"A globe-hopping adventure that packs a profound philosophical punch." - Kirkus ReviewsAbraham Meyer built an empire but lost his family along the way. Now, with time running out, the billionaire widower sends his seven adult children on a quest that sounds like a riddle: travel to seven different continents and find sculptures said to embody the purity of love.None of them take it seriously. They should.Scattered across the world, the Meyer siblings trade privilege...

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves.For Dr. Siena Dupont and her ambitious team, the Alpenglow glacier expedition is a career-defining opportunity. But thirty miles into the desolate Deadswitch Wilderness, they discover a missing hiker dangling from a tree, and their satellite phone fails to call out.Then the body vanishes without a trace.The disappearance isn't the on...

The internationally acclaimed crime thriller set in the Italian Alps: "Written in a style both colorful and ironic [by] a great storyteller" ( Suspense Magazine).Getting into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of police Rocco Schiavone is exiled to Aosta, a small, touristy alpine town far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated and crotchety Roman despises mountains and snow as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But...

An Italian detective who brings his "case to a solution out of Agatha Christie as satisfying as it is unexpected" is "a memorable companion in crime" ( Kirkus Reviews).Six months after being exiled from his beloved Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has settled into a routine in the cold, quiet, chronically backward alpine town of Aosta: an espresso at home, breakfast in the piazza, and a morning joint in his office.A little self-medication he...

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Political Book of the Year'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion_____In a series of vivid, empathetic portraits of other people’s lives, journalist Ben Judah invites us to meet some of the people who call Europe their h...

Shouldn't a professional ghost hunter at least be less twitchy?A poltergeist haunts Taro, dogging his international travels. It washes glasses, puts dishes away, and even dusts. At least he hopes it's a cleaning-obsessed poltergeist and not his own anxieties burbling over into neat freak fits he doesn't remember. When his property manager suggests he call paranormal expert, Jack Montrose, Taro's skeptical but desperate enough to try even a ghost hunter.

A sexy and sweet ex-Amish holiday romanceLiving in the “English” outside world, Isaac and David have left behind the rigid, isolated Amish community where they first discovered their forbidden love. In San Francisco, they yearn for a home—and new bed—of their very own.As they experience Santa Claus and the bright lights and merry carols of modern Christmas for the first time, can they make their secret holiday wishes come true?A Very English Chr...

Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to dis...

When Ro Keyes quit the military, he was looking forward to a slower pace of life. A chance to pursue his love of learning as part of an exchange program with Kabul International University. But you know what they say? You can’t escape your past. Or, as it turns out, your birthright.As a woman in Afghanistan, Ziya Khalizai has no choice but to marry the man chosen for her. Perhaps it won’t be so bad? He did promise to protect what was left of her family, after all. But promises get ...

Book 1 of the Bone Frog Bachelor Series.Armed with new focus and passion for restoring his rightful place atop his private security, shipping and consulting empire, former Navy SEAL Marco Gambini takes his new love on a dangerous and romantic pre-honeymoon to the Pink Pasha on a private island owned by the Sultan of Bonin.Shannon Marr is up to more than just being Marco’s sexual distraction and future bride. She inserts herself into the mission being planned...

Read the inspiration for the Netflix original series Summertime, a "deep, passionate romance that transcends time and age" (Booklist).Babi and Step are the Romeo and Juliet of their time, spending the best days of their lives together in the Eternal City, but belonging to opposite worlds may eventually tear them apart.It begins with a chance meeting at a traffic light, one that draws a young woman’s attention to the stranger on a motorbike...

When Brynne left Alaska, she promised herself she would never go back.The day after high school graduation, she got in her beat-up Honda Civic and drove down the west coast to pursue her dream of becoming a Hollywood makeup artist. Growing up in a rural fishing village with dirty, rundown buildings, and dirty, rundown men, she longed for the glitz and glamour of the silver screen. She had no qualms about leaving behind her dysfunctional family and her nowhere-job at her mother's fi...