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The Secret Romantic's Book Of Magic Enemies become lovers, rivalry turns to romance, and convenient marriages create true love in these 12 addictive Romantasy tales. Featuring Olivie Blake, Kelley Armstrong, Katherine Arden, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Tasha Suri, Melissa Marr and more. Fall in love with these twelve gorgeous Romantasy stories from bestselling and beloved authors.Lost lovers return for a second chance – but what are their motives? Academic rivals compete for a prestigious position, but their sizzling chemistry might get in the way. A monster slayer posing as an unwitting sacrifice meets an intriguingly moral prince.From relationships caught in disparate timelines to ghostly ballrooms and dragons that need rescuing from princesses, this anthology gives you an inventive new spin on all your favorite tropes, and much more that you’ve never seen before.FEATURING BRAND-NEW STORIES FROM:Olivie BlakeA. G. SlatterTasha SuriKatherine ArdenKelley ArmstrongHannah N. MaehrerMelissa MarrMegan BannenKelly AndrewKamilah ColeA. C. WiseEliza Chan

Maple Hills Box SetPick up the entire Maple Hills Series in one gorgeous collectible slipcase, including all three of Hannah Grace’s beloved bestsellers: Icebreaker, Wildfire and Daydream.Treat yourself and your bookshelf to this stunning boxed set, containing all three Maple Hills paperbacks. You’ll devour Nate and Stassie’s love story in Icebreaker, the global phenomenon that first captured reader’s hearts; Russ and Aurora’s whirlwind summer will leave you breathless; and finally Henry and Halle’s tale will be the slow-burn romance you didn’t know you needed.Please note: The Maple Hills Series contains 18+ content and is not suitable for younger readers.

Killer On The Road A pulse-pounding and blood-soaked tale of survival on the highway as a hitchhiking teenager is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a brutal serial killer. Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison, and Keith Rosson.Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. Her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend stage an intervention disguised as a road trip to stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming. What they don’t realize is that Harper has been marked by a unique serial killer who’s been trolling the highway for the past three years.Now the killer is after all of them, and they are thrust into an explosive, pulse-pounding and terrifying race for survival down the interstate. As the body-count rises, Harper will break all the limits to bring the killer down.

Good Spirits Limited Edition Sprayed Edge Paperback: The Brand-New For 2025 Magical, Cosy, Small-Town Holiday Romance With An Irish Ghost, Unexpect ***'The perfect romance' LAURIE GILMORE'Everything I wanted in a festive read…whimsical, magical, emotional, and deeply romantic' ?????'Good Spirits is an absolute knockout' HANNAH GRACE'A million shining stars for Harriet & Nolan!!!' ?????'Like snuggling with a golden, shimmering sunset' TESSA BAILEY***Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday season exactly like every other; haunting the terrible people of Annapolis in his aimless existence as the Ghost of Christmas Past.Harriet York is a good person – or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her.So, when Nolan is assigned the sweeter-than-candy-canes antique shop owner for his holiday haunting, neither of them have any idea why. To escape one another, Harriet and Nolan must unravel the threads that bind them together – all by Christmas Eve.Hand in hand, they uncover each other’s pasts, but why is it that Nolan doesn’t want to let go? And might Harriet be the key to giving the Ghost of Christmas Past…a future?***?Grumpy x SunshineHoliday romance magicTouch starved immortalFated matesSexy little mustache'B.K. Borison at her best…this book is absolute perfection and a gift to the world of romance books' ?????'Literally had me kicking my feet, screaming into a pillow and giggling throughout' ?????'Fresh, fun and original, B.K. Borison can do no wrong' LINDSEY KELK'My top romance pick for 2025! I’m so certain nothing will surpass this one!' ?????'A masterpiece…brimming with magic and whimsy' HANNAH BONAM-YOUNG'Utter perfection…endearing, heartbreaking, romantic' ?????'Heartachingly tender and decadently hot' CHLOE LIESE'Everything a romance should have…a love story that conquers all, spice that's spicing and banter that's bantering' ?????'The first festive read I've ever full-heartedly fallen in love with' ?????

Fox 'Chilling' FINANCIAL TIMES‘Impressive and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Eerie, shocking, provoking' GILLIAN FLYNN'Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ ECONOMIST'Engrossing even as it horrifies' BIG ISSUEA spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.'Hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art’ LOS ANGELES TIMES'Mesmerizing' MICHAEL CONNELLY'Oates is a genius' REBECCA MAKKAI'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing' FINANCIAL TIMES'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’ SEATTLE TIMES'Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’ LOS ANGELES TIMES'Engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’ BIG ISSUE‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’ KIRKUS REVIEWS‘Menacing, mesmerizing, and thoroughly provocative’ BOOKLIST

Fruit Of The Dead An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America’s own late capitalist mythos. Lyon’s reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it.Praise for Fruit of the Dead‘An unnerving literary thriller... An absorbing exploration of ancient themes like power and temptation.’ Mail on Sunday'Riveting and lush… a spellbinding account of a young woman’s hunger for freedom, the sordid underbelly of big pharma, and the siren call of addiction.' Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters'A gripping literary thriller, Fruit of the Dead presents a coming-of-age tale that is so well-observed and intoxicating that the reader will lose track of time, but won't forget how they spent it. Egan and Cline fans: assemble.' Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Wild Laughter‘Ancient Greece meets Succession by way of Emma Cline, Fruit of the Dead is a deliciously dark examination of agency and power, and the savage complexity of the mother-daughter bond.’ Ruth Gilligan, author of The Butchers‘Mesmerised and profoundly alarmed, I read this in one go; I’ve been haunted by it ever since. I’ve passionately loved Lyon’s writing for years, and Fruit of the Dead further confirms what I’ve long suspected: I want to lunge to read anything she writes.’ R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries

Evil Bones In this twisty, magnetic thriller, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings that escalate into something far more sinister.Small creatures – a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel – have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. Then one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home, she receives a disturbing call: this find could be human.Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine ‘Skinny’ Slidell. After consulting a forensic psychologist, they realize the escalating pattern of aggression could result in human victims.And then it happens: a woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. When people Tempe cares about begin to go missing, it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her racing against a ticking clock to catch the killer before it’s too late…

Dirty Air Box Set is the full collection of Lauren Asher's debut series, including the bestselling titles Throttled, Collided, Wrecked, and Redeemed. Dive into the world of Formula 1 racing with these iconic romance novels.In Throttled, F1 royalty Noah finds himself drawn to Maya, his teammate's sister. Collided follows the story of friendly rivals Sophie and Liam as they make a deal involving a naughty list and a dirty secret for one season. Wrecked tells the tale of PR expert Elena working to repair bad boy Jax's reputation both on and off the track. And in Redeemed, Chloe agrees to a fake relationship with recluse driver Santiago as she searches for her father, but their connection becomes real.Enjoy this beloved series with special limited edition cover art and bonus chapters, featuring four standalone novels intertwined with romance and drama. Travel the world with these captivating stories of love and racing.

The Anthropologists Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together?As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs, anxious to know how people really live. ‘Forget about daily life,’ chides her grandmother on the phone, ‘no one cares about that.’Meanwhile, life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues – parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up – all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new city is growing, too, they hope. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?Praise for Aysegül Savas“Aysegül Savas’ White on White is marvelous, as elegant as an opaque sheet of ice that belies the swift and turbulent waters beneath.” —Lauren Groff“A haunting, irresistible novel. In Agnes, Savas has created one of the great characters of contemporary literature. I loved this book for its depth and perception, for its beauty and eerie rhythms, but most of all for its wonderfully dream-like spell. It’s breathtaking.” —Brandon Taylor“Despite the thriller-ish underpinning of the novel and the propulsive unfolding of the relationship at the book’s heart, Savas’s graceful and intellectual prose is the star of the show here. It makes air-light what might otherwise be a novel ponderous with weighty questions: What is the nature of art? Does it reveal or conceal? What is the nature of human connection? . . . . Like a prism, this novel brilliantly illuminates the human spectrum of connection and longing.” —Kirkus, STARRED review“[A] beguiling little novel… Indeed, going out for a stroll is the activity that most resembles the reading of Savas’s book.” – The New York Times Book Review

The Hobbit Illustrated EditionThe first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. Artist Jemima Catlin’s charming and lively interpretation brings Tolkien’s beloved characters to life in a way that will entice and entertain a new generation of readers.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure.Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug’s left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves. Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…

Here And Beyond 'A brilliant, character-driven debut novel . . . An imaginative journey that's absorbing, thoughtful and deeply humane' GUARDIAN'LaCroix shows us the difficulties that mount for those on board from disease to rebellions to some travellers who come to doubt that they are even on a ship at all . . . Don't just take my word for its brilliance' NEWSCIENTIST'A rousing achievement ... What makes Here and Beyond stand out is its dedication to character, richness of emotion, and a tender eye for the humanity of all' COURTTIA NEWLANDEarthworld is a thing of the past. Welcome to the future.After the collapse of life on Earth as it once was known, 600 people are selected for passage on Shipworld, a spacecraft charting a 360-year voyage to a new planet. Their mission will see generation after generation born, living and dying on board until one day their descendants finally step foot on the 'Super Earth' that might offer the last chance for humankind's survival.But life aboard Shipworld is far from a waiting game. The spacecraft promises a world of its own, a harmonious system free of class distinctions and wealth accumulation. Yet with each new generation comes daunting challenges to the future of their civilisation from creeping doubts about the nature of reality to an outbreak of disease that could eradicate their population, from rebels who threaten the unity of the mission to a traumatic encounter with a mysterious space phenomenon. An intergenerational epic populated by pioneers and chroniclers, enemies and friends, leaders and legends, Here and Beyond is an intricate and imaginative exploration of the arc of human endeavour.What readers are saying-'A fascinating reflection on what it means to be human' 'A space opera of considerable breadth and depth' 'An imaginative and thought-provoking exploration of humanity's future'

Murder In The Cathedral The indefatigable Miss Phryne Fisher returns to solve what may be her most puzzling murder.

Call It What You WantA nostalgic ode to all almost-love stories - the ones with no label and no title but an undeniable intensity. Call it what you want... Was it love?A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake - you can call it what you want. But was it love?It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of.The last thing she needs is for a guy to get in the way of her goals. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof. But that plan becomes a little more complicated when her upstairs neighbor, Ethan Brady, enters the picture.Ethan's pull is undeniable. He's tall, mysterious, and handsome as hell, and when Sloane is with him, the entire world slows to a halt. But Ethan's guarded past is too hurtful for him to face, and if letting Sloane in means that the walls he's built around his heart would come crumbling down, he may not be willing to let that happen.As their chemistry and connection intensify, Sloane finds herself falling deeper and deeper, but will Ethan ever be ready to catch her?Nostalgic, heartfelt, and profoundly cathartic, Call It What You Want is an ode to almost-love stories - the kinds with no labels, no promises, and the potential to turn your entire world upside down.

Chasing The Wild Layla Birch always followed the rules, until she fell for Colton Wilder. This steamy, forbidden-love cowboy romance is the first book in the CRIMSON RIDGE series by internationally bestselling author Elliott Rose.What happens when you're snowed in on a mountain ranch with the one man you definitely should not be fantasizing about?I've always done what was expected of me. Layla Birch, the good girl. Forced to grow up too fast. To take care of everything myself. I had a plan.Only, I didn't count on him. Colton Wilder, the cowboy nearly twice my age. One who takes care of me, gives me a job, and makes my pulse thud harder every time he comes near. My ex-boyfriend's father.As the snow grows thicker and the tension builds between us, we're both inching closer to a line we shouldn't cross.Each day, it grows harder to resist the man who looks at me with longing in his eyes. It's tempting to forget about being the good girl for once.No one would find out. Would they?