When Sarah, struggling to get over tragedy, stumbles across her grandparents' ruined farm, it feels as if the house has been waiting for her. She is drawn to their apparently idyllic way of life and starts to look into her family history only to learn that her grandfather, Jack, was murdered. Why has nobody told her? Sarah becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Gwen and Jack. But are there some family stories that should never be told...

From the Top Ten Bestselling Author of A Time for SilenceWhen they were ten everybody wanted to be Serena's friend, to find themselves one of the inner circle. But doing so meant proving your worth, and doing that often had consequences it's not nice to think about – not even thirty-five years later.Karen Rothwell is randomly reminded of an incident in her childhood which just as suddenly becomes an obsession. It takes her on a journey into a land of secrets and lie...

One mother's need is another's nightmare1990, and three woman are contemplating motherhood. Lindy is homeless and longs for a family. Heather is stressed and dreading another baby. Gillian is childless and aching. When two babies are born in Lyford hospital, it's the start of a new life for all three. For two, it's a dream come true. For the third, it's the beginning of a nightmare.22 years later, two girls set out to discover who they really are, But answers aren't ...

Utterly compelling, and with a satisfying twist at the endA beautifully observed story of fate and family made real and immediate...1883: Leah Owen is ruled by duty: to God, to her family and to the farm that is sucking the life out of her. After the death of her brother, her father, a religious zealot, holds Leah and the rest of the family under dangerous control and Leah is determined that her nephews are set free of the shackles of Cwmderwen Farm. Will either of them make it out or be d...

Travel back in time in this collection of exhilarating dinosaur adventures for kids and grandchildren aged 7-10 from paleontologist and YouTuber Kallie Moore.Who needs Jurassic World when the truth is this exciting? Prepare yourself for jaw-dropping discoveries, scandalous stories, and dinosaurs so weird you won’t believe they’re real! The tales in this dinosaur book are all completely true and many are included in a kids’ book for the first time. Readers will come...

In this "tour de force" of a mystery, the British detectives investigate a disappearance in a deceptively idyllic Yorkshire village ( San Diego Union-Tribune).Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe ( The New York Times Book Review). Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperame...

A completely addictive page-turner that will have you on the edge of your seatShe’d do anything for her boy…Vanessa Sawyer knows all about pain. She’s felt it every day since marrying the boy who fathered her baby in high school. All he’s meant are broken bones, broken heart and broken dreams. But he also brought her the love of her life. When her son Wren was born, her baby boy was her salvation.Vanessa watches Wren grow and beco...

After years of abuse, Bernadette makes the decision to leave her husband, only to find that he is missing … along with a little boy she'd befriended years earlier. A tense, dramatic and moving novel from the bestselling author of How To Be Brave and The Lion Tamer Who Lost.'Full of beautiful descriptions, images and observations … hauntingly poignant, with a relentless tension and pace' Katie Marsh'Moving, engrossing and r...

‘Chillingly believable and utterly compelling’ Lucy Foley‘Darkly addictive and impossible to predict, this is Lisa Hall at her absolute best’ Chris Whitaker'BRILLIANT! I was hooked from the very first chapter and simply had to read to the end' FIVE STAR reader review**'**Wow, wow, wow, this book kept me up all night and I had no regrets in the morning. I felt like I was on a merry go round that I never wanted to get...

A man suspected of his wife's murder must go on the run to find the real killer in this international conspiracy thriller.James Blake hadn't seen his wife Julia since she went to Florence on an art restoration project. But now he finds her dead in their home, killed by an unknown attacker. Though he is determined to bring Julia's killer to justice, James soon discovers that he is the prime suspect. Now he must flee England or lose everything.Continuing his ...

“Some things just don’t keep well inside this house …”The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd’s invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household.The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encomp...

From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty, this thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy was a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing o...