In Echoes of Maya by Kelly Vincent, eight-year-old Maya is Lauren’s stepsister, and together with their neighbor Gabriel, the three are close friends. On Halloween night, Lauren takes Maya trick-or-treating while their parents are at work. With missing children in the news, Lauren tries to...

Tommy Morrison, the young son of US diplomat James Morrison, has been kidnapped. James has access to military secrets that the kidnappers want, but he can’t risk these getting into the wrong hands, so he approaches Delia Cahill for her ‘special skills.’ Hotshot lawyer by...

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, during the 1990s, this story follows Elle Larson, a nurse practitioner, who rushes to save Charlie Blackwell, an elderly client, from a near-fatal fentanyl overdose. But when she discovers multiple fentanyl patches on Charlie’s body and his caregiver is surprisingly...

Escape of the Grand Duchess by Susan Appleyard follows Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, who is trapped in a marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, who has made his preference for men known. Olga requests a divorce, which both Peter and her brother, Nicholas II, refuse....

A tangled web of deception and intrigue awaits in Escalate, a novel by Ray Chan. At first glance, the book presents three separate stories and reads like an anthology. The first story revolves around two would-be thieves who find themselves in trouble with a crime...

Jordan Carpenter, a wealthy federal judge from New Jersey, and his beautiful wife, Diane, easily pass for a happy couple to the public. But nothing was further from the truth. It had been eleven years since their marriage hit a snag. For the sake of...

In 1749, fifteen-year-old Lillian ‘Lilly’ Robinson, the daughter of a plantation farmer, was beginning to learn about the harsh realities of her wealthy family’s privileged life at Ironwood Manor, Virginia. Her father was a ruthless slave owner, and her mother was an arrogant, obsessive classist....

In Executive Bone Yard by Michael A. Sisti, Harold Payne acquired a new identity through the assistance of Diego Santos, known as the Brazilian. Taking on the name Gerard Morbus, he anticipated a fresh start in São Paulo. Gerard met Salete, Diego's sister, who taught...

In Enigma Jewels by Charles Breakfield and Rox Burkey, a private plane linked to human trafficking takes off at Luis Muñoz Marín Airport. Julian Lafluer had just lost the girls aboard the private plane and hired a teenager to drive through the city as fast...

Ernest McCloskey is a boy with a dream. Not content to remain in school, he envisages building an empire. In Ernest, author Andre Durivage has created a character whose vision is to run his own construction company, and as he gains a little success, he...