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Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021 ‘Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping’ – Scotsman ‘An utterly riveting read’ – Guardian, Thriller of the Month 6 December 1993. A drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother’s lawn in South Central...

Claudia de Santos has always looked out for every witch but herself. She fought from the shadows as her coven turned dark, and with a little help from her half-witch/half-Alpha werewolf cousin, Teresa McCaide, Claudia is doing everything she can to keeper friends and family in the light. Now the coven has splintered into two factions: Luciana's army of witches wielding dark magic, and Claudia's few stragglers who fight with the wolves. War is coming, and it won't be much of a battle if Claudia can't find the spells to counteract Luciana's demonic power.

Reagan and Victoria are sure about two things in their future: they’re going to be college roommates, and they’re going to get out of Charytan, Kansas, together. But as they go on a series of college visits, the two begin to realize their visions of the future may not align, and as the secrets they’ve been keeping from the other slowly come to light, they learn they’re not exactly the yin and yang they thought they were. Suddenly, neither one is sure what the next four years hold, or whether they’ll be spending them together at all.

An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson française, and South American folk melodies. In Canada, her album La Llorona won the Juno Award and went gold, and its follow-up, The Living Road, won a BBC World Music Award. Tragically, de Sela succumbed to breast cancer in 2010 at the age of thirty-seven after recording her final album, Lhasa.

Shattered by infertility, Anna Maria knew that adoption was the only way to realize the family of her dreams. That is how she found herself in a Mexican orphanage ready to meet a six-year-old girl. Once in their forever home, her new daughter cried and pleaded to return to the women who had cared for her since birth. Anna Maria was devastated.

Twelve-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. Then, Dad disappears, and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. What’s happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever?

Luna Sarasola wasn’t supposed to be back in Biarritz yet. She was supposed to be in California, finishing her coastal research project, squeezing in one last surf with her best friend. Not flying home to bury her twin sister. Not figuring out how to explain death to their six-year-old half-sister when she can barely say the word herself. The town feels smaller now. Louder. Sharper. Every street still carries the shape of Camille’s laughter—and the secrets she didn’t take with her.