An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects-a pig-develops human speech; a man who, after recovering from his own coma, plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families; and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world. This is a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love, resilience and reinvention. Wonderful and disquieting, dreamlike and all too possible.

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. Burrowing through a wall, she finds a silver spoon etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM, humming with otherworldly energy. Hundreds of miles away in Salem, Myrna Good has been looking for Lucky. Myrna works for VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money. Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon links her to VenCo’s network of witches throughout North America. Generations of witches have been waiting for centuries for the seven spoons to come together, igniting a new era, and restoring women to their rightful power. But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move. He’s Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself. To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether VenCo will usher in a new beginning…or remain underground forever.

The past is the hardest thing to lay to rest. Especially when you’re the one who left it behind. Fifteen years ago, Jack Zelensky walked away from Shelby, Wisconsin — and the girl he loved — believing he was doing the right thing. Now, after the sudden death of his father brings him and his younger brother, Rob, back to Shelby, Jack must face the grief he’s been avoiding — and the woman he never truly let go of. Maggie Peterson never planned on returning either. But somehow, she’s found herself back in the small town she once fled, building a future that finally feels stable. She has a steady job. A safe relationship. A life that makes sense. Until Jack steps back into it. As unexplained deaths and restless spirits begin to plague Shelby, Maggie’s work — investigating reported hauntings and helping families understand what’s happening inside their homes — pulls her directly into Jack’s path. Working together means confronting the disturbances creeping through abandoned buildings and quiet motel rooms…and the unresolved past still echoing between them. Because the ghosts aren’t just hiding in the dark corners of town. They’re in old promises. In the life they almost had. And in the night Jack left — along with the explanation Maggie never fully believed. You’re The One That I Haunt is a contemporary, second-chance romance set in a haunted small town, blending high emotional stakes, angsty reunions, and deep intimacy with a guaranteed happily-ever-after ending. Perfect for fans of Supernatural and readers who love unresolved history and love stories worth risking everything for. This is a romance-first novel with paranormal and romantic suspense elements. While the story includes danger, near-death moments, and emotional intensity, the focus remains on the romance and the earned HEA ending.

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

The past is the hardest thing to lay to rest. Especially when you’re the one who left it behind. Fifteen years ago, Jack Zelensky walked away from Shelby, Wisconsin — and the girl he loved — believing he was doing the right thing. Now, after the sudden death of his father brings him and his younger brother, Rob, back to Shelby, Jack must face the grief he’s been avoiding — and the woman he never truly let go of. Maggie Peterson never planned on returning either. But somehow, she’s found herself back in the small town she once fled, building a future that finally feels stable. She has a steady job. A safe relationship. A life that makes sense. Until Jack steps back into it. As unexplained deaths and restless spirits begin to plague Shelby, Maggie’s work — investigating reported hauntings and helping families understand what’s happening inside their homes — pulls her directly into Jack’s path. Working together means confronting the disturbances creeping through abandoned buildings and quiet motel rooms…and the unresolved past still echoing between them. Because the ghosts aren’t just hiding in the dark corners of town. They’re in old promises. In the life they almost had. And in the night Jack left — along with the explanation Maggie never fully believed. You’re The One That I Haunt is a contemporary, second-chance romance set in a haunted small town, blending high emotional stakes, angsty reunions, and deep intimacy with a guaranteed happily-ever-after ending. Perfect for fans of Supernatural and readers who love unresolved history and love stories worth risking everything for. This is a romance-first novel with paranormal and romantic suspense elements. While the story includes danger, near-death moments, and emotional intensity, the focus remains on the romance and the earned HEA ending.