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When a stranded bomber crew boards an abandoned alien ship, survival turns into a descent into something far worse.
The Dark Ship
Horror · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi
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When a stranded bomber crew boards an abandoned alien ship, survival turns into a descent into something far worse. Captain Jeff Austin leads the last survivors deeper into the vessel in search of answers, only to find a hostile presence and horrors buried at its core. This sci-fi horror pick leans into isolation, pursuit, and the terror of exploring something that was never meant to be found.
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Captain Jeff Austin and his crew are stranded in the interstellar void after their bomber is destroyed. Their last hope is a giant alien spacecraft floating abandoned in space. But not long after gaining access, the crew’s worst fears are confirmed: they are not alone on board, and soon their lives are under threat from sinister aliens. There seems to be only one way out: Jeff sets off with the last survivors to the distant center of the ship to uncover the dark secrets of its extraterrestrial inhabitants. But nothing can prepare them for the horror that awaits them deep inside The Black Ship. Sci-Fi-Horror for fans of Alien, Event Horizon and Pandorum.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction and mythology retellings centered on women usually pushed to the margins of epic stories.
The Silence of the Girls
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Briseis, once a queen, becomes Achilles' captive after the Greeks destroy her city and must survive life among the conquered women of the Greek camp as the Trojan War moves toward its end, with a 3.9-star average from more than 120,900 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction and mythology retellings centered on women usually pushed to the margins of epic stories.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award • Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times
Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again.
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Charles Handy looks back from ninety with the kind of perspective most of us are still fumbling toward, offering thoughtful reflections on purpose, grief, acceptance, and what actually…
The View from Ninety
Biographies & Memoirs
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Charles Handy looks back from ninety with the kind of perspective most of us are still fumbling toward, offering thoughtful reflections on purpose, grief, acceptance, and what actually deserves our attention. The View from Ninety is less about grand life hacks and more about the quieter work of building a meaningful, contented life, drawing on decades of experience with warmth, wisdom, and a welcome lack of nonsense.
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FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE EMPTY RAINCOAT AND UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS.
A Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025
Over a span of seven decades, Charles Handy was, variously, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher. Not even a stroke as he approached the age of 90 dimmed his intellectual curiosity or his immense zest for life.
In this, his final book, written from the vantage point of a contemplative old age and drawing on his articles for The Idler he shares his thoughts on the big questions with which we all grapple:
What things really matter?
What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant?
How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us?
How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? How do we cope with grief and loss?
Drawing in part on his own experience, in part on the wisdom of others, he sets out the principles of enjoying a fulfilled and contented life, and gently points the way to the practicalities of achieving it.
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Trespasser drops Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into a disappearance that looks wrong from the start and only gets darker the deeper he digs.
Trespasser
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Trespasser drops Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into a disappearance that looks wrong from the start and only gets darker the deeper he digs. What begins as a missing woman case turns into a brutal tangle of old secrets, possible wrongful conviction, and the kind of investigation that makes powerful people very nervous. This mystery brings sharp suspense, small-town tension, and a hero who refuses to leave bad answers alone.
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In Paul Doiron's riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before.
While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road—but both the driver and the deer have vanished. And the state trooper assigned to the accident appears strangely unconcerned.
The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, a jury convicted lobsterman Erland Jefferts of the rape and murder of a wealthy college student and sentenced him to life in prison. For all but his most fanatical defenders, justice was served. But when the missing woman is found brutalized in a manner that suggests Jefferts may have been framed, Bowditch receives an ominous warning from state prosecutors to stop asking questions.
For Bowditch, whose own life was recently shattered by a horrific act of violence, doing nothing is not an option. His clandestine investigation reopens old wounds between Maine locals and rich summer residents and puts both his own life and that of the woman he loves in jeopardy. As he closes in on his quarry, he suddenly discovers how dangerous his opponents are, and how far they will go to prevent him from bringing a killer to justice.
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The Unsuitable is the kind of gothic story that smiles politely right before everything goes deeply off the rails.
The Unsuitable
Horror · Romance · Thriller
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The Unsuitable is the kind of gothic story that smiles politely right before everything goes deeply off the rails. With a heroine convinced her dead mother lives in the scar on her neck, a parade of terrible suitors, and a courtship that only gets stranger from there, this one blends Victorian manners, dark humor, and creeping madness into something deliciously unsettling.
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Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment.
Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck.
Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands—a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver—a true comedy of errors ensues.
As history's least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult's mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check.
As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.
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The Best Man: Unfinished Business brings Harper, Jordan, and Robyn back for a messy, emotional second act full of old wounds, complicated love, and the kind of friendships…
The Best Man
Romance
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The Best Man: Unfinished Business brings Harper, Jordan, and Robyn back for a messy, emotional second act full of old wounds, complicated love, and the kind of friendships that refuse to let anyone fall apart alone. Sexy, soulful, and full of drama, this one digs into heartbreak, healing, and what happens when the past refuses to stay put.
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The beloved characters from The Best Man movies and hit television series reunite for a sexy and soulful, heartbreaking and hilarious reckoning of love.
Recently divorced and fresh off a Pulitzer Prize win, Harper Stewart is in a new era. He’s working on a movie and living the ultimate bachelor life in his Brooklyn penthouse. But still, something is missing. What else explains the stubborn creative block? The carousel of women? And seventh-wheel status with his friends?
Jordan Armstrong had to flee New York. First, to give herself distance from Harper and, second, to escape the corporate grind. In her beachfront Malibu property, the façade of a “healed” Jordan flourishes. Yet she finds herself unmoored. Despite the physical distance, she still feels Harper’s magnetic pull.
Meanwhile, in Ghana, Robyn has gone full bohemian restaurateur. She has finally found peace and won’t let another man ruin it—that is, until a handsome local entrepreneur commands her attention. But it’s all too much change for her daughter, Mia, and when she secretly calls Harper with an emergency Robyn would rather hide, their world is shaken and relationships are tested once more.
Book one of The Best Man trilogy follows Harper, Jordan, and Robyn as they try to establish lives away from the hurts of the past and come to realize that some love is impossible to break. With support from their close-knit crew of chosen family—Quentin, Shelby, Lance, Murch, and Candace—they fight for a future that proves one’s second act can be the extended chapter worth it all.
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The Beautiful Ashes opens with a woman who has spent her life questioning her own mind, only to learn that the things haunting her are terrifyingly real.
The Beautiful Ashes
Romantasy · Urban Fantasy
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The Beautiful Ashes opens with a woman who has spent her life questioning her own mind, only to learn that the things haunting her are terrifyingly real. When Ivy’s sister vanishes into a demonic realm, she must trust a dangerous rebel whose fate is tied to betrayal. This paranormal romance blends supernatural danger, forbidden desire, and apocalyptic stakes.
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In this New Adult paranormal romance by New York Times–bestselling author, a young woman begins an epic quest to rescue her sister from demons.
Ivy has always seen things that she cannot explain. Strange things. Otherworldly things. But when her sister goes missing, Ivy discovers the truth is far worse—her hallucinations are real, and her sister is imprisoned in a realm beyond Ivy's reach. The one person who can help her is the dangerously attractive rebel who's bound by an ancient legacy to betray her.
The fate Adrian has fought to escape is here—but he never expected the burning need he feels for Ivy. With destiny on one side and desire on the other, Adrian must help Ivy search for the powerful relic that can save her sister. Yet he knows what Ivy doesn't: the truth about her own destiny, and a war that could destroy the world. Sooner or later, it will be Ivy on one side, Adrian on the other, and nothing but ashes in between . . .
Originally published in 2014
Praise for The Beautiful Ashes
"Frost's fast-paced paranormal romantic thriller is a pure stunner. . . . Frost skillfully balances passion and peril in an attention-grabbing story that's exciting from the first page. The mythos is intriguing and inventive. Readers will hungrily anticipate the next installment." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Answering a distress call in deep space is already a terrible idea, and Contagion wastes no time proving it.
Contagion
Sci-Fi · Horror · Teen + Young Adult
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Answering a distress call in deep space is already a terrible idea, and Contagion wastes no time proving it. What starts as a routine rescue mission turns into a nightmare when the crew arrives to find a distant planet full of corpses and something deadly still lurking in the wreckage. Fast, creepy, and packed with survival tension, this YA sci-fi horror delivers monsters, mystery, and plenty of reasons to keep the lights on.
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Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery
Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy.
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.
When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried—and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CONTAGION:
“Gripping, thrilling and terrifying in equal measures, Contagion is the perfect intersection of science fiction and horror—I couldn’t look away.”—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae and Unearthed
“Few understand the true horror that lies in the empty unknown of space, but Erin Bowman nails it in Contagion. Read this one with the lights on!”—Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe series and Star Wars: Rebel Rising
“Erin Bowman’s Contagion is everything I want in my science fiction: a cast of smart characters on a desperate rescue mission forced to confront an elusive and unstoppable enemy. I absolutely loved this layered and thrilling adventure and can’t wait to dive back into this world again.”—Veronica Rossi, New York Times bestselling author of the Under the Never Sky series
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Going to Europa in search of life already feels risky.
Europa
Horror · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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Going to Europa in search of life already feels risky. Discovering something ancient, trapped, and absolutely not friendly makes it much worse. Europa sends a mission beneath the moon’s frozen surface and into a nightmare waiting in the dark, turning scientific discovery into a brutal fight to survive. Cold, claustrophobic, and full of mounting dread, this is space horror built to keep the pressure on.
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The first mission to Europa—Jupiter's enigmatic moon—has landed, and humanity’s darkest fears are about to awaken.
For years, mankind has speculated that this frozen world harbors a hidden ocean twice the size of all Earth’s oceans combined—an ocean potentially teeming with life.
Driven by this tantalizing mystery, they venture forth to unlock its secrets. But what they discover in the abyssal depths is far beyond anything they could have imagined.
Nearly four hundred million miles from Earth, their search for life has succeeded. But in their triumph, they overlook the most terrifying truth: what they have found is something far older and more horrifying than they ever could have conceived. Something has been trapped in the dark for eons—watching, and waiting, for them.
Now, the crew stands at the threshold of unimaginable terror, realizing too late that Hell, in its purest form, is cold.
EUROPA: A brutal, heart-stopping descent into deep space horror by international bestselling author Greig Beck.
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Finding a new planet to colonize is supposed to feel like humanity finally getting a win.
Dark Sands
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Exploration
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Finding a new planet to colonize is supposed to feel like humanity finally getting a win. Then night falls and DARK SANDS makes it very clear that Cahros has other plans. What starts as a hopeful expedition into a seemingly lifeless desert turns into a fight for survival against whatever is hiding beneath all that orange sand. Tense, eerie, and full of creeping danger, this is sci-fi horror that knows barren planets are never actually empty.
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DARK SANDS is a finalist for the 2025 Aurealis Awards Best Science Fiction Novel - Australia's most prestigious speculative fiction literary award!
Humanity has spent years surveying the depths of space, searching for another planet like Earth.
In Cahros, they might have found one.
Among the first wave of specialists deployed to the planet is Tarlo, a young and optimistic biologist who has spent his life dreaming of adventure among the stars. For all his excitement, he feels a little out of his depth – everyone around him seems so much smarter, stronger, and better equipped to deal with whatever challenges may lie ahead.
The team finally sets down on Cahros, but is surprised to learn that the planet is home only to a barren, lifeless desert. All is quiet.
That is, until night falls.
A nightmarish series of events leave Tarlo and the remaining colonists struggling to survive in a world that is so much more than a benign sea of orange. Here on Cahros, nothing is as it seems, and deep within these endless deserts lie untold, deadly secrets.
There’s something out there… in the sands…
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Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
2389
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror · Sci-Fi
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A luxury amusement park on the moon sounds fun right up until it sends out a distress call and then goes completely silent. 2389 takes that already terrible setup and runs with it, sending a team into Grand Galaxies to find out what went wrong and uncovering something far worse than a broken ride. Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
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The happiest place in the galaxy just sent out a distress call...
Grand Galaxies is the most expensive amusement park ever created, built on the surface of the moon. For decades, rich families and honeymooning couples have gone there to have the time of their lives and no one has ever returned disappointed...
But communication with the moon has been lost.
Someone needs to go up there and see what’s wrong.
A unique and terrifying experience by a master of the genre. Sci-fi meets horror head on with the terrifying 2389. Grab your copy now and experience the fear for yourself.
"Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me." - J.A.Konrath
"Iain Rob Wright is sick and twisted!" - David Moody.
"Cuddle up to this novel and it might rip your throat out. A fun, thrilling read!" David T. Wilbanks - Co-author of Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road
"One of the BEST horror books I have read in YEARS!" - Eric S. Brown, author of Last Stand in a Dead Land.
"Iain Rob Wright brings true excitement to the horror genre, with wholly original stories and characters to route for." - Ryan C Thomas, author of Hissers, Rating's Game, and Origin of Pain.
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Ideal for readers looking for space opera that combines artificial intelligence, cosmic horror, scientific ambition, and an autistic protagonist.
The Outside
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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Autistic scientist Yasira Shien develops an energy drive that could change humanity’s future, but its activation warps reality and destroys a space station. The AI Gods ruling the galaxy offer to spare her if she helps them track down her vanished mentor. Ideal for readers looking for space opera that combines artificial intelligence, cosmic horror, scientific ambition, and an autistic protagonist.
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Humanity’s super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI Gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents. Instead of simply executing her, they offer mercy – if she’ll help them hunt down a bigger target: her own mysterious, vanished mentor. With her homeworld’s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.
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