Von Verlust, Trauer und vom Weitermachen: drei Frauen in einem Fischerdorf in Maine. Ferien an der Küste von Maine zählen zu Minas schönsten Kindheitserinnerungen. Bis zu jenem schicksalhaften Sommer, nach dem sie und ihre Eltern nie mehr dorthin fuhren. Viele Jahre später zieht es Mina nach einem schweren Verlust wieder zurück. Sie landet in einem Hummerfischerdorf bei der 72-jährigen Ann, die in einem gelben Haus am Wasser lebt und allem und jedem mit Härte begegnet – außer ihrem blauen Hummer Mr. Darcy, den sie in einem Aquarium im Wohnzimmer hält.

In a quiet American town, an adopted boy wrestles with a face that doesn’t fit and a heart burdened by invisible scars. Distorted Self-Portrait follows Steven Anthony’s deeply emotional journey as he confronts racial prejudice, the truth of his adoption, betrayal, and redemption. From childhood pain to a breathtaking reunion with his roots in war-torn Korea, Steven discovers that identity is not defined by blood or appearance but by love, sacrifice, and courage. This inspiring coming-of-age story reminds us that even the most fragmented souls can find their way to wholeness.

I don’t know who I am. I don’t know who to trust. But someone out there knows what really happened to me. The faces staring back at me feel wrong, their voices uncomfortably distant. Ever since I woke from the coma, it’s like I’ve been locked in a stranger’s life. My memories are fractured – frozen at thirty, yet they insist I’m forty. A wife. A mother. But these strangers? They say they’re my family. Daniel, my husband, swears he loves me, yet I can’t recall saying ‘I do.’ My children’s faces stir nothing but guilt. Even the wedding album feels staged.

Meet Millie, a personal trainer and loyal friend; she sees the best in people. When a kind, good-looking workman helps her out with a flat tyre, she’s thankful but soon forgets it. When their paths cross again and he helps her out a second time, romance blossoms.

They arrive alive. They always leave dead. But first, they give me their confession. You know by now my name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my "death" ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death. I know them as mass murderers, rapists, and serial killers—among other things. Here's what happens: they come on my floor, they give me their deathbed confession, and I help to make their death less painful.

In the unconscious, coincidence does not exist. A bizarre tragedy drives ten-year-old Paul from his dysfunctional home, leaving his younger sister, Bethany, behind. Paul flees to his estranged father’s apple orchard where he discovers comfort and parenting for the first time. Two decades later, the long-lost siblings settle separately in NYC where a gifted psychoanalyst, Lillian, develops independent relationships with them as all three characters search for seemingly unattainable connection while carrying inescapable demons. In Triskele by B.

Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: why would she, when the world outside is falling apart?

For him, addiction was never a choice—just a means of survival. An escape. When a struggling addict stumbles into a shady pharmaceutical trial he thinks he’s finally found the perfect arrangement—getting paid to get high. But as he sinks deeper into the experiment, the lines between what’s real and what’s just a hallucination begin to blur. With each passing moment Utophine sinking its addictive fangs further into his life. It gives him the life he has always wanted, but nothing comes without a price. And the price for a perfect life could very well mean death.

In the quiet town of Hollow Creek, four friends—Derek, Jamie, Liam, and Alex—set out on a late-night adventure to explore the town’s most infamous legend: the abandoned train station. For years, whispers of strange voices, eerie shadows, and a clock that never ticks have surrounded the decaying structure. But legends are just stories... right? What begins as a harmless dare quickly spirals into a waking nightmare. As the boys step onto the crumbling platform, they realize something is waiting for them—something old, hungry, and very much alive.

The folks of Argus, Illinois, from the small-time dealer to the returning Vietnam vet, the townie grocery clerk and the new sheriff, all know what they want out of life, but the paths to their desires are conflicted and unclear. In a narrative with all the clarity and determination of a prophecy, Well Deserved chronicles the struggles of these four people as they come to the stark realization that their paths are not solitary, but entwined, and their very lives hinge on one shared moment.

When they were boys, Ray Dawley, Eddie Sayers, and Matthew Kauffman were the best of friends. Then new kid Bobby “Bones” Bonetti fell through the ice at Blackamore Pond. The other boys saved Bobby from drowning, but something else came out of the water that day, something dangerous that would tear their friendship apart and set one of them on a dark path.

Annie has avoided returning to her hometown of Ridgewater since the terrible night twelve years ago when her childhood best friend, Giselle, lost her life. But now Annie’s brother has been injured in an accident identical to Giselle’s, and she knows she must go back. Giselle’s mother – still living in the house next door to Annie’s family – is as creepy as ever, consumed with the memories of her dead daughter. Natalie, another of Annie’s old friends, is similarly obsessed, desperate to uncover the truth of what really happened that night.

Laughton Rees is back in the latest novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy—this time, with a case that hits uncomfortably close to home and threatens the thing Laughton values most: her daughter.