Tasked with the care of Liza, a young girl who must be protected from her own father, journalist Gabe Ward seizes on the opportunity to exchange London for the isolated Northamptonshire estate of a minor baronet.He doesn’t expect to come face to face with a man he spent a pleasant evening with at the Rogue and Vagabond eight months ago. A man who seemed to have a good time then…and who is none too thrilled to encounter Gabe again in the middle of an extended family gathering.

NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue 168 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Daniel Roop ("The Red Veil") and Phoenix Alexander ("Not Even a Fly"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash ("Useless Heart/Stopped Cold") from A. Artemis Chen and a poem ("Sweet Certainty") from Deborah L. Davi...

Forty Days of Beauty, Reflection, and DevotionExperience the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus, through the eyes of beloved art historian Sister Wendy Beckett. In The Art of Mary, Sister Wendy's inimitable wisdomand enthusiasm guide you through forty of the world's best paintings of Mary, exploring the spiritual riches within each frame.Follow Mary's journey in the Gospels from the annunciation to the early days of the church after Jesus' ascensio...

Amber clings to the wreckage of a shattered life; a hermit drowning in the ghosts of what used to be. When someone dumps a mutilated body on her wilderness property, a cryptic clue makes her the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must confront the dark secrets of her tragic past while a shadowy executioner is closing in.A tormented hermit. A gruesome discovery. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.After the Fall is a pulse-pounding psychological thriller with a...

An impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our valuesIt’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than white paint. As the default color of our built environment, it asks us to believe that it’s neutral—that it has no signifier...

After being exiled in his youth, Feilan has earned a comfortable, complacent life in the Siftar trading post. He has very little to worry about……aside from a would-be emperor with covetous eyes on Siftar’s trade network, the Vaer raiders who insist on camping nearby every summer, the warrior who got him exiled all those years ago – and the jolterhead who thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to walk the new child-queen of Seven Hills into the raiders’ camp to beg for help.Renart...

This hilarious novel from award-winning author Wendy Mass is now available in paperback! It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited---after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's shared every birthday, are on the outs and this will be the first birthday they haven't shared together. When Amanda turns in for the night, glad to have her birthday behind her, she wakes ...

Amber clings to the wreckage of a shattered life; a hermit drowning in the ghosts of what used to be. When someone dumps a mutilated body on her wilderness property, a cryptic clue makes her the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must confront the dark secrets of her tragic past while a shadowy executioner is closing in.AFTER THE FALL is approximately 94,000 words

A photograph—a rare "action shot" documenting a family's murder during World War II—drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar.In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual moment of murder, in this case by German officials and Ukrainia...

Divorced mother Jeannie Miller returns to Chickadee Cove, Maine, determined to start fresh with her dream bakery. She doesn't need help—especially not from ruggedly handsome carpenter Frank Mendez.But Frank's steady kindness breaks through her walls, and for the first time in years, Jeannie dares to trust again. Until she discovers he's been lying about who he really is.Just when she decides to take a chance on love, a ghost from her past arrives to destroy everything she's...

"If you like your romance current, sexy and smart . . . read Wendy Chen! You can thank me later" (Donna Kauffman, USA Today–bestselling author).Kate is enjoying being engaged—even if it's actually a hoax. To succeed in her finance job at her ultra-conservative company, she needs to reform her flighty party-girl reputation, and a good old-fashioned marriage of convenience should help her get closer to the promotion of her dreams.But when Adam, Kate'...

Stronghold Fair Haven by the Sea is a beacon in a sometimes harsh world, open to all and deliberately, stubbornly kind. It also holds the honour and responsibility of hosting an atelier, a workshop for the rare and highly-prized magical engineers known as Mancers.Hazel lives a comfortable, contented life in Stronghold Haven as a member of the team of elite bodyguards protecting the resident Mancer. But when another Mancer comes knocking on Haven's door to plead for refuge from the ...