From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression―by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can hold in the face of overwhelming male violence, the resilience of community despite state-sponsored degradation, and the potential of the jungle to save us all. To escape her newly aggressive lover, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about the rampant attacks on the region’s women, which have grown so commonplace that the cases quickly fill her large notebook. What she finds in the jungle is not only persistent racism, patriarchy, and deforestation, but a deep longing for answers to her enigmatic past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of Icamiabas , warrior women bent on vengeance―and gradually, she recovers the details of her own mother’s early death. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman resists it is a series of prose poems lamenting the real-life women murdered by so many men in Brazil; a personal search for history, truth, and belonging; and a modern, exacting, and sometimes fantastical take on very old problems that, despite our better selves, dog us the world over.

Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be" ... or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams -- if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can't help but wonder if all she's done is trade her captivity under Dr. Finkelstein for a different -- albeit gilded -- cage. But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town in the forest Hinterlands, she'll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. Can Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she's learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst... well, nightmare</I?

From Dead Eleven author Jimmy Juliano, a twisty, edge-of-your-seat novel about a unique haunting in the early 2000sPiper Lowery, a public library clerk in charge of liaising with the local middle school, can tell right away there’s something strange about the new girl in eighth grade. Avery Wallace won’t touch any kind of technology, not even the computers at the library, and her mother comes to school with her every day, refusing to leave her side—not even when Avery uses the restroom.And then there are the rumors, the whispers Piper hears from kids in the hallway and parents around Avery’s mother is a witch. Her sister and father were killed by something supernatural. A strange virus killed them.Seeing how isolated and lonely Avery is, Piper befriends her but quickly realizes it might just be the worst decision she’s ever made. Because there’s something dark inside Avery Wallace, and it’s spreading . . .

A tale of veggies tempted to break their vows.Fleeing a tumultuous past, Emily finds refuge at a kitchen job in a quiet countryside parish.Robert and Laurent are two best friends with a bond that has crossed lines throughout their history, but now walk the straight and narrow, giving their lives to their parish as priests.One magical night under the harvest moon, Robert and Laurent experience a bizarre They wake up as a tomato and cucumber.Emily brings these ripe and juicy vegetables into the kitchen, but instead of preparing a meal, she uses them for other, more pressing needs. Emily awakens something in the priests, who, from then on, spend their days as humans and their nights in their vegetable forms.The three find themself in a steamy entanglement, unable to deny their primal desires. Will they fight their urges or break their vows and alter the course of their lives forever?From the best-selling author of Get In My Swamp comes a veggie love story filled with angst and lust.

Two rivals from opposing families fight their forbidden attraction to each other in the brand new romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.As the middle Jaeger brother, Dallas was often lost in the shuffle growing up. As a man, he’s prideful of his community on the wrong side of the tracks—Sanoa Bay—and aggressively protective of his land and his inner circle. He’s hungry and ready for a fight.Callum Ames has a reputation in St. Carmen, the affluent neighborhood abutting Sanoa Bay. The hottest. The most popular. Rich. Powerful. Strong. The one all the women want. After four years away, he’s back, but for all his bravado, he’s got one major he only looks at Dallas Jaeger.Summer is storm season on the coast. Heat, wind, rain…Lockdown and curfew.As Dallas and Callum engage, out for each other's blood, they can't stop the consuming fire between them and the outcome they already see coming...The storm of the century. *Full synopsis coming.

A town divided. An unknowable evil. Actually, make that two evils. Seventeen years ago, a machete wielding masked maniac known as the Silver Fox terrorized Camp Creed, killing nineteen people on a night that became infamous as The Creed Falls Massacre. His bloody rampage ended when final girl Jamie Campbell fought back. At least, that's how Jamie tells it. Today, the small town of Creed Falls can't decide if the Silver Fox was the killer, or if Jamie used him as a scapegoat to hide her own crimes. With tensions between factions reaching their peak on the anniversary of the massacre, a new threat emerges, as well as a very old one. A strange meteor crashes on the outskirts of town, transforming townsfolk into hideous mutated monsters. Meanwhile, an old foe is somehow resurrected at the site of the old campground; the Silver Fox. With an unstoppable slasher carving his way from one side of town, and this mysterious infection spreading on the other, Jamie Campbell and her teenage daughter Claire find themselves caught in the middle of a double-feature of small town cosmic horrors. Can they find a way to mend the town's warring factions long enough to survive The Creed Falls Massacres?

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetures and speech. On Karras's recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . .

Heading out on their first date night in two years, Yocelyn and Joel Cooper entrust their son, two-year-old River, to their frequent babysitter, Kristine Sloan. Kristine has proven herself to be reliable and caring, looking after River like a little brother. So, it was supposed to be a quiet, peaceful, romantic night for the couple. But Kristine has different plans up her sleeves—different callings in her mind, different voices to please. Jon Athan, the author of Are Your Parents Home? and Our Dead Girlfriend, changes the 'babysitter from hell' formula with his first extreme horror novella. Don't worry, you're in good hands... Warning: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised.