Olivia Reed wanted a change of scenery, someone else wanted her dead. In order to stay alive, she has to trust Joe Reed – except he might be the one trying to kill her.

Texas lawyer Tyler McCormack is now a disgrace to his profession. He walked away from his career and his self-worth when he freed a serial killer to save his own life. He is now plagued by public scrutiny and haunted by victims who will never receive justice. In an effort to start over, he moves to a new town where he hopes he won’t be recognized. He finds no such luck as he soon runs into Mallory Jones, the only woman Tyler ever loved. Unfortunately, it’s not under the best of circumstanc...

The November/December 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Naomi Kritzer, Jeffrey Ford, Kel Coleman, Cecil Castellucci, Marissa Lingen, Chelsea Sutton, and Ana Hurtado. Essays by John Scalzi, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Paul Cornell, and Lee Mandelo, poetry by Carlie St. George, Tehnuka, Lora Gray, and Angela Liu, interviews with Jeffrey Ford and Marissa lIngen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Paul Lewin, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas...

By exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a 'tool'. Aided by the diverse chapters, readers will be challenged to explore future intersections between leisure and health using an overarching eco (ecological/environmental), bio(biological), psycho (psychological), social (socio...

Includes a 2015 Derringer Award winning short story: "The Kaluki Kings of Queens."Come meet the relatives. As diverse in theme and mood as the city itself, these stories take us from from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens, from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world, and from brutality and poverty to Wall Street's privileged thugs. What the families have in common is this: their lives ha...

Meet a young cylinder who lives with his sphere grandmother. A hexagon with two trouble-making twin trapezoid sisters. And a trapezoid with heptagon and nonagon moms in a band! Families come in all shapes and sizes! Shape Families celebrates the many forms of love and families that resemble real-world families. Kids will love seeing themselves and their families in this book. Sutton’s clever puns and Tebbit’s playful illustrations make the story a fun read, while the geometric sha...

Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much variety in tone and setting as in Gotham itself, and yet each of these crime stories also reflects the city's most infectious and unifying principle, that specia...

A murder at a suspense writer convention makes everyone a suspect—especially the victim's literary rivals.Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, four rival authors—a midlister, an egomaniac, a has-been, and a newbie—also get targeted by an anonymous social media account and...