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At first, Linda Bergstrom's marriage to her husband James was idyllic. They were young and in love; he was about to enter the Navy and she was eager to start a family. But it wasn't long before the dream exploded. James became abusive and violent, prone to sudden bursts of anger, long silences, and unexplained disappearances. But Linda vowed to hold on, despite the pain and fear...and her disturbing suspicions about her husband's secret life.

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Hypnos and Jen aren’t married long when they realize something’s missing: They both want to have a child, especially when they see how happy Therese and Than are with their twins. But the creation of new gods is against the rules, and they aren’t willing to give up their immortality. Hermie and Hestie never asked to be demigods. Unlike others of their kind, they aren’t interested in going on quests and being the center of a world-changing prophecy. But when Zeus learns of Apollo’s vision, the hunt for Prometheus begins.

Over three hundred lives were lost in Tulsa in 1921. But some stories were never laid to rest. When Ellen, Sue, and Tanya travel to Oklahoma for a wedding, they stumble upon an abandoned warehouse on the edge of Tulsa’s revitalized arts district—an enormous structure with a violent history and a price too low to ignore. Locals claim it’s haunted. They’re right. Inside its walls, whispers echo through empty hallways. Phones die without warning. A presence demands to be heard.

When Sue falls in love with a dilapidated farmhouse near East Glacier Park Village—on land belonging to the Blackfeet Nation—she sees opportunity: sweeping mountain views, one hundred acres of forest, and the chance to create a retreat near Glacier National Park. The tribe sees something else. The property has stood vacant for decades, abandoned after a string of tragedies no one can explain. Families fled. Children suffered. And the land itself seems unwilling to be claimed.

Tanya is not herself. The nightmares. The voice that sometimes sounds like someone else. When Ellen and Sue realize their friend may be spiritually attached to something beyond their understanding, they follow its trail to New Orleans—where faith, folklore, and history intertwine in the shadow of one of the city’s most infamous houses. The Lalaurie Mansion. There, guided by the careful wisdom of a Voodoo priestess, they begin to uncover the truth behind a long-buried injustice—one tied to Madame Delphine Lalaurie’s documented cruelty and a child whose remains were never properly laid to rest.

During a Christmas Eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen.

Dive into a world in which the ancient gods of Greece still rule in modern times. Thanatos meets 17-year-old Therese while she's in a coma hovering between the realm of the dead and the realm of dreams. A lucid dreamer, she takes control of her dream and kisses him, unaware that he is Death. It was his first kiss. No one, in his long existence, has ever wanted to kiss Death. After Therese awakens from her coma, Thanatos is desperate to find her. He makes a deal with Hades and goes to the Upperworld as a mortal to pursue her and to see where it might lead.

When Boulder City is inundated with strange occurrences, the local, state, and federal authorities come up emptyhanded. Motivated by heart-wrenching appeals on Sue's blog, Ellen and her friends offer to help. But the pressure's on like never before when their paranormal investigation is met with scrutiny at every turn, especially when they discover, with the help of a one-hundred-year-old ghost, a sickening coverup from the days of the building of the Hoover Dam.

When seventeen-year-old Therese Mills slips into a coma, she crosses into the realm between life and death—and meets Thanatos, the son of Hades and god of Death. One fearless kiss binds them together in a love that defies the laws of gods and mortals alike. But loving Death is only the beginning. To stay together, Therese must survive impossible trials set by Hades himself, outwit Olympian politics, and face the wrath of gods who refuse to accept a mortal among them. Immortality comes at a cost—and becoming a goddess may require sacrifices neither of them are prepared to make.

When Ellen McManius impulsively purchases a mid-century fixer-upper in Santa Fe as a private art retreat, she hopes for solitude—time to rediscover herself in a new marriage and in a city famous for reinvention. Instead, she discovers that her property borders a ravine known locally as Suicide Bridge. The first cry for help comes at dusk. A woman’s voice from below the bridge. A name whispered through the darkness: Angie Cole.

Still grieving the sudden loss of her husband, she agrees to travel with Sue and Tanya to Portland, Oregon, to help a wealthy businessman whose brother has vanished during the renovation of a historic carriage house. The building is beautiful. It’s profitable. And it sits above something far darker than anyone expected.

A small town, East Texas love triangle ends in a brutal execution. A teenage girl guns down her loving mother. A drag queen falls in love with a beautiful young woman, resulting in a horrific murder. A woman left for dead by a serial killer refuses to be a victim. These are just four of the cases explored in Murder, I Write, an exciting new anthology by critically acclaimed true crime author Kathryn Casey.

Therese Mills loves Thanatos, the god of Death. And he is determined to make her immortal. But the gods of Olympus have sworn she will never join them. Now Hades offers her a cruel bargain: Complete a series of impossible challenges designed to prove her worth — or lose Than forever. The trials are brutal. The stakes are divine. And the gods are not playing fair. To survive, Therese must face monsters, outwit Olympians, and risk everything — including her humanity. Because becoming a goddess means more than passing tests. It means deciding what she’s willing to sacrifice.

Everyone has a past. Some openly acknowledge it. Some do everything they can to hide it. But sometimes, no matter how many miles they've traveled, no matter how far they've come in their life, the past returns to haunt them.

Just when things were looking up for Than and Therese, everything crumbles. Eighteen-year-old Therese Mills has second thoughts about marrying Thanatos when she learns that no god has ever been faithful to his wife. But before she can move out of Than's rooms and into Hecate's, the Underworld is attacked, she and her friends are crushed, the souls are unleashed, and a malevolent goddess threatens to unhinge Mount Olympus.

Can you love someone and still be free? Emma Wyatt agrees to tutor a recently blinded, embittered soldier because of the 50,000-dollar paycheck his brother offers. Blind herself, Emma dreams of independence and freedom away from her overprotective family. But when she's attracted to her student, she fears falling for him means giving up her dreams.

When Ellen travels to Asheville for her son’s wedding at the Biltmore Estate, she hopes for peace, celebration, and a fresh beginning for her growing family. But the moment she steps onto the historic grounds, she senses it—the weight of unfinished stories lingering beneath the grandeur. Soon, Ghost Healers, Inc. finds themselves surrounded by spirits who refuse to remain silent. Among them is one presence both fragile and fierce—a woman claiming to be Zelda Fitzgerald. Brilliant. Overshadowed. Misunderstood. Determined to have her story told. But Zelda is not the only voice seeking justice.

An attack shatters Hades’s kingdom, unleashing billions of souls onto the earth and leaving the gods reeling. The Titans strain against Tartarus. Medusa walks free. And a malevolent force long banished begins to gather power. In the chaos, Therese is crushed beneath the ruins of the Underworld—and her soul slips away. Now Thanatos must fight on two fronts: restoring balance to the realms of the living and the dead while racing to find the woman he cannot lose again.

Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it's like to be in a sticky situation. As a single mother and one of the few female Rangers in Texas history, she has had to work twice as hard to rank among the best cops in the Lone Star State. But when mega-wealthy businessman Edward Lucas III is found murdered along with his mistress, their bodies posed in grotesque ways, Sara quickly senses that this will be the deadliest case of her career. While others focus the investigation on Lucas's estranged wife, Sarah disagrees.