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The American Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was born in 1835. Her talents extended across novels, poems and detective stories and she was very widely published. Her career was to eventually span 6 decades. She died in 1921.

Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard, DSO MC FRGS FZS was born on the 17th November 1876 in Jhansi, North-Western Provinces, India, then part of the British Empire. His achievements in life, beyond his literary career, are both voluminous and startling. He was an explorer, adventurer, marksman, game hunter and first-class cricketer. In his literary career he wrote short stories, novels, travel pieces and was also a newspaper correspondent.

George Allen Upward was born in 1863. He was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His poetry was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, ‘Des Imagistes’, edited by Ezra Pound in 1914. His short stories were also very popular in their day.

Richard Henry Malden was born in 1879. During his career he was a prominent Anglican churchman, editor, classical and Biblical scholar, as well as a writer of ghost stories. He died in 1951.

When Lois Grover moves into the Beacon of Hope Assisted Living Center, she fears boredom will consume her, but a fellow resident soon invites her to a secret meeting of the Twilight Society. This quirky group of elderly residents, with a variety of skills, talents, and expertise, helps lost souls, tethered to the world of the living, by solving the mysteries keeping them from moving on. The center itself—a historic colonial mansion that has functioned as a hospital, a school, and a sanitarium—possesses mysteries of its own that both help and hinder the society's investigations.

Arabella Kenealy was born in 1859. A writer of short stories that had much merit she was also a physician and active in the fight against early feminism. She died in 1938.

Frederick George Loring was born in 1869. He was an English naval officer and writer, and an early expert in wireless telegraphy. As a writer his talents extended to both poetry and the short story; ‘The Tomb of Sarah’ being a classic of the genre. He died in 1951.

Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she has: a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up to her with little regularity. Marguerite has been confined by her mother, Cécile, who is concerned about her engagement to an older, near-penniless solicitor, Mr Lewis, and wishes to educate her daughter on ‘proper’ married conduct – lest she drag the family’s good name into disrepute.

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The broken condom. The two pink lines. The baby growing in my belly. And the daddy? None other than Victor Morozov. Mafia boss. Ruthless kingpin. My baby daddy.

Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent. Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men. Her writing career of novels, short stories and poetry is often overlooked, as was the case with so many women, yet her works reveal many talents and a gift for melding odd and weird circumstances into seemingly everyday life.

Every house has a space that is best kept closed off. Some hide a big mess, others conceal terrible secrets. Some do both. It's J.D.'s job to clean out those spaces. But this house is different. Every hour spent inside brings him closer to the truth. Nothing is as it seems. Something is hiding in the crawlspace.

After inheriting a century-old inn from her beloved uncle, Millie leaves her college campus to return to her roots and grapple with the grief of his passing. Determined to ready the inn for sale and quickly return to her life, Millie reconnects with Ethan, her childhood crush, sparking a poignant second chance at love. Millie’s quest for closure intertwines with their shared, painstaking restoration efforts on the inn.

Un inquietante cuento de hadas gótico.Miren O'Malley se quedó huérfana de pequeña y creció con sus abuelos en una finca aislada y decadente, Edén del Trasgo. Hace tiempo, su familia prosperó gracias al pacto que cerró con el mar: seguridad para sus barcos a cambio de un hijo de cada generación. Sin embargo, han pasado muchos años sin que la familia pueda cumplir con su parte del acuerdo y, como consecuencia, su fortuna se ha visto afectada.Cuando el abuelo de Miren fallece, su abuela planea recuperar su antigua gloria, aunque a costa de la libertad de su nieta.

Nobody in the family talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who was swallowed up by the circus and emerged as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot-free for killing her husband. When Ellen's husband Wayne beats her nearly to death, she runs to the only place she knows where a woman can completely disappear - the same Big Top that once sheltered her grandmother. Though the circus moves from one town to the next, Wayne tracks it, and Ellen, relentlessly.

The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb becomes a gothic terror of the highest order, delivering a dream-like and hallucinatory listening experience that promises to reveal disturbing and astonishing answers.

In this haunting debut novel from brilliant new voice Jen Julian, a young man reluctantly returns to his repressive hometown to uncover the truth of his mother's mysterious death. The town of Blacknot is not what it appears, and a place in the woods known only as The Night House is calling...

Just when I thought I had a grip on the dark world of The Crowned Syndicate, everything spun out of control. I'm in too deep with the most powerful guys at Crestmont University and they've become my protectors, my partners in the dangerous mafia underworld.

They called me a freak. They called me a loser. They tormented me and made my life a living nightmare when all I had ever wanted was to be left alone. And five years ago, after a lifetime of being bullied and harassed, of enduring more pain and trauma than any man could handle, that's exactly what I set out to do. I left the only home I'd ever known to lock myself behind the cemetery gates and care for the only people who have ever given me the peace I craved—the dead.

After a fire ruins my student house in my last year of university, I end up living with the Four Cardinals, the most popular guys at the Royal Academy of KnightsGate. They're pulling me into their circle, but I can't tell if they're guarding me from danger or if I'm stepping into a new one. Secrets are everywhere, and I need to find out the truth before I get too caught up.