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In the heart of Blackwood Forest, a legend waits in the fog. It's an antique carousel of breath taking beauty, a masterpiece of gold leaf and bone-white porcelain. But for Elias and Odette, the wonder lasts only until the first turn of the crank. The Collector doesn't want your ticket. He wants your skin. As the platform accelerates, the nightmare reveals its true face. This isn't a ride; it's a living, breathing slaughterhouse. The horses are upholstered in human hide. The hydraulics run on pressurized blood. And the "grease" keeping the gears turning? It used to be people just like you.

Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent - and bored. Pressured by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall. A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the seashore leads to day after idyllic summer's day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel, and Prue - now deeply entangled - feels compelled to discover what it is.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NIGHT CIRCUS MEETS WATER FOR ELEPHANTS IN THIS ENCHANTING, DARKLY GLITTERING STORY OF GRIEF, OBSESSION, REVENGE AND ENDURING LOVE Come children, come children from far and near. Come choose your steed, you galloping knights, to enjoy the fun of the carousel...

The carnival is back in town, and for Jack Heldon, that's not a good sign. Since the last time it had come to the small and quiet town in Lensfield, Connecticut, he’s been plagued with nightmares of burning walls, raspy chuckles, and fiery red eyes in the dark. Ted Barton’s killing spree is still fresh in his mind, and Jack knows the carnival was behind it all. Now, it’s back for more.

Carousel is the story of a spoiled boy from an Indian family residing in the UK. Rajesh has had a privileged and pampered life and is resentful of being in his father's shadow. Desperate to make his mark in the world and by a twist of fate, Rajesh enters the grimy world of London's organized crime scene and becomes embroiled in a complex form of tax fraud called carousel fraud. Seduced by money, power, and a array of flamboyant cars and women, Rajesh is quickly losing control of his company, his marriage, and his freedom.

Victorian, rural Sussex. When headstrong daughter of a rector, Constance Timothy, receives a flurry of gifts in pretty little boxes from the charming, smouldering student doctor Smith Williams, her whole family anticipates a future betrothal. Yet beneath the exquisite pastel lids and satin bows lie macabre secrets that entice Constance into a private world of obsession and darkness, where morality becomes blurred, loyalties are tested and unthinkable acts are possible.

Writer Timothy Upshaw thought the case of the Haney House murders was closed when Donald Haney confessed to killing his family and Upshaw's sister. However, when his sister, Sara, is reportedly spotted in the Haney House of horrors 10 years later, Upshaw swiftly returns to the hometown he fled from. In the process, he learns that what happened in the Haney House was just the beginning–there's a much greater evil out there.