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Rose Aberdeen and Jahi Adams grow up half a continent apart. Rose in LA and Jahi in the small mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Haunted by a singular devastating loss as a child, the mysterious disappearance of her brilliant, mercurial father, Rose grapples with heartache and self-doubt. Forging ahead, she becomes a clinical psychologist and marries a handsome, renegade surgeon. But ten years and multiple losses later, and amidst a messy divorce, she starts afresh in the small town of Eureka Springs, near her mother and sister.

Sex, drugs, cinema and stardom in a glorious technicolour romp through London's Swinging '60s. Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sgt. Pepper, a mystery film - Eureka - is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can't see straight for all the acid he's dropping.

Eureka: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe By Tim Simpson He was America’s first true master of the macabre—yet his own life was a story more mysterious than any he ever wrote. From the shadowed streets of Richmond to the rain-slick alleys of Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe walks again in this sweeping historical novel that blurs the line between genius and madness, love and obsession, life and death.