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What’s new

The Nightmare Thief

Available now
For the first time, Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney are thrown together on a murder investigation – one that goes wrong and leaves Jo fighting for survival and Evan racing against time to rescue her. When Jo and her partner, Gabe Quintana, cross paths with a group of college kids playing an “ultimate urban reality” game in the Sierra Nevada wilderness, they don’t know that a criminal gang is taking it to the next level. They’re playing for real. Jo and Gabe are pulled into the game, and the stakes are raised. Because nobody is leaving this party alive.


And coming on July 5th

Ransom River

Meg’s first stand-alone novel is an atmospheric thriller about a complex and flawed heroine, a murder trial, and the long-unsolved mystery it exposes. Rory Mackenzie is a juror on a high-profile murder case in her hometown of Ransom River, California. It’s a place she vowed never to visit again, and her return dredges up troubling memories from the childhood she spent as an outsider. But in the wake of a desperate attack on the courthouse, Rory realizes that exposing these dark skeletons has connected her to an old case that was never solved, and bringing the truth to light just might destroy her.