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No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story—until the next day, when Ingrid disappears. Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

THE CAT Abby Sinclair is a hunter, as cunning and deadly as her prey. Working alone, she infiltrates the lives of stalkers ... discovers their darkest desires ... and brings them down before they explode ... THE MOUSE Raymond Hickle is close to the edge. The object of his twisted obsession is a beautiful television news anchor. He knows her every expression, her every move. And if he can't possess her, no one will ... THE GAME But now, Raymond has a new next-door neighbor. Her name is Abby, and she's moving in for the kill. Little does Abby know, danger lurks beneath every shadow ...

Three years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to devastation and grief on an unimaginable scale. But a fresh clue leads San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez to the unlikely conclusion that one of the children may still be alive. If she's correct, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie. With time running out, Amara must convince others—and herself—that despite all evidence to the contrary, the boy lives. And she will do everything in her power to bring him home. A fresh voice in suspense, Tom Threadgill will have you questioning everything as you fly through the pages of this enthralling story.

Ich werde nicht beschreiben, wie ich aussehe. Was auch immer du dir vorstellst, es ist wahrscheinlich schlimmer. August Pullman wurde mit einer Gesichtsbesonderheit geboren, die ihn bisher daran gehindert hat, eine reguläre Schule zu besuchen. Als er an der Beecher Prep in die 5. Klasse kommt, wünscht er sich nichts sehnlicher, als wie ein gewöhnlicher Junge behandelt zu werden – doch seine neuen Mitschüler können nicht über Auggies außergewöhnliches Gesicht hinwegsehen. Wunder beginnt aus Auggies Sicht, wechselt aber bald zu seinen Mitschülern, seiner Schwester, ihrem Freund und anderen.

A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster. When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with a group of friendly college kids who were on her initial flight. As the drive progresses and weather conditions become more treacherous, Mira realizes that the four other passengers she's stuck in the car with don't actually know one another. Soon, they're not just dealing with heavy snowfall and ice-slick roads, but the fact that somebody will stop at nothing to ensure their trip ends in a deadly disaster.

Ο Έντουαρντ Φόσκα είναι δολοφόνος. Η Μαριάνα είναι βέβαιη γι’ αυτό. Όμως ο Φόσκα είναι απρόσβλητος. Όμορφος και χαρισματικός καθηγητής Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Τραγωδίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Κέιμπριτζ, ο Φόσκα λατρεύεται τόσο από το προσωπικό όσο και από τους φοιτητές — ιδιαίτερα από τα μέλη μιας μυστικής αδελφότητας φοιτητριών γνωστής ως Οι Κόρες. Η Μαριάνα Άνδρος είναι μια λαμπρή αλλά ταραγμένη ομαδική ψυχοθεραπεύτρια, που αποκτά εμμονή με τις Κόρες όταν ένα μέλος τους, φίλη της ανιψιάς της Μαριάνας, της Ζόι, βρίσκεται δολοφονημένο στο Κέιμπριτζ. Η Μαριάνα, που υπήρξε κι η ίδια φοιτήτρια στο πανεπιστήμιο, υποψιάζεται γρήγορα ότι πίσω από την ειδυλλιακή ομορφιά των κωδωνοστασίων και των πυργίσκων, και κάτω από τις αρχαίες παραδόσεις, κρύβεται κάτι σκοτεινό. Και πείθεται ότι, παρά το άλλοθί του, ο Έντουαρντ Φόσκα είναι ένοχος για τη δολοφονία. Μα γιατί να βάλει στο στόχαστρο μία από τις φοιτήτριές του; Και γιατί επιστρέφει συνεχώς στις τελετές της Περσεφόνης, της κόρης, και στο ταξίδι της στον κάτω κόσμο; Όταν βρίσκεται κι άλλο πτώμα, η εμμονή της Μαριάνας να αποδείξει την ενοχή του Φόσκα ξεφεύγει από τον έλεγχο, απειλώντας να καταστρέψει την αξιοπιστία της, καθώς και τις πιο στενές της σχέσεις. Όμως η Μαριάνα είναι αποφασισμένη να σταματήσει αυτόν τον δολοφόνο, ακόμη κι αν της κοστίσει τα πάντα — ακόμη και την ίδια της τη ζωή.

Echo Ridge ist eine amerikanische Kleinstadt. Ellery war noch nie dort, aber sie hat schon alles darüber gehört. Ihre Tante verschwand dort im Alter von siebzehn Jahren. Und erst vor fünf Jahren machte eine Homecoming-Königin die Stadt bekannt, als sie ermordet wurde. Nun muss Ellery dorthin ziehen, um bei einer Großmutter zu leben, die sie kaum kennt. Die Stadt ist bilderbuchschön, aber sie verbirgt Geheimnisse. Und noch bevor für Ellery die Schule beginnt, hat jemand die Jagdsaison auf den Homecoming eröffnet und verspricht, ihn genauso gefährlich zu machen wie vor fünf Jahren. Dann verschwindet, fast als wollte es das beweisen, ein weiteres Mädchen. Ellery weiß alles über Geheimnisse. Ihre Mutter hat welche; ihre Großmutter auch. Und je länger sie in Echo Ridge ist, desto klarer wird, dass dort jeder etwas verbirgt. Das Problem ist: Geheimnisse sind gefährlich – und die meisten Menschen sind nicht gut darin, sie zu bewahren. Deshalb ist es in Echo Ridge am sichersten, seine Geheimnisse für sich zu behalten.

Mina Rahman has a plan for her future: • Finally win the Golden Ivy student film competition, • Get into her dream school across the country, • Leave New York City behind once and for all, Mina's ticket to winning the competition falls into her lap when indie film star—and known heartbreaker—Emmitt Ramos enrolls in her high school under a secret identity to research his next role. When Mina sets out to persuade Emmitt to join her cause, he offers her a deal instead: he'll be in her short film… if she acts as a tour guide to help him with a photography contest. As Mina ventures across the five boroughs with Emmitt by her side, the city she grew up in starts to look different and more like home than it ever has before. With the competition deadline looming, Mina's dreams—which once seemed impenetrable—begin to crumble, and she’s forced to ask herself: Is winning worth losing everything?

Willow Lamott’s best friend is a murderer, and no one in the small town of Gilt Hollow will let her forget it. For four long years, she’s tried to fade into the background—but none of that matters when Ashton Keller comes striding into school, fresh out of juvie and fueled by revenge. The moment their eyes meet, Willow no longer feels invisible. Drawn to the vulnerability behind Ashton’s mask of rage, she sinks deeper into his sinister world and begins to question whether he’s a villain, a savior, or both. Ashton thought he wanted vengeance, until Willow reminded him what he’d been missing. Now he longs to clear his name and become the person she sees in him. But the closer they get to uncovering the truth, the darker the secrets become, and Ashton fears his return to Gilt Hollow will destroy everyone he loves, especially the girl he left behind.

"James Hayman’s edgy, ingenious novels rival the best of Lisa Gardner, Jeffery Deaver, and Kathy Reichs. A Fatal Obsession is his finest to a ferocious live-wire thriller starring two of the most appealing cops in contemporary fiction." —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Someone’s watching... Zoe McCabe is a beautiful young actress on the verge of stardom who has been basking in the standing ovations and rave reviews she’s been getting from critics and fans alike for her portrayal of Desdemona in an off-Broadway production of Othello. As she takes her final bows, Zoe has no idea that, seated in the audience, a man has been studying her night after night, performance after performance. A man whose carefully crafted plans are for the young actress to take a starring role in a far deadlier production he has created just for her. Portland, Maine detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage are settling into the new rhythm of their relationship when McCabe gets a late night call from his brother Bobby that Zoe, McCabe's favorite niece and Bobby’s daughter, has suddenly disappeared. The NYPD is certain Zoe's abduction is the work of the man the tabloids have dubbed “The Star Struck Strangler,” a killer who has been kidnapping, abusing and finally strangling one beautiful young performer after another. Bobby begs McCabe to return to the New York City crime beat he’d left behind so many years ago, to work his old connections, and to help find Zoe before her time runs out. The stakes for McCabe and Savage have never been higher. Or more personal. And suddenly the race is on to stop a vicious attacker, before the McCabe family is torn apart beyond repair.

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming.... Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.

Catalina Martín braucht dringend eine Begleitung für die Hochzeit ihrer Schwester. Besonders, weil ihre kleine Notlüge über ihren amerikanischen Freund völlig außer Kontrolle geraten ist. Jetzt werden alle, die sie kennt – einschließlich ihres Exfreundes und dessen Verlobter – dort sein und ihn unbedingt kennenlernen wollen. Sie hat nur vier Wochen Zeit, jemanden zu finden, der bereit ist, den Atlantik zu überqueren und ihr bei ihrer Täuschung zu helfen. Von New York nach Spanien ist es kein kurzer Flug, und ihre temperamentvolle Familie wird nicht leicht zu täuschen sein. Da taucht Aaron Blackford auf – ihr großer, gut aussehender, herablassender Kollege –, der überraschenderweise anbietet, einzuspringen. Sie würde lieber ablehnen; noch nie hat es einen unerquicklicheren, sie zur Weißglut treibenderen und unausstehlicheren Mann gegeben. Doch Catalina ist verzweifelt, und je näher die Hochzeit rückt, desto mehr scheint Aaron ihre beste Option zu sein. Und sie beginnt zu erkennen, dass er außerhalb des Büros vielleicht gar nicht so schrecklich ist, wie er bei der Arbeit wirkt.

في هذه الكوميديا الرومانسية عن الكوميديا الرومانسية، وعلى غرار أعمال كيسي ويست وجين بينيت، تحاول مراهقة رومانسية يائسة أن تضمن لحظة «وعاشا في سعادة إلى الأبد» مع محبوبها الدائم، لكنها تجد نفسها منجذبة على مضض إلى الفتى المجاور. منذ وقت طويل، وهبت ليز بوكسباوم قلبها لمايكل. لكن محبوبها الدائم الرائع والمنعزل لم يلحظها حقًا قبل أن ينتقل بعيدًا. والآن بعد أن عاد إلى البلدة، ستفعل ليز كل ما يلزم لتلفت انتباهه — وربما تظفر به مرافقًا لها في حفلة التخرج — حتى لو اضطرها ذلك إلى مصادقة ويس بينيت. قد يبدو الجار الجذاب على نحو مزعج مرشحًا مثاليًا لخيالات الكوميديا الرومانسية، لكن ويس لم يكن سوى مصدر إزعاج لليز منذ أن كانا طفلين. فالمقالب التي تتضمن ضفادع وتماثيل أقزام حدائق مقطوعة الرأس لا تصنع حبيبًا محتملًا. ومع ذلك، ولسبب ما، ينسجم ويس ومايكل معًا، ما يعني أن ويس هو سبيل ليز إليه. لكن بينما تتآمر ليز وويس لجعل مايكل يلاحظ ليز كي تحظى بلحظتها السحرية في حفلة التخرج، تُصدم حين تكتشف أنها تحب قضاء الوقت مع ويس. ومع استمرار تقاربهما، عليها أن تعيد النظر في كل ما ظنت أنها تعرفه عن الحب، وأن تعيد التفكير في تصورها لما ينبغي أن تبدو عليه سعادة النهاية الأبدية.

Menschen verschwinden nicht einfach spurlos … Shelby Tebow ist die Erste, die verschwindet. Nicht lange danach verschwinden Meredith Dickey und ihre sechsjährige Tochter Delilah nur wenige Häuserblocks von dem Ort entfernt, an dem Shelby zuletzt gesehen wurde, und versetzen ihre einst friedliche Gemeinde in Angst und Schrecken. Hängen diese Vorfälle zusammen? Nach einer ergebnislosen Suche, die mehr Fragen als Antworten liefert, verläuft der Fall schließlich im Sande. Jetzt, elf Jahre später, kehrt Delilah auf schockierende Weise zurück. Alle wollen wissen, was mit ihr passiert ist, doch niemand ist auf das vorbereitet, was sie herausfinden werden … In diesem raffinierten und beklemmenden Thriller hebt die Meisterin der Spannung und New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin Mary Kubica häusliche Geheimnisse auf ein ganz neues Niveau und zeigt, dass manche Menschen vor nichts zurückschrecken, um die Wahrheit begraben zu halten.

Zwischen Leben und Tod gibt es eine Bibliothek, und in dieser Bibliothek reichen die Regale endlos weiter. Jedes Buch bietet die Chance, ein anderes Leben auszuprobieren, das du hättest leben können. Zu sehen, wie die Dinge wären, wenn du andere Entscheidungen getroffen hättest … Hättest du etwas anders gemacht, wenn du die Möglichkeit hättest, deine Reue rückgängig zu machen? Ein Roman über all die Entscheidungen, die zu einem gut gelebten Leben gehören. Irgendwo jenseits des Rands des Universums gibt es eine Bibliothek, die unendlich viele Bücher enthält, von denen jedes die Geschichte einer anderen Realität erzählt. Eines erzählt die Geschichte deines Lebens, wie es ist, und ein anderes Buch erzählt von dem anderen Leben, das du hättest leben können, wenn du irgendwann in deinem Leben eine andere Entscheidung getroffen hättest. Wir alle fragen uns, wie unser Leben hätte sein können – aber was wäre, wenn du die Möglichkeit hättest, in die Bibliothek zu gehen und es selbst zu sehen? Wäre eines dieser anderen Leben wirklich besser? Nora Seed sieht sich mit dieser Entscheidung konfrontiert. Angesichts der Möglichkeit, ihr Leben gegen ein neues einzutauschen, einen anderen Berufsweg einzuschlagen, alte Trennungen rückgängig zu machen und ihren Traum zu verwirklichen, Glaziologin zu werden, muss sie bei ihrer Reise durch die Mitternachtsbibliothek in sich selbst nach Antworten suchen, um zu entscheiden, was im Leben wirklich erfüllt und was es überhaupt lebenswert macht.

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party. The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast. And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?

Der Fall ist abgeschlossen. Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Schülerin Andie Bell von Sal Singh ermordet. Die Polizei weiß, dass er es getan hat. Jeder in der Stadt weiß, dass er es getan hat. Aber Pippa Fitz-Amobi, die in derselben Kleinstadt aufgewachsen ist, die von dem Mord erschüttert wurde, ist sich da nicht so sicher. Als sie den Fall zum Thema ihres Abschlussprojekts macht, beginnt sie, Geheimnisse aufzudecken, die jemand in der Stadt unbedingt verborgen halten will. Und wenn der wahre Mörder noch immer da draußen ist, wie weit wird diese Person gehen, um Pip von der Wahrheit fernzuhalten?

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life. Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).

Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyle’s entire world upends—literally. Their car crashes and when he awakes, he has a brain injury. Kimberly is dead. And no one in his life could possibly understand. Until Marley. Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. And when their paths cross, Kyle sees in her all the unspoken things he’s feeling. As Kyle and Marley work to heal each other’s wounds, their feelings for each other grow stronger. But Kyle can’t shake the sense that he’s headed for another crashing moment that will blow up his life as soon as he’s started to put it back together. And he’s right.

Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market—until she’s betrayed. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” But when her mom brings home a live specimen, Nita decides she wants out—dissecting living people is a step too far. But when she tries to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold on the black market in his place—because Nita herself is a supernatural being. Now Nita is on the other side of the bars, and there is no line she won’t cross to escape and make sure no one can ever capture her again. Nita did a good deed, and it cost her everything. Now she’s going to do a lot of bad deeds to get it all back.

One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all. Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?

The darker the sky, the brighter the stars. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is forced from the arms of her beloved husband, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once thought Khalid a monster—a merciless killer of wives, responsible for immeasurable heartache and pain—but as she unraveled his secrets, she found instead an extraordinary man and a love she could not deny. Still, a curse threatens to keep Shazi and Khalid apart forever. Now she’s reunited with her family, who have found refuge in the desert, where a deadly force is gathering against Khalid—a force set on destroying his empire and commanded by Shazi’s spurned childhood sweetheart. Trapped between loyalties to those she loves, the only thing Shazi can do is act. Using the burgeoning magic within her as a guide, she strikes out on her own to end both this terrible curse and the brewing war once and for all. But to do it, she must evade enemies of her own to stay alive. The saga that began with The Wrath and the Dawn takes its final turn as Shahrzad risks everything to find her way back to her one true love again.

Оцеляването на Фейра зависи от способността ѝ да ловува и убива – гората, в която живее, е студено, мрачно място през дългите зимни месеци. Затова, когато забелязва в гората елен, преследван от вълк, тя не може да устои да се пребори с него заради месото. Но за да го направи, трябва да убие хищника, а убийството на нещо толкова ценно си има цена... Отведена в магическо кралство за убийството на фея, Фейра открива, че нейният похитител, чието лице е скрито зад маска, обсипана със скъпоценности, крие много повече, отколкото пронизващите му зелени очи подсказват. Присъствието на Фейра в двора се пази в строга тайна и докато започва да научава защо, чувствата ѝ към него се променят от враждебност в страст, а земите на феите се превръщат в още по-опасно място. Фейра трябва да се бори, за да развали древно проклятие, иначе ще го загуби завинаги.

Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies… That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried. Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

Ейвъри Грамбс има план за по-добро бъдеще: да оцелее в гимназията, да спечели стипендия и да се махне оттук. Но съдбата ѝ се променя за миг, когато милиардерът Тобиас Хоторн умира и оставя на Ейвъри почти цялото си състояние. Уловката? Ейвъри няма представа защо — или дори кой е Тобиас Хоторн. За да получи наследството си, Ейвъри трябва да се премести в огромната, пълна с тайни проходи къща на Хоторн, където всяка стая носи отпечатъка на стареца — и любовта му към пъзели, гатанки и кодове. За нещастие на Ейвъри, къщата на Хоторн е обитавана и от семейството, което Тобиас Хоторн току-що е лишил от наследство. Сред тях са четиримата внуци на Хоторн: опасни, магнетични, блестящи момчета, израснали с очакването, че един ден ще наследят милиарди. Явният наследник Грейсън Хоторн е убеден, че Ейвъри трябва да е измамница, и е решен да я унищожи. Брат му Джеймсън я вижда като последния ход на дядо им: извратена гатанка, пъзел за решаване. Попаднала в свят на богатство и привилегии, с опасност на всяка крачка, Ейвъри ще трябва сама да играе играта, само за да оцелее.

A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force. Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.

De nygifte Tricia og Ethan leder efter deres drømmehus. Men da de besøger den afsidesliggende herregård, der engang tilhørte dr. Adrienne Hale, en anerkendt psykiater, som forsvandt sporløst fire år tidligere, bliver de fanget på ejendommen af en voldsom vinterstorm … uden mulighed for at undslippe, før snestormen er ovre. På jagt efter en bog, der kan underholde hende, indtil snevejret lægger sig, falder Tricia over et hemmeligt rum. Et rum, der indeholder lydoptagelser af hver eneste patient, dr. Hale nogensinde har interviewet. Mens Tricia lytter til kassettebåndene, får hun kendskab til den skræmmende kæde af begivenheder, der førte op til dr. Hales mystiske forsvinden. Tricia afspiller båndene ét efter ét, langt ud på natten. Med hvert bånd falder endnu en chokerende brik på plads, og dr. Adrienne Hales net af løgne trevles langsomt op. Og så når Tricia frem til den sidste kassette. Den, der afslører hele den rædselsvækkende sandhed.

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s the only scholarship student among China’s most rich and influential teens. But then she starts uncontrollably turning invisible—actually invisible. When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power—she’ll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it’s worth losing her conscience—or even her life. In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates’ most scandalous secrets.

An inheritance of shadows. A love in chains. An unconquerable foe. Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else. But Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before—these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. London is immediately quarantined. Trapped in the city, Cordelia's friends discover that a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers—and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero.

The Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 — a dark, atmospheric fantasy about a Deaf college student with a peculiar connection to the afterlife. Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents. Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl... and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows. Delaney wants to keep her distance from Colton—she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming—yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them—and their forbidden partnership—apart.

Die beliebte Nr.-1-New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin Colleen Hoover kehrt mit einer unvergesslichen Liebesgeschichte zwischen einem Schriftsteller und seiner unerwarteten Muse zurück. Fallon trifft Ben, einen angehenden Romanautor, am Tag vor ihrem geplanten Umzug quer durchs Land. Ihre unzeitgemäße Anziehung führt dazu, dass sie Fallons letzten Tag in L.A. gemeinsam verbringen, und ihr ereignisreiches Leben wird zu der kreativen Inspiration, nach der Ben für seinen Roman immer gesucht hat. Mit der Zeit und inmitten der verschiedenen Beziehungen und Herausforderungen ihrer jeweils getrennten Leben treffen sie sich weiterhin jedes Jahr am selben Datum. Bis Fallon eines Tages unsicher wird, ob Ben ihr die Wahrheit gesagt oder eine perfekte Realität erfunden hat – um der ultimativen Wendung willen. Kann Bens Beziehung zu Fallon – und zugleich sein Roman – als Liebesgeschichte gelten, wenn sie mit gebrochenem Herzen endet?

In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.

For any little boy or girl who hears the Train Man speak, Who feels his rancid breath caress their pretty cheek, Must close their eyes, pretend to sleep, and very softly pray, Or else the evil Train Man may carry them away. Finally free of her troubled upbringing, Alex Donovan is able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains—all killed in the same way. Alex never expected to be forced to confront her past in this new job, but she immediately recognizes the graffiti messages the killer is leaving on the train cars. When the BAU sends her to gather information about the messages from her aunt in Wichita, Kansas, Alex is haunted by the struggles she thought she'd left behind forever. In a race against time to solve the case and recover a deadly virus sample the killer intends to spread, Alex must face how far she'll go—and what she's willing to risk—to put a stop to the Train Man.

A psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial killers. In 1982, two teenagers—serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell—are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from juvenile murderers that even the FBI can't crack. But when the team is called in to give advice on an active case—a serial killer who exclusively hunts teenagers—things begin to unravel. Working against the clock, they must turn to one of the country's most notorious incarcerated murderers for help: teenage sociopath Simon Gutmunsson. Despite Travis' objections, Emma becomes the conduit between Simon and the FBI team. But while Simon seems to be giving them the information they need to save lives, he's an expert manipulator playing a very long game...and he has his sights set on Emma.

Rowan Mým podnikáním je vytvářet pohádky. Zábavní parky. Produkční společnosti. Pětihvězdičkové hotely. Všechno by mohlo být moje, kdybych zrenovoval Dreamland. Můj původní nápad najmout Zahru byl teoreticky dobrý, ale pak jsem ji políbil. Věci se vymkly kontrole, když jsem jí začal psát pod falešným jménem. Když jsem si uvědomil, kde jsem udělal chybu, bylo už pozdě. Lidé jako já nemají šťastné konce. Ne když jsme předurčeni je zničit. Zahra Poté, co jsem opilá podala návrh kritizující nejdražší atrakci Dreamlandu, mě měli vyhodit. Místo toho mi Rowan Kane nabídl práci snů. Háček? Musela jsem pracovat pro nejtěžšího šéfa, jakého jsem kdy potkala. Rowan byl hrubý a naprosto nedostupný, ale mému srdci to bylo jedno. Alespoň do chvíle, než jsem odhalila jeho tajemství. Byl čas naučit toho miliardáře, že peníze nemohou vyřešit všechno. Zvlášť ne nás. Láska mezi řádky je první knihou série vzájemně propojených samostatných románů o třech bratrech miliardářích.

When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen... But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore. There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth—that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…

As the site of a former military base, there have always been rumors that East Township High School was the site of experiments with space and time. For years, students have whispered in the hallways of a doorway created within the school, one that can access multiple timelines and realities, a place known as the Down World. As the new kid in school and still reeling from the unexplained death of her brother Robbie, Marina O'Connell is only interested in one thing: leaving the past behind. But a chance encounter with handsome Brady Picelli changes everything. He will lead Marina to a startling discovery. The Down World is real and the past, present, and future are falling out of balance. Brady is determined to help Marina discover what really happened to her brother. However, what is taken from one world, must be repaid by another. And Marina is about to discover that even a realm of infinite possibilities has rules that must be obeyed.

A girl, missing A woman, searching A killer, planning... FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing people. She knows how it feels to be lost... Though her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, Elsa cannot refuse a call for help. A teenage girl has gone missing from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads hides the fact that she did not go willingly. With each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a search for a man who may have been killing for years, the case starts to get underneath Elsa's skin. Everything she has buried - her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother's death - threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences. In order to save the missing girl, she may have to lose herself...and return to the darkness she's been hiding from for years.

The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself. Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do NOT run into your first love. Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right? Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed—Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.

„Добре дошла в семейството“, казва Нина Уинчестър, докато стискам елегантната ѝ ръка с безупречен маникюр. Усмихвам се учтиво, оглеждайки мраморното антре. Работата тук е последният ми шанс да започна начисто. Мога да се преструвам на когото поискам. Но скоро ще разбера, че тайните на семейство Уинчестър са много по-опасни от моите… Всеки ден почиствам красивата къща на Уинчестърови от горе до долу. Вземам дъщеря им от училище. И приготвям вкусна вечеря за цялото семейство, преди да се кача горе, за да ям сама в малката си стая на последния етаж. Опитвам се да не обръщам внимание на това как Нина прави бъркотия само за да ме гледа как я почиствам. Как разказва странни лъжи за собствената си дъщеря. И как съпругът ѝ Андрю изглежда все по-съсипан с всеки изминал ден. Но когато погледна красивите кафяви очи на Андрю, изпълнени с болка, е трудно да не си представям какво би било да живея живота на Нина. Дрешникът, в който можеш да влезеш, луксозната кола, съвършеният съпруг. Само веднъж обличам една от безупречно белите рокли на Нина. Само за да видя какво е. Но тя скоро разбира… и когато осъзнавам, че вратата на таванската ми стая се заключва само отвън, вече е твърде късно. Но се успокоявам: Уинчестърови не знаят коя съм всъщност. Не знаят на какво съм способна… Невероятно изпълнен с обрати роман, който ще ви държи приковани към страниците до късно през нощта. Всеки, който обича „Жената на прозореца“, „Съпругата между нас“ и „Момичето от влака“, няма да може да го остави!

M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping legal thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought they knew about their life—and one another. Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?

Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true. It’s agony—a tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash… Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three years ago. So, all joking aside, the stakes really are high when it’s not only her career, but both of those relationships on the line. A former stand-up star himself, Meyer has helped the trajectory of her career take off since he began managing her… Since he became her closest and most treasured friend, in the process. This is the only reason why, when the biggest opportunity of Farley’s career includes thrusting him back into the spotlight to stir up publicity, he agrees—despite his grumpiness, his protectiveness over Hazel, and his disdain for public attention. When helping her includes taking those barriers down, all those funny feelings start coming out into the open, and it quickly begins to feel like anything but a joke. Funny Feelings is a swoony story about friendship, love, and looking for the laugh in life. It touches on the creative spirit and all that comes with sharing that gift, and how oftentimes the comedians in our lives are the most sensitive, or struggling. It features two friends, one incredible little girl, and a kaleidoscope of feelings along the way.

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who—or what—are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family—before it claims her next.

A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her childhood best friend on an unexpected road to romance! Norah hasn’t seen her childhood best friend, Skyler, in years. When he first moved away, they'd talk all the time, but lately their relationship has been reduced to liking each other’s Instagram posts. That’s why Norah can’t wait for the joint RV road trip their families have planned for the summer. But when Skyler finally arrives, he seems...like he’d rather be anywhere else. Hurt and confused, Norah reacts in kind. Suddenly, her oldest friendship is on the rocks. A summer spent driving across the country leads both Norah and Skyler down new roads and to new discoveries. Before long, they are, once again, seeing each other in a different light. Can their friendship-turned-rivalry turn into something more?

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love. Shadow and Bone meets Lore in Rebecca Ross' Divine Rivals, an epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.

Докъде би стигнала за своя щастлив край? Откакто се помни, Еванджелин Фокс вярва в истинската любов и щастливия край... докато не научава, че любовта на живота ѝ ще се ожени за друга. Отчаяна да спре сватбата и да излекува разбитото си сърце, Еванджелин сключва сделка с харизматичния, но порочен Принц на сърцата. В замяна на помощта си той иска три целувки, които да бъдат дадени във време и на място по негов избор. Но след първата обещана целувка Еванджелин научава, че да се пазариш с безсмъртен е опасна игра — и че Принцът на сърцата иска от нея много повече, отколкото тя е обещала. Той има планове за Еванджелин — планове, които ще завършат или с най-великия щастлив край, или с най-изтънчената трагедия...

Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce—the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother’s estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He’s just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she’ll be damned if the good-looking writer of love stories thinks he’s the one to finish her grandmother’s final novel… even if the publisher swears he’s the perfect fit. Noah is at the pinnacle of his career. With book and movie deals galore, there isn’t much the “golden boy” of modern fiction hasn’t accomplished. But he can’t walk away from what might be the best book of the century—the one his idol, Scarlett Stanton, left unfinished. Coming up with a fitting ending for the legendary author is one thing, but dealing with her beautiful, stubborn, cynical great-granddaughter, Georgia, is quite another. But as they read Scarlett’s words in both the manuscript and her box of letters, they start to realize why Scarlett never finished the book—it’s based on her real-life romance with a World War II pilot, and the ending isn’t a happy one. Georgia knows all too well that love never works out, and while the chemistry and connection between her and Noah is undeniable, she’s as determined as ever to learn from her great-grandmother’s mistakes—even if it means destroying Noah’s career.

Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. "Neverwhere" is the London of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Strange destinies lie in wait in London below \- a world that seems eerily familiar. But a world that is utterly bizarre, peopled by unearthly characters such as the Angel called Islington, the girl named Door, and the Earl who holds Court on a tube train. Now a single act of kindness has catapulted young businessman Richard Mayhew out of his safe and predictable life \- and into the realms of "Neverwhere." Richard is about to find out more than he ever wanted to know about this other London. Which is a pity. Because Richard just wants to go home...

One of Us is Lying meets A Deadly Education in this fantasy thriller that follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness. Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she’s one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. If being rich were a sin, he’d already be halfway to hell. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate has the two of them crossing paths at the public waxway portal the day before holidays—Theo’s punishment is to travel home with the scholarship kids. Which doesn’t sit well with any of them. A fight breaks out. In the chaos, the portal spell malfunctions. All six students are snatched from the safety of the school’s campus and set down in the middle of nowhere. And one of them is dead on arrival. If anyone can get them through the punishing wilderness with limited magical reserves it’s Ren. She’s been in survival mode her entire life. But no magic could prepare her for the tangled secrets the rest of the group is harboring, or for what’s following them through the dark woods…

A full-length, standalone romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Archer's Voice. Dirt poor. Hillbilly. Backwoods hick. Mountain folk. Tenleigh Falyn struggles each day to survive in a small, poverty-stricken, coal mining town where she lives with her sister and mentally ill mother. Her dream of winning the college scholarship given to one student by the local coal company and escaping the harshness of her life, keeps her going. Kyland Barrett lives in the hills, too, and has worked tirelessly—through near starvation, through deep loneliness, against all odds—to win the Tyton Coal Scholarship and leave the town that is full of so much pain. They're both determined not to form any attachments, but one moment changes everything. What happens when only one person gets to win? When only one person gets to leave? And what happens to the one left behind? Kyland is a story of desperation and hope, loss and sacrifice, pain and forgiveness, but ultimately, a story of deep and unending love. THIS IS A STANDALONE SIGN OF LOVE NOVEL, INSPIRED BY TAURUS. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: If she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes. In his enchanted house beneath a mountain, each room must be sewn together to keep the home from unraveling, and something new and dark and strange lies behind every door. When centuries-old secrets unfold, Echo discovers a magical library full of books-turned-mirrors, and a young man named Hal who is trapped inside of them. As the year ticks by, the rooms begin to disappear, and Echo must solve the mystery of the wolf’s enchantment before her time is up, otherwise Echo, the wolf, and Hal will be lost forever.

Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen. Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans. In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets—an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love. —back cover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family. A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.

The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. But something isn't right at the Sun Down, and before long she's determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden…

V tomto temném, napínavém thrilleru Alex North splétá mezigenerační příběh otce a syna, kteří se ocitnou v hledáčku vyšetřování snahy dopadnout sériového vraha terorizujícího malé město. Po náhlé smrti manželky Tom Kennedy věří, že nový začátek pomůže jemu i jeho malému synovi Jakeovi se uzdravit. Nový začátek, nový dům, nové město: Featherbank. Featherbank má však temnou minulost. Před dvaceti lety sériový vrah unesl a zavraždil pět obyvatel. Než byl Frank Carter konečně dopaden, přezdívali mu „Našeptávač“, protože své oběti lákal ven tím, že jim v noci šeptal u oken. Právě když se Tom a Jake v novém domově zabydlí, zmizí malý chlapec. Jeho zmizení se znepokojivě podobá zločinům Franka Cartera a znovu rozdmýchává staré pověsti, že vraždil s komplicem. Detektivové Amanda Becková a Pete Willis teď musí chlapce najít dřív, než bude pozdě, i kdyby to znamenalo, že Pete bude muset ve vězení znovu navštívit svého úhlavního nepřítele: Našeptávače. A Jake se pak začne chovat podivně. Slyší u svého okna šeptání.

Některé dveře jsou zamčené z nějakého důvodu… Když jedenáctiletá Nora Davisová seděla nahoře ve svém pokoji a dělala domácí úkoly, neměla tušení, že její otec v suterénu vraždí ženy. Až do dne, kdy policie zazvonila u jejich dveří. O několik desetiletí později si Norin otec odpykává doživotní trest a Nora je úspěšná chirurgyně, která žije tiše a osaměle. Nikdo neví, že její otec byl nechvalně proslulý sériový vrah. A ona to tak hodlá nechat. Pak Nora zjistí, že jedna z jejích mladých pacientek byla zavražděna. Stejným jedinečným a hrůzným způsobem, jakým její otec zabíjel své oběti. Někdo ví, kdo Nora je. Někdo chce, aby za tento nepředstavitelný zločin nesla vinu ona. Ale není vražedkyně jako její otec. Policie jí nic nedokáže. Dokud se nepodívá do jejího suterénu.

A psychological suspense novel of obsession and dangerous love. The definitive edition of Too Late from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Verity . Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it’s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother’s care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her—one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day. When undercover DEA agent Carter enters the picture, Sloan’s surprised to feel an immediate attraction between them, despite knowing that if Asa finds out, he will kill him. And Asa has always been a step ahead of everyone in his life, including Sloan. No one has ever gotten in his way. No one except Carter. Together, Sloan and Carter must find a way out before it’s too late…

A thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do? On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers. Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one? Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. But who can she trust?

Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That’s what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me. Since then, I've sworn never to love anyone again. With three exceptions: My friends, Sony, Neo, and Coeur, a little gang of rebellious, dying kids. Sony leads the charge with the air of freedom and only one lung to breathe it. Neo, a bad-tempered and wheel-chaired writer, keeps track of our great deeds from stealing to terrorizing our nurse. Coeur is the beautiful boy, the muscle, the gentle giant with a failing heart. Before death inevitably knocks down our doors, my thieves and I have one last heist planned. A great escape that will take us far from abusive parents, crippling loss, and the realities of our diseases. So what happens when someone else walks through the door? What happens when a girl joins our party and renders me speechless with her mischievous smile? What happens when she has suns in her eyes, and as terrified as I am to lose again, I start to fall? Trigger warnings found in foreword Written By Lancali

Eine düstere, gotische neue Geschichte der Autorin Alix E. Harrow über eine Kleinstadt, die von Geheimnissen heimgesucht wird, die nicht begraben bleiben können, und das unheilvolle Haus, das im Mittelpunkt von allem steht. Eden, Kentucky, ist nur eine weitere sterbende Stadt, der das Glück nicht hold ist und die nur für die Legende von E. Starling bekannt ist, der zurückgezogen lebenden Autorin und Illustratorin des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, die Das Unterland schrieb – und verschwand. Bevor sie verschwand, tauchte Starling House auf. Doch alle sind sich einig, dass man das unheimliche Haus – und seinen letzten einsamen Erben, Arthur Starling – am besten verfallen lassen sollte. Opal weiß es besser, als sich mit Spukhäusern oder grüblerischen Männern einzulassen, doch ein unerwartetes Jobangebot könnte ihre Chance sein, ihren Bruder aus Eden herauszuholen. Viel zu schnell beginnt sich Starling House jedoch gefährlich nach etwas anzufühlen, das sie noch nie hatte: ein Zuhause. Als sich unheilvolle Kräfte über Starling House zusammenziehen, müssen Opal und Arthur eine schreckliche Entscheidung treffen: die begrabenen Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit ans Licht zu holen und sich ihren eigenen Ängsten zu stellen – oder zuzulassen, dass Eden von buchstäblichen Albträumen übernommen wird. Wenn Opal ein Zuhause will, muss sie dafür kämpfen.

A broken woman . . . Crystal learned long ago that love brings only pain. Feeling nothing at all is far better than being hurt again. She guards her wounded heart behind a hard exterior and carries within her a deep mistrust of men, who, in her experience, have only ever used and taken. A man in need of help . . . Then Gabriel Dalton walks into her life. Despite the terrible darkness of his past, there's an undeniable goodness in him. And even though she knows the cost, Crystal finds herself drawn to Gabriel. His quiet strength is wearing down her defenses and his gentle patience is causing her to question everything she thought she knew. Only love can mend a shattered heart . . . Crystal and Gabriel never imagined that the world, which had stolen everything from them, would bring them a deep love like this. Except fate will only take them so far, and now the choice is theirs: Harden their hearts once again or find the courage to shed their painful pasts.

You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall. Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back every half hour. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. She's gone. You've never had to call the police before. But now they're in your home, and who knows what they'll find there. What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit?

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts. Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her fourteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park. The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend his disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration. The local and state police haven’t uncovered any leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were with Tommy last, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out at a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock—rumored to be cursed. Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their own windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s journal begin to mysteriously appear—entries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father, killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connected them all and changes everything. As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened becomes more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.

Ein schillernder, lebensfroher neuer Roman über ein gegensätzliches Paar, das das Falsche gemeinsam hat, von der Nr.-1-New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin Emily Henry. Daphne liebte immer die Art, wie ihr Verlobter Peter ihre Geschichte erzählte. Wie sie sich kennenlernten (an einem stürmischen Tag), sich verliebten (wegen eines verirrten Hutes) und in seine Heimatstadt am See zurückzogen, um dort ihr gemeinsames Leben zu beginnen. Er konnte sie wirklich gut erzählen … bis zu dem Moment, als ihm klar wurde, dass er eigentlich in seine beste Freundin aus Kindertagen, Petra, verliebt war. So beginnt Daphnes neue Geschichte: Gestrandet im wunderschönen Waning Bay, Michigan, ohne Freunde oder Familie, aber mit einem Traumjob als Kinderbibliothekarin (der kaum die Rechnungen bezahlt), schlägt sie ausgerechnet der einzigen Person, die ihre Lage möglicherweise verstehen könnte, eine WG vor: Petras Ex, Miles Nowak. Ungepflegt und chaotisch – und mit einer Vorliebe dafür, Trost in den Klängen herzzerreißender Liebesballaden zu finden – ist Miles das genaue Gegenteil der praktischen, geschniegelt wirkenden Daphne, über die ihre Kollegen so wenig wissen, dass sie fortlaufend darauf wetten, ob sie beim FBI ist oder im Zeugenschutzprogramm. Die Mitbewohner gehen sich meist aus dem Weg, bis sie eines Tages, während sie ihren Kummer ertränken, eine vorsichtige Freundschaft und einen Plan schmieden. Und wenn dieser Plan auch beinhaltet, absichtlich irreführende Fotos ihrer gemeinsamen Sommerabenteuer zu posten – nun, wer könnte es ihnen verdenken? Aber natürlich ist das alles nur Show, denn Daphne würde ihr neues Kapitel doch niemals damit beginnen, sich in den Ex der neuen Verlobten ihres Ex-Verlobten zu verlieben … oder?

Για λίγους όμορφους μήνες, ο Γουές είχε το κορίτσι των ονείρων του: τη Λιζ, το δυναμικό κορίτσι της διπλανής πόρτας. Όμως, ακριβώς τη στιγμή που οι δυο τους ετοιμάζονταν να φύγουν για το πανεπιστήμιο, για να ξεκινήσουν μαζί το πρώτο τους έτος, χτύπησε η τραγωδία. Ο Γουές έμεινε να αντιμετωπίζει τις συνέπειες, που τελικά σήμαιναν πως έχασε και τη Λιζ. Μήνες αργότερα, ο Γουές και η Λιζ βρίσκονται μαζί στο πανεπιστήμιο. Τώρα που βρίσκεται σε καλύτερη κατάσταση, ο Γουές ξέρει ότι πλήγωσε τη Λιζ όταν έδωσε τέλος στη σχέση τους, αλλά είναι αποφασισμένος να την κάνει να τον ερωτευτεί ξανά. Ο Γουές ξέρει τη Λιζ καλύτερα από τον καθένα και έχει ένα αλάνθαστο σχέδιο για να την ξανακερδίσει, με μεγαλοπρεπείς χειρονομίες αντάξιες ρομαντικής κομεντί που εκείνη λατρεύει. Μόνο που... η Λιζ δεν θέλει να ακούσει τίποτα! Ο Γουές πρέπει να μηχανευτεί πράγματα σαν ήρωας ρομαντικής κομεντί για να βρει τρόπο να τη δει. Ακόμα χειρότερα, η Λιζ έχει έναν νέο φίλο... έναν άντρα φίλο. Παρόλα αυτά, ο Γουές δεν θα τα παρατήσει, προσαρμόζοντας τα έξυπνα σχέδιά του και κάνοντας τα πάντα για να τραβήξει την προσοχή της Λιζ και να ξανακερδίσει την αγάπη της. Όμως, όταν οι καλύτερες προσπάθειές του δεν τον οδηγούν πουθενά, ο Γουές μένει να αναρωτιέται αν η σχέση τους έχει πραγματικά τελειώσει οριστικά.

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

You won't want to leave...until you can't. Half hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge—there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in...

Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It’s the same night—December 15—but 2025, five years in the future. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can’t shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn’t the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision. Brimming with joy and heartbreak, In Five Years is an unforgettable love story that reminds us of the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictable nature of destiny.

„Žiji pro sen, že se moje děti narodí svobodné,“ říká. „Že budou tím, čím budou chtít. Že budou vlastnit zemi, kterou jim dal jejich otec.“ „Žiji pro tebe,“ říkám smutně. Eo mě políbí na tvář. „Pak musíš žít pro víc.“ Darrow je Rudý, příslušník nejnižší kasty v barevně rozlišené společnosti budoucnosti. Stejně jako jeho soukmenovci Rudí pracuje celý den a věří, že on a jeho lidé připravují povrch Marsu k životu pro budoucí generace. Přitom ochotně zasvětí svůj život této práci, protože ví, že jeho krev a pot jednou povedou k lepšímu světu pro jeho děti. Darrow a jemu podobní však byli zrazeni. Brzy zjistí, že lidstvo dosáhlo povrchu planety už před mnoha generacemi. Po celé planetě se rozprostírají obrovská města a rozlehlé parky. Darrow — a Rudí jako on — nejsou ničím víc než otroky dekadentní vládnoucí třídy. Poháněn touhou po spravedlnosti a vzpomínkou na ztracenou lásku Darrow obětuje všechno, aby pronikl do legendárního Institutu, zkušebního pole pro vládnoucí kastu Zlatých, kde příští generace vládců lidstva bojuje o moc. Bude nucen bojovat o život i o samotnou budoucnost civilizace proti těm nejlepším a nejbrutálnějším příslušníkům vládnoucí třídy Společnosti. Nezastaví se před ničím, aby zničil své nepřátele… i kdyby to znamenalo, že se kvůli tomu musí stát jedním z nich.

Dark romance, high stakes, and plot twists abound in this paperback original YA thriller that's perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover. What you don't know can hurt you.... It’s been months since the accident that killed Ella’s best friend, Hayley, and Ella can’t stop blaming herself. Now Ella is back at school, and everywhere she looks are reminders of her best friend—including Sawyer, Hayley’s boyfriend. Little by little, they grow closer, until Ella realizes something horrifying . . . She’s in love with her dead best friend’s boyfriend. Racked with guilt, Ella turns to Hayley’s journal, hoping she’ll find something in the pages that will make her feel better about what’s happening. Instead, she discovers that Sawyer has secrets of his own and that his relationship with Hayley wasn’t as picture\-perfect as it seemed. Ella knows she should stay away but finds herself inextricably drawn to him—and scared of everything she never knew about him. Perhaps it’s his grief. Or maybe his desires, cut short by tragedy. Or could it be something twisted only Hayley knew about? A dark, romantic thriller perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Laura Nowlin, Everything We Never Said explores the secrets in even the best of friendships and asks how well you ever know the ones you love.

"All these years, I've never given my heart to anyone… The truth is, I didn't have a heart to give. My heart was with a ghost." To the rest of the world, he was the little boy who went missing on the Fourth of July. But to Sydney Neville, he was everything. Her heart hasn't been the same since her best friend disappeared, but she's learned to build her life around that missing piece. Twenty-two years later, the last thing Sydney expects is for Oliver Lynch to return. Having been captive underground for decades, he's unfamiliar with the strange new world that awaits him―but he's alive. He's here. And no matter how he's changed, he and Sydney both still feel the connection that runs between them. But as their reborn friendship begins to feel like something more, Sydney and Oliver realize there are still jagged, painful truths creating space between them. The walls Sydney's built don't want to come down, and as Oliver hunts for his missing memories and lost time, he realizes his nightmare is not yet over. With nothing as it seems, is there space for love to bloom in this dark place?

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore, and two, she has no idea what she wants because of it. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer, where her childhood best friend Tom and co-creator of The Getaway List ― a list of all the adventures they’ve wanted to do together since he moved away ― will hopefully help her get in touch with her old adventurous self, and pave the road to a new future. Riley isn’t sure what to expect from Tom, who has been distant since his famous mom’s scriptwriting career pulled him away. But when Riley arrives in the city, their reconnection is as effortless as it was when they were young―except with one, unexpected complication that will pull Riley’s feelings in a direction she didn’t know they could take. As she, Tom, and their newfound friends work their way through the delightfully chaotic items on The Getaway List, Riley learns that sometimes the biggest adventure is not one you take, but one you feel in your heart. Inescapably romantic and brimming with Emma Lord’s signature cheer, The Getaway List is an uplifting and romantic read that will settle into your heart and never leave.

From the author who brought you A Thousand Boy Kisses comes the new emotional novel, A Wish For Us. A story of music. A story of healing. A story of love conquering all. Nineteen-year-old Cromwell Dean is the rising star of electronic dance music. Thousands of people adore him. But no one knows him. No one sees the color of his heart. Until the girl in the purple dress. She sees through the walls he has built to the empty darkness within. When Cromwell leaves behind the gray skies of England to study music in the South Carolina heat, the last thing he expects is to see her again. And he certainly doesn’t expect that she’ll stay in his head like a song on repeat. Bonnie Farraday lives for music. She lets every note into her heart, and she doesn’t understand how someone as talented as Cromwell can avoid doing the same. He’s hiding from his past, and she knows it. She tries to stay away from him, but something keeps calling her back. Bonnie is the burst of color in Cromwell’s darkness. He’s the beat that makes her heart skip. But when a shadow falls over Bonnie, it’s up to Cromwell to be her light, in the only way he knows how. He must help her find the lost song in her fragile heart. He must keep her strong with a symphony only he can compose. A symphony of hope. A symphony of love. A symphony of them.

High school sweethearts Sarah and Caleb Linwood have always been a sure thing. For the past seventeen years, they have had each other’s backs through all of life’s ups and downs, achievements, losses, stages, and phases. But Sarah has begun to wonder... Who is she without her other half? When she decides to take on a project of her own, a fundraising gala in memoriam of her late mother, Sarah wants nothing more than to prove to herself—and to everyone else—that she doesn’t need Caleb’s help to succeed. She’s still her mother’s daughter, after all. Independent and capable. That is until the event fails and Caleb uninvitedly steps in to save the day. The rift that follows unearths a decade of grievances between them and doubts begin to grow. Are they truly the same people they were when they got married at nineteen? Are they supposed to be? In a desperate attempt to fix what they fear is near breaking, Sarah and Caleb make the spontaneous decision to join a grueling hiking trip intended to guide couples through rough patches. What follows is a life\-affirming comedy of errors as two nature\-averse people fight their way out of the woods in order to find their way back to their roots.

It starts with a shocking accusation... Stephanie and Patrick are recently married, with new-born twins. While Stephanie struggles with the disorienting effects of sleep deprivation, there’s one thing she knows for certain – she has everything she ever wanted. Then a woman from his past arrives and makes a shocking accusation about his first wife. He always claimed her death was an accident – but she says it was murder. He insists he’s innocent, that this is nothing but a blackmail attempt. But is Patrick telling the truth? Or has Stephanie made a terrible mistake? How will it end?

When my husband died, he left my broken heart behind. He left another heart behind, too—his. I know it's wrong. I shouldn't be contacting the recipient of my husband's heart. I don't even expect him to reply... But there's a desperate, twisted part of me that hopes he will. No names. No personal details. Just a conversation. The only thing I have left of my husband is inside him. \\\* 'The Wrong Heart' is an angst-filled contemporary romance standalone. This book deals with heavy themes, such as loss of a loved one and self-harm/suicide.

In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling, “pulse-pounding” ( Publishers Weekly ) A Door in the Dark, Ren’s intellect and cunning are stretched to the limit in her quest to take down the system that stole her father’s life. Ren Monroe is a wolf among lions. After infiltrating one of the greatest Houses in Kathor through her successful bond with Theo Brood, she finds Theo’s father is two steps ahead. He exiles Theo and isolates Ren, strategically working to break her unwelcome grasp on his son—and foiling Ren’s first step to enacting the revenge she’s been planning her whole life. Ren might have more resources than she’d ever imagined growing up, but she’ll still get nowhere without allies. Enter House Tin’Vori. Years ago, House Brood led an unprecedented raid to destroy a fellow House of Kathor. But a few siblings survived, and they haven’t forgotten the horrors waged against their family. Quietly, they’ve plotted their own revenge, waiting for the right moment to strike. And Ren Monroe might be their best chance. Like fire, the Tin’Vori siblings are as dangerous as they are useful, both gifted in rare magics. Ren must decide how to unleash them against House Brood without hurting Theo in the process. Her feelings for Theo are growing past the boundaries of their bond, and Ren finds herself balanced on a knife’s edge, a breath away from immense power or utter ruin.

Když svítá v den 50. ročníku Hladových her, okresy Panemu svírá strach. Letos bude na počest Čtvrtoher odvedeno z domovů dvakrát tolik splátců. Haymitch Abernathy se ve Dvanáctém kraji snaží příliš nepřemýšlet o svých šancích. Záleží mu jen na tom, aby přečkal den a mohl být s dívkou, kterou miluje. Když zazní Haymitchovo jméno, cítí, jak se všechny jeho sny rozpadají. Je vytržen od rodiny i své lásky a spolu s dalšími třemi splátci z Dvanáctého kraje dopraven do Kapitolu: s mladou kamarádkou, která je mu skoro jako sestra, nutkavým sázkařem a nejnamyšlenější dívkou ve městě. Když Hry začnou, Haymitch pochopí, že ho předem odsoudili k neúspěchu. Je v něm však něco, co chce bojovat… a nechat tento boj doznít daleko za hranicemi smrtící arény.

An absolutely unforgettable and heart-shattering romance, perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Lucy Score and Carley Fortune, that does keeping secrets destroy true love? Anna works two jobs to get herself through college and never, ever talks about her family. It’s easier to keep her distance from everyone until she can finally leave her old life behind. That is, until chance throws her together with Gabe … Gabe is top of the class, in a fancy fraternity, and has a big, perfect, warm-hearted family. He is everything Anna is not. Their connection is undeniable. His silver-blue eyes pierce right through her, and he makes her laugh in ways she never thought possible. But Anna would do anything to stop Gabe from discovering her darkest secret, and the real reason she goes home every night to a cold, silent apartment… When Gabe and his family get close to the truth, Anna runs, vowing to never see them again. But forever is a long time… Years later. Tragedy brings Anna back to the town she grew up in—a place she escaped a decade ago. When Gabe wraps his strong arms around her, it’s like finally finding home. But when the truth comes out after all these years, will both their worlds come crashing down? Gabe is the one person Anna trusts but what if he has secrets, too? And how much pain can two hearts endure, before they are torn apart forever? It All Comes Back to You will make you laugh, cry with both joy and pain, and hold your loved ones tight.

Von der Nr.-1-New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin von „Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo“ und „Daisy Jones & The Six“ kommt ein epischer neuer Roman vor dem Hintergrund des Space-Shuttle-Programms der 1980er Jahre, über die außergewöhnlichen Wege, die wir gehen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin ist, seit sie denken kann, von den Sternen besessen. Nachdenklich und zurückhaltend ist Joan zufrieden mit ihrem Leben als Professorin für Physik und Astronomie an der Rice University und als Tante ihrer frühreifen Nichte Frances. Das ändert sich, als sie auf eine Anzeige stößt, in der die ersten Wissenschaftlerinnen für das Space-Shuttle-Programm der NASA gesucht werden. Plötzlich brennt Joan darauf, zu den wenigen Menschen zu gehören, die ins All fliegen. Im Sommer 1980 wird Joan aus Tausenden von Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern ausgewählt und beginnt ihre Ausbildung am Johnson Space Center in Houston, zusammen mit einer außergewöhnlichen Gruppe weiterer Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten: dem Top-Gun-Piloten Hank Redmond und dem Wissenschaftler John Griffin, die selbst dann freundlich und gelassen sind, wenn besonders viel auf dem Spiel steht; der Missionsspezialistin Lydia Danes, die zu hart gearbeitet hat, um sich freundlich zu geben; der warmherzigen Donna Fitzgerald, die mit ihren eigenen Geheimnissen umgeht; und Vanessa Ford, der charismatischen und geheimnisvollen Luft- und Raumfahrtingenieurin, die jeden Motor reparieren und jedes Flugzeug fliegen kann. Während die neuen Astronautinnen und Astronauten zu unwahrscheinlichen Freunden werden und sich auf ihre ersten Flüge vorbereiten, entdeckt Joan eine Leidenschaft und eine Liebe, die sie sich nie hätte vorstellen können. In diesem neuen Licht beginnt Joan, alles infrage zu stellen, was sie über ihren Platz im beobachtbaren Universum zu wissen glaubt. Dann, im Dezember 1984, verändert sich bei der Mission STS-LR9 alles in einem Augenblick. Rasant, spannend und emotional zeigt „Atmosphere“ Taylor Jenkins Reid von ihrer besten Seite: Sie versetzt Leserinnen und Leser an ikonische Zeiten und Orte, erschafft vielschichtige Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten und erzählt eine leidenschaftliche, mitreißende Geschichte über die verwandelnde Kraft der Liebe – diesmal zwischen den Sternen.

A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle\-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison. Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight. Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life\-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing. Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio\-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.

One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge. In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served. But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead. With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk.

When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who’s a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist—and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she’s writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. But Esther’s role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit—or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women’s pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings in this electrifying literary thriller.

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle. No longer young men, they have little left in common, and tensions rise as they struggle to connect. Frustrated and tired, they take a shortcut that turns their hike into a nightmare that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, they stumble across an isolated old house. Inside, they find the macabre remains of old rites and pagan sacrifices; ancient artefacts and unidentifiable bones. This place of dark ritual is home to a bestial predator that is still alive in the ancient forest. And now they’re the prey. As the four friends struggle for salvation, they discover that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees...

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who—or what—is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?

Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath's basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children. With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnected . . . but it rings at night anyway, with calls from the killer's previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney. "The Black Phone" is one of fifteen stories in Joe Hill's first story collection, originally published as 20th Century Ghosts.

A must-have collector’s item for horror fans, comprised of two novellas, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones. The Babysitter Lives When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won’t help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes. Charlotte’s last babysitting gig almost ended in tragedy when her young charge sleepwalked unnoticed into the middle of the street, only to be found unharmed by Charlotte’s mother. Charlotte vows to be extra careful this time. But the house is filled with mysterious noises and secrets that only the twins understand, echoes of horrors that Charlotte gradually realizes took place in the house eleven years ago. Soon Charlotte has to admit that every babysitter’s worst nightmare has come true: they’re not alone in the house. Killer on the Road Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. However, her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend all stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming by joining her on an intervention disguised as a road trip. What they don’t realize is that Harper has been marked by a very unique serial killer who’s been trolling the highway for the past three years, and now the killer is after all of them in this fast-paced and deadly chase novel that will have your heart racing well above the speed limit as the interstate becomes a graveyard.

Ne každá láska má být. Poté co ji Jacks, Princ srdcí, zradí, Evangeline Foxová přísahá, že mu už nikdy nebude věřit. Teď, když objevila vlastní magii, Evangeline věří, že ji může využít k obnovení šance na šťastný konec, kterou jí Jacks vzal. Když se však objeví nové děsivé prokletí, Evangeline se znovu ocitne v křehkém spojenectví s Princem srdcí. Jenže tentokrát se pravidla změnila. Jacks není jedinou silou, před níž se Evangeline musí mít na pozoru. Ve skutečnosti by mohl být jediný, komu může věřit, navzdory své touze jím pohrdat. Místo kouzla lásky, které by působilo zmatek v Evangeliině životě, bylo sesláno vražedné kouzlo. Aby ho zlomili, budou Evangeline a Jacks muset bojovat se starými přáteli, novými nepřáteli a magií, která si pohrává s hlavami a srdci. Evangeline vždy důvěřovala svému srdci, ale tentokrát si není jistá, zda může...

Dva padouši, jedna dívka a smrtící boj o šťastný konec. Evangeline Foxová se vydala na Nádherný sever hledat svůj šťastný konec a zdá se, že ho našla. Je vdaná za pohledného prince a žije v legendárním zámku. Evangeline však netuší, jakou zničující cenu za tuto pohádku zaplatila. Neví, co ztratila, a její manžel je odhodlaný zajistit, aby to nikdy nezjistila… ale nejdřív musí zabít Jackse, Prince srdcí. V Kletbě pravé lásky, netrpělivě očekávaném závěru trilogie Bylo nebylo jedno zlomené srdce, bude prolita krev, budou ukradena srdce a pravá láska bude podrobena zkoušce.

One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five\-year\-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first, Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined. And that when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.

Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown. At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources. But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves. In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.

Den episke afslutning på den intenst romantiske og smukt skrevne historie, der begyndte i Divine Rivals. Der er gået to uger, siden Iris Winnow vendte hjem fra fronten, forslået og sønderknust, men krigen er langt fra ovre. Roman er forsvundet, og byen Oath befinder sig fortsat i en tilstand af vantro og uvidenhed. Da Iris og Attie får endnu en chance for at rapportere om Dacres bevægelser, griber de begge muligheden og drager endnu en gang vestpå på trods af faren, velvidende at det kun er et spørgsmål om tid, før konflikten når en by, der er uforberedt og slår revner under kanslerens styre. Siden Roman vågnede nedenfor i Dacres rige, har han ikke kunnet huske sin fortid. Men med forsikringen om, at hans minder vil vende tilbage med tiden, begynder Roman at skrive artikler for Dacre, usikker på sin plads i krigens større sammenhæng. Da et mærkeligt brev ankommer gennem en garderobedør, er Roman først mistænksom, dernæst fascineret. Da han indleder en korrespondance med sin mystiske brevven, må Roman snart træffe en beslutning: Skal han stå på Dacres side eller forråde den gud, der helbredte ham? Og efterhånden som dagene bliver mørkere og uundgåeligt bringer Roman og Iris tættere på hinanden ... vil de to sætte selve deres hjerter og fremtid på spil for at vende krigens gang.

Ren’s quest to dismantle Kathor’s corrupt system comes to a head as political machinations and a mysterious disease take hold of the city in this edge-of-your-seat conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Waxways series. After taking control of House Brood, Ren and Theo dreamed of using their newfound influence to change the rest of Kathor, but now they find their efforts being countered by the other great houses, who have no interest in a world where they enjoy less power. No one understands that better than the Tin’Vori siblings. The return of their ancestral home was a decade in the making, but they’re eager to keep rising from the ashes. Nevelyn begins researching House Brood—and ends up face-to-face with an enemy that’s already slouching toward the gates of the city. The one enemy no one can a plague. The victims experience strange bruising, an unquenchable thirst, and a temporary disruption in magic. When doctors trace the illness to its source, they find another corpses placed in strategic locations around the city. As Ren leads the hunt for the culprits, she’ll find herself two steps behind a devious enemy whose sights are set on an unexpected the city’s magic. Survival will require every ounce of their skill, every bond old and new, or else the future Ren and Theo have worked to build will burn down with the rest of the world.

Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract, When Harry Met Sally inspired romance, from New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison. Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered against their will to cover the snowstorm of the century, they find themselves scrambling to figure out how to work together. Eager to be taken seriously as a journalist, Delilah offers Jackson a deal. If he can help her ace this assignment, she’ll help him rediscover his long-lost fun side. With an undiscovered chemistry burning beneath their clashes, the unlikely partnership quickly tumbles into an easy and surprising friendship. But when other feelings start to enter the equation, can Jackson and Delilah withstand the storm? Or does what happens in the mountains, stay in the mountains?