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Die Moretti-Mafia hat Keres alles genommen: ihre Mutter, ihre Kindheit und ihre Unschuld. Um sie zur Strecke zu bringen, dringt die kaltblütige Killerin heimlich in das Anwesen der Familie ein. Doch statt Vergeltung zu üben, findet sich Keres plötzlich in der Gewalt zweier Sicherheitsmänner wieder: Ace und Romeo. Was als Spiel aus Wut und Lust beginnt, wird bald zu einer gefährlichen Allianz aus Verlangen und Verführung. Gemeinsam decken die drei die dunkelsten Geheimnisse der Morettis auf, die bislang verborgen geblieben sind – unter ihnen: Keres selbst.

In a polygamist commune in the desert, a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father's child while the boy commits murder 400 miles away - a crime that will slowly unravel the community. 

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal Once I’d been Daddy’s favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What’s more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go...

Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful 30 hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions.