"Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other. Rumours were whispered through the town that its pastries offered a taste of magic, chasing away the darkest of sorrows. Just one bite of a croissant might bring...

"Raven Ledger is running from people who blame her for her brother's crime. The city is grappling with the murders of twenty-one people at Allegheny High School. The news of the shooting is on every television station. The nation is talking about what...

"Rainey Paxton never gave up on finding her friend Winnie after she was abducted by a serial killer. But the person Rainey knew wasn't the one she found. The woman Rainey loves has changed, and this new version is disturbing Dakota Jagger finds that being free...

"Rainey Paxton is convinced there is a link between the disappearances of several women and her friend Winnie. Her obsession leads her back to the mysterious house where she said goodbye to Winnie years prior. Rainey is certain there is something sinister...

"A sister's vow that can't be broken. First came the shocking story of Rainey Paxton being born addicted to heroin, and the sacrifices she made to accommodate her parents' reckless lifestyle. Now comes the terrifying, extraordinary novel that picks up after...

"In the fragile first hours of Rainey's life, hospital doctors and nurses fight to keep her alive. Several months later she is released into her parents' custody where the baby is forced to live on neglect and tainted breast milk. Constrained in her home,...

"Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in plenty who would be...

"Cornwall, 1795: Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women - the four swans - whose lives touch...

"An antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch and executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper and an unusual choice of gun. Ex-cop Zatopek 'Zed' van Heerden has just seven days to solve the case - an...

"In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that-if he can find it-would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this...

A city in fear of the night A detective at home in the dark --- Jake Sawyer is in demand. With his profile raised after his successes in the Peak District, he's called to London to help the Met Murder Squad with a baffling case which has shocked the nation. A...

"A mother's dying prayer A son's unholy vengeance -- Jake Sawyer is damaged. Haunted by guilt after surviving an attack that left four people dead, he returns to work under a cloud of professional scrutiny, straight into a disturbing new case. When the...

"Everything a magician does is an illusion. A trick. A lie . . . With just days until Halloween, preparations are in full swing for the Bailey sisters' annual spooktacular bash! To help a friend in need, the location has moved from Bailey's Boutique - much to...

"Herbal apothecary worker and secret mermaid descendant Alex Daniels has to solve a puzzling serial killer cold case in this intriguing and magical cozy mystery instalment set in an endearing small coastal town during fall festivities. It's fall, and...

"London, Autumn 1882. When the World's End Investigation Bureau receives an anxious visit from a trio of elderly siblings, Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham realise that Alethea, Thomas and Frances Fetterplace are keeping back the heart of the matter. Ancient...

"A harmless trick . . . or a deadly treat? Fall is in full swing and the town of Twilight Cove is preparing for its annual Pumpkin Glow! Georgie Johansen, her gorgeous boyfriend Callum and her Auntie O are also getting ready for their animal sanctuary's Trail...

Jamie, a forty-one-year-old drug addict recovering from surgery, goes somewhere he hasn't been in years - home, to Timaru, where his brother happens to be a chemist and his sister a doctor. Surely they, with their access to pharmaceuticals - and their blood...

"The classic adventure that started the Star Wars saga. Luke Skywalker lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine--and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars, adventures that would take him beyond...

"Norway, 1828. A fiery descendant of Vikings, Elsa Ferner wasn't termed Elsa the Determined by her father for no reason, so when her mother pushes her to marry a wealthy but unscrupulous man, she seizes the opportunity to stow away and escape. Now aboard The...

"Actress Charlotte has it all: a starring role in a West End show, a glittering social life and an equally high-flying boyfriend. But when her perfect existence abruptly falls apart, she retreats to her hometown on the North Yorkshire coast, finding a summer...

"Dennis Gates, a seasoned car dealer at the age of forty-nine, met a grim fate in Marlborough in August 2010. In a horrifying instant, the town's tranquillity is shattered as the lethal sound of gunfire echoes through the air. Two shots, fired at point-blank...

"'Last Orders' follows the case of Trudi Villiers, a vivacious 26-year-old barmaid, who met a tragic end on her routine walk home in October 2003. While Trudi's life might have been colourful, her death brought nothing but darkness for her friends and family....

"Gus Freeman, a retired Detective Inspector, has spent three desolate years after the loss of his beloved wife, Tess, to a sudden brain aneurysm. An unexpected lifeline emerges as his former boss rekindles a flicker of purpose within Gus, presenting an...

"When Aussie Dylan Bailey walks away from her tenth grand slam without a title, she decides to call in for early retirement. But after spending time with fellow pro and British player Oliver Anderson, he convinces her she still has one last title fight left in...

"Revolution Racing has its first ever all female team, and rookie Savannah Hart is ready to prove herself. Even though Savi grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, she's happiest on the racetrack. But can she stop her secret relationship with country music megastar,...

"Christmas Day 1943, Arisaig, Scotland. The body of beautiful, well-connected Polish SOE agent Krystina Kowolska is found in the gardens of the country house where she's been preparing for a vital mission to France. The question is, was she already dead when...

"Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she's getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the...

"Thea knew the holiday house her late husband Marco bought in Tuscany wasn't pristine. But when she relocates to Italy for the summer with her children, she's shocked by just how much work Casa Luna needs. Now that Thea must fix up the house and make it ready...

"While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly spoken...

"It's the ultimate test of endurance- two-hundred-and-fifty miles in the brutal heat of the Sahara, with only the supplies you can carry on your back. Adri is ready. Returning to ultra-running in the wake of a scandal, she needs to prove to herself - and her...

"If you're given another chance at love, shouldn't you take it? Enya's life has become small. Her husband's death has left her bereft, and though she's only in her early fifties, she's happiest looking after her son, Aiden, his childhood sweetheart, Holly, and...

"The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse"--

"Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced-through threats to her young son-into not fighting the charges. After five years in prison, she has tried to put the ordeal behind her, but the crooks who framed her...

"The world of unknowable objects - magical items that most people have no idea possess powers - has been quiet for decades... But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in...

"When mystery author Berit Gardner agrees to attend a writer's conference in the idyllic French countryside, she dreams of basking in the sun and nurturing budding talent. But her vacation takes a dark turn when the keynote speaker--a notorious literary titan...

"When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work. While...

"Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and...

"David Munro has everything a man could want - a beautiful wife, two adoring daughters, a top academic position and a circle of devoted friends. But he also has another life, lived mainly at night and frequently in what he comes to know as "The gardens of...

"Crafted 3,500 years ago, the first Bible concealed a dark secret - a missing page, torn from its sacred binding. Rumors claimed it wasn't penned by a saint or prophet, but by the Devil himself, revealing the gateway to Hell. In June 2020, a mysterious Middle...

"Max Godfrey and Stella Flynn are Hollywood royalty, but their successful careers in film and music mean far less to them than their marriage, their four children and twelve grandchildren. They're looking forward to a weekend of 50th anniversary celebrations,...

I'm not scared of dying. I've done it enough times to know nothing is waiting for me on the other side, and I would gladly die a thousand more times if only it would take back the lies I've told. - Eric Linnaeus. ... As Eric struggles to keep his past hidden,...

With the last of his lies shattered, Eric struggles to reconcile his true identity and is caught balancing his existence between Fae, human, and Vanir. As his equilibrium slips, he's plunged into the darkness of his past and breaking at the seams. If he can't...

"From the people who brought you the invention of advertising comes Julius Julius, a rambling architectural wonder, outpost of the very first ad man of ancient Pompeii, built on the backs of generations of creative survivors who just want to lie on the floor...

"Now under the curse of a witch, Deputy Charles Walsh falls further into the horrifying reality of his world. He is inadvertently drawn into a decades-long war between fae, and while the needlessly terrifying people around him feud, he is doing his best to...

"Kristian: I'm on top of the world after Quantum kicks ass all the way through awards season. Women are lining up to tend to my every desire. But a funny thing has happened on the way to Oscar gold... I don't want any of them. No, the only one I want is...

"She wants a baby. He wants her. Simple enough, right? ... Ellie: I've kissed my share of frogs. So many, in fact, that I fear I won't recognize my prince if he ever shows up. Tired of waiting for THE ONE, I decide to have a baby on my own before it's too...

"Sparks fly on Oscar night between the new Academy Award-winning director Hayden Roth and his best friend's employee Addison York, but when Addison decides to investigate Hayden's BDSM lifestyle, will she learn too much and mar their true love?"--Publisher.

"Natalie: The last thing in the world I'm looking for is a man. I just want to walk my dog and get on with my day, but when Fluff breaks loose from her leash and bites the most famous man in the world, I realize nothing about this day is going to go as...

"Natalie: I'm heartbroken by the secrets Flynn has kept from me after I bared my soul to him, sharing things with him I've never told anyone else. I have no idea if we can put our relationship back together after I learn the truth about him from the worst...

"Simon Shaw is 42, divorced and tired. As he surveys the desolation of his former home in the wake of his ex-wife's last visit, he yearns for a life free of complications. But when a holiday in Provence suggests other options, Simon is quick to...

"Recollections of an abusive relationship and struggles of a literary career. Themes of love and hatred and violence and comfort are explored in stream of consciousness writing style."--Publisher.

"Maria Sanchez has spent her entire career as a CIA operative searching for her father, and she's not going to let some tough, arrogant former-soldier-turned-hotshot stand in her way. After being betrayed, branded a traitor, and declared dead, Kane Foster has...

"Stranded in India after being dismissed without a reference, governess Beatrice Layton exchanges her freedom for passage home to England, taking a position with the only family that will hire her. But Bea hasn't reckoned for just how dreadful her new...

"Ask for the story of the mad sisters of Esi, and you'll get a thousand contradictory folktales. Superstitious sailors, curious children, and obsessed academics have argued over the particulars for generations. They have wondered about the mad sisters' two...

"Anguishing in her legal career, and very likely the youngest divorcee at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse on a Friday night? Yes. But, now that she's accepted the inherent flaws that lie in all romantic relationships, she finally has life all figured out! She's...

"Wall of Hadrian, Britannia, AD 367. Tribune Sixtus Victorinus is scouting north of the Wall when he first sees the smoke. Riding south he finds a province in chaos, the local populace in flight, the soldiers absent. Britannia is ablaze, overrun with...

"J is a wedding singer, but it didn't start that way. He wrote a love song for one of his albums that accidentally became an international hit for to-be-wed couples. These days, J talks to couples about all the small, strange things that brought them...

"Reeling from the savage murder of his youngest brother Dylan, Damien Vickers wants answers. His first stop is the notorious Carter Family. Tommy Johnson - AKA Tommy Jr - was banged up with Dylan and saw the murder happen. So Damien's going to make him talk......

"After years of rigorous instruction and ensemble work, Kit finally gets her big break when she's hired to play the lead role in a new opera based on the 1960s cult classic, Barbarella. Entrusted with playing the beautiful and seductive titular role, Kit is on...

"Two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines...

"Dreams can come true. But so can nightmares... Joseph Jacobs is just an ordinary teenager - he goes to school, skateboards, stays out of trouble. But when he skates past a crime scene which matches a dream he can't forget, everything he once knew to be true...

"Sadie's been adrift, looking for an escape from her new house and old memories, when a chance encounter leads her to one of the most exclusive wellness classes in LA. At first she's sceptical, but the classes - and the attention of its magnetic leader, Lilith...

"A king tide washes over a beach to reveal a body, and a seaside community's troubled past is also exhumed. At the centre of it all is Tate Moon, the local golden boy, and a dangerous love triangle that threatens the entire town's foundations."--Publisher.

"Gay single mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan-and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can't shake...

"Skwerl and Cheese are down on their luck. Skwerl, who is resourceful like a squirrel (Marines win battles not spelling bees), used to work for Ground Branch, the CIA's elite paramilitary wing. He was fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese...

"Truth is stranger than fiction ... and it'll kill you a whole lot faster. When Lynn Raven set out to win the championship for groundbreaking augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter, the worst she thought she'd face was sunburn, mosquito bites, and...

"Paris, 1952-- Still haunted by the years she spent serving in the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII, ex-pat Kat Fontaine, now living in Paris, finds a simple cookery class led by indomitable chef Julia Child unearths the tangle of...

"Alessia Moore, a thirty-seven-year-old powerhouse at the helm of a nonprofit in Nairobi, is tirelessly working to build a school for girls. Professionally, she's thriving, attracting investors to support her mission. But her love life is nonexistent, and...

"Valerie Yarnell is a hardworking single mother who'd do anything for her daughter, Kate. Kate is a dancer with dreams of stardom, just like her talented best friend, Colette. Despite Valerie's sacrifices, it's Colette's mother, former prima ballerina Elise,...

"Elikki may not have a family, but she has her fierce independence, boundless charm, and enough talent as a jewelry artisan to make a living on the road. Unfortunately for some, she also can't yet manage to control her chaotic magic. . . and her temper. Sweet,...

"Born out of wedlock and shunned by society, Alma learned to make her peace with solitude, so long as she had her mother by her side. When her mother becomes gravely ill, Alma discovers a clue about her estranged father and writes a message begging for help....

"You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food-the tastiest...

"Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoife to quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of the Farmstead commune. There, among its charismatic and hedonistic residents, Aoife finds everything she's...

"A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret. The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer - deeply closeted and pathologically repressed - begins...

"Ten years ago, they joined the CIA. Six years ago, he left the game. Five years ago, they fell in love. One year ago, she ran out into the cold with absolutely no intention of ever coming back. And two minutes ago, they woke up, bloody and bruised and...

"Eva Kitt never expected to be the host of Sausage Talk, interviewing B-list celebrities over lukewarm hot dogs, instead of pursuing the journalism career she dreamed of. But when Eva's impromptu public call out of her college ex goes viral, she's thrust into...

"Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she's moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York's Lower East Side. Now she's barely making rent as a...

"In ten vibrant, affecting stories, Mariah Rigg immerses readers in contemporary Hawaii. By turns heartbreaking and hopeful, these stories of love, longing, and grief are fierce dispatches from a state haunted by the specter of colonization, a precious biome...

"Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans - the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest...

"Arthur Zinn, an author of high-end spiritual texts, has fallen in love with a librarian married to a newfound close friend. When an environmental disaster threatens her life, Arthur's frantic prayers lead to a mystifying event that challenges his assumptions...

"The long summer holiday has begun on the campus of Edwards University in upstate New York. Simone is the star of the creative writing department, a renowned scholar, successful memoirist and campus sex icon. Ethan, her devoted husband, is a lecturer in the...

"A thrill-seeking young woman joins a radical theater troupe in this taut, suspenseful novel of art, seduction, and the deadly limits of liberation. New York, 1972. A cloistered college student slips out of the dorms to attend a performance by a legendary...

"The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie's mother died, or when her father died soon after. Perhaps when her sister, Elena, was forcibly institutionalized in a psychiatric hippie commune in Colorado....

"Special Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why, fresh out of Quantico, she's sent down to Compson, Mississippi, to investigate the illicit money flowing into a bustling...

"Jo Jones can't seem to catch a break. Trading in city life for the cozy, peaceful hills of North Yorkshire to take over her family estate should have been a chance for a 'fresh start.' Instead, she's been driven further into the past than she thought possible...

"Meg is in the backyard of the house her brother Rob, Delaney, and their new baby have moved into, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a duck pond. She wants to get away from her own house, which has become the staging site...

"It's November of 1965 and the second weekend of Vermont's regular deer season when Vermont State Police detective Franklin Warren is called out to what looks like an accidental shooting at The Ridge Club, an exclusive men's hunting and fishing club for...

"Gia: Tatum Blackthorn is Lucifer personified. A monster fromn my nightmares, now masquerading as my boss. When he discovers my weakness, he makes me an offer I cannot refuse, and I become his wife. I always knew he was depraved, but as his twisted vendetta...

"The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to...

"After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father's death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the summer with her boyfriend ... and hopefully end the summer as his fiancée. Instead, her mother - a longtime...

"Sidney and Ida Whipple are living the suburban 1950s American dream, complete with two children and a white picket fence, which didn't seem possible when they first met at the height of WWII in France. Reveling in the present, they can almost convince...

"While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path. In a rundown seaside town, a young man has vanished without a trace. Jericho's investigation of this disappearance will...

"It's the duet of a lifetime when a rock star and his backup singer find a new kind of harmony off stage in this sensational contemporary romance. Clementine Clark isn't looking for love. Growing up with a single mom who weeps over a new guy each week tends to...

"She thought their love story was over. The world had other plans... When Magnolia Jones finds her daughter's travel journal, she can think of no better way to honour her life than setting off on the gap year trip that twenty-three-year-old Bronte had dreamed...

"As a killer hides in the shadows of a religious cult, one woman must confront the past before it claims her too... Dakota Finch never really recovered from the day her best friend was murdered. Dakota and Flora were best friends - and Dakota has never...

"Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way...