With his father as the prime suspect in a boy’s disappearance, Francis must confront his family’s dark past-and his brother’s unsolved murder. Twenty-three years ago, at a small dinner party in a Chicago suburb, Francis Scroll’s nine-year-old brother, Lucas, was found floating face down in his parents’ bathtub. Lucas’s friend Sam is the only person who can reveal the truth, but he is unable–or unwilling–to speak, and Lucas’s death is ruled a tragic accident. Francis is forced to confront the past he buried long ago when Sam’s own nine-year-old son goes missing, and all the evidence points to Francis’s vengeful father as the prime suspect. In order to save the life of a young boy, Francis must unearth the truth about what happened the night his brother died.

She doesn’t know him, but the symbol she draws on her skin has always been in his nightmares Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long as he can remember, a strange symbol figuring prominently into his terror. He decided long ago that the recurring dreams are nothing more than an unfortunate side effect of his often traumatic profession. Until, that is, he’s assigned to the case of Emily Lindsey, the beautiful, elusive, and controversial blogger found alone, holding a hunting knife and covered in someone else’s blood. As Steven questions Emily, she repeatedly scratches out the same odd symbol he sees when he closes his eyes. A thrilling suspense ensues as Steven must get inside Emily’s head to solve a mystery without a crime-a mystery that is connected to him in ways he can’t even begin to fathom. Author bio: Nic Joseph has been published in a variety of news outlets, including Newsweek, WGNTV.com, and Business 2.0. She lives in Chicago. Joseph is also the author of Boy, 9, Missing.

A rideshare driver is the only witness to one of her passenger’s secret affair…an affair that may be the least of his crimes. When her husband’s medical bills become overwhelming, Paula starts a side job as a rideshare driver. One night, she picks up a quiet stranger and drops him off at a Chicago apartment with a beautiful woman waiting for him in the window. When she later recognizes the passenger as a famous musician, and realizes the woman in the window is not his also-famous wife, Paula does what any down-on-her-luck woman would do: She asks for money to keep quiet. But the biggest risk of her life quickly becomes her biggest mistake when a tenant is found murdered in the same apartment building where she left the musician-and she’s the only person who knows he was there.