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When Liv finds herself locked in a shed with handsome stranger Ben (after they try to rescue a cat together), the instant connection they make feels like fate had a hand in it. Has Liv finally found her perfect match? But everything about the timing means there’s no way they can be together. Not least because Ben has a girlfriend and Liv is moving from London to Paris the next day. Over the coming years their paths weave in and out of each other’s lives – together, but always fleetingly. If only they could stop missing each other, who knows what fate may have in store for them.

Vier Singles um die 30 stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Episoden-Romans über unkonventionelle Lebensmodelle, unvorhergesehene Leidenschaften, geplatzte Illusionen, gesellschaftliche Zwänge und unverarbeitete Traumata. Sie alle leben »Am Paradies 16«, einem Mietshaus in Berlin, in dem »Heimatlose« Zuflucht finden, und doch kennen sie sich nicht.

Buddha was gunned down in the last episode of this ghetto game of thrones, but life must go on for the rest of the crew. The Buddha crew must learn how to thrive without him. Rip steps up and takes over where he left off. The out of state move proves to be lucrative so he doubles down. Carlos bites off more than he can chew, while trying to be someone he's not. He soon finds himself in trouble and will have to make a drastic decision. Either way he chooses in a lose/lose proposition. Not to mention his sister is getting deeper into the street life.

Malcom Porter had potential. A bright future. A scholarship. But when his older brother is killed, he trades textbooks for territory and becomes a name feared in Harlem. As enemies rise, trust bleeds thin, and betrayals cut deep, Malcom must decide whether he’ll rule the streets like a king—or break the cycle before it buries him.

Somebody is targeting police officers in the worst way imaginable—burning them alive in a series of large-scale arson attacks. When DCI Jane Phillips and the Major Crimes Unit are assigned to the case, forensic evidence suggests the fires display the unique signature of Manchester's most prolific arsonist, Archie Pearson. There's only one problem—Pearson has been in prison for almost twenty years.

LEXI - The plan was simple. Walk in, settle my deadbeat dad's debt, walk out and finally wash my hands of my father once and for all. That was the plan at least. Until it goes all wrong and I'm left playing my cards right in a game of poker to win my freedom.

This book captures a profound exploration of love, fear, and the struggles of life, using vivid imagery and deep introspection. The author encourages listeners to embrace love as a guiding force, urging them to push through life's adversities. It contrasts the darkness of despair—illustrated by scenes of neglect, addiction, and hopelessness—with the transformative power of love and hope. Using metaphors, the text describes the journey of self-discovery and healing, emphasizing that true strength lies in acknowledging one's vulnerabilities and seeking connection.

A dark comedy of ghosts, grudges, and one very confused hotel manager. Charlie Bennett’s boring life managing a chain hotel takes a hard left when his weird Uncle Harold dies and leaves him a crumbling, creepy Victorian inn in the middle of nowhere. The good news? He owns a hotel now. The bad news? It’s haunted as hell. Furniture moves on its own. Portraits blink. The piano plays itself every Tuesday at midnight (thanks, Heinrich). And don’t even get him started on the ghost kid who keeps rearranging his sock drawer.

As the Zoo Boyz brotherhood teeters on the brink of collapse, the story unfolds further as Preach grapples with the ultimate choice of siding with the streets or the pulpit. Between trying to be the perfect Preacher's kid and remaining a friend to his brothers, his faith never wavers. During the Zoo Boyz's quest to understand Chevy's inexplicable desire to travel, Preach crossed paths with an individual who would alter the course of his life in ways he never imagined. Navi enters Preach's heart like a thief in the night.

Hun fik 13 i jura, men 03 i husgerning… Den ambitiøse advokat Samantha Sweeting har lige begået en bommert så stor, at hun med sikkerhed kan vinke farvel til enhver drøm om at blive partner i firmaet. Da hun spørger om vej ved et stort, smukt landsted, bliver hun forvekslet med en ansøger til jobbet som husbestyrerinde. Ejerne ved ikke, at hun er advokat, men pludselig er hun ansat - en mindre detalje er, at Samantha ikke aner, hvordan man tænder ovnen, hun kan ikke gøre rent, har aldrig tilberedt en middag eller bagt et brød, og det forbandede strygebræt vil bare ikke makke ret!

3 years after Cognac X.O went on the run, Boo has become the new Street King in Diamond City, SC. Melissa is chillin with her friends Monica and Peanut for Christmas break when Monica mentions a ritual to get them money. This results in Denzel the Snowman, a drug lord from the 80s returning. Melissa reaches out to the only person she knows can help them, Snow X.O the son of Congac X.O.

Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and status. While he has little capacity to accurately assess his own abilities or prospects, he cruises through life on the sheer force of his own sense of entitlement, dropping out of college and landing in the early '90s in New York City, a place brimming with both prosperity and desperation.

The Ainsworth Chronicles, Book Two: The Mystery of Ms. Teak Detective Carol Ainsworth really has her work cut out this time! Agnes at her craziest best. She discovers a secret that she can't reveal to anyone, including herself, and how does one psychic stop another from hunting her down? Meanwhile, Carol has her hands full with pissed-off Russians, the reborn builder of much of Victorian Victoria (yes, the Sir Francis Rattenbury), a young girl claiming to be our aforementioned psychic and there's something very wrong with Nathan, Carol's nephew that they saved from death.

Katie is thirty-six, has recently been dumped by her dull-yet-deceitful fiancé and in a (not-unrelated) moment of madness, abandoned a Solid, Decently Paid Career to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. But, after a year of expensive cookery school and months in Michelin-star kitchens blow-drying edible ferns for free, she finds herself making sandwiches (heritage duck egg and black garlic mayonnaise on sourdough, admittedly, but sandwiches all the same) in a north London café and stuck in an ill-advised situationship with a twentysomething who thinks he’s the next star of The Bear.

It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb. Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that lie all about him: the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for her priest; his beautiful, neglected teenage daughter Rosemary; and the sinister presence of Frances Youlgreave – poet, opium addict and suicide – whose power stretches beyond the grave.

Life for Easy is uncharacteristically...easy. He's set up his own agency and is about to propose to his sweetheart, Bonnie. But all that changes when his old friend, Mouse - one of the deadliest men in America - appears at his door, asking for a small favour. The favour is to help the son of a friend of Charcoal Joe who has been wrongly imprisoned. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in LA, a man who pulls all the strings but is known to very few.

Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, Men In Love reunites the Trainspotting crew for a riotous new journey. Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event: Sick Boy’s wedding day.

I always knew marriage for me would never be to a man of my choosing. As a young girl, I was all too aware of the power I wielded in a world where men were supposed to be the superior gender. To the underworld, I was just a mafia princess. To my family, I was an equal. To my soon-to-be husband? Well, that was yet to be determined. But I prayed Enzo Bianchi was ready for me because I was damn sure prepared for him.

Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of the Russell and Corrinne Calloway, now in their sixties, against the backdrop of various crises that have bedeviled our society in the past forty years.

He sits on a park bench talking to trees, listening carefully for their replies. He digs deeper inside himself, knowing that peace lies beyond the depths. Meanwhile, a woman watches him from afar, enjoying his every step towards realization.