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When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks her prayers have been answered. Soon, she finds herself sucked into the world of her research, captivated by a romantic correspondence thousands of years old. But as her feelings for her employer's assistant, Fiadh, deepen, so too does her suspicion that something about Agatha Montague isn't quite right. Unfortunately for Clara, by the time her suspicions are confirmed, it is far too late to run.

A searing fantasy romance full of magic, Fae lore, high-stakes, courtly intrigue, and a forbidden love readers will be sure to devour. If the forest stares back at you, you’re already prey. Bran Gallagher grew up with three rules passed down through his coven: beware forest paths that lead to...

Bestselling author Tiffany Reisz returns with an imaginative tale of lust and magic, and the dangers unleashed when the two are combined... On the day of Lia's university graduation party, her parents - wealthy art collectors with friends in high places - give her a beautiful wine cup, a rare...

Ich floh vor meiner Familie an den einzigen Ort, von dem ich wusste, dass sie mich dort niemals finden würden. Crimson Ridge. Als ich in dieser verschneiten, rauen Welt ankam, dachte ich, ich würde ganz von vorn anfangen können. Doch ich habe mich geirrt. Die verlassene Berghütte, die ich geerbt habe, ist nicht das, was sie zu sein scheint. Dieser Berg birgt Geheimnisse. Ein ehemaliger Profi-Bullenreiter beherrscht diesen Ort und nun auch meine Gedanken … Stôrmand Lane. Der Adoptivbruder meines Vaters.

“If I catch you, I’ll own you. Now run.” I see a man in a mask with a grinning mouth and crossed out eyes unalive a man. But the mask slips and I see his face. Gray eyes. A scowl. I run. He catches me, and the next thing I know, the Bratva boss has taken me to his country estate, and I’m his captive. I beg, I plead. But he’s stone. I try to escape, but he anticipates my every move. Finally, he gives me a choice.

Bienvenue à Fallbury, le romantique petit village de pêcheurs sur la côte écossaise. Les souvenirs de son enfance sont la seule chose qui reste à Ellie de l’Écosse, son pays natal. Mais quand le pittoresque « Rose Cottage » de sa tante est au bord de la ruine, elle retourne...

Mercedes Midnight should be dead. Her year is up, her debt is owed, yet here she stands—alive, cursed, and crackling with demon magic she has no idea how to wield. Lucy Corvine, the devil’s broken daughter, clawed her way out of a contract that was never supposed to break. Now she’s something the underworld doesn’t have a name for. Something her father will tear the realm apart to find. When two angels crash into Ora City, the rules change overnight. One wants to watch the realms burn. One wants to save them. No one is safe.

She left me once. Now she's back—with a four-year-old who looks a little too familiar. Five years ago, Rose Howard walked out of Buckhorn—out of my life. I told myself I was over her. Hell, I tried to be. But when she shows up in town right before Christmas—soft smile, that same...

King I don't rescue damsels in distress. When Luna stepped off that midnight bus into my dying town, I saw her as a civilian. A complication. A potential pawn in the war brewing with the Iron Eagles. Then she refused to surrender. Fierce blue eyes, refusing to back down even with the odds...

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Everleigh Banks has a secret. Living under a false identity, she’s plagued by the lingering trauma of her husband’s cruelty. Hiding in the small town of Hawkthorpe is a last-ditch effort to bury the evil she’s fled. It’s a fresh start, but she didn’t count on three complications carrying their own demons to steal her fragile heart and refuse to surrender it.

From the national bestselling author of The Serpent and the Pearl comes the continuing saga of the ruthless family that holds all of Rome in its grasp, and the three outsiders thrust into their twisted web of blood and deceit . . . As the cherished concubine of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI...

Unstoppable war. Unspeakable sins. Impossible love. The Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired. She's exhausted from fighting the endless wars of kings and queens, and has long accepted that her death is near. Alone at last but for a few uninvited companions - a near-mythical wolf, a goddess's...

1266. Eleanor of Castile, adored wife of the Crown Prince of England, is still only a princess when she is held hostage in the brutal Baron's Rebellion and her baby daughter dies. Scarred by privation, a bitter Eleanor swears revenge on those who would harm her family - and vows never to let herself be vulnerable again. As she rises to become queen, Eleanor keeps Olwen - a trusted herbalist, who tried to save her daughter - by her side. But it is dangerous to be friendless in a royal household.

This quiet town in Maine becomes disturbed by a missing priest who is eventually found deadFather Thomas, let out of prison early, returns to his former parish when the new priest has a heart attack. The parish is divided between forgiveness and resentment about his return. These feeling are based his hit and run which severely injured a member of the community and resulted in his prison sentence. Nancy is quiet but very fond of Father Thomas and discreetly supports his return. Ron Whitlow is aggravated.

Driven by hope and vengeance, Carina Maria DiGratia leaves her idyllic home in Sonoma, California, for a new life in the mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Though the town has a rough element, Carina is determined that it will be the place where her dreams come true. Early on, two men vie for her trust - but neither is what he seems. Will Carina discern the truth in time to prevent tragedy?

Er hat mich geheiratet, verbannt und ist jetzt das Einzige, das mich daran hindert, meine Schwester zu retten. Lily verwandelt sich zu Stein. Meine Schwester schläft seit acht Jahren – genauso lange, wie ich die heimliche, verbannte Frau des Ozeankönigs bin. Poseidon ist leidenschaftlich, gnadenlos und unheimlich mächtig. Ich bin nur eine gebrochene Meeresnymphe, deren Magie nie in Erscheinung trat. Die einzige Möglichkeit, Lily zu retten, befindet sich in seinem Unterwasserpalast, und ich habe nichts mehr zu verlieren.

I feel his eyes on my back with every step I take. He’s following me. Chasing me. There’s nowhere for me to go, nowhere to hide that he won’t find me. He moves in smoke and shadows. He is the darkness. He tracks my every move like a predator with gold glowing eyes in the night. I know he’s going to catch me, the only question is…why do I want him to?

From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book of Colours, comes a vibrant, richly imagined and deeply moving novel set in the turbulent world of thirteenth-century England. Longlisted for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize. England, 1276...

Detective Rose Martin has spent years trying to bring down Sterling Montague, a corrupt British billionaire with plans of destroying democracy. But her pursuit of justice throws her into a shadowy world of spies and assassins—a clandestine organisation called the Circle. Tasked with guarding the monarchy, the Circle operates outside the law, led by a mercurial and dangerous woman known only as the Nightingale.