Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present. A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window, though, she can't stop wondering about the eerie presence on the top floor—in a room with a locked door. Could it be someone who lived in the house a century earlier? Her fear replaced by fascination, Jules is determined to make contact with the mysterious figure and help unlock the door. Past and present intersect as she and her ghostly friend discover—and change—the fate of the family who lived in the house all those many years ago.

Xander and Ivy go their separate ways at New Year's to pick up the pieces from the past and begin their relationship from a fresh place.A surprise Valentine's visit from Xander is the perfect present after six long weeks apart.But neither could anticipate that only three weeks later, the world as we know it would come to a complete standstill—and Ivy is near the epicenter.On March 6, 2020, U-Dub announces the move to online schooling for the rest of winter quarter, freeing Ivy up to spend her time locked in with her new beau.Will the tight quarters show she's just another notch?Or will it prove how perfect they really are?

Nore Roberts didn't ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to settle in at Shadow Grove, the old Civil War mansion her stepfamily calls home. When she meets her stepmother, Lisette, Nore is shocked by her youth and beauty that gives her chills- and a hint of something sinister. There's hope of becoming friends with her stepbrother and sister, until Nore realizes they're hiding something. When she begins to feel like the target of a deadly plan, Nore starts digging into her stepfamily's past. The skeletons in their closet are more real than she ever imagined. Can Nore expose her stepmother's dark secret before an old and evil magic swallows her up?

Cynthia Davis finds herself in a challenging situation as a deadly virus forces her into an unexpected lockdown in Abuja. To her surprise, she is forced to share an apartment with David Olarenwaju, a man she once loved who also left her with deep wounds.David regrets his past actions and realizes the quarantine is an opportunity to make amends for his mistakes and possibly rekindle their love.As they navigate the lockdown together, she is torn between the bittersweet memories and the pain he caused. His presence reignites old feelings and reopens old wounds. Is she willing to allow him into her heart again and heal from the past.

Deep within Russia, would-renowned scientist Pyotor Shapirov lies in a coma. Locked within his brain rests the key to the greatest scientific advance in the world's history. Only one scientist can hope to locate this secret—Dr. Albert Jonas Morrison, an American. Morrison's mission: to be miniaturized to molecular size along with a team of four Soviet scientists, travel in a specially designed submarine to the dying Shapirov's brain, and tap the secrets held there. Morrison and his companions have only twelve hours to accomplish their task—in the face of unexpected terrors and with their own lives hanging precariously in the balance. With his phenomenal two-million-copy bestseller Fantastic Voyage, Isaac Asimov took the world on its first amazing journey into the human body. Now, twenty year later, after deeper exploration into one of the most fascinating areas of science, Dr. Asimov delivers an all-new thriller that transports you to the far reaches of inner space. Electrifying, astonishing, and remarkably realistic, this new novel is certain to become a science fiction classic.

"Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author's monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not just what to read, but how to read. Whether tackling a dismayingly bulky biography of Dickens while his children destroy something in the next room, or getting sucked into a serious assessment of Celine Dion during an intensely fought soccer match featuring his beloved Arsenal, or devouring an entire series of children's books while on vacation, Hornby's reviews are rich, witty, and occasionally madcap. These essays capture the joy and ire, the despair and exhilaration of the book-lover's life, and will appeal equally to both monocle-wearing salonnieres and people, like him, who spend a lot of time thinking about Miley Cyrus's next role.

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Love locked inAristide, the Duc de Savigne is literally Lord of all he surveys – including the women who throw themselves at his feet only to be trampled and scorned. Arrogant and promiscuous, his wild orgies and rampant behaviour are "defaming the name of Savigne and making it a byword for every outrage, scandal and vice..."Yet, when asked to marry this man without even meeting him, innocent beauty Syrilla happily agrees. Even when she finds herself bride to this embittered man, obsessed with his love for a murdered Chère amie she adores her 'White Knight' with a passion... Can it be that her pure unsullied love is the key that frees his locked-in-heart?Love and LindaThe rags to riches and romance tale of Linda Snell takes us on a rollercoaster ride of a life – from sleazy beginnings via a Convent school to the glamour of the West End stage and the London fashion scene. Pursued by all the wrong men and eluded by the right ones, Linda scales the...

From the creators of Zac Power, Monstrum House combines a remote boarding school, quirky kids and monsters that go bump in the night! Jasper McPhee is always getting into trouble. That's why he's been sent to the Monstrum House School for Troubled Children. But there's something very strange about Monstrum House. For a start, the students have to stand barefoot in the snow every day. There's also the creepy feeling that the teachers can read your thoughts. Oh, and the fact that the school is crawling with monsters.

Welcome to Storyton Hall, Virginia, where book lovers travel from near and far to enjoy the singular comforts of the Agatha Christie Tea Room, where they can discuss the merits of their favorite authors no matter how deadly the topic . . . With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again—managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort's latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up to start laying the spa's foundation, something else comes to the surface—a collection of unusual bones and the ragged remnants of a very old book. The attendees of the Rare Book Conference are eager to assist Jane with this unexpected historical mystery—until a visitor meets an untimely end in the Henry James Library. As the questions—and suspects—start stacking up, Jane will have to uncover a killer before more unhappy endings...

The history of our world tends to move along a shallow spiral—when completing a turn, you end up mighty close to where you started. The history of Second World, in contrast, seems to have simplified its path to a ring from which there is no apparent way out. An unforeseen invasion lays waste to whole provinces, prompting the game’s most powerful clans to ally with the emperor’s guard to stop the monstrous hordes in their tracks. A war erupts that nobody saw coming, shattering the tedium of peaceful life. All the while the world’s most elusive character—once a lowly miner, now a powerful mage—finds himself in an impossible situation, and sorely in need of allies of his own as he searches for a way out. **

Do you love gripping and hard-boiled crime thrillers? Then try GB Williams' unmissable Locked In. Ariadne Teddington is having a bad day. Then she finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun. Stuck in a bank robbery turned hostage situation, Ariadne keeps her head down and her mouth shut; because if there is one thing criminals hate more than the police it’s prison guards. Trapped with a child, a policeman, and a robber on the edge, Ariadne desperately searches for a way out for them. Can they all escape unharmed? And when everyone is locked in, will anyone get out alive? Also available in The Locked Trilogy: Locked Up Locked in is a hard-boiled police thriller that will have you gripped from page 1. It will appeal to fans of authors like Rachel Abbott, Ed James, Joy Ellis and Angela Marsons.

Death Locked InWELCOME!Inside this volume you’ll find murder and mayhem presented by some of the world’s greatest crime writers—John Dickson Carr gives Dr. Gideon Fell the problem of the woman found strangled on a beach, where the sand is unmarked by footprints.Ngaio Marsh has Inspector Roderick Alleyn solve a murder in a locked dressing room.Bill Pronzini assigns his nameless private eye to shadow an automobile until its occupant suddenly vanishes into thin air.Edward D. Hoch presents a spy story featuring murder in a locked automobile.Anthony Boucher shows how to commit the perfect crime—with a time machine.Frederic Brown tells a cockeyed tale of a ghoul who wants to get into—not out of—a locked morgue.Ellery Queen examines the many facets of an impossible disappearance of priceless diamonds.Clayton Rawson, with the help of the Great Merlini, demonstrates how to disappear from a telephone booth surrounded by witnesses.L. Frank Baum, who would later send Dorothy and Toto on the Yellow Brick Road to Oz, dispatches a money-lender in an entirely different fashion.Wilkie Collins will keep you awake with the case of a murderous bedroom.Cornell Woolrich checks in with a story of a hotel room that kills.Lillian de la Torre recreates the first true historical locked-room mystery.And another ten tantalizingly teasing tales to taunt and terrify you in this collection of the greatest locked-room murders and impossible crimes.Table of Contents[b]The Historical Locked Room[/b]The First Locked Room by Lillian de la Torre (1902-1993)[b]Death Locked and Sealed[/b]Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)I Can Find My Way Out By Ngaio Marsh (1899-1982)The Suicide of Kiaros by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)The Spherical Ghoul by Fredric Brown (1906-1972)Out of His Head by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)Murder by Proxy by M. McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933)Out of This World by Peter Godfrey (1917-1992)The Mystery of the Hotel De L’Orme by M. M. B.The Magic Bullet by Edward D. Hoch (1930- )[b]Rooms That Kill, Footprints in the Sand, And a Mysterious Gun[/b]A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)The Room With Something Wrong By Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968)Invisible Hands by John Dickson Carr (1906-1977)The X Street Murders by Joseph Commings (1913-1992)[b]Impossible Disappearances[/b]The Mystery of Room No. 11 by Nicholas CarterThe Man Who Disappeared by L. T. Meade (1844-1914) and Robert Eustace (1854-1943)The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds by Ellery Queen (Manfred B. Lee, 1905—1971; Frederic Dannay, 1905—1982)The Mystery of the Lost Special by A. Conan Doyle (1859-1930)Off The Face of the Earth by Clayton Rawson (1906-1971)The Grinning God by May Futrelle (1876 ?)The House That Was By Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912)Thin Air by Bill Pronzini (1943- )[b]Tomorrow’s Locked Room[/b]ELSEWHEN by Anthony Boucher (1911-1968)

Noah Braddock’s past won't leave him alone. After a self-imposed exile in Florida, Noah is back in San Diego, ready to face the fallout from the crime he committed. He doesn’t want to go to jail, but he doesn’t want to live his life as a fugitive, either. When the district attorney offers him the chance to walk free, Noah listens. Her request is simple: investigate an assault on a local college campus, provide her with what he finds, and she'll assure that charges won't be brought against him. Noah reluctantly agrees, suspicious of both the deal and what he might find. His suspicion turns out to be correct, as he's dropped into a case where people can't remember and don't want to share what they know. The more he digs, the more confusing it becomes. And as the district attorney demands answers in exchange for his freedom, Noah realizes that the deal he's struck might be more than he bargained for. **

Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present. A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window, though, she can't stop wondering about the eerie presence on the top floor—in a room with a locked door. Could it be someone who lived in the house a century earlier? Her fear replaced by fascination, Jules is determined to make contact with the mysterious figure and help unlock the door. Past and present intersect as she and her ghostly friend discover—and change—the fate of the family who lived in the house all those many years ago..

For Savannah, it was an easy choice; getting sent to the Compound meant she and Kayden could be together. But nothing is ever that simple. Caught in a system that encourages cruelty and mind games; will their love survive? Book two of the 'In Chains' series. Please note: this book contains strong language.

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on. As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood. A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected form pull her back from the brink?

His job is to protect her...no matter the cost Police detective Joy Ingram's connection to elite security expert Stonewall Courson is instant. Undeniable. Electric. But her commitment to protect and serve has always come first. Everything else is secondary—especially when she uncovers an underground surrogate baby-making ring. Joy can't risk a distraction during the most important case of her career, not even one as sexy as reformed ex-con Stonewall. There are few things Stonewall values more than a strong woman. But when Joy's investigation draws her into a deadly conspiracy that goes deeper than she ever imagined, he must convince her that he's the best man to protect her. And while he puts his life on the line to save hers, the insatiable attraction between them becomes the one danger neither of them can escape.

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, evaluating the clues from her staff's separate investigations and discovering unsettling truths that could put her life in jeopardy again. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.

ESPN personality and Paralympics champion Victoria Arlen shares her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven and how she broke free, overcoming the odds and never giving up hope, eventually living a full and inspiring life. When Victoria Arlen was eleven years old, she contracted two rare diseases simultaneously and fell into a mysterious vegetative state. For two years her mind was dark, but in the third year, her mind broke free, and she was able to think clearly and to hear and feel everything—but no one knew. When she was fifteen years old, against all odds and medical predictions, she was finally able to communicate through eye blinks, and she gradually regained her ability to speak and eat and move her upper body, but she faced the devastating reality of paralysis from the waist down because of damage to her spine. However, Victoria didn’t lose her strength or steadfast determination, and two years later, she won a gold medal for swimming at the London 2012 Paralympics. In Locked In, Victoria shares her never-before-published story—the pain, the struggle, the fight to live and thrive, and most importantly, the faith that carried her through. Her journey was not easy, but by believing in God’s healing power and forgiveness, she is living proof that, despite seemingly insurmountable odds and challenges, the will to survive and resolve to live can be a force stronger than our worst deterrents. Not many people get a second chance at life like Victoria has, and she made a promise to God that she would make every moment count. **

Do you love gripping and hard-boiled crime thrillers? Then try GB Williams' unmissable Locked In. Ariadne Teddington is having a bad day. Then she finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun. Stuck in a bank robbery turned hostage situation, Ariadne keeps her head down and her mouth shut; because if there is one thing criminals hate more than the police it’s prison guards. Trapped with a child, a policeman, and a robber on the edge, Ariadne desperately searches for a way out for them. Can they all escape unharmed? And when everyone is locked in, will anyone get out alive? Also available in The Locked Trilogy: Locked Up Locked in is a hard-boiled police thriller that will have you gripped from page 1. It will appeal to fans of authors like Rachel Abbott, Ed James, Joy Ellis and Angela Marsons.

Brothers Greg and Lewis are enjoying a heatwave in the summer holidays — until Loki, the god of mischief, buries St Andrews in a huge blizzard! Loki is determined to conquer the universe and will stop at NOTHING to get his way.<br><br>Greg, Lewis and their friend Susie must make a perilous journey to Asgard, the City of the Gods, to foil Loki's evil plan.<br><br>Luckily, Thor, the god of thunder, has turned up to help them. Unfortunately, he's locked in the boys' garage...<br><br>The hilarious sequel to The Day the World Went Loki is filled with monsters, mischief and everyone's favourite Norse gods.