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A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO GET EVEN...The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They’re people who deserve to die. People who are in the way. And when she’s finished, there will be no one left...WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES FOR REVENGE...Cissy Cahill’s world is unraveling fast. One by one, members of her family are dying. Cissy’s certain she’s being watched. Or is she losing her mind? Lately she’s heard footsteps when there’s no one around, smelled a woman’s perfume....

Doreen’s acting career was in the dumpster—until she played a serial killer on TV. Now she can’t seem to live the infamy down. It’s not helping that her Aunt Edna is a member of the Southern mafia. Or that the gang of elderly ladies at Edna’s apartment complex consider Doreen their rising new star.

After the disastrous fallout from her last placement in England, all 23-year-old Cassandra Vale wants is a chance to pick up the pieces. A high-society, divorced mother in sunny Italy seems to be the answer. But is she? With a new family come new children, new rules, and new expectations. Cassandra’s determined to make this one last - until a horrifying discovery pushes her to a breaking point. And when the unimaginable occurs, will it be too late to pull herself back from the brink? Who, she wonders, is she becoming?

Life for private investigator Lizzy Gardner will never be the same. It's been three weeks since her fiancé Jared, was shot on what was supposed to be their wedding day. He's in a coma now, and Lizzy is being forced to make a decision she might not be able to live with. But a string of deaths has forced her to get back to work. While they appear to be unrelated accidents at first glance, a closer look shows they all have something in common.

When a reservation snafu strands hyper-organized marketer Sophie Caldwell in a honeymoon suite with barefoot travel photographer Liam Reyes, survival looks like painter’s tape down the middle and zero small talk. Then Isla Paradiso kicks off Wedding Week, the resort is overbooked, and a cheerful concierge lists them as “the happy couple.” To keep the room—and maybe enjoy a few perks—they agree to fake an engagement until the crowds thin. Couples’ massages become “research,” sunset cruises double as “content,” and one staged kiss short-circuits their boundaries.

Doreen Diller wants to be a movie star. But after 15 years of failed auditions, she’s yet to garner a single callback from a Hollywood producer. Determined to hit the big time before she turns 40, she pins her hopes on a job assisting soap opera heartthrob Tad Longmire. He could be the answer to her dreams—or the beginning of her nightmares. While filming a new TV series starring Tad, a stabbing death rocks the set. Unfortunately for Doreen, the role of murder suspect is finally one she appears ideally suited to play.

When 23-year-old Cassandra Vale accepts her first job as an au pair, she finds herself placed with a wealthy family in a rural estate outside of Paris, and all seems too good to be true. But she soon discovers that behind the gilded gates lies a dysfunctional family, a twisted marriage, troubled children, and secrets too dark to air.

Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life—or she definitely used to. Now she’s the subject of a true crime podcast. She’s been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she’s dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands “Find Dunia!” In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she’s coping with a broken engagement and the death of her mother. But then something happens that really shakes up her world: someone tries to murder her.

"Narrator Henry Leyva keeps listeners on the edge of their seats with his delivery of a story with more murder suspects than Maine has pine trees...This is an excellent, chilling story and performance." — AudioFile Magazine on The Precipice "[Henry Leyva's] understated performance makes even...

Harry Potter fans, welcome to an exciting new world, and Twilight fans will fall in love with this new forbidden paranormal romance. Ora Perez was an excellent student who thought she knew everything, but she definitely doesn't know: 1. Why she is seeing ghosts after a horrible car accident 2. Why the mysterious Blackwell Academy is sending her a letter when she never applied The one time she decided to be spontaneous with a boy, it almost ended her life forever. And now, her new life is not what she expected. Because now, she's haunted by the dead. When she arrives at the mysterious ...

Some mornings you wake up to coffee and sunshine. Clara Bloom woke up dead. Welcome to Ashwood Crossing, a charming little town with lantern-lit nights, whispered secrets, and more mysteries than its cobblestone streets can hold. When Clara finds herself caught between the world of the living and the afterlife, she discovers two things: she isn’t ready to leave just yet—and the only person who can hear her is the last man she ever expected. As Clara struggles to understand her new ghostly existence, she’s drawn into the heartbeat of a town where nothing is as ordinary as it looks. ...

They say I married Clarissa Harcourt for her father's company. They're wrong. When your mentor makes a dying wish that you'll marry his daughter... you do it. Especially when you're halfway in love with her already. Unfortunately, this marriage of convenience is anything but convenient. Clarissa doesn't know about the tattoos I hide under bespoke suits or my more than skin-deep scars. She's too vulnerable—and I'm too broken—for us to be more than married without benefits.

A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, heard of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators - men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. It worked.

A startling book that you don’t have to hide from your husband--share it with him. This book is for both of you, to make your marriage better for each of you. 69% of divorces are initiated by women, 90% when the woman is college educated. Apparently, women often have a more accurate pulse on the marriage. Women know when it's time to pull the plug on it. What if women used that wisdom to create positive change in marriage, long before divorce becomes the best idea? A whimsical, very-humanly-real approach for a couple whose relationship is heading towards circling the drain. Does this feel...

With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who...

Dr. David Edminson is a thirty-six-year-old street-smart, iconoclastic clinical and forensic psychologist who works out of his customized van treating the inhabitants of Skid Row between midnight and 5:00 a.m. David’s patients and others in the area know him as the “midnight shrink.” He divides his practice between treating people in his van and his office in Hollywood, his work as a forensic psychologist with the LAPD and as a clinical professor at County-USC Medical Center, where he consults and teaches psychiatric residents and psychological interns.

Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Tune in weekly to hear the dudes’ hottest sports takes, great debates, interviews with your favorite athletes and entertainers, and hilarious BTS from all things Dude Perfect. New episodes drop every Wednesday. A Wave Original.

Some whispers never fade… especially when they come from the other side. Life in Ashwood Crossing has never been ordinary—not when the lanterns flicker with secrets and the past lingers in every shadow. For Clara Bloom, being “dead or almost” is the new normal. She’s learning to live as a ghost, navigate her strange connection to Ethan Cross, and keep the peace between the living and the lost. But when eerie whispers begin echoing from the town’s historic fountain, a new mystery rises to the surface—and some secrets refuse to stay buried. Drawn into the haunting, Clara and ...

A show about life & the twists.

Luego de las consecuencias desastrosas de su último empleo en Inglaterra, todo lo que quiere Cassandra Vale, de 23 años, es una oportunidad para rehacer su vida. Una madre divorciada de la alta sociedad en la soleada Italia parece ser la respuesta. Pero ¿lo será? Con una nueva familia vienen nuevos niños, reglas y expectativas. Cassandra está decidida a hacer que esto dure, hasta que un descubrimiento espeluznante la lleva al límite. Y cuando ocurre lo inimaginable, ¿será demasiado tarde para retroceder del abismo? ¿En quién, se pregunta ella, se estará convirtiendo?