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From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the...

The most dangerous lie is the one everyone else believes. Six months after toppling a criminal empire, June Sawyer believes the war is over. The Sawyer's Shack Cultural Center stands as a testament to her family's resilience, and the Louisiana bayou is finally healing. But peace is a fleeting tide. Enter Dr. Julian Bellamy. The charismatic benefactor brings resources, solutions, and miracles to the coast. He saves dying children and funds impossible dreams, quickly earning the adoration of everyone June holds dear. But where others see a savior, June smells the acetone beneath the wax seal...

“An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller.” —New York Post “Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark...

The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in WashingtonD.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend...

"A nonstop suspense thriller with an amazing cast of characters." --NetGalleyHistorian Wrenn Grayson arrives at the Rosemont mansion expecting to receive payment for her services from the mansion's new owner, Clay Addison. That expectation dies when she and Clay find Trey Rosemont murdered on the foyer floor. Across town, police officers race to Eastwood University. Priceless Egyptian artifacts were stolen from the history department safe. Wrenn's longtime love, Eastwood professor Gideon Douglas, heads the department. Only recovery of the artifacts will save his career. Life in Havens, Ohio...

Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he' s sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in the study of psychopaths. As Sunil tries to crack the twins, the implications of his research grow darker. Haunted by his betrayal of loved ones back home during apartheid, he seeks solace in the love of Asia, a prostitute with hopes of escaping that life. But Sunil' s own troubled past is fast on his heels in the form of a would-be assassin.

The Secret History meets The Skulls by way of Rebecca in this gripping Collegiate Gothic romantic thriller TRADITION IS A TRICKY THING TO KILL Twice a year, Anathema emerges from the shadows to perform satirical Sermons—controversial events that lambast Radcliffe College and the behavior of its students. Membership in the organization is open knowledge, but its rituals are closely guarded by those involved. When a dissenter to the group’s practices is found dead under mysterious circumstances, two of the secret society’s most dedicated members, Matt Richardson and Joan Keating, fear a...

When gods are born from data, who decides humanity's fate? The Atlas Meridian combines the civilizational depth of Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, the sweeping scope of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and the consciousness-expanding vision of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. The Cartographers have recovered treasures beyond imagination—scrolls from Alexandria's lost library, a working analog computer crafted by Archimedes himself. But their greatest discovery lies buried in the Sahara's heart: an alien Alchemical Engine that transforms consciousness itself. Kael emerges renewed, ...

The New York Times best-selling author of the Nightside series, Simon R. Green has won widespread acclaim and an immense following for his Secret Histories novels featuring Eddie “Shaman Bond” Drood. In Green’s action-packed riff on everyone’s favorite superspy, Eddie once again finds himself at the center of supernatural intrigue. And even though protecting humanity from the forces of darkness is nothing new to Eddie, he now faces a threat that’s leaving him both shaken and stirred.

A disturbing horror thriller. Death feeds it. Greg thought it was the drugs, maybe the girls. It could be his wife's death. His children were concerned. Every decision he made was somehow justified. The nights brought lecherous behavior. The days decayed into debauchery. He was Dorian Gray, and the girls were his painting. He tried to give them wise counsel. He was muted by the entity that was snuggling into his soul. The gang bangers could smell it on him. Something was wrong with the old white dude. Pulled from the pages of history, ancient Egypt until today, based on some real events. ...

Are you ready to get locked away in a maximum security mental hospital? Go inside the mind of a criminal, along with an innocent man. There will be violence, injections, psychosis, and murder.

An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike" (Sarah McCarry). In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival...

Three months after exposing a massive corruption scheme and freeing eight wrongfully convicted women, Maya Reeves thinks the hardest part is over. She’s wrong. When Keisha Monroe—one of the exonerees—is nearly killed in a sabotaged crash, Maya discovers a chilling truth: someone is hunting the women she saved. Break-ins. Threatening emails. Shadowy surveillance. A single message echoes through every attack: Mercy is for the silent. A secret network of disgraced officials—The Mercy Clause—will stop at nothing to keep their crimes buried. As fear spreads and the body count threatens...

While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door. Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and violent affair she's had with her professor, the father of the woman's unborn child. In alternating perspectives, the professor and his girlfriend reflect upon their lives, each other, and their interloper.

After vowing never to return, Kara Wade is back in New York City. She’s come to claim the body of her twin sister, Kelly, and to find out how she died. No secret as to the cause of death - a nearly nude, 12-story plunge from a room in the Plaza Hotel - but Kara is determined to learn what led to that plunge. Enlisting the help of an old lover, now an NYPD detective, Kara delves into her sister’s life. Startling and bizarre facts begin to surface. Instead of answers, Kara finds more questions. Who was the stranger Kelly became during the months prior to her death?

*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a...

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe Haldeman ranks among the greatest science fiction authors to ever live. This thrilling entry from his Marsbound saga finds the mysterious alien Others prohibiting humans from space travel by destroying Earth’s fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. But Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter the Others, is determined to find a way to reclaim the future that has been stolen from humankind.

A psychological murder mystery set in Edwardian England during the early 1900s. "The Baron's Burden" transports readers to the crumbling manors and imposing estates of aristocratic England, where the veneer of noble life conceals dark secrets and complex intrigues. When Old Lord Windsom unexpectedly inherits his family's decaying estate, he also inherits a legacy of debts and duties. His marriage to the ambitious actress Erin Carson, adds further complications, igniting a series of scandals that ripple through high society. As Erin Carson's schemes to secure her status unfold, a series of ...

Juliette is abandoned shortly after her birth; a nameless babe left to fate's unpredictable whims. In exchange for a hefty sum, she is left in the care of a destitute country doctor, a man whose stoic resolve guides her transformation from fragile infancy to a beautiful young woman of strength and vitality. Yet, within the walls of their home, resentment simmers like an ever-present storm, as the doctor's wife and daughter begrudgingly share their lives with the enigmatic orphan. In a moment of audacious bravery, she rescues a stranger, the enigmatic Francois, from the merciless clutches of...