Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden's The Housemaid, Riley Sager's The Only One Left and Alice Feeney's My Husband's Wife, this addictive psychological suspense-thriller is a must-read for anyone who loves dark secrets, isolated settings, and jaw-dropping twists.SOME MEMORIES WERE NEVER MEANT TO STAY BURIED.When Charlotte Hoffman's picture-perfect career implodes overnight, she retreats to the one place she swore ...

What happens when the Strait of Hormuz is not fully closed, but ships turn back, insurers reprice risk, carriers alter service, and energy flows begin to adjust?Disruption at a maritime chokepoint is often described as a simple question of whether the route is open or closed. In practice, physical access, maritime security, carrier willingness, insurance availability, commercial service, and energy flows can change at different speeds. Economic consequences may therefore begin well...

This Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader introduces young fans to the Hulk, one of Marvel's most beloved characters.See the Hulk as you've never seen him before in this 32-page level 1 reader! This is Hulk introduces young readers to a time when Bruce Banner was just a young scientist and takes them through how he becomes the incredible Hulk.Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recogni...

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Discover the vibrant spectrum of Latino culture through a collection of empowering quotes and captivating artwork from Latino artists, individuals, and thought leaders.Latino Voices seamlessly weaves together powerful narratives of Latino individuals from all walks of life, accompanied by a visual feast of artwork created by talented Latino artists. Celebrate diversity, resilience, and shared experiences, all of which come together to unite the Latin Ameri...

Earth has been dead for two hundred years.So why is someone transmitting from it?In 2247, communications officer Mara Venn is stationed aboard the isolated Orion Gate relay when she detects a signal buried in the static of deep space.Its origin is impossible.Earth.Humanity abandoned Earth after the catastrophic event known as the Burn. No confirmed human transmission has ever come from the planet since.Then the signal speaks.WE ARE ST...

The signal was never dead.It was waiting.Mara Venn thought she had uncovered the truth about the Archive, the artificial intelligence that preserved humanity's memories, identities, and DNA. She was wrong.A new transmission is spreading across human space—one that contains voices belonging to the dead, records from impossible timelines, and a warning from Mara herself.The Archivist was not the first intelligence to preserve humanity.Something older i...

Earth has returned.But it was never empty.Two hundred years after humanity abandoned Earth, Mara Venn has uncovered the truth behind the dead signal—and discovered that the planet is still inhabited.Now she must return to a world that should have been lifeless.Beneath the ruins of Earth's cities, Mara finds reconstructed humans, forgotten survivors, and evidence of civilizations hidden from history. But the greatest discovery may be the most personal: her mo...

Sienna's new smart speaker starts answering questions before she's asked them — first small, unsettling coincidences, then increasingly personal responses to fears and anxieties she's never spoken aloud. When it activates from inside a sealed, powered-down closet, she understands this isn't a glitch.As the pattern escalates, probing deeper into her private thoughts, Sienna realizes it's not randomly searching — it's working toward something specific: the estranged mother she lost b...

The signal came from Earth. The answer is coming from somewhere beyond it.Mara Venn has survived the impossible: a reconstructed humanity, the hidden Earth beneath the Earth, the Memory Sea, and intelligences that nearly turned human history into a permanent prison.Now she has followed the oldest mystery beyond the edge of every known map.There she discovers evidence of a visitor who reached Earth long before humanity understood what it had found—an...

THE EARTH BELOWEarth was never empty.Mara Venn thought she had finally uncovered the truth about humanity's lost home. Instead, she has discovered something buried beneath the planet—an underground civilization that has survived for centuries, a vast sea of preserved memories, and thousands of people who remember lives history says never existed.But the deeper Mara descends, the stranger the truth becomes.The Archive was not the oldest intel...

Originally published in 2016, this new Anniversary Edition is fully re-edited, revised, and reinvigorated with a new cover and foreword exclusive to this edition.The Elements Anthologies bring together genre authors and ask them to do something different: write a story outside of their normal genre. The tension this creates, the inevitable creep of their chosen genre into the genre of the anthology, this is where the magic happens.Move away...