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Hazel is a regular teenager growing up in an irregular world overrun with zombies. She likes music, perfume, freshly baked muffins, and playing her Xbox - everything that no longer exists in the apocalypse. Raised in the safety of a commune, Hazel rarely sees Zee anymore, except on those occasions when the soldiers demonstrate the importance of a headshot to the kids. To her horror, circumstances beyond her control lead her outside the barbed wire fence and into a zombie-infested town.

When war sends five displaced children to her door, Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be the same. Eight-year-old Olive trembles when spoken to and won't say how she got a bruised lip, and her brother Peter seems angry at the entire world. With whispers of spies in the village and the children's precious futures at stake, Dodie must decide who to trust before everything she's built crumbles to ashes around her.

Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean, vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his father’s mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building an indestructible empire. The more money and power he amasses, the safer he is from threats.

Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the night, taking one patient with her. Fifty miles away, the surrendering soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment are shot dead by the advancing Germans. Beneath the pile of bodies two men survive, crawling to the safety of a nearby farmhouse, where sisters Elise and Adelaide risk their lives to take them in.

What We Left Behind Maddie Hartman, Ella Hayes, and Brooke Summers were inseparable—the kind of childhood friends who promised forever. But the summer before their senior year, everything changed. Brooke vanished without a trace. Her disappearance shattered their friendship. Grief, unanswered questions, and the weight of the unknown pushed Maddie and Ella in opposite directions. Ella left Willow Springs for the city, determined to build a future far from the ghosts of their past. Maddie stayed behind, working in her family’s hardware store, raising a son, and carrying the burden of what...

She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit.

When a mother dies under mysterious circumstances, the truth is never simple—and the secrets she left behind may be more dangerous than anyone suspects. Samantha Leary is drawn into a world of lies, manipulation, and control as she investigates the life of the woman who was gone too soon. Each step closer to the truth uncovers the devastating impact of Nicholas’ influence—a man who dominates, deceives, and destroys lives with cold precision. As Samantha pieces together the mother’s hidden story, she confronts the heart-wrenching realities of loss, power, and betrayal. With a baby ...

Josh and his husband, Ian, have done their best to help Michael leave his horrific past behind, but even Josh is stunned when Ian suggests that Josh help Michael with his fear of physical intimacy. After all, it isn't like it would be the first time - Josh and Michael were once each other's firsts.

A hesitant first kiss, and Josh and Michael's natural attraction eases the way. But with Michael still balking at the prospect of sex with someone new, Ian steps into the breach.

Three separate cases. Three psychological investigations. One woman pulling the truth out of the dark. In this Samantha Leary Psychological Thriller collection, Samantha is drawn into three distinct and escalating investigations—each beginning with a death, a disappearance, or a hidden act of control, and each revealing how far people will go to protect what they’ve built. In My Darling Wife, the murder of Catherine Whitmore exposes a dangerous web of missing manuscripts, political influence, and powerful figures who operate far beyond public scrutiny. As Samantha traces connections ...

He was her first heartbreak. Now he’s her last chance to tell the story that could change everything. Jasmine White walked away from Leo Hale—and the wreckage of their once-brilliant collaboration—years ago. But when an explosive academic scandal rocks their university, the two former lovers are thrust back into the spotlight... and into a forced partnership neither of them wants. The terms? Co-author a book that exposes the truth. The problem? Their truth is messier than anything on the page. As Jasmine fights for her voice in a world that tried to silence her, Leo must face the role...

Five years ago, 19-year-old Simon Hawkeswell hanged himself in his family home in Warwickshire, England. The reasons behind his choice remain a devastating mystery, and what's worse, not long after his death a wave of "sympathetic" suicides among local teens rocked the community. But that was then. A short-lived, sinister trend that's faded into oblivion. Or so everyone thought.

In a world ravaged by chaos, seventeen-year-old Makenna has one mission: protect her six-year-old sister, Sara, at all costs. After escaping an abusive home only to face the horrors of a global outbreak, Makenna must navigate a nightmarish landscape filled with the infected—soulless, ravenous creatures—and the relentless cruelty of desperate survivors.When a group of strangers, including three enigmatic brothers, steps into her life, Makenna finds herself torn between her fierce independence and the possibility of trusting others. Together, they form a fragile alliance, carving out a ...

Oak Hill, North Carolina is a sleepy community where nothing exciting ever happens, a town so tiny it has no room for secrets. So when a stranger is found murdered in a cornfield, Detective Grace Bingham is forced to partner with Jack Sawyer—a big city detective who broke her heart and fled the town years prior—in order to uncover the explosive truth.

A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture). Climate change is the unifying...

When the person you've built your whole life around is gone, what do you do? It's not the first time Abby Stone has faced the question. At 18, she envisioned a future with her childhood sweetheart Charlie, only to have him go off to school and leave a pregnant Abby behind. But that pales beside a second loss, when her 18-year-old son Luke falls to his death from his third-floor dorm. Abby throws herself into running her thriving B&B on the coast of Maine.

Following a tragic shooting that takes the life of his partner, wounded thirty-one-year-old detective Lincoln Danforth unravels ten years of history during counseling sessions that reveal a decade worth of secrets. Secrets including the demise of his marriage to Georgia Del Rossi, the daughter of a growing organized crime associate that he married to save from her father. But will the mandatory therapy make the detective see the consequences of his choices and let go of the past?

Joanne’s husband, Zack, recently elected mayor of Regina, is optimistic that he can garner the public support necessary to make Regina a city that works—not just for the few, but for the many. Their oldest son Peter is marrying Maisie Crawford, a woman as clever and forthright as she is lovely. Their lakeside wedding is a dream come true, but when a former lover of a member of the bridal party shows up, the dream becomes a nightmare. Before the bride's bouquet has wilted, there's an act of sickening cruelty; soon afterwards, there’s a murder.

In this unforgettable and “essential feminist memoir of women’s lives” (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother’s hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria. To Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the...

When Lieutenant Mark Wheeler of the South Carolina Police Department arrives at a possible murder-suicide, he realizes almost immediately things are amiss. The crime scene is brutal, but upon further investigation, he unveils a sadistic killer at play who will stop at nothing to get away. As the case unfolds, nothing can prepare Wheeler for the gauntlet of turmoil and trouble.

I've always wanted a family of my own, but never dreamed I could have one. Now Parker's ready to make my dream our reality. But sometimes our dreams are haunted by our deepest fears. Fears of failure, having a child, and in our case...death. How do I help the person I love get over his fear when I'm still trying to overcome that same fear myself?