Desperate for a break from the relentless horrors of Candleward, Mercy Willow takes on what should be a simple job – check in on a crumbling rural property and report back. But as the worst storm in living memory crashes into Cornwall, Mercy finds herself stranded at Clute Cottage… and something inside is already waiting for her.The signs are subtle at first – suitcases that won’t stay where they’re left, an eerie stain shaped like a person on the ceiling, and an old armchair that ...

She thought she could bury the past. But the past has been waiting to bury her.Mercy Willow came to Cornwall to escape the horrors of her former life. Now that life is catching up with her – one haunted house at a time.Summoned to a seemingly ordinary property, Mercy quickly senses something is off. The ghosts inside aren't strangers. They know her. They remember her. And what they reveal forces Mercy to confront a part of herself she thought was long buried – befo...

Years after losing his wife Anna to cancer, Nathan Jenkins is convinced her spirit is still inside their family home -watching, waiting, trying to reach him. Desperate for closure, he begins to dabble in rituals meant to bridge the gap between worlds.But something else hears the call.When Mercy Willow is asked to intervene, she quickly senses that whatever’s haunting the Jenkins house isn't Anna… and may never have been. As she investigates, aided by Nathan’s daughter Lily,...

Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was “going home.” Part travelogue, part memoir, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family.A sequel to Meeting Soph...

Some houses hold secrets. Others demand justice.Mercy Willow has grown used to the ghosts that come with her job as a Cornish estate agent. Most spirits just want to be heard. Most can be helped.But the house on Sidle Street is different.From the moment she steps through the door, Mercy senses a powerful presence. One ghost makes itself known in the upstairs rooms – but it’s the second, hidden presence that chills her to the bone. Locals speak of a ...

Some houses are better left unsold. Some names, better left buried.When she arrives in the remote coastal village of Candleward, Mercy Willow is hoping to disappear. A new identity. A quiet job as an estate agent. A second chance. But this Cornish village has its own secrets – and Mercy isn’t the only one with a past clawing its way back to the surface.Her first assignment: sell Hurst House, a crumbling estate with a reputation steeped in tragedy. Locals won’t go near it. S...

Mercy Willow thought she was beginning to understand the spirit world. Since moving to Cornwall, she’s seen her share of haunted houses – and made peace with the ghosts who linger in their halls. But when she’s called to Gower Grange, an isolated mansion steeped in tragedy, she realizes she’s facing something far more dangerous.Locals whisper of a pale girl who appears just before someone dies. She’s already claimed victims in the past… and now she’s been seen again – this time by ...

A fast-paced, spine-chilling mystery from an international best-selling author. We all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and sometimes horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old classmates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part of Denmark. Soon, she will learn that there was more to this reunion than just them catching up on old times as a dark secret from their mutual past is revealed. ...

**From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments •This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman—as an ambitious girl in the 1930s, as a young professional coming of age in the uncertain ‘50s and ‘60s, and as half of a couple growing old together.In a series of vividly evoked settings that span cities, backwoods, and farm country, we see this woman contending...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life.A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerda, welcomed her into their home. She was superbly trained, but her greatest gifts couldn’t be taught: her keen intelligence, her innate joy, and an uncanny knack for living in the moment. Whether cha...

THE INSPIRATION FOR EXPATS—AN ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN—NOW STREAMING ON PRIME VIDEO**“Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you’ll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down.”—Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher, a searing novel of marriage, motherhood, and the search for c...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives."It takes a writer of rare power and discipline to carry off an achievement like A Map of the World. Hamilton proves here that she is one of the best." —Newsweek**The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a da...