The Coin of Love Series: Women looking for their perfect match get the inspiration they need at just the right moment.Artie Bryson came to Venice to finish her PhD. Five years later the PhD still isn’t done, but life is okay. Leading guided tours of the magnificent city pays the bills. The days are all the same — until she seeks respite from the summer swelter in the Casino di Venezia cabaret.Nikki Velvet has finally found her musical niche singing Postcards from A...

Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies Hungary and Judy’s world is shattered. One terrifying event follows another, and soon Judy is faced with the incomprehensible — Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the sh...

Bestselling French author of psychological suspense Karine Giebel makes her American debut with this dark and haunting crime thriller, a powerful story of brotherhood for fans of Karin Slaughter and Stieg Larsson.“I’m so stupid. I barely have a brain at all.” Léonard knows he isn’t like the other kids in his class, and he understands all too well that the world can be relentlessly cruel to those who are different. Sometimes Léo wishes he could go far away,...

A very French temptation…Junior doctor Lola Roberts finally has her life back on track–and she's determined not to mess up on her first day at a Belfast hospital. Although she certainly didn't expect her sexy French boss Dr. Henri Benoit to prove her greatest distraction…Henri ruled out forever a long time ago, but surely a six-week fling with pretty, pink-stethoscope-wielding Lola can't hurt? Yet as Lola begins to melt the barriers around his locked-away h...

I congratulate the 100 successful new authors who have contributed to Seniors' Stories Volume 11 who embraced the theme, Then and Now inspiring the stories within.Your submissions covered our Australian culture both past and present with your historical tales and current yarns creating a rich patchwork of topics that evoke nostalgia and for our newer Australian readers, to learn how life was in our country since the Wars.The stories have exposed the many s...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls is a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives.Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.CLAIRE: A glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta mil...

"A haunting, evocative tale that left me both richly satisfied and deeply unsettled – yet another Tanabe triumph. Captivating, suspenseful, and full of surprises." —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The MasterpieceA faraway land.A family’s dynasty.A trail of secrets that could shatter their glamorous lifestyle.On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a ...

The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana Purchase has locked a young Unified States into conflict with France.It’s the early 1800s, and Clover travels the impoverished borderlands of the Unified States with her father, a physician. See to the body before you, he teaches her, but Clover can’t help becoming distracted by bigger things, including the comi...

Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissioned nine refugees to tell their 'Shatila Stories'. The result is a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East – or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story – start here.Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Conditions in this overcrowded P...

In the vibrant world of art, Serena navigates the delicate balance between creativity and trauma. After a series of devastating events, including the loss of her parents and the shadow of an abusive relationship, she finds solace in her passion for painting. As she begins to reclaim her narrative through her art, she faces the haunting threats of her past in the form of Cal, an ex who refuses to let her go.With the unwavering support of her older brother, her loyal friends, and the...

His vampire master wants him back in the clan or dead.While trying to build his relationship with shifter girl, Jennifer, Ainsley’s haunted by the voice of Murdock, his master. Murdock has been locked away in a cave for years, leaving Ainsley to believe he was free from his evil for good. But when Murdock escapes and arrives in Los Angeles, Ainsley’s life as a carefree artist is doomed.Murdock has other plans for Ainsley and they don’t include building his ...

Simply the Worst…Alice Cabot’s only great love is science, but a lapse in judgment has exiled the New York journalist to the glitzy Gallerias and vapid bubble-babble of Beverly Hills. The assignment to do a flattering feature series on Simply the Best and the superficial nonsense it sells threatens to crush what little is left of her spirit.Simply the Best…Pepper Addington can’t believe she’s moved up from grunt intern to personal assistant for Helene Jolie, the celebrity socialite...