A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends’ lovers‘Five friends, one cabin in the forest and a whole load of tension’ Vogue‘Sun-soaked…playful and sensual’ DazedFive friends from university; seven summer days in a lakeside cabin in Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and recreate the magic of their youth.At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But then her friend...

The door locks with a sound that changes everything. Roderick gives the first number in that steady voice that leaves no space for doubt, and Sabrina's hands find the desk before the second reaches her ears. Her lip slips between her teeth as the third hangs in the air, the papers beneath her fingers forgotten while his touch anchors her in place.Every command draws her further into the surrender she craves, the one that makes her feel enough in ways nothing else can. Yet the threa...

I have spent months telling myself that Nell's automatic obedience means nothing beyond our work. Yet here in this loft, with the conference table covered in contracts that could change everything, her fidgeting pulls at the one wound I cannot admit. The fear that she will leave like the others has me gripping tighter than any shares ever could.My palm settles against the small of her back, holding her steady without permission asked. She stills instantly, that soft yield making my...

From the bestselling author of The History of BeesLongyearbyen, 2110: Far to the North, buried deep in the mountains, is a massive vault filled with seeds from every corner of the Earth. Tommy grows up in the brutal landscape of Spitzbergen alongside his two brothers, for whom he would do anything, and his grandmother, the seed keeper of the vault. Life just to the South of the North Pole is demanding, but their tiny community has found its shape. It has b...

I never expected the new ranch hand to challenge me at every turn, but William Avery's sharp tongue and lean frame have me thinking of all the ways I could make him regret his attitude and learn his place under my command.Every sharp command I give him only feeds the fire, pulling me toward the degradation he craves and the pegging and spanking that would strip him down to nothing but need for my control, the humiliation that would finally make him mine.Our fingers brush on...

The ledger should hold every answer I need tonight, but Daphne's soft breath across the pages pulls my focus to the curve of her neck instead. Her fingers move with such careful obedience over the numbers that I have to clench my jaw against the urge to reward her right here.I have built this club on control. One wrong attachment could cost us the bar and the charter, yet her quiet eagerness to please quiets the old fear I never name. She is the only one whose response I trust enou...

From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe...

Barrett places the contract on the desk and tells her exactly what she will become. Lillian Marlowe will wear his ring, follow his rules, and carry his child to secure the inheritance that could otherwise fall to his enemy. She signs without hesitation, drawn to the control that promises the permanence she craves.With the city lights behind them, his hand settles at the base of her spine as his mouth hovers close. The rules demand obedience, discipline, and breeding, yet neither ca...

“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) literary novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees—and to their children and one another—against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis.

I built walls around everything I wanted but could never name, and then Gemma's rebellious spark started chipping at them during every late-night strategy session. Her defiant remarks across the polished table, city lights framing her lithe form, turned our asset control battle into something far more dangerous.The more she pushed, the stronger my need grew to enforce the structure she pretended not to crave. It was professional suicide to cross this line, yet I couldn't stop imagi...

I told myself duty came first with Orla. That her eager submission was just another detail to manage under my command. But the way she waits for my words, the way her body answers before her mind catches up, has started to carve past every line I drew.My knife scar pulls tight across my collarbone when I think of what happens if I fail her. She needs the safety only I can give, needs me to own every inch of her protection so nothing else can reach her. In this shed the shadows stre...

In the sunlit suburban kitchen, trust papers lie scattered as Adelaide bites her lower lip and talks back to the rules Drake has laid out. His broad shoulders tense with the need to correct his girl, to pull her into the safety of his control even as her brattiness threatens to expose the fear he hides.Her defiance only draws him tighter, each word she speaks against his authority making the air thicker with the discipline she both resists and secretly hungers for, after years of n...