A town of eleven thousand people watched a man die on a livestream. Not one of them saw it happen.Nora Calloway's entire job is controlling what her town says about itself — three drafts, every fact verified, nothing that can't be defended. Then a councilman dies in the municipal parking lot, exactly on schedule, minutes after an anonymous comment on her own livestream said he would.The comment vanishes before anyone else sees it. The official recording is ...

The only quiet door in the house is the bathroom door. You lean against it for ninety seconds, scrolling, crying, laughing at something wildly inappropriate-and then you go back out to take a blood pressure reading, refill the pillbox, or explain again what year it is. Caregiving can feel holy, but it is also stupid, boring, terrifying, hilarious, and so lonely it hums. Love sits right next to rage. Gratitude shares a toothbrush with resentment. The system that's supposed to help seems des...

Power is rarely given. It is seized, defended, and covered in blood.In Famous Crimes of the Middle Ages: Power and the Crime, Mara Voss strips away centuries of myth and propaganda to uncover the dark reality of medieval statecraft. Far from isolated acts of violence, the crimes featured in this volume were pivotal moments that altered laws, shattered dynasties, and reshaped European history.Rather than retelling sensationalist tales, Voss examines...

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...

The numbers always tell the truth. In Harlow, somebody has spent forty years making sure no one could read them.Wren Calloway didn't come to Harlow to solve anything. A two-week bookkeeping job three hundred miles from her old life was supposed to be the quietest place she could find to disappear — count the numbers, cash the check, leave before anyone learned her name. But the numbers don't lie, even when everyone around her does. A set of coded ledger pages leads...

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 ...

Book 1 in the Freshman Roommates Series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs.I didn’t believe in love at first sight, until I first saw Lucas Kade.I was giving swimming lessons to children when I first saw him. Turns out one of the kids was Lucas’s little brother. So, I’d be seeing a lot more of Lucas. And that was just fine with me.I had a lot going on—a freshman at an elite college, first time...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs comes Book 1 in the Anna Dawson mystery series.My name is Anna Dawson, and I'm a gambler.And like any gambler will tell you, sometimes that’s good, and sometimes...not so much. And sometimes it’s an outright problem.I love Vegas, and I love the life I've built, but when one of my friends is murdered, and another one shot at, I know I need to take a serious lo...

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...

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...

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...