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From William C. Morris Finalist Nafiza Azad comes a thrilling, feminist fantasy about a group of teenage girls endowed with special powers who must band together to save the life of the boy whose magic saved them all. We are the Wild Ones, and we will not be silenced. We are girls who have...

I'm the player, the gambler, the one without a heart or soul. There isn't a risk I won't take and a challenge I won't meet. Then, she came into my world, melting the ice in my veins and showing me a life a man like me never deserved.

He was my enemy, learning my secrets and holding my freedom. I was born to fit a role, to live within certain rules, to play a specific part. And no one knows it's a lie. Except him. Simon Drakos is the dark, the danger, the connection to a life I'm desperate to escape. He is everything I shouldn’t want and the lure I can’t resist. With one look, he set the trap. After one kiss, I'm snared. Now, we're locked in a game where losing isn't an option, but winning means my complete submission.

I am a liar, a deceiver, a devil in the dark. I will hunt you, steal your secrets, and use them against you. You will never see me coming. Then I met my match. She cut out my heart, left me bleeding, without a backward glance. But, she made one mistake; she stepped back into my world, trying to run from her past. She's mine, and she will soon learn there is no escape when fate says she belongs to me.

I’m not a good man. I’m the darkness, the danger, the enforcer behind the empire. No one sees me unless I want them to. Then one day, she found me, showing me a life beyond the shadows of the streets. Until one wrong turn and our fairytale shattered, leaving me back in darkness. In a place I can only reach her by destroying her world.

A PARENTS' FAVORITE PRODUCTS TILLYWIG AWARD WINNER 2022 The fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 barrier-breaking Black women and girls who showcase the spirit of Black Girl Magic. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100...

I’m the one she should have stayed away from. A kid forged by the rules of the streets. She sees into my darkest depths and doesn’t blink an eye. Then one day, she’s gone. Fifteen years later, she’s back in my life, needing a favor only I can provide. The street rat she once knew is now king of an empire, where every favor comes at a price. A price, she says, she is more than willing to pay. But the cost is all of her...body, mind, and soul.

1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse. His petition to relocate Swan Light from its precarious cliff’s edge is going unheard by town patriarch Cort Roland—that is, until a terrible storm brings an unlikely ally into Swan’s life. But is it too late for the stone lighthouse?

Follow Elizabeth - code-named Scarlett - to the lush Nevada brothel where she'll auction her virginity and risk the only thing that's not for sale: her heart. The highest bidder is a familiar face, with wicked hands and the devil's mouth. And a secret so dark that it could cost her life.

My past: I was 18 when I first gave away my heart. A love so profound, I didn't understand it. My present: I never had to prove she was mine until he makes an appearance. Tall, dark, and older...

Die Vergangenheit war nur der Anfang. Jetzt beginnt der Kampf um die Zukunft. In einer Welt voller dunkler Geheimnisse und altem Zorn gilt es weitaus mehr zu riskieren als das eigene Leben. Avery und Alexander glauben, sie hätten das Ende ihrer schlimmsten Albträume erreicht. Doch das Schicksal hat noch eine weitere Prüfung für sie parat.

Nach zwei Büchern über die Familie ihrer Mutter widmet Anne Berest dieses neue Kapitel ihres Romanwerks dem väterlichen, dem bretonischen Zweig ihrer Familie. Wie schon in Die Postkarte vermischt sich die private mit der »großen« Geschichte, von der Gründung der ersten Bauerngenossenschaften bis zum Mai 1968, von der deutschen Besatzung eines Dorfes im Léon bis zur Zerstörung der Stadt Brest.

Ruhm, Skandale, verbotene Gefühle - Welcome to START Entertainment! An Daphne Valentis erstem Arbeitstag als Juristin bei START Entertainment geht alles schief. Nicht nur, dass ihr neuer Boss sie unfair behandelt, statt juristische Fälle zu bearbeiten, soll sie auch noch die Babysitterin von Aspen Knox spielen! Der attraktive Schauspieler will einen Neuanfang und nicht länger als The Hot Villain bekannt sein. Daphne soll ihn für seine kommende Hauptrolle als Anwalt in einem Liebesfilm beraten und vor allem dafür sorgen, dass Aspen in keinen weiteren Skandal gerät.

Lilith war noch nie glücklicher als sie den Schlüssel in das Schloss ihrer ersten gemeinsamen Wohnung mit ihrem Freund Adan steckte. Endlich ist es an der Zeit, das schützende Nest der Eltern zu verlassen, die Wäsche selbst zu falten und die Stromrechnung aus eigener Tasche zu bezahlen. Jetzt wo ihr zudem eine Beförderung zur Hotelmanagerin bevorsteht, fühlt sie sich, als wäre ihr Leben ein wahr gewordener Traum. Vorfreude und Schmetterlinge im Bauch lassen Lilith ihre Verlustängste, die sie seit dem Tod ihrer Nonna quälen, für eine Weile vergessen. Bis ihre Welt mit einem Mal zusammenbricht.

Lola's life is about to become unrecognisable. So is Lola. Everything used to be comfortable. She lived in a big house with her family, where her biggest problems were arguing with her little brother or being told she couldn't have a new phone. But as one disaster follows another, the threads of her home and family begin to unravel. Cut off from everything she has known before, Lola must find a new way to survive. Now, an ordinary girl must become extraordinary.

Miles Garrett, pro basketball player and star of every one of my fantasies, has decided I’m moving in with him. My brother’s teammate has always protected me out of loyalty. He makes me feel like everything will be okay even when my life is on fire. But when he looks at me, I wonder what it would be like if he was truly mine. If I had the dream life and dream job and the dream guy.

My teammate’s little sister is all I’ve ever wanted. Now I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her. I’ve loved her in secret for years. I kept her safe from the sidelines, even though I knew better. Everyone knows me as the good times guy, the player with a million dollar smile. Never taking anything too seriously.

Juggling two jobs is nothing new for registered nurse Hillary Glenwood; she’s been doing it for most of her adult life. However, her carefully controlled life runs completely off the rails when she recognizes the new neighbor coming to the rescue. As a hacker, Radar Jansen hasn’t always used his expertise in the most respectable ways, until he came to work for PASS Security. While walking his dog one night, he sees a familiar woman rushing into a dangerous situation. His training kicks in.

"She who loves and runs away, lives to love another day" was Jacy Tiernan's credo. Only this fair-haired beauty had never loved again after Ian Yarbro. Ten years ago, she had fled her beloved Australian homestead with a shattered soul. Ian, the rugged sheep rancher who'd awakened her young heart to the most exquisite pleasures, had sired the child of another woman. Unable to forgive him, Jacy ran off to New York to live with her wealthy divorced mother, leaving behind all dreams of happiness. Now Jacy had returned to Corroboree Springs to care for her ailing father.

Eine stürmische Winternacht im England des späten 19. Jahrhunderts: In der Gaststube des "Swan" sitzen die Bewohner von Radcot zusammen und wärmen sich an ihren Geschichten und Getränken, als ein Mann mit einem leblosen Mädchen im Arm hereinstolpert, das er aus der Themse geborgen hat. Die herbeigerufene Krankenschwester kann nur noch den Tod feststellen. Als sie jedoch ein paar Stunden später erneut nach dem Kind schaut, bemerkt sie, dass es wieder atmet. Ein Wunder oder gar Zauberei?