Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the ground-breaking theory explored in Mortals. The ground-breaking book that uncovers how our fear of death is the hidden driver of most of humankind's endeavours. The human mind can grapple with the future, visualising and calculating solutions to complex problems, giving us tremendous advantages over other species throughout our evolution. However, this capability comes with a curse. By five to ten years of age, all humans know where they are heading: to the grave. In Mortals, Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies, both acclaimed psychologists whose life's work has focused on death anxiety, examine all the major human responses to death across history. From the development of religious systems denying the finality of death, to 'immortality projects' involving enduring art, architecture and literature, some of the consequences of our fear of death have been glorious while others have been destructive, leading to global conflicts and genocide. Looking forward, Mortals hypothesises that worse could be to come-our unconscious dread of death has led to rampant consumerism and overpopulation, driving the global warming and pandemic crises that now threaten our very existence. In a terrible irony, Homo sapiens may ultimately be destroyed by our knowledge of our own mortality.

An unsettling, wildly compulsive debut, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it reduces us to the worst parts of ourselves in search of the right kind of beautiful Like every American teenager, Kashmira wants nothing more than to be wanted. What’s worse, every time she looks in the mirror, she sees the features of the father who abandoned her family, and the grief is reopened. But when an old friend introduces her to the wonders of Evolvoir, a personalized beauty product that mimics social media filters, layering a “second face” over your real one, Kashmira jumps at the chance to have features that are exactly what is in vogue.  At Evolvoir’s corporate offices in New York, Kashmira’s twenty-something brother Nikhil begins what he’s sure is another cookie-cutter start-up job. Already disillusioned with the tech world, Nikhil’s instinct is to rebel against his new employer’s colonialist beauty standards and create radical change from the inside. He wants to work somewhere that values faces like his—like his mother’s, like his sister’s—even if he must take matters into his own hands to do so. But as Nikhil’s efforts successfully expand Evolvoir’s customer base, reports of medical distress in some of the product’s users begin to surface. And when Kashmira is hospitalized, undiagnosable inflammation consuming her body, Nikhil uncovers the vicious truth about Evolvoir’s proprietary technology and must decide where his loyalty lies.  Both suspenseful and full of heart Ravishing is Gold Diggers meets Uncanny Valley, with a touch of The Other Black Girl. Through Kashmira and Nikhil’s stories, debut novelist Eshani Surya deftly excavates the experience of coming of age in white spaces. And with its unflinching look at living with chronic illness, Ravishing asks how much quiet suffering we’ll endure in exchange for beauty, for acceptance, for love. 

Before Logan Barnes was hockey’s hottest bad boy, he was my brother’s best friend … and my first crush. Oh, yeah—and the guy who ghosted me and broke my teenage heart. Now Logan is back in Harvest Hollow, but not willingly. Recovering from an injury (and some bad press), he’s stuck playing for our minor league team. Which means I’ll be working with him almost daily. As the hockey team's social media manager, it’s my job to wrangle all the guys into filming TikTok trending videos. But Logan doesn’t want to be wrangled. Turns out … neither does my heart. Because my old crush never died. And when Logan becomes my accidental fake boyfriend, those old feelings flare hot enough to melt the ice. But this is all totally one-sided. Totally fake. Isn't it? No matter what signals he seems to be giving me or how real things start to feel, I know Logan’s not home for good. I survived Logan leaving me once. But this time, I’m not so sure my heart will recover…

There’s a hideous monster on the loose, crushing heads and taking names. But Detective Calvin Kinsey is on the case! Two years ago, Cal Kinsey was an up-and-coming cop in the Aurora Police Department. But during a fateful nighttime stakeout in search of a prolific killer, Cal witnessed the darkest corner of his dreams come to life. A rogue vampire slaughtered his partner — to put it nicely — and introduced Cal to the supernatural world he never knew existed in the shadows. Now, Cal is a newly minted detective at the often mocked Department of Supernatural Investigations. By day, the agents of DSI are called “Kooks” by local law enforcement. By night, they’re known as “Crows,” reviled by the supernatural underworld. Mere weeks out of the academy, Cal catches his first real case, a vicious murder at a local college. An unknown sorcerer has summoned a powerful creature from the Eververse, a realm of magic and mayhem that borders Earth, and set it on a dangerous warpath through the city. Between butting heads with his grumpy team captain, stirring up ill will with the local wizards and witches, and repeatedly getting the crap beaten out of himself, Cal must find a way to stop the Eververse monster and send it back to the hell it came from… …preferably before Aurora, Michigan runs out of coffins for the dead.

Hetty Stanley was a schoolteacher. Hetty Stanley was a prudish spinster. Hetty Stanley was a murderer. Hetty Stanley has been dead for more than a century. Dane Butler is doing his best and his best isn’t enough, but a little luck puts him into an inherited home that shares a property line with a woman and her son. Winona and her son Casey are no better off than Dane, forcing the strangers to rely on one another. One day, Dane looks up from his computer at the sound of Winona shouting in through his door. Her four-year-old son is missing—no boots and no coat, January in Minnesota. Hours pass. Police scour the woods and begin pointing fingers at the only plausible suspects, but one high-ranking officer knows the painful history. Children have been disappearing from the old schoolhouse property for decades, and although it is impossible, there’s only one likelihood: Hetty Stanley. To save Casey, Dane and Winona must find the link to Hetty and follow it, no matter how impossible the route seems or what trials they might face and what stakes they must overcome. "Sprinkled with cultural nods and winks, Hetty emerges from the genres it references to become something distinct. Eddie Generous is handy with an unexpected metaphor and it marks a voice that speaks its own brand of weird." -- Andrew Pyper, author of The Residence and The Demonologist "Hetty is unsettling in the best sort of way. Eddie Generous creates a monster right out of every parent’s worst nightmares, the evil that’s been there all along, hidden in plain sight. Hetty scared the crap out of me. I couldn’t put it down.” -- Leslie Lutz, author of Fractured Tide