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Eight years ago, Hayley was a nobody. A teenager in suburban England. One-half of a little-known singing duo with her sister Anna. Now Hayley Sharp is a global sensation, her platinum albums as famous as her fairytale beginnings: discovered by chance by legendary producer Julian Reeves and whisked away to glittering Los Angeles.
But the truth behind Hayley’s rise to fame is darker than anyone imagined.
When Julian Reeves’s skeletal remains are found in the California desert, the investigation into his death threatens to shatter the narrative that made Hayley an icon. As old secrets claw their way to the surface, pop music’s golden girl must confront the devastating cost of her success . . . and just how far she’ll go to keep the past buried.
But the truth behind Hayley’s rise to fame is darker than anyone imagined.
When Julian Reeves’s skeletal remains are found in the California desert, the investigation into his death threatens to shatter the narrative that made Hayley an icon. As old secrets claw their way to the surface, pop music’s golden girl must confront the devastating cost of her success . . . and just how far she’ll go to keep the past buried.
When Emma Propeller’s unreliable and narcissistic husband, James, fails to return home to her and their new baby from a business trip, she fears the worst. But it turns out a scrape with the law has sent him straight to rehab—where, he bravely informs her, he’s fallen deeply in love with a fellow patient. Rather than wait for him to come crawling back, she seizes the opportunity to escape.
Emma bolts with her baby on a midnight train to a castle in the Scottish Highlands, as far away from James as possible. A job as a live-in driver for a mysterious marchioness promises safety and the chance to reinvent herself. At first, Emma celebrates her newfound independence; she’s landed herself a cozy cottage, a job paid in cash, and proximity to a glamorous employer. However, the castle is no sanctuary, and working for the aristocrat quickly becomes even more chaotic than the life she has just fled. After a threatening note, a suspicious fire, word that James has hired a private detective to track her down, and her employer’s increasing instability, she’s on high alert. Has Emma steered herself out of danger or driven straight into it?
Abigail Abbas’s debut novel is an emotional and frequently hilarious thrill ride that will have readers cheering for the woman in the driver’s seat.
Emma bolts with her baby on a midnight train to a castle in the Scottish Highlands, as far away from James as possible. A job as a live-in driver for a mysterious marchioness promises safety and the chance to reinvent herself. At first, Emma celebrates her newfound independence; she’s landed herself a cozy cottage, a job paid in cash, and proximity to a glamorous employer. However, the castle is no sanctuary, and working for the aristocrat quickly becomes even more chaotic than the life she has just fled. After a threatening note, a suspicious fire, word that James has hired a private detective to track her down, and her employer’s increasing instability, she’s on high alert. Has Emma steered herself out of danger or driven straight into it?
Abigail Abbas’s debut novel is an emotional and frequently hilarious thrill ride that will have readers cheering for the woman in the driver’s seat.
THE BANGBANG BOYS by Peter Zaragoza Mayshle
DUCKLING by Sharma Shields
In the early nineteenth century, a boy named Hans lives in poverty in Odense, Denmark, where he and his father escape to a world of their own making through the magic of storytelling by reading stories and plays aloud in their small home. After the death of his beloved father, Hans flees to Copenhagen, where he can finally pursue his dreams. His first taste of success, though, is bittersweet; heartbreak inspires him to write a forlorn fairy tale called “The Little Mermaid,” a story of unrequited love that changes the course of his life.
By 1856, Hans is an internationally renowned storyteller and receives an invitation to visit Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine, in England. Catherine, an aggrieved mother of ten children, is navigating a humiliating betrayal by her husband when she forms an unlikely friendship with her unruly houseguest, a fellow outsider in Victorian society whose desire for unconditional love appears just out of reach. Years later, as Hans wrestles with acceptance and mortality, reflecting on his own rise from an impoverished upbringing to literary stardom, the characters from his own fairy tales start to come to feverish life.
A rich retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and literary lineage, DUCKLING is a testament to how imagination endures even after the story has ended.
By 1856, Hans is an internationally renowned storyteller and receives an invitation to visit Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine, in England. Catherine, an aggrieved mother of ten children, is navigating a humiliating betrayal by her husband when she forms an unlikely friendship with her unruly houseguest, a fellow outsider in Victorian society whose desire for unconditional love appears just out of reach. Years later, as Hans wrestles with acceptance and mortality, reflecting on his own rise from an impoverished upbringing to literary stardom, the characters from his own fairy tales start to come to feverish life.
A rich retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and literary lineage, DUCKLING is a testament to how imagination endures even after the story has ended.
THE DIVINE by Harper L. Woods
She succumbed to death to save his life.
Margot is no longer her own. Her life has been stolen—a soul for a soul. A price to pay for her love.
But now the voice she cursed is the only thing that can save her—save them.
After all, death is only the beginning.
Margot is no longer her own. Her life has been stolen—a soul for a soul. A price to pay for her love.
But now the voice she cursed is the only thing that can save her—save them.
After all, death is only the beginning.
MAGIC FOR CROSSWISE WITCHES by Ava Morgyn