fiction

Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets; no one ever does; but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move; until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead of appreciation, she is met with fury. The drowning woman, Hazel, tells her that she wanted to die, that she's trapped in a toxic, abusive marriage, that she's a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life. Out of options, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage, and Lee thinks she's seen the last of her, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And then one day, Hazel makes a shocking request: she wants Lee to help her disappear. It'll be easy, Hazel assures her, but Lee soon learns that nothing is as it seems, and that Hazel may not be the friend Lee thought she was.

Cassandra Tipp is dead; or is she? After all, the notorious recluse and eccentric bestselling novelist has always been prone to flights of fancy; everyone in town remembers the shocking events leading up to Cassie's infamous trial (she may have been acquitted, but the insanity defense only stretches so far). Cassandra Tipp has left behind no body; just her massive fortune, and one final manuscript. Then again, there are enough bodies in her past; her husband Tommy Tipp, whose mysterious disembowelment has never been solved, and a few years later, the shocking murder-suicide of her father and brother. Cassandra Tipp will tell you a story; but it will come with a terrible price. What really happened, out there in the woods; and who has Cassie been protecting all along?.

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. William won't want them there, and terrible things happen when William is angry. But the creature in the woods is angry, too.

A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and lies.

When seven murder victims are found in a small town, the homicide investigation shakes a small-town sheriff to her core.

Four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge.

A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she?s a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder in the suburbs, told from a dozen different points of view. All the neighbors on the block have an opinion about the murder and how it happened, but which of them is telling the truth?.

One man is hiding in the attic at a house that belongs to a woman. He has been following her every moment by going through cameras and going through her stuff when she?s at work. Now he?s decided that he will be her Master.