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On an autumn day in 1890, eighteen-year-old Alice Butler and her sister Nora step out the massive doors of the Union Depot in Denver and into their new life, far from their home in Ireland. Call it what you may—coincidence, chance, or tragic fate—the same train has deposited two other young Irish immigrants at the foot of the Rockies that day:...

Some things are better left buried.

In Hanoi for a quiet season abroad, an American academic is pulled into a dying man’s search for a jade statue lost in the jungle decades earlier. What begins as a favor becomes a journey through secrets, memory, and the shadows of war.

In the tradition of Graham Greene, Souvenir is a taut, atmospheric novel of...

New to California, the Severn kids trust their mother to keep her promise: as soon as they find Papa they’ll go back to Oklahoma and reclaim their home from the dust. But their faith begins to falter when their search leads them to the small town of Confluence. Instead of finding Papa there, Mama discovers his best friend from back home, Bill...

Amy Wilson believed in doing the right thing. That was her first mistake.

When she votes for pandemic safety measures as a member of her local school board, she unleashes a campaign of terror against her. Vandalism escalates to stalking. Anonymous threats become physical attacks. The mysterious figures behind it all seem to know her every move—...

It’s been twenty years since the Sidemen broke up, and there’s no chance of getting the band back together. Which is just fine with Phil Swann. So, when his old drummer, Freddy, asks him to meet his new band Second Chances, Phil has no reason to suspect his world is about to be turned upside down.
Blown away by singer Shannon McKenzie’s voice,...

A workplace romantic comedy packed with banter, opposites-attract chemistry, and one disastrous event after another.

Ryan Porter lives by spreadsheets and algorithms. Sofie Chen’s superpower is social and emotional intelligence. When their New York event-planning firm puts them on the same team, she translates his data-driven world into human...

Captured by the Nazis, Mike Mills was forced to make a decision between his own life and the lives of the other GIs in Stalag 12-A. Twelve years after the war, his choice still haunts him.

Now a government lawyer, Mills is in Little Rock to help nine Black students integrate Central High. President Eisenhower has sent in the 101st Airborne to...

An isolated valley in a remote western region of Wyoming Territory, far from the reach of law and government, holds a simmering confrontation between pioneer ranchers. Into this cauldron drifts Paul Belmont, an Eastern lawyer with a troubled conscience. Torn between the impulse to help and the wish to get the hell out of there, Belmont is drawn...

Midnight in Port au Prince. The consul’s wife is found dead, shot through the heart, while nearby, on the grounds of an elite club, a young tennis pro buries a bloodied shirt.

The consul claims the bullet that killed his wife was meant for him, and it’s up to security agent Dolores “Dolly” Weill to get him to safety in the U.S. embassy. Dolly’s...

Hallie Bancroft’s 42-year-old life is in shambles. The universe has been dishing out lemons to her at mach speed: laid off from her job as a theater-set designer, abandoned by her boyfriend, and saddled with an apartment she can no longer afford.

When her best friend intervenes, Hallie finds herself with five others in a Cape Cod mansion so...

Leading a team of typical embassy know-it-all’s, Dolores “Dolly” Weill is busy assessing security in Mauritania’s desert when she trips over bodies buried in the sand.

African farmers are being killed by gangs of white Maurs, and Dolly wants to find out who’s orchestrating the attacks. But her boss at the embassy wants her back in the capital....