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When the only copy of Ravished, Iris Stanford’s new manuscript, never arrives at her London publisher’s office, her daughter Kat investigates the tiny local village post office, where it appears the package never left the building. Iris is on tenterhooks - not only is her novel gone with the wind, but she’s deathly afraid that Muriel Jarvis, the postmistress and notorious busybody, will expose her secret identity as the best-selling romance writer Krystalle Storm.

When antique dealer Kat Stanford stumbles upon the partially mummified body of a young woman in an abandoned wing at Honeychurch Hall, suspicion falls on those who had been living there many years ago. And it appears that the deceased had been murdered. Given her mother Iris’s checkered past, Kat is not surprised to learn that Iris knew the victim. As Kat becomes embroiled once more in her mother’s mysterious and tumultuous bygone days, she comes to realize that life is never black and white.

Twenty-two-year old psychology major - and aspiring FBI agent - Riley Paige finds herself in a battle for her life as her closest friends on campus are abducted and killed by a serial killer. She senses she, too, is being targeted - and that she must apply her brilliant mind to stop the killer herself. When the FBI hits a dead end, they are impressed enough by Riley’s keen insight into the killer’s mind to allow her to help. Yet the killer’s mind is a dark, twisted place, one too diabolical to make sense of, and one that threatens to bring Riley’s fragile psyche crashing down.

Thirty-five-year-old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment, and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's historic, abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life and determined to make it work as a B&B. She had never expected, though, that her relationship with its caretaker, Daniel, would turn her life on its head.

In A Trace of Vice (book number one the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, missing persons detective in the homicide division of the LAPD, follows a fresh lead for her abducted daughter. It leads to a violent confrontation with The Collector - which, in turn, offers more clues that may, after all this time, reunite her with her daughter. Yet at the same time, Keri is assigned a new case, one with a frantic ticking clock. A teenage girl has gone missing in Los Angeles.

35 year old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's historic, abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life and determined to make it a B&B. She had never expected, though, that her relationship with its caretaker, Daniel, would turn her life on its head.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is an old Gothic classic that tells the story of Laura, a young lady who lives with her father in a large castle. Despite living in a castle, Laura is lonely and made lonelier when her father tells her that a girl her same age who was supposed to come visit has mysteriously died.

After accidentally kicking their football into the park's maze, and even though they have been told repeatedly to keep out, Edward and George bravely venture into the labyrinth of gloomy pathways to get it back. What they find inside turns out to be far more than they had bargained for and turns their family outing into the most extraordinary day ever! 

Ricarda and her younger brother Samuel have a whole week of school holiday ahead of them, and they don't intend to waste it! Before the week is over, they will have visited the zoo, gone to the funfair, helped grandpa to get an apple pie, hunted for hidden treasure, been given a pet hamster, and even fallen into a pond! Listen to their fun-packed adventures to discover exactly why this is their busiest week ever!

These are the stories of things out of water - of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows below ground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst from your eyes, and your mouth will fill with thorns. Storms will twist inside you, and the ghosts of your past will follow you and chart your future.

Here is a bundle of the first books in two Sophie Love series - the Inn at Sunset Harbor series and the Romance Chronicles series - all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Sophie Love’s series. For Now and Forever and Love Like This mark the debut of beloved new romance series that will make you laugh, cry, and listening late into the night. And, it will make you fall in love with romance, all over again!

Here is a bundle of the first books in two Blake Pierce series - the Mackenzie White and Avery Black series - all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce's series....

This audiobook is a bundle of two books: For Now and Forever and Forever and for Always in Sophie Loves’s The Inn at Sunset Harbor series. This bundle offers the first two books in one audiobook, for hours of listening. In For Now and Forever, Emily Mitchell, 35, living and working in New York City, has struggled through a string of failed relationships. In Forever and for Always, 35-year-old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment, and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life.

A bundle of books Love Like This and Love Like That in Sophie Loves’s The Romance Chronicles series. This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. A whirlwind romantic comedy that is as profound as it is funny, The Romance Chronicles will make you laugh, cry, and will keep you turning pages late into the night - and will make you fall in love with romance all over again.

Veteran FBI special agent Riley Paige, one of the FBI’s most brilliant and decorated agents, has devoted her life to hunting down serial killers. Suffering from PTSD, she now spends her time teaching other FBI agents, offering a window into the mind of serial killers. Battling her own demons and plagued by memories, she is ready to pass the baton and retire. Or, is she?

A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, murdered in grotesque and unusual ways, Avery can’t help but wonder: is there a serial killer on the loose?

Lisa’s mother is dying. But Lisa doesn’t care.... Now in her early 40s, and with her life disintegrating around her, she’s been forced to return to her childhood home where the memories of her father and brother have long been repressed. When the Victorian villa across the road goes up for sale, Lisa is naturally curious. One old woman has owned the property her whole life, and Lisa has never been allowed to step into the grounds before. Now an odd young stranger invites her to explore the garden...but only after midnight.

Keira Swanson, 28, returns to New York, her head spinning from her Ireland trip and still madly in love with Shane. But when a surprise event comes between them, their relationship may have to end.

Lady Daphne Hallworth is ready to celebrate the holidays with her family. But when they accidentally leave her home alone, Daphne uses the time to work on her dream - opening a home for unwed mothers. But her quest isn’t problem-free: She’s in a battle to win the property for the home against her brother’s best friend turned enemy, Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart. And that’s not all: Someone has stolen her personal diary, which holds secrets that could devastate her family. Daphne has always harbored private feelings for the man her family scorns....

From number one best-selling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. A bundle of two books, A Trace of Death and A Trace of Murder, in Blake Pierce’s Keri Locke Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file. Keri Locke, a missing persons detective in the homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter, years before, never found.