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'Razor-sharp and deliciously wry' COCO MELLORS 'Funny, tender, thrillingly dark' HEATHER DARWENT 'Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful' OLIVIA PETTER An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied...

Lexie Gallagher is starting to think she’s better off alone. Her family fell apart years ago. Her relationships all end in disaster. Is she the common denominator who causes everyone to leave - everyone but her best friend, Gabe, who whisks her away from the scene of the latest breakup? As a human resources VP, Gabe North understands people, and how to meet their needs. What Lexie’s always needed is a true-blue friend, doubly so when she’s left at the altar. Of course, he’ll be her shoulder to cry on - even though he’s wanted to be more than friends for years.

Lady Georgiana Pendlebury is no stranger to breaking the rules of polite society. But when a so-called ‘friend’ invites her to a clandestine party, Georgiana is shocked to discover the event is more scandalous than even she could have imagined. So when a mysterious stranger offers help, she accepts, not realising their encounter will turn her life upside down.

A cult classic and Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, this sharp, insightful novel by New Yorker contributor Han Ong explores racial and social hierarchy, personal identity, and alienation. William Paulinha—a resourceful gay Filipino sex worker barely getting by in New York—is determined to...

Every day at 8:05, Iona Iverson boards the train to go to work. Every day, she sees the same people and makes assumptions about them, even giving them nicknames. But they never speak. Obviously. Then, one morning, Smart-but-Sexist-Surbiton chokes on a grape right in front of Iona. Suspiciously-Nice-New Malden steps up to help and saves his life, and this one event sparks a chain reaction. With nothing in common but their commute, an eclectic group of people learn that their assumptions about each other don't match reality.

He needs a fake fiancée to win custody. I need a miracle to save my bakery. One deal. No feelings. Right? COLE WALKER On the mound, I’m untouchable. The Closer. Built for pressure. Trained never to miss. But when tragedy leaves me raising my eight-year-old niece, I’m suddenly fighting a different kind of game. The judge wants stability. All I’ve got is a glove — and a reputation as MLB’s bad-boy disaster. My play? Daisy Bennett. Small-town baker. Sweet, stubborn, and the only woman who makes me forget the rules. A fake engagement will fix everything… until she smiles at me like...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend...

A bossy Bratva stranger kidnaps me and knocks me up. He’s a decade older than me, and I know how feared he is. When he sees someone coming onto me, he gets pissed and possessively claims me as his fiancée. And the next thing I know, he handcuffs me to his car and takes me home. I was meeting a client for my dating business when he entered my neat, organized world. He got obsessed and started stalking me to make sure I’m “safe”. When he decides I’m not, he drags me to his car and brings out the handcuffs. He forces me to act as his fiancée. It’s the only way out of his prison. ...

I had a one-night stand with a stranger on the worst day of my life. Five years later, I am at a wedding. The groom walks in… And I watch as the father of my child says “I do” to my best friend. Colin Prescott, my sexy as sin, yet arrogant protector who disappeared without a trace. Turns out, he’s a hot-shot billionaire. And my BFF is about to walk down the aisle with him. She has no idea I know him, or that he’s the father of my child. I don’t want to think about him. But I burn with the memory of that night…when he devoured every inch of my body. Now each moment with him ...

I accidentally slept with a much older Bratva guy. Now he takes me off the auction stage… I’d been caged and overprotected for so long. I wanted to let loose for one wild night. I didn’t know who he was when he took my virginity. I didn’t know that next, I’d be kidnapped and that he’d take me off the auction stage. I’ve longed for freedom for so long, after being overprotected by my Bratva brothers. But after one reckless night with a hot stranger, I get into trouble. Because in the morning I get snatched and am brought to an auction stage. And when I’m in binds and about to...

Kyoko Tanihara still loves books. Just about. But life at the Musashino Bookstore is starting to get her down. Instead of promoting her favorite stories, she finds herself distracted, tearing her hair out at the mere sight of her infuriating manager, who can't seem to do anything but get in her...

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time. In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken...

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'What a joy it is to read' Michael Magee, author of Close to Home 'I couldn't put this book down' Sheena Patel, author of I'm A Fan 'Powerful, moving...

My billionaire boss forces me into marriage…then knocks up my plus-size curves. He’s twice my age and daddy’s former best friend. He’s also notoriously ruthless. I’m the socially awkward virgin he likes to prey on because he wants revenge. When I make a mistake as his PA he punishes me…by forcing me to become his wife… He may be a great single dad to his adorable little daughter… But to me he is grumpy, demanding, and rude. He works me into the ground until he breaks me. And then he blackmails me and drags me to the altar, leaving me no choice. He’s obsessed with me and ...

He’s the NFL’s cocky bad boy. I’m the reporter sent to ruin him. One hotel room. Zero rules. JAXON CARTER On the field, I play to win. Off the field, I never lose—until Avery Monroe crashes into my life. She’s here to expose me. Instead, she’s in my space, firing back with every word, every look… and making me want her more than my next game. I’m the Playmaker. I control the play. But the second she gasps my name like a secret, I know I’ve already lost. AVERY MONROE He’s everything I swore to avoid—cocky, ruthless, and off-limits. But when Jaxon needs me to tell his ...

Three years ago, we burned so hot we almost started a war. Now our fathers are forcing us to marry. Sullivan O’Connor was my secret. Two months of stolen nights when I was twenty and reckless enough to fall for the youngest son of my father’s rivals. My father found out. It nearly destroyed both families. I ran. Built a life in Manhattan that had nothing to do with crime families and blood oaths and men who think they own you. Then my father called. And when Don Salvatore Marinelli calls, you don’t get to say no. The deal: marry Sullivan O’Connor. Unite the families. Prevent a war. ...

It was supposed to be just one fun, fiery night with a stranger—the bad boy next door. Then I found out... he's my new boss. Liam Harrington is not your typical professor. He’s tall, dark, and devastatingly gorgeous—not to mention an heir to his family’s vineyard. No wonder his students keep begging for "personal tutoring," even when he turns them down. But to me, he’s just my untamed temporary neighbor, house-sitting for his friend. As I settle into my new home, I can’t help but melt at the sight of his chiseled body and tattoos through my living room window. Then he shows up ...

Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband, Saverio, and their eight-month-old baby, Fabrizio. On the night Risa’s younger sister, Giulia, moves in to recover from a bad breakup, a fateful accident occurs: Risa, boiled over with anger and fear, strikes a drunk, erratic Sav with a cast-iron pan, killing him on the spot. The sisters are left with a choice: notify the authorities and make a case for self-defense, or bury the man’s body and go on with their lives as best they can.

My fiancé was found dead. I was on a hunt for the beast who murdered him. I didn't mean to fall into the devil's sculpted arms. Lorenzo Duretti's touch became my obsession—his darkness, my desire. Now, I'm torn between revenge and protection. I need both. Because the baby in my womb will be bound to his father's deadly empire. Lorenzo swears he'll keep us safe, but how can I trust a ruthless killer?

When PTA president Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth petitions to rename a Seattle elementary school after her late grandmother, she ignites a battle over the school's future and the history of its surrounding neighborhood. Supersonic launches listeners into a kaleidoscopic tale of the generations of interrelated families who breathed life into that small, hilltop community. The story cuts in time from the arrival of white settlers' ships to the last indigenous landowner fighting to hold on to scraps of his ancestral home and back to the school's PTA auction