Books published by publisher Astoria McKnight Publishing

One year ago, sixteen-year-old detective Nick Chance came within a hair’s length of exposing his boarding school’s most infamous thief. But before he could collect enough evidence, the suspect abruptly left the school. Now, he’s reappeared in New York City, and Nick’s one summer vacation goal is to track him down and prove what he couldn’t back then. There's only one problem: the thief is none other than his very own brother.Quentin Chance may be a rogue with impeccable manners and a killer smile, but one year after the tragedy, he’s still haunted by the unsolved murder of his best Arthur. Now, an e-mail from an anonymous source pulls him back to New York with a mysterious claim: I have new information about Arthur’s death.As Quentin digs to uncover the source of the e-mail, Nick is hot on his trail, waiting for the perfect opportunity to catch him in a legally compromising position. It doesn't help that they're both vying for the same girl, either. But as the threads in the mystery become unraveled, the stakes get higher. Someone out there is harboring a dark secret, and the Chances must put their feud aside and pool their resources together to figure out who that is before tragedy strikes again.

"Fetch the Crown of Black Glass from the Maze. Before day and night balance you must free the Knave. Pay attention, Alyssa, before it's too late."That's the text Alyssa Carde gets on her first day at Pillar Preparatory Academy. New to the school for "teens with trouble adjusting," Alyssa just wants to get through her senior year without getting suspended (again).But at Pillar, every student has to make a choice - Red or White. When Alyssa refuses to pick a side, and instead tries to search for the mysterious "Knave" from the mysterious messages someone known only as "the Smoke" keeps sending her, every choice she makes drags her and the haunted - and haunting - Jack Knightly deeper into the strange world of the witch queens of the Twilight Chessboard.And both Alyssa and the Knave are running out of time...

It reads like fiction but it's true. The thrilling, true story of a teen girl’s struggle to survive in a world bent on destroying her. Run Rachel Run is a true story, not just based on a true story. Rachel Blum was 12 when the Nazis invaded her town. Over the next three years, she witnessed war, risked her life to smuggle food for her family, escaped liquidation, hid with a kind Polish couple whose son worked for the SS, was questioned if she was a Jew by an SS General, and engineered an incredibly dangerous scheme to overturn a moving trainload of 1,000 Nazi soldiers. Hers is not just an incredible, action-packed story, but represents a character arc that young women, young men, and adults of all types can draw inspiration from. She did not begin as a selfless, courageous young girl she came to be. Her strength and determination evolved through her experiences. Once you start Run Rachel Run, you won’t be able to put it down. Once you finish, you’ll be shivering in awe at how invigoratingly heroic the story of Rachel Blum is. Excerpt July, 1944. Ivan Roluk couldn’t believe he was listening to a 15-year-old girl and putting his life and the life of his family in her hands! But she was right. Driving trains for the Nazis for three years now, he knew exactly who the Germans were. He knew that there were once more than 20,000 Jews in the girl’s home town of Ludmir, and now there was only one. The courageous young girl, Rachel. Rachel, who had just convinced him to risk his life as well as the life of his wife and son. There was a risk either way, of course. The war was coming to an end and who knew what the Germans would do to them once they didn’t need his services any longer. It was a risk to do it, but a risk not to do it. He looked behind him. The 20 train cars filled with over 1,000 wounded Nazi soldiers snaked behind his engine-car like a meandering river. In the caboose at the tail of the train was his wife, his son and the little Jewish girl. Suddenly, he heard a slam. What was that? It sounded like the door connecting the engine-car to the first car, which was occupied by high-ranking Nazi officers. Was one of them coming up front? The moment of truth had arrived. He thrust the throttle full ahead. The train jerked forward. He looked out the window. There, up ahead, was the bend! Had he waited too long? There was no more time to think. There was no more time for fear. It truly was now or never. He leaned out the open side door...