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Families. sometimes they’re a bloody nightmare . . . life with the radleys: radio 4, dinner parties with the bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. loads of self-denial. but all hell is about to break loose. when teenage daughter clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother rowan finally discover why they can’t sleep, can’t eat a thai salad without fear of asphyxiation and can’t go outside unless they’re smothered in factor 50. with a visit from their lethally louche uncle will and an increasingly suspicious police force, life in bishopthorpe is about to change. drastically.

A terrible event has shattered the lives of netty and gerald feldwick. hoping to escape their memories and to salvage their marriage, they take refuge in le sanglier, and old french hunting-lodge deep in the wooeds of the perigord. netty then becomes haunted by the spirits of past centuries.

In a last ditch attempt to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, fashion influencer melanie karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of canada. the only thing scarier than nature itself? burly fisherman evan whaler – who single-handedly disproves the theory that canadians are ‘nice’. after a boating incident lands evan in the hospital, mel is mistaken for his fiancee by his welcoming yet quirky family. and, in exchange for evan’s help with her social media content, mel agrees to fake their engagement for just. one. week. but reeling in their budding feelings for each other proves more difficult than expected. is mel willing to sacrifice her picture-perfect life in the city for a chance at true love in the wild?[bokinfo].

There’s a sexy actor living next door… wouldn’t you take a peek? adam connor is an award-winning actor and undeniable heartthrob. he’s also recently divorced, a single dad and he happens to live right next door to lucy. and it might be rude to stare but lucy just can’t help it. the ladder might have been a little much though… one night when she’s indulging her stalker side, lucy sees something terrible and has no choice but to intervene. she had the best of intentions but adam can’t see past it and has her arrested. after that night, they’re sworn enemies. even though adam knows he actually owes lucy a lot and she can’t pretend she doesn’t still find the hot dad act quite appealing…

**the instant new york times bestseller** “alex michaelides’s long-awaited next novel, ‘the maidens,’ is finally here… the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible.” —the new york times “a deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read—with a twist that blew my mind. i loved this even more than i loved the silent patient and that’s saying something!” —lucy foley, new york times bestselling author of the guest list from the #1 new york times bestselling author of the silent patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements “michaelides as a major player in the field” (publishers weekly). edward fosca is a murderer. of this mariana is certain. but fosca is untouchable. a handsome and charismatic greek tragedy professor at cambridge university, fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as the maidens. mariana andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on the maidens when one member, a friend of mariana’s niece zoe, is found murdered in cambridge. mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. and she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, edward fosca is guilty of the murder. but why would the professor target one of his students? and why does he keep returning to the rites of persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? when another body is found, mariana’s obsession with proving fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. but mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything—including her own life.