After a shady business deal goes sour, the formerly rich, powerful, and utterly egotistical Texas real estate developer Travis Nelson expects a brutal death at the hands of a ruthless cartel kingpin. To his surprise, he is banished to a tiny abbey in frigid northern Norway, where he must live among 75 taciturn monks. Attempting to leave means being hunted or arrested, but he cannot stay forever. Trapped in purgatory between heaven and hell, Travis must navigate intrigue, redemption, and su...

High school is in the rearview mirror, and college awaits when the pandemic explodes into the life of affable Texan Marshall Morris. At first, there is confusion, growing hysteria, with little accurate information as the dreaded COVID virus sweeps across the country. When the disease strikes him, he accepts the news with typical good cheer, until he becomes convinced he is a carrier transmitting it to others. He is deeply troubled and rallies against fellow young people who refuse to wear ...

Marshall Morris has a penchant for wandering into complicated predicaments. The Justice, Texas high school senior, is on a fun trip to Colorado with classmates when a park ranger tells them that Chrissy Davis, a fifteen-year-old Oklahoma girl, is lost in the mountains. Despite a stern warning not to do so, Marshall leaves caution to the wind and sets out alone to rescue the girl.Sure enough, he stumbles over her, but they are forced to spend a frigid night huddling together in the ...

Although he left his position with the master of deceit, Dwight Lamar, well before the swindler vanishes, Matt Nelson is held accountable for serious construction deficiencies that have caused the deaths of residents on the projects he worked on. An ambitious DA needs a scapegoat, and no one has been brought to justice. Matt Nelson fits the bill. Stuck with land in Houston when Lamar disappeared, a New York patriarch, eager to rid himself of the Texas property, resells it to a bottom-feede...

Through hopelessly dedicated to each other, young collegian, Marshall Morris, and high school cheerleader, Mallory Jolen, endure a roller coaster relationship. An epidemic of fentanyl and other harmful drugs is plaguing their hometown of Justice, Texas. A police detective convinces Marshall to enter a state work prison camp as a snitch to gain information about the source of the drugs. Inside, he has a harrowing confrontation with drug cartel henchmen.After the tragic fentanyl over...

“A frank, poignant memoir about an unlikely marriage, a tragic death in Iraq, and the soul-testing work of picking up the pieces” (People) in the tradition of such powerful bestsellers as Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Carole Radziwill’s What Remains.Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wi...

A hilarious collection of the funniest family-friendly jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, and anecdotes from the past 100 years of Reader’s Digest magazine. A little chuckle every day will keep the doctor away.Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring you Laughter Is the Best Medicine, All-Time Favorites, a collection of the most hilarious jokes and anecdotes we’ve come across over the years. As you turn the pages of our new...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The perfect crime scene . . . in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.”—Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingJust as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee t...

As seen on Investigation Discovery: the story of killer husband and father Robert Peernock from the New York Times–bestselling author of Impossible Odds.Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life. Working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, Peernock projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there w...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucas Davenport’s first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.**The man was smart and he didn’t mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport.Thanks to some veryinfluential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Se...

In this riveting, unputdownable legal thriller, a partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing.Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall, wayward son of a Texas politician, gets himself murdered after a night of booze, drugs, and rough sex, Scott is assigned to defend the prime suspect, a heroine-addicte...

A serial killer is loose on Cape Cod. Retired FBI profiler John Geary has five days to stop him--before it's too late for a mother and her son.USA TODAY AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Mesmerizing…Your heart will be pounding long after you’ve turned the final page.” --Lisa Gardner, New York Times Bestselling Author of Love You More“Taut, clean storytelling.” –Publishers Weekly“I put Five Days in Summer aside only once...to make sure my doors we...