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Brought to you by Penguin. When the darker days fall, the debt must be paid, . . . get ready for the chilling new folk horror from the Hugo Award-winning, bestselling author of HEX - from the publisher of The Exorcist and perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. In Lock Haven, a...

A marine biologist's search for an undiscovered species of octopus leads her to an isolated island where long-buried memories rise like specters from the deep, intent on dragging her darkest truths to the surface... From the author of The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora...

The only thing worse than having a one-night stand with a ridiculously hot stranger during a snowstorm in Boston? Finding out he's your ex-boyfriend's father. In my defense, I didn't know the tall, brooding man in the tailored suit would turn out to be Joshua's dad. I also didn't expect him to...

An FBI agent and a small town full of holiday hijinks help a woman in peril in this charming romance from the author of 10 Things I Hate About Mistletoe. For two years, Kaylee Kringle didn't stop moving—but then she happened upon Holiday, Idaho. The residents of her new hideout welcomed her...

Slip away to Magnolia Shore, a cozy beachfront town whose residents will win your heart and make you want to revisit over and over! As Eleanor continues to settle into life in Magnolia Shore and works to turn the lower level of her house into a bookstore, the women of her book club face turning...

At ten, I was the unwanted tagalong on London Hale's fishing trip—the fatherless girl next door he resented having to include. But all it took was one hot Texas summer afternoon of fishing to change everything. At sixteen, he saved my life, and then he kissed me. The star quarterback and the...

Read by award-winning narrator Andi Arndt! Her narration brings the cozy atmosphere of the Honeycrisp Orchard Inn to life. For fans of the Lovelight series and The Christmas Tree Farm, this cozy Christmas romance follows an overworked publicist who is snowed in at the Honeycrisp Orchard Inn with...

And what the former Texas Ranger wanted now was sultry Patrina Forman. But Patrina was set against falling for a man with a no-strings attitude, and there was no way she'd fall into bed with a lawman! Then a Montana blizzard changed everything. Trapped together for three sinfully delicious...

Four Alphas. One summer bet. And the girl next door who was never supposed to get involved. I came to the coast to disappear. After everything my father did, hiding out in my grandmother's seaside cottage was supposed to be simple. Quiet. Safe. One normal summer before I figured out what came...

All Magnolia wants is to find love. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so, because now she has a fake fiancé and it's all based on a lie. Magnolia Hawthorne has been struggling to find her place in this world. Sometimes she worries that her dreams are too small. That wanting to find love and...

Rylee Adder is a struggling college student desperate to reconnect with the only family she has left. She finally has her chance when a late-night phone call sends her rushing to Eden, West Virginia—a small mining town with a veiled past. She arrives ready to console her grieving sister, but instead discovers a distant, secretive woman she hardly recognizes, and Colton Archer, a tattoo-covered troublemaker with a knack for pushing her buttons.

A stunning collection of stories that explore the rural landscape of the far Northwestern US, and how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people, From the critically acclaimed, prizewinning author of Idaho Four years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon...

The first hint that this magical town is teetering on the edge of supernatural disaster? The corpse in the cauldron. Not attracting attention in Willowbark is a little hard to do when your inherited apothecary shop is brimming with magic, your cat might be a dragon, and someone just turned up...

At their twenty-fifth high school reunion, four former best friends discover that growing up is way messier than anticipated—and the past isn’t nearly as finished as they thought. Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the...

A wounded soldier. A devoted fisherman. A love lost to memory and yet… "There's nothing about you I don't want." Boyhood best friends. Closer than brothers until one night changed everything. And then it was gone. Jack doesn't remember. Sol can't forget. Now they share a life in Porth Luck...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an...

Zwischen Kräuterduft und Kaminfeuer: Ein neuer Anfang in Callwell Der Duft nach Kräutern und Teekreationen liegt in der Luft, während es in den Kaminen Callwells zu knisterten beginnt. Maighread und Joshua erwarten ihr erstes Kind. Doch trotz großer Freude empfinden sie auch Angst vor einem...

Brought to you by Penguin. A heartstopping story of friendship, thrill-seeking and defying expectations: the explosive second novel from the bestselling author of My Absolute Darling Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor in the shadows of the Joshua Tree National Park...

Mary Webb’s award-winning novel adapted for radio with a full cast, plus a dramatised biography of the celebrated author Novelist and poet Mary Webb is as closely associated with Shropshire as Thomas Hardy with Dorset and the Brontës with Yorkshire. She wrote six books set against the...

This Christmas, Isla Greene's festive cheer is buried under six feet of snow. Unemployed, evicted, and back in a hometown that no longer feels like home, the twenty-five-year-old faces a not-so-merry life reset. The one bright spot in an otherwise bleak winter? Spending the holidays with her...