Local Legends

Summer is around the corner, and Little League first baseman, Billy Kramer, is looking forward to playing another year with the LA Southgate Sharks. His plans are uprooted when his mother announces an unexpected move to rural Bennington, Nebraska. Billy's world is turned upside down.

Someone knows where she is… The old Victorian pier was a thing of beauty until it was allowed to decay. It was where the youth of Oldcliffe-on-Sea would go to hang out. It’s also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier disappeared eighteen years ago. Francesca Howe, known as Frankie, was...

Rose Nightingale is an English actress recovering from a bad marriage who wonders if her dream of being a mother will ever come true. Sapphira De Mont is the world’s most beautiful movie star but hides a secret addiction and the deepest of grief imaginable. Calypso Gable is a young star on the rise trying to escape her mum-manager’s clutches and find her independence. As they come together on set in the Italian hills, they are faced with their biggest battles yet, but they soon learn that friendship is the greatest weapon a woman can have.

Ace basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance. With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking the record will be easy for him to do. However, T.D.'s life takes several unexpected twists and turns before he approaches the final game of his middle school career.

On a winding mountain road into the town of Denton, Pennsylvania, Detective Josie Quinn finds the body of a local teenage girl, Dina Hale. The sight of plum-colored bruises gathering around the girl’s neck pierces Josie’s heart, but the discovery of a second girl’s empty purse in the dirt nearby gives her a flicker of hope that one person, at least, made a lucky escape. Dina’s parents are grief-stricken as the town rallies together in a desperate search for the second girl, who waitressed with Dina. The two best friends were on their way to a shift when they were attacked.

With sprawling expanses of untouched nature, biodiversity hot spots, and heartwarming hospitality of its people, Costa Rica is a piece of Heaven on Earth. The beauty of Costa Rica can truly be appreciated by understanding the folklore and generations of storytelling that surround the country’s landmarks and sightseeing locations. Rio Celeste, Arenal, Monteverde – each of these popular destinations has more to it than meets the eye, and by learning the enthralling history that each location in Costa Rica encompasses, you will uncover the true magic that exists here. Read about Costa ...

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Attorney Jordan Marshall is just on his way to the beach, passing through Green Hills, Texas, a small town he's barely noticed before. Arrested by an over-zealous cop, he's hauled before the judge who seems to rule over the town. Before Jordan knows what's happening, he's appointed to represent a young punk charged with assault. It seems like a simple case, so why does he encounter such hostility everywhere he goes as Wayne's lawyer? Then Jordan learns of the murder that happened shortly before Wayne beat up his best friend, the murder of Jenny Fecklewhite, the beautiful and brilliant ...

Hester Wallace is proud of her independence. She needs only one man in her life - her nine-year-old son, Radley. But when Rad starts idolizing their neighbor Mitch Dempsey, Hester wonders if her son needs a male role model. Hester would do anything for her boy, but inviting Mitch into their lives is dangerous. She might start to rely on Mitch…or worse, fall in love with him.

“Easily one of my favorite books of the year. Creative, incisive, and elegantly crafted, this one will wow you even as it wrecks you—you’ll be holding your breath to the end.” —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six A bold sci-fi retelling of The Great Gatsby...

Almost since the day of her arrival in Hadrian's Well, Undersheriff Joanna Donovan has found herself at loggerheads with the Colorado State Police. Cooperation was non-existent as politics continually got in the way of law enforcement. But now, a brutal encounter with the preternatural has forced out Joanna's old nemesis and the new acting captain comes asking for Joanna's help in identifying an unknown preternatural killer. But is she really looking for aid, or seeking to win the old feud by tarnishing Joanna's reputation? It's quite the dilemma, but if Hadrian's Well and the state don't ...

An investigative podcaster returns to her hometown to solve her sister’s cold-case disappearance. But the secrets buried in the woods are far more terrifying—and far more primal—than any human crime. Fifteen years ago, sixteen-year-old June walked into the dense, shadow-drenched mountain forest after dark and never came back. The official police report called it a fatal bear attack. Her older sister, Rina, knew better. Now a successful true-crime journalist, Rina returns to her isolated hometown with a microphone, a portable recorder, and a mission: force the community to confront the...

Briar Hollow has kept a bloody secret hidden deep within the Appalachian mountains for eleven years. Deputy Rebecca Slade never believed the local legends until a routine call on a rainswept mountain road brings her face to face with an impossible nightmare. A violent entity is slaughtering residents under the cover of darkness, and the local police force is entirely unequipped to stop it. Peter Rusk knows exactly what is hunting the citizens of his isolated community. He carries the same violent genetic curse in his veins, relying on iron chains and sheer willpower to lock himself away ...

A weekend getaway was supposed to mend a fractured family. Instead, it woke a forty-year-old curse. Former search-and-rescue diver Owen Rourke just wants to reconnect with his grieving teenage daughter, Sadie, at their old vacation cabin. But when a violent summer storm traps them on the water alongside a hundred panic-stricken tourists, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. Something massive, intelligent, and relentlessly hungry is hunting the crowded shallows—attacking boats from below and tearing through steel like paper. To survive a night of claustrophobic terror, Owen...

October “Toby” Daye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. Like her mother, she is gifted in blood magic, able to read what has happened to a person through a mere taste of blood. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, most changelings are second-class children of Faerie spending their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Toby is the only changeling who has earned knighthood, and she re-earns that position every day.

A girl hated by her town for her father’s crimes must decide whether to save it or burn it all down when a dying god in the woods warns her of an impending catastrophe in this “socially conscious and serpentine mystery topped with spine-tingling supernatural imagery” (Publishers Weekly...

You can escape the woods. But you can never outrun the bloodline. Elara Vance survived the Briarwood Holler massacre. She escaped the fire, the fangs, and the horrific truth of what slumbers beneath the Appalachian ridge. The official report called it a tragic forest fire that claimed her research team. But Elara knows the truth. The deep, cellular chill inside her has nothing to do with the trauma. Her silver scar thrums with a dark, terrifying rhythm. She brought a piece of the holler back with her—a gnawing, ravenous emptiness that grows stronger as the moon waxes. She is a ticking ...

A quiet mountain town. A final night of movies. An unstoppable force emerging from the dark. The Pine Ridge Drive-In is closing its gates forever, and manager Emma Reeves has planned the ultimate all-night movie marathon to send it off. The lot is packed. The projector is humming. The crowd is ready for a scare. But the real terror isn't on the screen. Deep within the dense forest bordering the lot, a legendary apex predator has been pushed to the brink by decades of corporate greed and environmental destruction. Tonight, it is reclaiming its territory—and it will tear through steel, ...