From Benjamin Layfield comes Close Contact, a tense, emotionally charged psychological survival thriller built around one brutal question: how far are you willing to go to protect the people you love when protecting one of them could put everyone else at risk?Six lifelong friends escape to a secluded mountain cabin for four quiet days together. What begins as a familiar trip filled with jokes, shared history, and the comfort of people who know each other completely changes when a s...

Cassian Hale buys Bracken Hollow because it's all he can afford.The first week, it's easy to explain away: a shape in the corner of his eye, gone when he looks straight at it. A porch lantern that flickers in a strange, repeating pattern. A cold spot under the stairs that feels less like a draft and more like a held breath.Then the nightmares return. Not random dreams, but the same memory sharpened into a blade: the uncle he adored, the mine collapse no one will discuss, an...

Haunted since childhood by mirrors that do more than reflect, a young outsider flees to the woods, desperate to escape the thing lurking behind the glass. But isolation only brings the terror closer. As reality fractures and the voices grow louder, the reflection grows bold—twisting memories, whispering secrets, and demanding a trade.In the final, shattering moments, the line between self and shadow vanishes, leaving only blood, broken glass, and a silent scream trapped behind the ...

Larkspur survived the night. That doesn't mean the darkness left.After Bracken Hollow burns, Cassian Hale is certain the worst is over, until a familiar face starts walking in daylight, offering bargains and spreading fear with a smile that shouldn't exist. In a town built on old contracts and older lies, the dead don't stay quiet, and the rules don't protect you, they bind you.When the darkness crosses a line by using Evie as bait, Cassian snaps…and for the first time, the...

After the death of his wife, a new father begins keeping a meticulous record of his days—documenting routines, emotions, and decisions with clinical restraint. The notebook is meant to protect him from grief, from error, from harm.At first, it brings order. Fatigue is managed. Guilt recedes. Life stabilizes.But as the record grows more efficient, it also grows quieter. Omissions replace explanations. Absence becomes routine. When continuity finally fails, he follows the log...

People say that if you lose something, The Still House keeps it.Most dismiss the story as a local legend.Until grief becomes unbearable.Hidden somewhere beyond the edge of memory stands a house that should not exist—a place where lost things wait in perfect silence. The desperate come seeking answers. Some come seeking forgiveness. Others come seeking the people they cannot let go.Few leave unchanged.Because the greatest horrors are not found inside ...

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award!"A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."—Kate Morton"A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia."—Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthA young Australian woman searches for her grandfat...

DISCOVER THE GRIPPING DI HELEN GRACE THRILLER BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR M.J. ARLIDGE'Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years' JEFFERY DEAVER_______There are some fates worse than death . . .Called to a Southampton nightclub, Detective Inspector Helen Grace cuts the duct tape from the asphyxiated victim and discovers she knows him.A man from the double life she has conceal...

The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated film and its companion Angela’s Christmas Wish, now streaming on Netflix!Pulitzer Prize recipient Frank McCourt shares the story of his mother’s childhood Christmas in this tender and heartwarming picture book, previously published as Angela and the Baby Jesus.Angela is six-years-old and worries for the baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph’s church in Limerick. December nights are da...

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New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Crusie combines fast-paced banter, sexy situations, and unforgettable characters in this delightful romance about two reluctant lovers who couldn’t be more wrong about being right for each other.TRUST ME ON THISDennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case o...

Set during the Christmas season in the breathtaking coastal California town of Miramar Bay, this uplifting novella from international and New York Times bestselling author Davis Bunn celebrates the challenges and blessings of the holidays, and the natural world, as a community and two brave, resilient people have a meeting of hearts and minds in the face of adversity. For fans of Nicholas Sparks and Karen Kingsbury.Ryan Eames is a policewoman and single mo...