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"Daffodil Caron is not a princess, even though she once dreamed of being one. After all, she grew up as a playmate to royal princes, running through the halls of Perrigwynn Palace in the North Sea's Lauchtenland. But the day she stumbled upon a royal...
"Following a frantic emergency call in the middle of the night, Detective Jenna Alton arrives at a secluded family home to find the body of Lucas Robinson lying in a pool of his own blood in his bed. His wife Carol, shivering in shock, has just watched...
"At the birth of the Jazz Age in San Francisco, the magician Charles Carter walks on to the stage of the Curran Theatre for the most daring performance of his life. Two hours later, President Warren G. Harding will be dead. The mysterious death of Pr...
"Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds t...
"He didn't just break her heart, he broke her soul. He is the last person she wants to see again. And the only person who can help her solve a deadly case... When a bomb exploded at her college, Caitlyn Carlson's life changed in an instant. Ten years...
"Betrayals and secrets, devils and saviors, fae folk and foul, and a magic stronger than even the gods can tame... Lovers Lula and Brogan Gauge have dealt with magic, monsters, and gods for eighty years. Bound to travel the lonely roads of Route 66, Brogan's...
"October 1942 : As Christmas approaches, the evacuees decide a pantomime is just what Massingham needs. Viola loves her new job away from the factory, and hopes that her romance with the handsome Ralph might have a happy ending. Meanwhile, married life...
"Twenty-seven-year-old Phoebe has spent the last year living under dark clouds. This spring she is determined to embrace blue skies and new beginnings. But will she have the strength to open her heart to love for a second time? Heartbroken after losing...
"When a ten-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet. The circus has rolled into Newcastle upon Tyne, bringing with it a troupe of daring...
"Viking treasure is discovered beneath the icy waters of the North Sea and local historian Doctor Anna Taylor is called in to help catalogue the most exciting hoard in living memory. But when a shipwreck diver washes up dead, she’s soon out of her de...
"It's been five months since a killer walked free and DCI Ryan is preparing to leave Newcastle to hunt him down - this time, for good. But Ryan's plans are scuppered when events take a dramatic turn and he is forced to stay and face his past one last...
"SJ Rook came to Harlem to re-build a life. You hit bottom, the only way out is up, right? Nice home, nice job, nice girl. With a few breaks, a hard-luck private eye can land on his feet, even if his balance is still shaky. But now that cozy home has...
"Heavy is the head that wears the crown... Lydia has taken over as the leader of the Crow Family and is trying to keep the criminality to the bare minimum. DCI Fleet has told her he is 'all in' but there have to be limits and Lydia doesn't want to find...
"She rolls over and reaches for her instinctively: her baby. Her hand hits air and flaps redundantly. She stumbles out of bed and switches on the light. But this only confirms it. The baby is gone. Someone has taken her... Sixteen years ago, Lizzie...
"Beauregard the ‘Chippet’ ( the unlikely union of a Whippet father and a Chihuahua mother) narrates the story of his early years in the city of Ballarat where he chooses and takes charge of his very own human, a kindly old woman named Irene.They share...
"What if you fall for your bridesmaid? Abby Porter has a high-flying job & the perfect fiancé in Marcus Montgomery. But Abby's world turns on its head when he hires a professional bridesmaid. When Abby meets Jordan, stars collide. Marcus is oblivious....
"For ambitious Lizzie career always came first.So when the opportunity to lead an award-winning project drops onto her lap, Lizzie ignores her attraction for Hudson, the client, and focuses on finally getting the promotion she coveted for year. Only this...
".A gripping, propulsive courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich. Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment...
"When young Leo disappears after leaving school, it sets a chain of events in motion that will change the lives of the residents of a quiet Yorkshire village forever. Ashton returns home many years after committing a heinous crime as a child, and starts...
"A girl imprisoned. A twisted criminal. Has Harvey Stone met his match? Ex-Hitman, Harvey Stone yearns for a quiet life. But when a close friend is captured and tortured, and refugees are forced into slavery, Harvey is forced from retirement. Teased from...
"A killer runs wild. History repeats itself. An old enemy raises the stakes. Memories of Harvey Stone's past kills return to haunt his new found freedom. A trail of twisted murders, a web of deceit, and blood-stained dreams cause even Harvey to doubt...
"One pair of priceless diamonds. Two brothers set on unleashing hell. And a Victorian curse that has laid dormant for a hundred years. When ex-hitman Harvey Stone prepares to emerge from a period of laying low, he stumbles into a cruel and twisted plot...
"A twisted assassination plot. A deadly super drug. And Harvey Stone is hell-bent on revenge. Harvey Stone seeks peace and solitude, choosing to spend Christmas alone in his farmhouse in Southern France. But when a missing girl arrives on Harvey's doorstep,...
"The killer he hunts is the only man who can save him. When the body of a man is found hanging in a warehouse, it's down to DI Frank Carver to find the killer. But when he realises the victim is the son of London's most feared criminal, the rules change....
"To come out on top, he must live undercover... When Detective Inspector Frank Carver sends his newest team member undercover, he has no idea of the consequences. Harvey Stone, a reformed criminal, fits the criminal world like a glove, and before too...
"To catch the spider, he must become the fly... When a serial killer takes his next victim and evades arrest for the third time, a police leak is suspected. An internal investigation is launched, and Detective Inspector Mark Debruin is identified as the...
"To find the killer, he must lose his mind... When a missing teenager is found on her parents' doorstep, Jennifer Standing becomes the only survivor in an ongoing serial killer investigation led by Detective Inspector Matthew Myers. The case has nearly...
"Cameron Todd is recovering from a serious brain injury. A trauma suffered the same night his girlfriend Emma plunged to her death from a clifftop. The damage erases all memory of the incident and his previous life. Both the police and Emma’s relatives...
"Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales. But...
"Mia Maxwell used to have her dream job. She is a sought after wedding planner on Nantucket, with no shortage of business. But she is struggling a bit to get back to loving her job. It has been bittersweet to plan other people's weddings - ever since...
"Book your visit to the Beach Plum Cove Inn today.....meet widow Lisa Hodges and her four adult children, friends, and visitors to the newly opened waterfront bed and breakfast. In the first book, The Nantucket Inn, Lisa learned that her deceased husband...
October 1886. Catherine and Guillaume set off to New York with their six-year-old daughter Elisabeth. But the young couple's dreams of freedom and independence soon turn into a nightmare when Catherine dies during the journey and Guillaume is assaulted...
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Roland lives with his parents, Graham and Joyce, and his younger sister, Lily, in the golden light of an outer suburb-- Glenella. He dreams of escaping, of finding an intoxicating life somewhere else. He is in love with Cassie Noble, the daughter of ...
In Vientiane's Mahosot Hospital morgue, 73-year-old Dr Siri Paiboun, national coroner of Laos, handles the fatalities at the state hospitals-and the odd murder. His assistants-the gorgeous, clever, fat Nurse Dtui and the slow but irreplaceable Geung-...
"The second collection of short stories from the highly acclaimed author of ‘Wonder Boys’ and ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay’. There are the two boys of the title story, locked in their own world of fantasy and make-believe, reaching out to...
"Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000-page masterpiece, Wonder Boys. When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Cra...
In an alternate world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.
"Each of the fifteen stories is a perfect slice of romance written with warmth and passion, featuring some wonderfully memorable, smart and feisty female characters that will transport the reader to another time and place."--Provided by publisher.
"New Hampshire, 1865. Marion Abbott is summoned to Brawders House asylum to collect the body of her sister, Alice. She’d been found dead after falling four stories from a steep-pitched roof. Officially: an accident. Confidentially: suicide. But Marion...
"Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself - and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. After meeting with a member of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood,...
Emilienne's life is Paradise, her isolated farm at the end of a winding path. After the sudden death of her daughter and son-in-law, this is where she farms alone, with her courage and her land as her only resources, along with her two little grandch...
"Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalized for years. While Lucien's home is undergoing renovations,...
"Investigate journalist Emma Hunter is in the thick of another cold case featuring a game of truth or dare in a dark forest by a Dorset army base 15 years ago that went horribly wrong. Four girls went in, only three came out.…Wreathed in mist and memory,...
"From the moment they are born, twins Susan and Sarah are inseparable. Through good and bad, the girls will always be together...forever. Until they meet Jonny. Older, charming and handsome, Jonny offers the girls the much-needed love and attention they...
"Welcome to the Witherward, and to a London that is not quite like our own. Here, it’s summertime in February, the Underground is a cavern of wonders and magic fills the streets. But this London is a city divided, split between six rival magical factions,...
"My name is Nat Davy. Perhaps you've heard of me? There was a time when people up and down the land knew my name, though they only ever knew half the story. The year of 1625, it was, when a single shilling changed my life. That shilling got me taken off...
"The Emperor of Aria has been murdered, the Empire is in crisis, and Dead Men walk the streets...But Myla, Fings, and Seth couldn't care less. They're too busy just trying to survive in the Sulk-struck city of Varr, committing petty violence and pettier...
"Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria - but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from her grandparents’ tiny flat in a crum...
"An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist intellectuals. The students are smart, driven and worldly; they are also teenagers, learning to find their way. But when they arrive...
"Dr Georgia Healey can't grieve. Her nineteen-year-old daughter went for a walk two years ago and vanished. The police never found Stephanie's body. The case has gone stale, but Georgia can't let it go. She knows Stephanie's out there, somewhere. On ...
"December 1943. As the war effort gathers steam in Europe, it's all hands on deck on the home front.Gloria is over the moon to be reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the Navy and still know nothing of their...
"When Blaise Hill, a feisty young journalist from one of Sydney's toughest neighbourhoods, is dispatched to London at the dawn of the swinging sixties to report on Princess Margaret's controversial marriage to an unconventional photographer, she is drawn...
"Is there life after the internet? A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "t...
"Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man who strangled the Wayward storyteller. But he was just a small part of a much bigger tale. Someone powerful ordered a murder on Cora's patch. That someone still lurks in the shadows. But as she continues h...
"A gripping, debut psychological thriller that will keep you hooked. A tragic accident, an unbearable loss and a marriage in crisis - but who can she trust or is she all alone? Veronica Pullman's comfortable suburban life comes to a shuddering halt when...
"Lizzie and Celia are the best of friends. But their families, the Miltons and the Slatterys, are the worst of enemies, divided by religion and by status. So their friendship is a carefully guarded secret, for if Celia's father Charlie ever heard of it...
"Some 'old school' horror storytelling of the highest degree" from the award-winning author of Bone White(Bloody Disgusting). They come in with the snow. They are the snow ... The blizzard begins pummeling the Midwest on Christmas Eve, leaving hundreds...
Now you see me ... Six years ago, five friends went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Four of them returned. One simply disappeared. Jenny Taylor has never gotten over the disappearance of her twin sister, Caitlyn, but now things are even worse. Caitlyn...
"First in a new series! Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found...
MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light, as the #1 New York Times bestselling Fever series races to an explosive revelation. From the moment MacKayla Lane arrived in Dublin to hunt her sist...
"Living with her colleague and long time love interest, Detective Inspector Ian Peterson, it seems that Geraldine Steel has finally found happiness. But life is never that simple. As a psychopath starts killing random women on the streets of York, Geraldine...
When a hysterical mother reports her baby's sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel's gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think... Complications in the mother's...
Sometimes even Miss Julia just wants to go to bed and hide under the covers. Her husband, Sam, wants them to attend marriage enrichment classes. Could their marriage be in a poor state? Even worse, the psychologist leading the sessions is Dr. Fred Fowler...
"Death by Internet! A mind-blowing masterplan. A deadly betrayal. The enemy is closer than you think... Harvey Stone plays guardian angel on international soil when two governments prepare to do battle, and the lives of innocent people are at stake. ...
An ancient Spanish legacy. A shocking explosion shuts down London. And an ex-hitman is fueled by revenge. When ex-hitman, Harvey Stone is asked by an art collector, Smokey the Jew, to kidnap a member of a rival gang and extract details of a heist, little...
"One night. One city. One killer. Retirement doesn't come easy for Harvey Stone. Seeking a quiet corner to enjoy some well-earned peace, Harvey returns to his roots to settle down in London. Ex-convict, Lucas Hoffman has a list of every man whoever wronged...
"The deadliest minds, can be found in the darkest of shadows... Emma Fletcher is special. She is every mothers' dream and a picture of perfection. But when Emma is kidnapped on an idyllic family holiday, her captors force her to undergo a terrible...
"To uncover the truth, she must bury her past... Hope Gilmour was born bad. Cruel blood runs through her veins, and she is loathed even by her family. But when her boyfriend is killed during a romantic picnic, Hope is abducted and dragged away by a s...
"To heal his past, he must break the rules... When the body of a girl is found to be linked to a human trafficking ring, Detective Inspector Frank Carver deploys his team of specialists to infiltrate, investigate and report back. But as his latest re...
"To save the city, he must sacrifice himself... When an investigation led by Detective Inspector Frank Carver, is stalled following an attack on London, his team swear not to take on the terrorists. But when Carver's newest team member, Harvey Stone,...
"Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in this romantic comedy. Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between...
"In this opposites-attract Texas Ranger romance, circumstances throw together a Texas Ranger with trust issues and a confident full-figured heroine who assumes the best. Jackson Dean doesn't trust love. He made the mistake of following his heart once...
Miss Julia is feeling a little wishful when Hazel Marie, once her late husband's paramour and now her best friend, prepares to move out and live in sin with that marriage shy Mr. Pickens. Suddenly, to Miss Julia's delight, a wedding is in the offing....
Mother of a kindergartener, married to her police detective soulmate, Emma has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. When her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, she is determined to save him. Emma makes the risky decision...
Zoe's boss, Nick Bateman, is a man with a troubled past. One day, in hopes of making things right, he declares that he wants to get married and have kids as soon as possible. But, as always, Nick seems to have picked the wrong woman. The ceremony that...
Detective Ash Levine dives in headfirst to investigate a ex-cop's murder in a case that propels him into the shadow lands of Southern California, from the seamy escort services of Hollywood, to the high-end art dealers in the Hollywood Hills, to the gangs...
"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she dis...
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In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate. The Silo is still in danger. There are those set on its destruction. Jules...
"When only the dead have the answers, who can tell you the truth? Retired PSNI cop Tom 'Tucker' Rodgers has a cracked ballpoint pen, one second class stamp and no time left. The best he can do is try to get a message to DI Owen Sheen, the only man he...
"Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among...
Twelve years ago, brigadier Brandon Pearce, had to give up the girl he loved, Amelia Howard. Now he's the Earl of Sandhurst, but committed to stopping a criminal group that's threatening the lives of innocent people - including blackmailing Amelia's ...
"Francie, Archie and Annie grew up playing together in the hills and rivers of Fermanagh. But in 1914, the boys are seduced by the drama of the war in Europe and leave the village to join up. Before they leave, Francie swears to Annie that he'll keep...
"When her beloved mistress dies, lady's maid Phoebe Parsons is forced onto the poverty-ridden streets of Manchester by her unforgiving new master. Desperately searching for a new position, Phoebe discovers her reputation is in ruins. Now she is desti...
Claire leads a busy, fulfilled and happy life, a life she wouldn't trade for anything-- and one that is about to change for ever. When Claire fails to prevent a disturbed young woman's suicide, the incident seems to trigger something in her-- forgotten...
"The man lying beside you is not your husband. And he's not breathing... Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy. But she suspects she's done something bad. She rolls over towards her husband, Niall. The man who, until...
"Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration--from Havana to New York's Copacabana and then Hollywood--becomes the one true accomplishment...
There's a body crushed under a load of pipes on a San Francisco construction site, and medical examiner Dr. Jessie Teska is on call. Her autopsy reveals that the death is a homicide staged as an accident. When an earthquake sends the city reeling, her...
"From her downstairs apartment in suburban London, Emma has often overheard the everyday life of the seemingly perfect family upstairs--Steph, Paul and teenage daughter Freya--but has never got to know them. Until one day, she hears something that seizes...
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