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Spontaneous combustion occurs when Bill, a forty-year-old barista and a failed poet, meets James, a disabled factory worker and a daddy hunk, at an OctoBear Dance.

For six months they share weekends of incredible passion at James’s house up north in the country. Winter has never seemed hotter in their flannel sheets. But on the first day of spring James abruptly informs Bill over the phone that it’s not going to work out and hangs up. No further explanation: just the static of silence.

Feeling haunted like Djuna Barnes while she wrote her novel Nightwood in the 1930s, Bill searches for answers in his recollections of James and others who’d departed too early from his life. When he does discover why James left, the answer comes from a mysterious stranger with secrets of his own.

Dreams Like Thunder takes place on a small Eastern Oregon farm between Baker and Hells Canyon. The story is set over a couple of days in 1959, but part of the family seems less in touch with the twentieth century than with the myth of their own pioneer past. The myth varies according to who is doing the telling. It is up to Alberta, who is ten years old and heir to both the farm and the myth, to discover some truth behind the stories—a truth that will help her know who she is and what her own future might be.

An impulsive, madcap, and newly concussed young woman comes of age as she navigates her Ghanaian American identity, her relationships, and the muddled landscape of history, memory, imagination, and delusion.

Twenty-four-year-old Akosua is easily knocked off her feet. When she falls and hits her head, she’s too preoccupied with her latest dramas to fully absorb the shock. In the span of three months, she has broken up with her boyfriend Wisdom, discovered that her deadbeat dad has moved back to the States from Ghana, and dropped so many classes that she believes she’s the only history grad student in the history of grad students to be registered for just one partial-credit class. Instead of facing her problems, Akosua seeks distraction in Daniel, a “good Ghanaian man.” But as her head injury worsens, she questions whether she can continue to run away from her father any more than she can keep ignoring her brain and its traumas. Vibrant, funny, and bittersweet, Blood on the Brain is a novel about the complications of family, romance, and culture—and how coming of age can feel like a blow to the head.

Featured by CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS, one of "12 MUST-READ BOOKS OF SEPTEMBER 2025"

AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING, ANIMAL WIFE
WINNER OF CAI EMMONS FICTION AWARD and ERIC HOFFER AWARD
FOREWORD INDIE AWARD FINALIST 

"The poetic prose mixed with the intense subject matter creates an undertow that will pull readers in."—Booklist

“A modern-day fairy tale that is both ghastly and beautiful.”—Kirkus

Mother and daughter mermaids navigate starting over and finding their place in the world in Lara Ehrlich’s debut novel.

The youngest siren sister, Ceto is weary of an existence driven by hunger, no better than a fish. She trades her tail for legs, marries the first man she meets, and bears a daughter—only to find domesticity as suffocating as the sea. Craving more, Ceto flees with her daughter Naia back to the ocean, where she reinvents herself as the star of a mermaid burlesque, performing in a lavish tank carved into the limestone cliffs above the waves.

At Sirenland, Ceto’s sensual performances and the erotic allure of her trained sirens transform the seaside attraction into a national sensation—a glittering empire where spectacle, desire, and female power reign. But as Naia comes of age and begins to question her mother’s vision, the boundary between empowerment and exploitation grows dangerously thin. When a shocking death rocks Sirenland, Ceto’s rule is threatened, and mother and daughter must reckon with the cost of performance on their already tenuous bond.

Bind Me Tighter Still is a lush, provocative exploration of power, sex, sacrifice, and motherhood—a celebration of female strength in a world determined to tame it.

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF FOURTEEN STORIES, NONE OF THEM ARE YOURS, CO-WRITER OF EILEEN

RECIPIENT OF PRESTIGIOUS RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE AND JOAN SCOTT MEMORIAL FICTION AWARD

“If this book were any better I’d cut my own head off.”—Ottessa Moshfegh

“Kill Dick is a fever dream.”––Harriet Armstrong, author of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies

A fever dream, Kill Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into the chaos of Los Angeles where addiction, privilege, and corruption combust. 

At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.

Then there’s Peter Holiday, a disgraced professor running a rehab scam so audacious it’s almost admirable. When their lives collide, Susie and Peter are dragged into a web of privilege, corruption, and violence, where every escape leads deeper into the rot.

Dark, satirical, and razor-sharp, Kill Dick is a modern literary thriller that unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction.

Saul doesn't get why he's misunderstood. At his high-tech day job, he hides in the bathroom writing a novel about his dead grandfather and wonders why his boss wants to fire him. He tells his almost ex-wife about a blind date and wonders why she slams the door in his face. He aches with worry for his seven-year-old son, who seems happier living with his mom and her new man.

When the blind date becomes a complicated relationship, and Saul’s blunders at work threaten the survival of the company, Saul has to wake up and confront his fears.

I Only Cry with Emoticons is a quirky comedy that reveals the cost of being disconnected—even when we're using a dozen apps on our devices to communicate—and an awkward man's search for real connections, on and offline.

Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller’s injured leg and the danger of Tie’s imminent labor, food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead, stories pieced together from recycled knowledge, fragmented histories, and half-buried creation myths. From the Caves presents the past, present, and future in tandem, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood, grief and hope, endings and beginnings.

“An unprecedented breakthrough novel about life after war.”—Cara Hoffman, author of Running, Be Safe, I Love You and So Much Pretty 

“This is not only a massively good book, it is absolutely necessary.”—Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, author of The Storyteller of Marrakesh and The Watch

A bold and compassionate novel about war’s aftermath, The Soldier’s House confronts the uneasy truths of rescue, redemption, and what it means to share a home and future with a former enemy.

In The Soldier’s House, Helen Benedict tells the story of an Iraq War veteran who saves the lives of his assassinated Iraqi interpreter’s widow, child, and mother by bringing them to his upstate New York home. For the soldier, this is a way of making amends, but the widow finds being rescued by the enemy both humiliating and compromising. This is a compassionate tale that examines whether redemption and forgiveness are even possible in the wake of war. In light of the increasing displacement of people all over the world, The Soldier’s House is particularly timely and poignant.

Described by Publishers Weekly as Cooley's "sharp latest", "Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers."

In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother—a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad—about her preposterous good luck.

As the clock ticks, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she’s met at her local gym. While she grapples with the burden of secret-keeping and the tug of a new intimacy, a Brooklyn street artist named Blair Talpa is contending with her own challenges: a missing brother, an urge to make art that will “derange orbits,” and a lack of money.

En route to redeem the lottery ticket, Ellen finds her prospects entwining by chance with Blair’s—which allows Ellen to reimagine luck’s relation to loss, and the reader to revel in surprise.

AUTHOR OF LIVID • SHORTLISTED FOR THE MISSOURI REVIEW EDITORS PRIZE, THE SARTON AWARD, AND THE NAUTILUS AWARD

Cai Emmons awes readers with the release of  THE BELLS

"An immersive psychological portrait of one man’s battle with lifelong anger and guilt."–Kirkus Reviews

“A book Cai finished on the day she died, is a story of life: how to live fully, embrace our messy complications, and swim toward love.”–Miriam Gershow, author of Closer and Survival Tips: Stories

Thirty-three-year-old Niall O’Malley has failed a five-year mission to live as a monk and is attempting to redefine himself as a high school teacher in New Jersey.

As The Bells opens, thirty-three-year-old Niall O’Malley has failed a five-year mission to live as a monk and is attempting to redefine himself as a high school teacher in New Jersey. The transition has been bumpy. He loves teaching history to inner city teens, but he hits a roadblock when a belligerent student, Colton, possibly a white-supremacist, behaves in ways that threaten Niall. As troubles mount at school, Niall’s girlfriend Lluvia pressures him into making a deeper commitment to their relationship. She wants them to move in together with Lluvia’s pre-teen daughter and elderly mother.

Haunted by his failure as a Cistercian monk and his troubles with one man in particular, the abusive Brother Thomas, Niall abandons Lluvia and heads back to his old monastery in Massachusetts for a final showdown with Thomas, now dying of ALS. Redemption for Niall is elusive as he strives to mend his faith.

Freefalling from a scandal of her own making, reporter Frances Treadwell only thinks she has hit bottom when she finds herself alone and out of work in her ancestral farmhouse in Maine. Soon after she arrives, a meteorite crashes to earth in the woods behind her house, igniting a firestorm of malicious chatter among locals who suspect Frances is somehow connected to a larger, more sinister phenomenon. Caught between a petty criminal she can’t resist and a pair of unlikely suitors, Frances watches in horror as the events turn from near farce to life-shattering, irreversible tragedy.

Sweetly sexy, miserably funny, and a little scary, View From a Burning Bridge is an enthralling debut novel from a natural heir to Flannery O’Connor and Shirley Jackson.

Irrevocably tied to the Carolinas, these stories tell tales of the woebegone, their obsessions with decay, and the haunting ache of the region itself—the land of the dwindling pines, the isolation inherent in the mountains and foothills, and the loneliness of boomtowns. Predominantly working-class women challenge the status quo by rejecting any lingering expectations or romantic notions of Southern femininity. Small businesses are failing. Factories are closing. Money is tight. The threat of violence lingers for women and girls. Through their collective grief, heartache, and unsettling circumstances, many of these characters become feral and hell-bent on survival. Gilstrap’s prose teems with wildness and lyricism, showing the Southern gothic tradition of storytelling is alive and feverishly unwell in the twenty-first century.

The stories in The Getting Place spring from the places Frank Soos loved best: the coal hills of southwest Virginia, the coves of coastal Maine, and the rivers and tundra around Fairbanks, Alaska. They ask, “Who can know the why of his own life, the why of what he does?” We join his characters when their lives spin beyond their control, when they face unexpected upheavals that change their lives utterly. By turns quirky, heartbreaking, profound, and witty, these brilliant stories open the hidden rooms inside us.

—Peggy Shumaker

Seventeen-year-old Annika Rose and her father Wes have spent the years since the death of Annika’s mother in self-imposed social isolation on their farm on the edge of the woods. When a young woman named Tina moves into a house down the road, the result is a sudden explosion of feelings in both father and daughter and a fierce rivalry. At stake in the competition is not only their relationship, but the life of the vulnerable young woman at the center of it all.

AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF HUSH NOW, DON’T EXPLAIN

2014 USA BEST BOOK AWARD LITERARY FICTION FINALIST 

Dennis Must explores the boundaries of reality and myth in his final book in a series, CIRCLING TOWARD NIGHTFALL

Circling Toward Nightfall is a lyrical exploration of blood, duality, and the search for origins—a meditation on reconciling the body with the innermost self. Its narrator, Jeremiah Coombs, may be the only man on earth with two fathers. Told by Billy Coombs that he had no mother, Jeremiah later learns from his grandmother that her name was Bernadette and that she died in childbirth—despite his vivid memories of her presence in his early life.

As the mysterious neighbor “Ichabod” Ernest Tyner takes on a growing role in Jeremiah’s life, he reveals that Bernadette was a nun from the Sisters of Conscience who gave birth to Jeremiah on the banks of the Ohio River before drowning herself. When the truth of his conception comes to light, Jeremiah is seized by a patricidal urge that drives the novel toward its haunting revelation. With characters who drift in and out like echoes from another world, Circling Toward Nightfall is an enigmatic and mythic final work.

A haunting, lyrical reckoning with war’s aftermath, The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester confronts the brutality of Vietnam’s reeducation camps while illuminating the enduring power of memory, loyalty, and the human will to survive. 

Centering on a Vietnamese intelligence officer’s years-long ordeal in communist reeducation camps, The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester offers a heartrending and an illuminating look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath. War, literature, religion, politics, loyalty—they are all expertly interrogated through the protagonist’s compelling voice and the memorable cast of characters he encounters. Despite the struggle and suffering, the story never veers into the sentimental or cynical. Instead, it returns again and again to the complexities of the human heart and its will to endure. This is not a novel of ism excoriation; it is, in fact, a story that seeks questions to the truths of life and asks the question: “How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand a man who’s cold?” A moving, unforgettable, and enlightening must-read.

The Switchback family has inhabited Crawford County since before the War Between the States, and it has eked out an existence, and even prospered, by virtue of hard work and honesty. Peter Switchback, Jr. is the current inhabitant of the family estate and caretaker of the farm, and in many ways stands as a symbolic paragon of virtue. The Morgan family has been in Crawford County at least as long as the Switchback family, and has made its way in the world by means of greed, pride, and dishonesty. Sheriff Cecil Morgan is the third in his line to hold his office, and like his ancestors he is an avowed enemy of the Switchback family and all that they stand for.

The life of Crawford County plays out through the course of short tales told by several of its inhabitants, some tragic, some whimsical. The stories wind their way through the lives of Switchback and Morgan, framed by several ponderings of moral philosophy and existence. We are faced with Peter Switchback's obituary on the opening page of the story, and the balance of the pages works its way to that eventual outcome.

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR

“Mysterious and mesmerizing.”––Claire Stanford, Author of Happy for You 

Yellow is a luminous, genre-defying debut that fuses cosmic mystery, trauma, and transformation. It will take you on a journey through time, space, and the inner wilderness of one girl’s mind.

It’s 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab’s launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence with this magical creature—until an incident with a serial killer at the lake disrupts their connection. Both mystifying and metaphorical, Yellow becomes a guiding force for her brother Clem, a New Orleans seeker. As years pass, Z tries to recover what life has taught her to forget. A multi-threaded novel, Yellow weaves fact, physics, space exploration, and philosophy to create a transcendent reading experience.

Set in contemporary Iran, Mirage delves into the complicated relationship between Roya and her identical twin sister, Tala.

Their inseparable bond becomes hard to maintain as they grow older, but when they both get pregnant at the same time, their relationship is rekindled. After an accident causes Roya to miscarry and Tala to go into labor, grief, jealousy, suspicion, and guilt fracture that recently renewed relationship. Delving deep into the human psyche, Nahid Rachlin intricately explores themes of sisterly identity, betrayal, envy, depression, loss, and the impact of memories. Like Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands (Penguin Press, 2020), Mirage artfully juxtaposes the sociopolitical dynamics of contemporary Iran with a story of the nature of grief and redemption that will take firm hold of your heart.

Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic and commercial success, vaulting her into the heady echelons of the 1980s New York City lit scene. Then she disappeared and was largely forgotten. Decades later, Seth Edwards is an aspiring writer and editor who feels he’s done all the right things to achieve literary success, but despairs that his dream will be forever out of reach. He becomes obsessed with the idea that if he can rediscover Sloane, it will make his career. His search for her leads to unexpected places and connections, and the epistolary correspondence that ensues makes up this book, a novel infused with insights and meditations about what our cultural obsession with the "next big thing" does to literature, and what it means to be a creative person in the world.

Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In “belly,” a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In “We Feel it in Punta Cana,” a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is Anger,” a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.

The stories in I’m Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months. These are characters living on the tenuous edge of things—on the economic edge caused by poverty and disillusion, on the dividing line between outsider and insider, and on the literal edge of the Alaskan wilderness. The stories in this collection move from beauty to danger and back again with decisive grace, although the lingering effect is not shock, but empathy toward people simultaneously alien and oddly familiar.

In a polygamist commune in the desert, a fourteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father’s child while the boy commits murder four hundred miles away—a crime that will slowly unravel the community.

Told by eight adolescent narrators, this is a story of how people use faith to justify cruelty, and how redemption can come from unexpected places. Though seemingly powerless in the face of their fundamentalist religion, these “strange children” shift into the central framework of their world as they come of age.

A practical joke gone chillingly, murderously wrong sets the stage for this 1929 Agatha Christie secret-society thriller. When a group of houseguests hides eight alarm clocks to wake a champion sleeper, they discover a dead body and a missing clock—a revelation that plunges them into a chilling plot of international significance.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

The Sound and the Fury is a monumental work of literary modernism, detailing the tragic disintegration of the once-prominent Compson family in the postbellum American South.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Henry Morgan, a boy living a quiet life on a Welsh farm, is inspired to leave home and seek his fortune in the West Indies by the colorful tales of a pirate returning from sea. As he rises to become a famous buccaneer captain, Morgan pursues two ultimate prizes: the vast riches of Panama City, known as the "Cup of Gold," and the legendary "Red Saint," a woman rumored to be fairer than the sun. A Cup of Gold leads readers on a romantic adventure full of idealism and disillusionment while still pointing subtly towards the realism and moral scrutiny that would suffuse Steinbeck's later works, most notably Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When Anthony Cade, an easygoing drifter working in Africa, agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house, he finds himself at the center of a complex plot involving murder, hidden secrets, and a diverse cast of suspicious characters.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When the five Bas-Thornton children embark on an ocean voyage from their Jamaican plantation to England, their ship is captured by pirates. Rather than portraying them as helpless victims, Richard Hughes delves into the complex psychological effects of their captivity, revealing them to be morally ambiguous and more than capable of violent actions. Still echoing through other modern classics, A High Wind in Jamaica spearheaded the thematic exploration of lost innocence and is often heralded as the literary predecessor to Lord of the Flies

Richard Hughes’s 1929 novel, originally titled The Innocent Voyage, presents a compelling and disturbing subversion of the traditional child protagonist. The story explores themes of lost innocence and the profound impact of trauma as the children navigate a world of shifting morality. The shocking narrative culminates in the pirates' trial, where the children's testimony, particularly that of Emily, leads to a tragic and unjust outcome, forcing readers to re-examine their assumptions about childhood, innocence, and morality.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 semi-autobiographical novel is a rich and detailed tapestry of human experience, chronicling the coming-of-age of Eugene Gant in the early 20th century.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When his partner is killed while on a case, Sam Spade is plunged into the hunt for a priceless, gem-encrusted statuette known as the Maltese Falcon, a legendary artifact coveted by a cast of deceitful characters, including the enigmatic Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the opportunistic Joel Cairo. The Maltese Falcon is a masterclass in ambiguity and moral complexity, establishing Sam Spade as the quintessential detective antihero who operates in a world where truth is an elusive commodity and loyalty is a fleeting concept.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Financially ruined by a previously failed enterprise, Aristide Saccard, a ruthless and ambitious speculator, endeavors to recover his fortune by establishing the fictitious Banque Universelle. Through Saccard's reliance on intrigue and market manipulation, Émile Zola explores the devastating effects of speculation on all social strata, from the rich to the poor, and offers a satirical indictment of the corruption and negligence of contemporary financial systems.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Financially ruined by a previously failed enterprise, Aristide Saccard, a ruthless and ambitious speculator, endeavors to recover his fortune by establishing the fictitious Banque Universelle. Through Saccard's reliance on intrigue and market manipulation, Émile Zola explores the devastating effects of speculation on all social strata, from the rich to the poor, and offers a satirical indictment of the corruption and negligence of contemporary financial systems.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

The Sound and the Fury is a monumental work of literary modernism, detailing the tragic disintegration of the once-prominent Compson family in the postbellum American South.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A practical joke gone chillingly, murderously wrong sets the stage for this 1929 Agatha Christie secret-society thriller. When a group of houseguests hides eight alarm clocks to wake a champion sleeper, they discover a dead body and a missing clock—a revelation that plunges them into a chilling plot of international significance.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A practical joke gone chillingly, murderously wrong sets the stage for this 1929 Agatha Christie secret-society thriller. When a group of houseguests hides eight alarm clocks to wake a champion sleeper, they discover a dead body and a missing clock—a revelation that plunges them into a chilling plot of international significance.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Henry Morgan, a boy living a quiet life on a Welsh farm, is inspired to leave home and seek his fortune in the West Indies by the colorful tales of a pirate returning from sea. As he rises to become a famous buccaneer captain, Morgan pursues two ultimate prizes: the vast riches of Panama City, known as the "Cup of Gold," and the legendary "Red Saint," a woman rumored to be fairer than the sun. A Cup of Gold leads readers on a romantic adventure full of idealism and disillusionment while still pointing subtly towards the realism and moral scrutiny that would suffuse Steinbeck's later works, most notably Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

The Sound and the Fury is a monumental work of literary modernism, detailing the tragic disintegration of the once-prominent Compson family in the postbellum American South.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Henry Morgan, a boy living a quiet life on a Welsh farm, is inspired to leave home and seek his fortune in the West Indies by the colorful tales of a pirate returning from sea. As he rises to become a famous buccaneer captain, Morgan pursues two ultimate prizes: the vast riches of Panama City, known as the "Cup of Gold," and the legendary "Red Saint," a woman rumored to be fairer than the sun. A Cup of Gold leads readers on a romantic adventure full of idealism and disillusionment while still pointing subtly towards the realism and moral scrutiny that would suffuse Steinbeck's later works, most notably Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When his partner is killed while on a case, Sam Spade is plunged into the hunt for a priceless, gem-encrusted statuette known as the Maltese Falcon, a legendary artifact coveted by a cast of deceitful characters, including the enigmatic Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the opportunistic Joel Cairo. The Maltese Falcon is a masterclass in ambiguity and moral complexity, establishing Sam Spade as the quintessential detective antihero who operates in a world where truth is an elusive commodity and loyalty is a fleeting concept.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When Anthony Cade, an easygoing drifter working in Africa, agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house, he finds himself at the center of a complex plot involving murder, hidden secrets, and a diverse cast of suspicious characters.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When Anthony Cade, an easygoing drifter working in Africa, agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house, he finds himself at the center of a complex plot involving murder, hidden secrets, and a diverse cast of suspicious characters.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When the five Bas-Thornton children embark on an ocean voyage from their Jamaican plantation to England, their ship is captured by pirates. Rather than portraying them as helpless victims, Richard Hughes delves into the complex psychological effects of their captivity, revealing them to be morally ambiguous and more than capable of violent actions. Still echoing through other modern classics, A High Wind in Jamaica spearheaded the thematic exploration of lost innocence and is often heralded as the literary predecessor to Lord of the Flies

Richard Hughes’s 1929 novel, originally titled The Innocent Voyage, presents a compelling and disturbing subversion of the traditional child protagonist. The story explores themes of lost innocence and the profound impact of trauma as the children navigate a world of shifting morality. The shocking narrative culminates in the pirates' trial, where the children's testimony, particularly that of Emily, leads to a tragic and unjust outcome, forcing readers to re-examine their assumptions about childhood, innocence, and morality.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A seminal work of the hard-boiled detective genre, Red Harvest (1929) sees the introduction of the Continental Op, a frequent character in the Dashiell Hammett’s fiction and a clear precursor to the morally ambiguous detectives of later works. This gritty and chaotic story is a masterpiece of action and moral conflict, exploring how the detective himself can become tainted by the pervasive corruption of the world he seeks to fix.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When his partner is killed while on a case, Sam Spade is plunged into the hunt for a priceless, gem-encrusted statuette known as the Maltese Falcon, a legendary artifact coveted by a cast of deceitful characters, including the enigmatic Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the opportunistic Joel Cairo. The Maltese Falcon is a masterclass in ambiguity and moral complexity, establishing Sam Spade as the quintessential detective antihero who operates in a world where truth is an elusive commodity and loyalty is a fleeting concept.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 semi-autobiographical novel is a rich and detailed tapestry of human experience, chronicling the coming-of-age of Eugene Gant in the early 20th century.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 semi-autobiographical novel is a rich and detailed tapestry of human experience, chronicling the coming-of-age of Eugene Gant in the early 20th century.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A seminal work of the hard-boiled detective genre, Red Harvest (1929) sees the introduction of the Continental Op, a frequent character in the Dashiell Hammett’s fiction and a clear precursor to the morally ambiguous detectives of later works. This gritty and chaotic story is a masterpiece of action and moral conflict, exploring how the detective himself can become tainted by the pervasive corruption of the world he seeks to fix.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

When the five Bas-Thornton children embark on an ocean voyage from their Jamaican plantation to England, their ship is captured by pirates. Rather than portraying them as helpless victims, Richard Hughes delves into the complex psychological effects of their captivity, revealing them to be morally ambiguous and more than capable of violent actions. Still echoing through other modern classics, A High Wind in Jamaica spearheaded the thematic exploration of lost innocence and is often heralded as the literary predecessor to Lord of the Flies

Richard Hughes’s 1929 novel, originally titled The Innocent Voyage, presents a compelling and disturbing subversion of the traditional child protagonist. The story explores themes of lost innocence and the profound impact of trauma as the children navigate a world of shifting morality. The shocking narrative culminates in the pirates' trial, where the children's testimony, particularly that of Emily, leads to a tragic and unjust outcome, forcing readers to re-examine their assumptions about childhood, innocence, and morality. 

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

One of the most widely acclaimed novels concerning World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front is a poignant narrative that starkly contrasts with the patriotic rhetoric of its time. Narrated by 20-year-old German soldier Paul Bäumer, the story follows a group of young men who eagerly enlist after being captivated by their schoolmaster's propaganda, only to find the romanticized version of war is a brutal illusion. Since its publication, it has served as a powerful testament to the futility of conflict and the profound trauma that forever changed a generation.

Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel presents a harrowing, graphic depiction of the daily horrors of trench warfare, from poison gas attacks and shell bombardments to the gruesome sight of wounded horses. Through Paul’s disillusionment, the book explores the deep chasm between those who declare war and those who are forced to fight it. To this day it serves as a powerful testament to the futility of conflict and the profound trauma that can forever change a generation, regardless of who survives the battlefield.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Widely regarded as one of the most powerful works of American literature to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army, as he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Against the brutal backdrop of the Italian campaign, their romance deepens, becoming a temporary refuge from the senseless violence of war.   

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Widely regarded as one of the most powerful works of American literature to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army, as he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Against the brutal backdrop of the Italian campaign, their romance deepens, becoming a temporary refuge from the senseless violence of war.

The semi-autobiographical story follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army, as he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Against the brutal backdrop of the Italian campaign, their romance deepens, becoming a temporary refuge from the senseless violence of war. Hemingway's stark prose and unflinching portrayal of the conflict cemented his reputation as a literary giant, exploring profound themes of love and loss, spiritual loneliness, and the ultimate futility of war. As Frederic and Catherine attempt to desert to neutral Switzerland, their quest for peace is overshadowed by the inevitability of death, culminating in a tragic and somber conclusion.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

One of the most widely acclaimed novels concerning World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front is a poignant narrative that starkly contrasts with the patriotic rhetoric of its time. Narrated by 20-year-old German soldier Paul Bäumer, the story follows a group of young men who eagerly enlist after being captivated by their schoolmaster's propaganda, only to find the romanticized version of war is a brutal illusion. Since its publication, it has served as a powerful testament to the futility of conflict and the profound trauma that forever changed a generation.

Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel presents a harrowing, graphic depiction of the daily horrors of trench warfare, from poison gas attacks and shell bombardments to the gruesome sight of wounded horses. Through Paul’s disillusionment, the book explores the deep chasm between those who declare war and those who are forced to fight it. To this day it serves as a powerful testament to the futility of conflict and the profound trauma that can forever change a generation, regardless of who survives the battlefield.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

In this gripping historical thriller, Elena Rossi, a linguist, researcher, and historian, uncovers a cryptic Renaissance manuscript that hints at the existence of the Flamma Aeterna, an ancient artifact believed to hold the key to lost knowledge buried for centuries. As she traces its origins, determined to uncover the truth, Elena follows a trail of clues embedded deep in the hidden corridors of Florence, the ruins of Pompeii, and the secluded landscapes of Tuscany, where forgotten symbols, encoded messages, and concealed chambers guard the artifact’s secrets.

But Elena is not the only one searching. A powerful clandestine organization, determined to seize the Flamma Aeterna for its own purposes, will stop at nothing to control its knowledge, knowledge that could reshape history, disrupt the balance of power, and alter the course of civilization itself. Racing against time, Elena must decipher centuries-old clues, navigate betrayals, and uncover the truth before the artifact falls into the wrong hands. As Elena races across Italy, deciphering forgotten symbols, and unlocking long-buried mysteries, she realizes the Flamma Aeterna is more than just a relic of the past. It’s a force that has shaped history from the shadows, and its rediscovery could either illuminate long-lost truths or plunge the world into chaos.

Now, Elena faces an impossible decision: protect the Flamma Aeterna’s secrets and risk the wrath of those who would kill to silence them or destroy the artifact and erase its power forever.

Some knowledge was lost for a reason. What she uncovers could change everything.

During embalming an arm jerks and strikes a mortician, leaving him unmoored. A pastor’s wife encounters a young congregant in her kitchen wearing her apron and preparing breakfast. A man’s attempt to make sense of why a tornado picked him up leads to a showdown with a cult leader. A daydreaming, gawky kid is appointed guardian of a watermelon that the ocean could snatch away. Love comes slowly, like water heating over a low fire or extra sugar being stirred into tea. In another story, the love of a father cannot save his musician son. A young woman living in a recognisable future contemplates the end of memory as her body transforms into the silver promise of a carapace. Another young woman feels she should be smiling but nothing stirs in her when her father wakes from death after 15 minutes. Battling portentous pre-dawn heat and still air, a bystander abandons removing caterpillars from a Ficus because the idea of touching them makes her squeamish. Elsewhere in the suburbs, in a fixer-upper from hell, crickets screech and squeal, their ringing like that of a demented alarm clock.

When Water Wants To presents the winners of the DALRO Can Themba Short Story Award. Celebrating the legacy of master storyteller Can Themba, this collection provokes, inspires, challenges and entertains with bold storytelling and keen social commentary. The stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical, playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices. These exciting new authors confirm the pre-eminence of the short story, and its oral antecedents, by delving into the national psyche in the conversations they have, the connections they make, and the themes, concerns and water-soaked imagery they share.
When Water Wants To brings together the ten winners of the literary competition, the DALRO Can Themba Short Story Award. In celebraton of Themba’s legacy, these emerging South African authors provoke, inspire, challenge and entertain with bold storytelling and keen social commentary. Their stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical, playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices. Confirming the pre-eminence of the short story, and its oral antecedents in our culture, the stories delve into the national psyche in the conversations they have, the connections and parallels they make and the themes, concerns and water-soaked imagery they share.





The featured stories include ‘No Good Deed’ (KJ Aires); ‘Murmur Becomes a Wave’ (Megan Choritz); ‘Mr Duiker Sang the Blues’ (Dyondzo Kwinika); ‘Letters of Remembrance’ (Sebabatso Madibu); ‘Zombie’ (Lerato Mahlangu); ‘A Mortician’s Instinct’ (Kamva Majo), ‘African Death, Western Medicine’ ( Lethukukhanya Mzulwini); ‘The Woman Who Buried Rain’ (Rabada Unarine Princess); ‘The Watermelon Caretaker’ (Rosieda Shabodien); and ‘Man of the House’ (Dashalia Singaram).

Gavin Campbell runs a small and struggling classic car dealership in the historic village of Watkins Glen, New York.
When Gavin goes to look at an old Jaguar E-Type for a client he senses that there's something unusual about the car. He also senses that there's something very unusual about the client's sister, Emily, who has come along with him.
After bringing the car back to his workshop for restoration Gavin learns that the owner has died in an apparent accident, but has reason to be suspicious about the death, particularly as a mysterious stranger seems desperate to buy the car. Emily also has reason to believe that her brother was murdered, and the two join forces to investigate.
Quirky romance develops as Gavin and Emily, who is affected by Asperger syndrome, infiltrate a car club and play a dangerous game of cat and mouse amid its snobbish and potentially murderous members.
If you like captivating adventure, eccentric characters, and a healthy dose of romantic comedy you're sure to enjoy this mystery.

An eBook edition of Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula with a new extended introduction on vampire myths and legends by leading vampire expert Dr Tina Rath. The introduction explores the development of Vampire myths and legends from early sixteenth-century stories to the current teenage vampire obsession evinced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight series of books and films.
From Arnold Paul, an allegedly real vampire of the sixteenth-century, to Lord Byron's physician Dr John Polidori who created the vampire Lord Ruthven, to Camilla, Brunhilda and Varney, who all made their contributions to our picture of the vampire, the picture was completed by Dracula when it was published in 1897. Tina Rath explores our impressions of vampires throughout the ages in books, on stage and on screen, as well discussing the origins of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Dracula is probably the best-known, least-read horror novel in the English (or possibly any other) language. Say ‘Dracula’ and we all know what we mean: the handsome Master Vampire with sleek dark hair forming a widow’s peak on his forehead, a black cloak, possibly lined with red silk, over faultless evening dress, fangs and photophobia. What we will almost certainly not visualise is Stoker's vision of Dracula. Tina explains why.

During embalming an arm jerks and strikes a mortician, leaving him unmoored. A pastor’s wife encounters a young congregant in her kitchen wearing her apron and preparing breakfast. A man’s attempt to make sense of why a tornado picked him up leads to a showdown with a cult leader. A daydreaming, gawky kid is appointed guardian of a watermelon that the ocean could snatch away. Love comes slowly, like water heating over a low fire or extra sugar being stirred into tea. In another story, the love of a father cannot save his musician son. A young woman living in a recognisable future contemplates the end of memory as her body transforms into the silver promise of a carapace. Another young woman feels she should be smiling but nothing stirs in her when her father wakes from death after 15 minutes. Battling portentous pre-dawn heat and still air, a bystander abandons removing caterpillars from a Ficus because the idea of touching them makes her squeamish. Elsewhere in the suburbs, in a fixer-upper from hell, crickets screech and squeal, their ringing like that of a demented alarm clock.

When Water Wants To presents the winners of the DALRO Can Themba Short Story Award. Celebrating the legacy of master storyteller Can Themba, this collection provokes, inspires, challenges and entertains with bold storytelling and keen social commentary. The stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical, playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices. These exciting new authors confirm the pre-eminence of the short story, and its oral antecedents, by delving into the national psyche in the conversations they have, the connections they make, and the themes, concerns and water-soaked imagery they share.
When Water Wants To brings together the ten winners of the literary competition, the DALRO Can Themba Short Story Award. In celebraton of Themba’s legacy, these emerging South African authors provoke, inspire, challenge and entertain with bold storytelling and keen social commentary. Their stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical, playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices. Confirming the pre-eminence of the short story, and its oral antecedents in our culture, the stories delve into the national psyche in the conversations they have, the connections and parallels they make and the themes, concerns and water-soaked imagery they share.





The featured stories include ‘No Good Deed’ (KJ Aires); ‘Murmur Becomes a Wave’ (Megan Choritz); ‘Mr Duiker Sang the Blues’ (Dyondzo Kwinika); ‘Letters of Remembrance’ (Sebabatso Madibu); ‘Zombie’ (Lerato Mahlangu); ‘A Mortician’s Instinct’ (Kamva Majo), ‘African Death, Western Medicine’ ( Lethukukhanya Mzulwini); ‘The Woman Who Buried Rain’ (Rabada Unarine Princess); ‘The Watermelon Caretaker’ (Rosieda Shabodien); and ‘Man of the House’ (Dashalia Singaram).

When a high-powered medical recruiter exposes a culture of harassment, fraud, and corruption at one of the nation’s top staffing firms, she’s forced into a brutal spiral of lawsuits, betrayal, homelessness, and health collapse—only to rise again with unshakable resolve.

In Good Faith, real-life events and court cases that went unnoticed by the public eye for over a decade are now fictionalized, offering a thrilling ride through the tribulations of professional offices at their highest and lowest moments.

Some secrets don’t stay buried—especially when the shadows have names.

When respected resident physicians end up dead and vanishing clues leave a city gripped by fear, seasoned detective Dallas Everhart and his sharp-witted partner Marie Lawson must untangle a twisted web of manipulation, obsession, and control. But what begins as a murder investigation soon reveals a deeper, more personal vendetta—a long-buried grudge held by a dark figure, a man who uses influence and reputation like weapons.

As Dallas gets closer to the truth, the dark figure’s web tightens—dragging innocent lives into his path. But when one marionette refuses to play the puppeteer’s game any longer, everything explodes. A once powerful family begins to unravel. And once again, Dallas is left holding the cost of another man’s sins.

Killer App is a gripping mystery-thriller about manipulation, the hunger for validation, and how far some will go to claim power in the shadows.

A novella of middle-class warfare, migrants, and cosy crime gone wrong. Welcome to England, the land of Brian and Eileen, custodians of a seaside villa and upholders of morality!

Live by the sea, you find flotsam. It’s Brian and Eileen’s mission to guide hopeless young men toward their potential.

Here they are, with a picnic on a pebbled beach, awaiting Faisal. He was nothing! And any minute now he’ll have swum the English Channel!

They’re ready to hug this wet and glossy young man to themselves.

It’s to be a party for three, except Cameron steps through the mist behind them. He’s young, Scottish, black, desperate.

Not everyone can be saved.

Obsesionado con traspasar los límites de la ciencia, el inquieto y entusiasta científico Victor Frankenstein logra dar forma y vida a un ser construido a partir de restos humanos. Sin embargo, su hazaña se convierte de inmediato en horror: incapaz de soportar su fealdad antinatural, rechaza y destierra a su creación… El ente aprende a hablar, leer y comprender el mundo, pero también a sentir el peso del abandono. Su soledad se transforma en rabia y decide ir tras su creador en busca de compañía o, quizá, venganza…

En Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo, Mary Shelley concibió una historia aterradora y maravillosa. Desde su publicación asombró al mundo y en pocos años adquirió la categoría de «mito moderno». Entre la novela gótica y el relato filosófico, la historia del soberbio científico y su monstruosa creación ha apasionado a generaciones enteras.

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Obsessed with pushing the boundaries of science, the restless and enthusiastic scientist Victor Frankenstein manages to shape and give life to a being constructed from human remains. However, his feat immediately turns into horror: unable to bear its unnatural ugliness, he rejects and banishes his creation… The creature learns to speak, read, and understand the world, but also to feel the weight of abandonment. Its loneliness transforms into rage, and it decides to pursue its creator in search of companionship or, perhaps, revenge…

In Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley conceived a terrifying and wondrous story. Since its publication, it astonished the world and within a few years acquired the status of a “modern myth.” Between gothic novel and philosophical tale, the story of the proud scientist and his monstrous creation has captivated entire generations.

SE ACERCA LA NAVIDAD, SE ACERCA EL MISTERIO.

Vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más célebre de la historia de la novela negra, en un apasionante nuevo caso que llevará sus células grises al límite.

¿Será capaz Hércules Poirot de resolver un misterioso asesinato a tiempo para celebrar la navidad?

19 de diciembre de 1931. Hércules Poirot y el inspector Edward Catchpool son requeridos por la policía para investigar el extraño asesinato de un hombre en el ala de seguridad del Hospital de Norfolk. Cynthia Catchpool, la madre del inspector, insiste en que ambos se alojen en su mansión para celebrar juntos las fiestas de Navidad mientras resuelven el caso. Arnold, un buen amigo de Cynthia, será intervenido muy pronto en ese mismo hospital y su familia está convencida de que él será la próxima víctima del asesino. Poirot tiene menos de una semana para resolver el crimen, evitar más asesinatos y celebrar las fiestas de forma tranquila.

EL MISTERIO ESTÁ SERVIDO.

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CHRISTMAS IS APPROACHING, MYSTERY IS COMING.

Hercule Poirot returns, the most famous detective in noir history, in an exciting new case that will push his little grey cells to the limit.

Will Hercule Poirot be able to solve a mysterious murder in time to celebrate Christmas?

December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called by the police to investigate the strange murder of a man in the security wing of Norfolk Hospital. Cynthia Catchpool, the inspector’s mother, insists that both stay at her mansion to celebrate Christmas together while they solve the case. Arnold, a close friend of Cynthia, is soon to undergo surgery in the same hospital, and his family is convinced he will be the killer’s next victim. Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime, prevent further murders, and enjoy the holidays in peace.

THE MYSTERY IS SERVED.

Una nueva crónica de la Segunda Edad de la Tierra Media con nuevas ilustraciones en acuarela y lápiz del decano del arte de Tolkien, Alan Lee.

J.R.R. Tolkien describió la Segunda Edad de la Tierra Media como una "edad oscura, y no se cuenta (o no es necesario) mucho de su historia". Y durante muchos años, los lectores tendrían que contentarse con las señales que se encuentran en El Señor de los Anillos y sus apéndices, incluida la forja de los Anillos de Poder, la construcción de Barad-dûr y el surgimiento de Sauron.

No fue hasta que Christopher Tolkien publicó El Silmarillion después de la muerte de su padre que se pudo contar una historia más completa. Aunque gran parte del contenido del libro se refería a la Primera Edad de la Tierra Media, al final había dos obras clave que revelaban los tumultuosos acontecimientos relacionados con el auge y la caída de la isla de Númenor.

Surgido del Gran Mar y regalado a los Hombres de la Tierra Media como recompensa por ayudar a los angelicales Valar y los Elfos en la derrota y captura del Señor Oscuro Morgoth, el reino se convirtió en un centro de influencia y riqueza; pero a medida que aumentaba el poder de los Númenóreanos, inevitablemente se sembraría la semilla de su caída, que culminaría en la Última Alianza de Elfos y Hombres.

Se revelaría una visión aún mayor de la Segunda Edad en publicaciones posteriores, primero en Cuentos inconclusos de Númenor y la Tierra Media (Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth), luego ampliados en el magistral libro de doce volúmenes de Christopher Tolkien La Historia de la Tierra Media (The History of Middle-earth), en el que presentó una gran cantidad de cuentos escritos por su padre, muchos en forma de borrador.

Ahora, siguiendo la cronología de “La historia de los años” (“The Tale of Years”) en los apéndices de El Señor de los Anillos (The Lord of the Rings), el editor Brian Sibley ha reunido en un solo libro una nueva crónica de la Segunda Edad de la Tierra Media, contada principalmente con las propias palabras de Tolkien tomadas de sus textos publicados.

A new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth with new watercolor and pencil illustrations by Tolkien’s artistic dean, Alan Lee.

J.R.R. Tolkien described the Second Age of Middle-earth as “a dark age, and not much of its history is (or need be) told.” For many years, readers had to rely on hints found in El Señor de los Anillos (The Lord of the Rings) and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of Barad-dûr, and the rise of Sauron.

It wasn’t until Christopher Tolkien published El Silmarillion (The Silmarillion) after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book focused on the First Age of Middle-earth, two key works at the end revealed the turbulent events surrounding the rise and fall of the island of Númenor.

Rising from the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in defeating and capturing the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a center of influence and wealth; but as the Númenóreans’ power grew, the seeds of their downfall were inevitably sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.

A broader vision of the Second Age would emerge in later publications, first in Cuentos inconclusos de Númenor y la Tierra Media (Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth), then expanded in Christopher Tolkien’s masterful twelve-volume series La Historia de la Tierra Media (The History of Middle-earth), which presented a wealth of stories written by his father, many in draft form.

Now, following the chronology of “La historia de los años” (“The Tale of Years”) in the appendices of El Señor de los Anillos (The Lord of the Rings), editor Brian Sibley has compiled a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told primarily in Tolkien’s own words drawn from his published texts.

Seis relatos navideños protagonizados por los dos grandes detectives de la reina del crimen: Hércules Poirot y Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie reúne en esta colección festiva seis relatos tan ingeniosos como inquietantes. Desde advertencias envenenadas sobre un pudding de ciruela hasta cadáveres encerrados en un baúl, discusiones escuchadas a escondidas y hombres que soñaron su propia muerte, estos casos solo pueden resolverse gracias al incomparable talento deductivo de Hércules Poirot… y, en el caso final, con la agudeza de la inimitable Miss Marple.

Excéntricos millonarios, joyas desaparecidas y oscuros secretos familiares componen este festín de intriga y suspense que celebra una de las épocas favoritas de la Dama del Crimen.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Six Christmas stories featuring the two great detectives of the Queen of Crime: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie brings together in this festive collection six tales as clever as they are unsettling. From poisoned warnings about plum pudding to corpses locked in a trunk, overheard arguments, and men who dreamed their own deaths, these cases can only be solved thanks to the incomparable deductive talent of Hercule Poirot… and in the final case, with the sharpness of the inimitable Miss Marple.

Eccentric millionaires, missing jewels, and dark family secrets make up this feast of intrigue and suspense celebrating one of the Crime Lady’s favorite seasons.

Blood can betray you—but it never lies…

The portals are breached. Zoltan’s gone. And I’ve officially had enough of being everyone’s pawn.

I’m trapped between human hunters with itchy trigger fingers, a mage hell-bent on destruction, and a demigod who’d burn the world just to watch it scream. Trusting anyone? Not exactly my strong suit. But if I want to save the one person who matters, I’ll have to adapt. Fast.

Good thing chaos is kind of my specialty.

The more I uncover, the clearer it gets—no one’s ready for the truth I carry in my veins. So I’ll do what I do best: fight.

To expose the old gods and light a match under their thrones, I only need one thing.

To bleed.

Instigated is the third explosive book in the Daywalker Urban Fantasy Paranormal Romance series. Packed with action, attitude, and red-hot tension, it’s perfect for fans of kickass heroines, dangerous secrets, and vampires that bite back.

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Praise for the Daywalker Series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Who doesn't love sexy vampires and fae mixing it up?

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Whew! What a ride!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Her snark makes the series so much fun.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Strong female kickass lead.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Whew! What a ride!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ OMG! That ending. That gave me chills.

Incarcerated for a crime he gladly committed, paranormal detective, Tempest Michaels, has been enjoying the peace and quiet. But all that is about to change …

… there’s a monster roaming the prison’s passageways at night and it’s just taken a life.

The legend of the jailhouse golem is more than two hundred years old and though it has been investigated in the past, no one has ever come close to solving the mystery. He won’t get paid for this one, but there’s something more valuable at stake … his life.

Surrounded by inmates who want to kill him, facing a creature that cannot be killed because it isn’t alive, and worried the very guards employed to protect him might be the ones behind it all, Tempest Michaels faces his toughest challenge yet. Worse yet, he’s all alone.

Get ready for a tale so fast-paced you’ll lose your breath!

The paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get him killed.

Fame is the perfect cover, but in this game, survival is the ultimate prize.

In Jack Silkstone's adrenaline-fueled thriller The Operative, unsuspecting reality TV contestants are thrust into a shadowy world of espionage. As they compete for stardom, a covert organization molds them into unwitting agents, exploiting their ambition for sinister purposes.

Blackmailed and trapped in a web of deceit, the contestants must navigate a treacherous landscape where the lines between reality and deception blur. With each challenge, they face a chilling truth: they are mere pawns in a deadly game.

Who will survive the ultimate reality TV show and what dark turn will victory take?

The Operative is a heart-pounding vigilante thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final page, leaving them to ponder the true cost of victory in a world where nothing is as it seems.

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Praise for The Operative:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Absolutely the Best!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Different and thrilling!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great story line that made it hard to put the book down!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This book has it all: well defined and memorable characters, solid plot, action and drama.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Operative is his best work yet.

Secrets can’t stay buried forever, and when they’re exposed, they can have tragic consequences.

Hannah Walker is living in limbo. Six years ago, her daughter was abducted, and her world fell apart. She’s tried to pick up the pieces of her life, tried to move on, but not a day goes by when she doesn’t relive the guilt and horror of that day. And then one afternoon she gets a phone call that tips her fragile existence on its head. A discovery in a local garden could be related to Sophie’s disappearance.

Suddenly the hope that has never quite been extinguished is reignited. She’s never given up believing that Sophie is alive but is she being ridiculously naïve? She doesn’t know. All she does know is that this time around she won’t rest until she finds out what happened to her daughter.

When DS Harry Briscombe is called out to investigate a macabre discovery in a local garden, a cold case suddenly gets red hot. But nothing is as it seems. As he is drawn deeper into the web of deceit, and pressure to solve the case builds, it soon becomes obvious that someone is determined to keep secrets buried – no matter what the cost.

Utterly believable characters, and an enthralling story with a dark secret buried at its core.

The gripping introduction to the Harry Briscombe crime thriller mystery series. Perfect for fans of the Broadchurch TV series, Ann Cleeves, LJ Ross, Rachel Abbott and Susan Hill.

Amazon Reviewers: “I was gripped from the very first paragraph and read the book in one sitting. This has to be the best book of its kind that I have read for a long time.”

“This story is nothing short of brilliant. The characters are very real, a great plot with a few surprises along the way. I just could not put it down until I knew the outcome

A new dawn brings fresh horrors as an enigmatic puppeteer pulls the strings of evil.

In this gripping sixth installment of Ted Tayler's Phoenix series, the Olympus Project faces a sinister new threat. As a rogue surgeon leaves a trail of death and drug dealers prey on the innocent, an enigmatic puppeteer orchestrates a criminal empire from the shadows.

Reeling from a recent coup attempt, the Olympus Project must rebuild its foundations while confronting this malevolent force head-on.

Can Olympus untangle the web of corruption and put an end to the nightmares that plague the nation, or will they succumb to the darkness that looms on the horizon?

Dive into the latest Phoenix series page-turning thriller that pushes the boundaries of suspense and showcases the indomitable human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds
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Praise for The Phoenix Series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Justice Efficiently Delivered
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Good guys do win.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I'm hooked.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Good Fast Paced Read
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Vigilante justice at its finest
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Action unlimited.

In this heart-pounding thriller, author Lyle Nicholson transports readers to the enchanting island of Saint Lucia, where a young Bernadette Callahan faces her greatest challenge yet.

As she prepares to enter the RCMP, Bernadette's world is turned upside down when her friends are taken hostage. With time running out and the lives of her friends hanging in the balance, Bernadette faces an impossible choice: use deadly force and sacrifice her career in law enforcement, or let her friends perish. As she navigates the treacherous waters of this high-stakes hostage situation, Bernadette realizes that the price of failure is higher than she ever imagined.

Set against the lush backdrop of Saint Lucia in the year 2000, this gripping addition to The Bernadette Callahan series showcases Nicholson's masterful storytelling and his ability to create complex, unforgettable characters. Will Bernadette's determination and skills be enough to outsmart the kidnappers and save her friends, or will she be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice? Find out in this unputdownable international mystery and crime thriller.

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Praise for the Bernadette Callahan Series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great short story!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Lady cops are the greatest

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Superb Storyline with Twists and Turns!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I love the Bernadette Callahan books!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Quick fantastic read

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An excellent quick read could not put it down. A good mystery. Enjoyed the whole series.

Some witches get a fairy tale. I got a babysitter and a death sentence.

Just when I thought things were looking up, Fate decided to kick me in the kidneys.

Surviving a brush with Death should’ve earned me a break, but instead, I got stuck with a womanizer as my so-called protector. If River had kept his pants up, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

They say power corrupts, but unlimited magic? That twists a mind beyond repair—just look at my grandmother. Not even the shifters can fix this mess.

Now, I have to track down an archdemon, avoid becoming a vampire’s midnight snack, and dodge a vengeful scorned lover. And—just for the record—I wasn’t even the one getting laid.

Everyone thinks I’m about to go down. Hard.

The nerve of some people.

I’ve got one thing to say to them.

Witch, please.

Witch, Please is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud addition to the Chronicles of Forbidden Witchery series. If you love sassy heroines, supernatural chaos, and magic-fueled mayhem, you won’t want to miss Hazel Byrne’s latest adventure.

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Praise for Chronicles of Forbidden Witchery:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Love this!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It's an action-packed page-turner.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Holy smokes, Batman.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great read, great characters.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I am loving this series.

A skeleton in an underwater cave. A body with a fatal gunshot. Detective Bridgette Cash’s most chilling case yet.

The eerie discovery of a corpse and skeletal remains in a submerged cavern plunges Detective Bridgette Cash into a sinister underworld.

As she unravels the mystery connecting the two victims, Bridgette finds herself alone and vulnerable, facing a twisted killer determined to keep the secret buried.

With time running out and the stakes higher than ever, can Bridgette survive long enough to bring justice to those who suffered and uncover the shocking truth?

In this gripping third installment of the Bridgette Cash Mystery Thriller series, Trevor Douglas weaves a thrilling tale of murder and deception that keeps you guessing until the very end.

Dive into this unputdownable police procedural and join Detective Bridgette Cash on her most risky assignment yet.
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Praise for the Bridgette Cash Mystery Thrillers:

★★★★★ Each book is better than the one before!

★★★★★ Good pace, unpredictable, and excellent story.

★★★★★ Continues to bring surprises, twists and turns, adventure, and kindness! This is a fantastic series

★★★★★ Another roller coaster of a story, love the characters, this was a really good story

★★★★★ Detective Bridgette Cash is proving to become a force to be reckoned with.

★★★★★ Third book in the series and every one terrific.

An artist in trouble, an ex without a conscience, and the hunky security guard who needs her trust.

In over her head, with a family to support and a company to run, everything hinges on Freya Larch. If she fails they could lose everything and she can’t allow that happen. Not again.

When Mitch Tate walks into her life he brings hope—and an attraction she hadn’t expected. Maybe she won’t have to fight alone, but who will protect her heart?

Will the price of his help be too high?



Cheryl Phipps is a USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction from beautiful New Zealand. Married for forty plus years to her childhood sweetheart, she has several grandchildren to keep her on her toes as well as a delightful, if rascally, pooch called Lara. Cheryl loves weaving stories that celebrate love, family, and resilience with a sprinkle of humor, as well as delivering a heart-racing, happy ending.

A journey of love, loss, and the magic that binds them together



In Ainsley Keaton's sixth installment of The Beachfront Sunsets series, two women navigate the complexities of love, loss, and new beginnings.



Sarah embarks on a poignant journey with her dying love, Max, and his young daughter, Julia, as they create cherished memories during a final road trip across the country. From stargazing in the Smoky Mountains to swimming with dolphins in Miami, they bond and find solace in each other's company. Sarah must prepare for the complexities of becoming a single mother and face unexpected custody battles.



Meanwhile, Willow finds herself haunted by two bickering ghosts from the 1920s. They insist that she travel to Los Angeles to aid her soul mate, Jackson Flynn, with her magical abilities, despite her reluctance to pursue a relationship.



Through their intertwined stories, Keaton explores the depths of friendship, family, and the touch of magic that binds them together.



This heartwarming, page turning tale will resonate with fans of Susan Mallery, Jude Devereaux's Nantucket Bride series, and Elin Hilderbrand.

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Praise for the Sconset Beach series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Super continuation

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Love This Series

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A captivating series, a must read...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Awesome book

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Entertaining!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a wonderful read

Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie and she's twelve.

Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, tell you where you're from, whether or not you're happily married, and where you went to school.

But now she must use her skills to discover who murdered her entire family, because it looks like the killer was actually looking for her. Annie must profile the killer before he kills her. It will take all of her brilliance and all of the lawyering skills of Michael Gresham. But will even that be enough? At the last minute, Annie spins out an entire universe of killers and leads Michael Gresham to their door.

Now the door must be opened.
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A page-turning legal thriller from three-million-selling John Ellsworth
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What they said about the Michael Gresham thrillers:

5.0 out of 5 stars  - I didn’t want this book to end.

5.0 out of 5 stars - Wow! This book just doesn't slow down! Once you start reading, be sure you have time because you're going for a roller coaster ride.

5.0 out of 5 stars - This book has so many twists and turns I got car sick reading it.

5.0 out of 5 stars - Kept me reading long into the night

5.0 out of 5 stars - I could not put this book down. It has so many twists, turns and curves that even if you thought you knew what was going on, you would be wrong.

5.0 out of 5 stars stars  - Captivating from page one.

They abandoned a soldier. Now Sherman’s bringing the consequences.

Captain Frank Sherman has spent the last year trying to outrun the war he left behind. But when a call comes in about a friend who never made it home, he doesn’t hesitate to do what no one else will.

The trail leads from Kabul’s collapse to a dark pipeline of human trafficking, where profit hides behind politics and no one’s hands are clean. Sherman’s only lead? A cold trail through the Rocky Mountains—and the kind of enemies who never leave loose ends.

He’s not on a mission. He’s making it personal.

They took the wrong man.

Now Sherman’s coming to collect.

The Last One Out is the fifth relentless entry in the Frank Sherman Thrillers Series—where justice always comes with a cost. Fans of Jack Reacher, The Gray Man and Mitch Rapp will tear through this one.

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Praise for the Frank Sherman Thrillers series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “The story starts off with a bang and never lets up.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Frank Sherman and team get the job done regardless of the difficulty.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Sherman is a smart and tough SOB. It’s always good when the good guy crushes evil without remorse.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Really enjoying Frank Sherman and his team.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Great read with bad a$$ characters.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “I’ve enjoyed all of the Frank Sherman series, and The Last One Out ranks as one of the best.”
 

• This is the best Nino book yet.


• …fast moving, suspenseful and touching


• The fourth in the Nino series got even better just when I thought I couldn’t love the main characters more.


• JD Keene manages to build a story that leaves one feeling the range of emotions both pain and pleasure. I now miss spending time with them and look forward to what’s next.


• JD Keene does a masterful job creating a visual of the characters, surroundings, and action. It’s like watching a movie in your head as you read.

BOOK 3 IN A GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY SERIES BASED ON TRUE CRIMES

I don’t know who I am, but he does – and he’s coming for me.

Connie’s life is a mystery, her background unknown, her future unclear. Desperate for knowledge, she uses her powers to investigate crimes. If she can’t help herself, she’ll do it for others.

A random meeting, a brace of poisoned partridges, and Connie is knee-deep in trouble again. Her life is slowly unravelling, the truth almost in grasping distance. If only she could remember.

But somebody can. And he’ll use any means to get to her. Can Connie escape his clutches one more time?

The Poisoned Partridge is the third book in a gripping 1920s mystery series with a supernatural twist.

Praise for The Constance Maxwell Series

“A refreshingly different read”

“Intriguing and heartfelt”

“Charismatic characters and a well thought out plotline”