Open Road Distribution: 425 books

“Suspense filled psychological thriller.” —Literary Guild “Will scare the hell out of all but the most lionhearted.” —Publishers Weekly “A terrifying novel about paranoia.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Will grab you right by the psyche.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Continually...

Single mother Jill Everts brings three-year-old Daisy to New York, hoping her daughter will make friends and forget about her imaginary ones. But Daisy’s new reality scares Jill even more than the precocious child’s fantasy world. When Daisy meets Stephanie, James, and Nick at a Central Park playground,...

A lyrical voice from the South weaves a searing psychological drama around a small town shocked by its first murder, hurtling a calm and complacent community into a harrowing realm of alienation and distrust. Essex, South Carolina, is a town where doors are never locked—until an elderly widow is...

Valonga Price takes a three-year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in her head, she travels to places like Brazil, San Salvador, Bahia, Nigeria, Cuba, and Japan.

“Unable to comply with an insane spaceship commander’s decision to destroy a harmless race of intelligent beings known as habers, xenobiologist Markos flees from his crewmates and dies in a planetside crash—only to reawaken in an alien body for the purpose of teaching the habers the meaning...

“Was fiction ever so true? . . . Here is divorce rendered by an emotional naturalist. And pass it on: She’s funny.” —Sandra Scofield “Susan Dundon captures the nuances of relationships so skillfully that anyone who is—or hopes to be, or has been, or never wants to be—married will...

Set in the world of classical music and opera in the 1970s, Love Song is the story of a marriage between young, rising stars that is wrenchingly affected by a young prodigy and by the specter of a serious illness. Moving from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to the glamour and wealth of Paris and...

In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious...

Tradition demands that King Sharn Am Zor conduct himself with all the pomp and circumstance befitting a king of Chameln, but underneath the fine jewelry and the beautifully embroidered tunic he secretly hates, Sharn remains an impulsive, restless young man. After the suggestion of marriage provokes...

It’s 1949 in Tennessee Smoky Mountain–country, and everything in twelve-year-old Salina’s life seems suddenly different. Her sister is engaged, her brother Paul is absorbed in caring for his foal, Sugar-Boy, and Salina feels she has nothing in common anymore with her best friend. This novel...

We’re Not Alone is a young adult novel that follows Mike and Susie through their adventures coming out in a suburban high school. Susie, a firebrand from the get-go, gets thrown out as President of the Girls’ Athletic Association when she comes out as a lesbian. Mike, still unsure about his orientation,...

Journey Home is the story of Tamara Woodson, who lives in the American West in the 1880s. She is smart and sassy, and has a mind of her own. Like many black families of that era following slavery, her family traveled west and founded their own town. Tamara Woodson is at a turning point in her...

Poor Tom’s Ghost—dramatic, wholly convincing, a fascinating intermingling of the centuries—portrays a family whose uncertain bonds are tested and strengthened by a threat from the past. When the Nicholas family first sees the derelict old house near London that has been left to them in...

Elizabeth Sydney, Oscar-winning grande dame of Hollywood, known to friends as Liza Jane, is 80. She “isn’t ready to go. She doubts she ever will be, but she feels the tug as if someone is trying to hand her a rail ticket and the crowd is pushing her down the platform. So she’s making her will...