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In a world of lies, the truth is her deadliest weapon. Sierra Coleman awakens from a horrific crash, her mind a blank slate. But as she claws her way back to reality, she discovers her amnesia is just the tip of a sinister iceberg. Every "truth" she uncovers is another lie, every ally a potential enemy. With a daughter she can't remember and a life she doesn't recognize, Sierra is thrust into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. As bodies pile up and shocking betrayals come to light, she realizes the key to her survival lies buried in her forgotten past. Barker's razor-sharp prose slices through the pages, each revelation more stunning than the last. This relentless, twist-filled rollercoaster will have you questioning everything until its explosive finale.

A newly registered Private Investigator attempts to track down Alice B. Toklas's reputed horn in this smart, hilarious, sexy, and deeply poignant detective novel.

London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It is 1989, and in a small Baltic city in East Germany, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando is a factory worker from Mozambique, Lolita is a medical student from India, and Theo is an East Berliner who dreams of being a writer. When Armando and Lolita make a grisly discovery, they find themselves caught up in the politics of Theo's homeland more than ever before. While a quiet revolution sweeps through Eastern Europe, and the Berlin Wall teeters, the three find themselves entangled in a poignant love triangle which threatens their futures. As the world order shifts, their three lives are bound together in a web of love, lies and fears, leaving each irrevocably changed.

Against the backdrop of an earthquake-ravaged Los Angeles, 'Get Rich Quick' follows one man's desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. Marlon, grappling with a personal tragedy, is enticed by a mysterious financial advisor promising a surefire path to wealth. But as Marlon's high-stakes gambles spiral out of control, the line between salvation and destruction blurs. Unfolding over a single tension-filled day, Marlon must confront not only his financial ruin, but the dark secrets haunting his family. A pulse-pounding descent into the dangers of unchecked ambition and the real-world costs of chasing the dream.

Set in houses that should provide protection but instead turn on their inhabitants, places of safety invaded without warning, and familiar landscapes that gradually change beyond recognition, Make a Home of Me is about all the ways in which our sanctuaries can turn into foreign places, casting us as strangers as we roam the halls.

A bibliographic deep dive into the subterranean imaginary that traces the fascination of underground spaces.Since that fateful moment in 1974 when Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson decided to title their revolutionary new roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, a strong subterranean mystique has permeated gaming cultures from the tabletop to the games console and beyond. But what if the caves, crypts, grottos, and dank netherworlds explored by players weren’t only harboring treasures of the fictional variety? What if these spaces of imaginal exploration were capable of calling out to us from deep time, whispering unexpected truths about our unique relationship to the Great Below? In this expansively imagined and deftly edited volume, writer and RPG historian Stu Horvath delves through the various strata of deep time to uncover a vast hoard of literary gems that cast strange new light on the subterranean imaginary. Tracing this fascination with chthonic mystery from the ancient world to the contemporary gaming table, Down Down Down: An Exploration of Literature’s Dungeons from The Bibliothecha To Bastionland gathers together fragments of almost one hundred resonant texts and images, illuminating them with the editor’s own commentary and positioning them in relation to contemporary tabletop roleplaying games.A perfect resource for both games masters and armchair adventures alike, Down Down Down surveys the perennial appeal of underground spaces to writers and artists, and makes their varied works and ideas accessible to contemporary readers, players, and game designers.

'THE PERFECT BOOK GROUP THRILLER' Gillian McAllisterTwenty years ago, a group of students each wrote themselves a letter - Dear Future Me - confiding their deepest dreams and their very darkest secrets. Now the letters, thought long discarded, have begun to drop through letterboxes.

Eyes are key Masca (Latin): spectre Maschera (Italian): mask Maskharah (Arabic): foolFelicity Hepburn is back in London. In the game for one more hit. To make enough to get married, live the family life. A beautiful woman with flawless style. A brain in service of the gun. With acid wit and fierce mascara she rips up the city, seducing men and spreading bullets as danger tightens around her. London is her playground. Her target the kingpins, spies and dealers with the world in their back pocket. Loud, bright and brash, this transgressive thriller lays its elegant fist into the big questions. Must society be corrupt to face corruption? Can appearance and identity become one? How does a woman function in the business of death, yet still be a source of life?High shine and deadly serious, Felicity Hepburn is in town.

More monster than man... A unique supernatural historical adventure from the award-winning writer and artist team of Shannon Eric Denton and David Hartman. Set in a supernatural take of the 1930s, courageous adventurer Kraken returns from a three-year journey in a different dimension in order to stop a mystical Nazi invasion. From the minds of Oscar-nominated Shannon Eric Denton and Emmy-nominated David Hartman comes an exciting story of a hybrid monster-man and his mission to stop the Nazis from resurrecting ancient horrors upon the world. After disappearing for three years, esteemed adventurer Kraken returns to reality in search of allies to stop an evil sorceress from unleashing a horde of eldritch monsters on the world. Armed with a pistol and supernatural tentacles, the Kraken is loose! Set in a reimagined 1930s backdrop and filled with occult powers, hidden artefacts and sentient talking skulls, Kraken fills your appetite for the supernatural unlike any other. If you're a fan of supernatural period pieces, and are ready to unleash the Kraken, this is the book for you!

The scorching new feminist apocalyptic novel and instant international bestseller from CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly. One of Esquire and Vulture's Best Horror Books of the year and a GoodReads Editors' Pick. 'Keep an eye on this rising feminist voice' - Tori AmosIn C.J Leede's latest genre-bending thriller, Sophie, a good Catholic girl who has been kept separate from the world, must traverse the apocalyptic hellscape of the midwest to try to find her lost brother, whilst learning the reality of her own sexuality in a suddenly lust-filled world. A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Nothing in Sophie's strict religious upbringing could have prepared her for the arrival of the scorching winds that sweep through the Midwest - not the righteous breath of God, but an evil gust that delivers an ungodly, fevered lust unto the virtuous and the wicked alike. Though her own body has become a carnal battleground, she must somehow find her way through the ravaged world to rescue her brother, hoping the fever hasn't taken him; hoping he can still be saved. The end times are coming and Sophie soon discovers that there are far worse fates than dying a virgin . . .