Official Apex Reviews Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐D. M. Schuler's novel Someone Else is a powerful narrative about very heavy themes.Schuler presents the story from the point-of-view of a modern-day suicide survivor andvictim of child abuse while weaving in glimpses of characters from a previous century.Throughout the novel, the protagonist Collin must deal with the tragic circumstances ofhis youth while attempting not to succumb to the pressure of suicide again. His lov...

Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go.Kristina thinks she can control the urge, the addiction, the monster trying to drag her down. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to ke...

They said she was armed.They said she was dangerous.They were right.Petty Moshen spent eighteen years of her life as a prisoner in her own home, training with military precision for everything, ready for anything. She can disarm, dismember, and kill—and now, for the first time ever, she is free.Her paranoid father is dead, his extreme dominance and rules a thing of the past, but his influence remains as strong as ever. When his final will reveals a fu...

Grace was trying to recover from being left at the altar by the man who had been her best friend since grade school. The fact that Corey had ditched her for some bimbo he’d met during his bachelor party wasn’t even the worst thing that had happened to her. No, the worst part was that she’d gone on her honeymoon alone, had a one-night stand with a sexy bartender, and nine months later had ended up with the surprise of her life.Alan was right where he wanted to be—in the thick of sin...

Get ready to read all night.International bestseller Rachael Herron gives you a stand-alone romance you won't be able to put down.Aidan Ballard has been saving for years, and it's time to finally make his move on the house of his dreams, the old Callahan house that haunts his dreams.And then Tuesday Willis comes to town and wrecks every damn thing.Yeah, she's running from tragedy, that much is obvious. He can tell by the look in her ...

The Baby-sitters are going to Camp Mohawk. That means two weeks full of camp food, homesick campers, poison ivy, and the boys' camp across the lake!

This holiday season, four bestselling authors give the gift that keeps on giving: gripping tales of special agents in a covert agency, out to protect the innocent . . . by any means necessary.Snowball’s Chance by Cherry Adair–Kendall decks the halls, unaware that a serial killer has her on the top of his list. Of course, being naughty with the sexy good guy sent to protect her would be so nice.Santa Slave by Leanne Banks–After her best friend disappears, Hilary takes matter...

DEATH AND WAFFLES: A Short Story by Lish Bride, author of HOLD ME CLOSER, NECROMANCERMatt's childhood friend, Ashley, has been stopping by a lot lately. That might seem pretty normal, but Ashley died years ago and now she's Death.And tonight she wants waffles and fries.INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF HOLD ME CLOSER, NECROMANCER…Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he's doing all righ...

Stranded at a ski lodge with no keys, no plan, and no escape, romance editor Isabelle Lawson is about to become the star of exactly the kind of story she spends her days editing.Brandon Burgan is having a perfectly good snow day until a flustered, beautiful stranger gets abandoned at the slopes by a best friend with terrible timing and zero regret. He's not complaining.She knows every beat of a meet cute. She just never expected to be in one. But somewhere between the hot c...

How do you stop being angry at someone when they’re gone?Kira Shepherd Blair’s older sister Neve died eighteen years ago at River Bend Park, on the night of the 1996 Marietta High School senior prom, and Kira is still mired in feelings she can’t resolve. So much of her life has been shadowed by Neve, from the adolescence she spent banished from the family spotlight because Neve was so greedy for it, to the bad marriage she made at twenty-one because she and her parents needed the s...

How can a woman learn to let go of the people she loves the most? “Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it’s bigger—and stronger—than before.” —Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told YouKaren Neulander, a successful New York political consultant and single mother, has always been fiercely protective of her son, Jacob, now six. She’s had to be: when Jacob’s father, Dave, found out Karen was pregnant and mad...

Telling a Deputy Sheriff you have his son isn't as easy as it may seem …Vanetta Wilcox is in mourning for her sister, but when she arrives in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, with her young nephew, everyone assumes she's widowed, and she doesn't know how to tell the truth. She only wants to fulfill her sister's dying request that a certain John Stevens be told he has a son. But Vanetta makes a very bad impression on Deputy Stevens when she insists he run an intoxicated man out of the hous...