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  Cold Grace

  Meredith Miller

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  A story of survival and humanity set in early 1900s New England. Miller explores themes of race, disability, eugenics and rural life on the fringes of society.  'A woman's body is a machine specially designed for producing consequences.'  Winter closes in on a valley in northern New England where a violent history is about to repeat itself. The Allen family farm is nearly empty. Only Eddie, the youngest son, remains, living with his family's ghosts near the woods he loves. In those woods he meets Jeanne Delaney, a girl he's known all his life, now turning into a woman. This is not the first time that Eddie's people have come into contact with Jeanne's, though. Their families are already tied together by a violent past.  For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, Cold Grace is a dark historical novel defined by its frozen landscape. Both revenge tragedy and coming of age story, it tells of an isolated community haunted by the ghost of its own violence.

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  Among the Ashes

  Doug Powell

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  As Graham Eliot digitizes manuscripts in the world’s oldest library at the foot of Mount Sinai, a monk reveals the existence of a secret artifact behind the mysterious death of the prominent archaeologist who discovered it almost a century earlier. Now it is lost in the ruins of an Istanbul mansion. But the only photograph of the artifact reveals an even bigger secret—Mount Sinai may actually be somewhere else. 
  While in Istanbul, Graham learns the graduate student who was with him at the monastery library is missing. His last known location: one of the dozen mountains that may be the biblical Sinai. A forbidden mountain in a forbidden country. Now Graham has to find a way to rescue him without being detected. And in the process he may recover a history with explosive political implications.

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  The Hunted

  Lorhainne Eckhart

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  When two prisoners escape and one is found dead, Marcus O’Connell finds himself being hunted—and the hunter could be someone he trusts. 
  One late night, Sheriff Marcus O’Connell receives a call about two escaped prisoners considered a danger to the community. A search is underway, and the warden has reason to believe the escaped convicts are headed toward Livingston. An urgent warning is issued: Shoot to kill. 
  Hours later, Marcus is called to a crime scene. The body of one of the escaped prisoners has been discovered deep in the woods, and the scene has already been lit up, with three prison guards standing over the body, along with the sheriff and deputy from the county over and a tracker with his dogs. A story has been neatly put together, and the group at the scene tries to send Marcus on his way. 
  Yet one prisoner is still missing. Marcus is told no investigation is necessary, that he should sign off on the case and walk away. But nothing adds up. The problem is that dead men can’t talk, and Marcus can’t shake the feeling that the story he’s being told is a coverup for something far more sinister.

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  3 Stories - Irony - A trio of...

  O Henry, Guy de Maupassant, W...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears. 
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Irony 
  02 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  03 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  04 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

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  Aaron Finds His Forever

  Nellie Steele

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  He’s a doctor on the brink of losing everything. She’s a witch haunted by her past. Together, they must confront an impossible future. 
  Elara has spent centuries hiding from the curse she created. She’s a powerful witch, but her mistakes have left her isolated, afraid, and always looking over her shoulder. When Aaron, a dedicated doctor struggling with a failing marriage, crosses her path, their worlds collide in unexpected ways. He’s the last person she wants to rely on—but fate has other plans. 
  Aaron Becker is desperate for change, and helping the mysterious Elara after she’s injured seems like a simple way to distract himself from his crumbling life. But there’s something about her that pulls him in deeper than he ever intended. Soon, he’s wrapped up in a world of magic, curses, and dangerous werewolves—realities he never believed existed. 
  As their connection grows, so does the danger. With enemies from Elara’s past closing in and Aaron learning more about his own destiny, the two must work together to break the curse that threatens them both. Can love conquer the secrets and magic that keep them apart, or will the darkness of their pasts destroy their future?

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  Northanger Abbey

  Anonymous

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  The satire of Gothic fiction, Northanger Abbey is twisted, thorny, and smart. But it’s never quite as dark as its protagonist, Catherine Moreland, expects it to be. After all, Catherine always has her nose in a Gothic novel, which means she imagines everything around her will be more dramatic and romantic than it ever is. Catherine is an average seventeen-year-old. She’s a sports-lover and an imaginative young woman—and she’s at the age when ladies of her era typically participate in courtship and marriage. But her dark filter on the world keeps getting in the way.
   
  Northanger Abbey, published posthumously alongside Persuasion, was Jane Austen’s satirical response to the popular fiction of her day. This classic coming-of-age story is brimming with witty parody, over-the-top drama, and a nearly Shakespearean cast of characters.

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