War rages but sometimes the enemy is closer than you think.Aged 14, Mhairi is forced into adulthood. Evicted from her family home in rural Scotland, separated from her parents, she must find her own way in life. As she fights for survival in a city of strangers, she finds companionship in the most unlikely of places. And she finds love.But Mhairi has made an enemy and he is powerful. Women like her have no place in his world.The unthinkable happens and she loses everything again, including her freedom.She had the best of friends and the greatest love. Now she has nothing. Will she have the strength to carry out the fight of her life?

Cache of SilenceHe came for the cache. He found a murder. Now the hunt begins.Connor Malloy, a quiet geocacher with a shadowy past, prefers to stay off the grid. Born in the Bronx, raised in Queens, and trained as a Special Forces operative, he's spent years avoiding attention. But when a routine geocaching trip leads him to witness a brutal mob hit, Connor is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.The cache he found doesn't just contain trinkets—it holds encrypted files that could expose a powerful crime family. As the mob closes in, Connor must rely on his instincts, his skills, and a reluctant alliance with NYPD Detective Maya Chen to survive.Each cache reveals a new clue. Each step draws him deeper into a conspiracy that could shake the city. And someone is watching—someone who knows Connor's secrets.In a world where silence is survival, one man must decide how loud he's willing to fight.

For those tied to the western landscape who wonder whether we might find redemption in the story of its water during a time of increasing climate extremes, a based-on-true-events tale of family farmers fighting to save the land they steward.Inspired by true events, this Chinatown-meets–The Grapes of Wrath novel tells the story of California's Sacramento Delta farmers facing off against agribusiness owners over the massive water tunnel(s) the state plans to build under hundreds of thousands of acres of prime Delta farmland. Winter 2022-'23 inundated California with as much as three times the average rain and snowfall and pulled the state out of one of its biggest droughts in recorded history. But the truth is that the American West, from the Oregon border down to Mexico, is prone to drought—and in California, the biggest battle for water takes place in the Great Central Valley, where south-of-Delta agribusiness controls every stream...

Bronwyn Pierce has poured everything into The Haven, her family's exclusive mountain resort in Gossamer Falls. But when financial discrepancies surface and the numbers suggest something far darker than simple mismanagement, she's forced to call on the one person with the skills to help her: Mo Quinn, a former Army Intelligence officer, her first love, and the last person she ever wanted to trust again. Mo has spent years avoiding the woman he once loved and the secrets that tore them apart. But when Bronwyn calls, he can't walk away—especially when it's clear someone wants her gone for good. As they dig deeper into the treacherous motives behind a blackmail scheme, their proximity reignites long-buried feelings neither of them is ready to face. And when the evidence points to an unexpected culprit, Mo faces an impossible choice: trust the proof in front of him or trust his heart.With danger closing in and no one else to turn to, Bronwyn and Mo must break years of silence...

"The damndest mixing of true crime, memoir, and maybe (?) ghost story I've ever read. The original Harper's article gave me the shivers, and this deeper dive is going to have me looking over my shoulder on every hike. Unputdownable." — Patton OswaltWith the immediacy and extraordinary feeling for people and place of Under the Banner of Heaven and Say Nothing, a compelling true crime story about two young girls who went missing in the same Arkansas woods twenty-three years apart and the strange circumstances connecting them.This story begins in 2001 on top of Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks. A six-year-old girl named Haley—Benjamin Hale's cousin—got lost on a mountain trail, prompting what was at the time the largest search and rescue mission in the state's history. Her disappearance—and her account, after she was found, of the "imaginary friend" she met in the woods—would eventually become connected to...