She saw a murder. Now the ghost won't let her forget—and the killer won't let her live.Philadelphia, 1841. Seventeen-year-old Annis Hargrave is running from a nightmare. She and her brother have fled New York, burdened by secrets, grief, and the cursed blue pearl that may have brought death in its wake. But the past refuses to stay buried.Offered work as a medical illustrator by the enigmatic Dr. Thomas Mütter, Annis enters a world of surgical marvels and gro...

A woman is accused of killing her husband, but is she guilty? Inspired by a true historical case, this spellbinding novel will keep you guessing until the final heart-stopping revelation . . .I'm on trial for the murder of my husband William. But no one knows the truth about my marriage.I sit in the dock each day and listen to them tell their lies. That William wasn't taking arsenic, that he was a nobleman who would never hurt anyone. That I'm a cu...

The insane asylum on Blackwell' s Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. — Nellie BlyElizabeth Cochrane has a secret.She isn' t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell' s Asylum think she is.In truth, she' s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she' s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange...

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. —Nellie BlyElizabeth Cochrane has a secret.She isn’t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell’s Asylum think she is.In truth, she’s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she’s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she’ll impe...

The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. —Nellie BlyElizabeth Cochrane has a secret.She isn't the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell's Asylum think she is.In truth, she's working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she's a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she'll impe...

A woman is accused of killing her husband, but is she guilty? Inspired by a true historical case, this spellbinding novel will keep you guessing until the final heart-stopping revelation…I’m on trial for the murder of my husband William. But no one knows the truth about my marriage.I sit in the dock each day and listen to them tell their lies. That William wasn’t taking arsenic, that he was a nobleman who would never hurt anyone. That I’m a cunning...

She saw a murder. Now the ghost won't let her forget—and the killer won't let her live.Philadelphia, 1841. Seventeen-year-old Annis Hargrave is running from a nightmare. She and her brother have fled New York, burdened by secrets, grief, and the cursed blue pearl that may have brought death in its wake. But the past refuses to stay buried.Offered work as a medical illustrator by the enigmatic Dr. Thomas Mütter, Annis enters a world of surgical marvels and g...

NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen—the Black pilots who fought for America in WWII—who went missing in combat, the lives they lived, the reasons their planes went down, why the remains of all but two were never found, and the impact their disappearances had on their families and communities.In 1945, World War II ended one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Geared ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.They come to dinner. They have come to dinner for three hundred years.The Lambert family has hosted Edmund and Hester Harrison every Saturday evening for twenty-six years. Candles at seven, the roast at quarter past. In twenty-six years no Saturday has been missed. The guests are never late. Yet no one in the house can say what the Harrisons actually look like — not Robert, not his wife Ruth, who lays the table now with hands th...

They come to dinner. They have come to dinner for three hundred years.Every Saturday at seven o'clock, Edmund and Hester Harrison arrive at the Lambert family home. The candles are lit. The table is set. No one has ever cancelled. No one has ever been late.And no one — not Robert Lambert, not his wife Ruth, who sets the table with hands that no longer quite belong to her — can remember what the Harrisons look like.When their son Samuel returns home after three years...

Amid the depths of a bleak Boston winter a recently married couple find their lives and their relationship unraveling, in this brilliantly twisting domestic thriller from a new master of suspense.Accidents happen, no matter how careful or well-intentioned you are. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer frequently reassures her patients of that fact. There are even times when accidents have good consequences—like when Eve met her now-husband, Nathan, at his collision shop after another car ran her...

Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Silence Factory by ...