the motel about to be sold, she notices something impossible: Room 8 has been paid for and marked occupied every day for nearly two decades—yet it has no car, no house...

For eight years, Dr. Maya Thorne has trusted her husband’s explanation for the night her sister disappeared: a car crash, a head injury, and a grief she cannot fully remember.Then a young woman washes ashore below the isolated Oakhaven Institute, clutching Laura’s silver dragonfly locket.As a violent nor’easter cuts off the Maine peninsula, Maya uncovers evidence that someone has been manipulating memory at Oakhaven. The medication her husband gives her every morning may no...

The ledger was meant to expose a network built on stolen identities.Instead, it has made Wren Calloway and Callum Ashworth targets.As the final names in the Black Ledger lead them from Bellhaven to Valparaíso, Wren discovers that the truth about her sister is more dangerous than she imagined—and that the people behind Account 612 are prepared to destroy the evidence, the witnesses, and anyone who refuses to disappear.With old loyalties collapsing and the sea closing...

In the shadow of Pharaoh Horemheb’s unfinished tomb, Pentu, a master draughtsman of the Place of Truth, discovers a hidden skeleton and a royal seal that was never meant to be found.As famine grips the workers of Deir el-Medina, Pentu is drawn into a conspiracy of stolen treasures, silenced witnesses, and secrets powerful enough to destroy every name connected to them. To clear his father’s memory, he must decide whether truth is worth more than survival.

Eight years after her sister vanished without a trace, investigative podcaster Wren Calloway has built a career exposing other people’s cold cases.Then Marina Voss disappears on the eve of her wedding into one of Bellhaven’s most powerful families.A coded ledger, hidden routes, and one account number pull Wren toward the Ashworth dynasty—and toward Callum Ashworth, the man whose family name is woven through every secret she uncovers.The deeper Wren goes, the clearer...

Before Columbus, before the Pilgrims, before the United States, a great city rose beside the Mississippi.In 1100 CE, Cahokia is home to thousands of people, towering earthworks, copper workshops, sacred ceremonies, and a political order held together by power, belief, and fear. Seventeen-year-old Wren arrives from a small farming village to work with metal and protect her younger brother. Beneath the shadow of Monks Mound, she discovers a city more brilliant - and more dangerous - ...

The banquet of roses and the feast of kisses Originates as a sequel novelette from the book "Toxic Attraction". In Toxic Attraction; Tricia died from sipping the red wine poisoned with Arsenic, her husband Mahogany followed her through starvation after he suffered permanent blindness from dye.Here they both met in their celestial bodies and they take us to the journey of life in a realm of love centered by strong different emotional arousal...Epilogue: The Banquet's Legacy

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When her younger sister dies in what authorities call a rain-soaked accident, Seattle obituary writer Jo Calder returns to Grayhaven—the Pacific Northwest town she spent years trying to escape.Lena had been investigating Meridian Grove, the powerful care facility that keeps Grayhaven employed and silent. Now the records are gone, the sheriff has closed the case, and the town’s most respected family wants Jo to leave before she asks the wrong questions.Following a list writt...

The hospital gives Nia Porter three days to take her mother home. Her family has three days to decide who will carry the cost.Mae Porter has survived the fall, the ribs that will not let her breathe deeply, and the hospital stay that has made her furious. But she cannot return to the house she has loved for fifty years without help - and help is something Mae has spent a lifetime refusing.Nia is already one missed payment away from disaster. Her brother Marcus is hiding a c...

Thebes, 1458 BCE. Pharaoh Hatshepsut has ruled Egypt for two decades, but her stepson Thutmose III is ready to claim the throne alone. Caught between them is Neferura, Hatshepsut’s daughter and God’s Wife of Amun. As court conspiracies close in and forbidden love threatens everything, Neferura must decide what she is willing to sacrifice so her mother’s name is never erased from history.

In 1511, the Portuguese carrack Flor de la Mar disappeared after the conquest of Malacca. Its wreck has never been conclusively identified. For centuries, reports of its cargo have blurred documented history, colonial myth, and the irresistible promise of lost treasure.In the present day, archival researcher Clara Sequeira follows a trail through damaged chronicles, contradictory cargo records, and a family collection that should not exist. Her work does not lead to a map ...