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“A timeless story of sisterhood, with all its joys and challenges, and also a reminder that we can dearly love and care for those who are not exactly like us.” — Lainey Cameron, author of The Exit Strategy.

Sisters Elinor and Saffron come to Italy to take possession of the cottage they inherited from their father, only to find it already occupied by a resident spirit. Younger sister Saffron, who has a psychic gift, can sense the invisible spirit, who was once 19th century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. He drowned in the ocean here.

Shelley has his own reasons for staying. Connected to their father, who helped restore his literary reputation, he wants to help the sisters, who have been feuding for years. But they remain distinctly divided over what to do with the house.

Soon Saffron yields to Italy’s abundant charm and wants to stay, while Elinor organizes repairs to sell fast and go home. She thinks Saffron’s living in childish fantasy, while Saffron thinks her sister needs to find her romantic spirit.

Over the months of repairs, their epic clash of wills softens and the sisters remember the bond they once had. Italy weaves an enchanting spell as romance comes along for both. By Christmas time, they agree: Why hurry home? But just as renewed harmony and happiness are on the horizon, a devastating New Year’s Eve accident calls on one sister to make a sacrific — and she can only do it with help from the beyond.

Eighteen men enter the arena. Only one will survive. And one of them… is not a man at all.

When her twin brother is chosen to fight in the Emperor’s deadly Thorn Trials, a brutal, five-round competition where the victor wins the crown and the hand of the princess, nineteen-year-old Evaine Vale makes a desperate decision.

She cuts her hair. Binds her chest. And takes his place.

Now disguised as her brother, she must outwit and outlast seventeen others in a bloodstained arena filled with shifting terrain, vicious beasts, and deadly traps. But as the trials grow more brutal, Evaine finds herself drawn to a forbidden love, Cassian Varo, a strong, mysterious competitor with secrets of his own, and a touch that sets her blood on fire.

With every round, Evaine gets closer to the final battle, and closer to the truth she’s been hiding. But if the court discovers her secret, she’ll be executed before she can ever claim victory.

In a world of roses and thorns, lies and longing, what happens when love blooms where death was planted?

John Bowlby is one of the most influential yet under-recognized figures in modern psychology. In Searching for Bowlby, C.V. Wooster delivers the first richly narrated biography of the visionary behind attachment theory — a groundbreaking framework that forever changed parenting, psychotherapy, and our understanding of human connection psychology.

Born into the emotionally distant world of Edwardian England, Bowlby’s early life was defined by loss, war, and rigid social expectations. These experiences would later inform his revolutionary idea: that a child’s bond with their caregiver is not just emotional, but essential for lifelong psychological health.

Wooster goes beyond academic analysis, weaving together meticulous research, personal anecdotes, and historical insights to offer a vivid, honest portrait of Bowlby’s life — from his childhood struggles and career controversies to the profound impact of his work on psychology, education, social work, and attachment theory for parents today.

This is not a story of uncritical admiration, but a thoughtful exploration of a complex, often misunderstood man whose work continues to shape how we relate, parent, and connect.

Freud and Jung became household names. John Bowlby, by contrast, worked in the shadows. Yet his discoveries changed everything — quietly reshaping how we think about childhood, love, loss, and the bonds that make us human.

Searching for Bowlby is not just biography — it is a historical narrative and a personal quest. It brings to life the story of the man who gave us attachment theory, showing how his fractured childhood and lifelong search for connection became the foundation of ideas that transformed therapy, parenting, and relationships.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Thornton.

Dessa has plans.

She plans to stay out of trouble in the group home where she lives. She plans to work crazy hours at the grocery story to save for her own place. She plans to get her little brother back, soon, from his foster parents.

But when a zombie apocalypse arrives, it wrecks all of Dessa’s plans. With the city falling into chaos, Dessa must use her street smarts to survive. Her only weapon against the zombies is a pillowcase of tuna cans. Her only allies are the other group home teens she doesn’t dare trust.

And there’s only one plan left in the entire universe that matters.

Find and save her brother before it’s too late.

Dodo is invited to meet Rupert’s family for Christmas. What could possibly go wrong?

Fresh off the trauma of her last case, Dodo is relieved when Rupert suggests spending Christmas with his family at Knightsbrooke Priory.

The week begins with such promise until Rupert’s grandmother, Adelaide, dies in the middle of their Christmas Eve dinner. She is ninety-five years old and the whole family considers it an untimely natural death, but something seems off to Dodo who uses the moment of shock to take a quick inventory of the body. Certain clues bring her to draw the conclusion that Adelaide has been murdered, but this news is not taken well.

With multiple family skeletons set rattling in the closets, the festive week of celebrations goes rapidly downhill and Dodo fears that Rupert’s family will not forgive her meddling. Can she solve the case and win back their approval?