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Ben Harrison was well on his way to having the life he always wanted. He had a high-paying job, a great apartment and, most importantly, he had Carrie. She was fun, exciting, creative, beautiful, and a bit eccentric. Carrie had a fascination with the occult, which Ben found irrational but not particularly troubling.

In only a few months, the small town of Hagen has lost two high school seniors, both under strange circumstances. When a third senior, the mayor’s son, drives through the plate glass window of the town’s diner and ends up in a coma, the deaths no longer seem unrelated accidents. The town is paralyzed with fear. The police can find no good explanation. Other students deny any knowledge of what’s happening, but Detective Kylie Milliard is certain at least some are lying.

Instead of hosting trivia nights, the parents on Madison Lane decide to play by a whole new set of rules. Anything goes. Petra, Dawn, and Amy are about to indulge in their darkest fantasies, and it all goes on behind closed doors. Behind perfect picket fences and manicured lawns. Until someone pushes those fantasies too far.

Demi-god Vic is back, along with her friends, family, and foes. Thinking she had killed the “sentient virus” Vachel, Vic settles in to a routine of sorts as an outcast at her local high school, while she hones her powers with the help of the goddess Athena. But once again, forces beyond her ken are at work.

In a post-apocalyptic world, the wasteland is vast and dangerous. The protagonist, Eilidh, is a courageous brunette with piercing brown eyes, who keeps her own motivations close to her chest. Her journey is one of heroism and self-discovery as she navigates the treacherous terrain on a mission to fight the enemy.

Though Liz’s journey is to learn about her grandmother, she finds these lessons turn inward. Content with her life of solitude, Liz is challenged to live a big fat life with no regrets—which just might include a crazy cat, a house in Palm Beach, and a man.

Are you ready to stop watching your dreams slip away and start shaping your destiny? What if happiness and success aren't found in following the well-trodden road, but in blazing your own trail, no matter how unconventional it may seem? Imagine having a roadmap to not only overcome obstacles but to also unlock your personal growth. In "Chart Your Path," you will embark on a transformative journey through nine practical steps that will change the way you navigate life's challenges. Uncover the answers to questions such as:-What are the root causes of dissatisfaction in your life?

Professional organizer Crystal Ward is at a crossroads with her business, Organizing Chicago. Her husband, Rick, isn't on board with online advertising, and their friends and family are running out of referrals. And now her client's husband is outraged to learn that Crys donated novels he had promised to his brother. Crys's only hope of salvaging the situation is to recover the titles. But she shouldn't have judged those books by their covers.

On a cold evening in November, Zoey Knight gets a frantic call from her sister. Their childhood home in remote Maine has burned to the ground. Two bodies have been discovered in the basement. When the FBI suddenly takes over the case, it's clear something more sinister than a random double homicide has taken place. Rumors go back to The Family-cult or commune, the wealthy enclave of Black Castle, Maine has never been sure. Twenty years ago, after the disappearance of a local girl, the group vanished. Now, signs of them are resurfacing.

In this final volume of the Black Magick series, Samhain draws near, and Ben and his friends are still at a loss as to how they are going to complete the monumental task before them. With no other leads, they go in search of the mysterious Stone that has been haunting Ben’s subconscious. Even if they are able to find the Stone, they will still need the remaining archetypes if they are to have any chance of rescuing Carrie, and preventing Camille from unleashing a great evil into the world.

When Crys discovers a dead man in a client's living room, she refuses to accept that the murder is an open-and-shut case of domestic violence. If she can untangle this mess, she can prove her client's innocence and ease Rick's fears. But the only witness to the murder is hospitalized in a catatonic state. And the lead detective is Rick's former partner, the man Crys blames for his paralysis. Crys is on her own to save her client from jail and stop a murderer intent on tidying up loose ends.

Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband, Dev, and their young twins in tow. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage, and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she’s clearly a fish out of water herself. In a strange new world where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash in a dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she’s never felt so confounded or alone. She’ll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way.

When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court with his partner-slash-lover, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot from hunters in the area. It’s not until a second player—the first victim’s mistress and pickleball partner—is killed that Sheriff Ferris realizes this is no hunting accident. Someone is hunting people, and it’s up to her to find out who.

Anna loves her job as a high school English teacher until everything goes sideways. The one bright spot in her life is Titus Gains, the school counselor, who is there for her at every turn. Titus boss complicates his ordered world when she tasks him with running a meeting that changes everything. How had he not noticed Anna earlier? Someone is out to destroy her, and he cant let that happen.

In a world often narrated by male voices, "Notable Women Through the Ages" emerges as a resonant chorus of female stories, echoing through the corridors of time. This book is not just a collection of biographies; it's an intricately woven tapestry of lives that have shaped history in unspoken ways. We embark on a journey that meanders through the annals of history, uncovering the stories of women whose names might not echo in the halls of fame but whose contributions have been pivotal in the grand scheme of things.

Twelve years ago, Alyssa Rossi fled Louisiana under a cloud of scandal and criminal accusations. But her self-imposed exile in Italy comes to an abrupt end when she has to return to New Orleans for the sale of her jewelry company to an international conglomerate. There, she comes face-to-face with Clay Duvall, the duplicitous lover who betrayed her.

For lifelong friends Jackie, Cheryl, and Doris, life hasn’t turned out according to plan. After living the life of a glamorous widow in Paris, Jackie is all out of money, and the only place left to go is home. Cheryl is at the top of her game both in and out of the boardroom, until her misplaced plans for a corporate takeover earn her a set of walking papers. And while Doris has Xanax to cure her depression, no pill can take away the pain of broken dreams.

Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.

Former FBI serial killer profiler Darcy Haines put the past behind her. She’s happy living along the coast in her new marriage and keeping her family safe. Then a rash of grisly murders force Darcy to make an impossible decision. Will she answer the law enforcement community’s call and risk her sanity? Or will she allow more innocents to die?

When a young woman, Sarah Connelly, is found murdered in her home in New York’s elite Sleepy Point suburb, it triggers questions about the neighbor who discovered the body, Audrey Hughes. This kind of attention is the last thing Audrey wants. Moving to Sleepy Point was supposed to provide her with a new quiet start after a trauma left her with incurable blindness. But the other reason she settled next door to Sarah was to spy on her.