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Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood. They’re her secrets—as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills. In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds.

Basil Masters has it all—a booming aviation software company, great friends, and a sweet, supportive girlfriend, Summer. He's ready to propose, convinced life is chef's kiss perfect. Summer, however, is not convinced. For two years, she's smiled through Basil's friends (especially his female best friend), tearing her down, brushed off their condescending jokes, and tried—really tried—to make him see the problem.

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.  

A Spicy AMBW, Forbidden Single Dad Romance What happens when a professional sex worker falls for a handsome congressman? Nola and David’s arrangement has rules: one night a month and no attachments. But every session, every lingering glance, sparks a forbidden attraction neither can resist, pulling them into a world of secrecy, temptation, and burning passion. As desire threatens to turn into love, Nola must decide whether to risk it all and follow her heart, or walk away before their connection destroys his career, and both of their lives. This novella is a part of the "Single Dads" ...

A collection of science fiction stories including Mission to Centauri B, a first contact story, Timekeepers, Gray's World, Carbon Footprint, Telescopevision, and Day in Court.

It’s Christmas Eve, and Maisie is convinced her boyfriend, Lucas, is totally going to propose. The cookies are baked, the mood is set, and her ring finger is perfectly poised. But when a confused elderly woman wanders into their home and claims it as her own, the couple’s plans are quickly thwarted.

A storm is coming to the Mojave Desert—and something in it is watching. Late at night on a desolate stretch of Interstate 15, travelers pass through the darkness without knowing what moves along the roadside. When a lone hitchhiker appears in the middle of a violent desert storm, the encounter seems like chance. But on this highway, chance has very little to do with what happens next. Hank has spent his life drifting from one bad decision to another, leaving destruction in his wake.

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: Introduction (Stephen King) Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg) Crouch End (Tim Curry) Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)...

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...

Eleven further cases. Not all of them end well. A Welsh slate quarry conceals a death that was never meant to be found. A man sits on the same park bench every Wednesday at precisely eleven o'clock, and no one can say why. A widow in Camberwell insists her optician brother was murdered, though the police see nothing to investigate. Five elderly gentlemen arrive at Baker Street together, furious about a card game that took place forty years ago. From a flooded Thames foreshore to the kennels of Highgate, from a cemetery stakeout in the rain to a cuneiform tablet that has waited twenty-five ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, PEOPLE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE “Groff is one of this country’s most successful and versatile literary figures.”—New York Times “Required reading.”—Los...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

Decades after starring in the film adaptation, Wil Wheaton narrates an all-new recording of the story that shaped a generation! 'A heartfelt classic, well delivered' KIRKUS The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally...

FBI agent Elliot Reeves is used to protecting people—but protection turns personal when a dangerous criminal begins stalking local cam stars. Elliot’s son’s best friend Bode is on the list steps in, and Elliot will do anything to keep the beautiful college student safe. But protection quickly turns possessive, and the lines between guardian and lover blur in ways neither man can resist. Alone in the world, Bode craves the safety, comfort, and surrender that Elliot provides. He’s desperate to be used, owned, and loved by the one man he should never want. For Elliot, control is ...

The first book in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover series, The Planet Savers introduces listeners to the world of Darkover. Darkover is plagued with a disease called trailman’s fever, but Dr. Randall Forth has a plan. He sends a man with two distinct and warring personalities, Jay and Jason, out on an expedition to find a cure.

“The pages practically turn themselves” (USA TODAY) in this collection of four “disturbing, fascinating” (The Washington Post) novellas centered around the theme of retribution from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “1922” (also a Netflix original film): A...

A chilling collection of uniquely disturbing short stories and terrifying nightmares. Five stories. Five escalating nightmares that push past “scary” and into something far more intense. The kind of horror that makes readers pause mid-page, swallow hard, and decide whether they really want to keep going. Extreme body horror meets psychological dread. Cosmic horror collides with intimate terror. Every story escalates beyond comfort into infestation, transformation, and the sick realization that the worst part isn’t the monster… …it’s how your own body might respond. You’ve been...

In this short fantasy tale, a clueless, bombastic, and loving father moves his family to another country so that his brilliant younger daughter can attend a magical academy. He knows his elder daughter is unhappy with the move, but he doesn’t realize that her talent for sewing is not as ordinary as he imagines.