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B. A. Paris, author of The Prisoner

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband?

Week of August 7, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of August 7th include DREAMLAND by Nicholas Sparks, a powerful novel about risking everything for a dream --- and whether or not it’s possible to leave the past behind; BURNER, the 12th installment in Mark Greaney's electrifying Gray Man series, which finds Court Gentry caught between the Russian mafia and the CIA; B. A. Paris' THE PRISONER, a stunning thriller about a woman wed into a family with deadly intentions; THE NIGHT SHIP by Jess Kidd, an epic historical novel that illuminates the lives of two characters --- a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, 300 years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island; KOSHERSOUL, a remarkable book by Michael W. Twitty, who explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity and food; and the paperback original A DAY OF FIRE, a vividly imagined novel from six bestselling authors that follows the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day that Mount Vesuvius erupts.