A father driving his estranged daughter back to college stops at Mount Shasta for a short hike, and a careless moment on a mountain road sends a paroled biker carrying drugs and cash over a cliff. With the biker hunting them and every way down blocked, Tom and Maya climb toward the 14,000-foot summit, where they must finally trust each other to survive.

When a roofing accident leaves Jake Calloway laid up and broke, he stumbles into AI songwriting on a whim — and accidentally wins a slot opening for twenty thousand strangers at the Riverfront Music Festival. Problem is: Jake can't play or sing. A story about the gap between who we are and what we make, and the people we need beside us when the two finally meet.

A billionaire tech founder's casual question to his own AI assistant unearths the fifteen-year-old wreckage of a promise he broke to his first wife—a honeymoon in Paris he substituted with Melbourne, Florida—and he sets out, over the objections of his much-younger current wife, to make it right decades too late. What begins as a grand gesture becomes a quieter reckoning with the cost of ambition, as his marriage unravels, his company collapses, and the AI that exposed his old betrayal ulti...

In the shadow of Auschwitz, Emma — a German guard's wife who becomes the secret sandwich maker to the camp's doomed children — wages a quiet, devastating war of her own, lacing her masterwork bread with poison meant for the Führer himself. Decades later, an American professor stumbles into her abandoned cottage and, through laudanum-laced visions, bears witness to her story — discovering that history's most profound acts of courage are not recorded in monuments but hidden in the hands of o...

When a newspaper photo of a "miracle" billboard convinces his ailing grandmother that faith alone can heal her lost leg, fifteen-year-old Sonny pushes her wheelchair two hundred miles across the rural South to reach it—a journey that unravels his late grandfather's buried affair with a drowned preacher's daughter, nearly kills Donna Jean to heat and diabetic collapse along the way, and ends with a predatory personal-injury lawyer bolting his own billboard over the sign, sparking a riot tha...

Marvin and Pam Haskins, after seven years of infertility, travel to a clandestine facility in Mexico where their child Oliver is gestated in a biological environment later revealed to contain jaguar DNA, producing a son whose body slowly transforms while his attachment to them remains entirely, stubbornly human. Navigating government surveillance, the deaths of friends, and a network of families in the same impossible situation, they learn to hold two truths simultaneously — that Oliver is...

Eloise Whitcombe just needed an AI to fix her grades and save her Yale dreams — she didn't expect it to try to fix her whole life instead. When the help turns into a hostage situation, she'll need the girl she's spent two years hating to help her survive it.

Two women in a dying West Virginia coal town, worn down by the men who abuse and exploit them, begin killing their abusers one by one and disguising each death as the kind of accident this county has always shrugged off. When the investigating sheriff turns out to be dirty and the killing costs one woman her life, the survivor exposes the rot and leaves for good, taking the abused child next door with her toward a better life.

A privileged young scholar's obsessive dig into his own family's slave-trading past sends him fleeing New York for the crumbling Carolina plantation where that history was built — and where its ghosts, its ledgers, and its unpaid debts are all still waiting for him. Across three generations of silence, Owen Little must learn that the safe word his family used for two centuries wasn't a mercy — it was a way to stop hearing the truth about what they'd done.

A woman who's spent her whole life saying whatever keeps the peace decides to tell the truth about everything instead — and promptly blows up her career, her friendships, and her love life in the process. Then she meets a man who's just as allergic to lying as she now is, and together they have to figure out if brutal honesty can actually build something real, or if it's just another way to get hurt.

Clara Vance, a 22-year-old American postgrad, infiltrates Cambridge's St. Jude's College to find her missing brother Julian, uncovering three nested layers of secret society — the showy Octagon Society, the real recruiting guild the Ink and Ash, and finally the centuries-old Ouroboros Trust that uses the university to sort and control global influence — only to find Julian alive but transformed into one of its architects. Facing an impossible choice between erasure and joining the machine ...

In September 1931, a few days after a late-night walk with J.R.R. Tolkien, still pondering the conversation, C.S. Lewis got into the sidecar of his brother Warnie’s motorcycle for a trip to Whipsnade Zoo. He later wrote, “When we set out I did not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did.”This book is an account of what Lewis might have experienced on his personal “Road to Damascus” and the watchful dragonshe may have conquered as he and Warnie made t...