Back In Their Day

Late one cold, dark winter’s night, a fierce wind pushes Pixie Morrow across the empty, icy sidewalk to the front door of a Chicago bookstore. Upstairs, Claire Ruane, bookseller, is half asleep in her office when she abruptly wakes to the certainty that someone significant has just arrived. And darkness will follow.

Life is quiet for Pixie Morrow, 71, in her small ranch home outside Phoenix. Still recovering from caretaking her late husband, Pixie spends her days sleeping late, listening to Tony Bennett on the stereo, taking naps, and missing her husband. When her cousin dies in Chicago, Pixie takes a trip alone for the first time in her life to attend the funeral. Walking back to her hotel on a freezing cold winter’s night, a fierce wind pushes her across the icy sidewalk to the front door of Old Town Used Books.

Upstairs, Claire Ruane, 30, owner of Old Town Used Books, is in her office with her head on her desk. She’s exhausted by the symptoms of her C-PTSD and the reemergence of her clairvoyance after her meds stopped working. Half asleep, she startles awake with the certainty that someone significant has just arrived.

And something dark will follow.

The summer that changes everything…

Lizzie Beaumont has the perfect life — on paper. A successful career, a wealthy fiancé, and a dream wedding just months away. But when her fiancé cancels their plans yet again to prioritize work, Lizzie makes a spontaneous decision: a solo escape to the charming seaside town of Hope Cove.

She’s looking for space to clear her head. She doesn’t expect Max.

When the handsome, easygoing guy next door asks for her help redecorating, Lizzie is all too eager to oblige. Suddenly, the quiet week she envisioned is filled with laughter, late-night talks, and a connection she never saw coming.

But reality isn’t far behind. As her return date looms, so do the questions she can’t ignore. Is her fiancé truly the man she wants to spend forever with — or just the man she agreed to marry?

One summer. One choice. And one question she never thought she’d have to ask: What if “having it all” means letting go of everything she knows?

Christmas 1922.

Violet Carlyle–along with a slew of relatives–is called to spend the holidays with their aunt, Agatha Davies. The intransigent woman has spent the majority of her life squirreling away money and alienating her family. It’s hardly the first time Vi has spent the holidays with her aunt. She and her twin intend to do what they always do. Enjoy Aunt Aggie’s luxuries while ignoring the histrionics of the family trying to worm their way into the will. Only this time, Aunt Aggie claims someone is trying to kill her. But how can that be true? Before Vi can find the killer, Aunt Aggie dies. Since Agatha never named an heir, why would anyone want to kill her? To her shock, Vi finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation where she and her family are the suspects. Just who murdered Aunt Agatha? And why? Will they be able to find the killer before someone else dies?

In the wake of a brutal interstellar war, the defeated survivors race out into the stars looking for a sanctuary in deep space. They head off to a distant corner of the galaxy on a desperate journey, seeking out a planet they believe sterilized of human life back in antiquity, where they can begin anew. They limp along in crippled, battle-damaged warships, short on food, fuel and spare parts, in the hope they can make it to their lonely destination without perishing along the way.
It is a nearly hopeless endeavor where the fleet struggles with starvation, impossible decisions and spirits sinking into the pits of despair.

If they are lucky, perhaps a handful of them will ultimately survive to start over again.

No romance. Just action, bullets, and a man on the run.

Wesley McCoy has always been a drifter — good with a gun, handy with a deck of cards, and smart enough to stay out of trouble when the odds ain’t in his favor. But after a card game gone wrong lands him in jail, he finds himself faced with a choice: swing from a noose or ride with former Texas Ranger William McKinnrick, a man who claims he still upholds the law.

McKinnrick and his men bring justice to the lawless frontier — or so it seems at first. Hunting outlaws, collecting bounties, and settling scores, McCoy starts to believe he’s finally found something worth riding for. But the deeper he gets, the more he sees the cracks in McKinnrick’s badge. The lines between law and outlaw blur when McCoy witnesses his new boss taking bribes, cutting deals, and deciding who lives and who dies — not based on justice, but on profit.

By the time he realizes the truth, it’s too late to ride away clean. With a bounty on his own head and McKinnrick’s gang turning against him, McCoy must play his last hand, knowing the stakes are his own damn life. But in this game, there are no second chances — only bullets and blood.