by Matthew Mather

4.3 stars – 8,270 reviews

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The incredibly realistic story of one family’s struggle to survive the destruction of New York in a massive terror attack. Million-copy bestseller now in development for film by 20th Century Fox.

“I couldn’t put it down…shows how dangerous our transition to an interconnected infrastructure has become.” Karic Allega, Joint Military Cyber Command, US NAVY

NEW YORK GOES DARK IN THE DEAD OF WINTER…

A TERRIFYING MYSTERY BEGINS…

BUT WHO IS THE ENEMY? AND WILL THEY STRIKE AGAIN?

Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker struggling just to keep his family together when a string of disasters shreds the bustling megacity around them.

The Internet and communication networks go down…a deadly epidemic rages across the country…then a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world.

Days go by without contact to the outside world. Then weeks. Murder and vigilante justice replace law and order. Millions fight to survive.

In the chaos, conspiracy theories rage about a foreign cyberattack. Was it the North Koreans? The Russians? The Chinese? Might it be the first shockwave of a global shift in power? But even these questions become unimportant as Mike and his family struggle for survival in the wintry tomb of a doomed New York.

by I. T. Lucas

4.7 stars – 169 reviews

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When gods and immortals still ruled the ancient world, 
one young goddess risked everything for love.

He smoothed his palm over his hair. “Tell me what you want me to do, Annani.”
She blushed. “I want you to kiss me.”
“What?” He almost choked on his own saliva.
Annani glanced at him from under lowered lashes. “I have never been kissed.”
His eyes went straight to her mouth. Fates, those lips were made for kissing, and it was a crime that they had never been. By him.
“I cannot.”
Her blush deepened, and she lowered her head.
He hooked a finger under her chin, lifting her head back up. “But you can. I cannot refuse the princess.” Technically, he had to obey her commands. He would not be breaking any laws, written or implied, if he let her kiss him.

by Christopher Meeks

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Real estate agent Joni Paredes whirls ahead in her job and her life. A 38-year-old widow, she successfully specializes in apartment buildings in Los Angeles. A chapter of her life closes with the marriage of her only child, 21-year-old daughter Athena. At the big wedding in Pasadena, Joni meets her new son-in-law’s uncle, Stewart, who teaches screenwriting at USC. Normally used to commanding people, Joni finds herself off-balance with Stewart. Will this man match her needs and slip into her heart unlike any other man since she was widowed?

This story is part of a new series of tales from Christopher Meeks about modern life in America. When his first short story collection, “The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea,” came out, the Los Angeles Times called it “poignant and wise, sympathetic to the everyday struggles the characters face.” Entertainment Weekly wrote it was a “stunning collection.” He continues here with his trademark insight and humor.

by Jack Michonik

4.8 stars – 21 reviews

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They just wanted a better life

In the wake of events in the 1900’s, thousands of Jewish families left Europe in search of a better life in the New World. Most reached the shores of the United States, but some, like Leib Edri and Chaim Lubinsky, landed in South America, “where the subtle scent of this mingling of violence, laziness, revelry and gaiety hovers in the air.”

They fought as hard as they could to get ahead in the new world

Leib and Chaim arrive in the town of Lárida, where there are hardly any Jews, and set up shop. They work hard, change their names to León and Jaime, take a leading role in the incipient Jewish community and create a new life for themselves while prospering, marrying and having children.

Will their roots and identity survive in the midst of an overwhelming foreign environment?

by Beatrice Sand

4.2 stars – 202 reviews

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HOUSE OF GUARDIANS
When 17-year-old Laurel Harper decides to go live with her estranged father and stepfamily, she’s unaware of the fact that her fate was already sealed the day she was born. She is now exactly where some higher power wants her to be. But it’s not until she meets the proud and mysterious Sam Laurens that she feels something strange is going on. Why does he keep interfering in her life? Then Laurel finds out about Sam’s ominous ancestry and a whole different fear arises. Fear of who Sam really is. Fear of her own feelings. And when she learns the dark truth about her own future, a sinister secret that will change everything as soon as she turns nineteen, she wants to run and hide, but soon realizes that there is no hiding from fate. Sam may be the only one who can help her escape her destiny, but then she has to start trusting him again, and time is of the essence because he has his own fate to deal with. Still, Sam is determined to stop Laurel from meeting her doom, even if that means he has to make a drastic move that will separate them for good.

by Betta Ferrendelli

4.6 stars – 70 reviews

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A baby is murdered on New Year’s Eve 1999, her tiny body abandoned in a Dumpster.
Twelve years later, while locked in a vicious legal battle to regain custody of her own daughter, reporter Samantha Church stumbles across the infant girl’s headstone at Golden Cemetery.
Sam is immediately intrigued by the plea for help from the Grandview Police Department on the child’s gravestone. Sam approaches Grandview police detective James Page, the original officer in charge of the case, but without new evidence, there is nothing Page can do to reopen the cold case and bring the killer to justice.
Or is there?

by Jenny Gardiner

4.2 stars – 25 reviews

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Love the wine you’re with…

Alessandro Romeo is burned out after finally extricating himself from a nearly year-long relationship with a hot-tempered Italian model who set fire to his Lamborghini when she suspected him of cheating. He’s sworn off the fairer sex and instead spends his waking hours overseeing the expansion of his family’s hugely successful winery in the magnificent hills of Chianti, where he is happy to never see a model again, let alone date one.

American supermodel Taylor McFarland might be blond, but she sure isn’t dumb. And she’s smart enough to know to avoid the shallow men who seem to migrate toward her type, the ones who presume that models are the wild women of the fashion industry who happily discard men like used tissues.

by Nhys Glover

4.8 stars – 17 reviews

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Crippled by shyness, shunned for being not-right-in-the-head, gifted artist and Roman noblewoman, Marcia Mica, has only two people in the world who truly love her – her teacher, Daedalus, and her childhood friend, Asterion, both slaves in her father’s household.
But when forbidden love blooms between the unlikely friends, only disaster can come of it. That disaster leaves Marcia horribly scarred and Asterion sold into the arena.
Only the power of Sabrina, a grieving healer, and the dreams of a Celtic Seer on the other side of the Roman Empire have any chance of healing past wounds and reuniting lost loves. Yet can scars that are more than just physical ever really be healed and can those whose lives are owned by others ever truly be free to follow their hearts?