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Beyond the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a special three-volume collection of sequels to the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each original tale is paired with an all-new adventure, spinning our hero off into plots and directions that Sir Arthur may never have considered. In many cases, years have passed by since the events of the canon.

For all we know, or think we know, about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, what we don't know is far, far greater. In one of the duo's most exciting cases, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, we know when Helen Stoner arrives "in a considerable state of excitement" at the door of 221B Baker Street, seeking the assistance of Holmes and Watson: "It was early in April in the year '83..." But what happened during the rest of 1883? Or all of 1884?

Some mothers teach their sons to be kind. Leah Vale taught hers to make monsters disappear. On the surface, Greyson, Griffin, and Gage Vale are everything America wants from its protectors—an FBI special agent, a sharp-eyed private investigator, and a celebrated unit chief tackling violent crime. But beneath the badges and case files lies a secret family doctrine born in a house where “being a good wife” meant surviving the night. Years ago, after a beloved cop and brutal abuser “fell” down the basement stairs, Leah rewrote the rules for her triplet sons. The courts don’t save women like her.

A waitress with a Southern drawl. A ledger that feeds on memory. A choice that could end the world. Lila Rae McCoy never asked for power. But when a child’s life is seconds from ending, she stops time itself. The cost? Her memory. Then the ledger appears — written in her hand, predicting deaths to come.

Ivy tends wounds others hide—until bodies begin to refuse her remedies and infants appear at hedgerows with sigils pressed into their skin. As lesion-blooms and missing memories spread, Ivy’s healing becomes entangled with bargains struck by midwives and town elders generations ago. To save the children and stop the slow unmaking of family lines, she must risk the memory of who she is and what she has loved. Thorn & Grief is a sensory, slow-burn supernatural thriller about what mothers pay, what healers carry, and how sorrow can take root.

Some ledgers balance in coins. This one keeps its tally in names. When cartographer Mara Ellery returns to her childhood mountain town, she expects silence, not the strange arithmetic of memory being rewritten. A brass tag burns with laughter long forgotten, a Möbius map redraws itself in the night, and the Watchers—silent figures along the ridge—lean closer with every bargain the town makes. Blackwood has lived for generations under a covenant: debts settled not with money, but with pieces of the self. Names traded. Voices thinned. Memories erased.

When the cracked harbor bell of Greyhaven rings without wind, the town wakes to something old and listening beneath the tide. The Quiet That Walks: The First Echo begins the Greyhaven saga—a slow-burn supernatural thriller about resonance, memory, and the cost of hearing what should remain unsaid. Archivist Nora Callow captures a recording of the bell’s impossible tone; sound engineer Mara Vale studies its frequency; and choir director June Harlow feels the vibration beneath her own voice.

Claire Mercer thought maps were the only truth—until the ledger at Blackpine Ridge began to keep account. When a remote mountain town trades a promise recorded in ink for a strange, supernatural balance, Claire is pulled into a slow, bureaucratic hunger that steals people’s presence, one name at a time. Friends vanish. Legal safeguards become instruments. A child made of ledger and hollow keeps time. Claire must choose: obey the book’s cruel arithmetic or pay with memory, blood, and what she loves most.

Salem’s dead don’t rest. When historian Clara Ashwood discovers a journal bound to her family’s past, she awakens something that should have stayed buried. Shadows whisper her name, graves stir in the night, and a revenant stitched from the betrayed rises to collect its due. Clara must choose: bind the horror and risk her soul, or release it and condemn the town. But the veil between past and present is thinning, and Salem always demands payment. Fans of gothic suspense, supernatural thrillers, and witchcraft mysteries will be spellbound by this haunting beginning to The Witches of Salem.

Gaslight flickers. Fog curls through forgotten streets. And in the shadows of great houses and haunted towns, something ancient stirs. In this series of standalone yet interconnected gothic tales, bestselling author Stephanie Marcum leads listeners deep into the heart of Victorian horror—where wealth and privilege mask curses, family legacies are written in blood, and the line between salvation and damnation grows perilously thin.

Axel curls under his blanket clutching his trusty green T-Rex plush—and suddenly the bedroom is full of quiet stomps and tiny roars. In Axel’s Dinosaurs, a single lamp-lit moment becomes a gentle adventure: toy dinosaurs become brave friends, bedtime worries turn to whispered pretend, and one small boy finds comfort in the big, soft world of imagination.

William’s Way: Lessons from a Life That Mattered is a heartfelt and poignant memoir that pays tribute to the life of William, a cousin, mentor, and friend who made an indelible impact on everyone who knew him. This deeply personal book explores the lessons learned from William’s life, offering readers a powerful reflection on love, resilience, family, and the importance of cherishing every moment.