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Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire Years later, one of them disappears and then another and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the multi award-winning author of The Cold House.When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent to live with the local doctors family: mother, father and three sons. Soon after, however, Ashwood Farm burned to the ground, and only the three young girls survived.Years later, the sisters live very separate lives, each dealing with their painful past in different ways. But when first Chloe, and then Zoe disappears, its left to Dido to rake through their history and find out if her sisters are still in the world or paying the price for what happened that long ago summer night.

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.

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.

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.

29-year-old Evie has spent years as the assistant to the glamorous, yet high-maintenance Pim Hardcastle, globetrotting as her one-woman entourage and sacrificing her own Christmases with family and friends back in London.Now having secured her dream job in Toronto to start after the holidays, Evie is finally going to be home for Christmas, and her best friends Megan and Josh have put together a bucket list of the capitals most festive activities to enjoy before she jets off permanently.But when Evie encounters the worlds cutest busker outside a Christmas market, she starts to wonder whether her last Christmas in London might be the start of something else entirely

Two women hunting the same killer. One seeks justice. One seeks fame. Both have something to hide.In a remote Scottish town where everyone knows everyone, the disappearance of local girl Lily Howard should be impossible to hide. But as Detective Ruth Lindsey discovers, some secrets run deeper than blood.When internet sensation Mia Chaplin arrives to investigate, her viral YouTube videos about the case spark a media frenzy. The town divides: some worship Mia as a crusader for justice, others see her as a dangerous provocateur. For Ruth, shes a threat not just to the investigation, but to the fragile peace of a community already fracturing under pressure.As Mias revelations start destroying lives, Ruth realises shes dealing with something far more sinister than a fame-hungry influencer. Because Mia knows things about Lily she shouldnt. And Ruth is beginning to suspect that the real predator isnt hiding in the shadowy hills of Galloway, but broadcasting to millions from plain sight...

In this twisty and emotionally resonant thriller from #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, a woman risks her life for justice and realizes she has more power than she ever knew.Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as shes arriving at her grandmothers farm in Pennsylvania.Then the unthinkable happens.A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia as Courtney is entering the house, but its too late to stop Courtney, who makes a heartbreaking discovery. Her beloved grandmother has been murdered, and the killer is escaping out the back door. A distraught Courtney chases him, but the killer jumps into a pickup truck and gets away.Julia flies home the next morning to support Courtney in her grief. The local police believe the murder was a botched burglary, but the women suspect something much more sinister. They dig to unearth the truth in a town filled with explosive secrets, and Julias uncanny intuition points her to the missing pieces of a dark puzzle.The women call in hotshot Philly lawyer Bennie Rosato, but events take a deadly turn and Julia becomes the target of a murderous conspiracy. She ends up fighting for her life, with no one to save her... but herself.

A childhood game of wild imagination takes a frightening turn in this dark, strange, moving tale of intense friendship, tangled secrets and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Eat the Ones You Love, one of the Sunday Timess Top Ten Irish Books of 2025.For Daphne McSharry, Valentia Island was a place of joyful childhood holidays: independence, adventure and playing with her beloved friends, Ronan, Leonie and Finn. They returned to one game of their own making year after year, and let their imaginations roam free. But when the game is stolen from them by an outsider, it becomes something dark and strange, forcing Daphne to make a choice with a terrible cost. When tragedy brings her back to the island years later, she and her friends finally have to face the consequences of what she did.Daphne never took her final turn... And there is a debt that must be paid.

Janus Lodge isnt your typical retirement community. Sylvia Abercrombie and her knitting-obsessed gang of octogenarians are feisty, foul- mouthed, and fiercely protective of their home. So when a shady developer plots to evict them and build a "gentlemens club", they hatch an audacious plan to save their sanctuaryby starting a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist. As sales skyrocket, secrets unravel, and Sylvias ex-husband lurks in the shadows, the gang must pull off the ultimate heist to protect their beloved Lodge.Hilarious and heartfelt, Knit One, Heist One is a riotous romp proving that age is no barrier to action.

Top scientist in her field Ava Green doesnt spend much time outside of the lab. But when her best friend suggests she present her innovative work in AI at a big competition to win a funding prize, Ava is one of the four finalists chosen.For the next three weeks, the short-listed contestants will live and work at Castle Beaumont, and Ava will have to do things like attend dinners and actually interact with people. To make matters worse, shes in competition with the surly and aloof poet Forrest Faulkner, whos had a huge chip on his shoulder since the moment they met. Whats so great about poems that dont even rhyme, anyway?But one of the finalists literally looks like hes Avas fantasy come to life... and maybe thats not so far from the truth. Could it be that Avas idea of perfection isnt whats perfect for her, after all?

A thrilling story of a sibling bond tested by religious and ideological conflict. The final novel in a trilogy from the iconic Assassins Creed universe.Dive into the Inquisition and witch hunts in Renaissance France with Assassins Creed!1609. The Inquisition is raging across Europe, massacring thousands of men and women on charges of witchcraft. Raised in the Landes region of France, Margaux and Ermeline, 16 and 17 years old, are initiated by their adoptive mother Catherine into the practices of healing. While her younger sister flourishes in this simple life, Ermeline dreams of something more, of settling in town, far from the forests of south-west France.This peaceful life comes to an end when Catherine, denounced for witchcraft by a patient, is taken to Bayonne with her eldest daughter by Pierre de Lancre, a master inquisitor and Templar in search of an ancient artefact. The two girls witness their mother being burned at the stake: Ermeline as a hostage of the Templars, Margaux watching from hiding. Distraught, Margaux is taken in by Nicodemus, an Assassin close to Catherine, who will train her in the Creed, while the anger of the French people ferments against the Inquisition.Separated, the two sisters must mourn their happy youth, but also decide which path to take and which destiny to join. Assassin or Templar? The path of blood, or the path of the heart?

The stunning final entry in the Guardians of Dawn series, from New York Times bestselling author S. Jae-Jones, perfect for fans of Sue Lynn Tan and Judy I. Lin. Shadows fade. Illusions break. The dawn returns.Min Suhwa has always longed to see the greater world outside the small, cloistered convent in which she was raised. Hidden there for her safety when she was a small child, Suhwa has learned to keep her unusual illusion magic to herself, but when the Bangtan Brothers come to town to perform, she cant resist the chance to go see them for herself. But the world outside her convent is dangerousthe Morning Realms have fallen to civil war, and Huntsmen prowl the land in search of magicians and the fabled Guardians of Dawn, legendary elemental warriors with incredible powers. When Suhwas illusion magic brings her afoul of one of the Huntsmen, she must flee for her life.Meanwhile, the Guardians of Dawn and their allies are fighting a war on two frontsagainst the northern insurrection seeking to claim the Sunburst Throne and destroy all magicians, and against the rising threat of the Mother of Ten Thousand Demons. Zhara, Ami, and Yuli must travel to the Azure Isles to seek the Guardian of Water and save the Morning Realms from annihilation, restoring balance to order and chaos once and for all.

When lightning strikes, these two enemies are about to become closer than they anticipated...Nora Claremont and Corey Flemmington have hated each other since that first day of Finance class. Deterred by his arrogant attitude, Nora wants nothing to do with Corey. That is until they bump into each other one rainy night, and after a freak lightning strike and an unexpected encounter with an umbrella, they find themselves trapped in each others bodies.Opting to move in together while they figure out how to switch back, Nora and Corey begin impersonating each other and are thrust into unfamiliar terrain.If they can learn to tolerate each other and discover their professional and personal potential, they may find a way to return to their bodies. If not, they risk staying as the other forever...

Police Chief Jesse Stone finds himself in the crosshairs of a rich hedge fund manager dead set on making Paradise Jesses personal Hell, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parkers beloved series.Fresh off an acquittal in a multi-billion-dollar fraud case, Ramsey Devlin doesnt think the law applies to him. This becomes apparent when Jesse finds him passed out, drunk, and on the side of the road in a Maclaren worth more than most peoples homes. After Devlin takes a swing at him and Jesse swiftly dumps him in the drunk tank, Jesse realizes hes made an enemy.Devlin makes it his lifes mission to use his money and influence to provoke Jesse. And thanks to a few big campaign donations, hes got Jesses nemesis, Gary Armistead, the mayor of Paradise, on his side. Devlins even got Molly Crane, Jesses deputy chief, wanting to act on her violent urges.Jesse has every reason to want Devlin out of his town. But when he vanishes, and bloodstains are found on the carpet of his monstrous seaside mansion, Jesse finds himself the main suspect in Devlins disappearance. Suspended from his position as chief, Jesse must solve the case and prove his own innocence... or he might be the one to wind up behind bars.

From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaelsa flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer iconunexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddies body from the medical examiners office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.Now, Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of A Sting in her Tale.After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a snipers bullet, shes off again, to a safe house in Notting Hill. There her only contact is her former colleague Matthew, still with MI6, who offers her a bit of investigation she can do online to pass the time. But Felicity is not one to work from home when she can be out and getting stuck in, especially when someone on the inside seems to be betraying her...

From the opening of her own yarn shop, to the anticipated proposal from her boyfriend Richard, everything seems to be working out for Tabitha Grey.That is until the sweater curse starts to come into play... a theory that from the moment you make something for your partner, disaster will be around the corner. After finishing her crochet cashmere sweater for Richard, she comes home to find him with another woman. Following a shattering break up, Tabitha impulsively gathers together everything shes ever made him, taking the crochet goods to the local charity shop and out of her life.But it isnt long until the fateful jumper reappears, on a mysterious man emerging from a narrowboat along the canal. Cooper seems to be everywhere in her small town, and while Tabitha tries to distance herself from everything that connected her to Richard, she cant seem to stop running into Cooper.Amidst a growing attraction to the new resident, and the possibility of a second chance with Richard, Tabitha finds herself tangled up in a series of events that threaten to throw her plans overboard.

Lindisfarne in 1494 is a place of secrets.The scribe Linnet is running from her criminal past and seeking sanctuary in the island of her childhood. Shes friendless in the monastery, the monks resentful of a woman scribe, and her only company is Tom the fisherman and a child, Isabelle watchful, clever and unlikeable with her partly tamed raven Pol.The monastery bursar Oswyn threatens to expose Linnets past but she isnt the only one with secrets to hide. Intent upon uncovering the monks misdeeds is the fanatic inspector, sent by the new Bishop of Durham to write a report on the monastery. When Oswyn is found drowned, Linnet suspects the death is not accidental. After another death, Linnet realises theres a killer amongst the brethren, and her own precarious position makes her vulnerable unless she can first identify who it could be

Stories of the submerged lands of Ys and Lyonesse, the phantom islands of the Atlantic, the Kappa water spirits and Mayazakis inspirational Yakushima island, the Inuit of the Arctic islands and their tales of selkies and transformation, Mami Wata the black mermaid who accompanied the slave ships to the Outer Banks, the taniwha sea monsters of Aotearoa, flooded Valleys in Wales and the Seneca Nation, the flood monsters of Kiribati, life of Bardsey Island, how water and people are called Vai across the Pacific Islands, Tove Janssons Finnish island, Whaling tales from New England, the fairy people of the dry islands of the Cajun swamps, the tale of the Moriori people of Rehoku, tales from Hermit Islands and Floating Islands, and of course the mermaids of Haiti, the Philippines and the Arabic islands. The stories highlight issues of rising sea levels, water pollution, displaced people, isolation, mismanaged fishing and legal rights of water.

When State Department interpreter Weaver is summoned to an off-the-books meeting during a G20 summit, he expects routine diplomacy. What he gets is a chilling glimpse into a secret arrangement between the White House and the Kremlin an arrangement that could destroy lives, careers, and nations. With only a red digital pen as evidence and a growing sense that he was never meant to walk away from that room, Weaver flees to the safety of England.But there is no safety.Hunted by invisible forces and unsure whom to trust, he must uncover the truth before the truth consumes him. The Interpreters Secret is a taut, sophisticated literary thriller about power, language, and the dangerous things left unsaid.