A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder, Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation...

Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced.Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth."Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small...

Teenagers with mind powers fight for the right to survive in the thrilling first novel of the Perceivers series.Waking up without his memories and hunted by Agent Cooper, Michael finds sanctuary with a group of perceivers: telepaths who sense the thoughts and emotions of others. Drawn into their battle to stay free of the cure which threatens to strip them of their powers, he searches for the person who stole his past. As the tension between perceivers and norms er...

~~~~Trust, is not about being comfortable~~~~Cassandra, is determined to find her family, in spite of a crazy horse, a mysterious helicopter, a frustrated hero and farcical felons.She has depended on her instincts and good sense for years. But when her life suddenly goes sideways, she suspects her judgment is messed up because of the chemistry between her and a sizzling hot mystery man. Gage’s secret assignment is to protect Cassandra, but she’s got him twi...

In one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, a privileged young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends--until she realizes that she may not know as much about love as she thought. Emma is handsome, clever, and finds matchmaking the most satisfying enjoyment in the world, but despite her best intentions things don't always go as planned. As her close friends get married and new faces come to Highbury, for the first time Emma must face a complicated world and her changing place in it....

Yesterday, my biggest problem was finding a blouse without a coffee stain.Today, it’s the ghost of my best friend demanding I solve his murder. Oh—and his cat talks. With a British accent.Ben doesn’t remember how he died. Just that it wasn’t an accident. And somehow, in the middle of all this, I’ve inherited his private investigation business.Me. Audrey Fitzgerald. Formerly employed. Frequently underestimated. Currently seeing dead people.Be...

When Jenny Wright’s fiancé leaves her standing at the altar in a Vera Wang bridal gown she can’t afford, she’s humiliated and heartbroken. To have Marietta hero bull riding champ Colton Thorpe witness her shame – makes the rejection even more devastating.Jenny and Colton grew up in the same rough neighborhood and they both left home right after school to pursue big dreams. Now they’re both back, with Colton as the celebrity chair for the 75th Copper Mountain Rodeo, and Jenny in dis...

THE INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER!"A memorable journey that will pull at the heart, stiffen the spine, and thrill the reader. No one can ask for more than that.” —David BaldacciFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town.Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of ...

One of the most beloved books of all time, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austin’s classic story of the love that blooms, is denied, and finally flourishes between the prideful Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet. A country squire of limited means, Mr. Bennet is faced with the monumental task of marrying off his five daughters, including his much-loved Elizabeth, while surviving the puerile antics of his wife, Mrs. Bennet, the plotting of the untrustworthy Wickham, and the ...

Sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood could not be more different in their approaches to love and life. Elinor, the very picture of good sense and discretion, is ruled by reason and rationality--even when it means she must give up love for the sake of propriety. Passionate Marianne is driven by her sensibility and emotion, even when giving in to desire hurts those around her. When their father dies unexpectedly and the family is thrown into destitution, the two struggle to find not only the...

**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERSUrsula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.**A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf betwee...

**A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. Public Access Afterworld is the profound, binge-all-night, headrush of a novel by the celebrated filmmaker of I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma“Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . I stayed up all night binge-reading.”—SenLinYu“Gave me a vertiginou...