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No one knows more about everything especially everything rude clever and offensively compelling than John Waters The man in the pencil thin mustache auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos Polyester the original Hairspray Cry Baby and A Dirty Shame is one of the world s great sophisticates and in Mr Know It All he serves it up raw how to fail upward in Hollywood how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it more important how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk and yes how to cheat death itself Through it all Waters swears by one undeniable truth Whatever you might have heard there is absolutely no downside to being famous None at all Studded with cameos of Waters s stars from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp Kathleen Turner Patricia Hearst and Tracey Ullman and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters s personal collection Mr Know It All is Waters s most hypnotically readable upsetting revelatory book another instant Waters classic Waters doesn t kowtow to the received wisdom he flips it the bird Waters has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that

PREMI RAMON LLULL Una novel·la que transcendeix en cada pàgina, amb una narrativa que emociona, provoca i inspira. Cal deixar d’enyorar per començar a viure.La Lena és una científica ambiciosa que ma

Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize Winner of the PEN Translates AwardA monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of Indias highest literary honors. In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaqs years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed womens rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, its in her charactersthe sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great costthat Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well Indias most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend and The Tenant comes a twisty psychological thriller like no other a story of sinister secrets that will keep you enraptured through to the shocking finale.Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what shes done.But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isnt the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.But first, she must survive the night.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte s extraordinary masterpiece with foiled covers marbled endpapers sprayed edges beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft hearted husband and Heathcliff the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR S CLASSICS a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf

January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.But for one of the O'Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings...Like Howarth's acclaimed debut, Heap Earth Upon It explores rural Irish life at a specific moment in time and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page.

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World*****There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.*****Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature Ian McEwan'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant' Observer*****Welcome to Rook Hall.The stage is set. The players are ready. By nights end, a murderer will be revealed.Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genrefrom Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinsons signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodies most outrageous and memorable case yet.

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 inconveniently in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if shes going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. Thats if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? 2025s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.

The internet s favorite googly eyed feline purr in ink wrote a book to send you a little bit of love and a whole lot of joy As every cat lover knows purring is the way a cat shows affection and happiness and The Book of Purrs is just that From cover to cover Portuguese illustrator Luis Coelho s delightful collection of comics an extension of his popular Instagram purr in ink is filled with affirmations and encouraging reminders to find joy in making mistakes chasing lost dreams and refilling empty food bowls they are still cats after all The Book of Purrs Everyday Thoughts from Your Feline Friends is the purr fect gift for the cat lover in your life and anyone in need of a daily dose of paws itivity

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the rivers banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin), Jims agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Horror comics author Junji Ito has recently purchased a new house and has decided to invite his girlfriend to move in with him However when she moves in she comes with two cats Yon a strange looking white cat with a ghastly fur pattern on its back that resembles a skull and Mu Yon s cute counterpart and playmate This manga is a diary of the author s life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends The manga is drawn in Junji Ito s horror comic style featuring intricate and finely drawn images which when combined with the humorous story results in a experience that is sure to bring laughter to the reader

Després de 10 anys, Enric Pardo Ramírez torna a la ficció, aquesta vegada en valencià, amb una novel·la tendra i íntima que ens farà reflexionar sobre el paper de tantes mares dels anys 80. «Aquesta

Haru té 15 anys quan el seu pare, Osamu, vidu de poc i actuant d’acord amb les últimes voluntats de la seva dona Kumiko, envia la filla a estudiar a un dojo perquè hi aprengui tir amb arc. Els enseny

A charming break from reality Publishers WeeklyEvery book in the Dream Harbor series can be read as a standalone.Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town thats too cute for its own good.Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor trying to take a break from both his life and his constant desire to fix things.But somehow fate finds Ben trapped by a blanket of snow at Kiras farm, and, despite her Grinchiest first impressions, with the glow of the fairy lights twinkling in the trees, and the promise of a warming hot chocolate, maybe, just maybe, these two lost souls will have a Christmas theyll remember forever

Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction **** An Evening Standard One to Watch in 2023 **** An Independent Best Romantic Summer Reads' **** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsburys Magazine **** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street **It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

Tras a espectacular acollida das súas anteriores novelas negras, Arantza Portabales inicia unha nova serie, Os crimes de Loeiro, protagonizada por Santaclara & Araújo. A inspectora Iria Santaclar

From global phenomenon Callie Hart comes a highly addictive enemies-to-lovers Romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance that you wont be able to put down!Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isnt much a girl wouldnt do for a glass of water.Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queens reservoirs for as long as she can remember.But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out theyre real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemists magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And hes the only way Saeris is going to make it home.Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details . . .N.B. Quicksilver contains depictions of graphic violence/adult situations and is therefore recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the authors website.

«Pensaràs que és un atreviment. I tant. Però no voldria ser jutjat per aquesta carta, ni per cap altre motiu. Ja he comparegut massa vegades davant de tribunals. Ni un judici més. Probablement, perqu

"Les mots ont le pouvoir qu'on leur donne."

La Sara Bonsom és una dona independent (a la força), de Barcelona (però... és que hi ha gent que viu a altres llocs?), mare soltera d’un nen de tres anys (com a única solució que ha trobat per crear

No one knows more about everything especially everything rude clever and offensively compelling than John Waters The man in the pencil thin mustache auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos Polyester the original Hairspray Cry Baby and A Dirty Shame is one of the world s great sophisticates and in Mr Know It All he serves it up raw how to fail upward in Hollywood how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it more important how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk and yes how to cheat death itself Through it all Waters swears by one undeniable truth Whatever you might have heard there is absolutely no downside to being famous None at all Studded with cameos of Waters s stars from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp Kathleen Turner Patricia Hearst and Tracey Ullman and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters s personal collection Mr Know It All is Waters s most hypnotically readable upsetting revelatory book another instant Waters classic Waters doesn t kowtow to the received wisdom he flips it the bird Waters has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that

PREMI RAMON LLULL Una novel·la que transcendeix en cada pàgina, amb una narrativa que emociona, provoca i inspira. Cal deixar d’enyorar per començar a viure.La Lena és una científica ambiciosa que ma

Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize Winner of the PEN Translates AwardA monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of Indias highest literary honors. In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaqs years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed womens rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, its in her charactersthe sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great costthat Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well Indias most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend and The Tenant comes a twisty psychological thriller like no other a story of sinister secrets that will keep you enraptured through to the shocking finale.Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what shes done.But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isnt the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.But first, she must survive the night.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte s extraordinary masterpiece with foiled covers marbled endpapers sprayed edges beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft hearted husband and Heathcliff the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR S CLASSICS a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf

January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start.After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship and an opportunity to fit in.But for one of the O'Learys, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It's difficult to bury secrets, but almost impossible to bury feelings...Like Howarth's acclaimed debut, Heap Earth Upon It explores rural Irish life at a specific moment in time and delves into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities, leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page.

"Selon les bouddhistes, l'attachement est a l'origine de toutes les souffrances. On s'accroche a ce qu'on a, a ce qu'on a eu, a la vie qu'on a connue, aux quelques personnes et endroits qu'on a vraiment aimes, et on refuse de les lacher. " Ivan et Peter, deux freres que les annees ont eloignes, se retrouvent a la mort de leur pere. Ivan, vingt-deux ans, est un brillant joueur d'echecs, solitaire et frustre. Peter, juriste renomme de Dublin, est un trentenaire aux multiples conquetes. Tous deux vivent des amours perilleuses pendant ce moment delicat du deuil, intermede de vie ou la fragilite n'exclut pas l'aventure. L'autrice de Normal People saisit ici avec une rare acuite la complexite des sentiments et des desirs, la puissance des liens fraternels et les nouvelles façons de faire couple.

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World*****There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.*****Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature Ian McEwan'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson' Ian Rankin'Christie would be proud . . . I defy you not to snort with laughter as the novel progresses to its farcical denouement. Atkinson is brilliant' Observer*****Welcome to Rook Hall.The stage is set. The players are ready. By nights end, a murderer will be revealed.Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting.But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family.Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends.As paying guests, a vicar, an ex-army officer, impecunious aristocrats, and old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genrefrom Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinsons signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, Death at the Sign of the Rook may be Jackson Brodies most outrageous and memorable case yet.

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 inconveniently in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if shes going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. Thats if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying? 2025s most unexpected love story is going to be hell in the new novel by Sunday Times Number One Bestseller R.F. Kuang. Coming August 2025.

The internet s favorite googly eyed feline purr in ink wrote a book to send you a little bit of love and a whole lot of joy As every cat lover knows purring is the way a cat shows affection and happiness and The Book of Purrs is just that From cover to cover Portuguese illustrator Luis Coelho s delightful collection of comics an extension of his popular Instagram purr in ink is filled with affirmations and encouraging reminders to find joy in making mistakes chasing lost dreams and refilling empty food bowls they are still cats after all The Book of Purrs Everyday Thoughts from Your Feline Friends is the purr fect gift for the cat lover in your life and anyone in need of a daily dose of paws itivity

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the rivers banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin), Jims agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Horror comics author Junji Ito has recently purchased a new house and has decided to invite his girlfriend to move in with him However when she moves in she comes with two cats Yon a strange looking white cat with a ghastly fur pattern on its back that resembles a skull and Mu Yon s cute counterpart and playmate This manga is a diary of the author s life as he tries and often fails to connect with his two feline friends The manga is drawn in Junji Ito s horror comic style featuring intricate and finely drawn images which when combined with the humorous story results in a experience that is sure to bring laughter to the reader

Després de 10 anys, Enric Pardo Ramírez torna a la ficció, aquesta vegada en valencià, amb una novel·la tendra i íntima que ens farà reflexionar sobre el paper de tantes mares dels anys 80. «Aquesta

Haru té 15 anys quan el seu pare, Osamu, vidu de poc i actuant d’acord amb les últimes voluntats de la seva dona Kumiko, envia la filla a estudiar a un dojo perquè hi aprengui tir amb arc. Els enseny

A charming break from reality Publishers WeeklyEvery book in the Dream Harbor series can be read as a standalone.Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town thats too cute for its own good.Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor trying to take a break from both his life and his constant desire to fix things.But somehow fate finds Ben trapped by a blanket of snow at Kiras farm, and, despite her Grinchiest first impressions, with the glow of the fairy lights twinkling in the trees, and the promise of a warming hot chocolate, maybe, just maybe, these two lost souls will have a Christmas theyll remember forever

Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction **** An Evening Standard One to Watch in 2023 **** An Independent Best Romantic Summer Reads' **** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsburys Magazine **** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street **It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

Tras a espectacular acollida das súas anteriores novelas negras, Arantza Portabales inicia unha nova serie, Os crimes de Loeiro, protagonizada por Santaclara & Araújo. A inspectora Iria Santaclar

From global phenomenon Callie Hart comes a highly addictive enemies-to-lovers Romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance that you wont be able to put down!Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isnt much a girl wouldnt do for a glass of water.Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queens reservoirs for as long as she can remember.But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out theyre real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemists magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And hes the only way Saeris is going to make it home.Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details . . .N.B. Quicksilver contains depictions of graphic violence/adult situations and is therefore recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the authors website.