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Opal realises she has a chance to follow her own dreams, and decides to spend almost all her new money on a failing flower farm in North Carolina where she can start her painting business. But her plans for isolation soon go hopelessly awry when an angry (albeit gorgeous) Pepper Boden is waiting for her at her new farm. Pepper states that she's the rightful owner of Thistle and Bloom Farms, and she isn't moving out.

A sharply observed, deeply nostalgic coming-of-age story set against the indie music scene of the early 2000s. It's 2005, and Susan is barreling down the Long Island Expressway driving a car full of friends to an indie rock show. Eliza is a surprise addition in the backseat—unexpected, out of...

In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the 10th human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s 10thyear, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity.   

"Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"—BookPage The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy...

It's 1793, and Simon Cavendish needs to get to his station at Fort Charlotte, a fur-trading outpost in the untamed Canadian wild. The fort is only accessible by canoe, and there's just one man daring enough to take him on the perilous, thousand-mile journey from Montreal this late in the summer. Young Christian Smith, the son of an Ojibwe mother and absent English father, is desperate for money to strike out on his own, so he agrees to take clueless Simon deep into the wild. As they travel endless lakes and rivers, they butt heads.

Hunter has spent the last two years running in place. Trying to get ahead of the bills. Trying to provide for her sister, Piper, and her nephews. Trying to finish her nursing education. Trying to keep Piper out of her criminal husband's claws. Big, bad Jed Wolfe is a con artist, a manipulator, and he's currently doing 10 years for counterfeiting. Now is Hunter's best chance to convince Piper that he's bad news and that they can survive without him. Except the mortgage is overdue again, there's an eviction notice stapled to the front door, and Hunter can see it in Piper's eyes.

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.  

In my defense, I was left alone with a bottle of single-malt and a lifelong penchant for protecting my baby sister. Still, that's no excuse to send 10 drunk-texts on why her hasty marriage would be a mistake. If only I had just texted my sister. But nope. I accidentally sent the message to her, her groom, and his super hot wingman. I also used the phrase “super hot wingman”, so I’d like to die now.

Hunting for big bad wolves was never part of Agent Cooper Dayton's plan, but a werewolf attack lands him in the carefully guarded Bureau of Special Investigations. A new case comes with a new partner: ruggedly sexy werewolf Oliver Park. Park is an agent of The Trust, a werewolf oversight organization working to ease escalating tensions with the BSI. But as far as Cooper's concerned, it's failing. As they investigate a series of mysterious deaths unlike anything they've seen, every bone in Cooper's body is suspicious of his new partner....

A reluctant master. A gifted apprentice. A city whose fate rests on both.When Aster Shepard accepts the title of Master of Streya from his former mentor, he is flattered, intimidated and all but convinced he is not ready. He certainly didn’t expect that, only days into his new role, he would...

What do you do when your body decides to give you the middle finger? Gertrude is waging a war and she doesn't know if she wants to win it, or not. It's a quiet war, with only one possible casualty. Her parent's kitchen table is a battlefield. In the car with her wife, another skirmish. Her...

"A chilling, addictive read with a powerful protagonist...Verdict: Get It!" - Kirkus ReviewsShe came to serve the rich. She awakened to burn them down.In the waning days of the Gilded Age, Irish immigrant Eve Kelly accepts a coveted position at Greythorne, a mansion built on wealth, excess, and...

Ein kleines Dorf. Eine alte Villa. Zwei Männer, die lernen, dass Liebe mehr Mut verlangt als jeder Sturm.Als der Berliner Innenarchitekt Florian Hart nach Heiligenau geschickt wird, erwartet ihn nichts als Schnee, Stille und ein Projekt, das seine Karriere retten soll. Doch statt...

The only way to find herself is to lose herself A year ago, Amy Campbell’s life was perfect. She had a beautiful wife, her career was on an upward trajectory, and her friendship circle was uncomplicated. Now she’s a thirty-five-year-old widow who relies on wine and a dysfunctional...

In the black night, I alone uphold the shrine of the seven lantern gods.In the year 2448, Central Europe, after centuries of decline, has bottomed out into a brutal Dark Age. Warlords now rule the lands, fighting and dying to shelter their regions from near-constant invasions.Hidden through...

Dans un mois à peine, la Terre cessera d’exister. Un trou noir s’approche du système solaire et personne ne survivra à son passage. Face à l’inévitable, Don et Rodney, deux hommes mariés depuis 40 ans, décident de faire le voyage qu’ils repoussent depuis trop longtemps. Ce long...

Detective novels, she said, were for simpletons and spinsters. But she translated them anyway – because someone she loved couldn’t live without them. 1936, London. Edie Adler slips into the back pew of a memorial service for her dearest friend, Vee Saunders – presumed dead, her body never...

Laney Herder and Lady Celeste, are called upon by the Lupei of the Mountain Gypsies as their Soras, to help free their leader who had been kidnapped, and to stop a war between the realms of Sparo and the Gypsies. Again, Laney is thrown into a world and politics that seem alien to her. She must...

A reclusive young woman moves into what seems like the perfect apartment and is obsessively drawn to her mysterious neighbor, who keeps a lush garden and is hiding a deadly secret . . . Eat the Ones You Love meets Wilder Girls in this sensual, sapphic, botanical horror novella from the New York...

Bloomsbury presents Mothsblood by Lynn D. Jung, read by Ferdelle Capistrano. An ambitious alchemist must uncover her university’s dark secrets while trying to escape from her mysterious past in this electrifying debut. On a rain-soaked night in modern-day Paris, Larkspur Lee and her academic...