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The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either rich...or dead. Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since...

Piper’s job is simple: Take the children. Don’t get caught. The rules she binds on herself, however… Well, they’re a tad more complicated. Kidnapped as a child for her connection with the Old Magic—the one that grants her the ability to enchant others with her music—Piper knows good and well the rules of the Coup, the underground organization intent on bringing down the fae regime. As the Coup’s first “recruiter,” she’s supposed to take the strong, the good-boned, the clever, the healthy. Except Piper doesn’t always do what she’s supposed to. Instead, she makes a few rules of her own

A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven’s Gate.

Deputy US Marshal Cait Keane is a Witch with a Badge—and a Dragon for a partner. The Boston office tour will have to wait—her first day on the job in her new appointment is canceled to pursue a federal fugitive, a magical with a penchant for fire. She'll need her gun and her wand to take him down. What will her team think of having a magical on board? When a federal judge is killed, she discovers she's in the middle of a territorial battle between criminal organizations. The killer is a magical, or working with one, which makes Cait the perfect Marshal to take them down.

A high society fraud and a scrappy swindler team up to take down Gilded Age New York in this tale of intrigue, drama, and female friendship. The Grand Duchess Marie Charlotte Antonie of Würrtemberg--a turmoil-plagued Germanic nation with closely guarded emerald mines--has taken Gilded Age high...

Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret. She isn’t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell’s Asylum think she is. In truth, she’s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she’s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: In exchange for a job, she’ll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local asylum’s abuses. When she arrives at the asylum, Elizabeth realizes she must make a decision - is she there merely to bear witness, or to intervene on behalf of the abused inmates? Can she interfere without blowing her cover?

For fans of Lily King’s Writers & Lovers comes a captivating debut novel about the complexities of love and the unpredictable bonds that change our lives Maggie Hoyt is a quick-witted, house-sitting LA actress who’s dated one too many DJs for her liking. An incorrigible insomniac, she...

Your go-to guide to healthy love. Love can come in many ways, and can be just as complex as it is beautiful. Relationship books for women and love gifts for men tend to focus on the end goal being something physical, but the best love stories end with something better than that—healthy love and tips to being a power couple. True Love is a spiritual love book that focuses on building the foundations of love and how to experience a healthy love within all of your relationships, including the relationship you have with yourself.

Cait Keane and her Dragon partner Aza have a score to settle with an assassin—and whoever hired him. Investigating the murder of a judge wasn't the plan for Cait's first weeks in Boston. But they'd caught the assassin, so, case closed, right? Not so much. Everybody wants a word with the killer—the Marshals, the PDA, and the two criminal bosses in town. One of the bosses hired the hitman and he's not saying a word. Cait better slice through the tangle of lies fast. The animosity between the Roses and Dragons organizations is already heating up.

It's 1969. An eight-year-old girl, Elizabeth Squire, has a choice to make: to be disabled by the circumstances of her own botched birth or to become extraordinary. In Buffy Cram's captivating new novel, Elizabeth narrates the story of her childhood in the late sixties, describing how she came to be at a Vancouver halfway house at the age of nineteen.

In VOLUME 9 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, ‘Homefront/Women At War’, we will take an often-overlooked view of the story of World War II. You will visit with the people on the homefront, from schoolkids navigating growing up during the Great Depression and the War, to the women on the factory floor and the armed services, newly independent but having to fight for their rights and later, their jobs, laying the seeds of societal change for the future.

To most people, Piper Sail looks like a rich girl with little potential, but she surprises everyone, including herself, when she starts investigating her best friend’s disappearance. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Maureen Johnson, The Lost Girl of Astor Street combines the allure of...

A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK “Halperin’s radiant second novel walks the fine line between the longing for couplehood and the torture of codependency. . . . Let the rapturous intimacy and gut-churning ups and downs begin!” —Leigh Haber, The New York Times Book Review “I read this book...

Book editor Emily Bryant finds herself unexpectedly in the charming town of Cascata on California’s Lost Coast, holding the keys to her grandmother’s rambling Victorian mansion. While sorting through her grandmother’s things, Emily learns that she must edit old manuscripts to inherit the estate. It’s a strange request from a family member who was basically a stranger. Emily quickly realizes that there’s something different about these manuscripts. Any changes she makes come true.

Blaise wasn't supposed to be the villain, but now Nox is gone, and Blaise will stop at nothing to get him back—even if that means betraying everyone she holds dear. Meanwhile, Asha can't shake the feeling that Az is closing in on her. After all, he's been two steps ahead of her and Kiran from the beginning. All she can do is hope he stays too focused on opening the Rip to learn the truth: Az is the true heir to the throne. Between her nightmares, Ellie's secret, and the news that Piper has been taken captive by Queen Abra, Asha isn't sure she can handle much else.

Cait's gone from restful meditation to combat with shifters in the blink of an eye—even the young witch's refuge is no longer safe. A roaming pack of wolves is threatening her coven and the nearby town. And more enemies are intent on taking the witches' land, by force if necessary. Back in Boston, a wealthy criminal's bank vault reveals the greatest evil Cait has ever encountered. Unlocking the safe put her on the hook for a favor to a master thief. Was the information worth it?

Quinn finds herself in uncharted territory when her adopted daughter, Emerson, comes to live with her. As Quinn struggles to connect with the fiercely independent and talented teenager, an unforeseen opportunity arises that could help channel Emerson's passions and bring them closer together. Meanwhile, Ava's world is turned upside down when her mother, Colleen, arrives on the island for an extended vacation. Colleen harbors a long-buried secret that threatens to shatter Ava's understanding of her past, leaving her questioning everything she thought she knew.

In a stunning turn of events, Ava's world is turned upside down when her ex-husband Christopher resurfaces after a two-year absence. Needless to say, Ava wants nothing to do with him. Despite his past betrayal, Ava, initially reluctant, listens to his astonishing story that will change everything. Can Christopher win back Ava's trust? Will she take him back?

When Jessica Bennett, James Bloch's granddaughter, arrives at the inn, Ava finds herself confronted with echoes of her past. Jessica, grappling with a painkiller addiction is plagued by inexplicable visions of a woman and child. Soon she crosses paths with Andrew Jameson, a celebrated pop star seeking refuge on the island to complete his latest record. An unexpected friendship blossoms between Jessica and Andrew, but secrets unravel and revelations threaten to shatter Jessica's fragile existence.

Simultaneously, Ava's daughter, Charlotte, finds herself at a crossroads when her husband demands a divorce. Charlotte is left to raise their newborn alone, only to be rocked by a medical emergency involving Siobhan, which brings everything into sharp focus. Amidst the turmoil, Sarah receives a mysterious penny in the mail, sparking an intriguing mystery. As she unravels the enigma, Sarah forges a new connection that promises to alter the course of her life in ways she never anticipated.