Gelesen 2025

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of… An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!

It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything.... That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go....

Die Einnahmen dieses Buches werden an humanitäre Hilfsorganisationen zur Unterstützung der Ukraine gespendet! Als Soldat lebe ich für meinen Job und das Militär. Aber für mich gibt es eine lebenswichtige Regel: Ich darf mich niemals verlieben. Denn ich bin ein Mann, der Männer mag, in einer Stadt, die gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe verbietet und verfolgt. Wäre da nur nicht mein attraktiver Vorgesetzter, der sein Lächeln auffällig oft in meine Richtung wirft. Und während ich mir einrede, dass es nichts zu bedeuten hat und ich mir seine Annäherungen nur einbilde, klopft mein Herz schon viel zu schnell. Plötzlich brechen all die unterdrückten Sehnsüchte hervor und wir stürzen uns in eine riskante Affäre aus zarten Gefühlen und glühendem Verlangen. Sollte sie jemals ans Licht kommen, könnte ich alles verlieren. Vielleicht sogar mein Leben. Eine Geschichte über Liebe, Kameradschaft und Hoffnung, wenn sie am meisten gebraucht wird.

What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into freedom.