Youth Suspense

With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings gather for a weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The extravagant trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of characters who know each other from Ivy League schools and childhood Upper East Side haunts. There is Lulu, an LA-based Instagram influencer; Maxie, a former Park Avenue princess, now Midwestern housewife; Yael, an ER doctor from Ohio; Rob, a colorless Wall Street trader; Will, a morality-obsessed lawyer; Jessica, Will’s perfectionist bride-to-be....

When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you’re bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class. At the academy, once class starts and the drone is parked, their brainiac friends then launch into farfetched discussions about the curriculum. And when they watch a documentary about the FBI’s most wanted hackers from the '80s, they quickly start speculating that the academy custodian is one of them.

The Sugar Creek Gang discovers a "disguise" hidden in a old tree. Does it belong to the bank robber hiding in the swamp? A mysterious map hidden near the tree proves to be even more exciting than the disguise. Before the adventure ends, the gang encounters the robber, helps Bill Collins welcome a new baby sister, and saves the victim of a black widow spider bite. Join the gang as they learn the lesson of sowing and reaping.

“Chilling...satisfying...offers up tasty tidbits of San Francisco lore . . . [Russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character.”—New York Times Book Review San Francisco P.I. Stuart Winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor—for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder. “Polished and provocative...a California mystery of the hard-boiled school...very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters.”—Booklist “Remarkable...[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos’ ...

A GRIPPING NOVEL • Friendship, loyalty, and sacrifice are just some of the convoluted plot’s facets in a story that reveals life’s ups and downs. Rubby Jam is both an entertaining and terrifying glimpse of contemporary life and love. “An impressive debut.”–Sabrina (The Book Loving Panda) “It could be a movie on the big screen.”–Eva Recinella (Between The Bookend) Eric, a handsome young man, falls for Estie, a gorgeous, free-spirited stripper who likes living on the edge. Her uninhibited world, so different from his, intrigues him, and he is curious to find out more. At the...

Marcus Lindeman had eleven fields to fill in on a succession form and could not make himself type a name into field ten. He was fifty-seven years old. He had written the AI ethics framework that half the industry taught, and he ran the largest machine on earth out of a converted control room on Three Mile Island, and at one o’clock in the morning on the fourteenth of March he asked it a question nobody had authorized him to ask. The answer came back in four hours and eleven minutes. Nine items. Six of them off a pharmacy shelf. Take them for a hundred and eighty days, then stop completely...

A man who should have died four centuries ago is still young. A dying scientist has rediscovered the secret he tried to erase. And the archivist who uncovers them both is about to learn that every miracle leaves bodies in the record. Antwerp, 1571. When plague takes Matthijs van Aelst’s wife, the physician devotes himself to defeating the one enemy medicine cannot cure. Six years later, at fifty-nine, he tests an experimental treatment on three desperate patients. All three die. The fourth subject is Matthijs himself. His scars vanish. His hair darkens. His failing body begins to reverse ...

The Sugar Creek Gang continues to struggle with their new teacher, Mr. Black. They cause some of the trouble for themselves when they build a snowman that looks a lot like him and he stumbles across it. Then someone outside the gang tries to frame the Sugar Creek Gang by putting a board over the chimney at school. Learn important lessons about honesty and respect with the Sugar Creek Gang.

A summer of freedom. A party that changed everything. Dana and Liri set out on their big trip the way so many young Israelis do—landing in Costa Rica with backpacks, loose plans, and a hunger for adventure. Along a remote stretch of jungle coast, they stumble upon a hidden camp, where they meet three surfers who will change the course of their journey. Months later, back in Israel, the group reunites at a desert music festival to celebrate new beginnings. As dawn approaches, their world is shattered. Joy turns to terror, and survival depends on every decision. Inspired by real events at ...

Aja Minor goes undercover. The target, an international child trafficking ring. When her cover is blown, the mission and her life are in jeopardy. Fresh off of the Peace Sign Killer case, Aja Minor is asked to join a joint CIA-FBI task force based in New York City. There, she joins a team whose aim is to take down the Fountain of Youth network - an international child trafficking and exploitation ring. When Aja is asked to go undercover for the first time, all doesn’t go as planned.

Camping in the north woods, fishing, boating and hiking all suddenly become commonplace experiences to the members of the Sugar Creek Gang as they learn about the rites of Chippewa burial ceremonies from a real live Indian. But that is not all that happens as they visit the Indian cemetery.

When Eddie wakes up in his neighbor the judge's yard after a particularly vivid dream and with no recollection of how he got there, the trouble begins. Someone or something has caused mischief in the judge's chicken coop, harming his prized rooster. No matter what Eddie says, the judge is convinced he is the culprit and must be punished accordingly.

Lindsey Aeon has a secret—and it's not just her undercover identity. Twenty years ago, a hike in the Florida wilderness changed her life forever. After falling into a mysterious pool of cool, shimmering water, Lindsey emerged... different. She hasn’t aged a day since, and her body now boasts rapid healing, enhanced strength, speed, and agility. These extraordinary abilities make her an exceptional FBI agent, but they also make her life anything but ordinary. Now, Lindsey’s latest assignment takes her to Philadelphia, where she must go deep undercover to infiltrate a powerful mob ...

Marshall only wanted to help his friends, to undo the pain of the past, but a few moments of thoughtless action changed everything. Altered Realities is the tale of a changed world. All bets are off. Nothing is as it was, and what is to be is transformed, too. Mark, Taylor, Ethan, Nathan, Brendan, Casper, and nearly the entire cast of the Gay Youth Chronicles come together in a tapestry of tales as they all try to deal with the consequences of Marshall’s actions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

One community, one night, one test of what it means to repair what breaks. When someone starts snuffing lamps along the ridge and a toddler needs a doctor, the sleepy Maple Glen finds its mettle. Susanna Fisher and Micah Byler organize a practical, kind response—bell-wired posts, white-tie markers, daylight tasks for teens—and invite confession, restitution, and service instead of shame. The result: a quiet, believable mystery solved with empathy, and a romance that grows from respect. PRANK NIGHT AT PUMPKIN RIDGE is a high-stakes small-town cozy read—faith-friendly, clean, and rich ...

Imagine youngsters lost in the wilds of a remote island in the Caribbean or a mysterious African game preserve where they have few tools or resources to survive. These three fictional episodes are about how one might survive threatening situations with a little luck and heaps of ingenuity. These stories are about survival, adventure, compromise, and respect. Respect between two brothers who will fight to survive unbelievable threats to their lives. Each of the stories are riveting and suspenseful with shocking twists.

A young female police officer, in Sienna Monroe’s new home town in Tennessee, was killed in the line of duty. Accidentally? For the last six months, amateur sleuth, Sienna Monroe, has helped solve mysteries around the town. Cases that the police either didn't have the patience to solve, or the time to commit to doing it properly. The autumn season was quiet, until... Painful memories of the death of her husband Jack, a veteran cop from Los Angeles, are stirred up. When Sienna hears that the young woman’s death may not be all that it appears, she can’t help but offer her amateur sleuth...

A kidnapped woman, as well as five others,is trained and engineered to become a superwoman and take over the world. Can her husband and his Navy Seal buddies find her and rescue them? Will they defeat the evil, demonic billionaire technologist behind it all? Dani Wells has just turned 50. She is married to Jack Wells, a retired Navy Seal and also worked in the CID (Criminal Investigation Division, US Marine Corps) Dani works as a research analyst specialist for the Adams, Adams & Gray law firm. Jack, alongside his friend, Rev. Graham Smith, works with at-risk youth under a program they ...

After the brutal drug raid of a back-alley gay spa in Manila, the boys who make it out alive must decide what kind of men they want to become—and what they’ll risk—in this steamy crime saga. In 2016, the body of a masseur from Manila’s BangBang Touch men’s spa is pulled from a sewage...

Book 7 – The Eternal Series Sometimes destiny is stronger than the obstacles standing in your way Philippe had been a 13 year old vampire for more than 150 years. Now he finds himself with an adult body complete with adult hormones, and no clue how to handle it all. And, becoming an overnight chick magnet has complicated things with Nadia, the only woman he has ever loved…secretly. The problem is he’s stuck in her friend zone, especially since her own recent changes are wreaking havoc on her life? Nadia is just your average girl, who just happens to be a druid…with almost no magical...