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Corinne Gray is a woman whose life is falling apart. When probationary detective Kyle Nazarian unexpectedly knocks on her door on a rainy morning, she knows why. He wants to talk about her son, Ben. This is her chance to finally explain how her sweet-natured child – who loved history and dreamed of swimming for Olympic Gold – grew up to do the unthinkable. What really happened to Ben? And could anyone have prevented it?

I made a mistake. Hearts are the most fragile part of the body, and I trusted mine with Jude Carlisle. My villain. My weakness. My stepbrother. Fairytales have a way of turning the most innocent things wicked. Jude lied through his teeth, and I fell for every word. Then he burned both our families to the ground in a sick game of revenge and never looked back.

The strongest lies aren’t the ones we tell others—they’re the ones we tell ourselves. I thought I'd found my fairy tale ending when Andrew Chadwick saved my life during a hotel fire and gave me a whirlwind love story I didn’t think existed. But trusting him made me vulnerable, and believing in the impossible made me an easy target. Six months later, we're celebrating our dream wedding at an exclusive island resort, where every luxury imaginable is at our fingertips. It should be perfect. It should be paradise. But it's not.

After a broken engagement, Cher decides to leave heartbreak behind by signing up for a holiday house swap. For the next few weeks, she’ll ditch sunny California to spend her first Hanukkah in New York City, a time of snow-covered sidewalks, festive store windows, hot cocoa, and...cute neighbors? As Cher is moving into her temporary new apartment, Eliot is moving his ex’s belongings out, and he soon finds himself offering to play tour guide. He’s nursing a broken heart too, and spending time showing the beautiful traveler around is exactly what he needs.

Yarima Lalo believes he has been murdered twice before. The cause? Love. To make sense of these vivid memories he cannot shake, he travels from Abuja to Kano with his new friend and love interest Aziza to meet an old woman who he might have known in a past life. She is skeptical at first - and hesitant to revisit painful memories of her own - but together, they dig deeper and deeper into the past, piecing together a shared history with ripple effects that could shape Lalo’s future.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES 'TOP 5 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY' A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A TOP 5 IRISH TIMES 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND...

Nobody warned mob princess Hope Whitmore how boring witness protection would be, so when her boss sets her up on a blind date, she throws caution to the wind. Big mistake: she's secretly put her photo on a dating app, and the man across the table is the father of the teenager she once accused of murder. Paratrooper Max Beaumont has finally found evidence of his son's innocence—and the one witness who can prove it turns up on a dating app, of all places. But someone else has found Hope too, and they're dodging bullets before Max can even offer to pick up the check.

Brought to you by Penguin. The gripping new thriller from New York Times bestselling author HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT THE ONE YOU LOVE? Cleo is a college student: rebellious and provocative, with no interest in playing by the rules. Kat is her mother and her opposite: a happily married...

La novela narra la historia de Tita de la Garza a manera de recetario, donde cada capítulo es una receta que relata las aventuras de la protagonista en una casa donde la tradición la obliga a quedarse a cuidar a su madre, y por lo tanto, sin poderse casar nunca.

WINNER OF THE 2025 AUDIO PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION 'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King...

Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck. Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders. For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.

It's Gonna Be A Long New Year's Eve. Autumn Frost never wanted much out of life. A nice home in Annapolis, Maryland, a decent job to live comfortably, a woman to love and wake up to every morning. Life had other plans though. While out on her rounds as a TAF (To-And-From) driver, she picks up a...

Rory Flynn, grandson of the Duke of Savernake, is embittered by his family’s reputation as a wealthy family from Irish stock. They are hated by the Ton but accepted because of their links to the duke. Rory has a list of those who have offended his family the most and he intends to do something about it. Enter the night of nights, the annual event Polite Society anticipates—the dazzling Stag Ball given by the duke himself.

Sara had always been untouchable, his sister's best friend, and the girl next door... Smokejumper Aiden Callaway never questioned his job until a fire took the life of his friend, Kyle, and left Aiden with injuries and fractured memories. The truth may clear Aiden of blame but destroy Kyle's reputation and hurt the people he left behind.

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle. While on the march, the group run into some Australian prisoners, one of whom, Joe Harman, helps them steal some food, and is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a result.

The electric feeling of an older crush looking at you, returning your secret feelings... Chloe Maine's first five small town romance audiobooks, collected here in the complete Conception Ridge collection of age gap instalove novellas!

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Carer/companion wanted. Young female preferred. Competitive salary. Room and board included.' Una Richardson is devastated after the death of her mother. Hoping for a fresh start, she responds to an advertisement and steps into the rich, comforting world of elderly...

Jackson Davenport, the charismatic, strait-laced heir to the Davenport fortune, has a secret. One he's been hiding since he graduated from South Haven all-boys academy - and that secret's name is Lucas. When a work trip takes Jackson back to his old stomping grounds, memories of the year he shared with Lucas come crashing to the surface. With growing pressure from his father to settle down and take over the family business, Jackson knows he's on borrowed time and sets out to find the free-spirited daredevil he once knew

‘The yearning was one for the record books’ SARRA MANNING ‘A world of small-town charm and irresistible romance’ LIZ TOMFORDE ‘The ideal balance of sweet and sexy’ MARIAN KEYES ‘As heartfelt as a Taylor Swift song and as cosy as a pumpkin spiced latte’ ZOË FOLBIGG From the...

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers . AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE DAVY BYRNES IRISH WRITING AWARD 'A real jewel.'...