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Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.

Staten Island, 1981. La bicicleta de Daniel Miller aparece abandonada en las inmediaciones de su casa. No hay rastro del pequeño. Treinta años después, en 2011, la periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press Miren Triggs sigue una pista que la conduce hasta el terrible hallazgo de un cadáver con los labios sellados.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

Lauren and Kelsey: married, a baby on the way, and now the new owners of the Hudson Valley house they’ve always admired. The timing couldn’t be better, and the leafy, secluded area couldn’t be more beautiful. Everything’s perfect—except for the older gentleman across the street, who seems to be keeping a very close watch on them. Welcome to the neighborhood.

While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. And why. Against his better judgment, Charlie takes the case—and when bodies are discovered, he suspects this may not be an isolated crime. Is there a serial killer whose work has gone undetected for decades? Is baby Lily his latest victim?

Janie is the last person Hannah and Christopher Bauer want to see again. But Janie’s moved back to Clarksville. She’s no longer the frail child Hannah and Christopher adopted over eleven years ago. The child who destroyed their lives. Now Janie is out of juvenile detention—a beautiful, confident young adult—and publicly promoting her new tell-all memoir.

Lust. Revenge. Greed. Hunger. Desire doesn’t care if you’re at the bottom of the ladder or the top of your game. Six masters of psychological suspense craft tales about people crossing moral lines in pursuit of their deepest desires. In these short stories, even the most mild-mannered characters can spin out of control when passion is at play. Hold on tight—there’s no turning back.

One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran’s car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he’s haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he’s her patient. She says he has been undergoing a unique hypnotherapy treatment built on the idea that with every choice, he creates an infinite number of parallel universes.

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, whom he watches from afar. When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex country house and painstakingly works to make the cellar a comfortable prison. He then calmly abducts Miranda, believing that she will inevitably grow to love him in time if she just gets to know him.

Disgraced former detective Mike Humber gets off a train in the bleak autumn countryside, his mind haunted by a dark past. A new job awaits. Huntington House needs a live-in security guard to prevent access during an inheritance dispute. This is exactly what Mike needs: a new start in a new place and a chance to turn things around. It all seems perfect, especially when he meets Tessa. But Huntington House holds dark secrets. Bumps in the night. Flickering lights. Music playing from somewhere.

Thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa Shipley were fostering an infant with hopes of adopting her. Overnight everything was turned upside down, when the child’s mother bled to death on their front doorstep. Her last words: He’s coming here…for her! Save her. Afraid, bewildered, and with a baby in their arms, they fled. The longer they hid, the guiltier they looked. Now in a small Colorado town under assumed identities, they’ve been seemingly safe.

Billy ist Kriegsveteran und verdingt sich als Auftragskiller. Sein neuester Job ist so lukrativ, dass es sein letzter sein soll. Danach will er ein neues Leben beginnen. Aber er hat sich mit mächtigen Hintermännern eingelassen und steht schließlich selbst im Fadenkreuz. Auf der Flucht rettet er die junge Alice, die Opfer einer Gruppenvergewaltigung wurde. Billy muss sich entscheiden. Geht er den Weg der Rache oder der Gerechtigkeit? Gibt es da einen Unterschied? So oder so, die Antwort liegt am Ende des Wegs.

Monreith, Massachusetts, was once a small community of whalers and farmers. These days it’s a well-to-do town filled with commuters drawn to its rugged coastline and country roads. A peaceful, predictable place—until popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home. Suspicion naturally falls on Laurel’s husband, Simon, who had gambling debts that only her life insurance policy could fix. But there are other rumors too. Among the group of six friends gathered for Alice Stone’s fortieth birthday, theories abound concerning Laurel’s death.

Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to participate in a mysterious new reality show called Break Room. But what starts as an opportunity to find fame is quickly revealed to be something far more unsettling when they learn how they were chosen - they were voted in by their own co-workers as the people they'd least like to share a break room with. But there's another twist. Among them is an imposter - a mole planted by the show's producers and the only way to win the prize money is to uncover the saboteur before time runs out.

Zwei Menschen treffen sich zum Mittagessen in einem Restaurant in Manhattan. Sie ist eine gefeierte Schauspielerin, die für eine bevorstehende Premiere probt. Er ist attraktiv und beunruhigend jung. Was die Schauspielerin anfangs für den Annäherungsversuch eines Fans hält, nimmt bald eine erstaunliche Wendung: Xavier behauptet nämlich, er sei ihr Sohn–dabei hat sie nie Kinder bekommen. Als im selben Moment auch noch ihr Mann Tomas, ein erfolgloser Schriftsteller, im Restaurant auftaucht, wird ihr klar, dass Xavier ihr Leben aus den Angeln heben kann.

Faye has always sensed something wasn't right. The silence. The missing memories. The way her mother looks at her—like she's a stranger. When a chilling note is unearthed in the woods behind their home, Faye and her sister Zoe begin to unravel a trail of cryptic messages, forgotten photographs, and long-buried names. All of it pointing toward Roundway—the abandoned asylum on the hill. As their mother's behaviour grows increasingly volatile, the sisters are drawn back into a past no one wants to speak of. A past where nothing was ever what it seemed.

When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear—except one. A dead boy. A face he can’t place. A moment he doesn’t remember living. At first he tells himself it’s a trick of the mind. But everything else he saw was real. So why not this? With his waking life stalked by the disturbing scene, confusion quickly turns to obsession.

For Beth and Vince, on the brink of a break-up, their island getaway was a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage. Instead, it’s left them with a haunting memory: the discovery of a young woman’s body on the beach, and Vince’s arrest by suspicious local police. Now back in London after an alibi freed him, they’re desperate to move on—until a familiar face from that terrible night reappears on their street. One they hoped never to see again.

You’d think it was the perfect setup: living next door to the grumpy single dad who needs my help with his troublemaking kids—just until football season is over. Swoony stuff, right? You know who’s not swooning? Me. I’m as grumpy as he is, and I’m fairly certain that for NFL Coach Barrett King, it was hate at first sight. It’s nothing I’ll lose sleep over because 1) the feeling is mutual, and 2) I’m not a people person. Just me and my dog, Larry, moving around when the mood strikes, is what I prefer.

Was, wenn ein paar Wörter, die du nicht lesen kannst, dein Leben in den Abgrund reißen? An einem nebligen Berliner Morgen hält ein Auto neben Milan Berg an der Ampel. Auf dem Rücksitz kauert ein verzweifelt wirkendes Mädchen, das einen Zettel mit einer Nachricht gegen die Seitenscheibe presst. Milan spürt, dass das Mädchen in Gefahr ist – hat jedoch keine Ahnung, was auf dem Papier steht. Denn seit Jahrzehnten hütet er ein großes Geheimnis: Er ist Analphabet und kann nicht lesen. Sekunden später fährt der Wagen davon – und Milan nimmt auf seinem Fahrrad die Verfolgung auf.

When the charming and wealthy Tucker walks into Reese's bakery shop, it's not long before their whirlwind romance leads to an engagement. It seems all her dreams are about to come true. Until the chilling threats begin. As Reese's big day approaches, she receives a series of anonymous messages demanding that she call off the wedding… or face the consequences. While the threats mount and sinister events unfold, Reese becomes obsessed with the mystery of Tucker's past.

After narrowly escaping a life sentence under the guise of a new persona, Shae Halston thinks she's turned over a new leaf. But all is not as it seems. When she begins to impersonate a couples therapist and starts taking on new patients, Shae thinks she's stumbled into just the kind of role she was born to play. Until a surprise in the form of a new client lands on her doorstep.

I don’t know who I am. I don’t know who to trust. But someone out there knows what really happened to me. The faces staring back at me feel wrong, their voices uncomfortably distant. Ever since I woke from the coma, it’s like I’ve been locked in a stranger’s life. My memories are fractured – frozen at thirty, yet they insist I’m forty. A wife. A mother. But these strangers? They say they’re my family. Daniel, my husband, swears he loves me, yet I can’t recall saying ‘I do.’ My children’s faces stir nothing but guilt. Even the wedding album feels staged.

Meet Riel Brava. Attractive. Razor-sharp. Ambitious. And something much more. Riel, raised in Santa Barbara, California, has been transplanted to Nova Scotia where he is CEO of the Canadian Cannabis Corporation. It’s business as usual until Riel finds his world hanging by a thread. Actually, several threads. It doesn’t take the police long to determine all is not as it appears—and that includes Riel himself. Pulled into a world not of his making, Riel resists the hunt to catch a killer. Resistance is futile.

A devoted mother navigates a web of lies and dark secrets to prove her son's innocence. He's been accused of murdering Henry Cain, his best friend, and was arrested. But she begins to question who her son really is... Who murdered Henry Cain?

Natalie thought she had it all: a loving husband, a cozy home, and a thriving career as a freelance editor. But when her biggest client vanishes without a trace, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Left with mounting debt and shattered confidence, Natalie clings to David, her charming and supportive husband, for strength.

Meet Millie, a personal trainer and loyal friend; she sees the best in people. When a kind, good-looking workman helps her out with a flat tyre, she’s thankful but soon forgets it. When their paths cross again and he helps her out a second time, romance blossoms.

My life was supposed to follow a perfect path—a nice job, mated by twenty-five, and children after that—but fate has other plans. Now, a week from turning twenty-five, I have a successful bookshop that I love, but the rest has remained elusive. Always within my reach but never managing to hang onto an alpha for long enough to mate. Then there is the pact in the back of my mind. An alcohol-fuelled promise on my twentieth birthday, jokingly giving my alpha childhood friends a chance if we're all single in five years.

Isabella Frank is spiraling. Recent traumas have triggered episodes of depression and anxiety, causing her to feel that not only has she lost her way, she’s lost herself too. The only thing giving her hope for better days is her regular meetings with her therapist. However, that sense of hope is ripped away when police handcuff her. Confused, disoriented and surrounded by blood, she is accused of a murder she’s positive she didn’t commit. But how can she defend herself if she blacked out and doesn’t recall anything? Blackout Girl is a psychological thriller and the author’s debut novel.

Just when Silvia and the rest of the world believed Daniel was gone for good and life could return to normal, he makes a dramatic comeback, bringing chaos along with him. Daniel simply can't or refuses to let go. Silvia is plagued by nightmares of his return, and someone in her life has a close connection to the man who tormented her. Will Daniel steal away Silvia’s chance at happiness, or will he finally face the consequences of his past choices?