Tlingit artifacts. A wounded bear. And a skeleton with a secret. Irreplaceable Tlingit artifacts, including a 15’x 8’ spruce Raven House screen, are stolen from a native village in Alaska in 1980. Their only police officer, Jonah St. Clair, investigates the theft and the disappearance of a local man who may have been involved. At […]

Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork, Ireland 1958 For eighteen-year-old Lena O’Sullivan, life feels like a cage with invisible bars. While everyone expects her to follow the well-worn path of marriage to a local boy and raising a family, Lena dreams of adventure and a world beyond the rolling hills of Kilteegan Bridge. Malachy Berger is heir […]

His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in Highgate. Man in caped coat. Milky way and red streaks. I’m being followed.” Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t save. And his sister, unconventional nurse Gemma […]

A teacher, 23, and her student, 17. Is it never OK? Esme Linde, 23, a new teacher in a high school in Vermont, is accused of having an affair with one of her students, Noah Beemer, 17. Noah’s parents have big ambitions for their son. Fearing that the controversy will damage his prospects, they pressure […]

Two hours and thirty-seven minutes. That’s how long Mike has been gone when Jan Holland picks up the fancy Moleskine notebook her daughter’s froufrou therapist insisted would “help her process her grief.” As if a stupid notebook could fix the fact that Jan has no idea how to be a widow when she’s spent four […]

A skeleton in the wall wasn’t part of Ellie Ward’s plans. Her Tuesday had started normally enough: shelve books, help patrons, and ignore the cat scratching at the basement wall. Then the wall came down. The bones belong to Silas Vance, the architect who designed the Ashwood Library, then vanished in 1925 along with fifty […]

Crown Prince Ronan has grown up in the shadow of a dragon-bound hero, his father, the man who saved a kingdom. But greatness isn’t inherited. It must be earned.  When Ronan is denied the sacred honor of bonding with a dragon, a mark that once crowned his father a prophet, he defies that judgment. He […]