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For fans of Louise Penny and Robert Dugoni, Illusionist is a contemporary crime thriller where PI McPherson must choose between killing an author at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest or letting a college student die.When an illusionist joins the Pines & Quill writing retreat, one of the owners vanishes without a trace in the middle of everyone, but the surrounding would-be witnesses don’t see or hear a thing. That’s when crime boss Georgio Gambino makes a checkmate move against his nemesis, Sean McPherson. He forces a writer in residence to kill another writer and frame McPherson. In a video call, Gambino warns the writer, “If you don’t follow orders, your daughter will die.” Then, he pans the camera to prove access to her college dorm room.McPherson discovers that Carmine Fiore, Gambino’s second in command, covets his boss' role and is staging a coup. As Gambino’s soldiers traffic drugs, weapons, and humans, Fiore plants incriminating evidence against the notorious Sureños gang. Can McPherson leverage that knowledge for a temporary truce and the gang’s help?The writers in residence—a former NASCAR driver, a professional triathlete, an architect turned house flipper, and a world-renowned magician who may not be who she appears to be—band together with McPherson to create the illusion of a lifetime.

Electric with compelling action and trenchant social commentary and perfect for fans of Nikki Erlick’s The Measure, this genre-straddling work of speculative fiction examines ageism from a new and challenging perspective."Lifers is a fast-paced, cautionary tale about the human quest for longevity that shocks and captivates as it unveils the realities of mortality, ageism, and the power of loyalty and love."—Ann Hagedorn, author of Sleeper Agent and Beyond the RiverIn the year 2050, the man known as Zinn is on the run from the consequences of his greatest creation: an artificial genome that wildly increases the human lifespan. His “Methuselah gene” has gone viral, and he’s being hunted by Adele, a semi-retired CIA biowarfare specialist who hopes to find a way to reverse the genome’s effects before it’s too late. As the longevity plague spreads, populations explode, economies are upended, and intergenerational resentments boil over. Adele searches for a cure while her former lover, Dan Altman, and his wife, Marion, wealthy political operatives both, become leaders of a movement of hundred-plus-year-old “lifers” and fight to create a sanctuary for the ultra-aged in the wilds of Colorado. Meanwhile, the Altmans’ son, Nolan, thinks he has the answer to the longevity crisis: a suicide pill that kills after one year, a death wish algorithm that will influence the super-aged to take it, and his beautiful daughter, Claire, who is a spokesperson for the growing anti-lifer backlash and the head of the federal government’s new Department for Longevity Management. Combining a hugely topical premise with a vein of social-political satire, Lifers evokes a world where society’s ingrained ageism turns lethal and the fear of death is replaced by the challenge of living on . . . and on.

The suicide of a woman being treated for depression initiates a cascade of events leading to a rash of unexplained deaths. When FDA epidemiologist Carrie Hediger inadvertently uncovers these deaths, she¿s left with pressing questions: Are these deaths connected? What do they have in common? Are more deaths to come? Carrie and her team buck the system to find the answer.

In this bicoastal and razor-sharp look at women in the workplace and the true meaning of success, earnest female journalist Jamie Roman squares off against Anna Bright, the enigmatic founder of a multibillion-dollar company who is committing fraud-and who will do whatever it takes to protect her secrets.

Shane and Chloe are polar opposites-politically, socially, economically?each with massive online followings. They are also in love. When Shane is arrested as the anonymous leader of an online conspiracy and Chloe is abducted by his followers to use as a bargaining chip, they both begin to question what they believe in?and whether saving their star-crossed relationship, or even themselves, is possible.

Inspired by the temporary shuttering of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, City of Books charmingly explores a bibliophile's fantasy: moving into a bookstore to stop it from closing.

Seventeen-year-old Lyra Harmon's parents just contracted Hecate's Plague-the world's deadliest disease?and have only three days to live. Unless Lyra, the only person immune to the disease, can save them. But who can she trust?and how far is she willing to go?

Neuroscience PhD student Frankie Conner sets out to discover a cure for her depression. Instead, she finds herself being mentored by a mysterious group of talking animals with ties to her forgotten past-an experience that, gradually and sometimes painfully, reveals to her the magic that's possible when you stop trying to grow out of your imperfections and start learning to grow into them.

Twentysomething Abigail Gardner has experienced her share of tragedy, so when she gets a teaching job at one of Philadelphia's most prestigious prep schools and everything in her down-in-the-dumps life starts to turn around, she thinks she's finally getting the happy ending she's yearned for. But is "happily ever after" really possible?

When a human trafficking ring kidnaps PI Sean "Mick" McPherson's pregnant wife, he learns the lines he'll cross. Because when a person has it all, they have everything to lose.

In this coming-of-age story about the cycle of life in and out of the garden, Bella Fontaine comes to understand as a young woman trying to make her way in the world, that when it's time to leave home, it's time-whether you feel ready or not.

Fourteen-year-old Naya's artist family can secretly see time, but she wants to be a doctor. To win her dream she has to rise to Grandmother's challenge-but someone who's after their secrets is rigging events and getting in her way. Good thing she's too smart to get caught. Right?

In the democratic nation of California, Darah discovers the game she's working on in a Silicon Valley tech company has been tampered with and turns to a hacker friend, Jedd, for help. The mind-control plot Jedd and his friends soon uncover is a bigger threat than he or Darah imagined—but are they willing to risk everything to prevent it from going forward?

A fun, colorful, and accessible story about a young girl named Mabel who gets her first bank account and watches her money grow, this book is a fantastic resource for parents who want to teach their kids aged four to eight about the value in budgeting, saving, and managing money!

Now that Kyra Valorian and Sebastian Sayre have remembered their pasts as the former Felserpent Queen and King, they are ready to reunite the realms and bring peace between Astrals and Daevals. Unfortunately, their arch-enemy, Tallus, has also returned, determined to stop them. Can they outwit him, or will those with silver and gold blood be divided forever?

When Rick and Maizie's home is invaded and their three-month-old daughter is kidnapped-possibly by a wealthy, well-connected man with a good reason to want to take revenge on Rick-they call on Maizie's long-deceased grandmother, Fannie, to help them from beyond the grave, setting in motion a search that takes them all the way from the US to Dubai and back again.

In this suspense thriller, identical twin sisters Anjali Murphy and Riah Arora are reunited in their thirties after being separated at birth, only to find themselves caught up in a deadly con game that tests the fine line between sisterly loyalty and rivalry. One sister wants the money; the other wants to be free. Which one will win?

After learning that she inhabits a world where mirrors are portals to another dimension in which an ancient evil lurks, infecting us through our reflections, eighteen-year-old Alice, along with her three best friends, must battle gods and demons to protect mankind—and save her true love¿s soul.

After enduring a violent, abusive upbringing in 1970s Greensboro, North Carolina, two brothers end up on wildly dichotomous journeys-one a driven CEO, the other a homeless wanderer-yet ultimately, both must find the courage to leave the pain of the past behind and move away from judgment to love.

When Dani--one of many civilians living on the fringes to evade a war that's been raging between a faction of aliens and the remnants of Earth's military for decades--discovers that she's not human, her life is upended, and she's drawn into the very battle she's spent her whole life avoiding. avoiding.

Fortysomething Sam Hughes is at a crossroads-disillusioned professionally, stretched financially, strained in family life. As he teeters toward midlife crisis, a return to his midwestern roots and fortunate mishap give his start-up career one more chance?but also force him to choose between massive entrepreneurial success and his morals, friends, and family.

A coming-of-age YA novel about the daughter of a Pacific Northwest fisherman, whose presumed drowning in 1967 has her searching for answers, including whether or not he's really dead.

In this trio of novellas set in WWI-era London and post-WWI Weimar, Paris, and Prague, three women are cursed with confronting unbearable personal crises over and above the stress of war and its aftermath—and decide for themselves where the line between right and wrong truly lies.