And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby Kane's latest gripping and twisty thriller set on a private island in Maine where secrets piled upon secrets and lies upon lies are all revealed in one fateful weekend.Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link—one text—bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right.Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement over a long overdue getaway on a swanky private island in Maine—with only one way in and one way out. Sierra Prescott, invited as a guest and unconnected to past events, is the only person who soon senses not all is...

FBI dive instructor Jessie Madison's survival skills are stretched to breaking point when she is plunged into danger in this exhilarating thriller - the first in a pulsating new series.Jessie Madison escaped to the Bahamas when she made a terrifying discovery at home and a bad decision got her dismissed from the FBI training program. Three months later, Jessie is ready to return to Virginia to pick up the pieces of her shattered life – until she and a friend are attacked during a boat ride and thrown overboard, with devastating consequences. Jessie is determined to bring their attackers to justice. Who are they? What were they looking for on the boat? And can she trust Nick, the handsome but enigmatic stranger who claims he wants to help her? Jessie must draw on all her survival and investigative skills if she is to stay alive long enough to get answers . . .

Prince Kasper knows two things...... A war is looming on the horizon,And no one else can see it coming!The Road To imminent battle introduces Kasper to unlikely friends—a Magi who is not mastered by time, a young orphan girl who speaks things into being, and an unrecognized hero who does not believe in his own significance.Nefarious lies turn friends into foes.Opposition divides the magical from the non-magical.Will those bound to darkness be able to divide Kasper from those he loves?How far does evil need to infiltrate before it can divide the entire kingdom? Even with his kingdom being ripped in two, Kasper is determined to do whatever it takes to restore his home. But to do so, he must journey beyond the world he knows to find a truth that transcends time. Relying on Magic might just be his only hope.Evil seems to be winning at every turn. But with Magic uniting them, will Kasper and his...

Can the Seaside Girls embrace the new year with courage...Cleethorpes – 1940 As the new year dawns the show at the Empire comes to an end and it's time for the girls to move on. Years of struggle are over for Frances O'Leary when Johnny Randolph returns to make things right for her and their daughter. Do they have a chance of happiness? Of being a family after so long? But their good fortune is fraught with complications when sister Ruby Randolph decides to have her last hurrah, leaving a trail of devastation in her wake. Jessie Delaney is afraid to follow her dreams and leave those she loves behind – can she really have it all? All the seaside girls have their own battles to fight. And while they figure things out it's time for them to do their bit for the war and keep Britain smiling.A gritty and heart-warming saga perfect for readers of Elaine Everest, Nancy Revell and Pam Howes.

A fallen Valkyrie.A fae-wraith hybrid.Enemies become allies to survive a god's wrath. Odin and Thor relentlessly hunt survivors of the destroyed realms on the only planet that still exists: Earth. Their dark tyranny enslaved this world, and anyone who challenges their rule dies a very public death. Reyfyre, the fae-wraith hybrid, has been hiding his entire life. When he found me, I was nothing but stretched-out skin over bones. Yet he offered me asylum, as long as I helped him kill Odin. How could I refuse? He nursed me back to health and rehabilitated my weakened muscle on the sparring field. Even with his demanding routine, I found peace in our hideaway in the northern territory. Then Odin discovered my empty cell and put a bounty on my head. And our mountain sanctuary, protected by Reyfyre's magic, was too close to it to be...

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly humanHumanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The humanistic worldview—as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous—has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intellectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism.In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, herself a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure.Voyaging from the literary enthusiasts of the fourteenth century to the secular campaigners of our own time, from Erasmus to Esperanto, from...