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Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself—before vanishing without a trace. Diana’s colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse.

Paul Strom has spent years building his perfect life: glittering career, beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in the suburbs. But he also has his secrets. That's why Paul has promised his wife a romantic weekend getaway. He proclaims this day, a warm Friday in May, will be the best day ever. Paul loves his wife, really, he does. But he also wants to get rid of her. And with every hour that passes, Paul ticks off another stage in his elaborately laid plan....

An ordinary family. A devastating betrayal. Evie has been away from home long enough to bury the pain that shaped her childhood. Now, with the sudden death of her father, she must return. Back to the same house. Back to the memories. Back to her mother. At first, coming home feels unexpectedly comforting. But as she goes through her father’s files, Evie uncovers a secret that opens old wounds and changes her life forever. That’s only the beginning. As Evie’s world starts to shatter around her, she realises that those she loves most are also those capable of the deepest betrayal.

Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients, calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously await the births of their children and ensuring the babies she delivers come safely into the world. But when Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic. She runs away and starts over again in a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind in West Virginia.

Told in mesmerising prose, with a charm and rhythm entirely its own, Castle of Water is more than just a classic castaway story. It is a stirring reflection on love's restorative potential as well as a poignant reminder that home - be it a flat in Paris, a New York apartment, or a desolate atoll a world away - is where the heart is....

An utterly charming and tender story of the disparate tenants of a Brooklyn brownstone and the community they form around their ageing landlord when their home is suddenly threatened. Within a charming if dilapidated Brooklyn brownstone live a family of sorts: beautiful agoraphobe Adeleine, who surrounds herself with the past....

The loss of a "nuclear" bomb off Puerto Rico during WWII brings strange consequences to a stressed community in Washington State decades later. In the Skagit River Valley, gateway to the pristine Pacific Northwest wilderness, vegetation, birds, and people are inexplicitly dying.

Este libro tiene las obras completas de Emilia Pardo Bazán.

In the aftermath of Retribution, former CIA assassin Drenna Steel is traveling across Europe, drinking heavily to dull the pain of a tragic loss. After arriving in Belfast, she soon realizes someone is watching her. The person is crafty, a master of the shadows. But who is he? No one is supposed to know where she's at.

Eine Female Rage Revenge Romantasy. 364 Tage. Schwertkämpferin Dania zählt die Tage, seit sie unschuldig ins Gefängnis geworfen wurde. Seit sie verraten wurde. Seit ihre Gedanken nur noch um ein Ziel kreisen: Rache. Dieses Ziel – und die Hoffnung, ihre Familie wiederzusehen – hält sie aufrecht. Und dann ergibt sich dank einer Mitgefangenen endlich die Chance zur Flucht. Bewaffnet mit einem geheimen Vorrat an Dschinn-Magie und einer neuen Identität, setzt Dania einen Plan in Gang, um diejenigen zu Fall zu bringen, die sie und ihre Familie hintergangen haben.

Milina Porter is a name few know. Now, I’m a ghost who works in the shadows. Car heists is what my name is known for, and my reputation is infamous. Secrets haunt a past that I’ll do anything to keep buried. I’ve been running from a devil who makes death seem like a mercy. Now, I have a chance to escape him for good. Only, I can’t do it alone. I need to partner with others who share my expertise in heists. Which is how I ended up in Ridgewood to work with the Riot Crew.

When the mysterious death of a childhood friend forces homicide detective Alex Abrams to return to her hometown, she’s pulled back into a world of dark secrets and painful memories she thought she’d left behind. Alex, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, is forced to confront the ghosts of her past—and the deadly truth lurking in the shadows of her tight-knit community. Teaming up with her twin brother, Lucca, Alex soon uncovers a chilling pattern of so-called "accidental" deaths—each one more calculated and chilling than the last.

Поцелуй - вещь прекрасная, но не сравнится с бриллиантовым браслетом. Вооружившись этим девизом неподражаемая Лорелей Ли весело и задорно решает все проблемы, возникающие в ее насыщенной событиями жизни. А как же иначе. Ведь прежде всего, мисс Лорелей – восхитительная блондинка, предпочитающая исключительно богатых мужчин. Среди ее поклонников есть промышленники и кинематографисты, английские лорды и французские юристы.

قصة شابة سعودية من عائلة ثرية في الظهران تواجه صراعاً مع خالها المتعصب. بعد طردها من المدرسة، تلتحق بمدرسة أمريكية مختلطة بفضل علاقات والدها مع شركة أرامكو. عندما تقع في حب ابن خياط بسيط، يرفض خالها الأمر خوفاً على شرف العائلة. تنتهي قصة زواجها من ابن خالها ناصر بفضيحة تجبرهما على الهروب إلى لندن. الرواية تتحدث عن الصداقة والحب والخيانة، وتروي قصة فتاة شجاعة تبحث عن الخلاص.

Bárbara Medina de Palacios es la esposa del canciller de Colombia, madre de sus hijos y una mujer que no conoce el placer sexual. Después de treinta y cinco años de un muy infeliz matrimonio, regido por la hipocresía de la sociedad bogotana, decide tomar el control de su vida y penetra en un mundo prohibido para mujeres como ella. En esta aventura, llena de peligros y desafíos, descubre que la sexualidad es la llave para muchas otras libertades.

"La mañana que debía devolverme a la vida, pero me envió al sueño de la muerte, arrancó helada y ventosa." Enero de 2007. La joven Ela huye en del maltrato y la adversidad, del dolor de una pérdida sin consuelo, de la irrupción inesperada de la violencia a manos de quien menos hubiera podido imaginar, del poso oscuro de demasiados secretos. Alrededor de su presencia en duermevela, desfilan los protagonistas del grupo familiar, cada uno con su parte inconfesa de la historia, su carga y su trama de silencios, sospechas, culpa y afectos.

She was just a kid when she found me lying injured beside the road and saved my life. I promised her I'd return if she ever needed me. Twelve years later, I answer the phone and hear her voice: a biker gang's about to sell her to the highest bidder. Like hell they are! I tear the place apart and we roar off on my Harley...but the kid I remember has grown up into a woman I can't resist, with long red hair and curves that don't quit. And now she thinks I'm a goddamn hero.

A holiday celebration. A famous author. A murderer in their midst. When her publisher chooses Grand Cayman as the venue to launch her new novel, the celebrated author arrives amid the island's colourful Christmas festivities… along with a devious killer. Nora Sommer is assigned to protective detail and soon discovers the simple babysitting gig is more than she bargained for with someone determined to give the author a deadly taste of her own plots.

One winter morning in 1998, Alex Martin inherits a mysterious invention from her late father. The Finding Machine solves mysteries. But the biggest mystery of all lies deep within its wiring — the unsolved disappearance of a little girl, dating back seventy years. What happened to the girl, all those years ago? Who was she? Alex and her handsome housemate, Antony, must follow the dots to solve the mystery. But, as dark family secrets are revealed, will the Finding Machine bring them together…or push them further apart?

It’s 1343 and Jeanne de Clisson is out for revenge. At forty-three, her perfect life—a loving husband, three young children, and two castles in the French countryside—shatters when Phillip VI, the King of France, arrests and beheads her husband for treachery. There’s no evidence and no trial—only the execution. The nobles are shocked. The paranoid king is relieved. And Jeanne…Jeanne wants the king’s head on a pike.