Genre & ToneUrban supernatural thriller / Action drama with elements of crime, family, redemption, and mystery.Tone: Gritty, emotional, street-level, with bursts of intense action and quiet heartbreak. Think The Equalizer meets Push (the movie) with a touch of Inception-style reality-bending confusion at the end.

Short Description:Title: The Forbidden Fruit(A Harvest Against Death)When his wife dies from a poisoned health supplement in the summer of 2000, Bishop Landry begins a desperate, obsessive mission: to find and combine the world's rarest, most life-giving plants into something that can defeat death itself.What starts as a grieving father's backyard experiment in Katy, Texas, quickly becomes something far stranger — a glowing, rapidly growing vine that produces f...

Short description of what this book is about:"!!!IT'S FLAT!!!" is a fast-paced, irreverent, mockumentary-style satirical comedy thriller written in the form of a first-person "true story" memoir.It follows Tom Rivera, a sarcastic, self-described professional skeptic and myth-debunker, who starts out intending to ridicule flat-Earth believers but ends up getting pulled deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole after a series of increasingly difficult-to-dismiss personal experimen...

The Gods' Search for Purity is an epic, philosophical sci-fi/fantasy saga spanning 5 billion years of Earth's history.Ancient luminous beings called the Alohim—refugees from their own self-destructive civilization—seed our planet five times, refining life's "grain" to favor symbiosis, sharing, and cooperation over conquest and hierarchy. They watch microbial mats become multicellular life, dinosaurs rise and fall, early humans stand upright, and civilizations repeatedly spiral into ...

Short Description (blurb-style):Welcome to NextDay Freight Systems in Romulus, Michigan, 2005-2022: a freezing, chaotic, package-slinging universe where the conveyor belts never stop, the drama never sleeps, and the crew is equal parts family and felony waiting to happen.Follow quiet, unbothered legend Dion Lewis and the wildest warehouse circus in America—loudmouth Patty the manager, Crystal the man-eater with the color-coded spreadsheet, big dumb sweetheart Mike, Axe-drow...

Here is a description (blurb) of The Glass Dimension suitable for a back cover, Amazon listing, or quick summary:In 1995 Texas, physicist Tony and his grieving wife Margaret hunt for proof of the supernatural in an abandoned farmhouse. What they find isn't ghosts—it's a "glass dimension," a thin barrier between parallel realities where the living family on the other side sees them as the intruders. As Tony's rift machine tears open portals, the terrified child on the other side plea...

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review).At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can rea...

Her former one-night stand is now her roommate. Oops.When electrical engineer and depressed plushie enthusiast Rose Pang decides to go out alone one evening, she certainly doesn’t expect to meet easygoing landscaper Cal. They spend an enjoyable night together, and the next day, romance is on her mind. Cal promises to text…but he never does. Hurt, Rose tries her best to forget about him.But several months later, in a terrible twist of fate, Rose discovers th...

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review)“Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A Newbery Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Honor BookA Printz Honor BookA Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)A Los Angeles Times Book Prize W...

In this “fast-paced, nonstop, clever” (USA Today) novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen introduces her most popular character ever: forensic sculptor Eve Duncan.“Johansen keeps her story moving at breakneck speed.”—Chicago Daily SunAn unidentified skull. A trail of shocking secrets. And a woman whose hands could reveal the terrifying truth.After her beloved daughter vanishes, E...

MY CRAZY PET FROG doesn't know what he is! Perhaps he's a secret agent or a world champion golfer. Who knows? One day to the next, he runs in circles, trying to be everything for everyone. It's not until he comes across one of his loved ones that he realizes the most important thing of all…From Scott Gordon, author of My Little Pet Dragon, A Little Book About You and Taming Your Pet Monster: An Operational Guide.ABOUT THE BOOKThis book is approximately 30 pages in l...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Good Morning America Book Club PickA New York Times Most Anticipated Books of FallFrom the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.When ...