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Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None... but with Instagram and too much Prosecco.
Poppy Greer is getting married and four of her old schoolmates are to be her trusted bridesmaids. They may have drifted but true friendships last a lifetime, don't they? Plus, who would pass on a free first-class ticket to white sands and bottomless cocktails on a private Caribbean island?
But the women have underestimated their host, and each other. And as their darkest secrets are revealed, the trip of their dreams becomes the hen do from hell.
Will anyone make it off the island alive?
When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications.
The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has seven levels. Level 7 is a Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima and Chernobyl. There has never been a Level 8. Until now.
In this heart-stopping thriller, ordinary people - power plant employees, firefighters, teachers, families, neighbours, and friends - are thrust into an extraordinary situation as they face the ultimate test of their lives. It will take the combined courage, ingenuity, and determination of a brave few to save not only their community and loved ones, but the fate of humanity at large.
The complete omnibus collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!
In Gwendy’s Button Box, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson’s life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping. It offers enticing treats and vintage coins, but he warns her that if she presses any of the box’s beautifully colored buttons, death and destruction will follow.
Years later, in Gwendy’s Magic Feather, she’s a successful novelist with a promising future in politics. But when the button box suddenly reappears in her life, she must decide if she is willing to risk everything for its temptations.
And in the thrilling conclusion Gwendy’s Final Task, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something so destructive from such powerful entities?
What you see isn’t always what you get.
Elle Littlewood can barely believe her luck when her producer tells her about the chance to get her hands on a dilapidated chateau in Aix-En-Provence, France for a rock bottom price. It seems too good to be true, but as a home interiors influencer, she knows this would make incredible content.
Lately, Elle has noticed the cracks start to show. Her life is the envy of thousands, and her social media posts show a beautiful, accomplished woman. Yet this wasn’t always the case. If they knew the truth about her past, they would never look at Elle the same way again.
Elle needs this house. She doesn’t care that it comes with huge strings attached. And when people get in her way, there’s nothing Elle won’t do to protect her brand. After all, she’s survived by doing things that people could never imagine – and knows she would do them again.
A dark, voyeuristic and utterly captivating crime thriller that fans of People Like Her and Sun Damage will love from CWA Debut Dagger shortlisted author Amanda Cassidy.
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Exodus-b
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Morgan Plantz
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The mountain remained, unclimbed, for the first year that they
lived there. Bell and Sigh, a couple in the infancy of their
relationship, cut themselves off from friends and family. They turn
their backs on a city divided by scores of streets and hundreds of
sterile cherry trees, by a foul river and a declining population of
house sparrows. Them in and the world out. From the top of the
nearby mountain, they are told, you can see seven standing stones,
seven schools, and seven steeples. All you have to do is climb.
Taking place in a remote house in the south-west of Ireland, this
rich and vivid novel spans seven years and speaks to the times we
live in, asking how we may withdraw, how better to live in the
natural world, and how the choices made or avoided lead us home.
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Not My Boy
(Paperback)
Kelly Simmons
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Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in
the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people
who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that
will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one
day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is
enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow
and his people are the only hope humanity has left. Until the day
Darrow learns that it is all a lie. That Mars has been habitable -
and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling
themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down at Darrow and
his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death
without a second thought. Until the day Darrow, with the help of a
mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and
infiltrates their society.
In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young
couple's house hides terrible secrets-and not all of them are
confined to the past. Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict
house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant.
But just when they think the house is ready, Mia discovers a
chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM
FROM THE ATTIC. Following the clue up into the eaves, the couple
make a gruesome discovery: their dream home was once a house of
horrors. In the wake of their traumatic discovery, the baby arrives
and Mia can't shake her fixation with the monstrous crimes that
happened right above them. Haunted by the terrible things she saw
and desperate to find answers, her obsession pulls her ever further
from her husband. Secrecy shrouds the mystery of the attic, but
when shards of a dark truth start to emerge, Mia realises the
danger is terrifyingly present. She is prepared to do anything to
protect her family-but is it already too late?
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter
from a person threatening to 'kill thirteen innocents and one guilty'
in 'an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man',
Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens
about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the
investigation unfolds, Izzy realises that the letter writer is deadly
serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.
Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women's rights activist Kate
McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues
of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate's
message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her
events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder,
and Holly is hired to be Kate's bodyguard - a challenging task with a
headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and
unhinged righteousness.
Featuring a riveting cast of characters both old and new, including
world-famous gospel singer Sista Bessie and an unforgettable villain
addicted to murder, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and
spectacular conclusion - a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could
pull off.
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