In this clever and surprising thriller about the perils of modern dating and the female rage it sometimes inspires, a board game designer starts playing by her own rules, and losers won’t be tolerated.The friendship game. The dating game. The end game. For board game designer Tilda Smith they’re all necessary steps on the path to finding happiness. And by structuring her life according to a set of rules, just like in the games that she loves to create at her job, T...

From acclaimed author K. Ancrum, on the National Book Award longlist for The Corruption of Hollis Brown, and Lambda Literary Award winner for Icarus, comes a queer romantic horror thriller that is a love letter to Frankenstein about the consequences of our decisions, the legacy of family, and the depths we’ll go to be forgiven.Victor Frankenstein is a young, wealthy, and brilliant prodigy who wants nothing more than to prove himself and change the...

WHEN LIVES ENTANGLE, WEBS WILL WEAVE...A teacher. A soldier. An immigrant. A joker. A loner. A chancer. A carer.A mosaic of seven regular townsfolk are going about their days, blissfully unaware their lives are about to interweave, interchange and interact; entangling into such a messy web that, together — and unbeknownst to them — they end up changing the face of America forevermore.In the mold of movies such as Traffic, Magnolia & The Usual Suspects, In the Middle...

What happens when this Princess no longer wants to be Princess?Princess. Not just a title, but my entire life. I live my life for everyone but me. As first in line to the throne, one wrong move and I’m plastered across the tabloids. I’m tired of it. Tired of being in the public spotlight.With a royal holiday in sight, I make a run for it.Right into the arms of a mysterious tattoo artist. Who has no idea who I really am.For t...

"Filled with so much autumnal coziness that it made me want to run off and become a pumpkin farmer (ideally with the help of a sexy orc), this was the perfect fall read!” **—Laurie Gilmore, #1 New York Times bestselling authorShrek meets The Princess Bride in this cozy, low-stakes romantic fantasy. The Pumpkin Bride delivers all the autumnal feels, a dash of spice, and a guaranteed HEA!Some curses just need a cozy fire, a...

From USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a steamy, emotional happily-ever-after between a cynical rake and the forbidden sister of his best friend . . .The Duke of Kingham delights in doing bad deeds. Which is why no one is more surprised than King when he decides to do a very good deed in marrying his best friend’s sister. Lady Verity Saunders suffered a traumatic blow to the head that left her with partial ...

Enter the bazaar of the bizarre where fate and fortunes are for sale in this high-stakes magical adventure across a London not quite like our own, perfect for fans of Neverwhere and The Night Circus.Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune. As a child, Deri was sold to one of the Market’s most powerful merchants. Now, after years of watchful servitude, Deri finally spots a chance...

Set across two weeks in 2018 and 2023, Orange is the story of a situationship between two young men, Daniel and Jago, who at sixteen become unlikely friends and then lovers in their tiny Cornish fishing village.Five years later, Daniel has moved away to London and Jago is coming to visit for a few days. Despite being in each other's lives all this time, they have never solidified their relationship, and this is only Jago's second visit to the city.Daniel knows this trip is ...

Between 1994 and 1996, music writer Paolo Hewitt spent the greater part of his life on the road with Oasis, in the U.K., Europe and America. He came back with tales that would cement the legend of the brawling, effing, hedonistic, charismatic, confessional and extraordinarily talented Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, and their group.Hewitt is a rare and perceptive fly-on-the-wall during the band’s hectic rise to the height of their powers, as their first two albums are released t...

Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite.To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to succeed.

For 60 years Mr George Leo John Lucas led a double life. By day, he was a civil servant at the Board of Trade, but by night - unable to live openly as a gay man before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 - he was a fixture of London's colourful underground gay scene, a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public lavatories. He was also an obsessive diary writer.When Mr Lucas died in 2014 he left his diaries to the journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. This book combines Mr Lucas's delic...

Stitch is not a monster – he’s a creation.He and his friend Henry Oaf were brought to life by the genius Professor Hardacre, and have spent all their days in a castle deep in the woods, far from humankind. But when the Professor dies and his pompous nephew comes to take over the laboratory, they soon find out that his sights are set not on scientific discovery, but personal glory. And Henry is his next experiment.Can Stitch and Henry escape his clutches and make their way i...