The galaxy is in crisis, and Carrie Hatchett is the last person on Earth who should be fixing it.Carrie Hatchett is a low-achieving daydreamer. She’s been a dog walker, an ice cream seller and a birthdaygram girl—the clean kind.After providing a good home for her butt-ugly dog and crazy cat, all she wants is a proper job and to avoid being fired again.So when a strange green mist sucks her beneath her kitchen sink and a clerical error leads to an in...

A sister's voice from beyond. A bond that death can't sever. A murder that changes everything.Cici Gurule knew the exact moment her twin sister died because she felt it.Identical twins share everything: memories, secrets, an unbreakable connection that transcends distance. But Anna Carmen's death leaves Cici with something worse than grief: questions no one can answer, and a detective who's too close to the case to see it clearly.T...

When a young necromancer investigates a string of deaths in the hidden magical capital of England, the dead come back to haunt him—in more ways than one.Twenty-one-year-old Malowin Gladstone was raised by the dead—two skeletons to be precise. While his parents keep a close eye-socket on him, he just wants to get through the rest of university without using any more of his much-loathed necromancy. A hope that gets all the more difficult when he’s recruited by a secr...

J.J. Howard, author of Pugs and Kisses and Pugs in a Blanket, delivers more puppy love and friendship mix-ups.Emma's pug, Cupid, has a hidden talent: He is a master at matchmaking! Her pet seems to have a nose for spotting which two people belong together.With the big school dance coming up, Emma decides to use Cupid's powers to find her best friend, Hallie, a date. But as Emma tries to navigate crushes and secrets, she finds that things a...

A reverend haunted by grief. A killer obsessed with patterns. A mystery that refuses to stay buried.Cici Gurule lost her twin sister to an unsolved murder. She knows what that kind of grief does to a person — she feels it in her bones, hears it in Anna Carmen's voice, still whispering from the other side.When Cici returns to Santa Fe and discovers a body killed in the same ritualistic way, she understands two things immediately: the killer was never finishe...

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The killer who targeted her sister is gone. Cici thought the nightmares would stop.They haven't.When a bruised, bloodied woman appears in Cici's dreams — a woman who looks alarmingly like her — Cici writes it off as grief. Then a missing baby turns up on her porch, and the case in her nightmare begins to look disturbingly real. The victim dies before Cici and Detective Sam Chastain can reach her. Pinned to her blouse: a message. "You're ne...

Sometimes Love is a Sweet SurpriseZach is determined to get out of Lillet, Maryland if it's the last thing he does.After being forced to move back home after graduating without a job, Zach Roberts just wants to spend the summer earning some money while trying to find a gig in New York City so he can get away from the quiet town where nothing seems to happen. But when his careful plans get shredded to bits, he needs to find something that will get his overbearing father off ...

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Daniel Craig: a high-octane crime novel set in the dangerous London underworld of the 1990s.Kingpins, dealers, rival gangs, false allegiances, bad faith, and good money. There are many levels to the world of drugs lurking beneath the polished surface of London—a "layer cake" of crime that can chew up and spit out even the most experienced of players. Though he's only twenty-nine, our narrator ("If I told you my ...

Kickass sci-fi heroine versus deadly aliensGrowing up as a Martian on Earth has left Jas Harrington solitary, quick-tempered, and with zero tolerance for fools. All plus points when working as chief security officer aboard prospecting starships.Jas' latest berth is aboard the Galathea, which trawls the reaches of the galaxy seeking precious minerals and rare resources. She thinks it's a routine trip. She's wrong.An inspection of a far-flung planet l...