"Chop Shop is a wild blend of pulp fiction with dark comedy; its engrossing plot always seems just about to spin out of control." - ForewordAmber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive – and their new buyers seem friendly and tru...

When Melanie, a car thief, is sent to find a certain vehicle only to discover it’s owned by dangerous hit-woman, Brenda, the two begin to wonder if their fateful encounter wasn’t just pure coincidence. It turns out they both work for a man named Felix Eberhart, who may or may not have had the hopes that Melanie and Brenda opened fire the second they laid eyes on each other. Melanie learns that Felix’s network of car thieves, fixers, and drug runners have all been set against one another. B...

An undead monster hunter must track down a killer, trailer-park-havoc-wreaking were-frog in this outrageous mash-up of Jim Butcher’s urban fantasy and George Romero’s zombie horror.Before he died, Saelig Zilch was a chef. Now, posthumously recruited by a shadowy agency for reasons still unknown, tasked with keeping the public safe from things that go bump in the night, he hunts monsters.Zilch scrabbles out of a North Carolina grave in someone else’s body. S...

An American trading ship embarks upon a daunting mission: to infiltrate the Hermit Kingdom of Corea, the last of the great Asian empires to open to the west, and set up trade relations with the Choson Dynasty. Corea's Grand Archduke, Prince Gung, has set his face against foreign intrusion and declared that any invading foreigners shall be put to death. What will Reverend Jabez Fuller, his friends O'Reilly and Fields, the brave Captain Pierce, and the eager merchant Morton find as they stea...

An action-packed science fiction novella full of surprises and poignant charm. Readers will follow the adventures of the sole crewmember of an interplanetary freighter left awake and on watch (the "jump watch") as the ship traverses the void between worlds. Our hero manages the ship's systems, repairs damage, recaptures escaped cargo, and pines for one of his cryogenically frozen crewmates. Will he be able to avoid breaking the interstellar freight regulations in the name of love, or will ...

When Probation Officer Cate Austin is given her new assignment, she faces the highest-profile case of her career. Alice Mariani is charged with assisted suicide and Cate must recommend a sentence.

Harbor View Cozy Fantasy SeriesWelcome to Harbor View,where the gossip travels fast, the ghosts linger longer,and no secret stays hidden forever...When Skye Randall returns to her quirky New England hometown after her mother’s sudden death, she brings along her fifteen-year-old daughter, two weeks’ worth of plans, and absolutely no intention of staying. She’s here to settle the estate, sell ...

Reeling from the trauma of her last case, SFPD Detective Kate Barnes heads to the Olympic Peninsula hoping to heal the present by resolving the past. When the ravaged corpse of an unidentified teen is discovered, her search for personal peace takes a back seat to the quest for justice.As Kate digs deeper, she discovers the victim was not the only one who had been taken against her will. Racing against the clock to rescue the remaining girls, she uncovers a complex series of ever-in...

From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland TrailAG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY“Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist"If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine healt...

'An absolutely fantastic read with brilliant characters. OMG I didn’t see that coming' ★★★★★'THIS is cracking fiction, yet has the power to feel disturbingly real' ★★★★★He said he wanted to help her. That was the first lie.On the opening night of the biggest festival in the city, 17‑year‑old Ellie vanishes.Looking for a fresh start, probation officer Cate Austin has moved countries to live with her detective...

This book is the prequel to the #1 bestselling, 17x Literary Award winning Tachyon Tunnel series, a gripping blend of adventure, romance, and hard science wrapped in an exploration of what happens when innovation outruns human wisdom.When engineer and scientist Alex Durant achieves a breakthrough once thought impossible, reality itself begins to bend. The tachyon tunnel is the most significant leap in human history. It unl...

The latest mesmerizing novel in a new mystery series featuring the captivating Dovey Van Dalen, once the belle of 1840s Copenhagen, now a spellbound, magic-wielding mystic in present-day Washington, D.C., charged with recovering magical property from the unbound—by any means necessary.Dovey didn’t expect to fall in love after the age of 200, yet she can’t stop thinking about Grant “Gib” Barlow, the gorgeous FBI agent who helped her crack her last case. A romance wi...