THE HOMECOMING by Jessica Freeburg

Vivian Bennett sees things other people can’t. Things like shadows that move without a maker and hover over people, feeding their depression and fueling their self-destruction. She also sees kind spirits, guiding and guarding their loved ones against the shadows.

When a tragic accident claims the lives of her mother and brother, Vivian has no choice but to reunite with her estranged father in his new home in another state. While the house appears idyllic on the surface, it holds dark secrets guarded by malevolent spirits intent on keeping them hidden. As she struggles to cope with her own grief and anger, the spirit of Vivian’s brother tries to protect her from an especially evil entity inhabiting the bedroom that once belonged to a girl who vanished without a trace.

As the missing girl’s spirit reaches out to Vivian, she learns the gruesome truth – the girl was murdered by someone she trusted who was possessed by the shadows.

This spine-tingling, paranormal mystery will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page. Will Vivian solve the mystery before she’s lost to the shadows. Or will she become the next victim before she uncovers the truth?

COCAINE + SURFING by Chas Smith

It’s no surprise that surfers like to party. The 1960–70s image, bolstered by Tom Wolfe and Big Wednesday, was one of mild outlaws―tanned boys refusing to grow up, spending their days drinking beer and smoking joints on the beach in between mindless hours in the water.

But in the 1980s, as surf brands morphed into multibillion-dollar companies, the derelict portrait began to harm business. The external surf image became Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton, beacons of health, vitality, bravery, and clean-living.

Internally surfing had moved on from booze and weed to its heart’s true home, its soul’s twin flame: cocaine. The rise of cocaine in American popular culture as the choice of rich, white elites was matched, then quadrupled, within surf culture. The parties got wilder, the nights stretched longer, the stories became more ridiculously unbelievable. And there has been no stopping, no dip in passion.

Cocaine + Surfing draws back the curtain on a hopped-up, sometimes-sexy, sometimes-deadly relationship and uses cocaine as the vehicle to expose and explain the utterly absurd surf industry to outsiders.

REPORTS FROM HELL by Chas Smith

A gonzo ride through the Middle East as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing’s Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Follow Smith and his misfit band of merrymakers as they search for the true origins of Al Qaeda and endeavor to ride the unsurfed waves of Yemen all while exploring the slim opportunities for fun in the margins of our global war on terror and at what cost―even if it means eventual kidnapping by Hezbollah.