A troll with a message. And a bully with a short fuse. Lavender “Lew” Lewis takes a friend’s dog on an early morning run and discovers a body at one of the island’s most popular tourist attractions: a 20-foot-tall wooden troll. A local teacher becomes the prime suspect, and Lew agrees to quietly poke around […]

When wine critic Ambrose Hauser invites Liz Bartholomew to a prestigious tasting event, she is thrilled. Joined by her locksmith husband, Cy, she spends the event’s first day sipping and grading wine. That evening, the Bartholomews join the critics on a boat excursion and a twilight swim. Ten people descend into Lake Monona. When it’s […]

She’s learning the law with the highest stakes of all, life and death. Suffolk law student Susan Sorella knows hard work. By day, she’s grinding through classes and a brutal internship with Bobby Coughlin, a once-brilliant defense attorney now coasting on quick pleas and old war stories. By night, she’s waiting tables at her father’s […]

“What if your worst dream wasn’t yours, and it was hunting the whole neighborhood?” A quiet neighborhood where nothing ever happens. A terrifying communal nightmare that strikes fear into the hearts of the residents. A supernatural entity that preys on the dreams and fears of the weak. It’s an El Niño summer in the unassuming […]

Humanity isn’t free. It’s farmed. For centuries, the reptilian Rotundran Empire has ruled the world, breeding humans for labor… and meat. But something is changing. Beneath the sands of Camp Kilja, a slave named Adam uncovers the impossible: a preserved human from a forgotten past. Proof that humanity was never truly wiped out… only sleeping. […]

Most people believe that the true key to becoming ultra-wealthy lies in some sort of “secret,” a kind of well-kept secret that’s extremely “hush-hush,” and only realized by a small amount of the elite, or a privileged few. But, actually, this isn’t the case at all. In fact, these super-rich individuals realize that their money […]

Fallen angels given one chance at redemption… Come heaven or hell. Someone, or something, wants Kellen out of town… Kellen Brand’s inheritance comes as a monumental shock, a rundown farm in West Virginia she doesn’t want and one paroled Watcher all her own. Kellen’s eccentric mother believed Watchers to be fallen angels seeking penance by […]

Italy is easy to love. Much harder to explain. Why does one word like boh seem to contain an entire philosophy? Why can a family lunch feel like a performance, a negotiation, and an emotional event all at once? Why does everyday life in Italy so often seem chaotic, dramatic, irrational, and absolutely brilliant? A […]

A voyage of dreams and nightmares. Welcome aboard The Fated. The price of a second chance may be more than a ticket. Every sixteen years a luxurious ocean liner known as The Fated appears at the docks to carry a few lucky passengers to paradise. Yet when people onboard begin disappearing, one woman soon discovers […]