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The bestselling author ofย The Wife Upstairsย returns with a brilliant new gothic suspense set at an Italian villa with a dark history.
As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.
Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierceโs girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara. But he also sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Mari writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Lara composing a platinum albumโโand ends in Pierceโs brutal murder.
As Emily digs into the villaโs complicated history, she begins to think there might be more to the story of that fateful summer in 1974. That perhaps Pierceโs murder wasnโt just a tale of sex, drugs, and rock & roll gone wrong, but that something more sinister might have occurredโโand that there might be clues hidden in the now-iconic works that Mari and Lara left behind.
Yet the closer that Emily gets to the truth, the more tension she feels developing between her and Chess. As secrets from the past come to light, equally dangerous betrayals from the present also emergeโโand it begins to look like the villa will claim another victim before the summer ends.
Inspired by Fleetwood Mac, the Manson murders, and the infamous summer Percy and Mary Shelley spent with Lord Byron at a Lake Geneva castleโโthe birthplace ofย FrankensteinโโThe Villaย welcomes you into its deadly legacy.
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This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything,
and the family ties that bind can also kill.
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye,ย five people are dead. Itโs a rich manโs car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold.
Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India,ย Age of Viceย is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family — loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all.
In the shadow of lavish estates, extravagant parties, predatory business deals and calculated political influence, three lives become dangerously intertwined: Ajay is the watchful servant, born into poverty, who rises through the familyโs ranks. Sunny isย the playboy heir who dreams of outshining his father, whatever the cost. Andย Neda is the curious journalist caught between morality and desire.ย Against a sweeping plot fueled by loss, pleasure, greed, yearning, violence and revenge, will these charactersโ connections become a path to escape, or a trigger of further destruction?
Equal parts crime thriller and family saga, transporting readers from the dusty villages of Uttar Pradesh to the urban energy of New Delhi,ย Age of Viceย is an intoxicating novel of gangsters and lovers, false friendships, forbidden romance, and the consequences of corruption.It is binge-worthy entertainment at its literary best.
JANUARY 10 | ORDER
Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy โAlexโ Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatoryโeven if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.
Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes canโt call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societiesโ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these arenโt just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, sheโll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the universityโs very walls.
Thick with history and packed with Bardugoโs signature twists,ย Hell Bentย brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.
JANUARY 17 | ORDER
Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girlsโ testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes.
And they were liars.
For decades, the friends have kept a secret worth killing for. But now Olivia wants to tell, and Naomi sets out to find out whatย reallyย happened in the woodsโno matter how dangerous the truth turns out to be.
FEBRUARY 7 | ORDER
The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author.
It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple whoโd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entranceโbut not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police have crashed the party.
From all accounts, he wasnโt the kind of star who made enemies. Everyone loved himโeven his ex-wife. And since the champagne cocktail that killed him was originally intended for Eliza, itโs possible she was the real target, with a recently fired assistant, a bitter rival, and an obsessed fan in the picture. With so many attendees, staff, and servers, Eve has her work cut out determining who committed murder in the middle of the crowdโand what was their motivation. As one whoโs not fond of the spotlight herself, she dreads the media circus surrounding a case like this. All she wants is to figure out whoโs truly innocent, and whoโs only acting that wayโฆ
FEBRUARY 14 | ORDER
A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy talesโthe breathtaking adult debut fromย New York Timesย bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteรฑada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever afterโand in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.
But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manorโs extravagant rooms and musty halls, there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigoโs dearest childhood friend who suddenly disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wifeโs secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . . or their lives.
Combining the lush, haunting atmosphere ofย Mexican Gothicย with the dreamy enchantment ofย The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,ย The Last Tale of the Flower Brideย is a spellbinding and darkly romantic page-turner about love and lies, secrets and betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
FEBRUARY 21 | ORDER
The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalistย The Great Believers
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her pastโthe family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thaliaโs death and the conviction of the schoolโs athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefersโneedsโto let sleeping dogs lie.
But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent ๏ฌaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasnโt as much of an outsider at Granby as sheโd thoughtโif, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.
Inย I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one womanโs reckoning with her past, with a trans๏ฌxing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters,ย I Have Some Questions for Youย is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.
FEBRUARY 21 | ORDER
The Plotย meetsย Please Join Usย in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writerโs retreat that descends into a nightmare.
Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesnโt dampen her excitement.
But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshellโthey must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Rozaโs erratic behavior, Wrenโs cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, sheโs desperate to discover the truth and save herself.
A claustrophobic and propulsive thriller exploring the dark side of female friendships and fame,ย The Writing Retreatย is the unputdownable debut novel from a compelling new talent.
FEBRUARY 28 | ORDER
From theย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย The Whisper Manย andย The Shadowsย comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.
Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a little brother she protected fiercely. Until the day a violent stranger changed the fate of her family forever.
Years later, still unable to live down the guilt surrounding what happened to her brother, Chris, and now with a child of her own to protect, Katie struggles to separate the real threats from the imagined. Then she gets the phone call: Chris has gone missing and needs his big sister once more.
Meanwhile, Detective Laurence Page is facing a particularly gruesome crime. A distinguished professor of fate and free will has been brutally murdered just hours after firing his staff. All the leads point back to two old cases: the gruesome attack on teenager Christopher Shaw, and the despicable crimes of a notorious serial killer who, legend had it, could see the future.
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In one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers #1 New York Times bestseller Sarah Pekkanen calls “Alex Finlay’s best yet,”ย What Have We Doneย is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.
A stay-at-home mom with a past.
A has-been rock star with a habit.
A reality TV producer with a debt.
Three disparate lives.
One deadly secret.
Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, having forged a bond through the abuse and neglect they endured as residents of Savior House, a group home for parentless teens. When the home was shut downโafter the disappearance of several kidsโthe three were split up.
Though the trauma of their childhood has never left them, each went on to live accomplishedโif troubledโlives. They havenโt seen one another since they were teens but now are reunited for a single haunting reason: someone is trying to kill them.
To survive, the group will have to revisit the nightmares of their childhoods and confront their shared pastโa past that holds the secret to why someone wants them dead.
Itโs a reunion none of them asked for . . . or wanted. But it may be the only way to save all their lives.
What Have We Doneย is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and a gut-wrenching coming-of-age story. And it cements Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in thrillers today.
MARCH 21 | ORDER
This body would be the last for Zachariah Lazarusโฆ
The Crystal Killerโs latest casualty was discovered in a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest, Misted Pines.
His years in the FBI, and tracking the Crystal Killer, have taken their toll on Rus. He lost his marriage to the job. And the burdens he carries for the victims was crushing him.
Misted Pines has recently survived a killerโs rampage and a town scandal that made global news. The media was primed to devour a new story. So Rus already has his work cut out for him.
But itโs more.
Something is just not right with this latest victim.
As Rus works with the local sheriff to unravel the mystery, the victimโs employer, Lucinda Bonner, decides sheโs going to do everything she can to help.
To help Rus find the killer. To help Rus survive the hunt. To help Rus navigate the intricate, and sometimes sordid, history of the town of Misted Pines.
And to help Rus let go of his burdens.
MARCH 28 | ORDER
Fromย New York Timesย bestselling author Mia Sheridan comes the twisted story of one detectiveโs pursuit of a serial killer whoโs taunting herโฆand the familiar connection between them thatโs haunting her.
When Sienna Walker is nearly fired from the NYPD, the last thing she expects is a second chance in the one place she vowed never to return to. But she canโt afford to turn down the job offer, even if a painful familial past and a broken engagement hardly make Reno, Nevada, home sweet home.
Itโs made even less sweet by Siennaโs first caseโa serial killer with a curious fixation on her. Along with his victims, the killer leaves perplexing clues and chilling journal entries addressed to Sienna detailing the murders he claims his mother committed. The case continues to get personal when her ex-fiancรฉ is called out by the killer as well. Whoeverโs behind the diabolical murders, Sienna can only be sure of one thingโฆitโs someone close to home.
As the twisted truth forces Sienna to face her complicated feelings, she learns that no matter how far you run from your past, it always catches up to you in the end.
APRIL 4 | ORDER
#1ย New York Timesย bestselling author Alexandra Bracken cements her status as one of the top fantasy authors writing today in this stunning series opener inspired by Arthurian legend and fueled by love, revenge, and pure adrenaline!
Tamsin Lark didnโt ask to be a Hollower.ย As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside.ย But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was the only way to keep herselfโand her brother, Cabellโalive.
Ten years later, rumors are swirling that her guardian vanished with a powerful ring from Arthurian legend. A run-in with her rival Emrys ignites Tamsinโs hope that the ring could free Cabell from a curse that threatens both of them. But they arenโt the only ones who covet the ring.
As word spreads, greedy Hollowers start circling, and many would kill to have it for themselves. While Emrys is the last person Tamsin would choose to partner with, she needs all the help she can get to edge out her competitorsย in the race for the ring. Together, they dive headfirst into a vipersโ nest of dark magic, exposing a deadly secret with the power to awaken ghosts of the past and shatter her last hope of saving her brother. . . .
APRIL 25 | ORDER
A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author Emily Henry.
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in collegeโthey go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, nowโfor reasons theyโre still not discussingโthey donโt.
They broke up five months ago. And still havenโt told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend groupโs yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.
Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week theyโll all have together in this place. They canโt stand to break their friendsโ hearts, and so theyโll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. Itโs a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one weekโฆin front of those who know you best?
MAY 16 | ORDER
Whatโs the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didnโt write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainlyย notย Asian Americanโin this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein ofย White Ivyย andย The Other Black Girl.ย
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athenaโs a cross-genre literary darling, and June didnโt even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athenaโs death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athenaโs just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
So what if June edits Athenaโs novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Songโcomplete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesnโt this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? Thatโs what June claims, and theย New York Timesย bestseller list seems to agree.
But June canโt get away from Athenaโs shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring Juneโs (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
With its totally immersive first-person voice,ย Yellowfaceย takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuangโs novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
MAY 16 | ORDER
Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next levelโbut only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off scriptโfrom theย New York Timesย bestselling authors ofย The Soulmate Equationย andย The Unhoneymooners.
Felicity โFizzyโ Chen is lost. Sure, sheโs got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when sheโs asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasnโt been practicing what sheโs preached.
Fizzy hasnโt ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, canโt-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism sheโs spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie?
Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard passโunless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production onย The True Love Experimentย begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too.
The True Love Experimentย is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzyโs debut in theย New York Timesย bestsellingย The Soulmate Equation. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.
MAY 23 | ORDER
The #1ย New York Times-bestselling author’s terrifying new thriller about one man’s ice-cold malice, and one woman’s fight to reclaim her life.
Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan’s job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner partyโattended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who’d been chatting her up at the barโher carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.
Soon, a horrific truth emerges: It was Morgan who let the monster in. “Luke” is actually a cold-hearted con artist named Gavin who targets a particular type of woman, steals her assets and identity, and then commits his ultimate goal: murder.
What the FBI tells Morgan is beyond chilling. Nina wasn’t his type. Morgan is. Nina was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And Morgan’s nightmare is just beginning. Soon she has no choice but to flee to her mother’s home in Vermont. While she struggles to build something new, she meets another man, Miles Jameson. He isn’t flashy or flirtatious, and his family business has deep roots in town. But Gavin is still out there hunting new victims, and he hasn’t forgotten the one who got away.
JUNE 13 | ORDER
Anna Toddโs Brightest Stars trilogy continues the contemporary love story of Karina, a young woman who โgrew up militaryโ and is living and working for the first time on her own, and Kael, a 21-year-old soldier now home after two deployments, profoundly scarred by his time in Afghanistan. THE BURNING picks up from the sudden and shocking disruption of Karina and Kaelโs developing romance at the ending of THE FALLING: their attraction to one another is undeniable, yet the trust theyโve placed in each other has been traumatically broken. To resolve what may be difficult, or impossible, to repair, Kaelโs closed off past (a past that unknowingly links him to Karinaโs family) must be opened and reconciledโdemons and all. And Karina must decide whether loving someone she doesnโt want to live without is worth the pain and risk of it all.
JUNE 20 | ORDER
Theย New York Timesย bestselling โnew Agatha Christieโ (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combinesย Mr. and Mrs. Smithย withย The Fugitiveย about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husbandโs murderer.
Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspectโher.
Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer in this unputdownable and heart-pounding mystery from an author whose โpropulsive prose keeps readers on the hook and refuses to let anyone off until all has been revealedโ (Shelf Awareness).
JUNE 20 | ORDER
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929.ย While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hopeโs End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her motherโs happy life
Itโs now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hopeโs End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offerโI want to tell you everything.
โIt wasnโt me,โ Lenora said
But sheโs the only one not dead
As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear thereโs more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessorโs departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truthโand that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.