A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia's foremost realist painter Thomas Eakins when he attempts to stage Manet's scandalous painting The Luncheon on the Grass. Soon after, he is ensnarled, along with Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie, in a clash between the Anti-Imperialist League and their expansionist foes. Sent to Key West to sketch the 1898 American invasion of Cuba, in company with war correspondent Stephen Crane, he realizes––in the flash of a naval bombardment––that our lives are suspended by a thread between radiance and annihilation.The Caricaturist, the penultimate, stand-alone book in The American Novels series, is a tragicomic portrait of America struggling to honor its...

*Extreme Content Warning: Reader Beware** Two brutal killers. One bloody game. ARE YOU READY TO PLAY? Hello. I'm David. But that's not my only name. The media call me The London Strangler . . . and I've been terrorising this city for years. But the thing is: I'm getting bored. Murder's a lonely game and I need someone to play with. Now I think I've found the perfect partner. Someone I know well. Someone I trust. Someone who has a secret as dark as my own - a secret I know he'll kill to keep hidden, whether he wants to or not . . . It's killer vs killer in this disturbingly gripping and bloody thriller, perfect for hardcore fans of Clive Barker, Stephen King, American Psycho and Luther - and definitely only for readers with strong stomachs!

Dawn, a self-employed cleaning lady in upstate New York, agrees to pose in the houses she cleans for her friend Matthew' s provocative photography project. Over the course of one week, she and Matthew scour the contents of each home to find inspiration but what she uncovers instead is an unexpected connection to the people who live there: from the insecure Bridget Riley, and the recent immigrant Wei Chen, to the pretentious Robert McIntyre. But it' s the troubled housewife, Barb Turner, and the chaos of her life that finally force Dawn to confront her darkest secret about the death of her fiancé . Coming Clean is a novel of forgiveness, family, and fresh starts.

A quaint charity tea party at the infamous Hollowcrest Manor takes a wickedly enchanting turn when amateur Octavia Grimstone and her friends are entrapped in a curse. They begin regressing in age… that’s not so bad for midlife witches, right? Yet the change is rapid and perhaps never-ending, which means sooner rather than later, they will no longer exist. Their only chance? Solving an alleged old murder case that’s been whispering through the cobwebbed halls of the manor for years. One that might be related to the death of Octavia’s late husband. With her teaching days behind her and a career as a cozy mystery author and bookstore co-owner proving more dangerous than expected, Octavia’s flair for unraveling mysteries is sharply tested. Alongside her, the ever-snarky feline familiar Elzadora and the attractive Cassius Morgenthrall, a witch doctor whose steady hand in magic and medicine is suddenly vital, dive into the heart of the manor’s supernatural secrets. Beneath the manor’s gilded surface, the tea party guests are not just a glittering array of Grimstone Grove’s elite but a collection of suspects with motives as murky as the manor’s hidden passageways. As the grandfather clock runs backward, they must sift through enchantments and echoes of forbidden lore to piece together the motive behind the murders. Maneuvering through a tangle of high society’s false courtesies and her own tangled emotions regarding her late husband’s death, Octavia’s resolve is challenged. They have until sunrise to unmask the killer and halt the effects when the curse draws near.

Sometimes the truth sets us free. But most of the time, it's the scariest thing in the world – so scary it keeps us on the run for our entire lives. Which is why, when an eight-and-a-half-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped in a retirement community forge a fragile bond and become each other's accidental family, they only have one rule: never speak about before.But the truth has a way of catching up to us, spoken or unspoken. And when the pair's bond is tested, they may finally have to face their pasts. Or they could just run like hell. Their fateful decisions lead to misadventures that include a 30 mile taxi ride, smuggled brownies, angry bees, a soundtrack by Cole Porter, and a rising body count that is (mostly) not their fault.It Rhymes With Truth is the story of two people wrestling with their pasts while they struggle with a vexing question: Is it possible to truly save someone else who may not want to be saved? This...