Briar Rose Thorne is grieving her late mother Aurora, back in her childhood home on Chicago's South Side. In the days since her mother's passing, she's been having strange, vivid dreams about a girl in white asking for someone to take her home. She also hears phantom music throughout the house, along with other strange… Continue reading Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo
Nadia and Cass Brenner are the heirs to Ocean House – a mega-yacht construction company about to expand into the Asian market. While heading up their next big project for an AI mogul in Singapore, Cass turns up dead from a fall off of a high-rise balcony. While law enforcement rule the death as a suicide, Nadia isn’t convinced. While digging into Cass’s life and project plans across the world, she discovers that she didn’t know her sister as well as she thought. Additionally, mysterious people are following Nadia’s footsteps as she tries to unlock the truth. And the secrets she uncovers, she begins to understand the truth is much bigger than just another superyacht. The Drowning Game by Barbara Nickless is a suspenseful thriller in which Nadia must decide whether to risk her own life and continue Cass’s work, or else leave the fate of their company and clients in the balance.
For the past 20 years, Agatha Cardiff has lived a secluded life on the outskirts of D.C. She was once the chief of staff for Congressman Paul Paxton. But after covering up a potential scandal for him, one that would have ruined Senator Harrison Clark’s career, she left politics and swore to never get into a situation like that ever again. But now, her tenant Shelby goes missing. Feeling responsible for the young woman, she searches for answers. Only the truth is much more complicated than Agatha ever imagined. And by getting involved in Shelby’s rescue, Agatha risks her own skeletons coming to the surface. Especially now that Harrison is President of the United States, and Paul is calling in those favors from the past to secure a nomination to the Supreme Court. The Slate by Matthew FitzSimmons is a political crime thriller in which Agatha must dust off her political savvy and cut-through intuition to not only unveil decades-long corruption, but also keep her own involvement a secret – lest she pays the price herself.
