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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of...

A marriage of convenience is one thing… but falling for your fake wife is all kinds of complicated. Being married for a year is the only way to claim my inheritance. I couldn't care less about the money. It's not like I even knew my grandparents. I wasn't even considering it until Monroe volunteered. Sweet, sweet, Monroe. I've never let myself consider her as an option for me. She's been tucked safely away in a box labeled forbidden. That is until she takes my last name.

I laid a plan to trap her for I'm the predator and she's my prey. I'm Anson Larue, and this is my truth. Nova King was once my everything until she stole from me. Back then, I didn't get a chance to make her pay. Seven years later, I'm shocked to see Nova in Savannah, working at my buddy's sister's company. She's hoodwinked all her colleagues, and even her boss refuses to cut ties with her after I reveal her deceit. This time, I'm not letting her get away. I hatch a plan to show the world who she really is.

Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan–Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa's life is in tatters. Her mother–in–law's isolated farm gives her the opportunity to pull her life back together and get herself back on her feet. Four years after fleeing the city and the scandal that ruined his career, disgraced lawyer Cameron Blakely has a successful new business and a new life. 

I'm Noah Carter, and this is my confession. My story is one of vengeance that twisted into a love I never saw coming. My target? Baron Hunt, the man whose ruthlessness shattered my family. The plan was simple: seduce his daughter Stella to force her father's hand, making him pay for his past transgressions. She became an unwitting pawn in a game of retribution that was supposed to end with my victory. Instead, I realized that the heart doesn't follow the rules of revenge.

Wade Ashby doesn't let anyone in. With the death of his father and his failed marriage, plus the weight of the family business on his shoulders, Wade has plenty to deal with. He thrives on being the one constant and steady thing in his family's life and on their ranch, Silver Pines. Ivy Spencer knows two things for certain: Animals make better friends than people, and she can only count on herself. After a turbulent childhood and a string of bad luck since, Ivy is excited to start fresh at Silver Pines Ranch and live out her dream of training a racehorse en route to the Kentucky Derby.

Dolores Diaz, fresh off a divorce, is thrust back into her estranged father's world after his mysterious murder. The once-quiet town of Little Horton is now a labyrinth of secrets and violence. As the body count rises, Dolores finds herself entangled in a web of deception woven eighteen years ago. She must confront her traumatic past, where a beloved hometown turned into a nightmare, and where the lines between innocence and culpability blur.

Someone is targeting Martin Scarsden. They bomb his book launch and shoot up his hometown. Fleeing for his life, he learns that nowhere is safe, not even the outback. The killers are closing in, and it's all he can do to survive. But who wants to kill him and why? Can he discover their deadly motives and turn the tables?

Eve has just graduated from high school, but she doesn't know what's next aside from working at the local motel, spying on Kyle, her neighbor, and stealing apples from his orchard. If she doesn't figure things out soon, she'll be stuck at home and treated like a child forever.

Small town handywoman Hazel Lee has learned to live her best life regardless of what the universe throws at her. But her patience is sorely tested when a bossy, big-city executive blows in and starts questioning Hazel's motives for helping an elderly friend. High-powered businesswoman Imogen Alexander has her career all set. Then her elderly uncle takes a bad fall in his home. Imogen figures she can surely run his life as tightly as her work, but she doesn't count on an annoying local woman being all up in his business.

What happens when you're injured and stuck with the one man who makes your blood heat in a way you've never experienced before? I've been on a path to redemption. Kayce Wilder, former screw-up. The bareback bronc rider with big dreams. I had it all figured out. Only, I didn't count on a ride gone wrong to leave me with no other option than to ask for his help. Zeke Rainer. Raine. The gruff cowboy covered in tattoos, surrounded by mysteries.

On the eve of Genie’s thirtieth birthday, her grandmother gives her an unexpected gift: a wish at midnight. Genie, forever the family skeptic, laughs it off and, after an evening fending off invasive questions about her nonexistent love life, returns home to her empty house and her golden retriever, Rory. She really should’ve listened to her grandmother. She's turned Rory into a human with big golden retriever energy. But he doesn’t like being a human. He doesn’t like wearing clothes or human manners, and he most definitely can’t manage a human job. It's like she suddenly has a child.

‘Binge-able, swoon worthy and cosy, I LOVED it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review A standalone cozy romance filled with books, baby dragons, and happily ever after guaranteed! Emmy has an enemy, and his name is Luke. The good news? She rarely sees him. The bad news? When she does, she (and her pet...

Newly divorced and completely burned out, Dottie heads back to Blue Holly—the charming town where her family made their best memories. She's hoping to find peace and a purpose. Instead, she finds a grown-up mountain town with an identity problem and her Aunt Lo packing to leave with a single offer on the table: a crumbling old hardware store with a "fix it up and it's yours" kind of deal. Dottie doesn’t know a wrench from a whisk, has no capital, and even less confidence. But when she stumbles on a forgotten moonshine still in the garage of the Red Arrow, inspiration (and mischief) strike.

Johnny Gonzales let her walk away from everything they built and everything they were. Winnie left me to fix something—someone—she couldn't save, and I refused to help. When she packed her bags to leave, I didn't chase her. Now she's back, years later, looking just as beautiful as the first...

Jon Tremaine has lived in hiding for years--will coming out of the shadows to help a friend be too great a risk? Perfect for fans of John Grisham and Charles Martin, Witness Protection is a legal drama with a deep undercurrent of faith. All is finally good. Jon Tremaine has created a new life in...

When life comes knocking, can they go from nothing to something? After a lifetime of having each other's backs, meddling in their brother's lives, and keeping their families going, Nate and Xavi don't know what to do with all this… freedom. For the first time ever, they have no one to watch out for. Love and dreams come next on their big agenda, and they soon learn the connection they share goes far deeper than any normal friendship. But with a lifelong bestie bond on the line, flipping their dynamic comes with big risks… and big rewards.

Howard Norman’s The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas, is a bird artist: he draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale, Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Mike Page fled Ironwood Flats, Texas the moment he tossed his high school cap in the air and never looked back. But when his little sister, Annie, is suddenly left raising two kids on her own, one desperate call brings him right back to the one place he swore he’d never return. Now, stuck playing uncle, Mike’s in for more than he bargained for, especially since it means surviving the town’s infamous Halloween celebrations—his personal nightmare.

A debut historical novel destined to become a classic like Little Women, this coming-of-age story records an upstate New York family’s suffering and growth through World War I and its aftermath through the eyes of a young woman. Eleanor Foerster, a bright and irreverent fourteen-year-old...

Becky gazes at the name of the village in her mother's will: Orchid Bay, Ireland. It sounds like a magical place, so why did she never mention she owned a house there? Desperate to feel close to her mother again, Becky decides to escape her life in New York and travel to the wild Irish coast with her teenage daughter, Jen. When she arrives, she finds peeling paint and a garden overgrown with wildflowers. Becky knows her mother would have wanted her to breathe new life into this house by the sea.

Pre-order the eighth DCI James Walker thriller now! Readers can't put down Alex Pine's winter crime: 'You know winter is coming when the latest Alex Pine novel drops' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is my favourite book in the series' Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What a fantastic...

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown's cowboy romance that features: Opposites attract Families in a long-standing feud And a truly happy, Texas Christmas miracle Opposites may attract . . . The Brennans and the Gallaghers put aside their one-hundred-year feud every Tuesday for a...

Maverick: My friends don't understand why I never get past the first date. They think it's because I'm not suave enough to get a second date. So when an author friend of theirs starts a book-boyfriend-building class, they sign me up. Ava is beautiful, but she's as boring as watching paint dry...

A small-town backcountry hiking guide and a travel nurse become reluctant roommates and fight their growing connection before his contract—and their time together—comes to an end in this cozy, slow-burn romance. Stevie Lynch has never wanted to leave Fontana Ridge. The Smoky Mountains are...

Seventeen-year old Sheila O'Connor falls for an unscrupulous drifter the day before her brother joins the Marines. It's 1975 in the Salinas Valley, the same year Sheila's long-widowed mother remarries and her best friend goes off the rails. Sheila is forced to confront both old and new losses as her life and relationships fall into disarray. She discovers that the only fate she can influence is her own.

When Stella lands a job working at Titheridge Farm, she's thrilled. Stella plans a weekend at the farm for the family and invites five VIP guests, in a bid to win them over. Forty-eight hours later, someone is dead. Trapped by the weather and all with secrets of their own, one of the partygoers is lying and one isn't who they say they are.

When Emmeline Buchanan grows weary of her city career, she decides to make a huge change by taking a job as a gardener at the gorgeous stately home, Ashington House. Welcomed with open arms by the lady of the house, Emmy is looking forward to a season of flowers and sunshine. So she is flabbergasted when Lady Penelope, desperate to save face with a nightmare neighbour, announces that her son, Edward, the Lord of the Manor no less, and Emmeline are engaged.

Euan Sparks is back in town, newly self-employed and newly mortified after a disastrous first job threatens his fledgling electrician business. Can he prove that he belongs in Cairn Dhu? Peaches McDowell is a gifted fashion student on the brink of her Master's showcase. She's focused, ambitious and bound tightly within the expectations of her formidable mother. Romance is a distraction she can't afford. But when a crisis throws Peaches and Euan together at the repair shop, a spark is ignited…

Life at the Chocolate Pot Café has never been sweeter for Tara Porter. For Jed, returning from Australia feels like coming home in every sense. But the past can't stay at bay forever. When Tara's estranged foster sister reappears, old wounds resurface. And when Jed is reunited with twelve year old Aaron - a boy he once believed was his son - secrets unravel and loyalties are tested. Now Tara and Jed must decide whether facing the past will shatter everything they've built—or hope it gives them the strength and courage to dream again.

Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—who also happens to be Adam’s estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni.

A classic country band with gospel roots born on the windswept shores of Nags Head sets its sights on the bright lights of Nashville. Steel & Grace is more than a group of musicians, it’s a family forged through struggle, faith, and the unrelenting pursuit of a dream. This novel follows their journey from smalltown stages to the heart of country music, weaving together themes of redemption, resilience, and the power of song to heal and inspire.

Raised in a conservative Christian home in the East Coast of Canada, Mag is urged to preserve her purity at all costs. Desperate to secure her place in heaven, she rejects the hyper-sexual youth culture of her small town—until she falls for a magnetic, sophisticated girl while attending a program designed to usher young people into Evangelical Missionary work. Spiraling into shame and regret, Mag breaks away from the Church and launches herself into the world of sex for hire, attempting to shed her repressive past and become an anti-virgin—the antithesis of who she was raised to be.

Vivian Perez is a young girl surrendered to a broken family. Her father believes he has complete authority over his wife and daughters. Only Vivi holds the truth. Willowdale Road is more than the street she grew up on. It is a neighborhood of loving and kind people who encourage Vivi and offer her the opportunities she deserves. With the weight of her secrets held within her heart, she makes room for love as a young adult; first with a man she cannot have and again with a man she cannot keep.

Everyone needs a little magic in their lives... The Rules of Magic is the long-awaited prequel to Practical Magic, and a New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick! In this sparkling prequel we meet the Aunts from Practical Magic, sisters Frances and Jet and Vincent, their...

Lily Johnson is the baby of her family, causing her two big brothers and Pops to be overprotective. All she wants to do is stretch her wings and live her own life in Alabama without answering to anyone. When she finds a cottage up for sale in the middle of nowhere she jumps at the chance to buy...

He thinks I’m a spoiled diva. I think he’s a grumpy control freak. But when a snowstorm traps us together, there’s nothing but heat. I try to bring happiness into the world with my music. So why does Police Chief Teller Landry scowl at me like it’s his full-time job? The man is larger...

When Mateo Vargas begins volunteering at a small natural history museum, he expects to guide school groups and shelve books. Instead, he discovers a hidden basement containing tens of thousands of uncatalogued specimens—moths, beetles, and butterflies carefully preserved for questions no one has asked yet. Downstairs, collections manager Dr. Patricia Okafor guards more than jars of insects. She protects unfinished work, decades-old promises, and the legacy of a scientist who trusted the museum to “hold space for the future.

Apothekerin Lena steht kurz davor, mit ihrem Traumjob durchzustarten, als plötzlich alles anders kommt: Ihre Lieblingstante stirbt und hinterlässt ihr die traditionsreiche Stadtapotheke in Glückstadt. Von heute auf morgen steht Lena vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt – und dann taucht auch noch der charmante Tom auf. Während sie zwischen ihrer Karriere im Pharmakonzern und der familiären Apotheke schwankt, wird Tom ihr immer sympathischer. Kann sie ihm vertrauen?

Nachdem ihre geliebte Kochsendung eingestellt wurde, bewirbt sich Louise als Köchin in der Villa Hilda, einem neu eröffneten Gästehaus auf der idyllischen Insel Halsterö im Stockholmer Schärengarten. Auch Thomas, ein Journalist aus Finnland, findet hier als Manager seine neue Heimat. Während Louise täglich neue Rezepte ausprobiert und sie gemeinsam die erste Saison vorbereiten, entdecken die beiden nicht nur, dass das Haus seine ganz eigenen Geheimnisse und Geschichten hat, sondern auch, dass sie mehr verbindet, als sie anfänglich dachten.

Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions...

Her heart is wild. Only he can capture it. When Cole Ashby is appointed Laurel Creek's interim sheriff, he is determined to prove himself as the best man for the job. A devoted single dad, his goal is to lay steady roots for his young daughter. As the daughter of a Kentucky congressman, Ginger Danforth's life has always been about neat appearances. But inside, she's dying to break free and embrace the sense of adventure that runs through her veins.

¿QUIÉN ES, EN REALIDAD, LA MUJER DEL PISO DE ARRIBA?La muerte de Dorotea y el deseo de desaparecer propician el regreso de su nieta a la pequeña localidad de Lanuza, en Huesca. El ambiente que la recibe dista mucho de la paz que venía buscando: los vecinos la tratan con recelo y la inquilina de su abuela, una escritora de renombre con fama de rehuir la sociedad, ha dejado atrás todas sus pertenencias y ha desaparecido.

Tara had read in books of people turning white with shock. At that moment, she found out what it felt like. All the blood left her head. There was a roaring in her ears, and her legs wobbled. He knows who I am. Which means he knows I'm on the run. Any chance of smoothly covering for her awkwardness had shot right out the window when she froze like a deer in the headlights at the sound of her real name. And now Sexy Sheriff was getting up. And up...