I don't know what happened to my life.Just a few months ago, I was independent and had an exciting job I loved. Now, along with my friends, I'm in hiding.Why? Because I'm one of the Five, a group of human women bestowed with powers and abilities to fight and control supernatural beings. A prophesy was written about us centuries ago. We are supposed to save the world, though none of us knows how. Now, Cornelius, the leader of a malevolent group known...

A murdered groom. An unexpected baby. A vengeful father. Can the killer's brother save the day?Raised in foster homes, when Jess Bentley promised, 'til death do us part,' she envisioned many happy decades building a family with Frank. But a desperate drug addict in a dark parking lot ended those dreams before the honeymoon was over. Convinced the empty place in her heart will never heal, she's ready to give up-until she discovers their brief marriage...

Urban Explorers love the excitement of 'exploring' long-abandoned buildings, searching for mysteries in the dark, empty places. But when one such explorer takes a solo tour of a decaying mansion near Cherringham, he discovers that some houses can turn fatal. Just a careless accident? His friends don't believe so and call on Jack and Sarah to investigate. And before long it's clear that the past can harbour deadly secrets that nobody is safe from... Set...

The New Yorker's Best Book of 2023
"sorrowful, tender...beautiful." – The New York Times Book Review

“...arresting and memorable….Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a significant chronicler of personal and national experience.” – Financial Times
"Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud...

In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a music box ballerina named Aliss who tantalizingly springs to life. Guided by his mysterious friend Owlish and inspired by an inexplicably familiar painting, Q embarks on an all-consuming love affair...

"Sometimes you're the predator. Sometimes you're the prey. Hailed as the hero of Elmaeder County Sheriff's Department for capturing the infamous da Vinci serial killer, Detective Justice Hall harbors a dark secret: he's a killer himself. And since he's started taking lives again--even in the name of justice--he can't escape the recurring nightmares of his traumatic past. Or the ghosts that haunt him. But the victims he was forced to kill under...

"This is the first book-length biography of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the celebrated Spoon River Anthology, one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America." "Herbert K. Russell conveys the internal contradictions that drove Masters throughout his life and kept the happiness, love, security, and success he dreamed of always out of reach. Masters was one of America's most prolific authors, publishing fifty-three...