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The triumphant conclusion to the Villains trilogy from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.The ExtraOrdinary of Merit City, a secret group of individuals gifted with a power connected to their manner of near-death experience, have been keeping a low profile, avoiding the ever-watchful eye of EON in the wake of the showdown with Marcella, Eli, and Serena.But when EONand its relationship to the ExtraOrdinaries begins to change under the leadership of a new director with a terrifying agenda, the time for hiding is over. The path to the truth of what happened to EON leads Victor, Sydney, Mitch and the rest into the enemys lair at EON headquarters, where they encounter unexpected allies, shocking new abilities, and the ultimate confrontation.Against all the years, the betrayals, and the oddsthe arch rivals and their allies will meet for a final time, on a chess board laid out by a rival they didnt expect.

Provence, 1938.Seventeen-year-old Yvette Barbarin lives on a small rural farm in the lavender-soaked hills behind the great port-city of Marseille with her widowed father and her five younger sisters.When she learns that her father is planning to marry her off to a local farmer, she runs away to the city where she dreams of joining a troupe of travelling players.In Marseille, Yvette is bowled over by the magic of cinema, and the thrill of make-believe. She falls in love with an actor, a rising star, but all is not as simple in real life as it is in the world of movies, and war is coming.

An unputdownable domestic suspense thriller from the bestselling, beloved crime author Emma Curtis________________On quiet streets, there are secrets behind every turn...Ed and Megan have just moved into the house of their dream neighbourhood in east London. They couldnt believe their luck when their offer was accepted. Megan is pregnant. Life couldnt be better.But as soon as they move in, the problems begin. Their new neighbour is a nightmare, being a constant disturbance and causing damage to their property.There seems to be no easy solution and when on of their neighbours outbursts endangers Megans pregnancy, Ed decides he must take action - one way or another...___________________Readers love Emma Curtis...You cant go wrong with an Emma Curtis bookA masterclass in suspenseKeeps you guessing till the endSo many surprising twistsCharacters are so well-written

Saltburn with werewolves in the darkly hilarious new novel from Goodreads Choice Award finalist Jennifer Thorne, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Sarah GaileyAfter years of caring for her dying mother, Martha Shaw feels empty, exhausted, and far older than her twenty-six years. So when her brother invites her to a weekend getaway at the opulent, two-hundred-acre country estate where his friend works, Martha reluctantly agrees. After all, whats the harm? The owners and all their staff will be gone. Security cameras will be off. The house will be theirs. For the first time in years, Martha might actually have fun.And it is fun, taking advantage of the historic mega-mansion and its vast grounds. Martha begins to feel human again. But when night falls, the rightful master of Newbourne Park returnsand shes not alone. Suddenly, being caught trespassing is the least of their worries, because what steps out into the moonlight is something vicious. And hungry.What began as a lark becomes a bloody battle for survival, where greed and morality collideand a woman must choose to bow, break, or bite back.From the author of Diavola comes another wickedly funny horror about dysfunctional families, class, and other things that howl at the moon.

This collection of fifteen stories from the cult author of Ice examines war and mental illness from her signature surreal point of view. Inspired by Kavans own experiences nursing traumatized Second World War soldiers and as a patient in various asylums, these pieces communicate the claustrophobia and isolation of life amidst conflict or caught in the gears of an institutional machine - but also the stunning beauty of physical experience, as her cast of outsiders find themselves pulled back into the world despite its hostility.In the title story, a young man living in an asylum must navigate the often unreadable reality around him, taking cues from malevolent flowers and inhumanly brisk nurses, as we are left to wonder whether the cure harms more than the disease. Outside the asylum grounds, institutions still exert terrifying power, as an unnamed refugee tries to navigate a Kafkan bureaucracy to escape a war-ravaged metropolis in Our City, and is distracted from the hopelessness of the task by the beauty of silvery barrage balloons and young women at their windows. Humanity goes to war with nature, too, in The Gannets, a brief, disturbing story that predates Daphne du Mauriers The Birds, featuring a band of impoverished children engaged in a horrific game with unnaturally predatory seabirds.At times cleanly modernist, at others ornately strange and dream-like, Kavans writing is always propulsive, powered by the tension between the menace closing in around her characters, and the incomparable loveliness of the strange world they inhabit.

In a city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, practices controlling his breath, staying calm, listening to his body and the beat of his heart. Consumed for too long by violence and turned agent of pure destruction and despair, he lies in wait on rooftops, killing civilians while his mentally ill mother cowers in their flat. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for her, and towards whom he develops a disturbing obsession in which she finds herself trapped. Now published in English for the first time, Mathias Enards debut novel is an unrelenting work whose harrowing immediacy belies its lyricism, exposing how extreme violence corrodes the soul and leaves no part of life unscathed.

THE BOY is a novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge but also of discovered genius and joyous friendship.By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Irelands organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction.When the Guards knock on the door the Boy already knows his mother is dead. His father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside - a hidden "family" of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability.As the Boy moves through these fractured worlds - his fathers guilt, his uncles paramilitary past, his brothers violent death - he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy.Think of a space where the layered complexity of Tana French meets the whip-smart dialogue and brutal beauty of Colin Barrett and the sharp tenderness and humour of Graeme Armstrongs The Young Team and youre somewhere near where this novel will take you.

The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. Shed spent 40 years as a field agent. Shed been skilled, resourceful, dedicated everything that makes a good agent, but shed rubbed too many of her bosses the wrong way. They jumped on a botched op as an excuse to fire her. Now in her 70s, waiting in a doctors office, she reads a magazine article that startles her out of retirement. The story casts doubt on everything she believed about her first and happiest posting in Hayalistan, one of the old Soviet republics. Lilys angry, and she decides to find out what really happened when she was stationed there. As word of her investigation gets back to the CIA, the Company knows they must silence her. But Lilys aging body cant perform the feats it managed in her forties and fifties, and escaping their attempts on her life will test her physical and mental skills at a whole new level.

The day Clara started her new (dream) job as an assistant to her photography idol, she was met with an assumption that caught her off guard and stunned her silent. Suddenly, she has to bring a girlfriend to the gallerys opening in a few weeks all because she choked up and failed to correct her boss that she is, in fact, straight.Evan was recently dumped by her fellow teacher fiancee for a mutual co-worker and is still trying to figure out where it all went wrong. So when she gets the news the happy new couple will be hosting the staffs holiday party, she feels utterly horrified by her single status and looks for a quick solution.Together, these two life-long friends make a plan to get through the gallery opening and holiday party by pretending to date one another. Easy... right?That is until Clara starts developing real feelings for Evan, shocking herself. All the while Evan realizes that perhaps pretending to date your straight best friend, who youve had a crush on for half your life isnt the best idea.

This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In The Sandman, young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if hes caught out of bed at night - but its only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in this classic story of self-destruction.The Cremona Violin also deals with obsession and thwarted desire, this time between an overbearing father and a musically talented daughter who may die of heart failure if she unleashes the full power of her extraordinary voice. Suppressed passion and possessive control prove a fatal mix in this powerful and claustrophobic story. The Golden Pot, meanwhile, is a novella-length tale which Hoffmann believed was his masterpiece. Disturbing, exciting and dream-like, it introduces us to the bumbling Anselmus, whose romantic tribulations are complicated by a witchs curse and the fact that hes in love with a girl who also happens to be a snake.Influential in the worlds of both literature and music during his lifetime, Hoffmanns doppelgangers, unattainable love objects and sinister puppet masters have lived on, becoming key figures in the modern imagination.

A novel about cinema, history, and what it means to create when freedom is contingentIn Eisen, Guzel Yakhina turns her formidable historical imagination to the life of Sergei Eisenstein, the revolutionary filmmaker who reshaped cinemaand was nearly crushed by the system he helped glorify. From the triumph of Battleship Potemkin to the torment of censorship, exile, and artistic compromise under Stalin, Yakhina traces Eisensteins life as a drama of creation under pressure. Rather than a conventional biography, Eisen is a literary portrait, rendered in vivid, episodic scenes that mirror Eisensteins own theory of montage. Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and Mexico flicker past as art, politics, sexuality, and power collide. Yakhina explores the cost of genius in an authoritarian world, the body as both instrument and battleground, and the impossible demand placed on artists to serve ideology without losing themselves.

A resonant coming-of-age novel, and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal changeIro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan. With his friends, Thierry, Malick, and Yeo, they form a happy, resourceful group, doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood. Of all of them, Iro is the most determined and ambitious. But when his father dies everything is turned upside down, as he realises how little he knew about his life, his dreams, and his losses. Iros certainties collapse, and new, more complex truths emerge that will allow Iro and his friends to chart their path and find reconciliation and peace for themselves and their families. A novel that questions the heritage of fathers, the ambition of sons, the divide between the villages and their laws and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities, Falles debut is the story of a young man who rises, emancipates himself, and finds his truth.

Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates a popular book critic on a mean streak... only for her to wind up dead, in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parkers bestselling series.World famous author Melanie Joan Hart asks for Sunnys help in tracking down Book Babe, the screen-name of an enormously popular book reviewer, who has trolled her with a deeply insulting one-star review. This usually wouldnt matter except that Book Babe has thousands of followers, and her unwarranted blast has Melanies publisher threatening to pull all her books.But Sunnys investigation reveals that the reviewer and Melanie have a rich history in fact, she may even have good reason to hate the torn-up author. And when Book Babe suddenly turns up dead, casting Melanie as a possible suspect, Sunny finds herself in a complicated web, which, if she cant untangle fast enough, might just put a target on her back.

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin.From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in 2016, Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller, winning innumerable awards, and achieving both commercial and literary success. She created the beloved stories of Earthsea alongside the urgent and essential stories of the Hain, pushing forward the form and concepts of science fiction and fantasy - reshaping them into forward-thinking genres.This collection honours her legacy with stories from authors she inspired:Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler

Obsession and depravity shatter suburban life and academia in this compelling double dose of psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Donna Tartt.CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF PSEUDONYMOUS SUSPENSE FROM JOYCE CAROL OATESFour decades ago, acclaimed literary author Joyce Carol Oates penned her first novel of psychological suspense under the name "Rosamond Smith." In the Smith books, Oates explored themes of betrayal and deception, lust and murder, through stories involving twins, doubles, and hidden second identitiesinitially, keeping her own double identity a secret.Hard Case Crime is proud to bring these extraordinary works of crime fiction, long unavailable in bookstores, back into print in definitive double editions, each pairing two complete novels and two never-before-collected Oates short stories, all linked thematically, to weave a sinister web filled with dark reflections.In This Volume...A model suburban husband grows obsessed with a beautiful stranger in DOUBLE DELIGHT, while an eminent professor preys on a vulnerable student in NEMESIS and the echoes continue in the rare short stories "A Girl Worth Twenty Million" and "First Death."

What a Time to be Alive! So lettuce remember Liz Truss, relive the last days of the Tories, meet the guy they called No-Drama Starmer, and succumb to hyper-resistant superbug Nigel Farage. Travel stateside to meet our supranational Silicon Valley overlords, Donald Trump and his cavalcade of henchmen - then head for infinity and beyond with Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos. Experience testing times for misunderstood men in television, create wonder in every moment with Meghan, and relive the horror of the Gwyneth Paltrow ski massacre trial. Truly, these are times that make you want to put your hands over your eyes, even when your hands are already over your eyes. The only thing to do is read Marina Hyde and howl with laughter.This countrys foremost living satirist.VogueHydes columns are the solid-silver lining of Britains political shitstorm. Caitlin Moran

From New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Golden comes a high concept horror novel about a man trying to protect his dead mothers body from the evil that is hunting them.Maggie Wise will take your eyes.When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it. Now, Maggie is dying, and those same siblings have left Malcolm and his sister-in-law Violet to hold a vigil at her bedside.But theyre not as alone as they think they are. A dark figure waits and watches from beneath the willow tree across the street. Hundreds of miles away, an ancient evil stirs in its burrow under a farmers cornfield. Across the country, other buried things begin to dream in anticipation of Maggies demise. On her deathbed, the old woman elicits a promise from Malcolm, her youngest childwhen she dies, he and Violet must return her body to her birthplace in Shediak, Maine.From the moment she takes her last breath, before her remains are even loaded aboard the baggage car of the Imperial Limited, there are forces trying to stop Malcolm from fulfilling that promise. Violence erupts on the train, evil preys on its passengers, and once the sun goes down, those long-buried things are coming to make Maggie Wise pay for her past. God help anyone who stands in their way.

Rivalries ignite into heated romance, lost lovers seek second chances, and friendships turn to something more in these 12 stunning Romantasy stories.Including brand-new stories from beloved and bestselling authors including Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Kelley Armstrong, Alexis Hall, L. R. Lam, and more.Tumble head-over-heels for these 12 gorgeous Romantasy stories from bestselling and beloved authors.A pair of harried servants try to romance their respective bosses into a universe-saving marriage. Two bitter political rivals discover they have interests in common, and decide not to let a little thing like murder get in the way. After years apart, childhood nemeses come together to resolve their differences, and face down a common foe.From Regency England to a mysterious Romanian forest, and from a city made of flowers to a sinister faerie train, love conquers all in these 12 beautiful tales.FEATURING BRAND-NEW STORIES FROM: Hannah Nicole-Maehrer Kelley Armstrong Alexis Hall L. R. Lam Rebecca Thorne A.Y. Chao Juliet Marillier Chloe Neill Olivia Atwater Jen Williams Greer Stothers Vida Cruz-Borja

Every wedding guests worst nightmare is on repeat in this monstrous, gripping, heartfelt time loop horror story about love, loss, and moving on from the New York Times-bestselling author of Cackle and Play Nice.Will this nightmare ever end?Its the picture-perfect wedding weekendthe venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air, and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. Shes excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they always wanted, but this is the first time shes seeing her ex-fiance in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the grooms charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.Or is she? She wakes up and its the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question if it was really a dream, deja vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that shes stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or suffer a fate worse than deathbeing an eternal wedding guest.