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Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres, when the Great Recession hits. After months of unemployment, her husband, Fish, takes a job with an oil and gas company, a decision that threatens their once happy marriage and alienates their teenage daughter, Ozzie. As the wider community organizes against a billionaire outsider who is buying farmland and, more worryingly, water rights in the moisture-starved county, Maggie’s grandmother, Flora, grapples with the painful echoes of her own past. Flora and Ozzie’s already close bond deepens as they join a local activist group, but Fish and Maggie’s conflicting approaches to surviving circumstances that are out of their control drive them further apart. Faced with intolerable layers of loss, each member of the family is forced to consider what they are willing to compromise and what they are, or are not, able to forgive.

A writer in her 30s struggling to make rent, Mary has moved back to her childhood town to bartend and save money, when she starts remembering absurd events, clear and visceral as if they’d really happened to her. But she knows they’re too wild to be possible. Flashing back to her school years, she searches the past for what could have caused this split in her reality. The lives of their close group of school friends have since diverged, as life choices and politics, partners and children, have taken them to different places and placed them into other stories. But Mary must reconnect with them to find solid ground again.

A murder at a crime writers' conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious --- but can the detective who was first on the scene puzzle out what needs reading between the lines? A brilliant sleuth, obsessed with Sherlock Holmes’s mysteries, turns his attention to a serial killer stalking the streets of New York City. A mysterious woman has gone into hiding and Colter Shaw is tasked with bringing her to a safe house. But the race toward safety takes on a whole new meaning. A serial killer with a motive never before seen in the history of crime challenges Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs to rethink everything they know about the nature of evil. No stranger to the cat-and-mouse chase or our favorite twists and turns, Jeffery Deaver brings his chops to DECEPTIONS, where every story unearths trickery and the truths that lie buried deep under.

Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home --- to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him, it might be there. Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. Along the way, he encounters other animals and humans who are attempting to figure out how to start again. What makes a life when there is no home to go back to? How do we begin to trust each other again after such profound loss?

War beckons in the kingdom of Talin. On one side sits Calla Tuoleimi and Anton Makusa, and on the other, the recently dethroned August Shenzhi and Calla's own predecessor Sinoa Tuoleimi. Calla assumed victory would be easy. Then the provinces start to whisper of the old gods returning to earth, and suddenly the game board is flipped upside-down. Anton thought he aligned himself with victory. But he fears Calla is no longer herself with the crown. Rather, he fears that Calla is returning to who she once was. August would sacrifice anything for victory. He has waited his entire life for the throne, and surrender is not an option. In the face of age-old immortals challenging his terrain and the possibility of betrayal from his closest and most cherished guard, he must be careful who he trusts.

Unnur has secrets. A single mother to a beloved daughter, she lives a quiet life working at a bakery. She has spent years pushing away haunting half-remembrances of the last summer of her childhood, when her otherworldly friend, Freyja, disappeared from a black-sand beach in the remote Dark Valley. Unnur’s safety --- and her daughter’s --- now hinges on discretion. Yet when her ex-husband returns to Iceland and brings with him a new girlfriend who seems to know more about Unnur than she’s letting on, Unnur may finally have to face the chilling possibility that she is responsible for her friend’s presumed death. As a cold case investigation reopens and the intricate threads of past and present begin to tangle, Unnur must race to recover the broken memory of what happened all those years ago or risk losing her daughter. 

Tired of the daily drama in his emergency room, Dr. Langdon Blaque is in search of a place where he can leave the world behind. He loves his job, but he wants peace and quiet. His wife Josephine, a lawyer, prefers the city. Still, she agrees to move with the caveat that they stay for a year and reassess. The tight-knit, predominantly white group of neighbors in Majestic Hills initially welcomes them with open arms. But beneath the veneer of privileged harmony, tensions simmer. When a horrifying crime rocks the community, the illusion of safety is shattered, and Josephine and Langdon find themselves at the heart of a brewing storm that pits neighbor against neighbor. As their experiment in suburban living ticks toward the one-year mark, the Blaques are pushed to a breaking point. Can they find a way to make a home in Majestic Hills?

Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while Odette’s older sisters are content to be wives and mothers, Odette has always wanted something else. It is only with her beloved cousin, Delphine, that Odette can tell her secret: she is in love with a woman and she longs to be an artist. Delphine has a secret lover, too, a white man. In the hidden garden they’ve discovered, Odette and Delphine can dream of futures full of passion and freedom. But five years later, Odette's life is nothing like what she'd planned. She's a widowed mother, living in Los Angeles, and she and Delphine, who is passing as white, have spiraled away from each other. When Delphine reaches a breaking point, Odette must make a shattering choice to try to hold her family together.

Björn Diemel, once an overworked defense lawyer for very nasty organized criminals, has mastered the principles of mindfulness, and he only had to kill a couple of people to pull it off. Now, running his own practice, spending more time with his daughter and arguing less with his wife, he should be sitting pretty, but he keeps losing his cool --- with deadly results. Why can’t Björn just enjoy his new mindful life? Does it have something to do with the mafia boss he has locked up in the basement of his daughter’s preschool? Or is his wounded inner child to blame? Over the course of one outrageous week, Björn and his inner child confront overzealous helicopter moms, hypocritical startup bros and mysterious blackmailers as they race to solve all their problems at once before the criminal empire Björn has built for himself comes crumbling down.

When Patrick is invited by his girlfriend to join her and her family on a luxury holiday, he has no idea that he is about to be plunged into a nightmare and a plot to murder the patriarch’s younger fiancée. Arriving at the house, Patrick meets Holly’s dad, along with her brother Lewis and older sister Miranda. Also on the trip is the widowed father’s bride-to-be, Jasmine, who is around the same age as the three siblings. To make things worse, Jasmine is an almost exact doppelganger of their mother before she got sick and died. Patrick finds himself in the middle of this viper’s nest, trying to keep out of the family crosshairs. He starts to suspect that Lewis has dark plans for Jasmine --- putting himself in peril as a potential witness who could mess up his scheme. 

After securing a teaching job at a dysfunctional high school, loner Robin moves to South Bend, Indiana, where she’s paired with an eerily perfect roommate, Naomi. Freshly estranged from her abusive parents, Robin obsesses over two goals: to be the best teacher at the school, despite never having taught, and to become best friends with Naomi. Meanwhile back home, Robin’s brother must decide between being loyal to his sister or their parents. Just as Robin grows closer to her students and Naomi, she receives earth-shattering news from her brother. Desperate to cope, Robin redoubles her efforts to befriend Naomi, spiraling even deeper into obsession and self-sabotage. Everything comes to a head when one of Robin’s many bad choices comes back to bite her.

It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush and booming with newcomers. For 17-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident. Leonard's mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives. When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.

Val and Milly fell in love with France at the same time they fell in love with each other and became immediate best friends. Now they are in their 30s, each married and with a baby girl on the way. When Milly suggests Val move to New York so they can raise their daughters together after a decade apart, it’s a resounding yes. Despite their excitement, the pair secretly wonders if their friendship has always worked best as a trio. On that first trip to France, these two motherless daughters were taken under the wing of an older woman named Helene. But now, without Helene and her guidance, who are Milly and Val? The realities of class and social capital, of strained marriages and the demands of motherhood, serve as constant reminders of how far apart they’ve grown. And no matter how much they try to avoid it, everything comes back to the rift that began all those years ago in France.

It is the first Thursday in August when Mira drives a golf ball from her tee toward the practice net and the ball slams into Kenny. He’s dead before the ambulance even arrives. In the wake of this terrible accident Mira looks for comfort in all the wrong places: In her lover, in her mother, in the dead caddy’s little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. But when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira’s history of recklessness, and when Kenny’s father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once-promising young woman.

He was curious. It was the cop in him. That flame was still alive. The neon “Strange Investigations” sign may be flickering in disrepair outside his office, but private investigator Derek Strange is still accepting new cases. When a flashy drug lawyer hires him to prove an alibi for an accused murderer, Strange can’t help getting drawn into the darkness. In his hunt for answers, he stands his ground against some of Washington, D.C.’s most dangerous criminals, and a police department that doesn’t entirely welcome his interference. As the violence escalates and claims another victim, the raised stakes force Strange to question his own moves. Are his instincts still intact? 

When nobleman Thomas Boleyn is called to London in 1509, he sets in train events that ensure the Boleyn name will never be forgotten. His daughters Mary and Anne were young then, and he could not imagine what would transpire in the two decades to come. Blending the history she knows so well with the creativity of her imagination, Tracy Borman brings the Boleyn family’s three-decade rise and precipitous fall to vivid life. Anne’s ever-loyal attendant Esther Frideswide and Thomas Boleyn’s perfidious steward Robert Cranwell are as memorable as Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, or anyone in the increasingly dangerous orbit of the royal court. Henry VIII pursues Anne relentlessly, showering her with gifts as the Boleyns are catapulted to political prominence. But when she can’t give him the son and heir he desperately seeks, the family faces a terrible and bloody fate.

Katherine Fuller’s husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus --- governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire --- he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it. Life under the Eternal Father is rigidly stratified, surveilled and controlled --- each new day to be endured, not lived. But with Katherine’s newfound fortune, she is presented with a rare and dangerous opportunity: purchase a virgin world and create a better, fairer society. But the Empire cannot allow its wayward daughter to succeed. And as Katherine works in secret, recruiting allies she's not even sure she can trust, she will discover exactly how far Pater Aeternus is willing to go to stop her. Because Katherine is going to create something nobody has seen for many years. A democracy.

When 26-year-old Daisy wakes up next to James Stanley, she can’t believe what she’s done. She slept with James. The most boorish boy she knows. But there isn’t decent, single man to be found in London. At least, that’s what Daisy and her best friend Maya think. Fed up with the dating scene, Daisy and Maya decide to take matters into their own hands with “The Project.” Their goal? To build the perfect match out of some of the most lackluster, raw material. And who better to start with than their embarrassingly uncivilized (yet frustratingly attractive) friend, James? Embarking on a series of social and cultural lessons --- from art exhibitions to feminist book clubs, designer clothing stores to house parties --- Daisy and Maya chaperone James on a journey of discovery. But which of them will change more?

Sisters Vivi and Calla Nguyễn have little in common. Vivi lives a predictable life, working as an art conservator at a museum, carefully preserving pieces of the past while refusing to examine her own dark history. Calla leads a much bolder existence. She’s an accomplished artist with a flair for the dramatic, as well as a recovering addict, who intrigues everyone she meets. Months after the two fall out in the wake of their father’s death, Calla appears on the steps of the museum with a sketch and a letter she found in their father’s belongings. The sketch is an exact copy of Blue Mirror, a striking painting by Vietnamese artist K.P. Lý. In the letter, Lý writes about a mysterious lost work of art, and Calla is convinced it is meant for their family --- that it was their father’s deathbed wish for her and Vivi to find it together.

Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon. Because New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums --- until they all vanished in 1926. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural. Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again. As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.

Annie MacLeod grew up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, swimming with sea creatures alongside her parents and best friend Evan. After a tsunami, she rescues a wordless man named Walker who emits a hum only she can hear. Their connection is electric. Walker’s touch gives Annie visions of the ocean’s hidden world, a life she’s never known but feels inexplicably drawn to --- yet Evan, the steadfast love who has always been there, remains on dry land. Annie is torn between Evan’s grounding presence and Walker’s magnetic secrets. But then Walker vanishes. Six years later, Annie has buried the past --- until Walker’s otherworldly sound returns, pulling her back toward the ocean. The truth under the water is more ancient than she ever could have known, and Annie must confront a choice that will test her heart and determine her future.

In 1964, four remarkable young women became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from history. Decades later, Riley accepts a caretaker job for an elderly widow named Betty. Riley steps into a home that is frozen in another era --- no microwave, television or cell phones, and Betty has never heard of the internet. Why has Betty lived in such profound isolation for so many years and why does she need Riley now? As the story unfolds across two timelines, old secrets rise to the surface. And the only way to survive is to confront the mystery that has lingered for 60 years.

Tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank has perfected commercial time travel, though it’s so expensive that it’s open only to the very wealthiest. His company has been approved for one route: a journey back to London in 1941, to the days of the Blitz, allowing the super-rich to experience the aerial bombardment of the capital during World War II. To immortalize his achievement, Frank enlists filmmaker Phoebe Hunt to create a fly-on-the-wall documentary. On her first day shadowing Frank, she is set to witness the return of a billionaire and his family from their trip to the past. But instead of an awe-filled return, she captures the group arriving bloodied and traumatized, with one of their number missing. Phoebe recognizes the missing woman, knowing she’s not who she claims to be. It seems increasingly clear that she had sinister motives for returning to the past --- and that people close to Phoebe are in danger.

Raquel and Theo Collins met and married in a matter of months, only to confront a terrible tragedy. Now, they’ve come to a remote town in New Hampshire to begin anew. Perched on a ledge with stunning views, the Dixon’s family lodge was once a crown jewel of the mountains. Until late one August night, when both parents and their four children vanished, leaving a mystery that has endured for 30 years. Now, the Collinses are arriving. For the recently appointed Shereford police chief, it’s good to see a fresh start for the derelict Dixon place. However, not everyone is happy about a new family in the old home. When a stray dog leads to the discovery of a skeleton on the property, the local residents, the new neighbors and the fledgling police chief must work together to unravel the terrifying events that happened one night 30 years ago.

A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A TENDER AGE joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns 11, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family.