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Wildwood Springs Lodge in Steelville, Missouri, has been a vacation center in the Ozarks for nearly a century. The “Jewel of the Ozarks” still impresses visitors with its balance of grand style and rustic charm. One summer morning, Wildwood's manager Steffi hears a faint voice and embarks on a journey to uncover a decades-old secret. How did Sally Ann Corey disappear? Aided by Sally's ghost, Steffi searches through the history of Wildwood, Steelville, and the surrounding area to discover the answer.

In 1777, 17-year-old Roland McCaffrey joins the American Revolution. He is part of the army trying to stop the invasion force of British general John Burgoyne. Fighting alongside his sergeant and mentor, Roland becomes a skilled rifleman. He feels guilty for killing, but plays an important role in the American strategy. At the Battles of Saratoga, Roland engages in combat under Benedict Arnold.

The Collapsible Mannequin tells the story of 12-year-old Clarence Clark and his mother, Sarah, who goes to extreme measures to hide significant truths to protect him. Clarence questions the things we take for granted and takes for granted the things we question. Looking through his eyes, the world brightens and shifts.

We all know how lots of people hate lawyers, especially if they have ever been sued. Dr. Ron Rellick loses everything, including his sanity, to a malpractice claim and goes homicidal. The title has a dual meaning. The legal system is strangling America, and now a serial killer is strangling the legal system. Get inside the mind of a good man turned violent. See how the evil of corrupt lawyers leads to unforgiving vengeance. Dr. Rellick becomes the hunter to avenge what he sees as the scales of justice fractured and out of balance.

Nash Baxter is a liar. He's the famous skeptic who rides his motorcycle across the country debunking hauntings everywhere he goes. Yet he knows ghosts are real - suffering remnants of the departed, held fast to this world, and tormented by demons. Hell, it seems, exists all across the land, side-by-side with the living world. Nash has the power to see into that Hell and destroy the demons by a force of will. But sometimes demons fight back...When they do, they possess Nash and force him to commit murder.

Henry Shoemaker compiled these folk tales set in the Seven Mountains of central Pennsylvania. Shoemaker's stories recall the decline of big game in the region and the exit of the native peoples as the European settlers advanced westward. This collection of tales has been modernized for 21st-century audiences but maintains the charm, wit, and suspense of the originals.

It's 2004 in Minneapolis, and Hazel Ford is an English teacher at a diverse urban high school, where she loves discussing The Great Gatsby with her Advanced Placement students. Plus, she's crazy about her fiancé/fellow high school teacher, Vance. But when the two of them are involved in a horrific car accident, everything comes crashing down, leaving Hazel with a traumatic brain injury and no memory of the accident - or of her supposed breakup with Vance.

Set in the far future, Ration is an unflinching take on the ways society can both thrive and go wrong as pressure to survive builds. All the girls who live in the Apartments are forced to weigh their own hunger against the lives of the others living in the building. When Cynthia is wrongly accused of ordering an "A" ration, she punished by the other girls. Eventually, she is forced to leave the Apartments along with Ms. Glennoc, one of the former managers who has tormented and abused her for years.

Henry Gallagher is a failure. Born into a broken family, now a young alcoholic struggling with mental illness, Henry is successful at one thing: destroying his life. While spending his time and waning finances at local bars and on any woman who will show him affection, Henry reflects on his past, seeing no future than the one he believes has been preordained for him. From a funeral in Ireland, to a chance meeting with a German millionaire, to a booze-soaked and bloody version of Last Tango in Paris, Henry's life is both darkly humorous and unapologetically human.

High expectations come with being labeled “the next Mickey Mantle.” But once the media or an organization utters that phrase, it becomes an albatross. The expectation is that the player will become one of the greatest players of all time—not a good player, not even a star—a superstar of the brightest magnitude.

Plunged into an epic adventure in another place and time, Raymond Covington must come to terms with the fragility of human life, the heights of the human spirit, and the limits of his own understanding. With more action, adventure, intrigue, suspense, humor, and wonder than any one story should be allowed, Awakening opens the door to a gripping tale you won't want to miss.

Molly: A Love Story is a true story about a cute little pit bull, lost and alone in the world until one day she was rescued and given a home. Molly’s story teaches children about the unconditional love that a dog can bring into the lives of a family. As a cancer survivor, Molly overcame adversity, and her story shows that despite every hardship, true love is everlasting.

Four years after losing her sister Stella, Grace McElroy has begun to heal. She no longer spends her days overcome with grief and guilt. But the appearance of a woman who looks just like Stella makes her doubt her sanity. Even more terrifying, she learns her adopted daughter's biological father, once a brutal Ecuadorian drug lord, is in the States. Before she can determine whether he's come to reclaim his child, the little girl is kidnapped, and Grace and her family will do anything to get her back.

Smoke to See By is a collection of 21 essays and stories, many never before published, written by award-winning essayist and columnist Ben Moyer. The collection tracks the writer’s quest for intimate knowledge of, and personal connection to, the natural features of his home region, the foothills and ridges of Northern Appalachia.

Jessica Gracers sits in a jail cell. Accused of murdering her husband; a crime she insists she is innocent of. Having heard of Derek Cole and his investigative skills, Jessica hires Derek and requests he begin the investigation immediately. But when Derek Cole and Nikkie Armani arrive in the Tampa, Florida area, they learn their client has refused to give an alibi. Forced to work with Jessica’s lawyer, a woman with a past and present filled with secrets, Derek and Nikkie must first convince their client to give her alibi before they can begin their investigation.

Sixteen-year-old albino Drake Stevenson lives a life alone in his world of video games and comic books, dreaming of one day saving a real princess. But fantasy becomes reality when his lawyer father suffers a heart attack, and the Stevensons are forced to move to flyover country in order to take up the family business: stewardship of the oldest and largest cemetery in the state.

Caleb Riker has concocted a plan. He's going to hunt down and kill the men who murdered his wife and unborn child. As he sets out to take justice into his own hands, an unlikely run-in with a widow named Kate Lawrence sets him on a different course that will change his life forever. The two discover that they are being hunted by dark forces that leave a trail of bodies and catastrophe in their wake, forces that use human beings as hosts and feed on destruction. Caleb and Kate are soon joined by a teenage girl on the run who has some insight as to what they're up against.

A fascinating look into dimensions of murder that are often overlooked and undeveloped. Spree killing, in particular, is a crime that researchers have vacillated over in the past two decades or so, most notably when the FBI's 2005 consortium on Serial Homicide seemed to walk back from the concept because of the implications of the term "cooling off period."

In his last year at Princeton, Alex Williams discovers that, in a school where the best and the brightest are around every corner, it does not always mean that life is a long, lazy weekend at the beach. Alex lives in one of the eating clubs, the epicenter of Princeton's social scene. His best friend and roommate, the wealthy son of a US senator, is at school to do anything but study and appears to be holding something dark inside him. Alex discovers what that is but does not realize that the tragedy will take an even worse turn.

Pickpocketing is not honest, but it is lucrative. That is, until 17-year-old Charles Main gets caught, and the judge gives the vagrant a choice: Go to prison or join the Army. In basic training, he is amazed (and confused) by all the people who actually volunteered to be here. But he soon befriends Carrie Borden, one of the first female cavalry scouts in the US Army, who helps him understand what selfless really means. Deployed together in the fight against ISIS, their platoon quickly gains a reputation of mythological proportions.