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Editorial Content for Blood Trail

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Ray Palen

If C. J. Box had a dark side that bled into the realm of the supernatural, then you might have some idea of what to expect from brothers Matt and Harrison Query. In a few short years, they have made a name for themselves with supernatural thrillers set in the American West. They continue that tradition with their latest release, BLOOD TRAIL. Read More

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Clark Rickert was once the most prolific big game poacher throughout the Rocky Mountain west, but when he lost his wife and son, he turned away from hunting. Now a game warden working for the very law enforcement officers who once pursued him so aggressively, Clark is overwhelmingly successful at his job. So when there’s a string of disappearances in rural Montana, Clark is selected to join a task force on an operation targeting a mysterious, violent cult in the area. As he works to uncover the truth, Clark begins to be plagued by visions and starts to realize that there is a deeper purpose to his assignment. The cult might be up to something far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed.

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Clark Rickert was once the most prolific big game poacher throughout the Rocky Mountain west, but when he lost his wife and son, he turned away from hunting. Now a game warden working for the very law enforcement officers who once pursued him so aggressively, Clark is overwhelmingly successful at his job. So when there’s a string of disappearances in rural Montana, Clark is selected to join a task force on an operation targeting a mysterious, violent cult in the area. As he works to uncover the truth, Clark begins to be plagued by visions and starts to realize that there is a deeper purpose to his assignment. The cult might be up to something far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed.

About the Book

A poacher-turned-game-warden is on the hunt for a bloodthirsty cult in this unnerving thriller from the authors of the “artful chiller” (Lincoln Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author) WILDERNESS REFORM.

Clark Rickert was once the most prolific big game poacher throughout the Rocky Mountain west, but when he lost his wife and son, he turned away from hunting. Now a game warden working for the very law enforcement officers who once pursued him so aggressively, Clark is overwhelmingly successful at his job.

So when there’s a string of disappearances in rural Montana, Clark is selected to join a task force on an operation targeting a mysterious, violent cult in the area. As he works to uncover the truth, Clark begins to be plagued by visions and starts to realize that there is a deeper purpose to his assignment. The cult might be up to something far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed.

From two authors who “set themselves apart with sterling prose” (Publishers Weekly), BLOOD TRAIL is an eerie and suspenseful horror novel that will sink its teeth in you.

Audiobook available, read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Editorial Content for The Museum of Unusual Occurrence: A Psychic City Mystery

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Ray Palen

Aly Orlean confesses at the top of Erica Wright’s THE MUSEUM OF UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE that she has no idea what it feels like to be dead. However, she knows more than your average person about the occult and the other side, having spent her life in the psychic town of Wyndale, Florida.

It is here where Aly goes about running her unique family business, the Museum of Unusual Occurrence. She also is raising her teenage sister, Merope, and is about to take on the biggest challenge of her life thus far. Read More

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Rational and cynical Aly Orlean’s life in her psychic hometown of Wyndale, Florida, couldn’t be more hectic. It’s all about running her business, raising a teenage sister, sending out holiday greetings --- and her new task: finding a killer. For her Museum of Unusual Occurrence not only houses odd curiosities but now has a brand-new display: the body of Rose Dempsey, a local 20-year-old, set up in one of the exhibits as if she has been ritually sacrificed. With the police clueless, Aly is worried that this is a vicious warning for her and her solitary way of life. Fearing for her sister Merope’s well-being, she’s determined to find out why the killer murdered Rose and how her body was placed in Aly’s museum. But might the killer be someone hiding in plain sight?

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Rational and cynical Aly Orlean’s life in her psychic hometown of Wyndale, Florida, couldn’t be more hectic. It’s all about running her business, raising a teenage sister, sending out holiday greetings --- and her new task: finding a killer. For her Museum of Unusual Occurrence not only houses odd curiosities but now has a brand-new display: the body of Rose Dempsey, a local 20-year-old, set up in one of the exhibits as if she has been ritually sacrificed. With the police clueless, Aly is worried that this is a vicious warning for her and her solitary way of life. Fearing for her sister Merope’s well-being, she’s determined to find out why the killer murdered Rose and how her body was placed in Aly’s museum. But might the killer be someone hiding in plain sight?

About the Book

Welcome to the Museum of Unusual Occurrence --- a place full of strange exhibits and even stranger murders. The first in the new Psychic City mystery series by talented author Erica Wright.

“Every small town thinks it’s special―That might be true, but this one actually is.”

Rational and cynical Aly Orlean’s life in her psychic hometown of Wyndale, Florida, couldn’t be more hectic. It’s all about running her business, raising a teenage sister, sending out holiday greetings --- and her new task: finding a killer.

For her Museum of Unusual Occurrence not only houses odd curiosities but now has a brand-new display: the body of Rose Dempsey, a local 20-year-old, set up in one of the exhibits as if she has been ritually sacrificed.

With the police clueless, Aly is worried that this is a vicious warning for her and her solitary way of life. Fearing for her sister Merope’s well-being, she’s determined to find out why the killer murdered Rose and how her body was placed in Aly’s museum. But might the killer be someone hiding in plain sight?

Editorial Content for The Glowing Hours

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Ray Palen

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.”
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Summer 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who’s come to deliver her brother’s letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow, India. But she can’t find her brother anywhere and has no money for the return trip. With nowhere else to go, Mehr finds refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian maids. She is soon hired at the English estate of Mary and Percy Shelley. Mary asks Mehr to accompany the Shelleys and her stepsister, Claire --- as well as the eccentric Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori --- to Lake Geneva for the summer. Almost immediately, she notices strange, ghostly events at the villa. As Mary begins work on what will become her earth-shattering literary phenomenon, Mehr finds herself trapped in the villa as the rest of its inhabitants descend into madness.

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Summer 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who’s come to deliver her brother’s letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow, India. But she can’t find her brother anywhere and has no money for the return trip. With nowhere else to go, Mehr finds refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian maids. She is soon hired at the English estate of Mary and Percy Shelley. Mary asks Mehr to accompany the Shelleys and her stepsister, Claire --- as well as the eccentric Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori --- to Lake Geneva for the summer. Almost immediately, she notices strange, ghostly events at the villa. As Mary begins work on what will become her earth-shattering literary phenomenon, Mehr finds herself trapped in the villa as the rest of its inhabitants descend into madness.

About the Book

A mind-bending, revisionist gothic horror story about the fabled summer Mary Shelley began work on FRANKENSTEIN, as told by her Indian housemaid, Mehrunissa “Mehr” Begum. For fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Cañas and Kathe Koja.

“Strange how one can find they are an interruption in another person’s story...”

Summer 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who’s come to deliver her brother’s letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow, India. But she can’t find her brother anywhere and has no money for the return trip. With nowhere else to go, Mehr finds refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian maids. If she can’t find her brother, she reasons, she will get a job and start saving.

Mehr is soon hired at the English estate of Mary and Percy Shelley, young artists of burgeoning fame who are on the run from secrets of their own. Mary is brooding and quiet, but takes a curious liking to her new maid, asking her to accompany the Shelleys and her stepsister, Claire --- as well as the eccentric Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori --- to Lake Geneva for the summer.

Almost immediately, Mehr notices strange, ghostly events at the villa. The walls breathe, portraits shift, and phantoms appear like unbidden guests who refuse to leave. The weather is fierce and foreboding, showing no signs of softening its relentless pall. And as Mary Shelley begins work on what will become her earth-shattering literary phenomenon, Mehr finds herself trapped in the villa as the rest of its inhabitants descend into madness.

Audiobook available, read by Rachel Petladwala

April 10, 2026

Those of us who live with people who love golf know that this is Masters weekend. That means that my husband will spend a LOT of time watching golf. I will make a huge batch of pimento cheese sandwiches (somewhere I found the official recipe from The Masters), and then I will head off to read a book. In many ways, this is the perfect weekend for both of us. By the way, my husband finished ALL CARRY by Gene Wojciechowski and loved it. He will be recommending it to his fellow golf lovers. Wait, does this make him “an influencer”?

The 2026 Indies Choice Book Awards

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of the Indies Choice Book Awards, the independent booksellers literary prize program that has returned after a seven-year hiatus.

Reflecting the spirit of independent bookstores and the IndieBound movement, the Indie Choice Book Awards are nominated and selected by booksellers from over 3,000 independent bookstores nationwide. They celebrate the best and brightest titles by authors and illustrators in the indie channel, showcasing the remarkable range of talent that indie booksellers champion and share with readers every day.

Week of April 27, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of April 27th include THE DOORMAN, a pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex and murder from Chris Pavone; MEMORIAL DAYS, Geraldine Brooks' heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace; Julie Clark's THE GHOSTWRITER, a dazzling thriller in which a ghostwriter is hired to write the last book for her estranged father, a famous horror novelist --- and finds herself investigating the brutal murders of his two siblings in the summer of 1975; THE NAMES, an extraordinary novel from Florence Knapp that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?; and SALTWATER by Katy Hays, a slow-burn psychological drama about an opulent family that unravels when a decades-old crime resurfaces.

Week of April 20, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of April 20th include JAMES, Percival Everett's brilliant, action-packed reimagining of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN told from the enslaved Jim's point of view, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; THE MISSING HALF, a captivating mystery from Ashley Flowers and Alex Kiester, in which two women who are haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together; THE 10, a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey that E.A. Hanks made along the Ten across the American southwest; and the paperback original THE MOUNTAINS WE CALL HOME, a stand-alone and companion novel to Kim Michele Richardson's Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series, which marks the return of legendary book woman Cussy Lovett.

Week of April 13, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of April 13th include THE ACADEMY, the irresistible, deliciously scandalous story of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school from Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham; BE READY WHEN THE LUCK HAPPENS, the long-awaited memoir of beloved Food Network personality and Instagram sensation Ina Garten, who presents an intimate, entertaining and inspiring account of her remarkable journey; THREE DAYS IN JUNE, a deeply sensitive novel from Anne Tyler about a socially awkward mother of the bride who navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding; and BOAT BABY, in which NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.

Week of April 6, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of April 6th include SOUTH OF NOWHERE by Jeffery Deaver, in which reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in plain sight; NIGHTSHADE, which launches a new character into the Michael Connelly universe --- Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell, a cop who relentlessly follows his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island; Beatriz Williams' UNDER THE STARS, an epic tale of family legacy, love and truths that echo down generations; and THE BOOKSHOP by Evan Friss, an affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life --- from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations.

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