Editorial Content for The Madness
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Since its publication in 1897, DRACULA has endured as a literary and horror classic. Much read and admired in its own right, Bram Stoker’s inventive vampire tale is the foundation for many chilling stories from page to stage to screen. Retellings are common but, in capable hands, always welcome. THE MADNESS by Dawn Kurtagich puts the action in Wales, adds underground clubs, folklore, and small town and familial drama but keeps many of the character names the same as she reimagines vampires, castles, swooning women and romantic men. Read More
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With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, she returns home to the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind, she soon discovers that Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient hundreds of miles away. With nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women, and with Lucy’s life on the line, Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets, missing girls, and the powerful, nameless force at its center --- one that has been haunting her for years. As terrible, ancient truths begin to reveal themselves, Mina prepares to confront her own darkest secrets and, with them, an evil beyond comprehension.
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With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, she returns home to the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind, she soon discovers that Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient hundreds of miles away. With nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women, and with Lucy’s life on the line, Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets, missing girls, and the powerful, nameless force at its center --- one that has been haunting her for years. As terrible, ancient truths begin to reveal themselves, Mina prepares to confront her own darkest secrets and, with them, an evil beyond comprehension.
About the Book
Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror, in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept shores of Wales to help her childhood friend fight the mysterious illness that plagues her. When the lines between reality and delusion begin to blur, Mina must face off against a monstrous legacy --- or be consumed herself.
Beware what waits in the shadows...
With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London, she returns home to the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind, she soon discovers that Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient hundreds of miles away.
With nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women, and with Lucy’s life on the line, Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets, missing girls and the powerful, nameless force at its center --- one that has been haunting her for years.
As terrible, ancient truths begin to reveal themselves, Mina prepares to confront her own darkest secrets and, with them, an evil beyond comprehension. Together with a group of smart, savvy women, Mina seizes one last, desperate chance to stop the cycle that began so long ago. But there are dangers to inviting the attentions of what might not be a man, but a monster.
Audiobook available, read by Imogen Church
Editorial Content for The Paris Gown
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Christine Wells' new historical novel, THE PARIS GOWN, takes us back to the capital of France, where SISTERS OF THE RESISTANCE was set. The title gown is a Christian Dior confection, and while the story doesn't center on the gown itself, the couture dress serves as a symbol of the ties that bind the three main characters together. Read More
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Three friends, who parted as very young women, reunite in Paris years later. Claire has been working hard to become a Michelin-starred chef, but her dream is to own a Dior gown. This seemed like a far-off fantasy, until the eccentric Madame Vaughn abruptly leaves town and makes Claire a very special gift: a stunning Dior gown. Meanwhile, Gina lands on Claire’s doorstep nursing a broken heart and a broken engagement. Gina has returned to Paris in the hopes of pursuing her dream. But when her father begs her to attend the United States Embassy ball, she is torn. And what on earth is she going to wear? Claire insists Gina wear the Dior gown to the ball. At Gina’s fitting, who should assist them but Margot, living in Paris under an assumed name. Is their close friendship at an end? Or will the wonder and delight of the Dior gown bring these young women back together?
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Three friends, who parted as very young women, reunite in Paris years later. Claire has been working hard to become a Michelin-starred chef, but her dream is to own a Dior gown. This seemed like a far-off fantasy, until the eccentric Madame Vaughn abruptly leaves town and makes Claire a very special gift: a stunning Dior gown. Meanwhile, Gina lands on Claire’s doorstep nursing a broken heart and a broken engagement. Gina has returned to Paris in the hopes of pursuing her dream. But when her father begs her to attend the United States Embassy ball, she is torn. And what on earth is she going to wear? Claire insists Gina wear the Dior gown to the ball. At Gina’s fitting, who should assist them but Margot, living in Paris under an assumed name. Is their close friendship at an end? Or will the wonder and delight of the Dior gown bring these young women back together?
About the Book
From perennially popular historical novelist Christine Wells, the delightful tale of three young women in 1950s Paris who share a single dazzling Christian Dior gown.
Paris, 1955
Three friends --- Claire, Gina and Margot --- who parted as very young women with their whole lives ahead of them, reunite in Paris years later, determined to start life anew.
Parisian Claire has been working hard to become a Michelin-starred chef one day, but ever since the heady time she spent in the company of socialites Gina and Margot, her dream has been to own a Dior gown. This seemed like a far-off fantasy, until the eccentric and wealthy Madame Vaughn, who lives above Claire’s family brasserie, abruptly leaves Paris, asking Claire to mind her apartment. More bafflingly, Madame Vaughn also makes Claire a very special gift: a stunning Dior gown.
Meanwhile Gina, a cool American blue blood, lands on Claire’s doorstep nursing a broken heart and a broken engagement after her father lost all of the family money in a risky business venture. A journalist aspiring to be a novelist, Gina has returned to Paris in the hopes of pursuing her dream. But when her father begs her to attend the United States Embassy ball in the hopes of persuading Hal Sanders, her former fiancé, to invest in her father’s new business venture, she is torn. She wants to help her father, but seeing Hal again will be exquisitely painful. And what on earth is she going to wear?
Warm-hearted Claire insists Gina wear the Dior gown to the ball, and after some hesitation, Gina accepts. At Dior for Gina’s fitting, who should assist them but Margot, the friend they thought had gone back to Australia to be married. But Margot is living in Paris and working at Dior under an assumed name, and clearly, she is not happy to have been found.
Is their close friendship at an end? Or will the wonder and delight of the Dior gown bring these young women back together?
Gorgeous, perfectly fitted, lustrous and luxurious, the Dior gown has the power to change lives --- as these three remarkable women are about to discover.
Audiobook available, read by Saskia Maarleveld
Editorial Content for The Rule of Three
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Bad things always happen in threes, they say.
Oh, the superstitions humans dream up. But are they actually superstitions? One person’s opinion might be. However, if you were to ask each of the three narrators in THE RULE OF THREE, the answer will be a resounding no. This is very real. But why do they believe so fervently? After doing much research, Ila begins to wonder if it’s not a mere rule, a curse or even fate. Could it be a serial killer? Read More
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I didn’t believe in the Rule of Three. Not at first. It was just one of those urban myths you hear about all the time. A story my boyfriend told me about a girl cursed by the number three. A girl whose parents had killed themselves after her sibling had died in an accident. Which meant that she was doomed to die too because that’s the Rule of Three. Bad things always happen in threes, they say, and they are right. Because it’s happening again. But this time the curse is coming for me. And worst of all? It’s coming for you, too.
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I didn’t believe in the Rule of Three. Not at first. It was just one of those urban myths you hear about all the time. A story my boyfriend told me about a girl cursed by the number three. A girl whose parents had killed themselves after her sibling had died in an accident. Which meant that she was doomed to die too because that’s the Rule of Three. Bad things always happen in threes, they say, and they are right. Because it’s happening again. But this time the curse is coming for me. And worst of all? It’s coming for you, too.
About the Book
THE WHISPER MAN meets the paranoia of The Blair Witch Project in this terrifying suspense novel from “an exciting new voice in the field of chilling thrillers” (Alex North, New York Times bestselling author).
That’s the one. That’s the girl who’s going to die.
I didn’t believe in the Rule of Three. Not at first. It was just one of those urban myths you hear about all the time. A story my boyfriend told me about a girl cursed by the number three. A girl whose parents had killed themselves after her sibling had died in an accident. Which meant that she was doomed to die too because that’s the Rule of Three.
Bad things always happen in threes, they say, and they are right. Because it’s happening again.
But this time the curse is coming for me. And worst of all?
It’s coming for you, too.
Audiobook available; read by Sarah Pitard, Katie Beudert, Sandra-Mae Lux and Richard Attlee
Editorial Content for The Brothers Kenney
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Critically acclaimed author Adam Mitzner has been called a master of the mystery genre. For my money, he also is one of the best legal thriller writers in the business. His latest effort, THE BROTHERS KENNEY, is different from anything he previously has penned. It’s a family drama wrapped up inside a murder mystery that sets up suspects, motives and opportunity in a case that initially appeared to be straightforward Read More
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Former track star Sean Kenney used to be on top of the world, but that was a very long time ago. Now he's been estranged from his loved ones for the past two years --- until the unthinkable calls him home. While struggling to make sense of the devastating death that has shaken the Kenney family to its core, Sean grasps at the opportunity to seek forgiveness for his past mistakes --- from his family and himself --- while clinging to the belief that if he can discover what really happened that day, he might somehow be redeemed.
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Former track star Sean Kenney used to be on top of the world, but that was a very long time ago. Now he's been estranged from his loved ones for the past two years --- until the unthinkable calls him home. While struggling to make sense of the devastating death that has shaken the Kenney family to its core, Sean grasps at the opportunity to seek forgiveness for his past mistakes --- from his family and himself --- while clinging to the belief that if he can discover what really happened that day, he might somehow be redeemed.
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From master of the mystery genre and bestselling author Adam Mitzner comes THE BROTHERS KENNEY, a murder mystery that pushes one family to the breaking point.
Former track star Sean Kenney used to be on top of the world, but that was a very long time ago. Now he's been estranged from his loved ones for the past two years --- until the unthinkable calls him home.
While struggling to make sense of the devastating death that has shaken the Kenney family to its core, Sean grasps at the opportunity to seek forgiveness for his past mistakes --- from his family and himself --- while clinging to the belief that if he can discover what really happened that day, he might somehow be redeemed.
Both a family saga and a thrilling mystery, THE BROTHERS KENNEY searches for forgiveness and the meaning of home as assiduously as it does the identity of a killer.
Audiobook available, read by Stacy Carolan
Editorial Content for Five-Star Stranger
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FIVE-STAR STRANGER, a provocative novel centered on the gig economy, follows the exploits of New York’s top performer on the Rental Stranger app, where users can hire a fake fiancé, a wingman or an extra mourner for a funeral. Known only as Stranger, the narrator likes to maintain a professional distance from his clients and, it becomes apparent, from his own demons. Read More
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In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, FIVE-STAR STRANGER follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app as he navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But when an eccentric patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.
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In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, FIVE-STAR STRANGER follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app as he navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But when an eccentric patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.
About the Book
An exciting and “inventive” (HuffPost) debut novel about a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app --- a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or companion of any kind --- who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.
Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? The father to your child?
In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, FIVE-STAR STRANGER follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app as he navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients.
But when an eccentric patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.
“A sharp page-turner about our culture’s commodification of everything” (Debutiful), FIVE-STAR STRANGER is a strikingly vivid novel about isolation in a hyperconnected world, and “what it means to love and be loved” (Rachel Khong, author of REAL AMERICANS).
Audiobook available, read by Julian Cihi
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