He hired her to find wives for his friends to win a bachelor bet—but he never expected to fall for the matchmaker.Self-made tech billionaire Blaise Mortenson is determined to win a high-stakes wager to be the last bachelor standing among his friends. His foolproof plan? Hire a professional to match them all up. He enlists Hadley, a matchmaker known for running her business like a clandestine military operation with an unbeatable success rate.What should be ...

A billionaire cancer survivor plays Secret Santa for the dedicated doctor who saved his life.One word changed billionaire Wes Lockhart’s life forever: cancer. Fighting for his survival completely flipped his priorities. Now in remission, he is determined to use his wealth to give others the same second chance he received. The first person on his list? The beautiful, caring oncologist who ushered him through his grueling treatments. What better time than the holiday...

The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, “one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts)These seventeen tales take listeners into the uniquely twisted mind of “one of Canada’s most promising new horror writers” (Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation between a security g...

This collection of twenty-two short stories by the author of Daughter of Hounds and Alabaster firmly established Caitlín R. Kiernan as one of the preeminent voices in dark fantasy today. Through a cycle of interconnected narratives, Kiernan unflinchingly explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a shadow.From the murderous backstreets of New Orleans to an abandoned shipyard of the H...

He has billions in the bank, but he’s about to lose the only thing that matters.Iris Jacobs has been billionaire tech mogul Dash Cabot’s best friend, housekeeper, and emotional anchor for years. She handles his schedule, his home, and his life perfectly—but she’s done handling his heart. After being completely forgotten by him at Christmas, Iris realizes she has spent a decade putting her own dreams on hold for a man who takes her for granted. Determined to stop wa...

The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, this novella details the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother.Unique among Jack Kerouac’s novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in the life of Ti Jean Duluoz as they unfold in the short, tragic-happy life of his brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, childhood’s intensity, innocence, suffering, ...

Say hello to Humph the Boggart, the principled, down-on-his-luck private detective, Skinny Jim the zombie, and Fred the werewolf, in this film noir style space opera.Humans aren’t alone anymore—in fact, they share a planet with undead and near-dead beings, living in … semi-harmony, depending on who you ask! This is the world of Reboots—where zombies, vampires, and werewolves live side-by-side with humans, taking whatever jobs they can in order to coexist peacefully...

In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canonFor the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: a...

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award–winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently served up tale after tale celebrating monstrosity in all its forms: the imperfect, the broken, the beautifully alien, and the sadly familiar. Her characters make their own choices and take their own chances, slipping from darkness into deeper darkness yet never losing their humanity—not even when they’re anything but.An embittered blood-servant plots revenge against the vampires who ow...

You will not believe what you are reading - even though it all feels so real.Only a man like Smilin’ Jack could monetize civil war. After the infamous business tycoon launches a hit TV show that pits American and Confederate gladiators in brutal battles, his grisly spectacle draws the attention of psychopaths across the nation.When a mysterious Christian nationalist sparks a nationwide manhunt after a string of massacres in the name of his God, Department of Homeland Securi...

Declan Taylor is furious at the world. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. And instead of spending the summer with his friends, Declan is forced to get a job to help his family out. On top of that, it seems like his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan’s crush and always ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue...

She’s desperate for a commission to survive. He’s a suspicious billionaire searching for a mountain escape away from gold diggers.Real estate agent Cambria Baker desperately needs to make a sale, or she’ll soon be facing homelessness. When her broker asks her to handle a showing up on Mount Hood, Cambria jumps at the chance to save her livelihood. The only problem? The potential buyer is as gruff as he is gorgeous, and he is thoroughly unimpressed with both her and...