Officer Miranda Rader is trustworthy and cool in a crisis, the polar opposite of the girl she once was—a wild child from the wrong side of the tracks. Narrator Tavia Gilbert captures Miranda’s intensity as she struggles to reconcile her abduction as a teenager with her current murder investigation. The victim is a seemingly beloved…
Single mom and veterinarian Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two sons were killed in a school shooting. Following her psychiatrist’s advice, she decides to sell her once-happy home to escape the immense pain and grief of living there alone. Desperate to find relief from her unspeakable loss, Natalie impetuously commits to honoring…
In this gripping conclusion to The Alliance, nearly six months have passed since Leora Ebersole’s Old Order Mennonite community fled to the mountains for refuge after an attack destroyed the region’s power grid and altered life as they knew it. Since then Leora has watched and waited for news of Moses Hughes, the young Englischer…
With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited grand opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B&B until Melanie’s dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests. Everyone at the inn…
Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man Jules loves best can’t stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm; with a…
Jane Bunker thought she’d escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she’s left behind the bustle of the city…
An all-new story arc begins here! The new grandmaster of Whitehall doesn’t want Emily in his school. She’s dangerous, he thinks. The only way he’ll allow her to return to Whitehall is if she chooses to be a probationary student, a student who can be expelled at the slightest excuse, a student who has…
In many areas, we, as women, have earned the equality we’ve been fighting for. We’ve broken through glass ceilings and achieved great success. We’ve shown that we can prosper by our own means. And we’ve become influential, respected leaders. Yet many of us find ourselves unhappy, anxious, and overwhelmed. Where’s the pot of gold at…
On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the Old Christians rugby team – and many of their friends and family members – crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing, brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one…
In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures – far from John Hancock’s elegant model – have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the…