For Josh Harper, being in show-business means everything he ever wanted - money, fame, a beautiful wife, a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C. McQueen, on the other hand, it means a disastrous career playing passers-by and dead people. He's stuck with an unfortunate name, a hopeless agent, a daughter he barely knows, and a job as understudy to Josh Harper, the 12th Sexiest Man in the World. And things get even more difficult when Stephen falls in love with Josh's clever, funny wife Nor...
Is three days with a cat enough to change your life?The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems - and they all want to believe that a feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find a solution. But there are rules: they must be returned after three days, and they must always sleep in their own familiar blankets.In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven such customers, including a couple struggling with infertility, a middle-aged woman on the run...
A psychological thriller from best-selling author Valerie Keogh you won't want to miss!!What if someone from your past tried to destroy your future? When Melanie Scott is promoted to junior partner, she thinks she has put her past behind her and while out celebrating her promotion, she meets the handsome and charming Hugo Field. Melanie has her doubts and is haunted by her mother’s critical voice, which reminds her that she’s messed up before. But when Hugo invites her for dinner, she buries h...
One delicious hook-up deal One rule—no falling in love Mia Abbott never backs down from a challenge—especially one posed by sexy widowed billionaire Kit Faulkner. He's dark, dangerous, damaged—and pure, raw sex appeal. And for the next three weeks he's also Mia's boss. The rules of their wicked engagement? No romance. Only one night together isn't enough. They're about to discover that the most forbidden things are also the hardest to gi...
Can an island fling… Become the real thing? The last person fashion exec RJ Gold expects to see while holidaying in St. Lucia is his ex, journalist Grace Hopkins. He doesn’t trust her—especially because she’s writing a story on the feud between his family’s fashion empire and a rival house. So he’ll keep the reporter close… And as their explosive chemistry and rekindled feelings reach a fever-pitch, they must decide—can love las...
An island honeymoon for one… …becomes a racy fling for two! My friends and I have a ‘pleasure pact’—live more fully and indulge in a red-hot fling. Newly single and up to the challenge, I'm more than ready for some no-strings thrills in tropical Fiji—and gorgeous paddleboarding instructor Ryan Dempsey is the perfect man to share them with. But our electrifying chemistry soon becomes a more passionate connection…can I convince Ry...
He has a new lawyer… And she’s far from innocent! After Wes Brennan is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, he’s bailed out by hotshot lawyer Vivienne Grant: the woman whose heart he broke years ago. The catch? He must spend all day—and night—with his gorgeous ex while she proves his innocence. The pair soon forgive old betrayals and give in to reawakened desires…but when the investigation reveals new secrets, will their passi...
Mixing business with pleasure… …is a dangerous game! Lifelong bachelor James Ellison has been set up with bridesmaid Laina Rose at a wedding on tropical Moretta—and he has a professional favor to ask her. When he discovers Laina is wary of intimacy after a nasty break-up, James enjoys reawakening her desires and bringing her fantasies to life…but Laina’s furious when she learns of his agenda. Can James abandon his womanizing ways and win Laina back?
The ink on her skin Is begging for his touch… After a sizzling hook-up in an Amsterdam night club, Amy Marchande figured she'd never see gorgeous rich-boy Fred Vaughan again. But five years later, Fred walks into Amy's tattoo studio, just as impossibly tall and sexy as ever. Only now he's there to evict her! But no one—not even someone as deliciously commanding as Fred—will ever get Amy Marchande to play by the rules…
Make him a match… or make him mine? Find Alec Carson a wife. It should be easy—he's Manhattan's most eligible bachelor, and a dishy, ultra-fit billionaire. But after he stole my virginity eight years ago, I know who the real Alec Carson is. Only that sparking, electric thing between us is still there. Still waiting. Deliciously hot sex is definitely my first mistake. But falling for him again might just be catastrophic…
She’s his for the holidays… And he’s unwrapping her every night! Dark and brooding hotel magnate Will Walker is exactly what Laura Edwards wants for Christmas. Too bad he can’t forgive her for disappearing from their unhappy existence in foster care without a word. But when a snowstorm leaves her sharing Will’s penthouse over Christmas, the passion between them burns brighter than Times Square. This time, can Will trust Laura to...
She’s willing to make a bad decision! Maid of honor Gabriela Cruz doesn’t want to ruin her best friend’s wedding cruise. And that’s all sleeping with best man Sebastian Lott will do. But Gabriela can’t resist one night with him. One night that leads to so much more…
A Pilgrimage to Murder (A Brother Athelstan Mystery)
by Paul Doherty
A richly imagined 14th century mystery featuring sleuthing friar Brother AthelstanSummer, 1381. The Great Revolt has been crushed; the king's peace ruthlessly enforced. Brother Athelstan meanwhile is preparing for a pilgrimage to St Thomas a Becket's shrine in Canterbury to give thanks for the wellbeing of his congregation after the violent rebellion. But preparations are disrupted when Athelstan is summoned to a modest house in Cheapside, scene of a brutal triple murder. One of the victims was...
With her new dazzling collection of short fiction Schwartz has propelled herself to the front rank of inventive short story writers such as George Sanders and David Means Her characters are indefatigable New Yorkers whose long-established routines are thwarted by a swerve of fate or a mishap or a time warp. A man generously lends his car to his ex-wife and is bewildered when she neglects to return it and keeps making implausible excuses not to bring it back. A neat and orderly clothing store own...
In this collection of short stories, all written in the first person, Anna Gavalda paints the lives of seven 'real people.' An ode to those who confront their vulnerabilities and admit their weaknesses, these pieces illustrate the importance of love, friendship and family despite the wounds of the past. From the trucker who puts his dog to sleep following the death of his son to the alcoholic widow who befriends a stranger raised in a strict military family, readers will find the typical Gavaldi...
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. While he tries to decide whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry chef whose parents may or may not have been Nazis, his father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighbourhood. With its ensembl...
A brilliantly inventive comic love-story, set in and around New York at the beginning of the 21st century. Maynard is a defeated musician, a reformed misanthrope who makes a hobby of surreptitiously filming the fashion faux pas of New York City subway commuters. On an uptown Number Six Train, in the summer of 2000, he meets Jennica, a nostalgic Californian and Princeton graduate who calculates that she's been lonesome 68.53% of her adult life. It is hardly love at first sight. But when t...
When Annie Martin was twenty and at acting school in New York she dreamed of becoming a star. Fifteen years later she's still waiting. Then Annie is approached by the most successful image-maker in the country. Once the President's spin-doctor, Alex Lubotsky wants to return to the Whitehouse but he needs Annie's help. Alex offers her the chance of a lifetime, but soon Annie realises that she's in a world controlled by the media, and she's been cast in a role that isn't what it seemed.
It's 1900, but Anna and Dorrie Furlong, young daughters of a strict Liverpool ship's captain, are expected to stay at home in Everton until they marry. Dorrie, beautiful and popular, with numerous admirers, is content to do this, but Anna longs for freedom and independence. James Hargreaves, the only son of a sadistic, domineering mother, has adored Dorrie since first seeing her at church, but lacks the confidence to approach her. Instead, Dorrie marries Michael, a soldier, and moves to Lond...
Featured in the Washington Post! Prepare yourself to boldly go where few fanboys and fangirls have gone before on this rocket-powered rollercoaster ride through today’s madcap, pop culture-obsessed “nostalgia industry”—comprised of the reunions, reboots, blogs, podcasts, commenters, conventions, and collect-em-all merch—that fuels today’s ever-growing geek culture! As with so many members of his generation, down-on-his-luck writer-filmmaker Milton Siegel has what some might call an unhealthy...
The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman, and the missing daughter of Jenny’s violent ex-husband present the Skelf women with their most challenging – and deadly – cases yet… Book THREE in the addictive The Skelfs series! ‘Simply stunning. Tense, funny and deeply moving’ Mark Billingham ‘If you loved Iain Banks, you’ll devour the Skelfs series’ Erin Kelly ‘Nobody portrays modern Edinburgh better than Doug Johnstone. The Great Silen...
A harrowing tale of one woman’s infatuation and another woman’s fear is full of explosive surprises, perfect for fans of The Night Olivia Fell and Then She Was Gone. As a mother and a famous author, Ward DeFleur has it all. She lives in a beautiful estate in picture-perfect Connecticut, along with her teenage daughter, Stevie, where nothing can go wrong. Until, one night, when Stevie is brutally murdered and Ward’s entire world is shattered. Consumed by panic and grief, Ward vows never to put...