On Carroway Island, even a pie contest can become a matter of civic honor.It is 1988, and the residents of this isolated Chesapeake Bay community are preparing for what should be a harmless church-supper pie contest. But when a Baltimore getaway is announced as the grand prize, neighborly competition quickly gives way to secret recipes, wounded pride, whispered suspicions, and enough good intentions to create one magnificent scandal.Mayor Harold Pike is determined to keep t...

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On the marsh island of Carroway, people notice things—and once they do, nothing stays small for long.Josiah Wren is a quiet craftsman who spends his days shaping wooden belaying pins in a shed behind his home. Useful work. Careful work. The kind of work that is not supposed to attract attention.But when a hidden sack of his handcrafted pins is discovered in a cupboard, the island begins doing what it does best: it starts talking.What begins as curiosity quickly turn...

Some places disappear. Others refuse to be forgotten.When journalist Daniel Vance arrives on Carroway Island to write about a fading Chesapeake community, he expects to document another place slowly surrendering to time, water, and change.Instead, he discovers an island that measures loss differently.Carroway is a place where people remember what others overlook. Where a wooden boat, an old photograph, a weathered house, and a simple marsh bell carry the stories of ...

Best historical fiction book of 2023 - Bjørn Larssen, blogger at Queen’s Book Asylum⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'So good I read it twice,' Lesley Walters, goodreadsShortlisted for the 2022 Selfies Award and the 2022 Chaucer Award; Quarter-Finalist in The Booklife Prize.Loyalty has a price the children payIn the twilight of the old gods, when the last Vikings rule the seas, two cursed orphan...

Joe Stanton has barely started college when a family emergency drags him back home. Their house has been robbed, and his father and his father's best friend are in the hospital. That's when Joe's oldest brother finally reveals the family secret—one so unbelievable Joe can hardly accept it.For forty‑three years, their family and friends have been guarding a life‑sized clockwork Harlequin doll… one that isn't a doll at all, but a magical construct animated by the soul of its creator....

The Phantom Skipjack is an illustrated historical mystery set on fictional Carroway Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Framed as a story told by the island's colorful storyteller, Crazy Jack Mercer, the tale begins inside Haddie's Fish Shak, where a stranger notices an old photograph showing men standing on the frozen Chesapeake during the legendary Great Freeze of 1857.Jack recounts the story of a mysterious skipjack reportedly seen traveling across the ice during that extraordinary wi...

'Infused with compassion, warmth and a brilliant sense of humour' Louise FeinJane has everything under control. Though her ex-husband has moved an hour away, totally disrupting her daughters' routines, and her mother has died, her publisher has dropped her and her literary agent no longer wants to represent her. She's even organised enough to be able to stand in for an ill friend and teach a residential writing course at a day's notice.But the last student ...

‘Styx is a rich, gleaming jewel of a novel… a heartbreakingly beautiful story of feminine rage and strength’ JENNIFER SAINT‘It absolutely broke my heart’ ELODIE HARPER'A love letter to the power of womanhood and female friendships' ROSIE HEWLETTBeginning a generation before Hekate**,** Styx sings the story of the goddess of the under...

They’re complete opposites. Society would never approve. But that doesn’t stop them from wanting more…Greyson Everett, future Duke of Derby, has been exiled. Cut off financially and banished to the country by his disapproving father, he’s expected to repent and work like a commoner. If he has any hope of getting back to his real life, he’ll have to stay the course—and stop kissing his employer’s bossy, opinionated, and entirely too lovely daughter. It should be eas...

One narrow board. One unfortunate abbreviation. Thirty-six years without a problem—until the tourists started complaining.It is the summer of 1970, and the sign pointing to Harold Furk's upper beach has become Carroway Island's most photographed controversy. Harold insists it is his name, his beach, and nobody else's business. Reverend Mercer would appreciate wording he does not have to explain to visiting families.At Haddie's Fish Shak, the complaints are holding up lunch....

A DUKE OF A TIMEThey’re complete opposites. Society would never approve. But that doesn’t stop them from wanting more…Greyson Everett, future Duke of Derby, has been exiled and expected to repent and work like a commoner. If he has any hope of getting back to his real life, he’ll have to stay the course—and stop kissing his employer’s bossy, opinionated, and entirely too lovely daughter. It should be easy. But it’s not…ON A WILD DUKE CHASE