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Sisters Isabel and Maya might fight like cats and dogs, but the one thing they can agree on is that Aunt Claire is hiding a big secret in her small-town veterinary clinic-and they're going to find out what it is. When Aunt Claire is kidnapped and her animals are stolen, the girls must work together to save her. But doing so could expose her top-secret research to the world and allow the data to fall into very dangerous hands. This tale o...

Escaping a kidnapping changes you. Nothing feels safe for Isabel as long as Dr. Rodriguez is still free to move forward with his diabolical plans. Stopping him is the only thing she thinks about. But Maya is busy thinking about where she'll go to college. (Not near Isabel, that's for sure.) And Aunt Claire is being questioned by the government about her research. (She's the good guy, they should be focused on Dr. Rodriguez!) Then everyth...

Nothing could prepare them for what awaited in the depths of the Great Trinity Forest. The rich smell of hot, wet earth mixed with the fetid undertone of decaying flesh hit Detective Rob Soliz as soon as he left his vehicle. He thought that was the worst of it-then he encountered a scene of such depravity he instinctively thought of leaving the force. It was too much for even a seasoned veteran to take in. But it was the bloody, crumpled...

At Mountain View Middle School, everyone knows everyone else's business. Green. Yellow. Red. Regardless of what is happening in your life, your status and access are determined by the card that hangs around your neck. Principal Fowler delights in giving demerits and knocking her prisoners students down a color. Five discouraged and beaten down students are thrown together one day when everything goes wrong, and they are locked in a close...

Hungover from celebrating the latest win for his best-selling book, Bartholomew Beck is in no mood to deal with a pesky reporter. Especially one who is sleeping with his co-author, working for his enemy, and taking great pleasure in letting Beck know that his days as a free man are numbered. U.S. Representative Paul Schuhmacher wants to avenge the death of his son, Paul, and he holds Beck responsible. But focusing on Beck leaves him vulnerable...

In the summer of 1945, 11-year-old Lily Wagner's daddy takes the "Whites Only" sign off the front door of the family grocery store in quiet Mayfield, South Carolina. Lily's world is turned upside-down: the store is vandalized and she loses her best friend, whose father forbids him from hanging around a-well, the word he uses turns Lily's stomach. Hazel Jackson loves school and reading more than anything. She doesn't think it's fair that she ha...

A winter wonderland turns into a frozen nightmare in this pulse-pounding conclusion to The Seven Deadly Sins series by USA Today Bestselling Author Greta Boris. Fiona has separation anxiety when Devon, her husband, takes their almost four-year-old son to a cabin in Big Bear Lake to sled, build snowmen, and bond. She can't wait to join them, but when she learns her half-brother-once dubbed the Real Estate Killer-has escaped from prison, she loa...

Hometown heroes. Hank and Hannah were supposed to be starting high school as freakin' hometown heroes! Every media outlet in the tri-county area said so. After the two solved a thirty-five-year-old cold case, Hannah is poised to ride the tide of new-found celebrity right into the halls of Vista Point High School. Even pessimistic Hank self-talks his way into guarded optimism after his sleuthing brings hundreds of new subscribers to his Forensi...

Willow has everything she could ever want-except her freedom. After eloping with Jonathan, she returns to his family's expansive Southern California estate to live a fairytale, complete with a handsome prince and beautiful castle.But something isn't right at Sunset House. Willow becomes jealous of her husband's bond with his twin sister, and curious about the family's secrets that live in the shadows. Her anxiety ramps up with three deaths in ...

You do the crime, you do the time."Julia Melvin had repeated those words countless times as she raised her children, proud to be teaching them personal responsibility. She did not expect to hear them parroted back from her young adult son on her one phone call from the county jail following a small skirmish at a protest against animal testing at a local cosmetics company. Upon her release, she vowed to change her criminal ways and stay far awa...

Bluebonnet Trails Bike Race is coming up and Poppy is laser-focused on getting her food truck ready for the crowds. Her tireless assistant, Kim, is there every step of the way-creating recipes, sourcing ingredients, and spending hot Texas days in what amounts to a large metal box-until a wrong step sends her to the hospital with a broken leg.Afraid she is going to miss out on the race crowds, Poppy quickly hires a temporary assistant. Everythi...

The president is coming to Dallas, and history is set to repeat itself.Michael Roberts has dedicated his entire adult life to the Secret Service. His actions are governed by what he can see and know to be true. Moving forward on speculation can be deadly. Then he is assigned the task of interviewing a witness who purports to have information about someone trying to harm the president.A six-year-old who is said to be able to read people's auras...

You matter.With gentle prompts for young writers, this journal explores our relationships with others. Alike or different, friends or strangers, everyone matters.

Just stay alive for the first 120 hours and then you've got it made. Showered with debris and body parts as the row of soldiers in front of him on his transport plane is taken out by a rocket, Lt. Danny Hellberg wonders if following his flight instructor's advice for Danny's tour in Vietnam is going to be harder than he thought. Things look up after arrival at the base and the officer's club, then an invitation to the hottest nightspot in Saig...

Your story matters.That is the simple lesson learned by Dragon Stewart and his friends at Piney Woods Middle School. With gentle prompts for young writers, this journal explores what makes you, you. From thoughts about your name to books you like to foods you don't-tell your story one page at a time.

Rain Wooten is just a normal teenager living in a quiet suburb and hunting down terrorists.Since childhood, she's been helping her dad fight the Enemies of America. His FBI assignments are so top secret that other parts of the FBI don't even know he exists. Rain helps out by living the monastic life of a computer hacker, scamming money to support underground FBI operations, hunting down extremists online, and keeping America safe 24/7.The one ...

Thrust into the spotlight following their plane crash and discovery of ancient artifacts, Josh and Alex are enlisted to help a local archaeology professor locate and protect the site. Unfortunately, Dr. Maggie and her team are not the only ones interested, a team of thieves threatens the project - and the lives of the entire crew. As the danger escalates, the pair need help from Mickey, Moose, and a mysterious stranger to save them as they Ret...

Turning thirteen can be difficult - especially when a time-traveling thief steals your necklace, and a brewing temporal conflict turns your birthday party into a mission to save the universe.As Hannah and her friends chase the thief across time and space, they learn her necklace is more than a pretty piece of jewelry. Only one person can control the powerful pendant, and they must find them before the entire universe is wiped from history.Myth...

Grab an Ameripass for one low fare and 'ride the Dog' across America with author Paula Coomer for a gritty, unflinching journey through some of the country's most poignant and vulnerable moments: War. Racism. Women's rights. The Sexual Revolution and more.Stop off here and there at various crossroads, viewed through the eyes of Mercy Grace Hadley, Chipper Grube, Marlette Peel, Charlotte Dodge, and a cast of others, a community of loosely conne...

Immortality's a bitch.Veronica is eternally fifty-one years old with a proclivity for problematic drinking. Like most hormonally challenged women negotiating the change of life, she is a hot mess. To retain her sanity, she attends weekly AA meetings and adheres to a strict diet of organic, locally-sourced, (mostly) cruelty-free human blood from the hospice facility where she works. Her life stopped being fun about a hundred years ago, right ab...