“I’ve lost track of time. Thanks to frequent number one New York Times bestseller Marshall Karp’s deft storytelling, his likable, unpredictable characters, and the hairpin curves I never saw coming, Don’t Tell Me How to Die gripped me from page one to the end in a single two-day binge. I wanted more.” —Maxine Paetro, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Women’s Murder Club series with James Patterson
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- Don’t Tell Me How to Die
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 3/04/25
Formats: Hardcover
I have one thing to do before I die.
And time is running out.I had it all: a fantastic husband, two great kids, an exciting career. And then, at the age of forty-three, I found out I would be dead before my next birthday.
My mother also died at forty-three. I was seventeen, and she warned me that women would flock to my suddenly single father like stray cats to an overturned milk truck. They did. And one absolutely evil woman practically destroyed his life, mine, and my sister’s.
I am not letting that happen to my family.
I have three months, and I plan to spend every waking minute searching for the perfect woman to take my place as Alex’s wife, and mother to Kevin and Katie.
You’re probably thinking, she’ll never do it. Did I mention that in high school I was voted “Most Likely to Kill Someone to Get What She Wants”?
From thriller writer Marshall Karp (cocreator with James Patterson of the #1 New York Times bestselling NYPD Red series), and rich with Karp’s deft array of three-dimensional characters and his signature biting humor, Don’t Tell Me How to Die has so many twists and turns, you’d swear he wrote it with a corkscrew.
- Don’t Tell Me How to Die
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 3/04/25
Formats: Hardcover
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- Shadow Lab
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Edited by Brendan Deneen
Stories by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Ed Cho, Rebecca Webb, Tom Radford, Nick Herbert, Marie Hoy-Kenny, and Brian Francis Slattery
Read by Gary Tiedemann, Tim Lounibos, Soneela Nankani, Zura Johnson, January LaVoy, Natalie Naudus, and Kevin Kenerly
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Release Date: 11/05/24
Formats: Hardcover
In Shadow Lab, a brilliant roster of speculative fiction writers pulls listeners into a diverse and genre-bending collection of stories, each as irresistible as the last.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Hell Divers: The Lost Years. In the radioactive wastes of what was once known as Earth, a man and his dog fight nightmarish creatures in order to return to their home in the sky.
In Clouds by Brian Francis Slattery, a happily married couple finds their relationship strained when they end up on opposite sides of a brewing conflict in the aftermath of the arrival of an alien species.
In Her Eyes by Rebecca Webb tells the story of Addie, a woman who discovers a pair of eyeglasses that offer a portal into the minds of their previous owners. Soon her obsession with a reckless woman named Nima begins to change everything …
These stories and more await the curious reader in Shadow Lab, a brand-new anthology from Blackstone Publishing.
- Shadow Lab
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Edited by Brendan Deneen
Stories by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Ed Cho, Rebecca Webb, Tom Radford, Nick Herbert, Marie Hoy-Kenny, and Brian Francis Slattery
Read by Gary Tiedemann, Tim Lounibos, Soneela Nankani, Zura Johnson, January LaVoy, Natalie Naudus, and Kevin Kenerly
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Release Date: 11/05/24
Formats: Hardcover
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- The Empire Wars
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By Akana Phenix
Read by January LaVoy and Jesse Vilinsky
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Release Date: 8/06/24
Formats: Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
A Kobo Best Young Adult Book for August!
“An exciting new voice in YA, Akana Phenix has written a gripping tale of resilience and courage that powerfully echoes the realities of conflict and injustice. The Empire Wars will resonate with young readers long after they turn the final page.”—Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The Empire Wars is a powerful new YA fantasy in which magic may be a young woman’s only hope for survival.
Coa, who was born feral in the North Transatlantic wilds, has been captured. Now, Coa is subject to public humiliation and execution in a gruesome spectacle known as the Great Hunt.
If participators die in the Great Hunt, their entire families will be executed—in front of everyone. The nationalist regime known as the Allied Force will not rest until all foreigners are exterminated. Coa’s best hope of survival might be Princess Ife—born of privilege but newly married into the authoritarian lineage.
Her riskier choice is an alliance with a gorgeous, cunning fellow participator, marked as a traitor to his militarized nation. Coa entangles herself with the captivating young man but soon finds he could be her ultimate downfall …
- The Empire Wars
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By Akana Phenix
Read by January LaVoy and Jesse Vilinsky
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Release Date: 8/06/24
Formats: Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- The Stepford Wives
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By Ira Levin
Afterword by Peter Straub
Read by January LaVoy and Grover Gardner
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Release Date: 5/07/24
Formats: Hardcover
Ira Levin’s dark suburban tale remains as compelling—and frighteningly relevant—as ever. Psychological suspense mixes with elements of science fiction to create an extraordinary thriller tinged with Levin’s sly, satirical wit.
Few novels have enshrined themselves in the collective consciousness to the degree The Stepford Wives has. Levin’s sardonic critique has been spun off into countless film and television adaptations, from 1975’s original Katharine Ross filming to 2004’s Nicole Kidman offering—and its influence can be felt in later works from The Handmaid’s Tale to Get Out. Its title alone has become part of our common lexicon.
Joanna Eberhart is a creative, self-possessed wife and mother, newly arrived in seemingly idyllic Stepford, Connecticut. But as she and her family begin settling in, she’s jarred by the unaccountable sameness of the local wives: all flawlessly attractive, with perfectly maintained homes—and little seeming interest in anything else. As curiosity turns to concern, Joanna finds herself unraveling a web of malice that threatens her very existence.
Prepare to be captivated, unnerved, and utterly engrossed by Ira Levin’s dark and unforgettable modern classic, The Stepford Wives.
This edition includes an afterword by Peter Straub.
- The Stepford Wives
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By Ira Levin
Afterword by Peter Straub
Read by January LaVoy and Grover Gardner
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Release Date: 5/07/24
Formats: Hardcover
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- Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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By Jeneva Rose
Read by January LaVoy, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell, and Andrew Eiden
Prologue and acknowledgments read by Jeneva Rose
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Release Date: 4/30/24
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
A New York Times and USA Today bestseller
From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.
While going through their parents’ belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends.
Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.
- Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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By Jeneva Rose
Read by January LaVoy, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell, and Andrew Eiden
Prologue and acknowledgments read by Jeneva Rose
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Release Date: 4/30/24
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- Dulcinea
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 5/02/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
A feminist Shakespeare in Love reimagining of Cervantes, Dulcinea tells the story of Dolça, the fictional muse behind Don Quixote—a must-read for fans of Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd.
The daughter of a wealthy merchant, young Dolça Llull Prat is besotted with the dashing, bootstrapping Miguel Cervantes from their first meeting. Despite Miguel’s entreaties, the ever-practical Dolça, with her love of luxury and her devotion to her own art, repeatedly refuses to upend her life for him, although she always welcomes his attentions on her own terms. When Miguel renders her as the lowly Dulcinea in his great Quixote, revealing their association, he commits an unforgivable offense and their decades-long affinity is severed—until he reaches out to her one last time.
The roads of Spain are no place for a noblewoman seeking to reunite with her former lover, but Dolça needs to unburden herself of a secret. Disguised as a peasant and accompanied by her trusted nursemaid, Dolça makes the difficult trek, facing bandits, the menacing reach of the Inquisition, and her own misgivings. Will she arrive in time? And if she does, will she be able to tell Miguel what she has concealed from him for so many years?
Veciana-Suarez’s richly imagined heroine leaps from these pages as a woman of flesh and blood, one committed to both duty and desire. Dulcinea explores the choices we make in life, the regrets we harbor, and the courage we find to make amends.
Book discussion questions are available here: Click here to view or download- Dulcinea
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 5/02/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories
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Read by Andi Arndt, Erin Bennett, Emily Lawrence, Tavia Gilbert, Kimberly M. Wetherell, January LaVoy, Em Grosland, Natasha Soudek, Lisa Flanagan, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Rachel Jacobs, Kelli Tager, Xe Sands, Emily Woo Zeller, and Cassandra Campbell
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Release Date: 3/28/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback, Signed Hardcover
Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others!
In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out. In “Portals,” a small town deals with hope and loss when dozens of portals suddenly open. In “How They Got In,” a grieving family starts to see a murdered girl in all of their old home videos.
This fantastical collection from a unique voice contains a myriad of stories of the weird and wonderful. Julianna Baggott is a talented and clever guide, and I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You will take the reader on a journey unlike anything they’ve experienced.
- I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories
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Read by Andi Arndt, Erin Bennett, Emily Lawrence, Tavia Gilbert, Kimberly M. Wetherell, January LaVoy, Em Grosland, Natasha Soudek, Lisa Flanagan, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Rachel Jacobs, Kelli Tager, Xe Sands, Emily Woo Zeller, and Cassandra Campbell
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Release Date: 3/28/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback, Signed Hardcover
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- Toxic Effects
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 9/20/22
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
Don’t forget to be afraid.
Neuropsychiatrist Cristina Silva cannot escape her past. The voice in her head of her former identity won’t let her. Cristina also can’t quite manage to force herself to forget the ex-boyfriend she dumped: handsome police detective Gary Wilson.
Soon after beginning her new job at the Longwood Memory Center, Cristina receives a startling phone call from her contact at the FBI: an assassin is crisscrossing the country, killing anyone connected to the now-defunct pharmaceutical company ReMind—people like Cristina. The shadowy criminal enterprise Zero Dark is back.
Indeed, an assassin is tracking Cristina, a literal femme fatale known as Dama Branca. Like Cristina, DB’s memory was robbed by Zero Dark. Transfixed by the brilliant doctor, DB’s unsure what’s preventing her from killing Cristina. DB has memory glitches and longs to interpret them. Whether or not these have to do with Cristina, she doesn’t know, but she senses their fates are entwined—with any luck, not fatally.
Danger lurks in the shadows. Cristina’s spurned lover, Wilson, is investigating the suspicious deaths of local teens, convinced they’re not accidents. Before their bewildering ends, all the victims exhibit bizarre behavior, and there are now terrified whispers among their friends of a hooded boogeyman called Sack Man. One exceptional young man, Reggie Horne, is clearly in the middle of this bedlam. Wilson vows to prevent Sack Man from claiming Reggie as his next casualty.
And when Cristina’s in danger, Wilson is never far away. Just as it becomes apparent their two stories are entangled, the peril shoots sky-high. With at least one killer in their wake, they must quickly determine what’s real and what’s not. Unlocking Cristina’s memories could save many lives—her own included.
- Toxic Effects
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 9/20/22
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- Hotel California
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Edited by Don Bruns
Stories by Heather Graham, Andrew Child, John Gilstrap, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Don Bruns, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, and Rick Bleiweiss
Read by Scott Brick, James Patrick Cronin, Joe Barrett, Joe Hempel, Sophie Amoss, Hillary Huber, Richard Ferrone, and January LaVoy
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Release Date: 7/12/22
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
Featuring a new Jack Reacher story by Andrew Child!
A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel California.
Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Amanda Flower, and Don Bruns. From the titular tale “Hotel California” to a new, original Jack Reacher adventure, these stories have a little something for every mystery lover.
Go ahead. Check in, enjoy some room service, and stay until the very last tantalizing page. Just don’t forget to search the closet or behind the curtains.
- Hotel California
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Edited by Don Bruns
Stories by Heather Graham, Andrew Child, John Gilstrap, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Don Bruns, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, and Rick Bleiweiss
Read by Scott Brick, James Patrick Cronin, Joe Barrett, Joe Hempel, Sophie Amoss, Hillary Huber, Richard Ferrone, and January LaVoy
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Release Date: 7/12/22
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- Out of Time
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 10/19/21
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback
Newly promoted Marshal Devlin must stop a ruthless conspiracy that stretches across the globe—and even across the decades into the future.
Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful supercollider and largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate.
At the same time, a dead body appears washed up on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City—one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career.
As events in the present collide in a tangle of secrets and lies, Delta cannot trust anyone—even her family and loved ones—as her own future and past weave together in a mind-bending web that only she can unravel to stop an apocalyptic disaster from unfolding.
- Out of Time
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 10/19/21
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback
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- Meet Your Maker
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 7/21/20
Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Trade Print ARC
In the Czar’s Suite of Kiev’s five-star Persian Palace, police discover a body jammed impossibly deep in a narrow ventilation duct. Security cameras reveal that no one else entered the supersecure room.
An ocean away, Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex–KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building.
As her father falls into a mysterious coma, Devlin tracks down infamous tech wunderkind Lenny Bondar at the Maker Faire, a global gathering of hackers. Desperate, she follows Korshunov and Bondar into the underworld of Eastern Europe. There, her worst nightmares materialize from the darkness. Something is coming for her, and it may not even be alive.
With Russian troops massed on the borders, and her father on the brink of death, Del follows a trail of bizarre murders ever deeper into no-man’s-land. But can she uncover the truth and save her father before a new kind of war forever alters the world?
- Meet Your Maker
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 7/21/20
Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Trade Print ARC
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- Trinity Sight
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 10/01/19
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Trade Print ARC
Winner of the 2020 Southwest Book Award
“Our people are survivors,” Calliope’s great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots—could Bisabuela’s ancient myths be true?
Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared—or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors, confronting violent inhabitants, in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. The impossible suddenly real, Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied if she wants to survive and deliver her unborn babies into this uncertain new world.
Rooted in indigenous oral-history traditions and contemporary apocalypse fiction, Trinity Sight asks readers to consider science versus faith and personal identity versus ancestral connection. Lyrically written and utterly original, Trinity Sight brings readers to the precipice of the end-of-times and the hope for redemption.
- Trinity Sight
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Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 10/01/19
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Trade Print ARC
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- The Girl Who Ran
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By Nikki Owen
Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 6/04/18
Formats: Trade Paperback
A genius mathematician with the ability to remember every detail she sees, Dr. Maria Martinez—Subject 375—has finally escaped the covert Project Callidus group that’s been controlling her since birth.
But her escape only intensifies the Project’s need to retrieve their subject. The powers at the very top of the organization will stop at nothing to ensure that she fulfills the mission she was born to complete.
Maria soon realizes, despite the distance she puts between herself and her pursuers, that she can trust no one and that there’s no way to hide and stay safe forever. Can she trust herself enough to stop running and right the path of her own destiny—even if that means returning to the very people she has fought so hard to escape?
- The Girl Who Ran
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By Nikki Owen
Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 6/04/18
Formats: Trade Paperback
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- The Killing Files
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By Nikki Owen
Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 8/15/17
Formats: Trade Paperback
In the second book in Nikki Owen’s electrifying Project trilogy, it’s clear that no matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you.
Dr. Maria Martinez is out of prison, exonerated of a murder she still doesn’t remember. But even though she’s a free woman, she’s on the run.
A file exists, the contents of which could mean life or death for Maria. And members of the Project, the ruthless underground organization that framed her for murder, are after her because of it.
To escape their grasp, she must find the file and then retreat to the safety of her family home in Spain. Little does she know that this might be the most dangerous place of all, and that to survive, she’ll have to keep one step ahead.
- The Killing Files
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By Nikki Owen
Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 8/15/17
Formats: Trade Paperback
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- Subject 375
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By Nikki Owen
Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 9/06/16
Formats: PMM Paperback, Hardcover
What to believe. Who to betray. When to run.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Maria Martinez has Asperger’s. Convicted of killing a priest, she is alone in prison and has no memory of the murder. DNA evidence places Maria at the scene of the crime, yet she claims she’s innocent. Then she starts to remember …
A strange room. Strange people. Being watched.
As Maria gets closer to the truth, she is drawn into a web of international intrigue and must fight not only to clear her name but to remain alive.
With a protagonist as original as The Bridge’s Saga Norén, part one in the Project trilogy is as addictive as the Bourne novels.
- Subject 375
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By Nikki Owen
Read by January LaVoy
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Release Date: 9/06/16
Formats: PMM Paperback, Hardcover