The Eulogy

The Eulogy

Jackie Bailey

Jackie Bailey

The Eulogy is a literary page-turner from new Australian voice Jackie Bailey – a story about family, death and grief that is full of love, humour and life. It's winter in Logan, south-east Queensland, and still warm enough to sleep in a car at night if you have nowhere else to go. But Kathy can't sleep. Her husband is on her blocked caller list and she's running from a kidnapping charge, a Tupperware container of 300 sleeping pills in her glovebox. She has driven from Sydney to plan a funeral with her five surviving siblings (most of whom she hardly speaks to) because their sister Annie is finally, blessedly, inconceivably dead from the brain tumour she was diagnosed with twenty-five years ago, the year everything changed. Kathy wonders – she has always wondered – did Annie get sick to protect her? And if so, from what? In writing Annie's eulogy, Kathy attempts to understand the tangled story of the Bradley family:...
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Breakable Things

Breakable Things

Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant debut collection, Breakable Things, explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas."A delicious bowl of razor blades. With coiled prose and whetted instinct, Khaw's stories put a finger on the dark pulse of being human."- Rich Larson, author of Ymir and Tomorrow Factory"A remarkable collection of tales from one of the most versatile and vital voices of their generation. Cassandra Khaw's stories are deftly wrought and sharp enough to draw blood, building entire worlds in a scant few pages. Horrifying and beautiful!"- Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones, and Ararat"Khaw takes the familiar and gives it a vicious cutting edge. Breakable Things is haunting, and in the best way, sneaky. It gets inside you, and...
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A Trial by Blood (The Thornheart Trials, #3)

A Trial by Blood (The Thornheart Trials, #3)

Sherilee Gray

Contemporary / Romance / Paranormal

RoseAfter a lifetime of suffering, I'm ready to end it all...Preferably before my Trial begins.I'm more useful dead than alive—Death is demanding my soul as payment for a debt he believes my family owes, and Ronan, the cold-blooded dhampir who can't seem to stay away from me, can help end my pain.But when the call to Trial comes sooner than expected, I must answer and risk Death's wrath, and the fate of those I love most. Ronan's vowed to protect me...but the ice in his veins has turned to fire and his need for me has the power to set us both ablaze.As everything I believed is tested to the limit, I'll have to fight—for my coven, and a future I never dreamed I was destined for...
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Chasing Forever

Chasing Forever

Nicole Vidal

Nicole Vidal

I was adopted by a widowed police officer when I was a newborn.He never remarried.Five years ago, he was taken from me in the line of duty.I have one rule: NEVER fall for a cop.Everything about Luca screams forever potential.The entire package: marriage, house, dog, and kids.He breaks my only rule. Can I walk away? Can I get over my fears and leap into his arms for the rest of my life?The York Beach series featuring the Cappelli Family are standalone romances with interconnecting characters. Each novel focuses on one couple (no cliffhangers!) and can be read in any order, but you'll enjoy reading them chronologically to learn more details about the family.
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Last Liar Standing

Last Liar Standing

Danielle M. Wong

Danielle M. Wong

Vonny Kwan wakes up in a Nevada hospital, the victim of a hit-and-run accident she doesn't remember. As she struggles to recover from her injuries, she learns that she also has no memory of the past nine years, including her marriage and what she was even doing in the West. While she's still reeling from the shock of her amnesia, two detectives visit and inform her that her husband, John, was recently murdered. As more information comes to light, Vonny grows increasingly suspicious of everyone around her. Vonny realizes she must piece together the last decade to uncover the truth. The missing chunk of time holds secrets about the person she became, the mysterious man she fell for, and the life she never wanted.
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Broken Ties

Broken Ties

L A Cotton

Contemporary / Romance / Young Adult, New Adult

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author L A Cotton, comes a slow burn, friends-to-lovers romance. Angst... drama... friendship... and football. Will you survive senior year?Poppy Ford has been in love with her best friend forever.But she's firmly in the friend zone and fears she may never get out.Aaron Bennet has been dreaming of a football scholarship forever.But he's not the Rixon Raiders star player, and he never will be.While Aaron is focused on proving himself, Poppy is hoping he'll finally wake up and see what's right in front of him.He doesn't want to lose his best friend.She doesn't want to lose senior year to a boy who doesn't want her.But fate has other ideas for them.And when hearts get broken and dreams get shattered, will their friendship be strong enough to survive?Or will the ties that bind them finally unravel?
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Briefly, a Delicious Life

Briefly, a Delicious Life

Nell Stevens

Nell Stevens

An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn't know she exists.In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century...
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The Last Huntress: Mirror Realm Series Book I

The Last Huntress: Mirror Realm Series Book I

Lenore Borja

Lenore Borja

Alice Daniels has a problem. Her reflection keeps misbehaving when she looks in the mirror—and the longer she ignores it, the harder it tries to get her attention. On her eighteenth birthday, she learns why: she is a huntress, someone gifted with the power to enter mirrors and the magical world that exists beyond. But with this power comes immense responsibility, for in the Mirror Realm lurks an evil that has infected the human race for centuries: demons. It is up to her and her three huntress sisters—with the help of one handsome and overbearing protector—to hunt and banish this evil one demon at a time, thereby keeping the chaos in check. But when an ancient god pays Alice a visit that turns deadly, it is clear the Mirror Realm is more than it seems, and she soon finds herself in a race against time to save the life—and soul—of the one man the gods are determined to never let her have.The Last Huntress is a story of redemption and...
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Bound to Love

Bound to Love

Nana Yaa Yeboaa

Nana Yaa Yeboaa

Find love was the least of Queen's issue. She wanted to have fun, be happy on her own term. Widowed with two children in University, it was her time to live. And it seemed that the young man who has set his eyes on her was going to give her exactly what she was looking for.One can not run away from destiny. Jermaine knew the woman sitting was wife material. To get her to agree was the most difficult task of his life. Women fell for him, wanted him to wifey, them. Queen was a different kind of woman. Sexual and sensual. She drove him nuts.
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