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Brought to you by Penguin. A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome... One misstep at a dinner party and the older man she's been staying...

Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air, and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls. And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways.

Emma is a high achieving, middle class girl from west London. She seems destined for a successful career in banking and a comfortable British life. Until she makes a decision that will come to define her. In 2001 Emma marries Bashar al-Assad - the now infamous dictator of Syria.In the early days, people inside and out of Syria dared to hope. Alongside his beautiful, progressive wife, Bashar promised to modernise the country.But when the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, Bashar's regime showed itself for what it really was: a brutal force, willing to capture and kill ordinary Syrians ...

'Multi-layered and immersive ... Hughes casts the seeds of mystery and doubt like a pro' Irish Independent 'Compelling, unsettling and very creepy' Catherine Kirwan 'Atmospheric and filled with twists and turns ... a fantastic read' Patricia Gibney Everyone is talking about the disappearance of...

Une masseuse bretonne est remarquée par un riche Omanais, une rencontre qui va la transporter au Moyen-Orient et la plonger au cœur d'une sinistre machination. Masseuse dans un centre de thalassothérapie en Bretagne, elle est envoyée au sultanat d'Oman pour former les équipes d'un centre de bien-être. À la tête de cet établissement luxueux, Son Excellence Tariq Khan, le très séduisant fils d'un ministre influent. Entre eux, l'alchimie est fulgurante. Mais celle dont les mains font des merveilles se retrouve bientôt au cœur d'une incroyable affaire d'État.

A year after Emma Henson, a young, genius biotech scientist, dies in a covert AI brain-chip experiment, her father, Josh, has nothing left to live for and vows to get revenge on the Silicon Valley CEO responsible. Josh has thirty days to make his homemade bombs and to say goodbye to life. To give himself courage in the countdown, he records daily video messages to his lost "Em." Memories flood him as he searches for the moments in Emma’s short life where he could have been a better father and saved her.

FBI Agent Emma Griffin is sent undercover to the small sleepy town of Feathered Nest to uncover the truth behind the strings of disappearances that has left the town terrified. To Emma, there is nothing that can lay buried forever. Even though her own childhood has been plagued by deaths and disappearances.

Traumatized by the deaths of her parents three years ago, Natalie Hewitt lives an introverted life, taking college classes during the day and working as a barista in a coffee shop at night. Julian Kovac is a millionaire and a recluse. He lives a life of self-imposed seclusion in order to protect a secret and honor his dying mother's last wish. He walks into Natalie's cafe one summer evening, and both of their lives are forever altered by the intense, slow-burn love that blooms between them.

Early in the morning, Agatha walked into the maze-like cornfield. Delighted by the cool winter air, she loved days like this. Alone to think and at peace with the world. But today, she wasn’t as alone as she thought… In this sleepy countryside town, nothing is ever as it seems. When the body of a young woman is found in a cornfield, FBI agent Emma Griffin and the gang are sent there to investigate. Upon arrival, they find strange markings at the scene.

Gordon Tilson is a lonely widower who befriends a young woman online. When her sister is injured in a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill and runs off to Ghana to surprise his new love. But he soon disappears without a trace. Frustrated by the inadequacies of the local police in Accra, his son Derek turns to a PI agency for assistance where there is a new detective on the scene determined to prove her worth. 

During the cherished Midwinter Festival and Hot Cocoa Championship, Charlie finds herself smack-dab in the middle of a twisty murder mystery, with her faithful companion, Sherlock the cat, by her side. Before long, the town buzzes with intrigue and doubt that threatens to unravel the festive spirit. When suspicion falls on Charlie's adored aunt, her determination to protect her family plunges her into a labyrinth of century-old secrets. With every step, Charlie reveals a town as intricate and multi-layered as the mystery itself.

Maria, Alex, and Antonio Capello were raised by their gangster father with just one rule: family is everything. Now he’s dead, Maria works as a lawyer by day and a mob boss by night, risking everything if her secret life is ever revealed.

The 25th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The political power games going on in the California and Washington, DC, worlds. Elizabeth Thatcher, like her father, cuts through the emotions to get to the money and power motives.

Nyinspelad ljudbok med förbättrat ljud och populär inläsare! En stöld av en van Gogh-målning i Skövdes konsthall går oväntat snett när tjuvarna stöter på ett mordoffer i hissen – den nya chefredaktören på lokaltidningen, känd för sin radikala penna och kontroversiella åsikter. Emma och Filip ställs inför sitt svåraste fall hittills, där konstkupp, mord och ett mystiskt sällskap vävs samman i en spännande historia om hämnd och dolda hemligheter. "De blå damerna" är en fascinerande avslutning på Emma Lundgren-serien, där småstadens hemligheter får komma upp i ljuset.

After a night of a scary movie marathon, a cold thick fog rolls over Sherwood, bringing with it the promise of fall. And when FBI Agent Emma Griffin wakes up the next morning, she can't help but shake the feeling that something is off.

A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A 12-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice cream sodas, and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, 40 years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present.

They call it The Heartland Child Murders. Everyone else calls it a nightmare. Locked doors don't stop him. He leaves no trace behind. He only takes little girls. His nickname: The Iceman. A deranged serial killer roams wintry rural Nebraska with a demented purpose no one can fathom. Special Agent Emma Kane, a former DC cop and damaged goods now with the FBI, is assigned to babysit burnt-out profiler Jacob Thorne, once the best in the business but now said to have lost his edge, as they both fly to Nebraska to catch this maniac.

Scarlet Drew has one rule: never back down. But when an anonymous letter turns up at her house telling her they know what really happened the night her cousin Ruby died, Scarlet's heart races. If they know what happened to Ruby, then they know that Scarlet was there–a secret she has kept guarded from the rest of her notorious family, and for good reason.

Get the first four books in the SEAL of Protection: Alliance series, Protecting Remi, Protecting Wren, Protecting Josie, and Protecting Maggie all in one bundle! These alpha Navy SEALs and the strong women they fall for will have you lost in a world of protective military men and harrowing adventure.