"Weaves a spell of darkness that’s mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." **—**New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for WitchesIn post**–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets…**With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth,...

**"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling authorIn Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise.**New Oldbury, 1821The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me…Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea what it is.Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her parents, and her sisters, Catherine and Emeline, fled their sparkling life in Boston for the sleepy c...

Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries.Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do New England family who never quite fit with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin.Called instead to the tangled woods and wild cliffs surrounding her family’s estate, Margaret Harlowe grew both stranger and more beautiful as she cultivated her uncanny power. Soon, whispers of “witch” dogged her footste...

The dead won’t bother you if you don’t give them permission.Boston, 1844.Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous.As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby’s gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances.Now a young woman and tragical...

Team GB Olympic dressage team gold medallist Carl Hester shares his training system and philosophy - in pictures and in his own words, 'jargon-free' and 'down to earth'. Follow his training system as he works with different horses at different levels and adapts his training to suit each horse's personality. Discover what Carl thinks about his horses' welfare and management, and why these are so important to him. Learn how he manages to achieve such polished performances, be it in elementar...

A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger.In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most?Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist l...

A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself?Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor.But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person c...

"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won’t want to miss The Book of Thorns." —Paulette Kennedy, author of The Devil and Mrs. DavenportA spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir to Blackwood Library!Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of...

Quick and Easy Plant-Based Meals for Your Instant Pot® With this must-have vegan guide, bestselling author Kathy Hester shows you how easy it is to pressure cook, steam, sauté and slow cook with your Instant Pot®. Cook an entire meal at the same time with Kathy’s layered entrees and sides, try a one-pot meal or prepare beans and lentils in half the time. With recipes like Herbed French Lentils with Beets and Pink Rice, Creamy Mushroom Curry with Brown Basmati Rice Pilaf, Southern- Style Pi...

Set in the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age, this enchanting, lush reimagining of The Little Mermaid is perfect for fans of Jesse Burton’s The Miniaturist and Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar.The Dutch Republic, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Wieren is faced with an ill omen: a whale, beached and rotting in the noonday sun. But Clara doesn’t believe in magic and superstition, and this portent is quickly d...

What if the man you're falling for is too good to be true?Cassidy Blaire doesn't have time for romance. Between caring for her sick father and running the Kettle, a struggling soup kitchen in Adelaide, there's not much time for herself ... or for her to dwell on her sister, who disappeared two years ago. Which is why Cass is more surprised than anyone when she wins the attention of not one, but two handsome admirers.After saving the life of rich, sophistica...

A Broadway Stage Manager's pandemic memoir!March 12, 2020Last night, after weeks of downplaying and ridiculing the virus, we were finally told by our President, that it is, in fact, serious…And so, it began. Broadway shut down. Instead of sitting in a darkened theatre every night watching Jersey Boys, Richard Hester, like many other people, found himself sitting on his sofa glued to the news. As the days unfolded, turning into weeks, then mo...