A detective risks everything to find her husband's killer on a mysterious Maine island in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times bestseller. Four days after Abigail Browning's wedding, her life changed unimaginably: her husband was fatally shot along the rocky Mount Desert Island coast. Was it a random act of violence, or could someone have wanted Christopher dead? The question has haunted Abigail, now a homicide detective, for the past...

'Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots' Jenny O'BrienThe brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh. 'A wonderful book, I can't rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it's that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.' Bestselling author Anita Waller. Grieving or guilty? When Allison's wealthy and charming husband Peter is found dead, she...

Celia Carlton has been mentally and physically abused by her husband, Drew, since the death of their baby some 10 years ago. After a dinner party, Drew goes one step too far and rapes her. Celia starts to fight back and makes plans to escape from the marriage. Raising as much money as she can, and changing her appearance, she obtains false documentation showing her new identity as Chloe Armstrong. Armed with her new documentation and confidence, Celia...

In the awesome '90s, in Presello, a tiny village in the backwaters of Modena, when the richest women in the area dies, her funeral would be a major event. Now if said woman's corpse, say disappears a couple of days after, well, this would far surpass any event in Presello to date. A short horror novel, inspired by films from the '80s and '90s, set in an imaginery small country town of northern Italy. Three teens, the theft of a corpse and the disappearance...

Margi, a high-powered Boston lawyer, is totally in love with Russ, her suave, stockbroker boyfriend. He's everything she's ever wanted in a man, except for the fact that he's married. Not to worry, Margi, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, is accustomed to getting anything she wants. However, her plans are turned upside down when death visits the star crossed lovers on a weekend getaway to Maine. They end up in a new level of existence, and soon...

A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Nell Caldicott awaits the return of her violent sailor husband with trepidation, but for once her fears are not realised. Her husband's ship, the Brig Minerva, has sunk off the Cornish coast. Nell is free, but her husband has left her with little money and many questions about his past. Gradually, as his secrets are laid bare, she realises she didn't know her husband at all. Can she...

A short satirical thriller from bestselling author Freida McFadden.

My husband is dead.

I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more

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When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley, they are hoping for rejuvenation -- of their marriage, their savings, and Jess's writing career. They take a caretaker's job at Riven House, a crumbling estate and the home of their old college writing professor. While Clare once had dreams of being a writer, those plans fell by the wayside when Jess made a big, splashy literary debut...

"Maria just gave birth to her first child, a beautiful daughter - but the event is shrouded in sorrow. A month earlier, Maria's husband, Lord Kersey, was killed in a duel under compromising circumstances. Worse, Maria's failure to provide a male heir has stripped her of any hope of an inheritance. Scorned by the ton, one of her few allies is her late husband's steward, Hugh Granger. Hugh is everything her husband was not - warm, charming - and penniless....

A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers