Fire doesn't usually draw a straight line. So when it does, someone drew it first.Mara Ellison came to Cedar Hollow to read burn permits, not secrets. But when a volunteer firefighter dies during a routine training exercise, she's the only one who notices the flames moved in a way no recorded wind can explain. While the county rushes to close the case as an accident, Mara starts mapping this year's fires against the foreclosure list — and finds a pattern t...

Some people leave. Some people leave a light on.Chloé Mahé has just walked away from a career everyone told her to keep. She has a lease on a crumbling storefront, a plan to turn it into the bookstore cafe she's dreamed of since she was fifteen, and exactly no margin for error.Then her ceiling collapses, and the only person with a spare room is Christopher Lewis — her oldest friend, her first love, and the boy who ended things four years ago without ever telling he...

Every afternoon, by law, this town goes completely silent. One day, someone used that silence to get away with murder.Audiologist Nell Colby came home to bury her mother and take over the family hearing clinic — not to investigate a killing her entire town witnessed and somehow failed to hear. But the more she listens for what Corrow Falls isn't saying, the more she suspects the silence that let a man die wasn't new. It was a habit. One this town has been quietly practicing for yea...

A dead man. A village full of secrets. And a bookshop that has been keeping them for decades.When forty-two-year-old Violet Finch inherits her late aunt's bookshop in the picturesque English village of Marigold-on-Wye, she expects a quieter life among dusty shelves, eccentric customers, and Agatha, the shop's decidedly opinionated ginger cat.She does not expect to find local property owner Edmund Blackwood dead in the Mystery section before opening one rain...

Can you put an entire society on the couch?In Test Your Society, Mara Voss reimagines seven of the most famous psychological experiments in history—not to analyze the individual, but to hold a mirror up to the collective group. By translating clinical tests into precise social instruments, this book reveals how crowds behave when faced with ambiguity, moral dilemmas, and the overwhelming pressure to conform.Through a compelling breakdown of human behavior, you will...

A dead man can't explain why his name appears twice in her ledger. Someone in Bellwood Falls can — and they need her to stop asking.Nora Vance has spent nine years keeping the ledger at Hendricks Funeral Home spotless — every name checked, every date correct, every grieving family given exactly the truth they came for. It's quiet work. It's safe work. It's the only kind of order she's had since she lost her husband and kept going, alone, for her daughter's...

Who Is Lilith? The First Eve, Mother of Demons, and the Dark FeminineBefore Eve, there was another woman.She was formed from the same dust as Adam — not from his rib, not beneath him. When he demanded her submission, she spoke a forbidden name, took to the sky, and vanished into the wilderness rather than kneel. For four thousand years, her name has survived what almost no other ancient figure has: erasure, demonization, silence, and reinvention — again and...

Ingrown hairs, razor bumps, razor burn, irritation, and dark marks can turn a simple hair-removal routine into a frustrating cycle.If your bikini line becomes red, bumpy, itchy, irritated, or marked after shaving, waxing, sugaring, or other hair-removal methods, the problem may not be that you need a more complicated skincare routine. It may be that your hair-removal routine is repeatedly irritating your skin.BIKINI LINE INGROWN HAIRS is a practical, evidence-info...

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...

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 ...

A recall notice. A body. And a list that keeps getting shorter.When a routine drug recall lands on pharmacist Claire Halloran's counter, it should mean nothing more than an evening of phone calls. Instead, before she can finish making them, one of her regulars is found dead beside a pill bottle her pharmacy never filled — from a lot that, according to the manufacturer, was never even shipped to her state. Determined to find out how a stranger's poison ended up wear...