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Brought to you by Penguin. LIPSTICK, LIES, AND LETHAL SECRETS - A DAZZLING CRIME THRILLER FOR FANS OF JANICE HALLETT AND TOM HINDLE Meet Misty Divine - your new favourite amateur sleuth! Drag isn't just dramatic. It's deadly... By day, shy hotel accountant Joe hides behind their desk and plays...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter’s death, ex–Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr’s father never talked much about the reservation...

Lu watched the love of his life walk the plank and sink into the inky-black depths of the sea. Nnenna was dead... or so he thought. Five years later, Lieutenant "Lu" Ortega, dutiful fleet officer, embarks on a mission to hunt down a powerful talisman now in the hands of a runaway mermaid. On his quest, he discovers the impossible: Nnenna is still alive. Fierce and cunning, and as breathtaking as ever, Nnenna's won enough bloody sword fights as a pirate captain to earn the nickname Devil of the Deep.

Set in the bright lights of daytime television, Satan's Sisters is the story of The Lunch Club – a long-running, popular ladies' talk show in which alliances are forged, careers are made, and bridges are burned. The show's famous red couch is ruled by its esteemed matriarch, Maxine Robinson, the first African-American to become a network news anchor, who maintains a hidden safe of diaries chronicling others' indiscretions for posterity – and leverage as needed.

Harlowe Daye is a popular romance book content creator who has been invited on the biggest brand trip of her career. The problem? It’s a couples' retreat, and she doesn’t have a boyfriend to bring. After a string of failed attempts to find a plus one before she loses the opportunity of a lifetime, she turns to the one man who has always been ten toes down for her: her ex’s brother. He also happens to be her best friend.

Meet Summer Percy. She lost the only family she had, there's no work to be found for her in Pennsylvania, and her meager savings is almost finished. After her father died in a carriage accident, she finds herself traveling for three weeks by train to the tiny town of Laramie to marry the local US Marshal, which she has never met. She meets Mary, an older woman who was a successfully married mail order bride. She shares a secret that could change everything.

Brought to you by Penguin. A GLITTERING NEW COSY MYSTERY STARRING EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE DRAG QUEEN TURNED AMATEUR SLEUTH, MISTY DIVINE... Photographer Jeremy Edmunds has vanished without a trace. Last known location? Soho. As the owner of Lady’s Bar, no one knows the city – and its secrets...

A pulse-pounding and blood-soaked tale of survival on the highway as a hitchhiking teenager is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a brutal serial killer. Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison and Keith Rosson. Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home...

You are a successful, intelligent person with so much to feel good about. But when you are confronted with the omnipresent clutter in your life, you feel like a failure. No matter how hard you try to get organized, you can’t figure out how to make the clutter go away for good. You can tell that there’s something bigger going on, but you have no idea what it is. You’re stuck. The good news is, you absolutely can learn how to free yourself from clutter.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis...

My world changed forever the night I attended a party. Not just any party. A party for the rich and powerful elite. That's where I made the worst mistake of my life. I caught the attention of the perfect man. Kaden Raskova is Prince Charming in a finely tailored suit. Mysterious. Sophisticated. Impossibly handsome. He's taken a special interest in me and my musical talent. But there's something off that I cant quite put my finger on. Moments where I sense a monster behind the mask of a man. A predator that's luring his prey to his dungeon of cruel delights. That prey being me.

Who knew chasing immortality would be so hard? To keep her human friend from being turned by her overzealous vampire mate, Phaedra has to find an artifact that grants its owner eternity. But her former partner turned leech insists on inserting himself into the search, and he's got a surprise for her: She's his mate. There's no way this Fae warrior is tying herself to a vamp forever, but escaping him is as easy is flying on broken wings. And that's not the only shock she's in for. A leech for a mate is bad enough, but a vampire sibling… Fangs don't belong in her family, right?

I go for my son. A lie, whispered to God and myself every Friday as I lead Quasimodo from the sanctuary of Notre Dame to the sin of the street faire. I go for his smile, for his enjoyment. More lies. I go for her: The Embermage. She is temptation. She is forbidden. She is sin—yet one I cannot resist. Her fire calls to a darkness deep within me, stirring feelings and urges that must remain buried. For months, I've watched from the safety of the crowd: to look, but to never, ever touch. Until one night, when I get far too close. She perceives me, beckons to me...

Mercy DeCorte was the good girl of the WNBA. With two rings, a thriving career, and an unblemished image, she didn't need someone like me in her corner, causing havoc. See me? I was the bad boy of the NBA, known to throw hands with anyone on and off the court. Associating with me would ruin Mercy's image. She knew that, but she didn't care.

In the quiet sanctity of St. Perseverance Cathedral, Father Cassian has devoted his life to faith and purity. But when Celeste steps into his life, she brings with her a temptation so all-consuming it threatens to shatter every vow he's ever made. She's no ordinary woman—her strength and confidence awaken something unholy in Cassian, forcing him into a dangerous spiral of self-flagellation, forbidden fantasies, and sinful indulgence.

In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time...

Saint: From the moment Zahra crossed my path, I knew she’d become my sweetest sin. Her vibe ran through me like Henny on ice, and she quickly became my new craving. I wasn’t looking for love, but I wasn’t running from it either. And one look at her had me ready to start forever. Zahra...

Do you ever worry that the insecurity and instability of the modern world will have a negative effect on your children as they get older? Maybe you're worried that the impact of social media will lead to your children feeling insecure about themselves, damaging their self-confidence and self-belief.

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird...

Ten years after a steamy college hook-up that neither of them has forgotten, Easton Mason and Maya Atler cross paths at a corporate conference in Las Vegas. Easton, now a personal injury attorney, is still the charming, happy-go-lucky guy with great hands that Maya remembers from University. While she, a soaring literary lawyer, remains the stubborn, ambitious go-getter with perfect legs that he's never quite been able to get out of his head.