Swallerjaw

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Tif Robinette’s Swallerjaw blends swamp-drenched, occult horror with generational trauma and twisted faith in a stunning southern gothic horror debut. 

The swamp doesn't give gifts; only trades. 

Like the swamp that surrounds it, the once prosperous town of Festus holds many secrets. 

A pole dancer, Crystal, takes care of her granny as best she can and tries to keep a promise to her dead mother: to wait for her brother to come home. Seven years ago someone took the boy, and the case remains unsolved. 

The officer assigned to that case died, leaving his widow, Athena, to do her best to raise their young son. When seven-year-old Early goes missing, she has to reopen old wounds and old case files to try to find him. 

Gravedigger brothers Grant and Tick Bittergreen were always warned by their gatorwitch mother not to accept gifts from the swamp. But the swamp has given up a skull, and it’s not long before its appetite claims a human victim, and it demands a new body. 

As the novel builds to its extravagant, bloody conclusion, the twisted secrets of Festus’ past are revealed. To save themselves, the gravediggers, the stripper and the grieving mother must confront their cursed blood and the horror that the swamp has birthed.

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What She Stole

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Seventeen-year-old Eloise Goldstein is picked up for shoplifting at the local suburban mall and spends hours waiting for her narcissistic mother to pick her up. As the security guard locks her in a holding room, she sits with nothing to do but “think about her actions.” Alone, repressed memories emerge, bringing her childhood — growing up with a schizophrenic father and depressed mother —i nto new light. 

From the author of the award-winning poetry chapbook Birth of a Daughter comes a lyrical coming-of-age novel about a young woman who struggles to feel loved and find her voice amid a chaotic household. Later, shaped by the dichotomies of memory and trauma, she uses writing, mothering, and bodywork to heal.

A Secret Woman

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A tautly plotted trans-centric mystery novel by the author of Doom Patrol and Godmother Night.

Not the Way it Ends

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A slow-burn, age-gap romance where the publishing world meets the sun-soaked shores of Greece, perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Cara Bastone. 

Working Vacations Will Kill You

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The Expendables meets NewsRadio — with renegade lobsters. The Roscoe Gang — former network news pros turned crisis communications experts — is taking a much-needed working vacation at the CliffEdge Resort in Maine when a celebrity chef ends up dead in his own clambake. Now, onetime anchor Rick (NEVER Ricki Lee) McIntyre, her rainbow of friends, and her tween son Seth are handling crisis communications for the resort and not incidentally helping the very hot local police chief, Ian Glass, solve the murder. Between fighting food stars, a skeevy former network exec, unethical interns, and their own client, they have plenty of suspects. Dodging falling rocks, running lobsters, and too-hot hot tubs, the Gang closes in on the killer, and divorced Rick starts a cautious new romance with Ian. Everything comes together at (what else?) a press conference that makes entirely the wrong kind of news.