Adult

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.

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. 

Once a powerful, cold-blooded politician in Costa Rica, Seth Oreamundo is now living in exile in DC and his younger brother, Osario, is to blame. Born into a corrupt political dynasty, the Oreamundo brothers were destined for greatness. But a dark family secret and a scandalous double crossing sent their lives into a tailspin. Osario must pay and Seth decides the only way to do so is to return home to Costa Rica and feed his brother to the infamous river of crocodiles. What follows is a spellbinding story of revenge alternating between Seth's murderous plans and memories of the brothers' upbringing.

Anna never imagined herself living in a place like Harper’s Creek. It’s supposed to be a new start for her and her family, but Anna feels stuck in place: watching her little sister grow up and taking care of her grandmother with dementia, whose paranoid episodes have started to unnerve her. The only interesting thing about her new town is the string of grisly murders attributed to a killer called the Farmhandman. Along with Melissa and Todd, Anna fills her hours with the town’s darkest curiosity. Tension is building and house is becoming more claustrophobic by the day and her grandmother is growing stranger. Anna begins to wonder if her delusional moments are somehow the key to discovering the truth about the murders.

Twenty-five years ago in Washington, Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead. Barb and Nicolette were shocked to learn that the man they all met at Wonderland was the Carnival Killer. After he's arrested for the murders of five young women --- one of whom was their best friend, Lorelei --- Nicolette moved to the city to pursue her dreams of being famous. Barb stayed behind, eventually becoming a reporter for the local paper. Their past safely behind them, they’ve both moved on with their lives. But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession and a new body washes ashore on the eve of Wonderland’s grand reopening, the secrets that Barb and Nicolette have worked so hard to bury begin to resurface, threatening to destroy everything.

The movie star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M’s life in the hope of understanding who she really is. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths --- about the very experience of living --- might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture?

Jesuit priest Avelyn was born into a mining family in Hreodwater. At age 16, he fled, abandoning his faith in the god that killed his whole family. When a fellow priest is miraculously healed only to then be turned to salt after a visit to Hreodwater, Avelyn is sent by the Vatican to investigate. But Jericho tells him that the priest is not the only one experiencing strange cures. Avelyn and Jericho team up to protect the world from the salt light --- but they may already be too late: strange happenings are occurring at mines all around the world. As salt light spreads, devastating cities around the world, Avelyn must decide what and who to believe-and whether his faith is strong enough to withstand an apocalypse.

Dante, Piglet, Miguel and Hugo are your average students trying to make ends meet with part-time jobs, excited about the bright futures at their fingertips. So when their rent skyrockets, they struggle to keep their new lives and big dreams afloat. They need to make money however they can. In order to keep their apartment, the friends adopt an unorthodox plan and are soon sucked into a dark world of secret dinner parties catering to the twisted fantasies of Rio’s elite. What starts as a joke quickly spirals out of their control. As the four friends fall deeper into this dark underworld and earn more money, the stakes get higher and the consequences deadlier, revealing the devious depths that lurk within each of them and threatening not only their friendship but also their lives.

Girls are being murdered, blowing a strange energy into the city, and all signs point to fire season. More pressing for Anya Morris is working part time at the family store and contending with her mother's disdain for the acting career. Anya receives an invitation to work for the de Witt family, one of LA’s most influential film dynasties. Soon, she meets Jude, a recluse who is both the family’s heir apparent and its most closely guarded secret. There’s a magnetism to Jude that Anya cannot resist, despite warning signs that scream like sirens in the night. Because the villa holds generations of bloodstained history, and an occult family curse may even live within its walls --- or within Jude himself. SCIn this city, everyone cuts a deal with the devil. When Anya comes face to face with a devil of her own, she’ll learn just how far she’s willing to go to get everything she’s ever wanted.

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.