Amelia Fairchild is in way over her head. Thankfully, her new botanical research position at the Orleans Center for Forensic Science and Anthropological Research is a step in the right direction toward success. Well... sort of. She's eight hundred miles from home, her apartment is... well, her apartment, and life keeps throwing disasters her way. After Amelia discovers human remains during routine field research, she's forced to work with Vincent Moreau, God's most arrogant pathologist and a spectacularly painful thorn in her side. He's rude, inconsiderate, and refuses to do anything her way. He's also grieving. Vincent's family seems like a perfectly respectable old-money Creole dynasty, but Amelia has learned that respectable families can hide very ugly things. ••• Vincent Moreau knows exactly where he stands. He's educated, experienced, and managing a position he was never supposed to have, but the Orleans Center Pathology Department is as much a prison as it is a safe haven. Hiding behind anger and sarcasm has become second nature since his untimely dismissal from the coroner's office several years ago. Nobody really knows what happened, and he intends to keep it that way. Keeping everything buried is easy enough. Until he meets her. Amelia Fairchild annoys him to no end, but she may also be the only person capable of helping him close the case. Worse, she may be the only person he trusts enough to discover that the truth behind their investigation lies far closer to the Moreau family than either of them ever expected.

#ambys2026 FIRST PLACE- THE INK & HEARTBEAT AWARDS: Thriller, Mystery & Crime Saint Angela's Academy was supposed to be a place of faith, discipline, and learning. Instead, it became a pit full of secrets. When private investigator and former student, Theolinda Brady begins asking questions about the death of a student, she uncovers a trail leading back decades-through suspicious accidents, buried evidence, and the powerful women who rule the academy from the shadows. As more bodies are linked to Saint Angela's, detective Ryley and police trainee Scarlett race to uncover the truth before another life is lost. But every answer reveals a darker secret, and every witness seems bound by the same unbreakable vow: silence. At the center of it all stands Reverend Mother Bernadette Moreau, a woman haunted by guilt, and Sister Agnes, whose devotion may hide something far more dangerous. Some sins can be forgiven. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some vows were never meant to be kept.

Oren Hale discovers a memorial page for a boy who died four years ago and cannot explain why the photo looks exactly like him. After that, ordinary life starts to feel staged, like he is walking through a story someone else wrote. His tutor, Ayara, is smart, guarded, and dangerously easy to talk to. Their sessions shift into something riskier: honesty, which only makes the rest of the world feel stranger by comparison. As Oren tries to understand where the dead boy ends and he begins, the people closest to him keep steering him away from the truth. But the more he looks, the clearer it becomes: one of these lives is real, and the other is a mistake. He just doesn't know which one. AWARDS ~ Third Place for Best Romantic Pairing - The Triquetra Awards ~ Second Place for Best Prologue - The Triquetra Awards REVIEWS Just exceptional writing skills - David of INFERENCE

A campus thriller: suspense, murder & one handsome roommate. ***** When Haley Bell is offered a scholarship to study at the exclusive Woodcreek College, famous for moulding the world's brightest thinkers, politicians and entrepreneurs, she jumps at the opportunity. Except when she arrives, the murders start. In a campus hidden from civilisation in the mountains of Colorado, Haley's classmates are slowly turning up dead. As the bodies pile up and eyes of suspicion turn on her, Haley finds that there's a reason why she was brought to Woodcreek. And it wasn't to study. "That opening line will hook you (I still think about it) & it DOESN'T STOP! I binged this like crazy" - Leah, Sr. Editorial Manager @ HQ [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Ellie Sita