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Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally succeeded in his ardent pursuit of the lovely mystery novelist Harriet Vane. The two depart for a tranquil honeymoon in a country farmhouse but find, instead of a well-prepared love nest, the place left in a shambles by the previous owner. His sudden appearance, dead from a broken skull in the cellar, only prompts more questions. Why would anyone have wanted to kill old Mr Noakes? What dark secrets had he to hide?

Exclusive interview with Sarah Vaughan on the release of her second novel.

Ava Moreland has it all planned out. In two months, she will marry her fiancé, Tim. She’ll continue working at Vegas’ famous Cosmopolitan bar while he runs his father’s accounting firm. Soon, they’ll start a family, and she’ll have the white picket life she’s always dreamed of. 

Prince Enlin has sought respite alone in his cabin when a knock at his door puts a woman who has lost her memory in his care. Before he can determine what to do with her, his men arrive and a betrothal is forced upon them. Prince Enlin cannot marry, for he carries the secret of a prophecy that if he ever does, his beloved Kingdom will fall. Breeon, though she barely remembers more than her name, insists marriage for her is forbidden. Brought together by circumstance, Breeon and Prince Enlin fight a growing attraction to each other that both must deny.

When Carla agrees to house sit a condo by the beach for a summer, she’s met with a juicy surprise. Though reluctant and determined to stay away, Carla is drawn to the young man a few doors down. Blake is handsome, temperamental, and just as determined to win her over as she is to stay away. Three months under the summer sun are about to heat up parts of Carla that she thought lost, tossed to the wind and gone forever.

Time Wasters are short adventures based on true stories. They’re all titled Super Short Preludes because they are just that: super short stories that lead up to big life concepts or events, designed to help pass short spouts of time. Each mini-book in the series actually contains an entire story that will draw you in, make you laugh, and then allow you to move on with your life.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

Despite their phenomenal decades-long success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literary culture. In Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one.