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Six singles. One group blind date night. Infinite possibilities for disaster.A blind date turns to calamity in this charming story thats Materialists meets Anxious People.Single, female, forty-one. Forensic psychologist Jamie Friscos bio reads more like victim data than stellar online dating fodder, and shes on the verge of becoming an accidental recluse and forever-spinster. That future is made all the more certain when her mother threatens to leave her out of her substantial will unless Jamie brings a suitable date to her wedding. Enter matchmaker Lorna Gray, who invites Jamie to an intriguing alternative to the hellscape of online datingDinner for Six.Recently paroled antiquities thief Cliff Weston is desperate to change but needs a loan from an unconventional source to start his new security business. The catch: bring a woman of character to secure it. Then, he meets matchmaker Lorna Gray who offers him a dating opportunity he cant refuse.As Dinner for Six commences, Jamie, Cliff and four other unlikely singles are just about to dig into their main course, when bombs knock out the power in their small beach town throwing everything into chaos. After the smoke clears, a S.W.A.T. team arrives and a lockdown ensues trapping the diners together. As the night goes on, masks fall, secrets are revealed, love between diners sparks and fizzles, and the biggest heist in Manhattan Beach history is going down and someone at the table might be behind it all. When all the truth spills out over the course of one crazy, unpredictable night, does love still stand a chance?

Cassidy Calloway never expected to go viral for grieving, but in the face of loss, little makes sense, especially when faced with a hit-it-out-of-the-park, over-the-fence, world-series kind of love. This tropetastic fake dating sports romance is perfect for fans of Alicia Thompson and Tessa Bailey.When her boyfriend dumps her at her fathers funeral, Cassidy Calloway does what she does bestturns her heartbreak into content. To honor her baseball-loving fatherand if shes being honest, to piss off her exshe launches a season-long social media experiment to attend nine games with nine dates in honor of her fathers favorite player, number nine, Nate OBrien. The Gila Monsters star pitcher is on the verge of his biggest season yet, and hes not about to let some influencer-turned-ballpark-spectacle throw him off his game. But when the team starts losing and fans start blaming Cassidy, Nate has bigger problems than his ERAbecause the front office wants them to fix the narrative by pretending to date. With his career on the line and her reputation at stake, Cassidy and Nate must turn their luck around. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to pretend they arent falling for each other. And thats the problem with fake dating. At some point, it starts to feel real.

The struggling firm of Twigg & Dersingham is brought to richesand ruinin this kaleidoscopic portrait of late 1920s London from one of the twentieth centurys great, underappreciated masters.On a grim sidestreet of the City of London called Angel Pavement, the office of Twigg & Dersingham carries out its day-to-day operations far from the decadence of the Roaring Twenties. The firm is now run, less than competently, by the nephew of the original Dersingham; to cut costs, he knows he must fire one of his few employees to have any hope of keeping the business afloat. Longtime head clerk Mr. Smeeth is desperate to not lose his job, but Mr. Dersingham really has his eye on junior clerk Mr. Turgisawkward, unfashionable, and convinced that hes about to stumble upon the love of his lifeor typist Ms. Matfield, who left her home in the suburbs to live as a modern woman in the city, and who now wonders whether theres more to modern life than this.Enter the Golspies. When Mr. Golspie appears at the office on Angel Pavement from whereabouts unknown, his beautiful daughter Lena at his side, he presents a business proposition that Mr. Dersingham feels sure will save them. But of course, offers that seem too good to be true often areand this one will set the firm and each of its employees on a course for disaster.First published in 1930, Angel Pavement is a sweeping London novel in the vein of Dickens, Thackeray, Wolfe, and Amis, populated by a cast of richly developed characters and gilded by J. B. Priestleys deft wit, which feels startlingly fresh in our own rapidly changing world.

For fans of the Lovelight series and The Christmas Tree Farm, this cozy Christmas romance follows an overworked publicist who is snowed in at the Honeycrisp Orchard Inn with her nemesis, a sexy brewery owner, for the holidays. The festive spirit, hot chocolate, and six feet of sparkling snowdrifts conspire to turn these enemies into lovers.Maria never expected to spend Christmas in a small, snow-covered townbut a visit to her best friend Ellies Honeycrisp Orchard Inn turns into an unplanned holiday stay when a snowstorm leaves her stranded. The inn feels like stepping into a holiday fairy tale, with twinkling lights, crackling fires, and garlands everywhere, yet Maria cant help missing her big, loud Italian family. Adding to her frustrations? Jesse, the ruggedly handsome, annoyingly charming brewery owner, who seems to delight in pushing her buttons.Jesse has enough on his plate managing his bar and helping the inn stay merry for the holidays, but he cant seem to resist Marias city-girl sass. As snow continues to fall and their paths keep crossing, Maria finds herself drawn into the inns festive magic and Jesse himself, as he shows her the charm of slowing down and being present in the moment.With stolen glances under mistletoe and sparks flying by the fireplace, the line between a holiday fling and something deeper blurs.But when the snow clears, will Maria follow her heart? Perfect for anyone craving snow-kissed romance, holiday warmth, and happily-ever-after magic.Tropes: Enemies to lovers Forced proximity City girl x country boy Quirky locals Small-town romance

In this short, sharp, Southern Gothic horror novel, home takes on a whole new meaning. From Micaiah Johnson, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Space Between Worlds.Youve never seen a haunted house like this one before KYLIE LEE BAKERA house, itself, is nothing. Its not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death.At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy made what she thought was an innocent wish: to build a house where nothing bad could happen. But peace came at a price, and one hundred and seventy years later Shantell and her friends are about to discover where all that darkness ended up.When Shantells best friend, Avery, tells her he has inherited a house big enough to make their dreams of a sanctuary come true, shes too cautious to be optimistic. A lifetime of loss her father to the Iraq war, her brother to police violence, and her mother to suicide has taught her cynicism, and even though Avery swears the house has never experienced a tragedy, she goes along expecting everything from black mold to evil spirits.But not only is the house in better shape than theyd expected, it makes them better too: Shantells anxiety stops flaring up; terminally shallow Avery is suddenly capable of deeper emotions; and Tobias, Averys older brother and the contractor for the job, even quits chain smoking.Theres an eeriness to the calm, and its almost a relief when they realize they do not walk alone in Abernathy House. If nothing bad has ever happened here, where are all these ghosts coming from? As they dig into the houses history, Shantell, Avery, and Tobias discover that theres only one thing worse than a house thats haunted: a house that desperately wants to be.

O EVENTO LITERÁRIO MAIS AGUARDADO DO ANO CHEGOU: Uma parceria inédita entre MrBeast, o maior criador de conteúdo do mundo, e o autor best-seller global James Patterson, juntos em uma aventura incrível.O mundo esta a beira do colapso e a unica esperança esta nas mos de cem desconhecidos que participaro de uma competiço brutal e de altissimo risco. O premio? Um bilho de dolares e a chance de salvar a humanidade. Passando por cenarios extremos, desafios brutais e provas que ultrapassam qualquer limite fisico e psicologico, os participantes precisam decidir ate onde esto dispostos a ir. Porque, conforme o jogo avança, uma verdade se torna inevitavel: perder no significa apenas ir para casa Frenetico, repleto de reviravoltas e com uma tenso cinematografica do inicio ao fim, Os jogos mais perigosos transforma o espetaculo global de MrBeast em um thriller viciante, eletrizante e impossivel de largar. E no se engane: mesmo os fs mais fanaticos de Beast Games no conseguiriam imaginar uma competiço como essa.Voce ja viu o MrBeast quebrar a internet.Agora prepare-se para os jogos mais perigosos do mundo.

Absolutely superbgrips like a vice throughout and has a perfect, bold ending that no one will see coming. An utter masterpiece of the murder mystery and the legal thriller genre.Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done and The Monogram MurdersA legal thriller unlike any youve ever read, this mind-melting page-turner is Tyce at her whip-smart best.Ellery Lloyd, author of The ClubInternationally bestselling author Harriet Tyce returns with a page-turning thriller involving three teenage girls, one murdered classmate, and a chilling modern-day witch trial that will leave readers breathless.Let the Witch Trial begin . . .When eighteen-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in a park, the city of Edinburgh is stunnedand the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with the murder. As social media explodes in a tizzy of theories and headlines scream for justice, rumors of bullying are overshadowed by something more wicked and frightening: whispers of dark rituals, feverish obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong.When the trial begins, everyone in Edinburgh clamors for a front-row ticket to the show: to look upon the murderous Eliza and Isobel with their own eyes. Everyone, that is, but Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon picked for the jury. But, as the trial unfoldsand the girls lawyers offer a surprising and unsettling defensethe reluctant Matthew finds himself questioning everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement. Then he begins to have strange visions of terrifying thingshallucinations he tells himself. After all, witchcraft isnt real . . . or is it?Who is telling the truth? Who can be trusted?And what really happened to Christian Shaw?

In this lavishly illustrated flip volume hardcover, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Park presents a new tale of contemporary cosmic horror on one side, with his inspiration from Robert W. Chamberss horror classic The King in Yellow printed on the other.Designed and illustrated by Jeff Wong, the award-winning artist of Weird Tales magazine, this objet features a flip volume dual-sided cover, illustrated full-color endpapers, and interior art.Sid Feelings, a successful childrens entertainer, is trapped in a modern nightmare. Shes canceled when a man with whom she shares a name commits a heinous crime. The trouble is only beginning when she hires a mysterious specialist to salvage whats left of her career. Pulitzer Prize finalist Ed Parks The Repairer of Reputations offers an all-too-real hellscape at the intersection of slashers and cyberspace.On the flip side of this gorgeously illustrated volume, Park presents the horror classic that inspired him: Robert W. Chamberss The Repairer of Reputations, the groundbreaking tale of paranoia and obsession that launched The King in Yellow.

Fall I Want meets The Summer I Turned Pretty in this YA second-chance, city-girl-meets-farm, coming-of-age romance. Golden leaves, second chances, and the choice that changes everything. Ava Matthews has one year of fashion school left before college in Milan. She knows exactly what she wants and has her head down, and her heart protecteduntil her parents divorce forces her back to her crotchety grandads farm. The place of spring lambing and her favourite russet autumns is where she fell for Jacob Thorogood of neighbouring Hope Farmevery holiday, until he broke her heart. Thrown into a new school with only messages from her London best friend and her fashion plans unraveling, Ava keeps running into Jacob as he helps her grandad through the autumn work. As the leaves turn, old wounds heal and new possibilities arise and Ava must make the biggest choice of her life on what her future holds

Festive countdown to family-ever-after? Billionaire Nick has secluded himself in his mountaintop mansion since a devastating loss. Then Adeline, the woman he once had an intoxicating fling withbefore she disappearedarrives on his snow-kissed doorstep. Her bombshell: Shes had Nicks baby! Wary of commitment-averse men, she makes her position plain: He need not be part of their lives. But a fierce snowstorm traps them in luxurious isolation Slowly they begin to thaw, trusting each other with their deepest secrets. And soon its clear their connection isnt just for Christmas! Perfect for fans of: Festive romance Forced proximity Secret baby

The prodigal billionaire is back! In this Outback Kings story, as he reluctantly returns to the Outback, the last thing Jackson King expects is to be drawn into a feud over his familys sprawling estateor to steal a searing kiss from Annalise Fletcher, his estranged fathers fiercely loyal assistant. Her enigmatic nature reminds him of a trust-shattering past betrayal, and she sees him as the selfish son who walked away. Still, their spark refuses to dim, illuminating an inconvenient truth: The home hes been running from might be where he truly belongs Perfect for fans of: Billionaire Small town Enemies to lovers

Comment une femme devient-elle libre ? Et si devenir soi-même était la plus grande aventure dune femme ?Avec LAffranchie, Isaure Le Faou confie son histoire et signe trois récits consacrés aux métamo