Recently broken up with her long-time boyfriend, Holly Harrison finds that reading true crime stories on her favorite blog, Murder For Your Thoughts, is the perfect way to distract herself from heartache. When women start to go missing around her neighborhood, Holly is determined to help anyway she can. That is, until her attention turns to her attractive neighbor. Luke Morris is finally all moved into his new apartment and should be focused on unpacking, not his beautiful new neighbor Holly. While getting to know her, he witnesses something suspicious in the building next door. Working together, the two decide to get to the bottom of things. Who would've thought solving crime would result in some seriously steamy nights?

They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.

Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.

Alligator Alley is the story of James Conrad, who is spending his 50th birthday alone in South Florida. He decides to take a drive along the famed Alligator Alley into the depths of the Everglades, ostensibly in search of memories of his great uncle, who left his family to live on a Seminole Indian reservation. In the course of that exploration, Conrad discovers his small town definition of success may be a ruse.

Deedra Masefield, a tough reporter with a romantic heart and a knack for finding trouble along with the story, is asked by the local sheriff to help in the investigation of a murder. The killing took place at North Ledge, a ghost town, but a ghost town with a new life. Important fossil remains have been discovered and the old town is now the site of a busy archaeological dig. The team of scientists, artists, and writers managing the dig are suddenly the target of a clever murderer. Is the killer's motivation personal or does it have something to do with the scientists' discovery? Deedra must rely on her reporter's instincts and survival skills as she stalks the killer through the rugged terrain.

A portrait of two gay men bonding into a marriage before its time, Men Touching is Henry Alley's poignant new novel of the healing powers of intimacy. In 1986, Robb, a Vietnam veteran now living in Seattle, tries to go off drugs and enters a nightmarish world, when he recalls his involvement in a hit-and-run accident in Saigon during the war. After he emerges from treatment for his addiction, he seeks help from his partner Bart, a high school drama teacher, who is in the process of coming out to his family, just as a friend is dying of AIDS. As the two stories unite, Bart and Robb reach a reconciliation both between and within themselves.