Susan Sullivan left everything behind — a husband, a city, a life that was slowly erasing her — to start over in Iron Creek, a village lost high in the Colorado Rockies. Between a classroom full of children and a rancher with too big a heart, she is finally learning to breathe again.But hundreds of miles away, a man has never accepted that she walked out. Travis is looking for her. And there is nothing — nothing — he won’t do to bring her back.When the fiercest storm of the...

Nour Sabran once had the finest nose in Grasse — and she used it to copy other people's perfumes instead of making her own. Disgraced and exiled, she lands in New Orleans with a job most people couldn't do: erasing the smell of the dead from the houses they leave behind, so their families can finally let go.Then a doctor finds a tumor growing out of the very tissue that gives her the gift. To live, she will have to lose her sense of smell completely, and forever. She has four month...

The most-heard voice on the planet belongs to a woman no one has ever seen.Hana Seo is "Mira": the voice inside eight hundred million devices, and the voice of a virtual idol who sells out arenas. Her contract forbids her from ever having a public face. She is everywhere — and no one, nowhere.Marcus Vlahos can't recognize a single face. He never could. In his Los Angeles shop, he brings dead machines back to life, and the voices they keep — the voices of the departed, that ...

Under the snow, something got cold enough to wake up.Haltia, Michigan. Eleven hundred people, an iron mine flooded for a century, and a winter that falls to thirty below. When the company pumps the old shafts dry to reach the nickel that fills electric batteries, eight hundred thousand bats flee the mountain in a single night — and freeze in midair over the rooftops.That is only the beginning.Far below, beneath the one level no one has reopened sinc...

Autumn 1954. The Mahalangur massif, deep in the Himalaya. An international expedition sets out to climb a peak no rope team has ever conquered—a pillar of black rock and ice the Western climbers have nicknamed the Black Cathedral, and that the Sherpas will not say aloud.Étienne Roux has come back to finish what his brother started and never lived to end. Two years ago, Paul died on this face. Étienne wants to understand why. He will.At base camp, the porters won't raise the...

At nine, Alma Reyes survived the exorcism. The demon never left.Thirty‑five years later, Alma is a locksmith in the Bronx, living by one rule: never go back to the Brooklyn house where it happened. Where her possessed child’s hands killed her little brother.Then a boy she has never met slips a drawing under her door — Alma as a child, carried off by a faceless man. On the back, in handwriting she knows from her nightmares: “He’s awake. Come fin...

Twenty-five years after her younger sister vanished in the black water of Cold Lake, Special Agent Nora Bishop returns to Harlow, the small Montana town she once fled. A man has just drowned—an accident, they say. Then another. Nora recognizes the victims: they were the teenagers at the lake the night Ella disappeared.Someone is working down a list. And Nora’s name is on it.Between a father who stayed silent too long, a recluse who knows what the lake swallowed, and a truth...

No one has ever found Cleopatra’s tomb. What if that’s because it was never meant to be found?On a windswept headland above the Mediterranean, archaeologist Sarah Chen uncovers an intact burial chamber: gold, a sarcophagus, a mummy. The find of the century. Too perfect. A specialist in detecting forgeries, Sarah sees a decoy—and, behind it, what the queen sealed away for eternity. Not a treasure, but a laboratory. Cleopatra was a chemist of genius, and beneath the sea she hid a liv...

Summer 1983. Caddo Bend is the kind of town you pass without slowing down — two thousand people, a sawmill, one diesel pump, and black country stretching for miles in every direction.Then a farmer is found torn open in his own barn.The sheriff wants it to be a bear. A drifter. Anything that still fits inside the world he knows. But when a waitress turns up at the tree line, hollowed out and half-digested, the truth stops fitting anywhere. Something is hunting Caddo Bend aft...

Detroit, November 2024. Two years after losing her husband, Scarlett finally gets her session with the city's most sought-after medium. Ten minutes—no more. In ten minutes, Jack tells her the unthinkable: their best friend Carter, killed five months earlier in an ordinary hit-and-run, was murdered.No one will believe her—least of all Detective O'Brien, who trusts only hard evidence and dismisses mediums as frauds. To reopen the case, Scarlett will have to turn a message from beyond...

For twenty years, maintenance chief Sam Kowalski has known the Vantar Biosciences tower better than the people who built it — every duct, every stairwell, every floor he keeps running while Pittsburgh sleeps. Thirty-two stories of glass raised over sealed coal seams, and something far older, waiting in the dark.When the cooling system fails in the sub-basements, that something wakes. It doesn't chase. It rises — floor by floor, cutting off the exits below, herding whoever is left t...

For thirteen years, Wyatt Bennett has lived alone in a cabin deep in the Montana wilderness. A wood stove, a rifle, a dog, and the silence of the great spruce: he has pared his life down to simple gestures, repeated and faithful. Until the morning a stranger climbs the frozen trail to tell him that his son, Logan, died in a fire three months ago.An accident, the report says. But Logan had found something — abandoned mine shafts, waste buried there by night, and the names of the men...