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A three-hundred-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones. But when Pai... more

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Reading, writing, and revenge--this school’s curriculum is murder. Salvager Paisley Sutton has been ... more

Nail guns have always terrified Harvey Beckett, and now she knows why. Harvey enjoys sharing a parki... more

The things Harvey Beckett doesn’t know about her neighbors could get her killed. Spring in St. Marin... more

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Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel t... more

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