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Solace House by Will Maclean
From a third-floor window, a nineteen-year-old watches his hall of residence empty for the summer. Parents arrive in small cars. Personalities are packed away with the stereos. By nightfall he counts the lit windows and finds there is exactly one other.
Solace House by Will Maclean
From a third-floor window, a nineteen-year-old watches his hall of residence empty for the summer. Parents arrive in small cars. Personalities are packed away with the stereos. By nightfall he counts the lit windows and finds there is exactly one other.
They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough
At four in the morning a frail woman in a nightdress stands with her nose almost touching the window glass, tapping at it to get the attention of somebody outside. Her granddaughter finds her there, freezing, and asks what she is doing. The old woman says: is that me?
Echoes of the Unspoken by Diana Elizabeth Martinovich – From the Grand Stage to the Written Page
Discover Echoes of the Unspoken, Diana Elizabeth Martinovich’s gripping debut psychological thriller exploring control, silence, toxic relationships, resilience, and the fight to reclaim one’s voice.
The Dark in Her Veins by M.K. Lobb
Looking for a towel in a stranger's bathroom, an assassin opens a closet door and finds a preaching sash bearing the emblem of the cult that killed her sister. She is standing in the home of the only people currently helping her stay alive.
Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier
At a Las Vegas fan convention, a reality star swings at a gossip blogger who has been tormenting her for six years and connects instead with a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor wearing a T-shirt with her own face printed on it. Forty phones catch it. Her career ends in the time it takes to post.
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
An immortal swordsman kills the bandits who were beating a stranger, then sits down on the verge to wait for the stranger to freeze to death, because a dead wielder is a free sword. He lasts about forty minutes before he gets up and builds a fire.
Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty
A cremation worker takes a pair of bolt cutters to an unattended body, posts one finger to a high school principal, and explains afterwards that she meant it as a finger pointing at somebody. It is the most sensible thing any adult does in this novel.
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Solace House by Will Maclean
From a third-floor window, a nineteen-year-old watches his hall of residence empty for the summer. Parents arrive in small cars. Personalities are packed away with the stereos. By nightfall he counts the lit windows and finds there is exactly one other.
They Say a Girl Died Here by Sarah Pinborough
At four in the morning a frail woman in a nightdress stands with her nose almost touching the window glass, tapping at it to get the attention of somebody outside. Her granddaughter finds her there, freezing, and asks what she is doing. The old woman says: is that me?
Echoes of the Unspoken by Diana Elizabeth Martinovich – From the Grand Stage to the Written Page
Discover Echoes of the Unspoken, Diana Elizabeth Martinovich’s gripping debut psychological thriller exploring control, silence, toxic relationships, resilience, and the fight to reclaim one’s voice.
The Dark in Her Veins by M.K. Lobb
Looking for a towel in a stranger's bathroom, an assassin opens a closet door and finds a preaching sash bearing the emblem of the cult that killed her sister. She is standing in the home of the only people currently helping her stay alive.
Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier
At a Las Vegas fan convention, a reality star swings at a gossip blogger who has been tormenting her for six years and connects instead with a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor wearing a T-shirt with her own face printed on it. Forty phones catch it. Her career ends in the time it takes to post.
