Literature & Fiction
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Without Limits (Cobalt Security Book 3)
Hayden –
Cobalt Security had felt like home to Hayden Thorne for years. But now he needs space and time to get over the fact that Jaxon West was never going to be more to him than his best friend. Quitting his job as a bodyguard to go work for a dark underground group of assassins, seemed like the perfect plan to get over the sexy bodyguard once and for all. It doesn’t help that Jaxon has followed him and is trying to interfere in his new life. Hayden has several things to say about Jaxon’s interference.So what if someone is trying to kill them, it’s all part of the job, right?
Jaxon –
Jaxon West had taken a job out of state to get some distance from his best friend, only to find out that Hayden had quit. The thing is that Jaxon didn’t want that much distance between them. And if Hayden thought he could find another employer, Jaxon had a few choice words for the younger man…with the first of several being, hell f*cking no. Jaxon needed to keep Hayden safe and within reach.Now, a long buried secret threatens to destroy their mutual attraction and Jaxon knows he needs to come clean.
Will the lie that stands between them prevent any chance of happiness? Will Hayden walk away for good when he finds out the truth?Fear can be paralyzing when Jaxon’s whole world is at stake.
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A Game of Deceit and Desire: A Steamy Lesbian Fantasy Romance (Girl Games Book 3)
Can love survive when trust is the rarest magic of all?
Bella Blythe, master of lattice magic, is determined to win the Runic Games… If only her greatest rival, Remy Reid would get out of the way.
For years they one-upped each other in competitions, jobs, and their apprenticeships…
Until a single kiss changed everything.
With the biggest competition of their lives ahead of them, they’re going to have to trust each other…
A futile task when they’re both harbouring secrets filled with betrayal…
With a reputation and a relationship at risk, they’re left with an impossible choice:
Do they want to win a competition or a heart?
Two women, two betrayals, and a romance that will rewrite their destiny.
This is a steamy lesbian fantasy romance with rivals to lovers, forbidden romance, only one bed, found family, forced proximity, tons of spice. 18+ readers only. This is the final book in the Girl Games trilogy.
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The Ritual: Now A Major Film, The Most Thrilling Chiller You’ll Read This Year
Winner of the August Derleth Award.
In Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, 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. A place of dark ritual and home to a bestial presence that is still present in the ancient forest, and now they’re the prey.
As the four friends struggle toward salvation they discover that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees . . .
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The Hunger: “Deeply disturbing, hard to put down” – Stephen King
“Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark.” – Stephen King
After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is well-documented – the other untested, but rumoured to be shorter.
Donner’s decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him. The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand. Driven to the brink of madness, the ill-fated group struggles to survive and minor disagreements turn into violent confrontations. Then the children begin to disappear. As the survivors turn against each other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches beyond the fury of the natural elements, to something more primal and far more deadly.
Based on the true story of The Donner Party, The Hunger is an eerie, shiver-inducing exploration of human nature, pushed to its breaking point.
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Sport of Kings (The Danny Pearson Thriller Series Book 5)
The hunt is on…But who’s hunting who…
When Danny Pearson’s ex-SAS friend goes missing, the old unit reunite to find him. The search leads them deep into a world of international drug smugglers run by the lord of the manor…
When Smudge rings from the Norfolk coast, he’s in big trouble. Danny and his old SAS teammate Fergus drive up to help him, only to find he’s vanished. When they search the holiday chalet, the only clues they find are Smudges diving gear and a sealed brick of cocaine.
Things go from bad to worse when Danny and his old SAS unit go head-to-head with drug smugglers and the Sport of Kings, run by Lord Bartholomew Harrington-Smythe and Sir John Riddlesworth.
Sport of Kings is the fifth in British thriller fiction writer, Stephen Taylor’s, bestselling Danny Pearson series. If you like edge of your seat, nail biting action and adventure thrillers, then you’ll love Stephen Taylor’s high octane books.
Readers are saying
★★★★★ “Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, Jason Bourne and now Danny Pearson.”
★★★★★ “Wow…This is a brilliant book. Danny Pearson is back with his team of friends. I love the characters and the banter.”
Although some characters appear in several books, the series can be read in any order.
The Danny Pearson Thriller Series
Vodka Over London Ice
Execution of Faith
Who Holds The Power
Alive Until I Die
Sport of Kings
Blood Runs Deep
Command To Kill
Leave Nothing To Chance
Won’t Stay deadBUY NOW and Jump on board.
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Gambling With A Plug’s Heart (A Billionaire Baby Daddy But A Gangsta Got My Heart Book 4)
How do you fix a broken woman? How do you change her way of life? How do you undo what someone else destroyed? You don’t!
Risma has been trying to figure out if her past was ever going to let her go, so she could see the future before her. Riddled with heartache she avoids love at all costs while bringing anyone she could into her life to fill the void, but when Dro gives her an ultimatum. Risma will have to fold under his request or revert to her old ways. Risma’s city-girl mentality will always keep her pockets laced, even if she never allows love in her heart! With Dro being The Plug he needs a solid woman on his team, but after finally being tired of Risma’s ways. Dro has an unexpected old flame to resurface and drive a wedge between him and Risma further and further!
Cai’s love triangle has put him in a daring position that could cost him his life if he keeps playing with fire. Cai’s love for April is what he thinks he needs in his life, but when Amber shows that two can play that game, he is rethinking who is the person he is in love with. As Cai tries to navigate maturing into a grown man he has to figure out which woman brings out the best in him. Even though he knows he is wrong what is a man to do when his heart is split in two?
These lovers have a lot to learn and figure out while they gamble with loving the wrong person.
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Teacher’s Pet (Copper Creek Book 5)
James Campbell’s love life is complicated. He chose the university he went to because he was following a girl—only to get dumped by her. Now he’s in love again, and this time it’s the real deal. Except for two problems.Mia loves James. But the spectre of her broken marriage hangs over her when her ex gets a job in the same place she works. And where she works is the other problem.
She never meant to fall in love with a student.
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Three Weddings and a Proposal: One summer, three weddings, and the shocking phone call that changes everything . . .
Sunday Times bestseller April 2022
Irish Times bestseller March 2022At the first wedding, there’s a shock
The second wedding is unexpected
By the third, Delphie thinks nothing could surprise her. But she’s wrong . . .
Delphie is enjoying her brother’s wedding. Her surprise last-minute Plus One has stunned her family – and it’s also stopped any of them asking again why she’s still single. But when she sees all the missed calls that evening, she knows it can’t be good news. And she’s right.
Delphie has been living her best life, loving her job, her friends, her no-strings relationships and her dream house by the sea. Now she has to question everything she believed about who she is and what she wants. Is her mum right – is it time to settle down? Or does she want to keep on trying to have it all?
Each wedding of a glorious summer brings a new surprise. And as everything Delphie thought she had is threatened, she has the chance to reshape her future . . .
‘One of my favourite authors’ Marian Keyes
‘Sheila’s books always make you feel as if you’ve spent time with a good friend’ Carole Matthews
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The Wedding Dress Repair Shop: The brand new, uplifting and heart-warming summer romance from the Sunday Times bestseller
Readers have fallen in love with The Wedding Dress Repair Shop:
***** ‘A brilliant escape read to indulge in over the summer holidays’
***** ‘Amazing and warm, I couldn’t put the book down’
***** ‘A wonderful tale of reconnection and the triumph of the human spirit. More please!’Can her heart be mended too?
After losing her fiancé and her dream job in the same week, Garland Fairford’s life is turned upside down.
Having recently met a long-lost relative – Honey Fairford – through her work as a historical costumier, Garland is intrigued when Honey reveals she is opening a Wedding Dress museum in Lancashire. With nothing to lose, Garland accepts the offer of a job there.
What she doesn’t expect is to come face-to-face with a ghost from her past – her old friend, Thom, who mysteriously disappeared years ago.
As Garland begins reading the stories behind each of the beautiful wedding dresses, and sets about repairing both them and her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?
‘Trademark Trisha, at her absolute finest!’ Heidi Swain
‘The perfect summer escape’ Candis
‘The perfect escape from real life’ Debbie Johnson
‘Feel-good fiction filled with friendship, community spirit and a dash of romance’ CultureFly
‘Vintage Trisha Ashley. An absorbing treat’ Sue MoorcroftRead more
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An Island Wedding (Mure Book 5)
‘I loved this novel and every single one of its characters. Supremely heartfelt, hilarious and heartrending – it’s an absolute triumph.’ Sophie Kinsella
Discover Jenny Colgan’s best novel yet…
Olivia and Anthony are planning A Very Extravagant Wedding at the newest hotel on the tiny Scottish island of Mure. They’re flying in chefs, musicians and something called a living flower wall… and no one is even allowed to think the word bridezilla.
Flora is trying – and failing – not to let Olivia and Anthony’s wedding distract her from planning her own big day with Joel. But the couple have wildly different ideas about how to celebrate and somehow, just when their relationship should be plain sailing, everything is suddenly very hard indeed.
And then there’s Lorna and Saif. The local headmistress and the GP desperately keeping their relationship a secret to protect his sons. But while they’re looking out for the boys, who’s looking out for them?
Three couples. One midsummer’s night. Can everyone get their happy ever after?
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Why readers ADORE Jenny Colgan…
‘Jenny Colgan has a way of writing that makes me melt inside’
‘Her books are so good I want to start over as soon as I have finished’
‘There’s something so engaging about her characters and plots’
‘Her books are like a big, warm blanket’
‘Her stories are just so fabulous’
‘She brings her settings and characters so vividly to life’
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Broken Beauty (Titan Falls Book 1)
The charmer.
The stalker.
The tortured leader.
The unhinged psychopath.Which one will break me?
I’m the weird girl on campus.
With an overbearing father, a criminal family, and my attendance at an isolated university in the mountains, no one ever had the chance to love me or leave me.Until I catch the attention of four men, the enigmatic Vultures, a ruthless mafia group searching for a hidden fortune on campus, where my comfortable life takes a treacherous turn.
They’re cold-blooded killers, but nobody would know. Their disguise is that good.
The worst part is, I’m just as obsessed with the treasure as they are.
They’ve figured out they need me, and I’ve found myself torn between my own desires and the darkness that consumes them.
But as much as I’m drawn to them, losing my morals will turn into my biggest mistake.
Because the problem with Vultures?
They love picking at fresh meat.
Broken Beauty is book 1 of a duet, concluding with Loyal Vows. The duet can be read on its own, but be warned – its twisted path intersects with the captivating world of Cruel Promise, Tempest’s standalone story.
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Highland Yuletide: Three festive novellas to transport you back in time
Transport yourself to the Scottish Highlands this Christmas with three festive novellas set in Ancient and Medieval Scotland.
HIGHLANDER PLEDGED
They wed in the heart of winter as the Scottish Highlands prepare for Yuletide—but while snow falls an arranged marriage blossoms into a love match. The tender and steamy story, set in Medieval Scotland, of two lost souls who are meant for each other.THE LAIRD’S RETURN
Is it too late for a second chance at love? An embittered laird. A loyal wife. A new start.WINTER’S PROMISE
A lonely outcast. A chieftain’s son. A passion to warm the depths of winter. Set in Ancient Scotland, this story is about discovering the truth, and facing the past.Previously published as part of separate series, these three novellas are now part of the same collection. Dive into heart-warming Christmas stories about arranged marriages, second chances, and love that defies the odds.
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Rogue Lawyer: The breakneck and gripping legal thriller from the international bestselling author of suspense
‘The best thriller writer alive’ – Ken Follett
Sometimes you have to fight dirty to get clean.
Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team.
Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial – even if he has to cheat to get one. He antagonises people from both sides of the law: his last office was firebombed, either by drug dealers or cops. He doesn’t know or care which.
But things are about to get even more complicated for Sebastian. Arch Swanger is the prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of 21-year-old Jiliana Kemp, the daughter of the assistant chief of police. When Swanger asks Sebastian to represent him, he lets Sebastian in on a terrible secret . . . one that will threaten everything Sebastian holds dear.
What readers are saying about ROGUE LAWYER
‘Brilliant and Blistering!’ – 5 STARS
‘John Grisham at his very best’ – 5 STARS
‘Best Grisham novel . . . so far!’ – 5 STARS
350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
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Deal with a Djinn (Holidate Series Book 5)
Deal with a Djinn is part of the holidate series but can be read as a standalone. In this paranormal twist of Cupid’s Contract, our fave five find themselves in Elloree Falls fighting for their freedom of a Djinn who has taken everything from them.Every fae in existence came from the true fae. A kind and benevolent creature. A light fae.
When they first began to evolve, the Djinn were created. Manipulative and power hungry. A dark fae.
Seeking ultimate power, the Djinn turned the townspeople against the light fae and unalived them all.
That was hundreds of years ago.My name is Everlee and I’m a Squib. A fae born without superpowers. A nobody. Someone seen as barely more tolerable than a human.
In my case it’s almost worse because Helsgard, the high court over the fae, thought I was going to be super powerful… the firstborn of an interspecies coupling. I wasn’t the first, but I’m rare. For the most part, fae species don’t mingle. Too much history and wars for most to see past.
Blood never forgets.
But historically, when there’s an interspecies union, their offspring, especially the firstborn, is more powerful than others of the species they become. My mom is a succubus and my dad is a werewolf. I could have become one of those, or something else entirely. Or, even more rare, a true fae. Each fae holds a recessive gene for the true fae, the sprite little fairies that once existed long ago.
Year after year, we waited, and my powers never presented themselves. I gave up hope long before my parents and the council did. I didn’t feel anything inside of me.
That was before the night of the full super blood moon on Halloween.
When a troll tries to force my hand, I defend myself. Rather, the fae inside of me, who’s been hiding does. A large light ball forms and illuminates the darkness, shining a light right on me.
One, we aren’t supposed to use magic in the club.
Two, only a true fae can make a light ball that bright.
Three, it was a Djinn’s club.Hiding is my only option, until I can figure out who I am and who wants to unalive me. The Djinn is powerful and dark, and she will use anything and anyone to come after me like she did with the true fae hundreds of years ago.
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Best Supporting Actor (Creative Types Book 3)
Lights, camera…attraction!
When Tag O’Rourke, struggling actor-slash-barista, meets Jay Warren, son of acting royalty, it’s loathing at first sight. Loathing…and lust.
Tag’s dream is to act, but it’s a dream that’s crumbling beneath the weight of student debt and his family’s financial problems. If his career doesn’t take off soon, he’s going to have to get a real job. After all, feeding his family is more important than feeding his soul.
Luckily, Tag’s about to get his big break…
Jay never had to dream about acting; he was always destined to follow in his famous mother’s footsteps. But fame has its price and a traumatic experience early in Jay’s career has left him with paralysing stage fright, which is why he sticks to the safety of TV work—and avoids relationships with co-stars at all costs.
Unfortunately, Jay’s safe world is about to be rocked…
After an ill-judged yet mind-blowing night together, Jay and Tag part acrimoniously. So it’s a nasty shock when they discover that they’ve been cast in a two-man play that could launch Tag’s career and finally get Jay back onto the stage where he belongs.
Sure, it’s not ideal, but how bad can working with your arch-nemesis be?
All they have to do is survive six weeks rehearsing together and navigate a cast of smarmy festival directors, terrible landladies, and vengeful journalists. Oh, and try not to fall in love before the curtain rises…
Break a leg!
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Roommate Wars: A Billionaire with Benefits Romantic Comedy (All’s Fair)
Having a one-night stand with my sister’s billionaire friend was a mistake…
But moving in with the reclusive billionaire would be an even bigger problem.
Besides the unfortunate time we slept together, the only thing Jack Townsend and I have in common is our aversion to serious relationships.
But after he sees the sh*thole I’m living in, he sweetens the offer to stay in his swanky home with the one thing an impoverished government worker like me can’t turn down—free rent.
He makes it clear he’s not interested—our sizzling night together was barely a blip on his playboy radar. I don’t know if I should be offended or relieved.
Either way, my heart says no, but my mouth says yes. And my head says it’s not a handout; I’d be helping him around the house.
One minute I’m washing his designer boxer-briefs, and the next Jack has me pretending to be his girlfriend to ward off the gold diggers.
I don’t need the confusion of a fake relationship, but I could do worse than playing house with a handsome billionaire. Besides, he’s already seen me naked. What could possibly go wrong?
Roommate Wars is a roommates-to-lovers romance, with a commitment-phobe billionaire and a sassy, independent heroine. This novel is a standalone romance guaranteed to give you laughs, feels, and the grand gestures and happy ending you crave.
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The Man of Her Dreams: the brilliant new rom-com from the author of London, With Love
‘Romantic, funny, sweet and sexy’ MARIAN KEYES
‘The funny, clever, deeply romantic, sinfully sexy, devastatingly heartbreaking, perfectly uplifting book of your dreams’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN
‘A very swoony, sexy, warm read’ CESCA MAJOR
Is he too good to be true?
Meet Theo. Handsome, sexy, funny. kind. And he can cook.
He’s literally the man of Esme’s dreams. But Esme’s sensible enough to know that you can’t just manifest your perfect boyfriend then have him turn up on your doorstep.
Or can you?
All your favourite authors love SARRA MANNING!
‘A VERY special book. GORGEOUS, real believable and BEAUTIFUL’ – Marian Keyes
‘Wonderful – romantic, sexy, moving and impossible to put down’ – Louise O’Neill
‘Sexy, heartfelt, funny and fresh’ – Laura Jane Williams
‘Epically romantic yet utterly relatable’ – Holly Miller
‘Beautiful’ – Lindsey Kelk
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The Island of Sea Women: ‘Beautifully rendered’ -Jodi Picoult
The beautiful novel of female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger.Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epic set over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wetsuits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point.
This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge, engaging in dangerous physical work, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story—one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them—The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives.
‘For centuries, women on Korea’s Jeju island have been free-diving into the sea, a practice explored through this fictionalized story of two friends who struggle to stay close amid war, family rivalries, and a shifting cultural landscape. It’s riveting, historical, and heartbreaking all at once’ Marie Claire
‘Lisa See excels at mining the intersection of family, friendship and history… This novel spans wars and generations, but at its heart is a beautifully rendered story of two women whose individual choices become inextricably tangled’ Jodi Picoult, author of A Spark of Light‘I was spellbound the moment I entered the vivid and little-known world of the diving women of Jeju… No one writes about female friendship… with more insight and depth than Lisa See’ Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees
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Beyond the Sea: From the Booker-shortlisted author of Prophet Song
Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter CunninghamWinner of the Prix Gens de Mer, 2022
Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing village on what they believe to be a routine expedition. But then a devastating storm casts them adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With no means of contacting the outside world and no sign of rescue, their only hope lies with one another. Both men must confront the truth about themselves, and the regrets that they have spent a lifetime trying to forget, if they are to survive.
Part gripping story of resilience, part fearless existential parable, Beyond the Sea is a meditation on what it means to be human, in a world that pushes us to the brink.
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Hungry as the Sea
An action-packed, race-against-time thriller from global sensation Wilbur Smith.‘A master storyteller’ – Sunday Times
‘Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared’ – The Times
‘No one does adventure quite like Smith’ – Daily Mirror
His toughest challenge. His final hope.
Once the envied and admired chairman of one of the world’s most successful shipping consortiums, Nick Berg now finds himself completely alone. His long-time nemesis, Duncan Alexander, has schemed to take his job, alienated him from his wife and son, and stolen his fortune.
Nick’s only hope now is the Warlock, a top-of-the-range salvage boat that will be his final gamble. When an SOS call comes in Nick finds himself in a race against time – one of his former company’s Antarctic cruisers is stranded, sinking in frozen wastelands in a terrible storm.
But this is no accident, and as Nick fights to save the lives of the six hundred people on board he has no idea that they are pawns in a game concocted by Duncan Alexander. And it’s not just Nick he wants to ruin – the future of his former company and even the ocean itself is under threat. As the storm sweeps in, can Nick save them all before it’s too late?
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Rising Tides: Number 2 in series (Chesapeake Bay)
The past is waiting to surface . . .
Ethan Quinn shares his late father’s passion for the ocean, and he is determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But as well as looking out for his young brother Seth, the strong but guarded Quinn is also battling some difficult home truths.
Grace Monroe, the woman Ethan has always loved but never believed he could have, is learning that appearances can be deceptive. For beneath Ethan’s still, dark waters lies a shocking past. With Grace’s help, can he overcome the shadows that haunt him and finally accept who he is?
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Sunrise by the Sea: An escapist, sun-filled summer read by the Sunday Times bestselling author (Little Beach Street Bakery)
‘Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan’ Sunday Express
‘An evocative, sweet treat’ Jojo Moyes
___________________________________In a quaint seaside resort, a charming bakery holds the key to another world…
Curl up and escape with Jenny Colgan
‘An evocative, sweet treat’ Jojo Moyes
‘This sweet romance will lift your spirits’Sunday Mirror
‘Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting’ Marian Keyes
‘Irresistible’ Jill Mansell
‘Just lovely’ Katie Fforde
‘Naturally funny, warm-hearted’ Lisa Jewell
‘A gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book’ Mike Gayle
‘A sheer delight from start to finish’ Sophie Kinsella
___________________________________When she is given the opportunity to move to a remote tidal island off the Cornish Coast, Marisa Rossi decides some peace and quiet might be just what she needs.
Since the death of her beloved grandfather back in Italy, she’s been struggling to find a way out of her grief. Perhaps this will be the perfect place for her to recuperate.
But Mount Polbearne is a far cry from the sleepy little place she was imagining. Between her noisy piano-teaching Russian neighbour and the hustle and bustle of a busy community, Marisa finds solitude is not so easy to come by. Especially when she finds herself somehow involved with a tiny local bakery desperately in need of some new zest to save it . . .
___________________________________Why readers ADORE Jenny Colgan
‘Jenny Colgan has a way of writing that makes me melt inside’
‘Her books are so good I want to start over as soon as I have finished’
‘There’s something so engaging about her characters and plots’
‘Her books are like a big, warm blanket’
‘Her stories are just so fabulous’
‘She brings her settings and characters so vividly to life’
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Sea of Greed: NUMA Files #16 (The NUMA Files)
‘Sea of Greed will have readers turning pages. With a wonderful cast of characters and relentless action, this is classic Cussler’ Mail Online
KURT AUSTIN AND THE NUMA CREW ARE BACK IN AN ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE FROM #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CLIVE CUSSLER
___________In the Gulf of Mexico, flames erupt from the seabed turning oilrigs into infernos . . .
Luckily, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are on hand to rescue the crews before the burning rigs sink beneath the waves. But what caused this fireball?
It’s soon clear this is sabotage, but at the same time oil fields around the world are dying.
Tasked with discovering the truth, Kurt is led to alternative energy scientist Tessa Franco.
Franco’s company seeks the end of the oil age. But is she part of the solution – or the problem?
With the world simmering on the verge of catastrophe, Kurt’s in a race against time to discover the extraordinary truth – one that may lie with an audacious experiment and a submarine lost fifty years ago . . .
Praise for Clive Cussler:
‘The Adventure King’Sunday Express
‘Cussler is hard to beat’Daily Mail
‘Just about the best in the business’New York Post
‘Oceanography’s answer to Indiana Jones. Exotic locations, ruthless villains, and many narrow escapes – Cussler’s fans come for swashbuckling and he delivers’Associated Press
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Royal: A spellbinding tale of a long-lost princess from the billion copy bestseller
In this spellbinding tale from Danielle Steel, a princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever.
As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the Yorkshire countryside. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess’s fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London.
Third in line to the throne, seventeen year-old Charlotte reluctantly uses an alias upon her arrival in Yorkshire, her two guardians the only keepers of her true identity. A talented horsewoman, Charlotte begins to enjoy life out of the spotlight, concentrating on training with her beloved horse. But no one predicts that in the coming months she will fall deeply in love with her protectors’ son.
Far from her parents, a tragic turn of events leaves an infant orphaned. Alone in the world, that child will be raised in the most humble circumstances by a modest stable manager and his wife. No one, not even she, knows of her lineage. But when a stack of hidden letters comes to light, a secret kept for nearly two decades finally surfaces, and a long lost princess emerges . . .
A fascinating story of family and royalty, and an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young woman and the man who brings her home, Royal is an exhilarating work from the world’s favourite storyteller.
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The Unlikely Heir: A Forbidden MM Royal Romance (Unlikely Dilemmas Book 1)
What happens when the Prince of Wales falls in love with the prime minister?My boring life working in an insurance call center in sunny California just took an unexpected turn. Thanks to my misbehaving relatives, I’ve leaped from obscurity to royalty as the new heir to the British throne.
But my welcome in England is about as warm as the weather. I arrive to discover a country horrified at the thought of an American version of Prince Charming and ready to revolt against the monarchy. I vow to my grandmother, the queen, that I will do everything possible to help her save the crown.
Unfortunately, royal life isn’t easy. From bewildering traditions, traitorous friends, and malevolent swans, the only thing I’m succeeding in is providing entertainment for the tabloids and social media trolls.
And then the broodingly handsome prime minister, Oliver Hartwell, bursts into my life.
With his meteoric rise from poverty to the most powerful man in the country, Oliver understands my current plight. Innocent messages of support turn into late-night chats—and unexpected feelings.
But there’s one major problem. The royal family must remain politically neutral at all times.
So how can I keep my promise to save the monarchy when I’m falling in love with the prime minister?
A forbidden romance filled with humor and drama featuring a bumbling Prince of Wales and a stern yet dashing prime minister, with a love that could transform a nation.
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The Royal Windsor Secret: A Novel
Could she be the secret daughter of the Prince of Wales? In this dazzling novel by the author of Sisters of the Resistance, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her mysterious past. Perfect for readers of Shana Abe, Bryn Turnbull, and Marie Benedict.
Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan, she knows the rumor—that her father is none other than the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairo’s Shepheard’s Hotel, where royals, rulers, and the wealthy live, they even called her “The Princess.”
But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen. Sent to London under the chaperonage of her very proper aunt, she’s told it’s time to learn manners and make her debut. But Cleo’s life can’t be confined to a ballroom. She longs for independence and a career as a jewelry designer for Cartier, but she cannot move forward until she finds out about her past.
Determined to unlock the truth, Cleo travels from London, back to Cairo, and then Paris, where her investigations take a shocking turn into the world of the Parisian demi-monde, and a high-class courtesan whose scandalous affair with the young Prince of Wales threatened to bring down the British monarchy long before anyone had heard of Wallis Simpson.
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Call Me By Your Name
Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by James Ivory
WINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARD
Nominated for Four Oscars
A New York Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Vulture Book Club Pick
An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time
Andre Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.Read more
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The Reformatory
“The Reformatory is one of those books you can’t put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park.” – Stephen King
A gloriously creepy Deep South horror story based on the infamous Dozier School for boys, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and Nothing But Blackened Teeth.
Jim Crow Florida, 1950.
Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there.
In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school’s ghosts – only they have their own motivations…
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Resurrection Walk: The Brand New Blockbuster Lincoln Lawyer Thriller
THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX’S THE LINCOLN LAWYER
THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES
Defense attorney Mickey Haller – The Lincoln Lawyer – rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.
Inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence, Haller enlists the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the next case which could result in a resurrection walk.
When Bosch finds a needle in the haystack – a woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, a sheriff’s deputy – they discover evidence that doesn’t add up, and a department pushed for quick closure in the killing of one of its own.
But is this rushed justice – or something more sinister?
As they face a David versus Goliath court battle, the secrets which could lead to an innocent woman walking free could also mark the end of the Haller-Bosch dream team. . .
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CRIME DOESN’T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:
‘The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation’
IAN RANKIN‘The best mystery writer in the world’
GQ‘A superb natural storyteller’
LEE CHILD‘A master’
STEPHEN KING‘America’s greatest living crime writer’
DAILY EXPRESS‘One of the great storytellers of crime fiction’
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The Ink Black Heart: The Number One international bestseller (Strike 6)
***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it***
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, JULY 2023
‘A superlative piece of crime fiction’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘There can be no denying [Galbraith’s] considerable talents as a crime writer’ GUARDIAN
‘Fans will be as entranced as ever’ DAILY MAILWhen frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .
A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
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With This Woman: This Man – The Story from Jesse Book 2
The Manor—the heartbeat of hedonism and pleasure, the place where Jesse Ward lost himself for years in women and alcohol, escaping his past—was his life. His everything. Until the day Ava O’Shea walked through the doors and Jesse discovered something else to live for.Her.
Their love affair was passionate, intense, and all-consuming. She became his heaven. His escape. And eventually, his downfall. When Ava walked away from him, he was destroyed, even more broken than before.
But she’s come back, and Jesse vows never to lose her again.
Except Ava’s only scratched the surface of his broken soul, and as their relationship intensifies and their love deepens, Jesse’s pushed to the brink of insanity when his past creeps into his present and risks destroying everything.
They will never survive his truths, and Jesse will never survive losing Ava again.
So he’ll do anything to shield her from his dark, soul-destroying past.
Absolutely anything.
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Gwendy’s Final Task (Gwendy’s Button Box Trilogy)
King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.
Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy’s life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented – an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.
With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?
Gwendy’s Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which ‘horror giants’ (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.
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Love Marriage: Don’t miss this heart-warming, funny and bestselling book club pick about what love really means
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME, READ BY MEERA SYAL
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, RED MAGAZINE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Absolutely terrific’ JENNY COLGAN
‘An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love’ STYLIST
‘Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic’ DAILY MAIL
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TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin’s parents get to know Joe’s firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.
As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she’s also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a ‘love marriage’ actually means.
‘A glorious tapestry of modern British family life’ METRO
‘A joy’ NAOISE DOLAN
‘I defy you to put this book down’ ADAM KAY
‘A surefire hit’ OBSERVER
‘Wildly entertaining … a bold and generous book’ FINANCIAL TIMES
‘Big-hearted, wry and tender’ HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘As engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining’ TASH AW, TLS
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Injury Time: A Novel
‘One of the best football books I’ve ever read.’ John Motson on Provided You Don’t Kiss Me
‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed by that attitude. I can assure you it’s much more important than that’ – Bill Shankly
What Shankly said isn’t even half-true. In fact, it’s bollocks. Football isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. If nothing else, I know that much.
As a player, Thom Callaghan was defined by the winning goal he scored in an FA Cup final. The goal wasn’t the blessing he imagined it would be. His whole career was defined by that brief moment of glory.
With his playing days over, Callaghan, still a local hero, is tempted back to his old club as caretaker manager. His task to rescue it from relegation. He’s got the job solely on the recommendation of his former boss and mentor Frank Mallory, now desperately ill and responsible for the team’s precipitous decline.
Callaghan is pitched into the Premier League during the last months of the 1996-1997 season, where – among reputations more gilded than his own – he finds himself pitted against the likes of Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United, chasing their fourth title in five years, and also one of the newest recruits to the English game, Arsene Wenger.
Can Callaghan save his club from what seems the inevitability of the drop? Does Mallory – eccentric, inspirational and manipulative – even want him to succeed? What if the prize of a personal triumph isn’t worth it in the end?
Injury Time is the first novel from the multiple award-winning sportswriter Duncan Hamilton.
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The Sea: 365 reflections
Throughout history, legend and myth, the sea has symbolized power and freedom, strength and serenity and has inspired poets, philosophers, astronomers and artists.
Reflections upon the sea from literature, philosophy, science and ancient wisdom are gathered together in this enchanting collection.
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Daddy’s Lap V1: Taboo Erotic Forbidden Age-gap Stepdad Romance Bundle (Steamy Explicit Stepdad and Stepdaughter Taboo Erotica Bundles Book 2)
“Six hot Straight Daddies with their Girthy, Strong, and Comforting laps.”
This is an illustrated novella bundle, it includes beautiful images inside. Enjoy!This collection includes:
Story 1 – Daddy’s Lap
“Come, princess, sit on my lap and tell me all about your day.”
Story 2 – Eating on Daddy’s Lap
“Come, princess, if sitting on my lap while you eat makes you feel better, you can do it anytime.”
Story 3 – Game Night on Daddy’s Lap
“No, you’re doing it wrong. Come sit on my lap, I’ll teach you how to play this game.”
Story 4 – Driving on Daddy’s Lap
“It’s time to try the main road, sweetheart. Sit on my lap, you’ll learn to drive faster.”
Story 5 – Bouncing on Daddy’s Lap
“You have to bounce harder, sweetheart.”
Story 6 – Sleeping on Daddy’s Lap
“Can’t sleep again? Come rest on my lap.”Note: This collection contains age gap, step, forbidden, taboo, and virgin romance tropes. All characters are within the legal age of consent, are not related by blood, and all scenes and events are legal.
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Must Like Cats (Betas in Waiting Book 18)
Her life is in chaos, her mind holds a secret, and her body has betrayed her. How is your weekend?Renner is an excellent personal assistant. Whether in male or female form, they always fit in. When her boss became a mate, it changed the dynamic of her job. When she met the first of four mates, Renner knew that her life was changing as well. Being rejected was difficult, but her friends took action and tried to get her a mate as fast as possible with the caveat that the alphas must like cats.
When her life was empty, she opened a cat café and shelter to help the little beasts that looked soft but were vulnerable and deadly at the same time. It had worked to keep her occupied, but now she wanted more. Three alphas and an omega are more than she expected.
Tuesday has heavy secrets, and she wants nothing more than to keep them, but the time is right, and she can finally connect with her sister again. Renner is shocked, and her memories are blank, but now that the block Tuesday placed is fading, they have family again.
Renner learns that her twin is more than she remembered, and an Elite omega is finally moving into the city with her very noticeable mates. Things are getting interesting.Read more
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The Cruel Sea
The highly acclaimed ‘Cruel Sea’ is one of the all time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and both it and the book continue to enjoy undiminshed popularity. It covers not just the details of the battle, but deals with the people who fought it – their domestic triumphs, tragedies, worries and ambitions. Nicholas Monsarrat wrote:’This is the story – the long and true story – of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men. It is a long story because it deals with a long and brutal battle, the worst of any war. It has two ships because one was sunk, and had to be replaced. It has a hundred and fifty men because that is a manageable number of people to tell a story about. Above all, it is a true story because that is the only kind worth telling.First, the ocean, the steep Atlantic stream. The map will tell you what that looks like: three-cornered, three thousand miles across and a thousand fathoms deep, bounded by the European coastline and half of Africa, and the vast American continent on the other side: open at the top, like a champagne glass, and at the bottom, like a municipal rubbish dumper. What the map will not tell you is the strength and fury of that ocean, its moods, its violence, its gentle balm, its treachery: what men can do with it, and what it can do with men. But this story will tell you all that.Then the ship, the first of the two, the doomed one. At the moment she seems far from doomed: she is new, untried, lying in a river that lacks the tang of salt water, waiting for the men to man her. She is a corvette, a new type of escort ship, an experiment designed to meet a desperate situation still over the horizon. She is brand new; the time is November 1939; her name is HMS Compass Rose.Lastly, the men, the hundred and fifty men. They come on the stage in twos and threes: some are early, some are late, some, like this pretty ship, are doomed. When they are all assembled, they are a company of sailors. They have women, at least a hundred and fifty women, loving them, or tied to them, or glad to see the last of them as they go to war.But the men are the stars of this story. The only heroines are the ships: and the only villain the cruel sea itself.’Read more
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Hide With Me (The Game Series Book 13)
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Don’t mind the sweet scent of waffles. That’s just little Gael breaking the resolves of two protective Daddies, one shy yet sinful bite at a time.It’s no coincidence Gael Grimes is in Professor Aavik’s class. He’s had a crush on the professor since he first spotted the man in the kink community they’re both part of. According to Gael, Professor Aavik is just super dreamy! Distinguished, charismatic—a total silver fox. But when Gael’s ex-boyfriend ignores the restraining order against him and tries to reach out, another man steps out of the shadows, and Gael is suddenly at a loss for words and can’t describe the intense attraction.
Private investigator Joshua “Santiago” Jones has been keeping an eye on Gael for a while as a favor to a friend. Under different circumstances, he would’ve loved to get closer to Gael. The boy’s cuter than words, definitely on the Little spectrum, funny, smart…but this is work. The only reason Santiago has to get close now is to protect Gael from his stalker ex-boyfriend.
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The Game Series is a BDSM series where romance meets the reality of kink. Sometimes we fall for someone we don’t match with, sometimes vanilla business gets in the way of kinky pleasure, and sometimes we have to compromise and push ourselves to overcome trauma and insecurities. No matter what, one thing is certain. This is not a perfect world—and maybe that’s why the happily ever after feels so good.Read more
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