A buddies’ road trip veers into the dark • With echoes of American masters Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Cormac McCarthy • From the author of the highly rated Grey Translation seriesIT IS 2014 in a suburb outside Seattle. Coaxed into tracking down a high school girlfriend turned famous, Keith Timmerman leaves his beloved grandfather at home and, with his friend and kid brother, sets forth down the coast. The shimmering L.A. heat brings the trio luck, but n...

The classic novel now in a modern English translationMary Shelley’s Frankenstein is “an exhibition of intellectual and imaginative power” (Athenaeum). The groundbreaking book gave rise to the sci-fi genre and inspired countless works of horror. This new edition features a modern English translation of the story by editor Aldwin Grey. Retold with finesse and rigor, Grey’s translations enable readers to enjoy the classics in a fresh, clear voice. Th...

The classic novel now in a modern English translationThe Scarlet Letter is a “perfect work of the American imagination” (D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover). The dark romance weaves vivid scenes to examine the risks of desire amid the Puritan life. This new edition features a modern English translation of the story by editor Aldwin Grey. Retold with finesse and rigor, Grey’s translations enable readers to enjoy the classics in a fresh, clear ...

The classic novel now in a modern English translationJames Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans was the “first great American novel” (The Daily Gazette). It tells the story of war, love, friendship, and survival that inspired an Oscar®-winning film. This new edition features a modern English translation of the story by editor Aldwin Grey. Retold with finesse and rigor, Grey’s translations enable readers to enjoy the classics in a fresh, clea...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE • HERMANN HESSE • Author of Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game • A powerful coming-of-age story with a “depth of understanding rare in contemporary fiction” (Saturday Review)The first English translation of the celebrated novel now revitalized for modern readersPraised by Thomas Mann as “electrifying” and “unforgettable,” Demian is a Hermann H...

I'm no hero. In fact, up until a couple of days ago, I was the villain. Kidnapped maidens, scared kids, stole magic tchotchkes--until I got into a little scrape with the union. Now I'm cursed with the worst fate in New Never City--no matter what I do, I gotta be nice.So when a head-case princess named Asia barges into my apartment and asks me to find out who whacked her stepsister, Cinderella, I have no choice but to help her. And I'm more than willing to head back to her parents' ...

The road to happiness is paved with danger...Recovering from a gunshot wound is the easy part. Boston cop, Keith Cho, discovers coming to grips with his partner's death requires a different sort of medicine. He'll start a cross country road trip with seeing his partner's sister, Samantha Bates.Sam can't hide the injuries or the backpack she's hauling as she hikes away from town. Fleeing from her abusive ex-boyfriend is key. When she and Keith reconnect on a...

Knees in the breeze.That’s all I really want, but nothing ever goes the way I want.Bodies are piling up, Petra is too scared to talk, and the club is scrambling to figure out just what is going on.When I signed on with the Kings of Vengeance I figured I’d get my time with my knees in the breeze, but someone has other plans for the Kings.Soon they’ll find out we aren’t called the Kings of Vengeance for nothing.Vengeance will be ours.

Three years ago my thrill seeking woman walked out of my life and didn’t even bother to give me a glance goodbye.The Kings of Vengeance became my family at a time when I had nothing but a bottle of whiskey and fading memories of a woman I thought I would spend the rest of my life with.Deedra was always looking for the next lead, the next exciting story to catapult her into news anchor stardom. No matter the sacrifice.She never thought her ambitious ways would land h...

An ice princess with a broken heart. A pro hockey player with a secret.For Sarah Maguire, spending the summer at Lake Muskoka was supposed to be about finding the courage to put back the pieces of her shattered life—not falling in love with the charming yet unsophisticated hockey player from next door.Daniel Walton may have been praying for Miss Right to appear, but Sarah's ice princess act just cries Miss Wrong. Dan's summer plans hadn't included befriendin...

Everything dies in the desert.Dark horror for adults. A standalone novel of extreme horror and dark fantasy — graphic, mythic, and merciless — for readers of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub.It is also a Southwestern Gothic — an American magical-realist nightmare in desert country, where the devil keeps a church and the dirt remembers everything done on it.Some places have a history so dark it stains the dirt.Orphan Rock...

A taut literary thriller investigating the contemporary aftermath of Mormonism’s shrouded and violent past.When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.