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Former Marine-turned-sheriff's deputy Jess Winslow and ex-con Mason Burke find themselves on opposite sides of the law when Jess investigates the suspicious death of a local celebrity in Deception Cove, Washington, and the evidence points to Mason's guilt.

"A period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside" --

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm... Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can't help but...

Bree Tanner joins the army of newborn vampires as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens.

Moving to the coastal town of Echo, Washington, divorcee and single mother Caitlin Stoller begins receiving unsettling messages hinting at her new home's dark past, messages that escalate into terrifying events orchestrated by a killer who is about to plunge her family into a nightmare from which there is no escape.

Set 16 years later, this follow-up to The watchers finds former escort Katherine Taylor and her son Max living content but haunted lives in a small Washington State town under Swiss Guard protection while an exhausted Harper's compelled to investigate a defrocked priest's discovery of a monster in the Catacombs of Paris.

It's been three years since Hannah, the elephant, departed the Max L. Biedelman Zoo in Bladenham, Washington, and much has changed, including the appointment of new executive director, Truman Levy, and the arrival of a failing killer whale named Friday. With the help of marine mammal rehabilitator Gabriel Jump and a team of dedicated though inexperienced keepers, Friday begins to recover. But not everyone believes he should be in captivity. A debate...

"Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn, preferring to keep to himself. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that's the last straw. She's going to break through Cain's Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how:...

"Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell Sutherland, a former army intelligence officer, has a job interview in Seattle and must arrive by December 23. Though frantic to book a last-minute flight out of San Francisco, both are out of luck: Every flight is full, and there's only one rental car available. Ashley and Dash reluctantly decide to share the car, but neither...

He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life - including his multiple lovers and his past - in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never makes news. But from the moment one of his sources takes...