Dr. Aris Thorne sees the world differently. To him, humanity is a series of data points, and behavior is a pattern waiting to be decoded. Once the FBI's youngest and most brilliant profiler, Thorne is now its most dangerous prisoner—locked away for a crime of intellectual arrogance that nearly broke the system.But when a serial killer known only as "The Poet" begins staging elaborate, ritualistic murders based on the structure of a sonnet, the Bureau has no choice but to open Thorne's cage...

Truth is messy. Spin is art. Love is the only thing they can't control.The Journalist: Harper Lane. Tenacious, disgraced, and desperate to prove she isn't "Lane the Liar". The Spin Doctor: Ethan Cole. Charming, calculated, and the man who ruined Harper's career two years ago.When Harper is forced to partner with her nemesis on a year-long project, the newsroom bets are already being placed on their destruction. Sharing a tiny desk is bad enough; sharing a vision for London is impossible.Bu...

The sun did not rise over the Spire of Aethel. It wasn't late. It was simply… edited out.In a universe where memory is physics and history is a writable code, Kael Ardent is a man built on gaps. A memory engineer for the Celestial Library, he spends his life reassembling shattered timelines, hiding from the holes in his own past. But when he is sent to investigate a missing sunrise, he uncovers a terrifying anomaly: a clean, surgical deletion of reality itself.At the center of the void sta...

In the town of Stellenrust, silence is a currency, and death is just a transaction.When Elias Mbeki arrives for his first week as the new municipal manager, he walks straight into a nightmare: the Mayor is dead in his study, a suicide note neatly placed on the desk. The police chief calls it a tragedy brought on by the pressures of office. The town is ready to move on.But Elias sees what others miss. The body is too composed. The scene is too perfect. And t...

Some disasters burn buildings. Others burn straight through the past.When a sudden fire erupts in the aging west wing of St. Jude Memorial Hospital, Director of Community Health Mara Hayes moves instinctively into crisis mode. She knows protocols. She knows pressure. What she isn't prepared for is the man who emerges from the smoke.Luke Callahan—her former lover, the brother of her late best friend, and the one person she n...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.**Truth is a human right***.***It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblo...

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself.★ “Masterful ... This is space opera at its best.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)**How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.

From the world's #1 bestselling author, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for an easy job**,** but when he tries to protect an American woman, nothing is what it seems in a web of money, betrayal, and murder ...Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much mo...

Now for e-readers, the #1 New York Times bestseller by David Baldacci includes a survival guide, author Q&A, and sneak peek of The Width of the World(Vega Jane, Book 3)!Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie.Now just one thing sta...

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix, bestselling master of teen fantasy, where once again a team of booksellers must fight to keep dangerous magic under cover before the stuff of legends destroys our world. New York Times bestseller!There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that in...

A Russian scientist in post-apocalyptic London is targeted by foreign powers in the second novel of this Philip K. Dick Award-winning series.Theorem: Samuil Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm—the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.Theorem: The city is broken.Proof: The people of the Out...

This short work includes 4 classes on the basics of short story writing, editing and publication.