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Best for readers who like flintlock fantasy, revolutions, military intrigue, and explosive magic systems.
Promise of Blood
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Grim Dark
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Called “the most fun” by Brent Weeks, Promise of Blood follows Field Marshal Tamas after a coup that topples a monarchy, sparks war, and leaves powder mages, an estranged son, and a blackmailed inspector facing unrest, rival powers, and rumors of waking gods, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 9,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like flintlock fantasy, revolutions, military intrigue, and explosive magic systems.
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In this thrilling first book of the Powder Mage Trilogy, civil unrest has crippled the citizens of Adro in the aftermath of the revolution that obliterated the monarchy—now, Field Marshal Tamas and his lieutenants must confront the true cost of freedom.
It's a bloody business overthrowing a king ...
Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.
It's up to a few ...
Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.
But when gods are involved ...
Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should ...
Winner of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut Fantasy.
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In a seaside town shaped by memory, rumor can spread as fast as blight.
The Sparrow Sisters
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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In a seaside town shaped by memory, rumor can spread as fast as blight. The Sparrow Sisters follows three women whose quiet, plant-laced lives are thrown into turmoil when fear, grief, and buried suspicion turn their community against them. This magical realism novel blends small-town tension, sisterhood, and a modern witch-hunt atmosphere with a romantic thread and a strong sense of place.
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Suspicion and rumor threaten the future for three unique sisters in a seaside town in this "haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale" (Sarah Addison Allen).
"If you're looking for a read a la Elin Hilderbrand with a touch of magic, look no further than The Sparrow Sisters, Ellen Herrick's wicked and romantic debut." —Sarah Jio, New York Times and USA Today–bestselling author
The Sparrow Sisters are as tightly woven into the New England seaside town of Granite Point as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls along the harbor. Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk.
When a new doctor settles into Granite Point, he brings with him a mystery so compelling that town healer Patience is drawn to love him even as she struggles to mend him. But her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear—and its three-hundred-year-old history resurfaces as a modern-day witch hunt threatens. The plants and flowers, fruit trees, and high hedges begin to wither and die, and the entire town begins to fail: fishermen return to the harbor empty-handed, and blight descends on the old elms that line the lanes.
It seems as if Patience and her town are lost until the women of Granite Point band together to save the Sparrows. As they gather, drawing strength from each other, will they be able to turn the tide and return life to Granite Point?
"A delightfully intriguing debut, gracefully paced and skillfully crafted. Evocative to the last page." —Susan Messner, author of Secrets of a Charmed Life
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A marriage already falling apart turns into something far more horrific when violence follows a woman even into the hospital room where she should have been safest.
While She Slept
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A marriage already falling apart turns into something far more horrific when violence follows a woman even into the hospital room where she should have been safest. While She Slept reconstructs the murder of Jill Cahill and the legal battle that followed, tracing not only the crime itself but the fierce debate over punishment, justice, and what her family was left to endure.
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The true crime story of a Syracuse man's 1998 murder of his wife in her hospital bed to ensure her silence and the trial that followed.
UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH…
By 1998, Jill and Jeff Cahill's marriage was already over. With a divorce pending, his life was in shambles. Then, a pre-dawn argument between them came to an end when Jeff crushed her skull with an aluminum baseball bat. Fearing her testimony in an assault trial, he slipped unnoticed into her Syracuse hospital room and gave her a dose of potassium cyanide, killing her instantly. It took the jury only five hours to find him guilty.
BUT THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE AGAINST JEFF CAHILL WAS JUST BEGINNING…
Jeff Cahill's trial would provoke one of the most passionate and furious debates about the death penalty in recent New York history leaving Jill Cahill's grief-stricken family survivors to wonder...
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO SEAL HER KILLER'S FATE AS SURELY AS HE HAD SEALED HERS?
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It fits readers who want moody island crime, procedural tension, and tightly held community secrets.
Fatal Isles
Mystery
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A brutal murder lands in a place where everyone knows everyone, and that makes every secret harder to hide. In Fatal Isles, Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby returns to Doggerland only to find herself tied to her boss’s dead ex-wife and a case that reaches into the island’s past. It fits readers who want moody island crime, procedural tension, and tightly held community secrets.
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SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
FEATURED IN THE TIMES' BEST CRIME BOOKS ROUND-UP
WINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2022
A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past . . .
In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.
Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years in London and has worked hard to become one of the few female police officers in Doggerland.
So, when she wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she's made a big mistake. But things are about to get worse: later that day, Jounas's ex-wife is found brutally murdered. And Karen is the only one who can give him an alibi.
The news sends shockwaves through the tight-knit island community, and with no leads and no obvious motive for the murder, Karen struggles to find the killer in a race against time.
Soon she starts to suspect that the truth might lie in Doggerland's history. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that even small islands can hide deadly secrets . . .
'This first novel in a proposed trilogy has terrific characters as well as effectively inventing a new
genre, Anglo-Nordic noir' JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES
'A cracking police procedural set in a richly described isolated island community' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'A suspenseful and intriguing story that combines the best of British crime writing tradition with Nordic noir. Doggerland is a unique and alluring universe that I can't wait to revisit' CAMILLA GREBE
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It fits readers who want wartime survival fused with folk horror and mounting dread.
The Sarvàn
Historical Fiction · Horror · Occult Horror
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War strips everything down, but the mountains hold a different kind of terror. In The Sarvàn, a group of Allied POWs escape a brutal German camp during World War I only to find themselves trapped in an alpine wilderness shaped by old customs, buried fear, and whispers of something hunting the snow. It fits readers who want wartime survival fused with folk horror and mounting dread.
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Midsommer meets All Quiet on the Western Front in this masterful blend of mystery, adventure, and folk-horror.
In the midst of the First World War, a handful of allied POWs escape the torments of Germany’s most brutal internment camp only to find themselves stranded deep in the merciless wilderness of the Alps.
The locals there are odd, and their traditions ancient. With hushed voices they whisper of a beast that roams the frozen mountains. They call it... The Sarvàn.
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It suits readers who want gothic romance steeped in menace and myth.
In the Garden of Monsters
Romantasy · Fairy Tale
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A woman who cannot remember her past finds herself drawn into a garden where myth, desire, and dread begin to blur. In In the Garden of Monsters, Julia Lombardi travels to postwar Italy as Salvador Dalí’s muse, only to find an unsettling host, whispered warnings, and a growing fear that her lost identity may be bound to Persephone herself. It suits readers who want gothic romance steeped in menace and myth.
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A Goodreads Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Book of Fall 2024
“A sinister romance and hypnotic Gothic fairytale—surreal and luscious with a fascinating twist on the story of Hades and Persephone.” —Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne
A woman with no past. A man who seems to know her. And a monstrous garden that could be the border between their worlds
Italy, 1948
Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can’t remember where she’s from, where she’s been or how she came to live in Rome. When she receives an offer to accompany celebrated eccentric artist Salvador Dalí to the Sacro Bosco—Italy’s Garden of Monsters—as his muse, she’s strangely compelled to accept. It could be a chance to unlock the truth about her past…
Shrouded in shadow, the garden full of giant statues that sometimes seem alive is far from welcoming. Still, from the moment of their arrival at the palazzo, Julia is inexplicably drawn to their darkly enigmatic host, Ignazio. He’s alluring yet terrifying—and he seems to know her.
Posing for Dalí as the goddess Persephone, Julia finds the work to be perplexing, particularly as Dalí descends deeper into his fanaticism. To him, she is Persephone, and he insists she must eat pomegranate seeds to rejoin her king.
Between Dalí’s fevered persistence, Ignazio’s uncanny familiarity and the agonizing whispered warnings that echo through the garden, Julia is soon on the verge of unraveling. And she begins to wonder if she’s truly the mythical queen of the Underworld…
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An abandoned ship promises refuge, but the dead it carries are only the beginning of the danger.
Salvation Day
Sci-Fi · Horror · First Contact · Space Exploration
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An abandoned ship promises refuge, but the dead it carries are only the beginning of the danger. Salvation Day follows a desperate mission to seize a long-lost exploration vessel, only to uncover a buried threat that turns survival into a race against infection, secrecy, and collapse. This is science-fiction horror built on isolation, contagion, and the suffocating tension of waking something that should have stayed dormant.
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A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller.
They thought the ship would be their salvation.
Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya—the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship.
But what Zahra and her crew could not know was what waited for them on the ship—a terrifying secret buried by the government. A threat to all of humanity that lay sleeping alongside the orbiting dead.
And then they woke it up.
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Faith, murder, and political chaos collide when a routine assassination starts unraveling far larger problems.
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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Faith, murder, and political chaos collide when a routine assassination starts unraveling far larger problems. Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead follows a deadly church operative sent to eliminate a princess at a grand religious council, only to find corruption, resurrection, and theological danger waiting inside. This is dark fantasy with sharp intrigue, moral instability, and the dry intelligence of a story that treats belief as both weapon and threat.
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From World Fantasy Award-winning author K.J. Parker comes a devilishly clever tale of murder, intrigue, and existential crisis.
Not even the Church of the Invincible Sun is invincible – and somebody has to do its dirty work. Enter Sister Svangerd and her accompanying priest, both first-rate practitioners. Their mission is simple: to make a meddlesome princess disappear (permanently).
To get to her, they must attend the legendary Ecumenical Council, the once-in-a-century convening of the greatest spiritual minds the world has to offer. But when they arrive, they find instead a den of villainy that would make the most hardened criminal blush.
To complicate matters further, it appears that some people who were definitely grim reapered might be not quite dead after all. What began as a little assassination is about to escalate into a theological debate with terrifying consequences for everyone.
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As Europe edges toward war, suspicion spreads faster than loyalty and no one in intelligence can be trusted.
Every Spy a Traitor
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller · World War 2
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As Europe edges toward war, suspicion spreads faster than loyalty and no one in intelligence can be trusted. Every Spy a Traitor follows a young British writer drawn into a hunt for Soviet agents, only to find himself trapped in a world of divided allegiances and shifting identities. This is historical spy fiction with mounting paranoia, political danger, and the moral instability that defines the best espionage novels.
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A Financial Times Best Book of 2024'One of the superstars of modern spy fiction' Daily Express
'One of the best spy novels I've read' I. S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow
'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station
Trust no one. Suspect everyone.
It's 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin's Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is.
As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent 'Archie', and there's a frantic search to find them. What they don't know is that he is not the only traitor.
The life of Charles Cooper, a young British writer travelling Europe to research his novel, is about to change for ever
The thrilling first novel in Alex Gerlis' new Double Agent espionage series, perfect for fans of Charles Cumming and Mick Herron.
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Violence feels even more disturbing when it comes from someone no one believed capable of it.
A Need to Kill
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Violence feels even more disturbing when it comes from someone no one believed capable of it. A Need to Kill examines the murder of a family through the confession, writings, and behavior of a teenage killer whose apparent normalcy only deepens the horror. This is true crime centered on psychology, motive, and aftermath, with a grim focus on the mind behind an unthinkable act.
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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Alec Krieder knew his best friend's family never locked their doors—making Kevin Haines and his family the perfect targets for a crime. One night, he waited until they were asleep…then entered the house with a knife. Alec burst into the master bedroom and stabbed Tom and Lisa Haines first. Then he attacked Kevin, who fought for his life. Meanwhile, at the end of the hall, Kevin's sister Maggie awoke to the sound of violence—and was the only one who made it out alive.
Clean-cut and academically gifted, Alec seemed to have no motives, no history of psychosis—and no remorse. Some believed he was a serial killer in the making, a soulless monster plagued by "demons." Now, for the first time, acclaimed author Michael W. Cuneo shares the inside story—with shocking details of Alec's confession to his father, disturbing messages to his classmates, and chilling excerpts from his diaries—and takes you inside the dark, troubled mind of this teenage killer.
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The Beginning of the End turns the apocalypse into a personal record of grief, dread, and collapse as one man documents the last days of civilization.
The Beginning of the End
Dystopian · Horror
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The Beginning of the End turns the apocalypse into a personal record of grief, dread, and collapse as one man documents the last days of civilization. After a strange outbreak escalates into a zombie pandemic, a widowed lawyer watches order disintegrate through the lens of his anonymous blog. This is zombie horror with a grounded voice, escalating chaos, and a stark survival focus.
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The dead rise…
A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men.
Humanity falls…
A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy. Bur he never expected that his anonymous blog would ultimately record humanity’s last days.
The end of the world has begun…
Governments scramble to stop the zombie virus, people panic, so-called “Safe Havens” are established, the world erupts into chaos; soon it’s every man, woman, and child for themselves. Armed only with makeshift weapons and the will to live, a lone survivor will give mankind one last chance against…
Apocalypse Z
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Fixed Asset drops a reckless operative and the man who cannot stop trying to protect her into a mission where desire keeps colliding with danger.
Fixed Asset
Romance
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Fixed Asset drops a reckless operative and the man who cannot stop trying to protect her into a mission where desire keeps colliding with danger. When Catarina Keys takes a risky intel job in Honduras, Jack Donovan is pulled back into her orbit and into a larger conspiracy. This is a military romantic suspense with sharp chemistry, high-stakes action, and a heroine who refuses to be handled.
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From USA Today bestselling author Riley Edwards comes a steamy, action-packed romance where danger and desire fuel a high-stakes game neither party is prepared to lose.
Catarina Keys doesn’t play it safe—and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. A free agent now, she takes a risky mission in Honduras, delivering high-stakes intel to a woman with an ironclad reputation. Reckless? Absolutely. But the peril of her current situation isn’t all that’s on her mind. She’s dangerously preoccupied with burning thoughts of him.
After a successful op together last year in Vegas, ex-Navy SEAL Jack Donovan thought leaving Catarina behind was the right move. It wasn’t. Now she’s back in the line of fire, and he can’t decide whether to save or spank her delectable ass. But first, he vows to uncover her mission. And whoever’s behind it.
When their paths cross again, they realize they’re pawns in a much bigger game. Jack’s desperate to protect her, but Catarina won’t give up her freedom. As the heat intensifies, will they play by the rules…or risk losing it all?
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