A serial killer stalks New Orleans, leaving victims tattooed with a series of numbers. The only lead points to a crumbling asylum, Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, and to Eve Renner, who grew up exploring its secret chambers as the daughter of one of its doctors. As new bodies appear, Eve races to assemble a deadly puzzle while a killer watches and lures her back to the ruins where past betrayals may be revealed.

A prank at Camp Horseshoe one summer intended to scare a fellow counselor left two girls missing and one presumed drowned. Two decades later, detective Lucas Dalton, whose father ran the camp and who worked there that summer, investigates human remains found in a cavern and has jeopardized his career by removing evidence. Five former counselors return, each with secrets, and start receiving notes bearing a personal memento and the message You will pay, then murders begin.

The Cahills are a wealthy San Francisco family with twisted secrets. Marla Cahill wakes from a coma after a highway crash with no memory and a reconstructed face while another woman died. Her family calls her Marla, but they are strangers as she recuperates in an isolated mansion and grows increasingly certain she is not who they say and that her life is in danger.

Sisters Cassie and Allie leave Oregon to pursue acting in Los Angeles, but Allie becomes a star while Cassie remains stuck in bit parts. When Allie's body double is shot and Allie goes missing, police trace a last call to Cassie though she has no memory of placing it, and she is confined to a Portland psych ward amid public suspicion. Cassie checks out to find Allie, but macabre murders that mimic her family make her doubt everyone and herself.

An ensorcelled train hurtles through the night with no stops and no escape for its passengers. It carries a ragtag group of freaks, kooks, and misfits who cannot leave and must rely on one another. The book collects magical erotic encounters among these vagabonds as they search for who is driving the train and who controls their fate. The destination is unknown and the journey is unpredictable.

In a placid New England town, complex relationships and secret lives simmer beneath the surface. Tragedy forces those private matters into daylight and exposes the town's underlying tensions. Business conflicts and sexual scandals compound the community's upheaval. The revelations reshape the social order and lay bare how closely intertwined personal and public lives have become.

At eight, Alfie discovers he can undo any moment and live it again, but he must accept the consequences of his second attempt. He uses the gift to erase embarrassments, test risky near-death experiences, and shape his love life until he falls for Gianna, but he learns one caveat: once he undoes a love, that person can never love him again. Years later, an ailing Alfie is arrested after allegedly cheating at roulette, and a detective's interrogation gradually reveals his life and its outcome.

A year after his best friend Sam died, Oliver still texts Sam's number and cannot stop, especially as the anniversary approaches. When he accidentally calls, someone else answers: Ben, an astronomy student in Seattle who has been reading Oliver's private messages after the number was reassigned. They meet and feel an undeniable spark, but Oliver discovers something strange that could keep them apart.

Princess Natasia is the eldest child of Emperor Andreth of the Four Realms, but as a girl she is expected to marry so her father can shape a male successor. An unknown would-be assassin nearly takes her life, revealing that someone seeks to destabilize the Empire, with suspects including Western lords, eastern barbarians, or the mysterious Cult of Culo. With palace intrigue growing dangerous, the Emperor considers Natasia as a possible heir and the reckless, rebellious princess must learn to lead before the Empire falls.

A new war brews between the Shadowlands and the mortal world, a conflict the Brotherhood of Culo has warned about for generations. An Empress in exile struggles to regain her crown while the warrior sworn to protect her fights to return, confronting an enemy even the Empire's greatest living sword master may not defeat: time itself. Time is running out for the soldiers of the House of Dorsa. This is book two of a three book series.

Four and a half years after the Battle of the Empress's Last Stand ended Empress Natasia's reign and the War in the East, the peace does not match what the Empire expected. Linna refuses to accept that the Empress and Joslyn of Terinto are gone and travels alone into the East to uncover what really happened in that battle. She plans to continue past former borders toward the mysterious Kingdom of Persopos in hopes of finding the truth and her leaders alive.

A collection of early-20th-century social-realist narratives set largely in rural Bengal, focusing on intimate human relationships and everyday lives marked by poverty, tradition, and moral struggle; the stories center on dignified, often tragic characters—especially women—who confront rigid social norms, caste and class constraints, unfulfilled love, and family pressures, conveyed in compassionate, lyrical prose that combines emotional intensity with a critique of social injustice while evoking vivid village landscapes and the slow, bittersweet changes in society.

Elizabeth Lange arrives at a spa in Pebble Beach, California, still grieving her sister Leila, who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse. Dashing millionaire Ted Winters stands accused of murder, but Elizabeth doubts his guilt and sets out to uncover the truth. Along the windswept cliffs of the Monterey coast and among luxurious bungalows, uneasiness stalks her as glimpses of Leila's life and of Elizabeth herself begin to surface. An ominous threat from an unexpected source builds around her.