When Josie Serafini’s brother Vic loses his wife and children in a tragic accident, Josie leaves her home and beloved horses in Upstate New York to join him in Los Angeles. While helping Vic pick up the pieces of his shattered life, Josie confronts broken relationships with her estranged father and rebellious, singer-songwriter daughter. Josie and Vic each struggle to find where they belong in their changing worlds. Josie finds comfort in nature and in a budding, long-distance relationship with the empathetic equine veterinarian caring for her horses back home. Vic battles depression as he seeks purpose in his life. Josie’s three horses and a Siberian husky help open hearts to tenderness and healing—but it’s an unexpected journey to the US-Mexico border that offers this fragmented family a chance to reconnect. A story of love, loss, and forgiveness, Josie and Vic conveys hope—even in the darkest of times.
Alma Cruz wishes her willful teenage daughter, Luz, could know the truth about her past, but there are things Luz can never know about the journey Alma took to the US to find her missing father. In 2000—three years after the disappearance of her father, who left Oaxaca to work on farms in California—Alma sets out on a perilous trek north with her sister, Rosa. What happens once she reaches the US is a journey from despair to hope. Timeless in its depiction of the depths of family devotion and the blaze of first love, Luz conveys, with compassion and insight, the plight of those desperate to cross the US border.
1941: London is being bombarded during the Blitz, and Josie finds it hard to understand her brother's decision to be a conscientious objector. But when she goes to stay at No.6 Chelsea Walk with her cousin Edith and is drawn into tormenting one of her new classmates, Josie learns what it means to stand up for her own beliefs. Ann Turnbull’s previous novels have been shortlisted for several awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. "Dramatic stories with a real sense of atmosphere." - The Guardian
Four smoking hot stories, set in the small town of Whispering Cove WET: A celebrity chef and a sexy firefighter who knows as much about starting a fire as how to put one out. BRAZEN: A school teacher on fire with desire. A hot firefighter with the right equipment to fan the flames. SILK: When hot doctor meets sexy inn owner they create enough passion to melt ice, and turn any blustery wintry night into a hot, sultry holiday. FLIRTY: A house renovator, a ghost hunter, and a summer fling so hot, it can raise spirits...
A beloved husband scientist is shot in Maui’s peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Olympic athletes are killed on luxury cruises around the world. Can two of Maui’s finest stop the violence? Detective Sergeant Keone Boyd travels to the Mediterranean with his new bride, while in Maui, his boss Tony Alcala investigates a horrific shooting in the normally peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Since the victim is a former neighbor of his protégé, Sgt. Angela Beyers, Alcala gives her the case. During her investigation, Angela discovers a file on the victim’s computer with clues to the shooting. But the file was saved while the victim was in a coma and no one else had access. So who left the clues? And how? As Angela investigates, Keone honeymoons on a luxury cruise but is soon recruited by Europol to investigate a serial killer methodically eliminating Olympic athletes. The killer, who claims to be the Greek god of death, has targeted a group of Canadian Olympic medalists on the ship. Does the computer file contain actual memories or a vivid fantasy? Is a mythical god sending athletes to Elysium, or is a deranged maniac murdering them? Are the investigations related or are the lines between reality and fantasy dissolving both on Maui and twelve time zones away? Join Maui’s finest as they investigate the most controversial—and dangerous—cases of their careers. "Rick Ludwig has done it again! With Voice of the Victim, Ludwig expands his universe of clever detectives and intriguing mysteries with a hard-hitting examination of the past and how it shapes us into who we become. A beautiful, fast-paced novel you should pick up today!” RJ Johnson, author of The Twelve Stones “An auto accident destroys Detective Sergeant Keone Boyd’s roadster, plunging him into and unexpected realm as he grapples with a suspect’s alternate reality and unexpected plot twists. this is not your typical investigation. Eyes of the Beholder is a gripping read that leaves you wondering what comes next.” Kenneth Andrus, author of Arctic Menace
Blair MacIntyre's daily routine: put on her brave face, and try not to be so distracted by unnervingly gorgeous Nick Conway… All Blair wants is to be normal. To be the Blair B.C.—before cancer. She's determined to show her friends she's okay…even if it means bluffing. There's only one person who doesn't treat her with kid gloves. In fact, Nick Conway doesn't treat her with any gloves whatsoever—especially when saying exactly what he thinks of her helping his daughter in a beauty contest! Soon Nick is getting under Blair's skin—and defences. Maybe he's the one to show her she's just as beautiful as before?
Cops Roberts and Brant come back swinging in book two of the “hip, violent and funny” crime novel trilogy set on “the mean streets of southeast London” (Publishers Weekly). South London’s Chief Inspector Roberts and his partner, the reckless and thuggish Irish Detective Sergeant Brant, are at odds with who has it worse: Roberts, with a mortgage in Dulwich, a pregnant daughter in boarding school, and a dire medical diagnosis; or Brant, relegated to desk duty after getting knifed in the back, and living to see his complete Ed McBain collection destroyed by a psycho with a baseball bat. That particular nut job has been dubbed the Alien, a hit man so named for carrying out a skull-smashing job while watching Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic, and hanging around in the spatter to finish the film. But this time the carnage isn’t confined to southeast London. As Brant heads to New York by way of Dublin to catch the couple who knifed him and the Alien goes to San Francisco to pay a surprise visit to his former girlfriend, Bruen’s broad, brutal canvas once again shows why he’s been hailed as one of “the most original and innovative noir voices of the last two decades” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
