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"In the tradition of Sarah Waters, Helene Wecker, and Jessie Burton, an atmospheric and mystery-laden historical novel set within a magical world where books are not stories but the repository of individual lives"--

Frances Strange - now known as Birdie Johnson - has always felt that something was missing from her life. She also has a secret... a big secret. Will that secret, and the thing she is always missing, come back to ruin her life? Or will the charmingly eccentric Frenchman Noel save her from herself?

Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, they plant crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years,...

Baker's daughter Betsy Fraser is sent unwillingly to spy on a rival bakery, Brown's Biscuits. Unbeknownst to her father, however, Betsy has already met Archie, the younger son in the Brown family. She knows her father's plan will never succeed, and she disapproves of his underhand tactics. The op...

When Sarah McKinney finally escapes the clutches of her abusive husband, she and her adopted son Jason begin a perilous new life on the run. Eventually they settle down as Sarah finds work as a doctor's assistant, and Jason is reunited with his real father and takes a job as a ranch hand. But Jas...

The Skelf women live in the face of death every day, running a funeral directors and private investigators in Edinburgh, and their own grief intertwines with that of their clients as they reel from shocking past events. A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of...

Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the Oslo fjord, a boat and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make - return, or submit his resignation. ...

When MI5 Agent Spider is asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he'll become a wanted man. And things are about to get more complicated: Spider is told that his MI5 controller and close friend Charlotte Button has been running an o...

Sent to the workhouse as a child, all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering, 'Dearie, promise you will never forget what you saw. Your Ma was killed deliberate... and someone oughter pay for it.' When young, wealthy spinster Letitia Fairchild witnesses Ella being ill-treated, she takes...