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Idyllic Avril Island, owned by the Bennett family, is where their hundred-year-old cottage sat nestled in acres of forest. Forty-year-old June Bennett believed that the island had been sold after the summer of her father's disappearance when she was only 12 years old. It's months after the shocking death of her older sister, May, in a fatal car accident that June finds out that the cottage was never sold. Avril Island is still owned by the Bennett family, and now it's hers. Still reeling from the grief of losing her sister, June travels back to Avril Island in search of answers.  

Die Wildnis war schon immer von Bedrohungen geprägt. Für die meisten von uns bedeutet diese Bedrohung eine Zahnverformung, ein Verlangen nach saftigen Adern und einen gewissen Größenwahn. Doch das ändert sich alles, als eines der Dörfer brutal angegriffen wird. Wieder einmal sehe ich mich...

Den Glauben an die Liebe hat die schöne Sunny längst aufgegeben. Stattdessen steckt sie ihre ganze Leidenschaft in ihre Karriere als Anwältin. Bis sie Tycoon Stefano Gunn kennenlernt. Vom ersten Moment an herrscht zwischen ihnen eine magische Spannung, der sie sich nicht lange entziehen kann...

Im Schatten von Rom erhebt sich eine Stimme aus Rache und Blut. Lela wurde nicht nur ihrer Freiheit beraubt, sondern auch ihrer Stimme – denn in ihr schlummert eine verbotene Gabe. Sie kann jeden, dessen Blut sie kostet, an ihren Willen binden. Als sich ihr Weg mit dem aufstrebenden Tribun Trajan auf schicksalhafte Weise kreuzt, beginnt ein gefährliches Spiel zwischen Leben und Tod. Trajan bietet ihr einen Pakt an: ihre Magie gegen seinen Schutz.

We often think of them as tiny, glittering creatures fluttering about in pastel tulle, but fairies haven't always been so benign. Here, historian Sarah Clegg explores the true history of fairies, and the menace and ambiguity that always lurks within the shimmering fantasy. This history takes us from elf fires in Iceland to a burial mound in Ireland; and from a stream in Cottingley where two sisters created a fairy hoax to a modern-day fairy ball in Los Angeles.

Ten years of being on the wrong page. One last chance for a happy ending . . . Leigh has dreamed of becoming a writer her whole life, but one 'all-style-no-substance' critique from her high school crush, Will, sent her life careening off course and, for years, Leigh put her pen down altogether...

A fascinating and emotional story which had me glued from first page to last - Louise Fein As the bombs rain down, love and hope refuse to surrender. Malta, 1941. As bombs fall across the island and invasion looms, Kitty Campbell is haunted by the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption...

The natural world is burning. Time is running out. You know the story. So what possible role could something as flimsy as fiction play? From the pioneering pen of a continually visionary writer, Burning Snowflake is a rallying cry. Shrug off restrictions. Imagine radically. See fiction for what...

Welcome to Freezy Tye – voted Britain’s Most Christmassy Village seven years in a row. Best friends since university, Keeley and Grace first bonded over their love of nineteenth century romance classics, but life has taken them in different directions. While Keeley became the top curator at...

In love and war, these sisters stay strong. In WW2 Scotland, headstrong Molly Robinson decides to help the war effort and sign up for the Women's Land Army but is none too pleased when her mother insists she takes along her older sister, Maisie. At their new home in a remote Perthshire farm, the...

Four cursed heirs. One forbidden witch. A desire that burns bright. 'All the dark academia, spooky Sabrina witchy vibes, but with four super hot men who all want her. I’m so obsessed!' ★★★★★ 'That ending?! Honestly, how dare you (complimentary)! Now I need the next book like I need...

“A super stylish thriller. I found myself truly transported to Paris in this gloriously vivid, gripping read.” —Lucy Foley “As rich and layered as a mille-feuille, this gripping novel of a missing lover in Paris is utterly addictive. Eva Jurczyk is a major talent.” —Shari Lapena Told...

The third title in this murder-mystery school series set at Mayfield Academy from Sophie McKenzie, the bestselling author of million-copy-seller, Girl Missing. Georgia, Wren and Billy are excited about the start of a new school term this autumn at Mayfield Academy, especially as it brings with...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Eva Jurczyk is a major talent.” —Shari Lapena A sophisticated, character-driven thriller in which a romantic rendezvous in Paris turns disastrous after the disappearance of a new lover. Genie St. Onge's heart is broken more often than it's not—but that...

The lives of three women dramatically collide during the French Revolution: Sofi, a wallpaper factory worker; her sister Lara, a lady’s maid; and a young aristocrat, Hortense. At the factory, the sisters notice something eerie about the intricately illustrated wallpaper: the same mysterious...

Three stories that share the adventures of first love and second chances. A Perfect Secret — Rose Bender’s betrothed, Luke Lantz, is safe and dependable — maybe a little too much so. Or so she thinks until she sees him in the woods one night and discovers a secret he’s been keeping. Now...

Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina, and her bond with the little boy intensifies. 

Why are women’s friendships so tricky? During a particularly painful time in her life, Sarah Zacharias Davis learned how delightful—and wounding—women can be in friendship. She saw how some friendships end badly, others die slow deaths, and how a chance acquaintance can become that...

You are part of the miracle God is looking for to help change the world. Right now — in the midst of your busy daily life — God stands ready to help you find your purpose. His hand is stretched out to you from across the water. All you need to do is be willing to take that first step out of...

#1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! “Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams]...