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Freshly landed on the shelf: four new worlds to lose an afternoon in, from war-torn kingdoms to haunted family secrets.

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Mystery

The Seventh Confession

Four months of silence ends when Clara Moss steps through the door of her father's house on Larch Street, where tea has been steeping long past saving. Judge Aldric Moss has vanished, leaving behind a stack of unanswered letters, a name circled in red ink, and a single page marked The Seventh Confession. Clara once traded the courtroom for the pressroom, believing the truth was a cleaner weapon than any gavel, but her father begged her to bury a story four months ago, and she hasn't spoken to him since. Now the town she left behind is unraveling. Mayor Thomas Vane is fighting for his political life, his son Samuel stands accused of a death no one can explain, and seven confessions have surfaced across the county, each one stripping the mask from a household that thought its secrets were safe. Clara's estranged ally Rourke Calloway warns her to stay out, but Dr. Fenwick Ainsley has evidence that points directly to her, and a silent benefactor is paying her rent. The seventh confession names Clara Moss. To clear her name, she must finish what her father started, trust a stranger named Margot Ellison with the only piece of evidence she has, and choose between the family she fled and the story that could destroy it. The truth will not wait for the kettle to cool.

by Adair Page · 20 chapters · 10h 21m read

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Agnes Marple

Fiction

The Sweet Smell of Arsenic and Apple Pie

Cordelia Pruitt steps off a rattling bus into Honeybell Hollow, Georgia, expecting nothing more than a quiet life and her grandmother's battered recipe box. Instead, she steps directly into a murder investigation. A dead man lies tangled in the mayor's prized camellias, and the only law in town is a sunburned sheriff who would rather chase porcupines than clues. Armed with sharp intuition, a vintage apron, and Deputy Penny Pickett as her reluctant partner, Cordelia begins poking into family feuds, forbidden romances, and a suspiciously cut-throat baking contest. Between suspicious neighbors, poisoned apple pies, and a colorful cast including the eccentric Erasmus Quill, society's sharp-tongued Delphine Featherstone, and the dangerous-seeming Fierce Fabien, every secret she uncovers puts her closer to the truth. But the killer is watching, and the next batch of arsenic may be baked with her name on it. Cordelia must decide how deep into Honeybell Hollow's rotten heart she is willing to dig before she becomes the next ingredient.

by Agnes Marple · 20 chapters · 8h 54m read

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Bex Inglewood

Fantasy

The Crown Beneath the Ash

At Vael's Crossing, Captain Aldric Morvane stands in mud turned to blood and surveys a hollow victory, unaware that the smoke rising from the broken earth carries a more dangerous secret than the ashes of war. When a whispered legend of a buried crown begins to spread through tavern, temple, and throne room, the fragile peace Aldric bled for threatens to shatter. Chancellor Maren Trell plays a careful game in King Halvarn's court, while Lady Elara Morvane finds herself a pawn in a conspiracy she barely understands. To the east, Kaelen, the Ash Warlord, marshals the Dusklander horde beneath banners that have not flown in a generation, and the High Pontiff Seren preaches of sacred fires that will cleanse the realm. Exiled heir Princess-Sovereign Isolde watches from across the sea, and even Othric Vane and Ser Brannon cannot say whose blade will fall first. As the buried crown begins to wake, Aldric must choose between the king he served, the sister he swore to protect, and the truth that the real war has only just begun, and the ashes remember everything.

by Bex Inglewood · 20 chapters · 9h 16m read

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Alex Strand

Fiction

The Alexandria Strand Disappearances

Maren Calloway hasn't set foot on Ridgewater Lane in eleven years, but when a letter arrives from a place she barely remembers, she knows she has to go back. The Vermont cabin is exactly as her aunt described in decades of postcards, birch trunks crowding the shoulders, fog pressing low against the hills, and a silence that feels curated. But the neighbors she left behind are gone. Not dead. Gone. And in their kitchens, their jobs, their beds, sit replacements no one seems willing to question. Maren's return draws the attention of Declan Hargrove, an old friend whose grief has calcified into something sharper, and Petra Voss, a researcher convinced the vanishings follow a pattern buried in the county's forgotten records. Local journalist Howard Pell wants the story. So does the Replacement woman, whose interest in Maren borders on devotion. As the autumn woods close in, Maren must decide how far she'll follow the strand of evidence her aunt left behind, and whether solving the mystery is worth the risk of becoming the next name on a list that never stops growing.

by Alex Strand · 20 chapters · 9h 13m read

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