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Mina Drake grieves her husband while fighting the suspicion that their marriage had already begun to fade.
When We Had Forever
Romance · Contemporary Romance · New Adult
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Mina Drake grieves her husband while fighting the suspicion that their marriage had already begun to fade. A discovery in his office and the return of his estranged brother, Grayson, expose painful truths and awaken new desire. As grief collides with possibility, Mina must choose whether to protect her past or embrace a different future in this emotional, compelling novel.
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Grief has settled over Mina Drake like a fog she cannot escape. Six months after her husband’s death, memories fill every corner of her home, yet a quieter truth nags beneath her sorrow. She suspects their marriage had already begun to fracture, a thought she barely dares name.
A discovery in Michael’s office shatters what she believed about their life together. More unsettling still is the return of Grayson, Michael’s estranged brother, whose guarded presence and unexpected kindness stir feelings Mina thought she had lost forever. As attraction grows, so do the secrets that complicate her past and reshape her future.
Praised for its emotional intensity, When We Had Forever delivers a powerful story of heartbreak, rediscovery, and the risk of opening the heart again.
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From a small fishing village to a world shaping metropolis, New York’s story unfolds through generations of families whose fortunes rise and fall with the city.
New York
Historical Fiction
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From a small fishing village to a world shaping metropolis, New York’s story unfolds through generations of families whose fortunes rise and fall with the city. Battles, immigration, love, and reinvention form the heartbeat of this sweeping saga. Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize, it captures the enduring spirit of America’s greatest city.
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New York begins as a quiet stretch of shoreline, yet its future will be shaped by struggle, ambition, and the dreams of countless families who arrive seeking possibility. Through the intertwined lives of merchants, immigrants, soldiers, financiers, and visionaries, Edward Rutherfurd traces the city’s rise from a modest fishing village to a global center of culture and commerce.
Across centuries, fortunes shift as revolution, civil war, and waves of new arrivals transform the city again and again. Love stories unfold beside political upheavals, and family legacies are forged through perseverance, rivalry, and reinvention. Each generation leaves its mark as New York grows in power and complexity.
Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction, New York offers a rich, sweeping portrait of the city’s enduring spirit.
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Jane enters marriage hoping for a life shaped by love and art, only to find herself consumed by her husband’s ego and the demands of motherhood.
Liars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Jane enters marriage hoping for a life shaped by love and art, only to find herself consumed by her husband’s ego and the demands of motherhood. As her writing career rises, her relationship crumbles, forcing her to confront who she has become and who she wants to be. A best of year selection praised for its sharp insight and emotional power.
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Jane never imagined how easily a marriage could swallow the person she worked so hard to become. As a young writer, she falls for filmmaker John Bridges and believes they are building a life shaped by art, ambition, and shared possibility. Motherhood brings joy, but it also shifts gravity. John’s needs expand, his ego eclipses, and Jane learns how quickly a woman can become defined by someone else’s desires.
As her own career finally takes flight, the marriage strains under its widening cracks. Holding the family together becomes an exhausting act of performance, one that shatters when John walks away.
Widely acclaimed and named a best book of the year by multiple outlets, Liars delivers a fierce, incisive portrait of a woman reclaiming herself from the ruins.
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Six strangers wake in a sealed bunker with no memory and a message claiming they are part of an experiment to rebuild humanity.
The Extinction Trials
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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Six strangers wake in a sealed bunker with no memory and a message claiming they are part of an experiment to rebuild humanity. As they uncover troubling clues about the facility and what lies outside, the truth becomes far darker than the mission they were given. With 4.2 stars and Editors Pick acclaim, this is A. G. Riddle at his most gripping.
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Six strangers awaken in an isolated underground bunker with no memory of how they arrived or how long they have been there. Their only guidance comes from recorded instructions that claim they have been chosen to restart the human race. The world outside, they are told, has fallen. The bunker is their refuge. Their mission is survival.
But as the group uncovers fragments of their pasts and clues about the facility, they begin to suspect that the experiment is not what it seems. The truth beyond the sealed doors may be more dangerous than anything they imagine, and the secret at the heart of the trials forces them to question who they can trust.
With 4.2 stars on Amazon, strong Goodreads reception, and recognition as an Editors Pick for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, this standalone thriller showcases A. G. Riddle at his most suspenseful.
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Kyr has been raised to become a weapon for the last remnants of humanity, but obedience fractures when Command decides her future for her.
Some Desperate Glory
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Kyr has been raised to become a weapon for the last remnants of humanity, but obedience fractures when Command decides her future for her. Some Desperate Glory follows her escape from Gaea Station into a larger, stranger universe, blending queer space opera, political indoctrination, revenge, and identity with the difficult work of unlearning a war.
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Instant National Bestseller and International Bestseller!
Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel!
Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist!
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Finalist!
A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s explosive debut novel.
National Bestseller | Sunday Times Bestseller | An Indie Next Pick | A LibraryReads Pick | a Goodreads Choice Finalist | With three starred reviews!
A Best Of Pick for The Guardian | GoodReads | Publishers Weekly | Powell's | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Audible | Gizmodo | Book Riot | LitHub | Financial Times | Discover Sci-Fi | Locus | NPR | Library Journal
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.
They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.
"Some Desperate Glory surprised me at every turn. At once a space thriller, a tale of deprogramming, and a missive on identity and meaning, the result is a vitally refreshing addition to the SFF genre. This book has earned a permanent place on my favorites shelf."—V. E. Schwab
"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."—Tamsyn Muir
"This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."—John Scalzi
"Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Jim Courtney’s privileged life changes when he rescues Louisa Leuven, an orphaned prisoner who survives a wreck off the Cape.
Blue Horizon
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Jim Courtney’s privileged life changes when he rescues Louisa Leuven, an orphaned prisoner who survives a wreck off the Cape. Their escape drives them deep into the African interior as Dutch forces hunt them with growing determination. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and more than 10,000 Goodreads ratings, this installment brings the Courtney saga to a dramatic frontier.
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In the Dutch-ruled colonies of South Africa, Jim Courtney lives under the protection of his family’s trading empire. That safety vanishes when he crosses paths with Louisa Leuven, a young woman who survived the plague only to be imprisoned and transported across the sea. After a violent storm wrecks her prison ship, Jim becomes her sole chance at freedom.
Their flight into the African interior thrusts them into a world of shifting loyalties and relentless pursuit. Dutch forces want Louisa returned to captivity and Jim punished for helping her. The land around them offers both sanctuary and peril, forcing them to depend on each other as danger closes in.
With 4.6 stars on Amazon, more than 10,000 Goodreads ratings, and Wilbur Smith’s renowned legacy, this Courtney adventure delivers sweeping landscapes and high-stakes survival.
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After taking a nanny job to rebuild her life, Mallory Quinn bonds with five-year-old Teddy, until his innocent sketches turn disturbingly detailed, depicting what looks like a long-buried…
Hidden Pictures
Horror
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After taking a nanny job to rebuild her life, Mallory Quinn bonds with five-year-old Teddy, until his innocent sketches turn disturbingly detailed, depicting what looks like a long-buried crime. To protect him, she must unravel the truth behind the drawings before the past forces its way into the present. With 4.4 stars and a Goodreads Choice Award win, this thriller is a standout.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER
“I loved it." —Stephen King
From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.
Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.
Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.
Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.
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She lives by rules that keep outsiders away.
Tempting Little Thief
Romance · College Romance · New Adult
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She lives by rules that keep outsiders away. He breaks every one of them. After a reckless night sparks a dangerous connection, a fierce, tattooed stranger refuses to let her go, even as family power and buried secrets threaten them both. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 8,000 Goodreads ratings, this is Meagan Brandy’s signature forbidden romance.
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She built her life within rigid walls of power, loyalty, and dangerous expectations. He comes from far outside that world, rough, unpredictable, and impossible to ignore. When one reckless night binds them together, the quiet order she depends on erupts into something fierce and forbidden.
In a world where outsiders vanish without a trace, she knows letting him close is a risk she can’t afford. Yet the tattooed stranger keeps slipping past every barrier she sets, claiming space in her life with a determination that defies logic and rules. His presence promises trouble, but his pull is undeniable.
As family pressures tighten and secrets threaten to surface, desire becomes a battleground neither can walk away from.
With 4.4 stars on Amazon, more than 8,000 Goodreads ratings, and the acclaim of a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, this romance delivers high heat and high stakes.
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A silent research facility unleashes a mutated Ebola strain that turns its victims into deadly, evolving threats.
Extinction Horizon
Dystopian · Thriller · Military Sci-Fi
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A silent research facility unleashes a mutated Ebola strain that turns its victims into deadly, evolving threats. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and Team Ghost must protect virologist Dr. Kate Lovato as she races to uncover a cure before civilization collapses. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and a Goodreads Choice Award nomination, this is the explosive start to the Extinction Cycle.
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When a covert research facility goes silent, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham leads Team Ghost into a mission unlike any they’ve faced. Inside, they confront a mutated strain of Ebola that transforms its victims into violent, fast-evolving creatures. Beckham barely escapes, but the infection is already spreading, pushing the nation toward collapse.
Back at Fort Bragg, the world he knew is disintegrating. Cities fall. Communications fail. And Team Ghost receives a new directive: protect CDC virologist Dr. Kate Lovato as she races to decipher the virus’s origins. What she discovers reveals a threat engineered far beyond natural disaster, one that forces soldier and scientist into a desperate fight for survival.
With 4.4 stars on Amazon, strong Goodreads support, and a Goodreads Choice Award nomination, this bestselling post-apocalyptic thriller launches Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s high-stakes Extinction Cycle.
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War approaches long before anyone is willing to name it in Empire in Black and Gold, where political blindness may prove as dangerous as invasion itself.
Empire in Black and Gold
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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War approaches long before anyone is willing to name it in Empire in Black and Gold, where political blindness may prove as dangerous as invasion itself. As a conquering empire advances on the Lowlands, aging statesman and spymaster Stenwold Maker fights to warn complacent city leaders before it is too late. This is a strategic epic fantasy with looming conflict, layered worldbuilding, and the tense pull of a civilization on the edge.
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Empire in Black and Gold is the first instalment in the critically-acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The days of peace are over . . .
The Lowlands’ city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization. Yet that peace is about to end. A distant empire has been conquering neighbours with highly trained soldiers and sophisticated combat techniques. And the city states are its desirable new prize.
Only the ageing Stenwold Maker – spymaster, artificer and statesman – foresees the threat, as the empires’ armies march ever closer. So it falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of the cities’ leaders. He sees that war will sweep through their lands, destroying everything in its path.
But to warn his people, he must stay alive.
Empire in Black and Gold is followed by the second book in the Shadows of the Apt series, Dragonfly Falling.
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After losing her husband in a crash their daughter survives, Clara Solberg begins to suspect the accident was anything but accidental.
Every Last Lie
Thriller · Mystery · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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After losing her husband in a crash their daughter survives, Clara Solberg begins to suspect the accident was anything but accidental. Her search for answers exposes secrets Nick kept hidden and shadows creeping through their quiet life. With 3.8 stars on Amazon, more than 52,000 Goodreads ratings, and Editors’ Pick status, Mary Kubica delivers a tense, emotional thriller.
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A single moment shatters Clara Solberg’s life when her husband dies in a car crash their young daughter survives. The accident seems tragic but ordinary—until Maisie wakes screaming with memories that don’t fit the official report. Clara’s grief twists into suspicion, and the safe life she built with Nick begins to fracture under the weight of unanswered questions.
Determined to uncover the truth, Clara retraces Nick’s final months and unearths debts, secrets, and unsettling connections he never shared. Each discovery pulls her deeper into a maze of doubt, where every friend becomes a possible threat and every memory feels unreliable. As Clara edges closer to the truth, she risks losing not only her certainty, but her sanity.
With 3.8 stars on Amazon, more than 52,000 Goodreads ratings, and recognition as an Editors’ Pick, this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica delivers her signature psychological tension.
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Coal Claus wants to escape the polished chaos of Christmas, but a surprise kiss with a mysterious stranger changes everything.
The Nightmare Before Kissmas
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Cozy Fantasy · Gay Romance
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Coal Claus wants to escape the polished chaos of Christmas, but a surprise kiss with a mysterious stranger changes everything. Ordered into an unwanted marriage, he is stunned when his rival for the princess’s hand is Hex, the Prince of Halloween and the man he cannot forget. An instant USA Today and Indie bestseller filled with charm, heat, and holiday romance.
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Holiday magic turns chaotic when Nicholas “Coal” Claus, heir to Christmas, stumbles into a scorching kiss with a stranger who makes him forget the weight of tradition. Once devoted to the season, Coal now feels trapped by his father’s polished spectacle and the arranged marriage he is ordered to accept with his best friend, a union neither of them wants.
Coal’s frustration deepens when a challenger appears for the princess’s hand, and the rival turns out to be Hex, the alluring man he met behind the bar and the rebellious Prince of Halloween. Their chemistry ignites even as duty threatens to pull them apart.
An instant USA Today and Indie bestseller, The Nightmare Before Kissmas blends charm, heat, and holiday rivalry into a wildly romantic and memorable love story.
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