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In the heart of occupied France, the Gestapo is hunting a ghost. They only know one thing about their most dangerous enemy: her limp. Sent to Lyon, a city built for conspiracy, an American spy with a wooden leg codenamed "Cuthbert" begins a one-woman war against the Third Reich. Under the guise of a naïve journalist, Virginia Hall orchestrates sabotage and builds escape lines, her every move shadowed by the threat of discovery. Her limp is her signature, the one flaw in her performance that could betray her to the ever-watchful Gestapo. When the enemy’s top spy hunter is brought in to ...

Mave O'Connor traded high-speed city sirens for the quiet pines of Maine, hoping for a "picturesque diorama" of a life. But when the town's most arrogant culinary star, Larsen Whitmore, is found dead at the base of Skylark Bluff, Mave realizes that small-town peace is just a carefully curated image. While the local gossip pipeline—led by the formidable Odette Pike—points a finger at the town's "rough-edged" carpenter, Mave's detective instincts see a different story written in the tide. Between the high-stakes drama of the PTA gala and the hushed secrets of a high-end wine cellar, she ...

She needed an escape. What she found was a cage. Sara Evans is desperate. Failing London life, crashing on her friend’s sofa, and haunted by rejections, she takes a radical chance: inventing Sarah Smith, a flawless nanny persona, to answer a cryptic job ad. The position is live-in, miles away in affluent St Albans, at the beautiful home of the enigmatic and stunning Theodora Bedford. It seems like the perfect refuge, a lifeline. But Avenue Road is not the sanctuary Sara imagined. Behind the elegant facade, the house suffocates with unspoken tensions. Theodora is magnetic, intelligent, and...

In 1868, Japan is a nation tearing itself apart. The age of the samurai is ending. The Emperor's modern, rifle-wielding army marches to erase 700 years of warrior tradition, and their final target is the fiercely loyal Aizu clan, the last bastion of the old world. Based on the extraordinary true story of the Boshin War, this novel brings to life one of history's most remarkable and little-known figures: Nakano Takeko. A woman trained from birth in the martial arts, her skill with the naginata is legendary, but she is barred from the official battle lines by her gender. As the Imperial army ...

In 1930s Tokyo, a young woman uncovers a secret that rewrites her family’s heroic samurai past. Now, the truth her grandmother has spent a lifetime protecting might just be the death of them both. She was raised on a legend of glorious death and battlefield honour. But when a hidden document exposes a link between that legend and a modern conspiracy, she is marked for death by a government hiding its own secrets. The game is Go. The stakes are human lives. For Hana Nakano, being the Kwantung Army's finest typist is an honor. But her perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers ...

From the rain-slicked streets of Oregon to the burning skies of Canton, Hazel chases a single, impossible dream: to fly. When World War II erupts, she joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), a band of pioneers ferrying lethal warbirds across a divided nation. In the cockpit of a P-63 Kingcobra, Hazel finds her freedom. But on the ground, she faces a different kind of war—one of prejudice, segregation, and a country that demands her life but refuses her dignity. The Silver Thread is the soaring, heartbreaking true story of a forgotten hero who stitched the earth to the sky with a ...

She built a fortress in her mind. He built a prison from his past. Alex Zhang, a brilliant hacker, has silenced the world from within her maximum-security cell. Her only connection is to Chisoku, the sentient AI she created and would do anything to protect. Rowan Shepherd is an ex-soldier, hiding from the ghosts of a mission that went catastrophically wrong, his only solace the quiet work of his hands. When a mysterious parasite infects her creation, Alex is forced to engineer an impossible escape, only to collide with a man as damaged and guarded as herself. Thrown together by chance, they...

Jin, an Imperial Scribe, lives by a single rule: control. His world is a fortress of straight lines and balanced ledgers, a rigid defense against the chaotic memories of his past. He despises the fluid, "horizontal" world of his rivals, believing his meticulous perfection is the only path to advancement. But his precision earns him only a demotion to a forgotten, chaotic archive. There, buried in the filth, he uncovers a mythical, lost scroll—the original words of the sage Laozi. Convinced this is his key to immortal glory, he steals it and embarks on a quest to the edge of the Empire. ...

Detective Mave Rhys-Jones is used to the gloom, but when local eccentric Martha Gable is found dead in her mirror-filled cottage, the silence feels different. Martha’s death looks natural, but the empty pale square on her living room wall screams otherwise. A priceless DeForest landscape, Storm over the Flats, has vanished.

Julian Wesley was a man who believed the laws of physics were for other people. When he is found broken at the base of the local lighthouse, a spray-paint can of neon orange still in his hand, the town is quick to blame a local waiter with a grudge and a wrench. Even the local handyman, Jim Miller, seems ready to confess to a crime he didn’t commit to protect a secret of his own.

Some secrets are kept in the heart. Hers were kept in a diary. To the world, Akiko Sato was a success story in the cutthroat world of Tokyo finance. But behind the serene smiles and perfectly executed strategy was a private war, chronicled in the pages of a book no one else was ever meant to read. It reveals a game played not with money, but with friendships, rivalries, and love. And it exposes the one move she could never take back—the one that cost her everything to win. What is written in the pages of a woman’s life when she thinks no one is looking?

DCI Ellie Blackwell trusts the certainties of history, the clean lines of a 17th-century map. Her life is a fortress of order built against the chaos of her job. But when she's called to the scene of a wealthy developer's apparent suicide, the clues are a maddening mess of contradictions. At the heart of it all: a three-line Japanese poem that feels like a key to the wrong lock.

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, a punishment for being too sharp has landed her on the Gnome Squad, investigating the absurd serial theft of garden ornaments. But a call from the university's gleaming Advanced Computing Laboratory pulls her from bureaucratic exile into a world of chillingly clean logic and a death that is anything but simple. Professor Ken Takeda, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, is dead. The scene is a textbook suicide, too perfect to be true. The only clue is a cryptic message left glowing on his monitor in binary code, a single line of eerie, elegant poetry: An echo ...

Hiromi Tanaka is a digital janitor. She’s underpaid, underappreciated, and officially done with quests. When a trio of cosmic beings offers her a destiny, she refuses. Their counter-offer? They steal her crisps. Big mistake. Now, with a pipe that can edit reality and a crew of galactic misfits, Hiromi is on the run from an agency that deletes anyone who goes off-script. To survive, she has to stop being a character in someone else’s story and finally become the author.