From Ninie Hammon, sorceress of psychological suspense, comes The Gap, a thrilling new intergenerational tale of dark secrets and hidden tragedies that will keep you turning pages late into the night. In the sprawling Harrington House on the Texas prairie, the family of 100-year-old Olivia Harrington has gathered for the funeral of her daughter-in-law, Hannah. All the generations, from The Greatest Generation to Gen Alpha, are represented among the three dozen people who spend the weekend together. But this family reunion is far from peaceful. Olivia's son, Cyrus, couldn't let his wife, Hannah, build a koi pond in the backyard because he knows what's buried under the cherry tree. Did he kill her to keep the secret? Cyrus's sister Alex is dying, and she believes she's the one who killed Hannah. Is she wrong? When four-year-old Chapman steals the shiny ring off his dead grandmother's body, it creates chaos...

The lives of four people in Graham, Oklahoma, collide in the shadow of a monster tornado. The Rev. McIntosh, Mac, has lost his wife and his faith and is preparing to chuck his career. His 16-year-old daughter, Joy, is pregnant and desperate. Joy's grandfather, Jonas, plans to give his precious wife, Maggie, an overdose of sleeping pills to release her from the ravages of Alzheimer's. But everything changes for all of them when Mac encounters the strange, mystical Princess, a death-row inmate set for execution. Princess "knows things" she can't possibly know, and is determined to carry a secret about the little sister she murdered 14 years ago to her grave. On May 11, 1963, a Category 5 tornado roars across the plains toward Graham.All of the people who'd penciled in death on their calendars for that day confront eternity, but none of them comes to the crossroads of life and death by the path they planned or leaves with the result they expected.Ninie Hammon's first book, the biography God Said Yes, was published by Penguin's Berkeley imprint and established her skill as a storyteller who can weave facts into a compelling human-interest saga. She grew up on the Texas prairie and draws on the stories from a quarter of a century's career as a journalist to fuel her novels. The founder of a newspaper with 65,000 readers, she served as its publisher for a decade and enjoys a large fan base in the Southeast.

In the deepest, darkest midnight of her soul, Gabriella writes a book, a horror story about demons... and then one of them crawls up out of the pages and confronts her face to face. A deranged, fanatical fan who believes he is The Beast of Babylon from her novel turns up at a book signing and then comes after her to claim her as his bride. And to sacrifice her son, Ty, as an offering to their unholy union. Gabriella, Ty and Ty's grandfather, Theo—a crusty old stand-up comic—run for their lives, back to the only place in Gabriella's life where she ever felt safe. But once there, she discovers that facing the demons from her past may be harder and more dangerous than facing the one who stalks her. As Ty and Theo battle their own, personal monsters, Gabriella begins to fall for a man who carries a guilt she can't even begin to imagine.The predator who stalks Gabriella and her family manages to corner his prey as a full moon rides high in the night sky and lightning...