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A multiverse novel about two women who fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn’t end in disaster, in this debut novel by Annie Mare. Tressa Fay Robeson has never been shy, which is how she’s made a name for herself as an in-demand hairstylist and social media star. So she can admit that spending her days at her hair salon and her nights with her tight-knit group of friends (and one grumpy cat) is not the kind of exciting life she’d hoped for. When a misdirected text from a stranger leads to a flirty exchange, she surprises herself by suggesting an impulsive meetup. But the woman, Meryl, never shows. Tressa Fay brushes it off—until Meryl’s sister and friend show up at the salon demanding to know what’s going on. Because, you see, there’s no way Meryl could have texted her. Meryl has been missing for a month. Tressa Fay and her tight-knit group of friends soon discover they aren’t dealing with a catfish, but a temporal paradox. As they come to terms with the idea of parallel universes, they realize how many times their paths have crossed like this before. But even as they understand the multiverse more and more, nothing keeps Meryl from vanishing. As it draws closer to the moment of Meryl’s disappearance, there’s only one question Have they done enough to change the outcome, or have they done so much that none of them will make it past that fateful day in September?

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true? At twenty-six, Lucy Young is tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, tired of going on disastrous dates, and definitely tired of living in a damp flat share with flatmates who never buy toilet roll. She could quit her job for a better living, but she's not ready to give up on her dreams. Not just yet. After another diabolical date lands her in a sudden storm and no money for bus fare, Lucy finds herself seeking shelter in a tiny shop, where she stumbles upon a curious wishing machine. Pushing her last coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with everything she's got: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome man, a ring on her finger, a high-powered job, and storybook perfect little boy and baby girl, Lucy can't believe this is real—especially when she looks in the mirror, and staring back is her own forty-something face. Has she really skipped ahead to the future she's always wanted, or has she simply forgotten a huge chunk of her life? And as Lucy begins to embrace this new life and new relationships, she'll have to ask herself: Can she go back, and if so, does she want to?

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, eighteen and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; nine\-year\-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place. Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers the sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, the characters must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

Er ist ihr Verderben. Sie ist seine Rebellion. Das Erste, was du in New Found Haven lernen wirst, ist, dass es keine Gnade mehr gibt. Gnade zu zeigen ist eine Schwäche, und Schwäche wird dich das Leben kosten. Das Zweite ist dies: Die Veyra beobachten immer alles. Vom höchsten gläsernen Atrium im Herzen bis zu den fensterlosen Elendsquartieren der Grenze bleibt keine Bewegung ungesehen. Die letzte Lektion ist die schwerste, doch du musst sie dir merken. Liebe außerhalb deines Rings ist ein Todesurteil. Die Stadt ist in Ringe aus Privilegien und Armut gegliedert und wird von einer maskierten Elite regiert, die alles tun wird, um an der Macht zu bleiben. Gehorsam wird verlangt. Rebellion wird zerschlagen. Greyson Serel hat sein Leben zwischen zwei Welten verbracht. Öffentlich ist er der makellose Erbe der Präsidentschaft. Privat ist er in Geheimnisse verstrickt, die das Regime zu Fall bringen könnten. Doch als er zu einer politischen Ehe gezwungen wird, die ihn noch fester an die brutalen Gesetze der Regierung binden soll, findet er sich an eine Braut gekettet, die ebenso tödlich wie unwillig ist. Shadera ist eine Söldnerin, die dazu erzogen wurde zu töten, nicht zu heiraten. Doch als ihre Kugel ihr Ziel verfehlt, zwingt das Überleben sie dazu, an genau den Mann gebunden zu sein, den sie töten sollte. Gefangen im korrupten Herzen der Stadt wird sie zugleich Gefangene und Ehefrau; jeder ihrer Schritte wird überwacht, jede ihrer Bewegungen auf die Probe gestellt. Ihre Verbindung ist keine Liebesgeschichte – sie ist ein Schlachtfeld. Als Geheimnisse ans Licht kommen und Verrat in den Mauern der Macht schwelt, müssen Greyson und Shadera entscheiden, ob sie einander vernichten oder gemeinsam die Stadt niederbrennen. In einer Welt, in der Leidenschaft Rebellion entfacht und Loyalität mit Blut bezahlt wird, könnte ihre erzwungene Bindung der Funke sein, der eine Revolution entzündet. Oder das Feuer, das sie beide verschlingt. DAGGERMOUTH ist eine düstere dystopische Romanze, perfekt für Leserinnen und Leser, die echte Enemies-to-Lovers-Geschichten, Die Tribute von Panem, Ehen aus Unbequemlichkeit, Der Report der Magd, den Aufstieg der Unterdrückten und politische Intrigen lieben, die sie bis zur letzten Seite in Atem halten. DAGGERMOUTH ist der erste Band einer Dilogie.

A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on Earth before ten days are up…. If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, she’s also now standing in her "sparkle and shine" nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her. As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is, until someone comes running through a door yelling something about a huge mistake and sends the dreamy stranger back down to Earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife. When Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to Earth and reconnect with the mysterious man, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start. But to find him in a city of millions, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart, learn to ask for help, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind...