When you're 14, there is no afterwards. It all begins when Tanja meets Eg. Handsome and grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents and a teller of stories. Soon, he begins to write to Tanja, sending letters that arrive at her home in the Swedish forest, drawing her deeper into a fated love offering escape from an isolated childhood. Tanja steps through a door into adult experience from which there is no return, a relationship where desire and excitement give way to shame and control. Years l...

A heart-pounding thriller from bestselling author Tom Bale. A must-read for fans of Simon Kernick and Harlan Coben.A cold January morning. A sleepy Sussex village. A nightmare becomes reality.Thirty-one-year-old teacher Julia Trent is visiting her late parents' home in the idyllic village of Chilton, when she stumbles into a bloodbath. A deranged young man, shooting everyone in his path before taking his own life.But Julia witnesses a truth far mo...

Some Games Can Kill You.A young girl is missing. Snatched from her home during a game of hide and seek. Left behind in her place is a doll crudely twisted from stalks of corn.Psychotherapist Annie O’Malley thought she’d left the police force forever. The trouble is she thinks she knows the identity of the killer, and she’s the only one who can hunt him down before it’s too late.O’Malley is drawn back to a world she thought she’d escaped, to a case where every turn r...

His job is to make the greatest love stories in the world. Her job is to break them.Demi is a Breaker. Her job as an agent of Fate is to end human relationships when the time is right. She's the only Breaker in a family of Archers - those responsible for making humans fall in love with their golden arrows - and a black sheep amongst her peers.Still, Demi's life as a Breaker is simple, until her coffee break is interrupted by an arrow swinging through the do...

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Tricia Levenseller makes her adult debut in What Fury Brings, a sexy, empowering romantasy featuring a warrior general who must kidnap and train a husband in order to take her rightful place as queen.There's a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingd...

Successful beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps.Vivi's little sister is flying in from Brisbane with her sixteen-year-old twins in tow. Her ex-colleague and his new husband are coming from Boston, and old university friend Caroline is driving from Turin. Every one of them is hiding a shameful secret.Amid a suffocating heatwave, the holiday ignites ...

A copycat killer is recreating Jamie's old cases, and the victims are all too familiar ...When bodies are discovered in the open, the killings seeking to reenact Jamie's previous investigations, the team picks up the trail. A single killer is working from the shadows with ruthless efficiency, claiming victims before Jamie can even take a breath. But what's his endgame and what message is he trying to send?As Jamie starts to close in on the culprit, she begins to buckle under...

Some love stories end before they even begin…‘Romantic and gorgeous’ Milly Johnson‘An emotional novel about the power of hope’ Holly Miller‘Made my heart ache’ Liz Fenwick‘An epic story of love and emotion. Wow!’ Jane Linfoot***When Lili meets Ben by chance one hot summer’s day, it feels like fate. But life is about to take them in different directions, and s...

The flame has a voice. And it's calling for blood. Eleven-year-old Leo knows that fire is alive. He watched it take his mother, and now, he watches it follow him. In the shadows of his new home in Visby, the smell of turpentine and the crackle of burning plastic become his only companions. To Leo, the flames aren't just destruction-they are a face trying to whisper a secret about the dead children in his mother's old photographs. As a series of suspicious fires begins to consume the neighb...

A secret from the past. A storm in the present. A killer with an invitation. Thirty years ago, two children found a pirate's map hidden in a damp Visby prison tower, swearing a blood oath to find a shipwreck looter's treasure on the desolate island of Gotska Sandön. But secrets that begin in the dark rarely stay there. Now, just before Christmas, one of those children, Erik Hansson, is found frozen to death in his car. The official ruling is suicide by rare plant poison - but the truth is ...

***Don’t miss SOMEONE IN THE WATER, Sarah Clarke’s gripping new summer thriller, available now***‘Tense and shocking’ Catherine Cooper‘An intensely gripping thriller’ Philippa EastBeth has the perfect life. She has constructed it carefully over the last eighteen years. But one night she makes a choice that risks everything.When Kat sees an article about that night online, buried memories beg...

THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. WHICH ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE?'Addictively readable. Absorbing, bittersweet' Pandora SykesGripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view.Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass ...