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Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a dash of Philip Pullman - The Oxenbridge King is a delight, a true original. Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven; a lonely angel; and a young woman called Molly...

All Abigail wants is a little extra help around the house when her husband’s at work. She believes that a nanny is just what she needs to let her be a better mother and get back to work. At first, her husband isn’t so sure. But after Abigail gets what she wants and hires Haley to take care of her daughter, she knows that her life is about to get better. She can work. Get a full night’s sleep. Be the mother she wants to be.

Inspired by a tragically true story, homicide Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz gets the call early one morning to respond to the McLean District Sub Station where two of her fellow Fairfax County Police officers have been shot and killed in the lobby by a gunman who fled. Paired with her partner, the salty veteran detective Bob Craig, the two start with victimology, motive, and physical evidence. Nothing jumps out at them quickly except this one is going to take time.

In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway. With a little help from their friends including a brave teenager and a mysterious hacker, these darling rebels fight government intervention and find chosen family in this eerily prescient tale.

Con O'Brien returned to Ireland to help solve a medical mystery that could destroy his brother's life. He brought along his new girlfriend, Neve, to introduce her to his family and the country he calls home—and to put an ocean between her and the dangers still lurking in Washington, DC.

Psychotherapist Neve Keane knew that returning to work at the hospital after being stabbed by a patient would be difficult. But entering her unit only to be surrounded by a crowd of people claiming they need her help to stop the apocalypse—that’s more than she bargained for.

The Power, granted to the Chosen, is that stands between the dark mage Dirkk and the ravage of Daradawn. Dirkk has not been idle of the seven years the rift has been closed. With the help of Dadaodh, the demon who lives inside the emerald dagger, he is again ready to challenge Queen Tessa for all of Daradawn. To this end he has conjured new dark beings to aid him: fenris’ena, once mountian wolves, now large beasts who hear only his words, and etain’daman, fairie demons with razor-sharp wing edges and poisoned talons.

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?

Sarah Charles hadn’t slept for more than three hours without dying in the past two weeks. In her 28 years of life, she’d never even had a bad dream. Many friends called her a little Pollyanna, and sometimes not in a flattering way. Sarah couldn’t help it. She was a positive person, always seeking the bright side of things. But even Sarah couldn’t find anything positive about being burned at the stake night after night.

Kelsey Cafferty has been dead for seven years, or so her sister Regan believes, until a stranger with a blue flame upon his cheek, identical to the one on her shoulder, shows up on her doorstep. The man, Peter Canterville, tells Regan that he is a mage from Daradawn, chosen by the Power at birth and marked with the blue flame, as is she. Kelsey isn't dead, the man claims; she has become a warrior and fights for Queen Tessa, against the dark mage, Dirkk, a battle they are losing. Regan must come with him through the rift into Daradawn to save his world and her sister, Kelsey.

Spirits talk to Dakota Lee. They have since she was twelve years old. Now an adult, she is happy with her life as the owner of, Sugar Babies, a small bakery in the quiet town of Santa Mesa, California. Dakota has accepted her gift for the most part and learned to deal with the sometimes demanding spirits.

Eva, only 10, has known a hard life. Her mother, Mary, had an illicit relationship with the son of a wealthy merchant and found herself pregnant and alone, Eva's father wanting nothing to do with them. Mary married a cruel man, who never let Mary forget that Eva wasn't his daughter.
When Mary and Eva are forced to live on the streets, Eva makes a choice to find her father.

After a tragic accident, James quits his job at a law firm and sells his house. Unable to deal with constant reminders, he also severs ties with his family. Attempting to start his life over, James takes a job as a cook at Second Breakfast, spending his days cooking and his evenings drinking himself to sleep.

Marti Rushing gets the message, loud and clear. If she returns to Texas, her life is in danger. If she stays in Tennessee, she’s safe. But when she receives a letter telling her that Daniel, her ex-husband and the love of her life, is dying, she knows she has to defy the stalker and return to Texas to see him.

Katy Lynne was in the wrong place at the wrong time. An accident resulting in a coma. She thought it was all just a dream but when her friends begin disappearing one at a time, on her trip home from school spring break, she learns something altogether different. Now she must fight to live. Two stories in one, Lynne's dream world and the one where her best friend is begging her to come back. Will Lynne wake up or will she take her last breath without even knowing it?

Computer expert Lexi Wynn is frightened. Someone is after her, but she doesn’t know why. Is it because of her past or because she was thrust into a deadly bank robbery and might identify the ones responsible? Escaping a failed kidnapping attempt and not sure who to trust, she hopes her specialized skills with computers might flush out the name of the killer.

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the...

Louisa Mantalos doesn’t feel capable of murder. But her husband, indie rock star Dave Ash, has been missing for six months. Everyone in New York assumes she killed him. A popular true crime podcast is covering the case, and asking intrusive questions about Louisa's criminal past. And Louisa has a medical condition affecting her memory, she can’t recall what happened the night Dave vanished.

Detective Megan Nell is a 7 year veteran of the Greensburg, North Carolina Police Department. She has spent the last three years in the Homicide Division, with her partner, Detective Greg Mallard, at her side. Together they investigate a string of bodies found floating in a secluded lake on the outskirts of their small but vibrant town. With events she never predicted, Megan ends up in a fight for her life. Will the sins of her father’s crimes come back for her?

Detective Megan Mallard and her team get a gruesome and unwelcome blast from the past. A brutal killer slithers back into their small and usually welcoming town seven years after the murder of Detective Heather White. Can Megan handle the news that shakes the dynamic of her entire unit to its very core?