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What if your lifelong friends weren’t your friends? What if you discovered you didn’t know them at all? What if you learned you were expendable? What if you friends decided that time had come? Conrad, Hudson, Sandy, Kang, Jennifer and Molly ruled Blackford High School. They were the most popular of the popular and the richest of the rich. Their lives were perfect. At least that’s what everyone thought. Soon, the secrets would begin to come out and everyone would learn the truth. Deadly Little Secrets is a tale of friendship, murder and betrayal.

Fame is a fantasy. Delusion is forever. Stu Starr has spent his entire life preparing for greatness. The rhinestones are polished, the cape is dramatic, and the fantasy he’s built around himself is brighter than any spotlight. Tonight is supposed to be the moment the world finally recognizes the legend he’s always believed he is. But when the curtain rises, reality doesn’t always follow the script. Starr Love is a darkly comic psychological thriller about fame, obsession, and the glittercoated lies we tell ourselves to survive.

Ten years ago, Cora Christensen openly embraced her identity as a trans woman. Her father did not take it well. He burned her bras, refused to acknowledge her gender, and called her a pervert before exiling her from his home.

Broken trust. Shattered hearts. Secrets exposed—and yet still no closer to the truth. When Malcolm and Seong-Jae's relationship hits a wall, their partnership fragments as well . . . and they may not be able to withstand the crushing tide when protests over Tomasz Kowalczyk's death turn into deadly riots. Too many familiar faces return, and one will be leaving in a body bag. But for the puppet master guiding their every move, the chaos that descends on Baltimore is the perfect opportunity to capture his mark.

Heather Morell is haunted. Otherworldly nightmares and monstrous hallucinations lurk around every corner, relics of childhood bereavement and schizophrenia. Until she meets Evelyn and Raine—a bad-tempered mage and her self-proclaimed bodyguard—and learns that she’s not insane after all. The monsters she sees are all too real, the god-thing in her nightmares is teaching her the secrets of creation, and her twin sister—the lost girl who supposedly never existed—might still be clinging on, a dwindling soul somewhere beyond the walls of reality, Outside.

On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed. Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars. When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.

After three years working as a private investigator, newly reinstated Detective Inspector Will Foster still holds himself responsible for the death of an officer under his command. But he's returned to the Met bent on redeeming himself and that means bringing down gangland boss Joey Clarkson. Will's prepared to put in long hours and make sacrifices for his work, even if it comes at a cost to his nascent romance with international model, Tom Gray. After all, Tom has a history of wandering but crime is a constant in London. And Will has committed himself to the Met.

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber—from a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as "a storyteller working at the top of her class."

The guest in Room 10 is starving. Deep in the backwoods of Brewster, Tennessee, the Silver Lining Motel has long been a refuge for the lost and the damned. But never a guest like her: a woman with mesmerizing eyes, beastly fangs, and a deadly appetite. Her arrival is no coincidence, and her...

Morgan Ashton-Drake hasn’t given his ancestral home in Yorkshire a second thought in decades. He has a great life in the States, running his stepfathers hotel empire with his brother. So what if he’s all work and no play? He’s not missing out on anything important. But when a suspicious death and rather public scandal at his childhood home forces Morgan to return to England for the first time in years, he’s not keen to confront his past. What he didn’t count on was the seriously cute little blonde disaster who seems to be single-handedly running his eccentric grandfather’s hotel.

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Love Was Never Safe in Iran… Ghazal never chose this life. A gifted computer science student, she is trapped under her father’s iron control where even makeup earns punishment and obedience is expected. Sepideh, a bold social media influencer, refuses to bow to anyone. She lives loud, fearless, and free until her heart collides with Ghazal’s quiet defiance. What begins as friendship ignites into forbidden love. But in a country where morality police prowl the streets and women are silenced with bullets, their bond becomes both a sanctuary and a death sentence. Every heartbeat is rebellion.

Eigentlich soll FBI-Agent Adrian Osaki in Tokio nur einen heiklen Schutzauftrag übernehmen: den russischen Kronzeugen Nikolai Burlakov bis zu seiner Aussage gegen einen Drogenboss versteckt halten. Doch was als riskante Mission beginnt, wird bald zu einem emotionalen Minenfeld. Zwischen Geheimverstecken, Verfolgung und der ständigen Bedrohung durch die Yakuza entwickelt sich eine prickelnde Spannung zwischen dem disziplinierten Agenten und dem unverschämt attraktiven Gangster.

Only he decides who’s a good boy. "I'm building you a place where you don't have to choose between being strong or safe. You can be both. Or neither. You can just... be." Two years after escaping the legacy of his infamous serial killer parents, Aaron Jones has finally built something close to peace. A quiet cottage on the windswept Isle of Wight, a rescue dog named Chaos, a job using his behavioural skills, and, of course, a lover, Dr Kenneth Lyons, criminal psychologist, protector, and the only man who’s ever known exactly how to unravel him. Their love is laced with rules. Trust.

Ten years ago, at their senior year party- a night that was supposed to be one of the best of their lives- something horrible happened. Five friends promised to keep a secret no matter what, and to cut ties immediately- never to talk again.

Nach einem brutalen Angriff liegt Teamleiter Sloane Brodie schwer verletzt im Krankenhaus – und Agent Dex Daley kennt nur noch ein Ziel: den Täter finden und zur Strecke bringen. Während Sloane um seine Genesung kämpft, droht Dex' Rache, ihn zu verschlingen.

Some cases make her want to quit . . . This is one of them. Detective Luce Allen doesn't give up, ever, even though the murder of a child is testing her resolve, and Kendra is still recovering from recent trauma. Her relief at identifying a suspect quickly is short-lived when the case begins to...

Aaron Jones never expected to find love—not real love, not the kind that wasn’t twisted by his family’s monstrous legacy. But with Dr Kenneth Lyons, his sharp-minded, rule-breaking professor, he’s found something close to hope. Their relationship is a fragile, forbidden thing, hidden behind locked doors and stolen touches, but it’s his. And maybe—just maybe—it’s real. If only Kenny would say the words first, then Aaron could finally believe in them.

She's taking on Big Oil. But when her star witness is arrested for bank robbery, the fight for justice becomes a battle for survival. Environmental attorney Jo Turner is building the case of a lifetime, suing World Petrol, one of the country's largest refineries, for toxic emissions linked to rising cancer rates along the Houston Ship Channel. Her crucial evidence comes from Dr. Tori Nelson, a respected physician and Jo's college crush, whose research exposes devastating community health impacts.

Ellen is tired of being overshadowed at work. Tired of watching less competent, entitled suits take the promotions she’s earned. But when one of them pushes her too far, things take a murderous turn. And it turns out the darker Ellen goes, the shinier her future starts to look. Business can be murder, but it turns out murder can also be good business for Ellen.