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Alabaster Falls local blacksmith, Daughtry Blackburn, was satisfied with his reclusive status. He had iron to bend and orders to fill but he knew he needed something to take the business to the next level. His father had fought taking their business into the twenty-first century, but since he’d passed, it was up to Daughtry to keep things forward moving and he knew there was no way to do so without being on the World Wide Web. Metalworking, he got. Computers, not so much.

In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with Olivia’s letters, goes back to the heat and dust and squalor of the bazaars to find out for herself how Olivia could have been so affected by India that she turned her back on her own country.

Cor’s crush on the straight boy in sword fighting class has been unrequited, but with one crossed sword, that’s all about to change…

'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT 'A fantastic book club choice' PRIMA Would you have a baby for your daughter? Ruth has the life she always wanted - stellar career, loving family, beautiful home - but now, with an empty nest, and heading towards 55, she feels restless. Then her...

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable...

A Roxane Gay Bookclub Pick A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love...

'BRING ON THE DRAMA' Cosmopolitan Best New Book of July 2023 The Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick 'I couldn't put it down' Alice Clark-Platts 'Slick, agile, and utterly engrossing' Taiye Selasi Basking in Singapore's non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm...

When a street fight between Ricky Ramirez and Marcus Brooks sparks a storm of gossip, the entire neighborhood takes sides. But what starts as a battle over pride soon unravels into something darker—family secrets, buried betrayals, and a creature that walks the streets at night, feeding on lies. As chaos spreads, one truth threatens to set the block on fire: The real enemy isn’t each other—it’s the blood that binds them.

Preorder THEM GIRLS, the breathtaking new Eva Verde novel, coming Spring 2026. A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. Delph has kept herself small and...

With Nealy, horses come first. So when her two grown children's irresponsible acts nearly cost her Shufly, she throws them both off Blue Diamond Farm, choosing to work alone rather than give them another chance to risk her dream of training the promising foal into a Triple Crown winner. But while the estrangement from her children doesn't seem to affect her work, inside she's shattered.