Ally McKellar loves owning and running her own restaurant, Belle Rose. After working in a busy New York restaurant, managing her own kitchen is like a breath of fresh air. Even better, it’s rapidly becoming the local favorite place to go in the quaint, mountain town of Calendar. But if people knew about Ally’s recent past, her customers might not be so keen to sample her delicious dishes. When the local newspaper’s food critic makes a reservation to try out her new menu, Ally knows she’s got to nail every course to ensure good publicity. There’s only one problem: the critic dies during the second course and everything points towards food poisoning. Suddenly, Ally’s success as an entrepreneur is in jeopardy while her past is hastily dredged up, threatening to destroy the new life she has recently managed to create. With the help of Jack Harper, her handsome sous chef with a questionable past of his own, Ally must discover the real killer or risk losing not only Belle Rose, but her desire for a happy new life as well.

Son of the Poison Rose marks the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic, swashbuckling Kagen the Damned series. The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden thrones. Kagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on his head and a reward for him—dead or alive—that would tempt a saint. The Witch-king has new allies who bring a terrible weapon—a cursed disease that drives people into a murderous rage. If the disease is allowed to spread, the whole of the West will tear itself apart. In order to build an army of resistance fighters and unearth magical weapons of his own, Kagen and his friends have to survive attacks and storms at sea, brave the haunted wastelands of the snowy north, fight their way across the deadly Cathedral Mountains, and rediscover a lost city filled with cannibal warriors, old ghosts, and monsters from other worlds. Along with his reckless adventurer brothers, Kagen races against time to save more than the old empire... if he fails the world will be drenched in a tsunami of bloodshed and horror. Son of the Poison Rose weaves politics and espionage, sorcery and swordplay, treachery and heroism as the damned outcast Kagen fights against the forces of ultimate darkness.

Out of school, out of work, and out of motivation, Abby Rose is contemplating her life and wondering what to do next. It's the kind of situation that would get some girls down, but luckily Abby's got a heart the size of Texas-and a bank account to match. But when she discovers the gardener dead in her greenhouse, Abby realizes what she needs to do with herself: she needs to solve a murder...

IN THE CLASSIC DETECTIVE FILM NOIR GENRE PORTRAYED BY THE GREAT DASHEILL HAMMET, RAYMOND CHANDLER, ROBERT PARKER, OUR DETECTIVE FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL NEWMAN, HUMPHREY BOGART AND STEVE MCQUEEN TO SOLVE A PERPLEXING CASE OF MURDER, BLACKMAIL AND KIDNAPPING. THE BOOK IS BASED ON A FILM THAT STARS JOHN TRAVOLTA AND MORGAN FREEMAN WHICH IS BEING RELEASED IN 2019.

Aliens are disturbing the peace in the city of Mirazor. They are abducting people from the streets and doing very unpleasant things to them. Beyond the city walls, a parasitic weed of mysterious provenance is spreading with astonishing speed across the world.Mirazor is full of refugees. The novel’s protagonist, Tegimor Halstaf, travels to the city and is reluctantly drawn into the resistance movement. Among his fellow warriors are a magician’s beautiful daughter, a belligerent dwarf with a taste for collecting alien heads, and a pair of young lovers who have escaped from the invaders’ mother-ship. Together, this curious group manage to save the world.Author V. Peter Maslin is inspired by a variety of Science-Fiction and Fantasy writers, including Brian Aldiss, M. John Harrison and William S. Burroughs. He feels his novel to be in the tradition of Meryvn Peake’s Gormenghast. Mirazor will appeal to fans of science-fantasy fiction.