One of People magazine’s Best Books of Fall—“Morton's moody, suspenseful latest is the perfect page-turner for a chilly night.”
From
the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret
Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new
novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets.
Living on
her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane
is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented
sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens
are no match for the one her family is about to endure…
Lo-Melkhiin killed
three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife.
When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived.
She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will
not let her be next.
And so she is taken in her sister's place,
and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a
dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with
wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments.
She sees everything as if for the last time. But the first sun rises and
sets, and she is not dead. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her
and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by
the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear
that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a
cruel ruler. Something went wrong.
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.
Her
boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less
alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be
responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of
sustained and unspeakable brutality.
With the police focusing on
the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he
and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and
twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts
occur, time is running out for the two of them…
It’s been three months
since the Winterians were freed and Spring’s king, Angra,
disappeared—thanks largely to the help of Cordell.
Meira just
wants her people to be safe. When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians
to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and
possibly dangerous: Primoria’s lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this
find as an opportunity—with this much magic, the world can finally stand
against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm
poses—the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned
the Decay. So when the king of Cordell orders the two on a mission
across the kingdoms of Primoria to discover the chasm’s secrets, Meira
plans to use the trip to garner support to keep the chasm shut and
Winter safe—even if it means clashing with Theron. But can she do so
without endangering the people she loves?
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.
This afternoon, her planet was invaded.
The
year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet
that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the
universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With
enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even
talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating
fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
I’m pursued by two brothers. Two beautiful, powerful men with dreadful secrets and gloomy pasts.
One
sets me free, the other tries to trap me. One is the light in the
darkness; the other is the darkness itself. Yet they have one common
wish in their hearts. Seeing Michael destroyed. But, I might be the one
getting burned in the end.
Published for the
first time in America are the bold and sassy memoirs of the model who
became the reigning queen of 1920s Montparnasse. Her frank, funny and
risque memoirs created a sensation when they first appeared in the
French version in 1929, but U.S. Customs banned them from this country.
They are presented here with Introductions by Ernest Hemingway and
Foujita. 50 illustrations.
