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In the winter shadows of Boscastle, a ship appears through the storm.Its captain, Elias Teach, is a thief, a killer and a pirate hunted by the Crown. To those who fear his name, he is something else entirely: the Winter Raven.He comes ashore intending to rob the isolated Cornish harbour of everything worth taking.Then he looks up at a whitewashed house and sees Anne Penrose watching him from a window.Anne knows what kind of man has arrived in her town. She s...

A love carried by the sea. A story carried by time.Boscastle, Cornwall, 1838.Maria Penrose is the daughter of a prosperous merchant, born into a life of comfort, expectation and a future that has already been decided for her.William Tregarth is a working sailor with little money, stubborn pride and a life measured in tides, departures and the uncertain promise of coming home.When their worlds collide on the quay at Boscastle, neither expects what follows.

Harlem, 1933. Prohibition is coming to an end-but for Isaiah "Sunday" Freeman and Leonard "Two-Step" Booker, going legitimate may prove more dangerous than breaking the law ever was.For years, Sunday and Two-Step have made their living running bootleg whiskey through a city where survival depends on knowing when to talk, when to keep quiet, and when to drive. They are good at what they do. But as America prepares to repeal Prohibition, the two lifelong friends see something they ha...

Some people buy immortality. Some people have to die for it.Detective Mark Mathews has a problem: people are disappearing.There are no bodies. No ransom demands. No obvious connection between the missing. Just a growing stack of cases that refuse to make sense.Then the trail leads to Elysian Systems.Behind its immaculate public image, Elysian is developing something extraordinary: the Continuity Engine, a technology promising the wealthy and dying what human...

At London Kingsmere, the trains are only part of the job.For Station Manager Dan Mercer, every working day begins with the same essential requirement: regular coffee, skinny milk, three brown sugars. After that come the passengers, staff shortages, late trains, contractors, broken equipment, payroll mistakes, lost property, difficult conversations, senior managers wanting answers-and thousands of people who simply need to get where they are going.Dan is good at his job. Per...

What if dragons were never imaginary-only misunderstood?For more than thirty years, historian and author Arthur Belmont has built his career studying the stories people once believed. Dragons, sea serpents, monsters and supernatural creatures belong to folklore, not zoology. Every legend has an explanation. Every mystery eventually yields to evidence.At least, that is what Arthur has always believed.Then an obscure reference buried in an old manuscript leads him to ...

In Penraven, everybody knows everybody.Jan Vale knows what they borrow.At sixty-two, widowed librarian Jan Vale has settled into the familiar rhythms of life in Penraven, a picturesque Cornish town by the sea.She knows the regulars, the holidaymakers and the children who would rather be anywhere than staring at another screen. She knows which borrowers mistreat their books, which parents treat the children's library as free childcare, and which locals can turn a fiv...

For more than seven hundred years, the Porter family has guarded a secret.Twenty-two-year-old Ele Porter has spent most of her life knowing her father from a distance. Robert Porter provided for her, watched over her and remained almost entirely absent from her life.Then he dies.Ele inherits his secluded ancestral estate, a collection of unanswered questions-and an ancient gold ring set with a blood-red stone.According to family legend, more than seven centu...

Eleven-year-old Tillie expects a family holiday in Cornwall to mean windswept ruins, rainy afternoons and listening to her archaeologist mother and historian father debate what the past can really prove.She does not expect to find Jowan.Hidden beneath a stone at Tintagel Castle is an injured, sharp-tongued Cornish piskie with no wings, a talent for trouble and very definite opinions about humans.Tillie does the only thing that seems reasonable.She hides him ...

Shirakawa-gō, Japan, 1783.Fourteen-year-old Chiyo has spent her life beneath the steep thatched roofs of an isolated mountain village, where survival depends upon family, duty and the ancient bonds between neighbours. Winters are merciless, food is precious, and every household understands that no one survives alone.Then Chiyo begins to notice the ladybirds.The villagers call them tentōmushi - insects of Heaven's path. With their brilliant red shells and seven black...

When historian and archaeologist Dr Elin Rowe returns to Cornwall following the death of her father, Matthew, she inherits more than his unfinished research. Hidden among his papers are fragments of a mystery stretching back nearly fifteen hundred years-a mystery buried beneath the water, stone and legends of St Nectan's Glen.At its heart is a bell.For centuries, stories have gathered around the Glen. Nectan became a saint surrounded by miracles. Two mysterious Victorian wo...

When archivist María Álvarez builds an ofrenda for her late grandmother, she adds one photograph she cannot identify.By morning, the woman in the picture has crossed back into the world of the living.There is only one problem.Nobody remembers who she is.Not María. Not the historical records. Not even Santa Muerte.For María, every mystery should leave a trace: a name in a register, a photograph, a letter, something proving that a person once existed. ...