Plagued by insomnia, the narrator walks the city looking for something, for someone to bring him peace. Then he finds Lillian, the puzzling, seductive stranger -- or does she find him? They are instantly drawn to each other in intimate and unexpected ways: each of them finding what they need, at least for awhile. But before they get too comfortable, Lillian alters their unspoken rules: first with an offer, then with a threat.  What starts as a quiet, intimate testing of b...

Four years ago I lost my virginity on live, streaming television.Too bad I wasn’t awake for it.The video went viral. Of course it would. A Senator’s daughter on camera? Wouldn’t you click “share”? Besides, that’s what three of the four guys in the video did.Share.They shared me.But that fourth guy? The nondescript one in the background in the upper left corne...

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An “amazing” (NYT bestselling author of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn) high-concept thriller in which a couple’s romantic weekend-getaway is not what is seems.**Named a Most Anticipated Book by BookishHe’s not who he says he is.Then again, neither is she.**Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed grad student.Together, they are driving south from New York for their first vacat...

**ONE COUPLE. TWO LIARS . . . THE DARKLY GRIPPING AND UNPUTDOWNABLE REVENGE THRILLER'READS LIKE A GLOSSY 90s THRILLER.** OBSESSED**'** JUNO DAWSON'IT GRIPS LIKE A VICE' WILL DEAN'A MUST READ FOR 2022' 5* READER REVIEW'ADDICTIVE AND INTOXICATING' 5* READER REVIEW'NOT ONE TO BE MISSED' EVENING STANDARD________He's a well-respected ...

Meadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson's father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family. Meadow is up against her brother Koi. The Fear Trials will both harden her and make her brave. If Meadow wins, s...

Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading.This is a book extract including chapter 1 of Bird Box.Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors.The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows.They are out there. She might let them in.The children sleep in the be...

#PrinceCharmingFallsHardI know what you're thinking, but trust me, there's nothing cute about that hashtag. Not when Prince Charming is Waverly University's starting kicker and falls hard is code for breaks leg in three places. Now the Wildcats' shot at a national title is on the line, and the fans are out for blood.Me? I'm just trying to get through nursing school and graduate on time. No one knows I was responsible for Chase Spellman's accident, and I pla...

She was born for all the wrong reasons. But her search for the truth reveals answers she wishes she could bury in Forget Me Not, a suspenseful and deeply moving near-future thriller from the author of The Last One.“A page-turning mystery . . . highly original, sharply insightful, and thoroughly riveting.”—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of A Good Marriage

If I let you read mine, will you let me read yours?Forgotten Girl, a fifteen-year-old poet, is going through the most difficult time of her life-the breakup of her parents, and her mom’s resulting depression-when she meets Random Boy, a hot guy who, like her, feels like an outcast and secretly writes poetry to deal with everything going on in his life.In The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy, the couple’s poems come together to te...

I'm dead.I'm cold and alone and I'm dead. There's no air in my lungs. My chest is as cold and hollow as a cave on a snow-capped mountainside. My heart no longer beats there. Frigid winds whistle through my ribs and the sadness inside me weeps like my favorite tree.Days ago, I met with death face to face. The mirror, our meeting place. My two darkened green eyes stared deeply into hers. I tilted my head to the side. She did too."It's time," I whispered."It's ...

Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction It’s Todd and Heather’s twenty-first anniversary. A blizzard rages outside their home, but it’s far colder inside. Their marriage is falling apart, the love they once shared gone, in its place only bitter resentment. As the night wears on, strange things start to happen in their house—bad things. If they can work together, they might find a way to survive until morning…but only if they don’t open the Wint...