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They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé, and his overbearing mother Evangeline. Push comes to love when Evangeline makes no secret of why she's there: to get Lucy and Ricky back together.

Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she'll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the unthinkable happens: Shelby gets a call from a distraught Rob--Chloe is missing, fallen overboard. Everyone says she was drunk and alone, that it must have been a tragic accident. But all Shelby's maternal instincts tell her that can't be true. Chloe never drank.

A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world's population to permanently lose the ability to sleep--without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, and most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money. Jamie Vega, a New York journalist at C+P Media, is one of the Sleepless. When his irascible boss dies in an apparent suicidal overdose, Jamie doesn't buy this too-convenient explanation--especially given its suspicious timing in the middle of a corporate takeover--and begins to investigate.

In the six years since the start of the hit British TV show Swift, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune, beginning with the star actress's pulling out of the show before it began. By now there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases. The media quickly decides it's a curse, but who's to say there isn't a criminal conspiracy afoot? Now that the filming has moved to Bath, Peter Diamond, Chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is on the case.

A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance. Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they've got to live large in real life to stay large online. With only a few blacks in their elite gated community, they settle in but never quite feel at home. Then, a missing young black woman floats up in the Grayson River.

The Town of Brenham, Texas, Has Gone to the Dogs! Curl up with your pup and sink into a delightful small-town mystery as riddles and rescues stack up in book one of a new cozy mystery series. Marigold Evans's first attempt at rescuing an abandoned pooch lands her in a drainage pipe ... and almost in jail, until Parker Jenson comes to her rescue. Then a bad day only gets worse when the Lone Star Vet Clinic, where they both work, is vandalized.

"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..." From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security.

When a day at the races reveals sabotage and subterfuge, Elizabeth Miles must use every ounce of her craftiness to even the score in this all-new Counterfeit Lady novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. Wealthy but uncouth Sebastian Nolan has invited his lawyer, Gideon Bates, and his lovely new wife, Elizabeth, to attend the famous Belmont Stakes. Nolan is anxious for Gideon and Elizabeth to help his daughter, Irene, acquire a bit of polish, now that his venture into thoroughbred racing has allowed them entry into society.

The propulsive new John Adderley case and follow-up to the award-winning, international bestselling Scandi noir thriller The Bucket List Alicia Bjelke has always been "the other sister." She is the coding genius behind a wildly successful dating app she started with her sister, Stella, but because Alicia's face is disfigured, she's created a life in the background while beautiful Stella is the face of the company. When Stella is found dead, Alicia's life changes utterly as she becomes the focus of the investigation.

Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend. I WENT UP THE HILL, Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was ... different. Nobody knows what happened to him. THE HILL WAS MUDDY, At Zee's welcome home party, Justin and the neighborhood crew play Hide and Seek. But it goes wrong. Very wrong. STOMPED MY TOE One by one, everyone who plays the game disappears, pulled into a world of nightmares come to life. AND MADE IT BLOODY, Justin and his friends realize this horrible place is where Zee had been trapped. All they can do now is hide from the Seeker.