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Shattered by his friend’s death in halls, Daniel falls under the spell of a charismatic cult leader. Becky, battling difficulties of her own, races to track him down before the group closes in around him and he disappears forever.
When a valuable Fabergé egg goes missing, Becky and her partners Will and Joanna at the White Knight Detective Agency are pulled into a whirlwind of deceit. Juggling an infidelity case and a child's kidnapping, their investigation leads them into dark, dangerous territory, where all roads converge.
When you’ve lost everything, what’s left to lose? In a silent, post-pandemic world, a ten-year-old boy roams Utah’s red-rock desert, haunted by grief and memory. When a childhood friend reappears, comfort slowly turns to uncertainty as their relationship unravels, and the boy must confront the most...
Tideswell, once a thriving fishing village, now lies broken, its streets haunted by suspicion and loss. Its decay echoes Alice's failed marriage and her crumbling family relationships. Alice must summon the courage to reclaim her life before she is drowned in Tideswell’s shadows.
A biological weapon hidden in plain sight. A coalition willing to kill to secure global control. As world leaders converge in Davos, former CIA analyst Kate Preacher must uncover the conspiracy and stop the release—but stopping it may require a sacrifice that changes her forever.
When a decades-old betrayal comes back to haunt her, private investigator Becky White is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, revenge, and murder. As tensions boil over in Manchester’s criminal underworld, Becky and her team must race to uncover the truth—before it’s too late.
Austen is re-born in a multi-award-winning series mixing characters from her fiction, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from Darcy's point of view, EMMA from a clued-up Harriet's perspective, a tale about the wicked Lady Susan when only sweet sixteen, and a dazzling sequel to SENSE & SENSIBILITY.
In the decaying frontier town of Whitepost, a principled U.S. Marshal tracks a phantom outlaw gang, only to find murder, desire, and political treachery colliding over a stolen letter that could change the fate of the West.
You can change your name. Change your life. But someone knows exactly who you are. Twenty years ago, Mason Tucker was convicted as the teenage accomplice who helped lure young boys to the serial killer known as the Pied Piper of Peasedale. He was nineteen when he went to prison. Now he’s free —...
Joy, 11, cares for her brother Ian while fearing Child Protective Services. A baby bird and her eccentric neighbor Ezzie lead her to “rewilding” and to question her dad’s manipulative control. As she secretly restores a wild yard, Joy finds courage, healing, the power of nature and her own voice.
Star the cat is visiting New York City for the first time and can’t wait to see the sights! From the towering buildings to the bustling streets, everything is new and exciting. But when Star meets a lost kitten named Jet, her adventure truly begins. She explores the city, visits the Natural History...
Follow the Chameleon across the road in Uganda! There are challenges on the way and doubts in his heart. Will he make it?
Lucia Porter emerges from a sheltered background into the life of the wealthy and privileged. It's different from what she was promised or expected. In a tense climax on a lonelt Scottish island she is forced to evaluate her world and choose another.
Torn between her Amish roots and the moder world, Hannah believes she has a choice – until murders decides otherwise. 'Hannah must make a choice: stay in her tight-knit Amish community or leave for a life beyond the fields and fences. When a severed hand lands at her feet one winter morning, this...
When Pearl, Primrose, Milly, and Reggie are least expecting it, a locked casket, found hidden in an old railway station, presents Team Bella with the task of solving the puzzle of the silent church.
A teenage band is overjoyed when asked to play at the wedding of a wealthy celeb. They'll stay in a luxurious Italian villa, with all expenses paid. It's a painful lesson that when something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
She’s the quiet wife and mother, until tonight. Dinner with her husband's Russian business clients goes wrong and Mrs Barnes is quickly forced to fight for her life and the lives of those she loves the most. She soon proves that midlife doesn’t mean meak and menopausal; it’s lethal and unapologetic.
The past is always present in this time-hopping thriller. In the 1500s astrologer and magician John Dee finds a jar with amazing properties and uses it to save the nation from disaster. 400 years later a honeymooning couple stumble upon the jar. But have they found the jar, or has it found them?
An American vintner and novelist living in rural Spain experiments with his own pain tincture and wakes in a nightmarish tribunal where manuscripts are treated as crimes; to save his book, his mind, and his life, he must survive eight psychological trials designed to erase him.
A suburban family. A buried secret. A son they never truly knew. When police uncover a mass grave in the Peasedale forest, Scott and Blair Bagby learn their teenage son, Jamie, may be among the victims of a serial killer. But the details of Jamie’s final moments don’t match the killer’s other crimes...
Suzannah is pregnant with her third child. The first is in prison. The second is dead. Suzannah is finally happy — pregnant, engaged, and rebuilding her life. There’s just one problem. Her life is built on lies. Alec thinks this is her first pregnancy. He doesn’t know about the daughter who died. Or...
AIVA is book 5 in The Race Is On, a high-concept speculative thriller series that reimagines the 21st century: in 2003, a gifted invention unleashes a global power struggle, corporate warfare, and personal betrayals—escalating toward a world-altering climax in 2020, where technology, climate change...
Blending fact and fiction, the untold story of the extraordinary experiences that drove Thomas Wakley – the fearless founder of The Lancet - to challenge the corruption, quackery and complacency of 19th-century medicine and spark the radical reforms that shaped modern healthcare.
A highly regarded surgeon has gone missing. Will the search for her whereabouts tear a community apart? Dr. Janie O’Connor’s disappearance from her Savannah estate, Rose Dhu, has shocked the town to its core. Her former fiancé, Phillip Carruthers—once the most eligible bachelor in coastal Georgia...
Tech CEO Aiden and lawyer Emma are both drowning in New York’s high-stakes pressure. A spontaneous escape to Bangkok brings these two strangers together in a chaotic hostel. Their connection is raw and sultry, but back home, secrets and ruthless rivals threaten to destroy their fragile new bond.
When Miranda employs underhand ways to flush out whether herbalist friend Lizzie's husband really died a natural death, she seeds a flowering of romantic rivalries, financial cupidity and misteps that ripen into murderous intent, and threaten to ensnare Miranda herself as an accomplice next.
After the forbidden Gamma Field takes Jules and Memphis beyond retrieval, scientist Eulǝr must reunite with his estranged former partner Casper and cross into exile before an awakened machine drives their divided world toward irreversible transformation.
In Occupied Paris, danger lurks in every shadow. For Hannah, a Jewish refugee, and Kat, a socialite torn by loyalty and fear, survival means defiance. Sewing Resistance weaves a powerful story of friendship, sacrifice, and the quiet courage that defies tyranny in a desperate fight for Liberation.
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