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Sarah grew up behind closed doors and drawn curtains, where secrets festered and survival became a full-time job. Her childhood home—tucked at the end of a gravel road in small-town Kentucky—held more than its fair share of darkness. In *The Girl in the Window*, S. Lee Davis delivers a gut-wrenching and beautifully told true story of trauma, silence, and resilience. Told through a child’s eyes and a survivor’s memory, this memoir traces the path of a girl who was overlooked by the world but never stopped watching it.

Don’t miss AJ Finn’s eagerly anticipated new thriller, END OF STORY! “As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last...

Every morning, I sit at the same table of my favourite café, sip my cappuccino, and watch them. The woman has no idea I’m watching, day after day, unravelling the secrets of her life. I see the way she smiles when he arrives, how she glances over her shoulder… like someone who is hiding something. She thinks she’s in control, but has no idea I’m on to them… I know a lot more about the man. For a start, he’s not who he pretends to be – his lies are as plain as the nose on your face. There’s more to this story than meets the eye, a lot more than I’ll ever let on.

Alana: She’s outside my house again. She must think I haven’t seen her, that I don’t notice her watching me. I’m shocked by how similar we look. I have no idea why she’s here. But her arrival could change everything. Laura: I stare at her through the window. She looks exactly like me, except her make up is flawless, her hair is perfect and she’s wearing expensive clothes. I know it’s crazy, but I have to find out who she is. I visited this windswept Cornish village when I was a child, does she have a connection to my past?

Amber is barely holding it together. In the midst of a messy divorce, sometimes the only thing that gets her out of bed is spying on her handsome neighbor Caleb. She fantasizes about trading places with Caleb’s spouse and makes it no secret that she’d kill for that kind of life. Her words come back to haunt her when Caleb’s wife is murdered and Amber becomes a top suspect.

Singapore is a tiny country in a dangerous neighborhood. Barely five million people live in the secular city-state surrounded by the three hundred million Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia. Islamic terrorism in Asia may not get much attention in America or Europe, but it gets plenty in Singapore. They’ve been hit once already. Not long ago, coordinated truck bombs laid waste to three American hotels in Singapore. Thousands were killed and injured. And everyone knows it’s just a matter of time before Singapore gets hit again. Abu Suparman is the messianic leader of a radical group of ...

When the girl in the window waves to Henry Parker, he feels as if a seam in the fabric of experience has opened, welcoming him to a new exciting life and that promise seems almost fulfilled when that same day he meets the dark and seductive Jennifer Lacey, friend of Cyril and Valiant, the painter Ricky and others who seem to occupy a world of haunted enchantment. But because he is young and short of confidence, Henry is unsure he will ever fit into Jennifer’s world, drawn as he is. His alternative is the light and enticing Kate Rodgers whose insistence that our day-to-day lives are shot ...

It's field trip day! It's always fun to have some time away from school, and Rebekah especially enjoys field trips, because she almost always finds something interesting to explore. And today, they are getting a chance to step back in time. When the tour guide tells the students that they can explore the old village, except for the one house at the end, of course Rebekah's curiosity is sure to get the best of her. Especially when she's sure that she sees someone waving to her from the window. How could that be? Is the girl real? Rebekah is on the case!

Her name is Beth. She came into my life when I needed her the most. We lead very different lives, but she’s the only person who understands me. She was the only other witness to the terrible accident on the street between our homes - the only person who saw the cracks in my perfect life before I had the chance to cover them up.

One thing about me: I HATE flying. It’s my worst nightmare. That’s why I book seat 2A every time I fly. Since my big win, I've been booking seats 2B and 2C as well. They’re my comfort seats, they cushion the claustrophobia, and at last I can afford them. I am now determined to live the life of luxury. I deserve it, after all. How to Live Like a Millionaire is the book I’m reading on this flight. When it lands on the floor, a handsome guy hands it back to me. I know he clocks the title, because he’s totally charming and talks to me as if I’m one of the Marbella Millionaire set.

When overwhelmed stay-at-home mom Alexis finds herself at odds with her husband after she’s charged with a DUI, she is given one chance to get her family back: complete AA and admit her faults. The problem is, she’s never had a drinking problem and has no idea what caused the blackout that led to her arrest. Still, she’s committed to working through the program, if that’s what it takes to be reunited with her two young children. But when she connects with a new friend, Farrah, she’s empowered to take a closer look at her husband’s role in her downfall.

Soon to be an original TV series! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, and It Ends with Us comes a “brilliant” (Tracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author) tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance. Twenty-two-year-old college...

Jenna is stalked by a sinister man in a mask on the eve of her eighteenth birthday in The Man in the Window. What does he want, and is he even real? The Man in the Window is an action horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, Romance Stories, True Stories, To Meghan, and much more.

Longing to be one of the popular girls in her new town, Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into their club. Now Kammie's trapped in the dark, counting the hours, waiting to be rescued. (The girls have gone for help, haven't they?) As hours pass, Kammie's real-life predicament mixes with memories of the best and worst moments of her life so far, including the awful reasons her family moved to this new town in the first place.

After a few hiccups and mix-ups, she is seated on an aisle seat. The window seat that should have been hers is taken by a beautiful young woman with red hair. After making a note of her surroundings, Ava decides to get some shut-eye. A few hours into the flight, Ava is abruptly woken up from a nightmare. As she takes notes of her surroundings once more, she notices something off about the woman in the window seat.

A novella by David Alexander Praise for David Alexander's Short Fiction "There are few story writers working today more vibrant, innovative and exciting than David Alexander. His stories jump off the page in fits of sensory attack, spiritual complication, emotional trouble. I don't know where he came from, but I know where he's going -- to the front rank of American storytellers." -- Frederick Barthelme "Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borgesque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. ...His stories transcend interpersonal ...

Beneath the serene facade of Twin Pines, an ancient evil waits in the shadows. For Emma Flowers, a troubled teenager grappling with her father's mysterious disappearance and her mother's overbearing nature, life has become a labyrinth of bad moods and unanswered questions. Then, after a night of bad storms, Emma finds her neighbor’s dog dead in the middle of the street. As the mystery intensifies, teenagers around town begin falling into coma-like, nightmare states. As the creature moves in on Emma, she begins to uncover the evil’s origins, discovering dark parts of her own past in the ...

Robert Ragland toiled every day on his family’s Appalachian tobacco farm as a young boy. His father, an impoverished and illiterate sharecropper, spent his earnings on alcohol and beat his children and wife constantly. And Robert couldn’t take one more strike. Meanwhile, Mennonite families had moved to town, providing food and comfort when Robert’s mother broke her leg. Witnessing compassion from these people, Robert wondered: What would it feel like to belong to a group where I was wanted, loved, and appreciated?

"Intermittent fasting is not just a diet; it's a lifestyle." Intermittent fasting has gained immense popularity in recent years as an effective and sustainable weight loss and wellness strategy. Rather than a diet in the traditional sense, intermittent fasting is a lifestyle that involves restricting your eating window, which is the time frame during which you consume your daily calories. "Intermittent Fasting Diet For Women: What to Eat During the Eating Window" explores the benefits and guidelines for women following the intermittent fasting diet, specifically focusing on what to eat ...

¿Están nuestros destinos escritos de antemano por las heridas que nos han infligido en las casas en las que nos criamos? ¿Podemos cambiar ese signo que persiste en repetirse? La doctora Gülseren, psiquiatra, acompaña y guía a un conjunto de personajes en este descubrimiento, atravesado, a su vez, por el amor y todas sus formas de expresión. Los protagonistas de esta novela, atrapados entre dos mundos opuestos, se debaten entre su pasado, su presente y los condicionamientos que ambas realidades les han impuesto.