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From acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and historian Emma Southon, a groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome that explores how the empire was built, fueled, and shaped by its enslaved people. When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul he boasted that he killed a million...

The climb up the hill takes her past sweet-smelling pink roses in full bloom and leads her to an utterly breathtaking view. Megan is happy to be home at last, but will her relationship have survived the journey? It has been a difficult few years for 30-year-old Megan Forrester, completing her apprenticeship and trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with her gorgeous boyfriend, Liam. She's returned home to compete in a local craft competition.

Valour and Petrichor are esteemed members of the Order of Axsten, an assassin’s guild tasked with keeping order in the rough city of Vinterstock. Plucked from the streets as children and raised to compete for their guild’s approval, Valour uses her brawn to survive, while Petrichor strives to be a gentleman assassin.

A marriage of convenience. A scandal that forces their hand. A love that refuses to stay practical. When Fitzwilliam Darcy proposes to Elizabeth Bennet, it isn’t for love—it’s to satisfy a will that threatens his family’s fortune. She accepts, believing she can bear a husband of pride and duty. But shared mornings, late-night confessions, and the dangerous comfort of tenderness begin to change everything. When whispers of impropriety reach London, their fragile trust is tested—and desire becomes the one truth neither can ignore. Can a marriage born of necessity survive the weight ...

With the king's health in decline, the time is short for Crown Prince Phillip of Elsinore to choose a suitable wife. Preferably not one of the many titled women who seem only interested in the crown. Like the logical, responsible man he is, Phillip treats this task the way he does everything else—analytically, with measurable data points. Leaving Elsinore in secret, Phillip travels to a tiny Italian village to meet the woman best matching his qualifications. The plan is to present Alessia with a proposal of marriage and return to the palace before anyone notices his absence.

Ava Sullivan's father locked her up in their basement for over ten years--all because she witnessed him attempting to kill her mother. Once she is finally free, she leaves the Amish and moves to New York City with big plans of going to college for writing--instead, she is tricked and lured into forced prostitution with the false promises of getting a publishing contract. After she testifies against the criminals in court who stole two years of her life, she decides to go back to Unity, Maine to see her friends from childhood even though her pimp threatens to track her down and kill her if ...

An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca. For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration...

I ran away with nothing—no money, no family, nowhere safe to go. But when a stranger in a three-piece suit steps out of the darkness, eyes burning into me like a brand, I know I’ve just made a new kind of mistake. Sutton Hale isn’t a man. He’s a force. A billionaire with a god complex, a twisted sense of morality, and a possessiveness that makes my skin prickle and my stomach flip. He takes me in like he’s been waiting for me, feeds me, clothes me, wraps me up in a world of silk and sin and safety. But safety comes at a price. I’m not allowed to leave. Not allowed to argue. And ...

With her father’s plummeting business and health, 21-year-old Josephine Hayden is urged to ease her parents' burden and accept an invitation to join hands with an unknown Western man in Cowtown, Kansas. Her first sight of blue-eyed Clae McKinley is encouraging, but when she is presented with a contract outlining her responsibilities as a Mail Order wife, fears of a loveless marriage besiege her tender heart.

In Secure at Last: Anxious Attachment Recovery, Emma Harper shares a compassionate and powerful roadmap to help you heal the root causes of anxious attachment and finally build the calm, safe, lasting love you deserve.

The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him - with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer. There is a witness, but his memories have been bound by magical chains only the enemy can break. A rebellious woman trying to escape her family may prove to be the ally Max needs. But can she be trusted? And why does she want to give up eternal youth and the life of privilege she’s been born into?

An arranged marriage isn’t the worst fate for a princess like me. Especially because I’ve been in love with my intended groom since we were children. But when my prince shows up with an American girlfriend instead of an engagement ring, all arrangements are off. The clock is nearing midnight; I won’t turn into a pumpkin, but if I’m not wed by summer’s end, I’ll forfeit my kingdom. Just your typical royal dilemma. Out of sheer desperation, I make a deal with a devilish duke. Rafe de Silva is the prince’s rival and has a plan so ridiculous it just might work.

THE INSTANT BESTSELLER An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire...

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian...

Audrey and Fraser just fit. They were meant to be forever. Until they weren't... Now each must forge a new, different life from the one they expected to live out together. But how to move ahead, when love has been left behind? How to make new beginnings, follow new paths, even find new loves?...

“Paradise never felt so sinister” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) as in this white-knuckled thriller following a couple who share their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuers—only to realize they’re still in the grips of the island’s secrets. In this...

When tradition and innovation collide, will love be strong enough to bridge the divide? Rebecca Lapp has built her life on perfect order. Since losing her mother at twelve, she's kept her Amish family together through meticulous planning and unwavering devotion to tradition. But when a violent storm forces her to seek shelter with Jacob Zook—whose innovative ideas have always raised eyebrows in their community—her carefully constructed world begins to shift. As drought threatens their farms and livelihoods, Jacob's revolutionary irrigation system offers hope—and ignites controversy. ...

Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, "the grey slug" - for 25 years. In 2003, she moved from the city to the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens and began to take walks in the countryside around her new home, photographing, collecting, and drawing as she went. Each walk lifted her mood, proving to be as medicinal as any talking therapy or pharmaceutical. In Emma's diary, she takes us with her as she follows the paths and trails around her cottage and further afield, sharing her nature finds and tracking the lives of local flora and fauna.

The Fallen Witch has risen, bringing chaos back with her. The Ten Kingdoms have splintered. Amare and her friends are on the run. Tectixa is dead set on raising the oceans, wiping out all of humanity in the process. And, as if that weren’t enough, Lukas’s first love is back from the dead. Before Amare can ask what this means for their relationship, Lukas and Phoebe are stolen away, sending her into a magic-fueled rage. Now, if she wants to save the man she loves and protect the Ten Kingdoms from war, she’ll have to go undercover, pretending to get close to the witch she despises most of all.

A Pride and Prejudice continuation where Elizabeth inherits land, Darcy can't stay away, and all of Derbyshire notices. When Elizabeth Bennet unexpectedly inherits a small estate in Derbyshire, she gains independence—and her mother's disappointment that no husband came attached. She does not expect Mr Darcy. Or rather, she does not expect him to keep appearing. At her gate. In her parlour. In conversations that stretch longer than propriety advises. Derbyshire is his county. Elizabeth is now, inconveniently, his neighbour. Conversations become visits. Visits become whispers. And whispers...