Without darkness, there is no light... The epic Spiral series comes to a gripping, heart-wrenching conclusion as Liv and Dean fight the most torturous uphill battle of their lives. Dean has always been my hero, my knight in tailored suits, armed and ready to slay every evil or danger in our path. Every possible threat before, and every memorable day throughout our marriage, there’s never been anything he hasn’t been able to protect me from. Until now. “This story covered a very poignant topic that affects so many people. You better believe I cried like a baby! I can’t tell you just how much this series has meant to me. It’s one of my most beloved of all time.” -- Wrapped Up in Reading “What a way to end one of the best series I've ever read. Amazingly beautiful. Heartbreaking. Absolutely epic.” -- Steamy Reads Book Blog THE SPIRAL TRILOGY - Book 1: Arouse - Book 2: Allure - Book 3: Awaken AFTER THE SPIRAL DUET - Book 1: Adore - Book 2: Always
Chef Olivia Paras has too many eggs in one basket-and is feeling like a basket-case... When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies right after eating the dinner Olivia Paras's staff had prepared, all forks point to them. Now the Secret Service is picking apart the kitchen-and scrutinizing the staff's every move. The timing couldn't be worse with the White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll to prep for without access to a kitchen. Olivia must find the real culprit-before she cracks under pressure.
It's part two of 'Gotham Academy Yearbook'! This month we have more stories of the gang's past and present shenanigans by some of the best names in comics. Detective Club, Scarecrow attacks, and water polo fights are just the beginning for another amazing issue!
Two years after their wedding, Ilsa's first husband Jack Lind, a Finnish diplomat, is flown home from a business trip in cargo. Not allowed to see him again, Ilsa can't believe Jack is really dead, but expects him to walk back into her life one day. When a man who could be Jack turns up at her door twenty years later, llsa is happily married to H, with two teenagers and a picket-fence life in Alabama. Still jealous of Jack, Ilsa's second husband has never wanted to know anything about Ilsa's past. And Jack never liked crowds much. What will Ilsa do if the man at her door is really Jack? As Ilsa tries to reconcile her two lives, an online writer friend hijacks the book she's writing, revises the plot and overwrites her memories of Jack with a twist she never expected. Ilsa's story of love and limerence takes the reader from the 1970s in Finland and Russia through London and Bahrain to an Alabama suburb in the 2000s. "Written with wry humor, 'Resurrecting Jack' explores the recesses of the human heart to show what expedients human psychology is capable of, in the grip of love, in order to deny the apparently undeniable." Robert Grossmith "Tua Laine challenges autofiction. Who owns a story? Who has the right to interpret it? - - - Laine argues smartly and writes creatively. You hear the voice of her own experience and those of her generation, especially in the demands for equal sexual rights for women." Kiiltomato, on Ei tässä elämässä, Jack* "The plot grabs you and doesn't let you go. The novel is an amalgam of Ilsa's current life, her past with Jack, and excerpts from her manuscript. The reader wonders what is true and what is imagined, and how they would want the story to end." Eeva, on Ei tässä elämässä, Jack* "The novel turns her grief into a complex mystery while taking the reader on an armchair trip from the Soviet Union to Bahrain, London and Alabama, and observing the changing relations between men and women along the way." YLE Kulttuuriykkönen, 25.8.2020, on Ei tässä elämässä, Jack* *Translated from media reviews for the Finnish edition, published in 2020.
A charming holiday rom com about a young, recently heartbroken woman who is tasked by her sister to complete Advent calendar challenges in the lead up to Christmas to reignite her belief in herself, the holidays, and love again. She’s given up on love and Christmas…but fate has other plans. All Callie wants for Christmas is to hibernate. She’s just been dumped by her childhood sweetheart, and under no circumstances will she go home for the holidays considering her ex will be right next door with his new, perfect partner. Callie is officially in grinch mode, but her meddling sister, Anita, won’t let her give up on life, love, and Christmas quite so easily. Anita stages a Christmas intervention for Callie with a homemade Advent calendar challenge—cheerful tasks to push Callie out of her comfort zone and into the holiday spirit, inspired by a childhood tradition. Callie reluctantly plays along, but when she comes face-to-face with a charming baker who just might be the spoonful of sugar she needs, her strict rules on love and the holidays are tested. As they strike a deal to do the activities together, could the twenty four little doors on Callie’s Advent calendar not only open up one, but two closed-off hearts?
"Almost Missed You is a skillful, insightful debut: a deft exploration of the mysteries of marriage, the price we pay for our secrets, and just how easy it is to make the worst choices imaginable." —Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Sandcastle Girls and Midwives "Almost Missed You is an emotional powerhouse of a novel." —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain "In Almost Missed You, debut author Jessica Strawser meticulously weaves together a kidnapped child, friends in turmoil, and a Craigslist ad into a tangled web of secrets, lies, and unexpected alliances. This heart-breaking page-turner will make you question how well you really know everyone you hold dear." — Amy Sue Nathan, author of The Glass Wives "Jessica Strawser has expertly woven a tale of a marriage in crisis with elements of daring, danger, mystery, and secrets that will surprise and delight you...Glorious!" — Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars in the Heavens "Jessica Strawser writes from the heart." —New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline "Almost Missed You is compelling fiction from a brave new voice." —Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield Violet and Finn were “meant to be,” said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can’t help thinking that she can’t believe her luck. Life is good. So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach—just packs up the hotel room and disappears. And takes their son with him. Violet is suddenly in her own worst nightmare, and faced with the knowledge that the man she’s shared her life with, she never really knew at all. Caitlin and Finn have been best friends since way back when, but when Finn shows up on Caitlin’s doorstep with the son he’s wanted for kidnapping, demands that she hide them from the authorities, and threatens to reveal a secret that could destroy her own family if she doesn’t, Caitlin faces an impossible choice. As the suspenseful events unfold through alternating viewpoints of Violet, Finn and Caitlin, Jessica Strawser's Almost Missed You is a page turning story of a mother’s love, a husband’s betrayal, connections that maybe should have been missed, secrets that perhaps shouldn’t have been kept, and spaces between what’s meant to be and what might have been.
