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This is a story of love between a father and a son. 13-year-old Ved is a sweet, inquisitive boy living in a world where love must hide in plain sight. His adoptive father, Da, is his entire universe fiercely loving, fiercely protective, harbouring a secret that could destroy them both: Da is gay at a time when Section 377 makes homosexuality a crime. Set in an Indian metropolis in 2013, Da is a tender story of a boy caught between devotion and fear, chronicling the everyday courage it takes to love someone the world refuses to accept.

Hes a vampire. He sucks the life out of people because his own life bores him so much.A plague rages across Europe. On a remote island, former actress Alice and army Captain Edgar are quarantined together locked in a bitter, brutal, and addictive marriage. When an old friend arrives to help celebrate their wedding anniversary, its the perfect excuse for the couple to take their terrifying games to a new level.August Strindbergs masterpiece Dance of Death is a darkly comic portrait of psychological warfare a toxic love story that continues to thrill audiences today.Richard Eyre follows a series of revelatory Ibsen productions with this new adaptation, premiering at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2026.

The new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David McCloskey

The worlds most unlikely crime solving duo is back and this time Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy and Indian hotel owner Avtar Mehta discover that family secrets are the most deadly.When the tyrannical head of one of Delhis richest families is found dead inside a locked room within the historic Elephant House, Sister Agnes and Avtar must solve an impossible murder.All the children have motives, but would any of them really kill their mother for her money? Or is her death payback for a much deeper debt?As the city builds bonfires to celebrate the festival of Lohri, Sister Agatha and Avtar face backstabbing siblings, a gangster with untold influence, a police siege and a cigarette-stealing elephant. Avtar and Sister Agatha are on the hunt for a murderer, but is someone pulling their strings? When a killer is prepared to do the unthinkable, no one is safe and no one can be trusted.

When couturiere-turned-sleuth Jemima Flowerday accepts a last-minute invitation to a Murder Weekend at Firebrace Court, a crumbling Devon mansion perched on a storm-lashed headland, she expects nothing more than champagne, theatrics, and the fun of playing the daughter of a fictitious duchess. The whole thing is meant to be an absolute hoot.But the hoot turns to horror within hours. The arrival of Hal and Daisy Merriweather fabulously wealthy Texans lured to Firebrace by hints of Hals ancestral claim to the estate is as spectacular as their motorcar: a gleaming Bentley that skids on the rain-soaked drive and crashes into the ancient bridge. The structure collapses into the swollen stream below, revealing a mans skeleton tangled among the wreckage. And the discovery of a fresh murder turns the screw. The killer must be one of those within the house. Family member, staff or guest. This murder weekend is only too real...

London, 1856. Ben Canaan is a young detective on the payroll of Her Majestys Executive, riding high on a string of successful cases. Then a notorious crime boss turns up murdered on the city streets, the latest in a series of brutal killings targeting the most powerful men in the global opium trade. To track down the culprits and prevent more blood from being shed, Ben is sent out to the newly-founded British colony of Hong Kong: a lawless frontier town on the southern shores of Chinas Great Qing Dynasty.Ben is plunged headlong into a labyrinthine conspiracy, set against the backdrop of an empire in collapse and a sweeping civil war. As his hunt brings him closer to the truth and the ruthless corporate interests that want him dead, Ben is forced to choose between what is necessary and what is just.

Based on the hit mobile game, a cozy murder mystery set in 1920s Paris by a USA Today bestselling author, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Agatha Christie. Junes friend has been brutally murdered and the police have the wrong man, can she solve the case before the killer catches up to her?Paris, 1922. The marriage between the Auclair and the Picard family is the talk of the town. June cant wait to attend the engagement party with her friends, Nate and Jack. But Nate has an ulterior motive: hes there to stop the wedding. Before he can complete his task, hes stabbed in the chest with Jacks knife. Jack is arrested, but June knows he wouldnt hurt a fly.In this throwback to the classic whodunnits of Agatha Christie, June must find the real killer and clear Jacks name. As she becomes embroiled deeper and deeper into a corrupt web of Parisian old money, high society and politics, she uncovers deadly secrets. Can June solve the case before the killer strikes again?

Apesar de saber que era errado, tentar roubar de um duque nunca pareceu to atrativo. Mal sabia ela, mas o roubo era o melhor convite que ele poderia ter recebido. Frannie Darling cresceu nas impiedosas ruas londrinas, cercada de ladres e de todo tipo de malfeitores. Mesmo assim, construiu um porto seguro a partir dos numeros, das amizades e de seus sonhos. Isso ate ele surgir e desafiar tudo do que ela sempre teve certeza. E e com uma proposta indecorosa que a vida de Frannie sai dos eixos, deixando-a desejosa e em perigo. Sterling Mabry, o oitavo duque de Greystone, e um homem egoista e cinico que esconde um dificil segredo. Ao conhecer a doce srta. Darling, decide que precisa te-la antes de finalmente cumprir com seus deveres, nem que seja por uma noite e nada mais. Mas, quanto mais se aproxima, mais ela se afasta. Nesse jogo silencioso e desregrado, talvez o vencedor seja aquele que no tiver medo da verdade.

Imagina si pidieras cuatro deseos y se cumplieran todos... pero a otra persona Emma Rockford sabe que le hará falta mucha magia para que la escuela secundaria sea todo lo que ella quiere. Por suerte, su amada abuela, antes de morir, le dejo instrucciones acerca de como acceder a un antiguo, secreto y magico pozo de los deseos. Emma sigue cada paso y planifica el momento en que depositara sus deseos... Pero el chico nuevo, Jackson, lanza sus propios deseos y literalmente chocan contra los de Emma. Cuando comienza el septimo grado, Emma descubre que los deseos se estan empezando a cumplir, ¡bien! Pero justamente no a ella... Con el ingenio y la sensibilidad que la caracterizan y que le han ganado legiones de fans, la autora numero 1 en ventas del New York Times, Lynn Painter, nos entrega una historia que habla de la amistad, la familia y los deseos pronunciados en voz alta, y todo con un delicioso toque de magia.

The Trinity is revealed at last, but the key to unlocking its power remains unknown. Tor and Alyssa are surrounded by danger. Old enemies return, and a new threat is looming: a god has installed himself on the throne and is determined to kill Tor and those he loves.The battle lines are drawn for the final confrontation between the two most powerful sentients ever to walk the land. Was Tor doomed from the start, or can he protect Tallinor from its ultimate enemy?

UN ROMANTASY ADICTIVO EN EL QUE HUMANOS Y LOBOS HUARGO FORJAN VÍNCULOS IRROMPIBLES PARA LUCHAR POR LA SUPERVIVENCIA.Solo aquellos dignos superan las pruebas, y la joven Meryn arriesgará la vida (y el corazon) para ser una de ellos.Vinculate o sangra.Lucha o muere.La derrota no es una opcion.Meryn Cooper siempre ha odiado a los Vinculados, guerreros de elite que forman conexiones mentales con los enormes y feroces lobos huargos que montan. Mientras ellos viven en el lujo, ella lucha por sacar a su familia de la pobreza.Sin embargo, cuando el enemigo secuestra a su hermana pequeña Saela, el mundo de Meryn se desmorona y, desesperada por llegar al frente y salvarla, se alista en el ejercito para enfrentarse a las mortales Pruebas de Vinculacion, donde cualquier error le costara la vida.Asi, debera sobrevivir a cuatro meses de entrenamiento vinculada a un lobo huargo salvaje que se niega a comunicarse, mientras los otros aprendices se mueren por derramar su sangre y su frio y atractivo instructor, Stark Therion, parece muy dispuesto a castigarla ante la minima muestra de debilidad.Todo es una competicion y todos son sus enemigos. Excepto, tal vez, el principe, cuyo interes por Meryn la convierte en un objetivo a a batir. Y es que en el castillo, cada sonrisa oculta un cuchillo y cada pasillo alberga un secreto.Este libro incluye:Romance a fuego lentoLa familia que se eligePersonajes de moralidad grisUna sola camaTocala y te mato¿Quien te ha hecho esto?De enemigos a amantesProximidad forzosaVampiros vs LobosLa critica ha dicho: La mezcla perfecta entre Alas de sangre y Juego de tronos.ScreenRantPreparense, fans de la fantasia: una nueva novela romantica magica esta al caer.People MagazineDire Bound tiene todos los mejores tropos romanticos: romance a fuego lento, enemies to lovers, parejas predestinadas, "¿quien te ha hecho eso?"... Y si te gusta un giro unico entre vampiros y hombres lobo, ¡necesitas este libro!.BookTrib.comLos lectores opinan: La trama es increible, pero ¿la tension y la quimica entre estos dos? Impecable. ¿Y el mundo, los vinculos con los lobos y las pruebas? ¡Necesito mas!.Lo acabo de terminar y estoy intentando recuperarme mental y emocionalmente de lo que acabo de leer. Teneis que empezarlo ahora mismo.Si os gustan los romantasies oscuros con personajes feroces y mucha emocion, Dire Bound es vuestra siguiente obsesion.¡Este libro es increible! Me ha dejado de piedra El romance, el anhelo, la quimica.Me ha volado la cabeza en el mejor de los sentidos. ¿El antiheroe de moralidad gris? ¿La tension a fuego lento? Ha sido electrico.

Llega a España la serie de Dark Romance del momento. Un universo donde amar es tan arriesgado como subir al ring. Perfecta para fans de Mercedes Ron, Ana Huang y Penélope Douglas.Sienna, una joven asistente legal, intenta dejar atras un pasado que aun le duele y empezar de nuevo en Nueva York, donde ha encontrado una vida tranquila lejos del drama y las heridas. Keller, un boxeador con un oscuro secreto, lucha por liberarse de la mafia que impulso su carrera y amenaza con arrastrarlo de nuevo. Quererse solo consigue ponerlos en peligro, pero resistirse es imposible. En una ciudad donde las apariencias engañan y el amor es mas arriegado que subirse al ring, ambos deberan enfrentarse a fuerzas mas grandes que ellos para descubrir si lo que sienten puede sobrevivir a la verdad, la culpa y los fantasmas del pasado.

Its a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is busy teaching music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in her journey of faith. But when one of her favourite students is found dead of a fentanyl overdose, Sister Holiday and her partner-in-PI, Magnolia Riveaux, are launched on a mission to track down the drug dealers.As students continue to fall prey to this sinister drug under her watch, Sister Holiday becomes more and more desperate to stop the epidemic. All the while, she must contend with her own past with addiction, a demon that is never too far.As she goes deep undercover with a local gang, Sister Holidays darkest and most shocking case yet will test the limits of her faith-and her sanity.

Hilarious . . . theres no one else quite like him working today. Rachel Cooke, ObserverA shaggy-dog graphic novel love story to melt the coldest of hearts.If you cant believe in a cute, funny boy who was nice to you once . . . what can you believe in?Meet Bernie and Brad, two single dogs getting by in Dog City. Bernie has just dropped out of university and Brad, working for an environmental charity, is trying not to have a meltdown about the melting ice caps. When the pair crash into one anothers lives, they em(bark) on a series of dates - new food spots, terrible films, nights in and mishaps a plenty - as they realise that maybe its not just about meeting the right match, but whether you can then make it work.Funny, anxious, and heartwarming, this is the story of two dogs trying to find hope in love, and in each other.

Love is a long gameDown-and-out after retiring from cycling to get a real job, Leesa Kubicka just wants to forget about her years on the elite team, the races she mostly lost. Just her luck, her first real assignment at the sports marketing agency where shes building a career takes her right back to everything she wanted to leave behind: cycling, the Tour de France and Colin Gallagher, the immature joker whod enjoyed riling her up with stupid pranks the guy shed nearly kissed back in September.Much to her mortification, her job is now to make content with him before and during the Tour de France. His pranks and flirting and distractingly deep voice dont make her job any easier, but shes determined to impress her boss and earn the contract extension her bank account desperately needs.Leesa has always been Colins Achilles heel: beautiful, funny and completely immune to his rough charm. But now shes here to witness the moment that will make or break his young career and all he wants to do is act out with her.Its his last chance to prove hes not just the idiot she thinks he is before shes gone from his life forever. Its time for Colin Gallagher to finally grow up and prove hes worth the support of his team and sponsors and maybe even Leesas heart.

Descubre el suspense romance que te quitará el aliento.Brooke Harris solo tiene un objetivo: vengar la muerte de su madre y destruir a la familia que le arruinó la vida.Para que su plan funcione, tendra que infiltrarse en Los Cuervos, un club exclusivo donde el poder, el dinero y los secretos lo controlan todo. Al frente del grupo esta Kaden Allen, su antiguo mejor amigo y uno de los culpables de su tragedia.Mientras Brooke se somete a las despiadadas pruebas de iniciacion, los desafios fisicos y mentales la arrastran a una red de mentiras, traiciones y verdades enterradas, obligandola a enfrentarse no solo a sus enemigos, sino tambien a su propia identidad.Cuanto mas se acerca a su meta, mas peligrosos se vuelven sus sentimientos. Porque odiar a Kaden Allen deberia ser facil pero la linea entre el deber y el deseo se difumina donde nace la venganza.

Isabela nasceu com o dom de ver e se comunicar com espíritos, dom que ela tenta dominar desde a sua infância, e à medida que usa seus poderes, eles se tornam mais fortes. Neste primeiro livro da séri

A double dose of gripping psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Two serial killers one female, one male murder in the name of a higher cause. Ideal for fans of Alice Munro, Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.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 identities initially, 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 VolumeA female serial killer seeks refuge in her twin sisters home in STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON, while a male serial killer murders for the woman he craves in SOUL/MATE -- and the echoes continue in the rare short stories "The Murderess" and "An Unsolved Crime.""A brilliant writer." TIME"Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going." GILLIAN FLYNN

The road silent, somnolent yet with a speech of its own, speaking back to them, father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies and a fresh crime mounting in the blood.The local community is shocked when a young teenager, Mary, attempts to get an illegal abortion, especially when they discover that she has been raped by her father. OBrien charts Marys emotional and psychological trauma, as her story is dragged first into the public realm and then into the law courts, with her power of choice usurped by militant factions on all sides.A haunting novel based on a real events.

((Fur die Vorschau))Eine ratselhafte Gestalt taucht in den nachtlichen Straen Londons auf und ist ebenso schnell wieder verschwunden. Sie erscheint als Verkorperung all der dunklen Leidenschaften, die in den Tiefen der menschlichen Seele schlummern, eine Ausgeburt des Bosen, die auch vor einem Mord nicht zuruckschreckt. Alles, was man uber sie wei, ist ihr Name: Mr. Hyde.((Fur Onix))A mysterious figure emerges on the streets of London at nightonly to vanish just as quickly. He seems to embody all the dark passions that lie dormant in the depths of the human soul: a spawn of evil who does not shy away from murder. All that is known about him is his name: Mr. Hyde.