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Whispers of the Lake, Shanora Williams' new thriller, is LIVE NOW! Amazon / B&N / Bookshop.org A marriage on the rocks, a missing friend, and a tangle of shocking lies converge at a peaceful North Carolina lakefront cottage. Investigative reporter Rose Howard is exhausted from trying to manage her seemingly perfect life. With her marriage to the man she thought was her one true love collapsing, she desperately needs for onething to go right. While striving for a promotion to senior reporter, her efforts are interrupted when she learns her former best friend and travel vlogger, Eve Castillo, isn't responding to attempts to contact her at the North Carolina cottage she's reviewing. Rose knows Eve can be flaky and irresponsible. And after Eve breaks the ultimate ethical friendship code and crosses boundaries to the point of no return, Rose wants nothing to do with her. Still, Rose heads to the tranquil small town of Sage Hill . . . Rose soon discovers that Eve...

Title: Someone Knows Author: Vi Keeland Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Emily Bestler Books Genre: Standalone Thriller Release Date: June 17, 2025 BLURB As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end. She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the teacher dead. Because she was the one who killed him. Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes cl...

Title: Someone Knows Author: Vi Keeland Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Emily Bestler Books Genre: Standalone Thriller Release Date: June 17, 2025 Take a sneak peek at SOMEONE KNOWS You know you want to... A voice behind me catches me off guard. “Put hers on my tab, please, Willow.” I expect to find the mullet man when I turn, but I’m pleasantly surprised. Instead, there’s a tall, handsome—albeit too young for me—man with a deliciously crooked smile. That smile widens, unveiling a set of cavernous dimples. Oh my. “You are definitely not from around here,” he drawls. I swivel and face him for a better look. “Oh yeah? Why is that?” “Because the girls from these parts drink one of three things: White Claws, High Noons, or Jack and Coke. And the third I keep away from because that means they’re going to wind up sloppy drunk.” “I suppose the reason I don’t drink any of those is because I’m a woman, not a girl.” Dimples looks me up and down. There’s a sparkle in his eyes wh...

Title: Someone Knows Author: Vi Keeland Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Emily Bestler Books Genre: Standalone Thriller Release Date: June 17, 2025 BLURB As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end. She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the teacher dead. Because she was the one who killed him. Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes cl...

Title: Duality Author: K.J. McGillick Genre: Mystery Thriller Release Date:  July 27, 2019 Just when you think you’ve figured it all out, you’ll learn how wrong you’ve been. What started out as a normal art restoration project for Melinda Martin soon took on a life of its own. Could this unusual painting actually be a Botticelli masterpiece thought to have perished as part of Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities? Had Melinda’s friend, Lara, a well-known art picker inadvertently acquired stolen art; art that might have ties to the occult and worth millions? Did a bad business decision endanger everyone who touched this potential treasure? When the painting disappears and both women are found dead, the police think it’s an open and shut case. The husband - it’s always the husband. He had means, motive, and opportunity, and acted strangely cold after the fact.  Is it a case of mistaken identity? Does a secret relationship put Mr. Martin in the crosshairs of an assassin sent t...