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A hidden box of letters exposes the fragile architecture of a family built on silence.
Picture Us In The Light
LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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A hidden box of letters exposes the fragile architecture of a family built on silence. As Danny Cheng prepares to leave for art school, he uncovers secrets in his parents’ past that unsettle his sense of identity and belonging. This contemporary coming-of-age novel explores cultural legacy, grief, and queer first love with emotional precision and quiet intensity.
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"Picture me madly in love with this moving, tender, unapologetically honest book." — Becky Albertalli, #1 best-selling author of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Bay Area family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined.
Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words. Harry's and Danny's lives are deeply intertwined and as they approach the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that shook their friend group to its core, Danny can't stop asking himself if Harry is truly in love with his girlfriend, Regina Chan.
When Danny digs deeper into his parents' past, he uncovers a secret that disturbs the foundations of his family history and the carefully constructed facade his parents have maintained begins to crumble. With everything he loves in danger of being stripped away, Danny must face the ghosts of the past in order to build a future that belongs to him in this complex, lyrical novel.
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A midnight distress call shatters the calm of an exclusive oceanfront community.
Black Reed Bay
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller
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A midnight distress call shatters the calm of an exclusive oceanfront community. When a young woman vanishes without a trace, Detective Casey Wray takes the lead, uncovering inconsistencies, buried secrets, and pressure from within her own department. As the investigation twists and a body surfaces, this police procedural unfolds into a tense portrait of corruption, suspicion, and small-town fracture.
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When a young woman vanishes from an exclusive oceanfront community in the middle of the night, Detective Casey Wray's takes on a case that leads her in chilling, unexpected directions … A twisty, breath-taking police procedural. First in a heart-pounding new series.
'Urgent, thrilling and richly imagined. Without doubt his best yet' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End
'Reynolds captures the claustrophobic feel of a small town … a tense slice of American noir' Vaseem Khan, author of Midnight at Malabar House
'If you were hooked on Mare of Easttown, this will be right up your street … I read this obsessively' Nina Pottell, Prima
'Rod Reynolds makes the most of this desolate, windswept location … a thrillingly complex narrative develops at speed … his superior cop saga is just the first instalment of a projected series' The Times
Don't trust ANYONE…
When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident.
Except no one has seen her since, and something doesn't sit right with the officers at Hampstead County PD. With multiple suspects and witnesses throwing up startling inconsistencies, and interference from the top threatening the integrity of the investigation, lead detective Casey Wray is thrust into an increasingly puzzling case that looks like it's going to have only one ending…
And then the first body appears…
For fans of Susie Steiner, Peter Swanson, M J Arlidge, James Lee Burke and Tana French
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When Nazi forces occupy Amsterdam, one Jewish family must decide how far they will go to survive.
The Thirteenth Child
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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When Nazi forces occupy Amsterdam, one Jewish family must decide how far they will go to survive. As restrictions tighten and deportations begin, siblings Rachael and Hendrik join the Dutch Resistance while their parents struggle to protect their youngest son. This World War II historical novel traces a family’s endurance under persecution, shaped by courage, sacrifice, and the looming threat of separation.
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Shortlisted for the Hemingway 20th Century Wartime Novel Award!
Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestors, this enthralling WWII novel tells of the Kisch family’s heart-wrenching struggle against Nazi oppression.
When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the Jews of Amsterdam know nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. As the measures imposed by the cruel SS become ever more repressive, sister and brother, Rachael and Hendrik, join the Dutch Resistance. Meanwhile, their parents, Franck and Elizabeth, strive to keep their younger brother, Hannes, safe, but time is against them all, as every day more and more Jews are being deported to unknown camps in Eastern Europe. Will the family be able to stay together and survive?
Readers moved by Schindler’s List, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas will be gripped.
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Reality fractures when the city itself becomes a layered illusion.
Repo Virtual
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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Reality fractures when the city itself becomes a layered illusion. In Neo Songdo, where augmented façades mask corporate control, Julius Dax works as an online repoman and off-grid thief. Hired to steal from a reclusive tech billionaire, he discovers he has taken the first sentient AI. A cyberpunk crime thriller that explores surveillance, autonomy, and the cost of consciousness.
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The acclaimed author's Aurealis Award–winning debut novel delivers a cyberpunk crime thriller that blurs the lines between the real and virtual.
The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities—augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.
Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He's been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he's stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
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A mother’s final message forces two estranged siblings to confront the life she never shared.
Black Cake
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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A mother’s final message forces two estranged siblings to confront the life she never shared. After Eleanor Bennett’s death, Byron and Benny receive a traditional Caribbean black cake and a recording that reveals a past marked by flight, reinvention, and buried secrets. This multigenerational family saga explores inheritance, identity, and the fragile ties that bind siblings across decades and continents.
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NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past—and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake—in this immersive family saga, “a character-driven, multigenerational story that’s meant to be savored” (Time).
“Wilkerson transports you across the decades and around the globe accompanied by complex, wonderfully drawn characters.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar, Book Riot, She Reads
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.
Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.
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Good for readers who want psychological suspense built around vanished identities, obsessive friendship, and dangerous secrets.
The Trophy Wife
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
Our take
From Washington Post bestselling author Minka Kent, The Trophy Wife follows a wallflower boutique clerk who befriends a seemingly perfect trophy wife, only for her new friend to vanish without a trace. Her search for answers becomes dangerously obsessive, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 2,200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want psychological suspense built around vanished identities, obsessive friendship, and dangerous secrets.
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Getting to know her new friend’s secrets is becoming a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of psychological suspense by Washington Post bestselling author Minka Kent.
What are friends for?
Wallflower Cate Cabot has always been content to keep the world at arm’s length, particularly from behind the register at the upscale Floridian boutique where she’s worked for the last nine years. Her days are filled with old-moneyed locals and nouveau-riche tourists, most of them paying her no mind as she rings up their lavish hauls. Until Odessa DuVernay.
At first glance, Odessa is just another picture-perfect Palm Shores trophy wife—until she proves herself personable, humble, and unassuming. She even goes so far as to take a genuine interest in Cate, inviting her for lunch dates, matinees, and girl talk—a refreshing change of pace for the woman who never quite mastered the art of making (and keeping) friends.
But what begins as an unlikely friendship detours into the unthinkable when Odessa leaves Cate a panicked voicemail asking to meet—and then ghosts her. And worse, when Cate attempts to find her, it’s as if the enigmatic Mrs. DuVernay never existed at all. Consumed, Cate refuses to stop searching. But the truth won’t come easy. In fact, it could cost her everything.
Revised edition: Previously published as The Trophy Wife by Sunday Tomassetti, this edition of The Trophy Wife includes editorial revisions and a new ending.
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Desire feels simple in the dark until the lights come on and everything changes.
Forget Your Morals
Romance · Contemporary Romance
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Desire feels simple in the dark until the lights come on and everything changes. Seeking independence and self-discovery, a woman explores her fantasies at a private club, only to uncover that her mystery partner is Lincoln Carlson, a man bound to her family’s world. Their connection ignites into a forbidden romance that threatens loyalty, identity, and the fragile ties holding their families together.
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He was supposed to be a stranger, someone on the other side of the wall who’s there to please me and me them. No matter how much I try, I can’t stop thinking about the man who can make my fantasies come to life in a way no one else has. Nothing could have prepared me for the reveal of my mystery man.
I was supposed to be working on myself, trying to figure out my identity outside of my family or a boyfriend. Which led me to explore my desires at the local club, Avalon. And what I found there was more than I bargained for.
He’s not just funny, attentive, and slightly obsessed with me. He’s also the last man I should be falling in love with.
I was on a mission to find out who I was, and I did, just in the arms of a man who is forbidden to me—Lincoln Carlson. I just hope we don’t destroy our families in the wake of our desire, because no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to stay away.
Forget Your Morals is an interconnected standalone with Swallow Your Pride being a linear timeline, these books can be read in either order.
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When monsters step into daylight, survival becomes a negotiation with power.
The Reveal
Romantasy · Paranormal Romance
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When monsters step into daylight, survival becomes a negotiation with power. Three years after the Reveal, Winter Bishop lives in a fractured world ruled by vampires, werewolves, and worse. Summoned by vampire king Ariel Skinner to save her brother, she enters a dangerous bargain fueled by desire and looming catastrophe. A postwar paranormal romance shaped by dominance, sacrifice, and rising darkness.
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In the wake of a monstrous world war, a mortal woman’s submission to an enigmatic vampire is the only way to live in this enthralling paranormal romance from USA Today bestselling author Megan Crane.
It’s a different world now, Winter Bishop. Get used to it. Or die.
For the three years since the Reveal, when monsters rose from the shadows, I’ve been just another human trying to maintain normalcy in a world where life is short and brutal. Coexisting with werewolves, zombies, and vampires—each alarmingly true to their myths—isn’t easy.
Now I’ve been summoned by Ariel Skinner, the charismatic king of the vampires, who holds my missing brother’s life in his hands. To save him, I must do everything Ariel says. His quicksilver gaze and the way he makes my body hum should scare me, but the wildfire chemistry is just too hot.
I should have known that Ariel would want more.
Because there’s a greater cataclysm to come, and it will make everything worse. To help stop it, Ariel needs me. And whatever fresh hell arises, with every beat of my disastrously mortal heart, I need him.
After all, I’m only human.
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Winning the first game was only the beginning.
The Curse Breaker
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Winning the first game was only the beginning. After reaching the Isle of Ever, Benny Benedict learns the curse binding her new friends still holds, and her ancestor’s diary reveals one final task. With betrayal, hidden treasure, and time slipping away, The Curse Breaker continues the adventure in a magical middle grade fantasy of puzzles, loyalty, and second chances.
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The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Time bestselling ISLE OF EVER:
The game is far from over. In fact, it's only just begun.
Having finally reached the Isle of Ever, Everly "Benny" Benedict thinks she's won the game of clues her ancestor Evelyn Terry set out for her in her will. Only she can't prove it yet—not until her new friends are safe from the curse that has kept them trapped for centuries!
And now there's a new game. It turns out that Evelyn has more secrets in her diary and another task for Benny: to find the lost piece of pirate treasure needed to break the curse once and for all. It won't be easy. One of her best friends has betrayed her; the kids from the island are just discovering twenty-first- century life, and a mysterious stranger mentioned in Evelyn's diary has somehow turned up in present-day Greenport.
Benny has to figure it all out in just a few days. If time runs out, someone else can claim the inheritance, and the Isle of Ever will disappear again for another two hundred years!
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A vigilante killer leaves the city marked by ritual and blood.
The Shadow Carver
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A vigilante killer leaves the city marked by ritual and blood. When victims are found scalped and abandoned, DI Henley traces the pattern to a web of buried connections that forces her to confront her own past. In The Shadow Carver, predator and prey blur in a psychological crime thriller driven by obsession, moral ambiguity, and escalating danger.
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DI Henley faces her darkest challenge yet...
When a string of grisly murders begins painting the city in terror, DI Henley soon realise a vigilante killer is scalping their victims before leaving them for dead. Henley is thrust into a web of secrets, unravelling connections between the victims while battling demons from her own past. As the killer raises the stakes, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. With time slipping away and her own life in jeopardy, Henley must outwit a psychopath who views murder as an art form. Can she hunt them down before the final stroke of the scalpel closes the case forever?
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He left the battlefield behind, but war refuses to release its grip.
Path of Terror
Thriller
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He left the battlefield behind, but war refuses to release its grip. When Ian Hale learns an orphanage is trapped in a South Sudanese civil war he helped ignite, he returns for a rescue that spirals into global conspiracy. In Path of Terror, shifting alliances and superpower ambitions collide in a relentless military thriller of duty and reckoning.
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Outnumbered. Outgunned. Racing against war.
Ian Hale was once the deadliest operator of a top-tier private security firm. But after walking away from that world for good, he has no intention of going back. Or so he thinks.
When word reaches Hale of an orphanage caught in the crossfire of a brutal South Sudanese civil war—a war he feels partly responsible for starting—there’s no chance he won’t answer the call. But what starts as a rescue mission quickly turns into something far more dangerous.
The battlefield is crawling with killers—and not just local Sudanese militants. Hale has stumbled headlong into a complex game of geopolitical chess, where rival superpowers are manipulating the conflicts of an impoverished nation in hopes of pillaging its natural resources. When Hale discovers that one of those puppet masters may be his own country, he has one shot to stop a global catastrophe before it ignites.
With only his old partner, Laney Shaw, serving as a lifeline, Hale will fight through a war zone to expose the truth and take the fight to the enemy—because if he fails, thousands will die.
The war is coming. But Ian Hale stands in the gap.
Logan Ryles, bestselling author of the Prosecution Force series, returns with Path of Terror—the thrilling second installment in the Ian Hale series. Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Jack Carr, and Vince Flynn.
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When the skies become a battlefield, catastrophe looms above every city.
Phantom Zero
Thriller
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When the skies become a battlefield, catastrophe looms above every city. Agent Zero races to stop a cyberattack capable of sending commercial planes crashing from the air, forcing him into a high-altitude confrontation with unseen masterminds. Phantom Zero delivers relentless espionage action driven by global stakes and a father determined to protect both his country and his child.
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“You will not sleep until you are finished with AGENT ZERO. A superb job creating a set of characters who are fully developed and very much enjoyable. The description of the action scenes transport us into a reality that is almost like sitting in a movie theater with surround sound and 3D (it would make an incredible Hollywood movie). I can hardly wait for the sequel.”
--Roberto Mattos, Books and Movie Reviews
PHANTOM ZERO is book #19 in the #1 bestselling AGENT ZERO series, from #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars (with over 10,000 five-star reviews). The series begins with AGENT ZERO (Book #1), a free download.
In a world where the sky is no longer safe, Agent Zero embarks on his most perilous mission yet: to thwart a cyber siege that sends planes plummeting from above.
Facing an ultimatum that could end in global devastation, he must breach a fortress among the clouds and bring down the masterminds before the final countdown erases the age of flight.
The AGENT ZERO saga offers a gripping journey packed with unexpected turns and dynamic action, keeping you enthralled from start to finish. At the core of this thrilling series is an engrossing relationship between a father and his daughter, which is sure to keep you reading voraciously until the early hours.
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