Anna Victoria Alcott is on the verge of having it all. After years of struggling as a working actress, she’s gaining both critical and popular acclaim for her latest movie role, one that’s rumored to be in contention for Oscar consideration. She’s also blissfully happy with her tech entrepreneur husband Dex. The only fly in…

Australian reporter Charlotte “Charlie” James didn’t exactly lie to land her plum job as correspondent for the British-based newspaper The Times in 1938 Paris. After all, no one asked her if she was a woman. It certainly isn’t her fault that her new boss assumed from her byline that she’d be a man. To George…

After Trent Saban is laid off from his job, he and his family decide to move to a new home, the first – and thus cheapest – one built in the Dunsany Estates subdivision. Trent, his wife Rita and their son Milo are unimpressed by the dusty exterior, but the house itself proves to be…

Cafe owner Lila Macapagal is looking forward to welcoming spring with the annual Big Spring Clean event in her hometown of Shady Palms, Illinois. For an entire month, local businesses, including her Brew-ha Café, will be offering discounts to welcome warmer weather and, hopefully, customers new and old. Her own trio of godmothers—Ninang April, Ninang…

A Cold Highland Wind by Tasha Alexander In this new installment of Tasha Alexander’s acclaimed Lady Emily series set in the wild Scottish highlands, an ancient story of witchcraft may hold the key to solving a murder centuries later. The Intern by Michele Campbell A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a…

When Rowan McNamara’s abusive fiance Ethan throws her through a plate glass window, it’s the impetus she needs to finally leave him. Though he’s arrested for this latest act of battery, she knows that physical distance is key for her recovery, both physically and emotionally. This is no small task, as he’s not the kind…

Some of the most unforgettable characters in literature are outsiders. Think of Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.  In law enforcement, there’s no outsider greater than the bounty hunter. Unlike a sheriff or a cop, the bounty hunter is not elected…

Meghan was the gorgeous, popular eldest daughter of the Chisholm family, a carbon copy of her doting mother Maureen. When she drowned after a bonfire party during her senior year of high school, her family was devastated. Worse still was the fact that her death wasn’t accidental. Someone had hit her on the head and…

One Smoke tinges the world white. It swallows the spired treetops and narrows the canyon ahead. It erases altogether the majestic gray faces of the Obsidians, shrouds the valley, slips up the ravines. Emlyn stands midstream, the river lulling at her thighs, pressing her waders tight. A shadow overhead, a flash of dark. In a…

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage This book kept me up at night—that’s right, I was completely terrified by the story of a little girl who wants more than anything to live alone with her father. And that means getting rid of her mother. Told from the points of view of both mother and child, you…