Published By: Manilla PressPages: 256Released On: 09/05/2024 March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental hospital. WorkingContinue reading “Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor”
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The Darkest Night – Victoria Hawthorne
Published By: QuercusPages: 368Released On: 25/04/2024 A MISSING WOMANWhen Ailsa Reid becomes the subject of a trial by media after an incident at the school where she works, she escapes to the comfort of her grandparents’ house in Fife. But she arrives to find her grandmother, Moira – recently diagnosed with dementia – has goneContinue reading “The Darkest Night – Victoria Hawthorne”
The Household – Stacey Halls
Published By: Bonnier BooksPages: 400Released On: 11/04/2024 London, 1847. In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women. The house and its location are top secret, its residents unknown to one another, but the girls have one thing in common: they are fallen.Continue reading “The Household – Stacey Halls”
The Shadow Key – Susan Stokes-Chapman
Published By: Harvill SeckerPages: 464Released On: 11/04/2024 Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can’t speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat himContinue reading “The Shadow Key – Susan Stokes-Chapman”
The Book of Secrets – Anna Mazzola
Published By: OrionPages: 384Released On: 21/03/2024 Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling him he will need considerable mettle to reach the truth.Continue reading “The Book of Secrets – Anna Mazzola”
The Blueprint – Rae Giana Rashad
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 320Released On: 13/02/2024 Solenne Bonet lives in Texas where choice no longer exists. An algorithm determines a Black woman’s occupation, spouse, and residence. Solenne finds solace in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who’d been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. But history repeats itself when Solenne,Continue reading “The Blueprint – Rae Giana Rashad”
The Bone Hunters – Joanne Burn
Published By: SpherePages: 352Released On: 08/02/2024 In 1824, Lyme Regis is as tumultuous as the sea that surrounds it. When twenty-four-year-old Ada Winters – poor, peculiar and brilliant – uncovers a set of unusual fossils on the cliffs, she believes she has found the answer to her scientific frustrations and her family’s financial struggles.Meanwhile, DoctorContinue reading “The Bone Hunters – Joanne Burn”
Betrothal and Betrayal – Janet McGiffin
Published By: Scotland Street PressPages: 260Released On: 01/05/2023 Seventeen-year-old Thekla needs her quick wits and knife to track down her betrothed, a soldier who has left her at the altar for the third time. Elias the monk travels with her to Constantinople where she meets Irini of Athens, an extraordinarily beautiful orphan who has beenContinue reading “Betrothal and Betrayal – Janet McGiffin”
The Knowing – Emma Hinds
Published By: Bedford Square PublishersPages: 304Released On: 18/01/2024 In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing is a darkly spellbinding novel about a girl fighting for her survival in the decaying criminal underworlds.Continue reading “The Knowing – Emma Hinds”
Guinevere: The Quest for Excalibur – Fil Reid
Published By: Dragonblade PublishingPages: 399Released On: 06/09/2023 Twelve years ago, 21st-century librarian Gwen decided to remain in the Dark Ages with the man she loves above all else – a man around whom endless well-known tales of legend and magic have been spun. King Arthur. Over the years, she’s carved a life for herself byContinue reading “Guinevere: The Quest for Excalibur – Fil Reid”
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