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Recommended by Kori, Marketing & Communications
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The Heir Apparent
by Rebecca Armitage
Living a quiet life as a doctor in Australia, 29-year-old Lexi Villiers is finally happy—and falling in love. But Lexi is actually Princess Alexandrina, the estranged "black sheep" of the British royal family.
When a sudden tragedy makes her the direct heir to the throne, she is summoned home to a palace consumed by power struggles, vicious media leaks, and cutthroat betrayal. Thrust into the spotlight, Lexi must navigate treacherous royal politics while guarding her own secrets and decide what she is willing to sacrifice for the Crown.
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Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die
by Mallory Arnold
Discovering they share the same two-timing boyfriend, Nora, Ruby, and Cham lure him to an isolated mountain cabin for a weekend of sweet revenge. But harmless payback turns deadly when he is found murdered. Trapped by a brutal blizzard, paranoia erupts among the three women. As dark secrets and hidden motives surface, they must race to determine whether the killer is one of them—or something far more sinister hunting them in the freezing wild.
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The Witch
by Freida McFadden
Down on her luck, Julia Barlow retreats to Pemberton, her family’s sprawling 17th-century Massachusetts estate, seeking refuge with her aging grandmother. Instead of sanctuary, she finds a waking nightmare: lights flicker violently, a grandfather clock dies nightly at 3:41 a.m., and weeping voices plead at her bedroom door. Digging into Pemberton’s past, Julia uncovers ties to a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692. As buried family secrets unravel, she realizes the estate is trapped by a dark legacy—and haunted by women who refuse to stay silenced.
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Meet Cute Magic
by Morgan Elizabeth
Cursed never to find lasting romance, witch and bookstore owner Rosie Mayfield strikes a desperate deal: summon a ghost to break her family’s hex in exchange for helping him cross over. The catch? The ritual requires the help of Jack Haggerty, the local game shop owner who despises her. Skeptical Jack is stunned by his late grandfather’s spectral return, but he agrees to work with Rosie for family's sake. As sparks inevitably fly between the sworn rivals, Jack realizes he can't bear to let her break the curse and walk away—while Rosie risks everything on a man she believes she is doomed to lose.
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Recommended by Amy, IT Services
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Last Days
by Adam Nevill
Broke guerrilla filmmaker Kyle Freeman lands a career-saving gig: shoot an investigative documentary on the Temple of the Last Days, an occult cult destroyed in a bloody 1975 massacre alongside its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Retracing the group's sinister path from London to an abandoned French farm and a derelict Arizona mine, Kyle breaks the decades-long silence of surviving witnesses. But as interviewees begin dying abruptly and gruesome artifacts, nocturnal visitations, and out-of-body terrors plague the crew, Kyle realizes the cult's occult rituals weren't delusion—they awoke something monstrous, and it now has its sights set on him.
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Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Talented yet sidelined sound editor Montserrat has spent years navigating 1990s Mexico City’s male-dominated film scene while secretly pining for her best friend, faded soap star Tristán. Their fortunes seem poised to change when Tristán befriends his new neighbor: legendary cult horror director Abel Urueta. Urueta claims his ruined career stems from an unfinished, cursed movie shot on volatile silver nitrate imbued with Nazi occult magic. Desperate to lift the hex, he recruits Montserrat and Tristán to help film the missing final scene. But tampering with the film unleashes a nightmare. As dark apparitions stalk Montserrat and the ghost of Tristán's ex-girlfriend appears, the pair plunge into Mexico City's occult underworld—realizing too late that the deadly sorcery on screen is horrifyingly real.
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The Staircase in the Woods
by Chuck Wendig
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods. While on a camping trip, five high-schoolers bound by an oath to always protect one another discover something in the middle of the forest: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend climbs up but does not come back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later it reappears, and the friends return to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase.
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Sacrificial Animals
by Kailee Pedersen
Estranged from his abusive father, Carlyle, Nick Morrow never planned to return to his family's rural Nebraska farm. But when a deathbed summons arrives, Nick and his disowned brother, Joshua, reluctantly make the trip home. While Joshua quickly falls back under Carlyle’s sway, Nick drifts into an intense, illicit affair with Joshua’s wife, Emilia. Yet as their romance deepens, Nick realizes Emilia’s desires may be rooted in something ancient and deeply sinister—tied to the shadowy presence that terrorized his youth. Blending supernatural horror with ancient Chinese myth, Sacrificial Animals is a gripping exploration of inherited trauma, suppressed desire, and a family’s brutal undoing.
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Recommended by Michele, Community Engagement
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The Road to Tender Hearts
by Annie Hartnett
Sixty-three-year-old lottery winner PJ Halliday has plenty of cash, three heart attacks under his belt, and a lifetime of grief he drowns at the local bar. But when his old high school rival dies, PJ seizes a final shot at happiness: a cross-country drive from Massachusetts to Arizona to win back his first love, Michelle. His grand romantic gesture is abruptly derailed when tragedy leaves him guardian to his estranged brother’s orphaned grandchildren. Undeterred, PJ turns the quest into a chaotic family road trip, recruiting his adrift twenty-something daughter, Sophie, to babysit—alongside Pancakes, a stray therapy cat famous for predicting death. Faced with a bittersweet second chance at love and fatherhood, PJ must confront the pain of his past before the journey—or his failing heart—gives out completely.
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Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
Despite being the richest nation on earth, the United States suffers from deeper poverty than any other advanced democracy. In this fiercely argued, landmark work, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond confronts this moral crisis with an urgent, unsettling truth: the affluent keep the poor impoverished—often knowingly, and often for their own benefit. Drawing on rigorous research and original reporting, Desmond exposes how secure Americans exploit low-wage workers, inflate the cost of housing and credit, and support a skewed welfare system that showers tax subsidies on the wealthy while shortchanging those in need. Beyond a scathing indictment of systemic inequality, Desmond delivers a stirring, actionable manifesto, urging us to become "poverty abolitionists" and build a future rooted in shared prosperity and collective freedom.
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Tilt
by Emma Pattee
Nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib, Annie is inside a Portland IKEA when a catastrophic earthquake strikes. Left stranded without a phone, money, or contact with her husband, she faces a grueling trek on foot across a ruined, chaotic city. Navigating the disaster, Annie encounters the raw spectrum of human survival—from violent riots to unexpected acts of grace—while forming a bond with a fellow young mother. With every step through the wreckage, she grapples with her faltering marriage, stalled career, and deep-seated fears of motherhood, fiercely determined that if she can survive the journey home, she will build a better life.
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Listen for the Lie
by Amy Tintera
Years ago, Lucy was found wandering her small Texas hometown covered in the blood of her best friend, Savvy. Lucy remembers nothing of that night, but the town branded her a killer anyway, driving her to flee to Los Angeles and reinvent herself. Now, the host of the smash-hit true crime podcast Listen for the Lie arrives to reopen Savvy’s cold case for millions of listeners. Dragged back into the venomous orbit of the community she escaped, Lucy must confront the gossip, her fractured memories, and the media spotlight to uncover what really happened—even if the monster she exposes turns out to be herself.
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Recommended by Shannan, Marketing & Communications
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A Court of Splintered Harmony
by Sarah J. Maas
Deep within the continent, the ancient terror Koschei the Deathless begins to stir. Trapped for millennia beneath an enchanted lake, his creeping shadow now draws ruthless allies plotting to reclaim the mortal realm. Though the Night Court refuses to stand by while innocents suffer, Prythian remains fractured and exhausted from the brutal Hybern War. Worse still, internal betrayals and shattered trust threaten to tear the court’s leaders apart from the inside. To stand against the rising darkness, they must bridge their bitter divides, mend broken alliances, and forge a fragile unity before the world falls with them.
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The Academy
by Elin Hilderbrand
Move-in day at elite Tiffin Academy brings an unbelievable shock: the mediocre, party-heavy boarding school has miraculously skyrocketed seventeen spots to be ranked number two in the country. Yet before the campus can bask in its newfound prestige, chaos erupts. A ruthless new gossip app called ZipZap begins dropping scandalous blind items directly onto students’ and faculty's phones. From the resident queen bee influencer and an eccentric admissions director to an outcast transfer student and an untested young history teacher, no one is safe from exposure. As toxic secrets leak and reputations unravel, The Academy delivers a sharp, addictive dive into privilege, betrayal, and high-stakes prep school drama.
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Trust Fall
by Lynn Painter
Small-town Nebraska girl Julia has her quiet world upended when a secret multi-millionaire neighbor dies, leaving his entire fortune—and a Manhattan brownstone—to her family. Thrust into New York City’s cutthroat elite private school scene, an overwhelmed Julia quickly finds herself failing out. Enter Damion, a sharp, handsome tutor hired to keep her grades afloat. But Damion has an agenda: he is the late millionaire’s great-nephew, convinced these strangers stole his rightful inheritance. Posing as a helpful ally to expose them, his plan backfires as genuine sparks fly between them. As real feelings complicate his deception, the truth threatens to tear them apart before their romance even begins.
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The Charmed Library
by Jennifer Moorman
Grieving her father's death and a fresh breakup, assistant librarian Stella Parker feels stuck. She has always possessed a strange gift—the ability to see colorful words manifesting on objects and people, revealing their hidden emotions. But after she impulsively burns her journal, the floating words grow urgent and erratic, just as she makes an impossible discovery: fictional characters are stepping off the library’s pages into the real world. Among them is Jack Mathis, a WWII soldier from her favorite novel and her childhood literary crush. Jack reveals the library's secret, but a reckless invitation unleashes a dangerous villain into their midst. As Stella and Jack race to contain the chaos, their bond deepens into real romance—only for Stella to learn the magic's cruel catch: living characters have just fourteen days before they must return, and Jack's time is running out.
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Recommended by Katie, Materials Collection
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Tourist Season
by Brynne Weaver
Cape Carnage is a picturesque seaside town with colorful storefronts and an unusually high body count. Devoted gardener Harper Starling fiercely protects her home and aging mentor by ensuring bad-mannered visitors never leave—quietly turning them into compost beneath her award-winning flowerbeds. Enter Nolan Rhodes, an alluring, blade-wielding vigilante who marks the anniversary of a devastating hit-and-run by hunting down those responsible. Harper is his ultimate target, but she isn't the easy kill he anticipated. When an amateur true-crime investigator arrives sniffing out a cold-case serial killer, mortal enemies Harper and Nolan strike a dangerous truce to shield their deadly habits. As proximity sparks a dark, reckless obsession, their buried secrets threaten to bring the entire town crashing down around them.
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Caught Up
by Navessa Allen
Hardened criminal Nico “Junior” Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti has always been off-limits. Sweet and untainted, she belongs nowhere near his violent underworld—which is why he broke her heart years ago and stayed away. Then a late-night search reveals the shy girl from his past has transformed into a daring, provocative siren tied to a local play club. Curiosity instantly morphs into all-consuming obsession: watching from afar is no longer an option. Lauren is instantly drawn to the lethal, brooding stranger frequenting her club, leaning into the danger even as a charged online flirtation deepens into something perilously real. Caught in a spiral of mutual temptation and forbidden desire, the line between pursuer and prey blurs—until neither can resist the fall.
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Recommended by Kelly, Administrative Services
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The Left and the Lucky
by Willy Vlautin
Eddie Wilkens is an unassuming house painter in his forties, living in the shadow of a broken marriage and two decades of suffocating guilt. Next door, eight-year-old Russell is terrified of his volatile older brother, whose escalating cruelty threatens to tear their struggling family apart. Seeking refuge from his disintegrating home, Russell begins waiting in Eddie’s backyard each evening. Through small kindnesses—warm meals, odd jobs, and inclusion in a ragtag crew of misfit painters—Eddie offers the boy safety, laughter, and a reason to hope. In return, Russell gives the lonely painter a renewed purpose and a chance to finally lay his past to rest.
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Dolly All the Time
by Annabel Monaghan
When thirty-nine-year-old Dolly Brick returns to her Rhode Island hometown to save her family from losing their home, she stumbles upon Stewart Whitfield—the annoyingly handsome scion of the town’s wealthiest family—midway through a humiliating public breakup. Always a problem solver, Dolly agrees to Stewart's proposed fake-dating arrangement to save face. But as public high-society benefits turn into intimate sunset boat rides and electric kisses, the lines between pretend and reality blur, forcing the fiercely independent Dolly to decide if she can finally risk trusting someone else with her heart.
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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis
Based on an Athabascan legend passed down through generations in Alaska’s upper Yukon River Valley, this inspiring tale follows two elderly women abandoned by their tribe during a catastrophic winter famine. Long dismissed as complaining burdens, the pair are left behind to die in the brutal wilderness. Instead, they choose to fight. Relying on dormant survival skills, resilience, and an unbreakable bond, they endure the unforgiving Arctic cold to reclaim their strength. Velma Wallis crafts a stark, deeply moving story of betrayal, grit, and the healing power of forgiveness.
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Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu
by Dk Travel
South Korea has captivated the world with chart-topping K-pop, binge-worthy dramas, and bold cuisine, but its cultural powerhouse status is only part of the story. Moving beyond the global phenomenon of Hallyu, this vibrant guide dives into the rich history and traditions of the peninsula—from its centuries as the "Hermit Kingdom" to the famed haenyeo divers of Jeju Island and the unique customs that shaped modern daily life. Packed with fascinating cultural insights, it explores everything from the real origins of K-beauty trends to the complex social themes behind global hits, offering the ultimate introduction to a multifaceted nation.
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Recommended by Dawn, Community Engagement
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Theo of Golden
by Allen Levi
One spring morning, an enigmatic stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden, asking far more questions than he ever answers. Stopping into a local coffeehouse, Theo discovers ninety-two pencil portraits lining the walls—sketches of Golden's residents drawn by a local artist. One by one, he begins purchasing the portraits and gifting them back to their rightful subjects. With every return, a hidden story unfolds, unlikely bonds are forged, and lives are quietly transformed.
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The Correspondent: A Novel
by Virginia Evans
Distinguished lawyer, mother, and divorcee Sybil Van Antwerp processes life through the letters she writes every morning to loved ones, stubborn university presidents, and famous authors. But when a voice from her past suddenly reaches out, Sybil is forced to confront her deepest regrets. To finally move forward, she must share the one letter she has kept hidden for years and find the courage to offer forgiveness.
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Recommended by Paula, Community Engagement
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The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
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Recommended by Emily, Materials Collection
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Threshing Day
by Rebecca Yarros
Welcome to Threshing Day at Basgiath War College—the lethal trial where cadets either bond with a dragon or die trying. Amid scorched earth and cutthroat rivals willing to kill for an advantage, thirteen cadets from across the quadrants must navigate shifting loyalties, deadly ambitions, and dragons who answer to no one. On a battlefield where a single misstep means incineration, only one rule truly matters: don’t die.
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Headlights
by Cj Leede
Burnt out and ready to turn in his FBI badge, Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is stopped in his tracks by a chilling summons back to Denver—the city he fled four years ago. A gruesome pattern has resurfaced: innocent people are waking up stranded along dark highways with no memory of how they got there, wearing the flayed skin of strangers and bearing a single hair knotted around their tongues. Drawn back into the nightmare, Daniel discovers each grotesque clue mirrors the horrors of his own traumatic childhood. To stop the slaughter, he must race into the freezing Colorado wilderness and confront the evil that has hunted him his entire life—before it claims him and everyone he loves.
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A Plagued Sea
by Kim Bo-Young
Fleeing a toxic family situation, bodyguard Mu-young boards a train with her young niece toward Haewon, an isolated seaside village, just as a massive earthquake strikes the coast. That impulsive escape seals their doom. Three years later, Haewon is a sealed-off quarantine zone ravaged by an ancient plague that mutates infected villagers into grotesque, aquatic abominations. Grief-stricken over her niece’s death, Mu-young survives as an enforcer hunting down anyone who breaks isolation. But when an ambitious government bureaucrat arrives from Seoul, his meddling threatens the fragile containment—forcing Mu-young into a desperate fight for survival in a waking Lovecraftian nightmare.
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Recommended by Maddy, Marketing & Communications
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Wings of Reverie
by Anna Bright
When frost fairy Periwinkle strays too close to the forbidden border of the Winter Woods, she unlocks a lost magic—and begins to dream. But her wondrous visions quickly sour into omens of catastrophic ruin for the Pixie Dust Tree, the lifeblood of Pixie Hollow. Enter Weaver, an infuriatingly handsome stranger claiming to be the realm's last dream-talent sparrow man. Weaver insists he can spin Periwinkle’s visions into protective dream thread, but only if they locate the ancient spindle and shears hidden within the long-lost workshops of his kind. Journeying together into the uncharted heart of the frozen wilds, Peri finds herself drawn to her enigmatic guide. Yet as her visions unravel into terrifying truths, she must confront a chilling reality: in Winter, even the most beautiful things can cut deep—and Weaver may be the most dangerous secret of all.
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The Cruel Prince
by Holly Black
Stolen away to the treacherous High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents’ brutal murder, mortal Jude Duarte wants nothing more than to earn a place among the immortal fey. But the Elfhame nobility despise humans—none more so than the arrogant, cruel, and captivating Prince Cardan. Refusing to cower, Jude defies Cardan and his wicked circle, plunging headfirst into ruthless palace power plays. As court intrigues spiral into bloody rebellion, Jude unearths her own dark gift for lethal deception. Caught between lethal enemies and a volatile spark of hatred and desire, she must broker a perilous alliance to outmaneuver the crown, protect her family, and survive the cutthroat games of Faerie.
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Recommended by John, IT Services
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Upon a Dark Night
by Peter Lovesey
A young woman is dumped, injured and unconscious, in a private hospital’s parking lot. She is an amnesiac with no memory prior to her discovery by hospital personnel. Detective Inspector Peter Diamond of the Bath homicide squad is unwilling to become involved. He has other, more important cases to solve: A woman has plunged to her death from the roof of a local landmark while half the young people of Bath partied below, and an elderly farmer has shot himself. Are these apparent suicides what they seem, or are there sinister forces at work? And might the amnesiac woman hold the key to both cases?
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What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
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Last Argument of Kings
by Joe Abercrombie
Total war descends upon the world, and every score must finally be settled. In the frozen North, Logen Ninefingers braces for his ultimate confrontation: returning home to face his oldest friend turned bitterest enemy, the ruthless King of the Northmen. In Adua, Superior Glokta wages a shadow war of blackmail and torture against shifting factions where betrayal lurks in every corner. Meanwhile, a battle-scarred Jezal dan Luthar dreams of retiring to a quiet life of love—only for power and glory to ambush him in ways he never foresaw. As the King of the Union falters on his deathbed, nobles scheme, commoners revolt, and ancient armies close in on the empire's heart. Only the First of the Magi claims to have a master plan to save humanity—but executing it means risking everything to shatter the forbidden First Law.
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The Starving Saints: A Novel
by Caitlin Starling
Starving under a brutal six-month siege, the desperate inhabitants of Aymar Castle are saved by the miraculous arrival of the divine Constant Lady and her radiant Saints. But their salvation exacts a horrific price: the castle quickly descends into a ravenous, hedonistic delirium fueled by unholy feasts. Amid the escalating madness, three women—a celebrated knight, an outlaw sorceress, and a vengeful servant—cling to sanity. To survive the intoxicating horrors devouring the castle from within, they must navigate shifting betrayals and face the monsters their saviors truly are.
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Recommended by Kelli, Community Engagement
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My Husband's Wife
by Alice Feeney
Returning home from a morning run, artist Eden Fox discovers her key no longer works, an eerily familiar stranger is living inside her house, and her husband claims the impostor is his real wife. Six months earlier, a terminally ill woman inherited the same seaside home after visiting a shadowy clinic that predicts death dates—setting off a calculated chain of obsession and revenge. As their lives collide, two women fight for the same stolen identity, and only one can survive the truth.
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
by Graeme MacRae Burnet
The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows. Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.
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The Ruin
by Dervla McTiernan
Twenty years after DI Cormac Reilly discovered two neglected children beside their mother’s overdosed body, one of them—Jack Blake—is pulled dead from Ireland's freezing River Corrib. While police quickly rule it a suicide, Jack’s grieving girlfriend and fierce sister suspect foul play. Assigned to reinvestigate the cold case of the mother's death, Cormac comes under heavy pressure to pin the murder on Jack's sister—until a buried clue surfaces, exposing a lethal conspiracy of corruption that bridges past and present.
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