Gabriel Farago writes historical mystery action thriller that spans continents and centuries, with a title that promises exactly what it delivers—an empress, a key, and secrets that powerful people will kill to protect. 👑
The setup is classic thriller: Jack Rogan is pulled into an investigation that connects the present to the past, uncovering mysteries that have been buried for good reason. Farago writes with attention to historical detail and the kind of propulsive pacing that keeps readers turning pages even when they should be sleeping. 🔍
The first in the Jack Rogan Mysteries series, this establishes the character and the stakes beautifully while delivering a complete story. Farago balances the historical investigation with present-day action, and the question of what the empress holds—and why it matters now—gives the book its engine. 💎
Why this grips from page one: Jack Rogan investigates mysteries connecting present to past with an empress holding the key—historical mystery action thriller with continent-spanning investigation, buried secrets people will kill to protect, and propulsive pacing. First in the Jack Rogan series.
Zeke never thought he’d get Pa killed. Realizing he caused Pa’s death tears up the eighteen-year-old farmer till he’s all sick inside. But when Grandpa McNichol, a U.S. Marshal in Topeka, comes to town for the funeral, he announces that Zeke and Uncle Billy will join him in catching the gunman who shot an unarmed father in a restaurant. 🤠
John Alexander writes Western fiction with attention to the emotional cost of violence and revenge. Fearing he won’t measure up to a man he hasn’t seen since age six, Zeke still chooses to join the pursuit with Grandpa and Uncle Billy. But with a bum left leg and having never shot a six-gun, Zeke knows he’ll be nearly helpless on such a hazardous venture. ⚡
Can Zeke survive the trip and help catch the killer, or will he fail—or die—along the way? Alexander balances the Western action with Zeke’s internal struggle beautifully. The youngest U.S. Marshal has everything to prove and a guilt-driven reason to try. 🔫
What makes this essential: An eighteen-year-old who blames himself for Pa’s death joins his U.S. Marshal grandfather hunting the gunman—Western fiction classic with a bum-legged farm boy who’s never shot a six-gun, family pursuing a killer, guilt and determination, and the hazardous journey that may kill him.
Hope City is crawling with monsters. Kat Drummond makes sure they don’t crawl too far. By day, Kat is a college student barely scraping through her classes. By night, she’s a monster hunter armed with little more than cheap steel, sheer stubbornness, and the ghost of a long-dead paladin whispering battle tactics in her ear. After a necromancer murdered her parents, Kat swore to take the fight to the undead. 💀
Nicholas Woode-Smith writes urban fantasy with genuine stakes and a heroine who’s completely outmatched. Hunting ghouls and zombies for rent money is nothing compared to what’s coming: a new necromancer has arrived in Hope City, and he’s building an army that could drown the streets in corpses. Kat is brave. Kat is reckless. And Kat is completely outmatched. ⚔️
But with monsters on the rise and the city in peril, giving up isn’t an option. Not when vengeance runs in her veins. Woode-Smith balances the action with Kat’s emotional journey beautifully—she’s hunting the undead for rent money because her parents were murdered, and that kind of motivation doesn’t fade. 🔥
What makes this a must-read: A college student hunts monsters by night with cheap steel and a paladin ghost whispering tactics—urban fantasy with necromancer parents’ murder, rent-money zombie hunting, a new necromancer building a corpse army, and a heroine whose vengeance runs deep even when she’s completely outmatched.
You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It
For decades, Lisa Rinna has captivated audiences—soap opera icon, reality TV powerhouse, fearless social media provocateur, haute couture catwalk slayer. The woman whose lips launched a thousand memes has always said it like she means it, but there’s still so much more to the story. And she’s owning every bit of it, baby. 💋
Rinna peels back the curtain on her rollercoaster career and unapologetic approach to life, dishing on the highs, lows, and “did-she-really-just-say-that?” moments that made her a household name. Yes, she’s spilling tea from the soundstages of Days of Our Lives to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills drama, but she’s also opening up about growing older in an industry obsessed with youth, reinvention, parenting a daughter with chronic illness, and grieving in public after losing her mother. ✨
Bold, brash, refreshingly honest, and told with signature wit and candor, this is the story of a woman who understands you go furthest by playing by your own rules. Aging is just a chance at a new chapter. The world doesn’t get to script her story. 🌟
What makes this irresistible: Lisa Rinna’s unapologetic memoir—new release covering Days of Our Lives to Real Housewives drama, aging in Hollywood, parenting through chronic illness, public grief, reinvention, and refusing to let the world script your story. Bold, brash, refreshingly honest.
What if you could make structural changes to your own brain so it’s healthier and less prone to depression, anxiety, grief, and worry? Dr. W. Lee Warren, a practicing neurosurgeon and trauma survivor, reveals how to take control of your mental, emotional, and physical healing by reordering your mind to change your brain—resulting in a radically transformed life that’s healthier, happier, and more hopeful. 🧠
Since functional brain imaging developed in the early 2000s, we now know that thoughts can direct structural brain changes as effectively as medicines or surgery—and do so more quickly. That means whether we know it or not, we’re all brain surgeons. Warren writes with the authority of someone who understands neuroscience and the humility of someone who’s walked through trauma himself. 💡
This neuroscience-based, faith-infused, immensely practical guide will help you master several types of “self-brain surgery” operations to move from floundering to flourishing, heal from trauma and tragedy, overcome anxiety and depression, conquer limiting thinking, break old habits, build resilience, and become empowered no matter what you’re facing. ✨
What makes this essential: A practicing neurosurgeon reveals how to make structural brain changes through thought—new release combining neuroscience and faith to help you heal from trauma, overcome anxiety and depression, break old habits, and move from floundering to flourishing. We’re all brain surgeons.
The disconnect between being loved and feeling loved is the heart of the problem, and Lyubomirsky and Reis have spent careers understanding how to bridge that gap. This new release offers research-backed insight into one of the most fundamental human needs. ✨
What makes this a must-read: The world’s top happiness scientist and leading relationship researcher reveal how to truly feel loved—new release explaining why being loved doesn’t always mean feeling loved, offering a research-backed framework to bridge the disconnect causing loneliness, depression, and self-doubt.