Fingir fue idea de ellos. Nadie preguntó qué pasaría después.Beckett Vance lleva ocho años administrando su vida como si fuera una estructura: analiza el peso, se coloca donde no se nota, y nadie descubre nunca que no estaba ahí desde el principio. Funciona. Ese es el problema. Funciona tan bien que a los treinta años tiene una carrera intachable, un contrato de imagen, y ninguna persona viva que sepa quién es.Rafferty Doran lleva tres años observándolo desde el otro lado d...

Twelve years ago, Sawyer Vance said the cruelest thing he could think of. He meant every word of it. He didn't mean a single one.Idris Calloway left Hale's Gap at eighteen and never looked back — not at the mountain, not at the hardware store on Main, and not at the boy who told him it had never been real. He built a life four hours north out of load calculations and cold physical law, because numbers hold and people don't.Now his grandmother is dead, she's left him a build...

The dark can be a terrible, terrible place…A young man's attempts at breaking parole end in a night of horror. A child realizes his Christmas gift might be more sinister than he originally thought. An editor accidentally uncovers his client's sinister plan to cleanse the world of all evil...Scare Street's roster of authors Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Sara Clancy and A. I. Nasser come together to bring you 10 of the most terrifying tales meant to ch...

Yara Graveport keeps the fog signal, and she knows the one truth the blind white coast never bends. In real fog the light is useless. No one sees it. What saves a boat is the sound, a horn that never stops calling out into the dark on its own timing, true, whether or not anyone is out there to hear it. A true signal calls a lost boat home. A false one, a light moved or a horn run wrong, wrecks it on the rocks. The keeper's whole faith is to keep the signal sounding true and never let it la...

She has never turned anything down. She has been a piano technician for nineteen years and there is one refusal in the book, in 2011, when she had flu.Wren Achterberg-Nsofor tuned for Casimir Bellweather-Onyeka thirty-one times over twelve years. She knew he was seventy-one. She did not know he was ill, that he had a niece, or that he had a workshop on Aldrich Street.The will is four lines. It leaves her the building, the tools, and a 1911 Steinway B that h...

Unlock your creative potential and learn music composition with this comprehensive guide to harmony, melody writing, and arrangement.This book offers a structured approach to the fundamentals of music composition, guiding you from the basic building blocks to more advanced techniques. Begin by exploring the core tools of composition, starting with rhythm and meter. You will learn about developing a basic pulse, handling time signature changes, and applying practical harmony. Dive in...

Surrounded by her beloved student council friends, Midori is enjoying her school life to the fullest…except when it comes to her love life with Akira, which is not going well!

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is richly envisioned and powerfulOn Piāo, the floating empire of lotuses, Xīlián discovers the royal advisors' ploy to overthrow her brother, Yún, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make...

The letter came on a Tuesday and she read it in the depot yard with twelve minutes before the 7:40.Marguerite Dowd has driven the rural service between Cardwell and the county seat since 2003. Nineteen miles, fourteen stops, fifty-one minutes, twice a day, four days a week. Nine passengers in winter and four in summer. The county pays ninety-one thousand dollars a year for it and has been doing the arithmetic for six years.Wilkin Sorrell has ridden ...

She counts every tray twice, out loud, alone. On the third of March she counted sixty-five.Ilsa Vantreve-Okonkwo has run sterile processing at a hospital in Duluth since 2012. Everything that goes into a body in that building comes through her department, and if she gets it wrong a patient finds out four days later with a fever and nobody traces it back to her.The extra instrument is a retractor. There is no manufacturer's mark on it anywhere. There is a ha...

He hired her to make it impossible for him to look away.Nell Sorley reads a general ledger the way other people read a novel, in order, from the beginning, because fraud that survives an auditor is fraud shaped to defeat anyone looking for it. Fourteen years, ninety-one engagements, and one rule she has never broken: nothing goes in a report she could not defend to a hostile examiner with the document in his hand.Elias Rowe has been sitting in his dead fath...

A court reporter may say four things. There is no fifth.Delphine Auberdine-Roux has taken four thousand depositions in sixteen years and has never once said a word that was not the oath, a request to repeat, a request not to speak over one another, or the marking of an exhibit. She is furniture. That is the job, and she is very good at it.On the twelfth of February, at twenty-two minutes past ten, a witness swears he had no knowledge of cash payments before...