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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick Kindle #1 bestseller 'Chilling and beautifully written … C.J. Cooke's finest novel yet' Emilia Hart 'A spellbinding thriller' Scots Magazine Four hundred years separate them. One book binds them. Glasgow 2024: Clem waits by her daughter’s hospital bed. Erin was...

Don’t miss this chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . . ’Cooke has creatively interwoven the darkness of reality with a magical realism that will truly have you gripped’ Woman & Home ‘Fascinating and enthralling’ Prima ‘Wonderfully atmospheric and compelling’...

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who live in the grounds—and together they begin to unpick the secrets of this place.

A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still...

*Longlisted for The HWA Gold Crown and The Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2026* 'Chilling, atmospheric' Sunday Times 'Vivid and haunting' Emilia Hart 'Blisteringly brilliant’ Anna Mazzola Will she be damned by flame… or cursed by magic? Innsbruck 1485 Helena should be doing what every...

The grieving widower. The motherless daughters. A beautiful house in the woods. Deep in a remote Norwegian forest, Lexi has found a new home with architect Tom and his two young daughters. With snow underfoot and the sound of the nearby fjord in her ears, it’s as if Lexi has stepped into a fairy tale. But this family has a history – and this place has a past. Something was destroyed to build their beautiful new house. And those ancient, whispering woods have a long memory. Lexi begins to hear things, see things that don’t make sense. 

A woman with no name. A wild, abandoned island. A family desperate for answers. A debut thriller like no other. On a small Greek island, a woman comes ashore with no memory of who she is, where she's from, or how she came to be shipwrecked there. Worse, she has no way of leaving. As she's nursed...

A deeply compelling historical horror novel following a woman accused of being a witch who must use her voice to fight for her life—and the truth—from the acclaimed author of The Book of Witching Innsbruck, 1485. Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is doing: keeping...

A young woman sent to stay in a crumbling gothic manor will find haunting secrets creeping out of the surrounding dark woods in this new, chilling novel from the acclaimed author of The Lighthouse Witches. In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in...

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic. Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip...

A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more! "Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets...

"Pure spooky pleasure." - Stephen King The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway—in the same place where he lost his...

Eine Frau erwacht an einem einsamen Strand, verletzt und ohne jede Erinnerung. Zum Glück wird sie von vier Fremden gefunden, die sich um sie kümmern wollen, bis es ihr gut genug geht, um die Insel wieder zu verlassen. Doch irgendetwas scheinen die zwei Männer und zwei Frauen zu verbergen - was wissen sie wirklich über ihren Schützling? Zeitgleich sucht man in London verzweifelt nach einer jungen Mutter und Ehefrau, die am helllichten Tag spurlos verschwunden ist. Stück für Stück lassen die Ermittlungen die perfekte Fassade von Ehe- und Familienglück bröckeln.

…But what if that’s the only thing you can remember? Komméno Island, Greece: I don't know where I am, who I am. Help me. A woman is washed up on a remote Greek island with no recollection of who she is or how she got there. Potter’s Lane, Twickenham, London: Eloïse Shelley is officially...

Getrennt durch Jahrhunderte, doch verbunden durch ein verfluchtes Buch. 1594 wird Alison Balfour auf den Orkney-Inseln der Hexerei beschuldigt. Sie soll lebendig verbrannt werden. Mehr als 400 Jahre später sitzt Clem am Krankenbett ihrer Tochter Erin. Sie hat an einem Strand der Orkney-Inseln...

-Tu te souviens des légendes sur les wildlings ? demande-t-elle. -Si je m'en souviens ? Comment veux-tu que je les oublie ? On nous les a enfoncées dans le crâne avant même qu'on sache parler. -Et si je te disais que Clover a une brûlure sur la hanche, un groupe de nombres, qu'est-ce que tu en penserais ? -Je dirais que c'est pas cool et que tu devrais l'emmener chez le médecin, fait Cassie, ébahie. -Et le fait qu'elle soit restée une enfant de sept ans... ? -Mais enfin, Luna, elle ne peut pas être Clover ! -Et moi, je crois que c'est un wildling, réplique Luna et en le disant, elle sent que quelque chose a changé en elle.

1901. On board the Ormen, a whaling ship battling through the unforgiving North Sea, Nicky Duthie awakes. Attacked and dragged there against her will, it’s just her and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them. 1973. Decades later, when the ship is found still drifting across the ocean, it’s deserted. Just one body is left on board, his face and feet mutilated, his cabin locked from the inside. Everyone else has vanished.

A horrific car crash in Belize has devastated Helen Pengilly’s family, leaving her daughter in a coma and her husband Michael missing. Alone and terrified, Helen’s memory is dragged back to that day 22 years ago. To protect their family, Helen and Michael both said they would forget what happened. But now it seems that there is someone who will stop at nothing to make them remember.... 

Das Heim von Geistern, von Hexen und einem Kind, das kein richtiges Kind ist. 1965 wird die junge Pearl zur Entbindung nach Lichen Hall geschickt, einem gotischen Herrenhaus, das in Schottland inmitten eines Waldes steht. Unverheiratete Frauen kommen hierher, um heimlich ihre Kinder zur Welt zu...