The Society Scandal of the Season…

Lady Adelaide Compton had prepared herself to say goodbye forever to Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter. It would be a welcome relief not to get mixed up in any more murders, even if it meant never working alongside the handsome detective again…wouldn't it?

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But then Addie's prim and proper mother, Constance, the Dowager Marchioness of Broughton, is accused of murdering her secret lover, and there can't be enough gentlemen detectives on hand to find the truth. The dead Duke of Rufford appeared to lead a blameless life, but appearances can be deceiving. And unless Addie and Dev work together, Constance will hang—which is no one's idea of a happy ending.

"The Widows kept me on the edge of my seat. Montgomery is a masterful storyteller." —Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize-Finalist The Bright Forever

Inspired by the true story of Ohio's first female sheriff, Jess Montgomery's powerful, lyrical debut is the story of two women who take on murder and corruption at the heart of their community.

Kinship, Ohio, 1924: When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel, the town's widely respected sheriff, has been killed while transporting a prisoner in an apparent accident, she vows to seek the truth about his death.

Hours after his funeral, a stranger appears at her door. Marvena Whitcomb, a coal miner's widow, is unaware that Daniel has died and begs to speak with him about her missing daughter.
From miles away but worlds apart, Lily's and Marvena's lives collide as they realize that Daniel was perhaps not the man that either of them believed him to be.

*BONUS CONTENT: This edition of The Widows includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide
"The Widows is a gripping, beautifully written novel about two women avenging the murder of the man they both loved."—Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Know, Dear
"Jess Montgomery's gorgeous writing can be just as dark and terrifying as a subterranean cave when the candle is snuffed out, but her prose can just as easily lead you to the surface for a gasp of air and a glimpse of blinding, beautiful sunlight. This is a powerful novel: a tale of loss, greed, and violence, and the story of two powerful women who refuse to stand down."—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ballad, A Land More Kind than Home, and This Dark Road to Mercy

“Molly Fieldmore is starving to death, and she is being terribly polite about it.”

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For nearly a year now, she has been quietly giving her food to her invalid mother. She mends shirts for threepence apiece. She smiles at the neighbours who pretend not to notice how thin her wrists have become. And every single morning, she tells herself she is perfectly fine, until one grey November afternoon, on a muddy lane three miles from home, her body finally decides it has had enough.

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The man who finds her in the road is the last person in Hertfordshire she would have chosen.

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Adrian, the Duke of Thornfield, has not spoken a kind word to anyone in ten years. He doesn't entertain. He doesn't visit. He certainly doesn't rescue chattering young women who wake up in his guest chamber and tell him his eyes look like weather. But Molly Fieldmore weighs nothing in his arms, and her quiet bravery, the smile she offers from the mud, the apology she makes for the inconvenience of fainting, lodges itself somewhere behind his ribs and refuses to leave.

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He cannot stop riding past her cottage.

“No one had truly looked at Josephine Woode in years, and the man who finally did was the one they all called cruel.”

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For eight long years, Josephine has been a governess, raising other people's children, wearing the grey dress that lets the world look right through her. She has trained herself to want nothing she cannot earn, and to ask for nothing at all.

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Then, across a windy churchyard one Sunday morning, the Duke of Blackmere meets her eyes and does not look away.

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Jack Harrod is the most hated man in the county. The papers say he tore down a village out of cruelty. The drawing rooms say worse. He has never once defended himself, because the truth he carries is too heavy to hand to strangers. He has lived alone for so long that he has forgotten what it feels like to be looked at without fear, and a governess in a grey dress, who looks back at him as though he were simply a man, undoes something in him he thought was permanently fixed.

From the author of the internationally bestselling novel, WHEN THE WORLD FELL SILENT, comes a breathtaking tale of secrets, betrayal, and the enduring power of friendship.

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Aboard the Titanic, where opulence knows no bounds and the horizon seems limitless, two women fight for the futures they dream of, fraught with secrets that could change everything.

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Hannah Martin is clinging to the hope that six days on this grand ship will heal the wounds in her marriage to Charles. Beneath her poised exterior lies a desperation to mend what was shattered and conceal a secret that could upend their lives forever.

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Louisa Phillips, spirited and uncompromising, is escaping her family’s insistence on a passionless marriage. But this daring step could also sever the deepest bond in her life.

As the ‘unsinkable' ship strikes the iceberg, amidst the chaos and icy waters, lives are changed forever. In the face of impending doom, what dreams will Hannah and Lou decide are worth saving, and at what cost?

This evocative historical fiction will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, this is a poignant tale of love, choice, and survival against the odds.

I got trapped with the grumpy professor twice my age. Then he kissed me like he'd been trying not to for weeks. Now he might leave with my heart.

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The last man I should want is the broody philosophy professor forced to share my apartment after a burst pipe leaves us both homeless.

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He's impossible to read, but every quiet look from those stormy eyes makes me forget why I call him Professor Grumpy. Then the lights go out.

One candle. One accidental touch. One kiss that leaves me pinned against the kitchen counter while he grips the edge beside my hips like I'm the one temptation he can't resist.

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After that, nothing is the same. He brings me coffee before sunrise, stays up with me as my bakery—and my confidence—begins to crumble, and tears apart the town council to protect me.

But his dream job offer is three states away.

If he leaves, he'll take my heart with him.

Tropes: Enemies To Lovers; Grumpy / Sunshine; Forced Proximity / Stuck Together; Age Gap; Opposites Attract; She Falls First; Small Town

This memoir about a friend's murder—and the mystery surrounding her daughter's role in it—is "a true-crime work that digs deeper" (Foreword Reviews).

On October 20, 1999, thirty-eight-year-old Nell Crowley Davis was bludgeoned, strangled, and stabbed to death in her backyard in Bluffton, South Carolina, near Hilton Head Island. In this blend of true crime and memoir, Rosalyn Rossignol tells the story of how Davis's sixteen-year-old daughter, Sarah Nickel, along with two teenage boys, came to be charged in the case. Since no physical evidence tied Nickel to the murder, she was convicted of armed robbery and given the same sentence as the boys—thirty years. In the months that followed, Nickel vehemently insisted she was innocent.

Torn by Nickel's pleas, Rossignol, a childhood friend of the murder victim, committed herself to answering the question that perhaps the police detectives, press, and courts had not: whether Sarah Nickel was indeed guilty of this crime.

During five years of research, Rossignol read case files and transcripts, examined evidence from the crime scene, listened to the 911 call, and watched videotaped statements made by the accused in the hours following their arrests. She also interviewed family members, detectives, the lawyer who prosecuted the case and those who represented the defendants, and the judge who presided over the trial—as well as Nickel herself.

What Rossignol uncovers is a fascinating maze of twists and turns, replete with a memorable cast of characters including a shotgun-toting grandma, a self-avowed nihilist and Satan-worshipper, and a former Rice Queen of Savannah, Georgia. Unlike all previous investigators, Rossignol has uncovered the truth about what happened, and the reasons why, on that fateful October day.

Arianna Carrington-Harder is on the run from the disastrous outcome of a bad decision. Driving aimlessly along the west coast, she’s drawn to the small town of New Hope Falls in Washington State and soon finds herself in a place unlike anywhere she’s been before.

Welcome to the fictional town of New Hope Falls!

A sanctuary for those needing refuge.

A beacon for those who are lost.

A place for the hurting to call home.

Come for a visit and fall in love with New Hope Falls and its residents, both old and new.

As a social media influencer, Arianna is used to the internet world. She has millions of followers on YouTube and Instagram, and her career depends on her good reputation. Unfortunately, one bad decision has repercussions that could negatively affect everything she’s worked hard to build. Needing time to think and consider her next move, away from the pressures of her world, she flees LA in search of clarity and peace.

Don't trust ANYONE…

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When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident.

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Except no one has seen her since, and something doesn't sit right with the officers at Hampstead County PD. With multiple suspects and witnesses throwing up startling inconsistencies, and interference from the top threatening the integrity of the investigation, lead detective Casey Wray is thrust into an increasingly puzzling case that looks like it's going to have only one ending…

And then the first body appears…

For fans of Susie Steiner, Peter Swanson, M J Arlidge, James Lee Burke and Tana French