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When Caitlin King’s father collapses on the eve of the summer solstice, she’s drawn back into the tangled web of her already fragile family – and strange visions begin to haunt her. Visions of another life, another time and a woman who looks uncannily like herself. In Iron Age Britain, Cordelia is the third daughter of chief Lear Bladudsunu and a gifted shaman. But she is left grief-stricken when betrayal, ambition and patriarchal power threaten everything she holds dear. Linked across the centuries, Caitlin and Cordelia each face devastating choices.

"Everything happens or a reason in this world, whether it happens for the better or the worst can only be seen after it happens. One can only be what fate has given them by blood." Those were the last words spoken to me by my mother before the events that would end my life, began. As I was once to kill the king now I must save him to save the prophecy, but the question is from whom? Who was my master in league with? Could it be the King of the Dark Fae?

Now that her mother is dead, Lilly is the last seeker. Tasked with seeking the lost crystals of Faerie, she must restore her broken, barren world to glory. But the crystals that keep Faerie alive have been stolen by the Sons of Darkness and hidden on Earth. It's up her to get them back by any means necessary. She has everything under control and plans to bring the first crystal back, when she meets Liam, a Son of Darkness. He's the most dangerous kind, with black wings that smoke and eyes that have seen death. She must kill him and take the crystal, but she can't. He's her soulmate.

Lily was left heartbroken and pissed off at Liam after he took off to side with his people. But now she will have to forgive him and form an alliance. She must bring all of the crystals back to faerie and restore the lands before it's too late. But Liam is hiding a secret, and so are the elders. If Lily can decode the text in her mother's journal, she may just find the key to saving everything, including her heart.

The Profiler's Daughter is a psychologically haunting thriller that combines murder mystery, love triangle, and family intrigue in one satisfying page burner. Sky Stone was born into the wealth and privilege of Boston's oldest Brahmin family but chooses instead to follow in the footsteps of her deceased father, legendary FBI profiler Monk Stone. In the chilly morning hours before the Boston Marathon, when a beautiful university student is found strangled and mutilated, her body left at the base of Heartbreak Hill, Sky returns from self-imposed exile to investigate.

Everything Lily thought she knew about Liam was a lie. After kicking him out of Faerie, she decides to seek the crystals alone. State after state, she scours the country but comes up with nothing. When she gets back to Faerie, defeated and broken hearted, she finds a peace offering from Liam. Faerie needs her now more than ever and she needs Liam’s help. She must push through her heartbreak and save her world before it's lost forever.

Warwickshire, 1875 Emerald Pritchard has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister, Abigail, in the stately Astley House on the outskirts of Nuneaton. But all that suddenly changes when her father disappears leaving the family in debt. They are forced to throw themselves on the mercy of Emerald's uncle who begrudgingly allows them to live in a small cottage within the grounds of his farm.

Jess Harper has spent her whole life trying to make her mum, Abigail, happy and proud. And everything Jess does, from the clothes she wears, the job she has, to the men she dates, are all approved by Abigail first. So when Jess announces that she has a new man in her life - plumber Adam - Abigail is less than impressed. Jess, caught in the middle, doesn’t know who to believe or trust. And then Adam vanishes without trace. Now Jess is the police’s prime suspect, and they want to know if Jess really is as perfect as she seems.

A Hamlet, Beowulf and Neanderthal mashup! Thousands of years ago, at the famed Salamanca Grotto of the Wise, Amets was enjoying the life of a perpetual student until a banshee keened the death of her father. Upon her return home to Guernica, Amets found that her uncle, Gorri, had murdered her father and married her mother. Not only that, but Uncle Gorri was taking advantage of Neanderthal attacks by killing people who crossed him and claiming the Neanderthals did it. What Amets didn't know was that Uncle Gorri had imprisoned a Neanderthal woman, Herti, nor did Amets know that Herti held a ...

Nestled within Paris' historic Palais Royal is a jewelry store unlike any other. La Fantasie Russie is owned by Pavel Orloff, protégé to the famous Faberge, and is known by the city's fashion elite as the place to find the rarest of gemstones and the most unique designs. But war has transformed Paris from a city of style and romance to a place of fear and mourning. In the summer of 1918, in places where lovers used to walk, widows now wander alone.

Born during WWII in the Netherlands, Andrea van de Loo experienced a traumatic childhood, with her father’s past as a member of the Nazi SS casting a long shadow over her life. Despite these challenges, she embarked on an inspirational journey toward healing and self-discovery. Her search for self took her across the globe, where she found solace, purpose, and community. Encompassing eighty years of the author’s life, The Pressing Stones guides listeners through a deeply intimate and emotional journey.

Lost. Alone in a strange world. Searching for his missing father, young Thomas Colson is catapulted into an alternate world at war. Now he must learn to fly dragons, fight with the resistance, and grow up or die trying. Can he survive, find his father, and unite his family, or will he be forever lost a long way from home? A Long Way From Home is the first book in the thrilling new OTHERLANDER series. If you like flying dragons and page-turning adventure, you have to read this fantasy by exciting author T. Kevin Bryan.

Ruby She moved home for a simple life, but what she found wasn’t at all what she expected. Moving back home to Gemstone Bay Inn was the only option for Ruby Colton. Her dreams and ambitions had failed in Wellington, but she had to make things work for the sake of her child. Gemstone Bay offered a chance to write a new chapter for herself, but then she ran into Jason Ryan, the man she had run away from thirteen years ago. Being involved again with Jason was the last thing she wanted, but thanks to her meddling siblings and her parents, Ruby finds herself on a project with Jason. Sparks, ...

When the sisters are finally reunited after years of being torn apart, they discover a dark secret from their past - they are the Daughters of the Circle, powerful witches destined to protect the world from an ancient evil. Morgan, Claire, Tara and Sophia were inseparable as children, until a terrible accident split them up. Now, as adults, they've been brought back together by a shadowy figure from their past. As they uncover the truth about their magical heritage, the sisters must harness their newfound powers to battle a growing darkness threatening their town of Ravenwood. Led by the ...

A mysterious letter from a Peruvian woman arrives just as jet-setting surpermodel Natalia is leaving her Scottsdale, AZ hotel for a few solitary days at her Santa Monica, CA beach condo. As she speeds west, one sentence nags at her, intruding on her consciousness: "I could be mistaken, but I believe I know your mother, your real mother." Why should Natalia care? Now living a storybook life, she has never given high priority to learning the details of her entrance into the world. Without consciously deciding to do so, Natalia detours from her itinerary, heading north toward Flagstaff. As if ...

Are you a parent of a pre-teen girl frozen by the "perfect puberty talk" pressure? Do you feel trapped by the timing tightrope? Worried you'll start too early and rob her innocence, or wait too late and leave her unprepared? Imagine transforming your puberty anxiety into confident conversations in just 30 days—not with memorised speeches, but with a progressive, personalised approach that's rooted in the truth that ongoing conversations trump one "perfect talk.

Want to be a better father? Four dads have come together to create a powerfully honest and insightful guide for men who sincerely want to improve relationships with their kids. Many men struggle with strained connections with their own dad, or the effects of having grown up without a male role model. This imperfect model of fatherhood has left a generation of dads without the foundation for raising their own kids. The authors share their uniquely diverse perspectives and personal experiences to show that no matter who you are, how you grew up or what your current situation is, you can ...

Ashley Bisman was in a high school history class the morning of September 11th when students whispered of planes crashing, fire, and terrorists. She bolted from her seat, sprinting through narrow school hallways leading to the main office. A television on the wall broadcast flames bursting from the skyscrapers, and her body went numb: Her father worked on the 101st floor of Tower 1, and instinctively she knew she would never see him alive again. Jeff Goldflam was not found - the only surviving article discovered in the devastation was his credit card.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts “an enchanting glimpse of Jazz Age New York” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train) about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a...

Autumn has a mischievous way about her which often lands her in hot water with her husband, a doctor. They long for a child, but when all seems perfect in their world, tragedy strikes, leaving her loved ones to wonder if she or her unborn child will survive. Will their love overcome a smallpox epidemic, the illness of her beloved mother-in-law, and Autumn’s own tragic, freak accident?