Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It's enough to drive some women mad... In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she's eager to settle down. Lilydale's motto, "Come Home Forever," couldn't be more inviting. And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village. The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan can't shake the feeling that every move she makes is being tracked. An archaic organization still seems to hold the town in thrall. So does the sinister secret of a little boy who vanished decades ago. And unless Joan is imagining things, a frighteningly familiar figure from her past is on watch in the shadows. Her fiancé tells her she's being paranoid. He might be right. Then again, she might have moved to the deadliest small town on earth.
In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying.
"Republic Senate, that hope seems like a distant memory.
Sheldon's sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill.
In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
"Torn from an idyllic life with a loving, extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized - and empty cupboards.
The eighth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.
This is mystery, suspense, surprise, and ingeniously inventive storytelling as only James Rollins can do it.
At first John blames his bloody nightmares on trench fever. But when Harker appears in England and begins wooing John's sister, John must confront the truth—and stop Harker from continuing Dracula's bloodline.
His first big test had come early in the year when most of the sixty-seven workers at the Adelson Coat Factory on Canal Street signed cards asking for a union election. Tommy took to loitering around the place, where he ran into a man ...
Featuring all the charm and adventure of Arthurian romance, this unique work also has a cutting edge of intrigue which removes the blanket of enigma to reveal one of the greatest conspiracies ever.