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"Put it on your list!" -Stephen King Author of Ghost Girl and This Appearing House Ally Malinenko brings to life a terrifying middle grade novel about a girl learning to grieve her grandfather and the creepy antique dolls in his house that seem to come alive, perfect for fans of The Doll in the...

The Dolces broke me, but it doesn’t matter. They shattered my body and soul, and when they were done, they left me for dead. But it doesn’t matter. I don’t care about anything. Not even the one person I thought would never betray me, that I could always count on, the one person who always had my back. Me. I don’t matter. Royal taught me that. Now, a stranger tends me like the flowers in his garden. He plays with me like a doll he pulled from the trash. He doesn’t want to fix me. He wants to turn me into someone else. It doesn’t matter. I don’t care who I am. So I let him.

The house promises a kind master, but the monster in the dungeon wants her. And Brian breaks all his toys. Mina Calloway is lured to the Pleasure House with the promise that all her dark fantasies will come true, but her past abuse makes her too hard to train. Instead of being sold to someone safe as promised, she ends up in the dungeons, left in the hands of the house’s most brutal and sociopathic trainer. When she looks into his cold dark eyes, she’s sure her life is over. Brian is a monster, a known killer. But he’s paid a lot of money to possess her.

When does a love story become a thriller or a horror tale? Is it when love ends and trust is broken, or when everything you believed turns out to be a lie? When I met Alec, I thought the drama that haunted my life was life finally over, and that he was the Prince Charming I never believed I'd find. He made mistakes, did all the wrong things, and yet he was perfect for me because he loved me as I was. That was my happy ending come true. Or so I was led to believe. Sometimes the world is really just black or white. Wrong is clearly wrong, and fairness feels like the only right path.

A sociopath cuts a path of destruction across the rural Midwest. In pursuit: a vigilante detective and a prosecutor, one bent on revenge, the other on virtue. And in the wrong place at the wrong time: a doctor in a life-and-death moral struggle. Barreling toward justice, their fates converge in these four interlocking short stories of cunning misdirection by internationally bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.

I've always been the outcast—awkward, invisible, a loser. My pet rat and my computer are my only friends. I've accepted the fact that I'll probably die a lonely virgin—until I pick up the hottest man I've ever met for a ride home. An impulsive invitation, a strange encounter. He's way out of my league. Then he tosses me out, sending me back into the hole I'd crawled out of. I didn't think I'd ever see him again—until I walked into my new job two months later. Turns out, he's my new boss.

As day breaks over the fairground, Detective Katie Scott forces herself to take in another disturbing scene in front of her. A woman, the same age as her, found slumped in the carriage of the Ferris wheel, red lipstick dragged across her lips, her throat cut. Katie doesn’t want to believe that the serial killer picking off women across the state has found their way to the small town of Pine Valley, California, but when her team finds a gold engagement ring hanging nearby, it’s a terrifying, but undeniable fact.

“I was twelve when they locked me away. They didn’t give me therapy though. They gave me trauma.” Broken Doll is a brutally honest collection of poetry and artwork created from inside the walls of psychiatric institutions. Written by Michelle, a survivor who spent her entire adolescence sectioned in mental health units, this book lays bare the pain, confusion, and silent fury of growing up in a broken system. Through raw, emotionally charged poems and haunting original artwork, Michelle documents years of systemic abuse, isolation, and resistance.

In May, 1988, in Everett, Washington, four-year-old Feather Rahier disappeared while playing outside after dinner. Her frantic cries drew Feather's mother to the dark garage that was home to Richard Matthew Clark. Clark had stolen the child, bound, and gagged her, and begun to undress her. Only at the last instant was the little girl saved by her mother's desperate intervention. The next victim wouldn't be so fortunate.

Ella doesn’t remember what it’s like to be human—after all, she’s lived as a doll for thirty years. She forgets what it’s like to taste, to breathe…to love. She helps the professor create other dolls, but they don’t seem to hang around for long. His most recent creation is Lisa, a sly goth. Ella doesn’t like Lisa. How could she, when Lisa keeps trying to destroy her?

A baby lies abandoned amongst the rubbish, her tiny face as white as alabaster, her body as stiff as a miniature doll. A young prostitute lies beaten, her figure lying like a mannequin on the frozen concrete, her blood spilt, her life ebbing away. As DC 'Charlie' Stafford and her boss, DI Hunter, struggle to identify the victim from the violator, their hunt brings them to the crack houses of Lambeth, littered with damaged people, their lives scarred by tragedy and violence, most broken beyond repair. 

Blessé lors d'une compétition de lutte, Devon revient dans la ville de son enfance pour donner un nouveau sens à sa vie. Mais après quatre ans d'absence et autant de questions restées sans réponse, il ne s'attendait pas à revoir Izzie, son amour de jeunesse qu'il n'a jamais oublié. Aux yeux du monde, cette jeune femme devenue professeure de pole dance est libre et insaisissable. Mais dans cette petite ville d'Oklahoma, ce sport sensuel est vu d'un mauvais œil.

A robbery goes awry. A female deputy is tortured and murdered. The killer, hiding in plain sight, has officials in rural Wisconsin under his thumb—except for Special Agent Constant Marlowe, on an unsanctioned mission to avenge her friend’s death. Constant isn’t letting a notorious sadist like Paul Offenbach get away. Traps are set. A cat-and-mouse game begins. Both hunter and hunted are ready to play.

Far too young, Apollo Ulfr lost Ilsa, the love of his life. The grief of her loss does not settle in his soul, it solders to it. When he discovers there’s a parallel universe where his wife may have a twin, he feels there’s hope and sets about bringing her to his world. Ilsa Ulfr of our world is on the run from her husband, Apollo’s twin. The last thing she wants is to be transported to a fantastical world and forced to take his side as his wife. However, trouble catches up with her, and she has no choice.

In the heart-pounding sequel to the New York Times bestselling dystopian romance Silver Elite, lines will be crossed, loyalties will be tested, and the fight for the Continent is only just beginning as Wren Darlington finds herself caught in the middle of two wars: one for the fate of her home...

I’m the monster in the shadows—but she’s addicted to monsters. She looks so pretty when she cries out in her sleep. I’m obsessed by her gasps when she hears me coming for her. I'm hooked on the way she fights me when I pin her down. When she starts investigating the wrong missing girl, I have to punish her to keep her from digging—or her dark past will swallow her whole.

A festive street fair is underway in the shadow of the courthouse where a judge has just signed an extradition order. Paul Offenbach is escorted outside in handcuffs to a police cruiser—with another trick up his sleeve no one expects. In a matter of seconds, the killer is free, a hostage is taken from his family and Special Agent Constant Marlowe has lost her bid for justice. But is this the final chapter? As the lives of the guilty, the innocent and the vengeful converge, the winner remains uncertain.

Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I wear vengeance like a suit of armor. I’ve got a list with six names on it. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. And I’ve crossed off every name but one.

"He's back." Two words Sloane Matthews never thought she'd hear, especially not from her ex-husband's mouth. Failing to catch the Mommy Murderer five years ago was the beginning of the end of her career and her marriage. She'll do whatever it takes to find the man responsible for the deaths of so many - even work alongside the man who betrayed her. The return of a gruesome serial killer isn't the only reason Sloane is back on the FBI's radar. Someone is recreating horrors from her past, and she's the number one suspect.

When 15-year-old Beth Ridley vanished on her way to school, it was a baffling mystery that shocked the small island community of Gorey. The girl was never found, and the sole clue—a leg torn from a doll she was carrying—led investigators nowhere. The case soon went cold.… Now, on the 10th anniversary of her disappearance, Detective Inspector Graham is taking another look at the case. Something about the case doesn’t feel right, and the inspector can’t seem to let it go. What he uncovers will rock the town of Gorey to the core, and stir up memories long since forgotten.