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Dans "Le loup-garou et le chaperon" de Sophie Gamache, une transformation inattendue bouleverse la vie d'une jeune femme au cœur de la forêt. En découvrant une force et une acuité visuelle nouvelles, elle se laisse emporter par des instincts primaires qui la poussent à chasser et à dévorer les créatures qui l'entourent. Mais jusqu'où ira-t-elle dans cette quête de puissance et de liberté sauvage ? Entre fascination et terreur, ce récit explore les frontières entre humanité et bestialité, plongeant l'auditeur dans une aventure captivante et troublante.

Hallie works as a skip tracer—hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town. When a childhood friend calls her in a panic, Hallie goes to help and gets a lot more than she bargained for. One of the elite has been murdered and the special investigators are looking for someone to blame.

Brought to you by Penguin. A hilarious story of love, dancing, fashion and a very unlikely friendship. If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do? You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big time...

You'd do the same thing. If your father was drowning in your hospital debt, you'd find yourself standing naked before three powerful men you hate. With a proposition and one hundred thousand dollars. My pride disappeared when I saw the foreclosure notice on my front door. My morals disintegrated...

The brand new novel from the author of Netgalley's Historical Fiction Book of 2025 The Lamplighter's Bookshop Two locked hearts. One secret that could set them free … He can't bear to remember. She is desperate to forget … From the stage of the Penny Farthing Theatre, Ava Adams uses...

The chilling story of a woman haunted by music that only she can hear, sung by a choir of children that only she can see...

Claire lives with her family in a beautiful house overlooking the water. But she feels as if she’s married to a stranger – one who is leading a double life. As soon as she can get their son, Joe, away from him, she’s determined to leave Duncan. But finding out the truth about Duncan’s secret life leads to consequences Claire never planned for. Now Joe is missing, and she’s struggling to piece together the events of the night that tore them all apart.

When her stepmother dies unexpectedly, Caro returns to her childhood home in Derbyshire. She hadn’t seen Elizabeth in years, but the remote farmhouse offers refuge from a bad relationship and a chance to start again. But going through Elizabeth’s belongings unearths memories Caro would rather stay buried. In particular, the story her stepmother would tell her, about two little girls and the terrible thing they do. 

Traumatized college student Morgan Mallory has survived the treacherous land of Pandaemonium by evolving into a soul-devouring entity. Now a merciless warrior, she goes by Alice. But her new identity is fractured, and she finds herself hopelessly grasping at the shards of her parallel selves from different timelines. To piece these multiple personas together, she must kill the Demiurge, the world's tormented creator, who has banished Alice to a facsimile Earth.

Sadie Sadler lives in the big city. Takes the train to work each day. Drinks fancy coffee. Does yoga… and never, ever does magic, lest it leads Gabriel Thornber straight to her door. Sadie’s family have used their magic to protect the small northern town of Mannith for centuries. But now, Sadie’s brother Brendan is on trial for murder, and Gabriel, the charismatic and sinister head of the Sadlers’ only rivals, is moving to take the town. Only Sadie has both the knowledge to save Brendan and the magical strength to face down Gabriel.

In the third book in Alice Bell’s Grave Expectations series, Alex has managed to convince Claire, Sophie and Basher that they should incorporate as a private investigation company. They investigate a suspicious death at a pro-wrestling company, with help from the ghost of the deceased...

It was supposed to be easy: one night of sin with a beautiful stranger to forever cut ties with my Bratva past. But I didn't pick a stranger. I picked him. Hades Drakos, the dark prince of the Drakos Mafia family, is a lethally beautiful psychopath with a trail of broken hearts and bloodshed in his wake. Oh, and he's my client. It doesn't matter that our one night was under darkness, disguised by masks. He knows my secret sin. He knows it was my first time. And now, he'll use that to trap me as his own personal Persephone.

With her life turned upside down, it's almost a relief for Hallie to be asked to work a case. She is tasked with helping the Conclave Investigators follow up on a suspected theft, and also help track down one of their own—Special Investigator Girard Abbott has gone missing. But nothing is straightforward. The supposed victim of the theft doesn't seem interested in helping with the investigation. No one seems to know what's been stolen. Girard may not just be missing, but also injured—or worse.

'The Crucible meets Desperate Housewives in this deft and gripping supernatural thriller' Daily Mail 'Addictive' Independent Sanctuary. It's the perfect town. . . to hide a secret. To Detective Maggie Knight, the death of Sanctuary's star quarterback seems to be a tragic accident. Only, everyone...

In this small but perfectly formed collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror. Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend's inner-city home? And whose spidery handwriting is it that fills the pages?

Einst symbolisierten Margery und die Sieben das Gute, doch nun stellen sie sich gegeneinander. Kann jemand, der den Tod eines anderen will, wahrhaft gut sein? Ist jemand böse, nur weil er überleben will? Wenn sich das Gute nicht mehr vom Bösen unterscheiden lässt, steht das Ende bevor. In einem letzten Kampf zwischen Mutter und Tochter zeigt sich, ob dieses Märchen gut ausgeht.

16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In ‘Terminus’ a young woman hides in an...

En tant que princesse de la cour de l’Automne, j’ai toujours su que mon destin serait scellé à un prétendant que je n’aurais pas choisi. Mais quand mon père décide de former une alliance avec le roi de l’Hiver, je ne peux me résoudre à accepter ce mariage. Malgré une beauté sans pareil, Lucien Thorne est redouté de tous, et surtout, il est doté d’un cœur froid et cruel. Pourtant, au fil de nos rencontres, je découvre un homme bien plus complexe que les rumeurs ne le laissent entendre, marqué par des blessures profondes.

"Mum, wer bist du?" Sie seufzte schwer und sah mich dann mit ihrem liebevollsten Mutterblick an. "Ich bin Freya." Wenn ich nicht schon gesessen hätte, ...

Die Türme von Schloss Drachenburg ragten in den sternenlosen Himmel. Rein äußerlich mochte es dasselbe prachtvolle Gebäude wie in Engelland sein, aber die Präsenz des Bösen war mit jeder Faser zu spüren. Nach der Nacht des Spiegelballs würde nichts mehr sein wie zuvor, denn manchmal entschieden nur Sekunden über Leben und Tod.