Genre Fiction

I gaze across the candlelit table into the eyes of the man I love. It’s our anniversary dinner, a celebration of our marriage, of how far we’ve come. But within hours our romantic date has ended in murder… When I wake in a hospital bed, blinking under the blinding white lights, I hear someone saying there has been an accident. My heart misses a beat when I recognize my husband’s voice. He says I was driving the car. He says I’ve killed someone.

War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through hard times. The three friends find purpose in making the Silvertown library a friendly sanctuary for their deprived and devastated community. But sinister forces, from callous bureaucrats to crafty criminals, still lurk among the stacks.

At last, 33-year-old Jess has saved enough to move into her own apartment! But troubles at work and the endless disappointments of online dating have made her feel worse than ever. She finally finds a ray of hope when she adopts another soul in need—her rescue dog, Icing. With new purpose and the help of her friends, Jess hopes she's heading in the right direction. Can these two navigate all that life has to throw their way?

From the perspective of a small dog, the world can be a big place. More than anything, Hector just wants to be a good boy.

From international best-selling author Rob Horner comes Into Darkness, the highly anticipated and thrilling continuation of the Richards’ family saga begun in Brightness. The Richards were a regular family living in suburban South Carolina—Michael, Nicole, and their three beautiful daughters, Sarah, Karie, and Sofie. Then Sarah saw a demon, and their world turned upside down. Now they live in North Carolina, and it seems as though things are getting back to normal.

All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war. War changes a man. He'd heard that dozens of times over his life but with every near miss, every new scar, every bullet he feels himself chipping away. Even if he survives to go home to his soulmate, what man would he be? How much of him would she recognize?

He was the everyman. He had a job. He had a wife. He had a kid. Then, stuff happened. What did he do? Did he give up? Did he roll over and die? Find out in the defining novel of the century. It might just change your life.

Sid McDaniel is an undercover cyber hunter who catches spies doing corporate espionage, but he finds himself sucked into a scandal so explosive it could start a war with China. To come out alive, Sid must expose Chinese interests and corrupt US officials. But, in this war for truth, even much of the corporate media establishment is against him. The result is a modern, honest and breathtaking story, as sometimes only a novel can get at the whole truth.

From acclaimed author Ai Jiang, follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. to the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go. This edition includes a foreword by Yi Izzy Yu, Translator of The Shadow Book of Ji Yun, the essay "A Ramble on Di Fu Ling & Death" by the author, and two bonus short stories from Jiang: "Yǒngshí" and "Teeter Totter."

Nineteen year old Cathy has already lost her parents and the boy she loved. As a struggling college student, she enjoys her job waitressing at a local diner—and the flattering attention of the town’s middle-aged Police Chief. Frank is a father figure, until he’s not. He pretends to be a gentleman, until she’s tricked into becoming his wife. Only after it’s too late does she realize that her husband, the powerful man who controls the town, is also a killer—and she’s next on his list.

Dutch Cross is rich, powerful, and possessive. I gave him too much of me and now it’s too late to run. Yet it’s what I do. Far, far from the villain of the story. But the thing about villains is… They always drag you back to the dark. And when a secret that should have stayed buried rises from the grave, I have no choice but to join hands with the enemy.

On what should have been a routine operation, Special Agent Isla Taylor’s world is shattered when her entire team is murdered in an ambush. Now hunted and desperate for answers, Isla relies on her black-and-white faith to get to the truth. But she’s faced with an unexpected dilemma when the only help available to her is from a reclusive fixer known for his connections to the criminal underworld. Though reluctant at first to trust an outlaw, she soon realizes she has no other option and must find a way to overcome her judgement.

World War II is over at last, and the pier amusement park at Buckeye Lake, the "Playground of Ohio," is lit up, loud, and ready to welcome a summer of better days. The energy of dance hall and roller coaster, though, is disorienting for Sgt. Drew Mathison, weary from battle and trying to track down the one man who can testify in his brother's murder trial. He's not in the mood to celebrate when he simply cannot find that witness. Especially when he suspects Emily Graham, publisher of the Buckeye Lake Beacon, is hiding him.

Scientists have developed a way to vaccinate entire cities without consent or the possibility of refusal. The theory is sound, but something goes wrong, and a highly contagious combination of virus and prion is unleashed, a middle-stage organism too dangerous to test.

In the eccentric world of 'Pussy Productions,' a London-based porn production company, a motley crew of individuals find themselves inexplicably thrown together. How this incendiary mix of people came to converge is a curious tale in itself. Sir Stott, a knighted Etonian, longs for the elegant normality of his pre-Pussy Productions life. Meanwhile, Hazelhot, an ex-military psychopath, is hell-bent on sowing violent, bloody chaos wherever he goes.