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Khalani Kanes has never stood on the surface of the earth. In the underground city of Apollo, faith and dreams are as absent as the sun. She longs to visit Genesis, the infamous Domed City and the final place where humanity lives aboveground. But when Khalani is given a life sentence and thrown into prison for a theft she didn't commit, that wish shatters into oblivion.

One determined goddess. Two beloved gods. Three coveted thrones. Ancient Egypt's most formidable goddess will stop at nothing to save her true love from the wrath of a vengeful god in this romantic retelling by the author of Neferura, perfect for listeners who loved Lilith. Isis, goddess of...

Blackmail isn't the most romantic way to propose, but with the history between us: I had no choice. Long story short: I broke her heart and pushed her away. Years later we reconnected, and this time she walked away. Neither of us knew she was pregnant. So, when we had a second chance to be a...

Unlikeable Female Characters traces the evolution of highly memorable female characters, examining what exactly makes them popular, how audiences have reacted to them, and the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman. Anna Bogutskaya, film programmer, broadcaster, and cofounder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls takes us on a journey through popular film, TV, and music, looking at the nuances of womanhood on and off-screen to reveal whether pop culture—and society—is finally ready to embrace complicated women.

Kylie Tate survived a life of dominance and abuse. An up-and-coming criminal defense attorney, she has been assigned to a first-degree murder case that could make or break her career. The downside - the second chair is fellow attorney and violent ex-boyfriend John Sysco. When she catches the eye of enigmatic billionaire Alex Stone, she can't help but be drawn to him. Unfortunately, John is not willing to let her go - especially not into the arms of another man. Alex vows to stop at nothing to keep Kylie safe. But the closer they get, the more Kylie wonders if Alex is truly her savior.

'A staggeringly honest exploration of how shame, cruelty and the hunger for acceptance can make us feel sub-human. Visceral and vicious, horrifying, unflinching and unputdownable' RACHEL HARRISON You'd kill to look this good... Over three hundred pounds, Emmett Truesdale has never fit the...

Cate Holloway knows the unspoken rule of New Orleans: avoid the powerful Gage crime family at all costs. Of course, that was before her brother got caught in their chaos. Now Cate has no choice but to confront the dark and forbidding prince of New Orleans himself . . . and beg for her brother's life. But Lachlan Gage is as lethal as he is beautiful . . . and the only currency he's interested in is her soul. Because Lachlan isn't just some ruthless criminal. He's fae. And he has his own secret reasons for binding her to him.

In the Los Angeles suburbs, the Crawfords seem like the average American family. Leo is a rising star in advertising. His wife, Rose, is brilliant, restless, and pregnant with their second child. Their teenage daughter, Melinda, is already leaning toward rebellion. Then Rose vanishes during a family vacation. When she comes back, she’s not the same.

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People". His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. 

Beck Daines has everything he needs—at least that's what he wants everyone to believe. As the starting first baseman for the Blues, he has his dream job, amazing friends, and, while he's a romantic at heart, watching his friends find the love they deserve is more than enough. However, love for himself is an idea he's benched for good. After his mother was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's, Beck stopped planning a future that could fall apart. No feelings and no forever loves to potentially forget, zero exceptions. That is, until Jensen James.

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier...

Lost in the wilderness, I thought the handsome stranger was my salvation—until I looked into the eyes of a beast. They say not to bargain with the fae, but there was no other choice. The deadly prince of Stag Court claims I belong to him. I only have a year and a day to convince him to let me go before I'm his forever. He's without mercy, known as a ruthless killer. Yet he protects me. Defends me. Tells me his secrets. In front of the Court, he's the Beast, but behind closed doors he gives me the chance to choose him, or not.

Sage of Hope and Ruin is a slow-burn fantasy romance perfect for fans of Carissa Broadbent's Daughter of No Worlds, and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows—in which a con woman must join a team of criminals on a doomed quest to save the world where the ultimate heist awaits them at its end. Magic is...

Eight million people ride her subway line. Not one of them has looked at her in fifteen years. Then something came up out of the tunnel. Frankie, 39, works the overnight at the 168th Street station. Bulletproof glass, four-inch ledge, two cameras that have been out of focus since 2016. Her ex took the coffee maker and left a hoodie on the bathroom door. Her mother calls on Sundays to mention that Cousin Angela with the teeth got engaged. Frankie is not sad about any of it, which is the most damning thing she can say about two years of her life.

Readers' Choice Book Awards Gold Winner "Westbrook's writing is deeply atmospheric, immersing readers in a world where the house itself feels alive, and the woods loom as a sinister force . . . Westbrook's ability to blend the supernatural with reality makes this novel a haunting and...

Vera Rivers’ twin sister Ava disappeared twelve years ago on Halloween. The once-happy Rivers family has been spiraling ever since. The case shocked their community and made front-page news. But after years of investigators, theories, tips, and clues, the headlines have faded. There are still no answers. And now Vera is eighteen, ready to go to college and finally build a new life away from her family’s dark history. Until Ava Rivers turns up at a local hospital—broken, amnesia-stricken, and crying to go home. Ava’s miraculous return changes everything.

Falling into another world and getting captured by an arrogant, shadow-wielding fae prince wasn't on my to-do list. Neither was being told I'm his soulmate, or discovering that behind the glamor of a beautiful, violet-haired prince stood a seven-foot-tall winged beast. Stabbing him seemed like the best option. But the Prince of Shadows needs to be betrothed to avoid being sold to a goddess by his father, and he's desperate enough to make a deal: access to the glittering world of the fae nobility in return for pretending to be his mate.

All I wanted was a quiet Christmas at home to forget about the three alphas I scent-matched, including my newest client. Instead, I somehow ended up inviting them to my family's farmhouse. Now my meddling mother is constantly trying to push us together, I'm stress-baking at 2 AM to cope with the...

Before gathering for the holidays, four siblings receive an identical note: "Your mother was murdered."The Jaggers were once a tight-knit family. But after their mother’s tragic death years ago, the four children and their father drifted further apart. The children grew up, moved away, and now have lives of their own. And Dad? Well, let’s just say his new live-in friend January also has a permanent residence in the uncanny valley.

She hunts trolls for a living. She never considered one might hunt her back. Eve Alexopoulos is a journalist by title, a troll-hunter by trade. Her column "What's Your Problem, Bro?" has spent years dragging the internet's most toxic abusers into the light — and the book deal that followed was big enough to buy herself something spectacular: a Sunray, Jolvix's flagship self-driving vehicle. Sleek. Solar-powered. State-of-the-art. And programmed, she'll soon discover, by an engineer who takes her work very personally.