Fiction Drama

Caroline Overington's stunning fiction debut is a multi-voiced novel centred around a child's death and its terrible repercussions. In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There, they found a five-year-old boy lying still and silent on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the child, Jacob, died the next day. The story made the headlines, and hundreds attended the funeral. Few people were surprised when the boy's mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime.

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

The Hendricks family has long known that it’s wise to be careful what you wish for...dark family secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind. Grace had never been more terrified...the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe...someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust with her life. It was dark...and getting darker. Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family...not friends. Probably not an enemy. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a...

Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.

It's a blindingly hot summer. International visitors surge into Sydney's Darling Harbour. Two-year-old Tommy is sailing his toy boat in the park there with his mother Phoebe. Tommy vanishes into thin air. The following winter, taunting notes written as nursery rhymes begin arriving at his parents' home. Little Boy Blue, where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know.

A secret buried in the Antarctic. A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years. And a Brooklyn-born master gunnery sergeant who's royally pissed that he has to babysit the researchers sent to figure it all out. But when Patrick "Wic" Finnegan finally sees what the team has uncovered, he can't believe his eyes, nor is he prepared for the violence to come. Soon, the portal opens and unleashes a storm of unbridled fury upon humanity.

Two broken hearts. One chance at something real. Seventeen-year-old Trinity Reed just wants peace — and maybe a real shot at love. After years of watching her mother chase chaos and call it romance, she swore she’d never follow that path. But then Katrell “Keys” Gibson walks into her life — smooth-talking, dangerous, and impossible to resist — and suddenly every promise she made to herself starts to crumble. Then comes Delany “Deuce” Bryant — ambitious, street-smart, and dangerous in all the right ways. He’s hustling for survival and trying to be better than the streets ...

FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

Ava and Joseph Simon reluctantly put their nine-year-old son, Henry, and four-year-old daughter, Catherine, in the care of their son’s teacher, who will escort them on a boat to mainland England. Just as the ferry is about to leave, the teacher’s sister Lily appears. The two trade places: Helen doesn’t want to leave Guernsey, and Lily is desperate for a fresh start.

It's the beginning of the summer and Bianca and her cousin Regina are ready to make it one for the history books. When Bianca introduces Regina to her new boyfriend's best friend things grow interesting really quick. These guys aren't like the usual schoolboy types they've dated in the past. As Bianca and Regina explore these new found love interest things blossom but they soon find out these bad boys live up to their names in more ways than one. As trust is broken things get even more complicated and the girls find themselves taken on a hood journey that grows wilder than they could ever ...

Two years ago, Olivia Martindale left behind her Montana hometown and her husband, Jace, certain it was the best decision for both of them. Back temporarily to protect her almost-adopted daughters from their biological mother, she discovers an old, handwritten cookbook in the attic. Its pages are stained and torn, their edges scorched by flame. Some have been smeared by water or tears. The recipes are written in different hands and in different languages.

Celia Burrows thought she had it all - a handsome husband, two successful children, and a gorgeous beach house on the northern coast of Maine. But her perfect life cracks apart when her husband of 30 years informs her that he's leaving. In a note. And since problems come in threes, her adult children reveal they've both been struggling with issues of their own.

Some summers never leave you. In this moving debut novel, set over the course of one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss, and the choices she must make to move forward. “The book of the summer! It has everything I want in a...

Bently Lawrence, the youngest of three sisters is addicted to the hustle and in love with the head of The Fam, Tazmen Fields. Stepping into place as King, Taz runs the streets with an iron fist and with Bently by his side their empire swells. She’s sassy and sexy, but quick on her feet and proves to be just as ruthless as the man by her side. When “The Tasmanian Devil” is murdered mercilessly on social media for the world to see, she steps into place as the self-proclaimed Queen of The Fam. As Queen, she reigns as an unstoppable force until she meets the immovable object, the streets ...

Triumph or heartache is just a decision away In the midst of a violent storm, the favorite pastor of Dogwood Springs, Missouri, disappears, and the town's citizens begin a frantic race against time to find him while his new wife struggles with her faith. RN Lauren McCaffrey is falling in love with Dr. Grant Sheldon and his teenaged twins, but when he pops the question she panics. Is she prepared to slip into the place of her much-loved and much-missed predecessor? Maybe she's been one of those people chosen to remain single so she can be freer to help others. She can't live up to the image ...

Darcy’s father gambled away Georgiana’s dowry. Mr. Bennet won it. Now Darcy must win a Bennet daughter’s heart—or lose everything. Fitzwilliam Darcy is desperate. His late father—grief-stricken after the death of his mother—gambled away Georgiana’s entire £30,000 dowry to the wily Mr. Bennet. The price of its return? Win the heart of one of Bennet’s five daughters, or the money stays lost forever. When Darcy begins courting all five Bennet sisters with perfect equality, the sisters make a pact—united resistance. None of them will be manipulated into loving a man who’s ...

He just got out of prison. She’s the last woman he should fall for. And the man he’s about to rob… is her father. A jaw-dropping, messy, hood love story from Jade Jones, author of the bestselling Cameron series. After four years behind bars, Lowdown is finally free—but freedom doesn’t look the way he imagined. His ex moved on with his own brother. One of his baby mamas is still bringing chaos into his life. And the son he barely knows wants nothing to do with him. With nothing left waiting for him, Lowdown does what he knows best—he returns to the streets. Fast money. Dangerous ...

Top 100 in the prestigious international BATH NOVEL AWARD 2024. "This was an entertaining, touching and heartfelt book that pulled the heartstrings. You won't be able to put this one down." Jacqueline. When the past is broken and the future is uncertain, it's time to finally let go. For seventeen years, pharmaceutical chemist Callie Winters has built a secure life for her son in San Francisco, burying the trauma of their past. But when a corporate upheaval forces her to Jackson’s Bridge—a remote mountain town nestled beneath the Colorado Rockies—her tightly controlled world quickly ...

Bethany, Mississippi, is a quaint, step-back-in-time type of town, where its only protection is the symbolic white picket fences. But even small communities have big secrets. Even the perfect family. And their white picket fences can’t protect them from the tragedies that lurk around the corner. When a mysterious stranger saves a young girl from drowning in a secluded river, the question rises is he trustworthy or not? Where did he come from? Why does he keep hanging around the twelve-year-old girl he saved? This tight-knit community is connected by more than their zip code. Their lives ...

The river reverses. The last road floods. A family closing the distance between them. Will Mason braces against a fence post as the cornfield dissolves beneath his boots, a geyser of sand and water erupting behind him. One wrong move and he’ll never find Erin. With the ground turning to soup for miles in every direction, every step carries him farther from the wife he’s desperate to find. Erin Mason folds a road map against a shuttered fruit stand and tells her students they're leaving. Staying on the convoy could mean watching them drown. With a compass in her hand and eight teenagers ...