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  The Queen of the Isle - A Novel

  Anonyme

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  The Queen of the Isle is a dramatic Victorian romance filled with mystery, passion, and intrigue. Set against a backdrop of wealth and secrecy, the novel follows a strong-willed heroine whose beauty and power conceal a troubled past. As love, jealousy, and betrayal collide, hidden identities and long-buried secrets surface, leading to danger and revelation. Fleming weaves suspense and emotion into a tale of ambition, resilience, and fate.

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  The Turn of the Screw

  Henry James

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  The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced that they are haunted. The Turn of the Screw is considered a work of both Gothic and horror fiction. 
  In the century following its publication, critical analysis of the novella underwent several major transformations. Initial reviews regarded it only as a frightening ghost story, but, in the 1930s, some critics suggested that the supernatural elements were figments of the governess' imagination. In the early 1970s, the influence of structuralism resulted in an acknowledgement that the text's ambiguity was its key feature. Later approaches incorporated Marxist and feminist thinking. 
  The novella has been adapted several times, including a Broadway play (1950), a chamber opera (1954), two films (in 1961 and 2020), and a miniseries (2020). 
  On Christmas Eve, an unnamed narrator and some of his friends are gathered around a fire. One of them, Douglas, reads a manuscript written by his sister's late governess. The manuscript tells the story of her being hired by a man who has become responsible for his young niece and nephew following the deaths of their parents. He lives mainly in London and has a country house in (fictional) Bly, Essex... 
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  Narrator: Logan Keen 
  Author: Henry James 
  Date of original publication: 1898 
  Genre: Gothic horror novella 
  Language : English 
  Version : unabridged, full/complete 
  Without subtitles

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  Chloe - A Novel of Secrets and Lies

  Connie Briscoe

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  “Entertaining. . . . Briscoe folds some perceptive class critiques into her intoxicating blend of romance and suspense. This offers plenty of gothic pleasures.”—Publishers Weekly 
  New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe updates Daphne Du Maurier’s classic Rebecca in this chilling tale of domestic suspense centered on a spirited woman named Angel who marries a Black billionaire, only to discover that he remains haunted by his first wife who took her own life—or did she? 
  A mansion haunted by the ghost of a cool, charismatic first wife. A second bride from a small Southern town who may be in over her head. A brooding billionaire who grows icier the more his new wife questions him about the past. 
  In Connie Briscoe’s propulsive and entertaining novel, the elements of one of the most famous Gothic novels of all time is reimagined in surprising, yet still suspenseful, ways. 
  Angel is a private chef for the Harrisons, one of the most powerful Black families on Martha’s Vineyard. Impossibly supercilious Jillian Harrison often spends the entire summer on the island, and every August the family throws a lavish garden party. This year’s guest list includes Everett Bruce, an influential Black billionaire still in mourning for Chloe, his first wife, who com­mitted suicide.  
  To Jillian’s surprise, Bruce becomes enchanted with Angel. Soon he and Angel begin a whirlwind romance that culminates in marriage, and Angel moves to Riverwild, her husband’s massive estate along the Poto­mac River.  
  Though Angel is a confident and strong woman, over time she begins to feel the enigmatic Chloe’s ghost. Not helping matters is Ida, Everett’s menacing sister who, like her brother, cannot seem to let the dead woman go, nor explain why Chloe would kill herself. The more questions Angel asks, the more vitriolic Ida grows and the more melancholic Everett becomes, reveal­ing a far less charming side of himself. Just how well does Angel know Everett?  
  The answers lie somewhere in Riverwild . . .

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  Broom Mates - Paranormal cozy...

  Morgana Best

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  Broom Mates is a 10,000 words novella. The other books in this series are full length novels. 
  Goldie Bloom has four problems: her boss, her boyfriend, the fact they are the same person, and the fact that person is cheating on her. 
  After discovering she has inherited an old home on the Gold Coast waterfront, this murder-solving Aussie sea witch packs up her collection of 5 inch stilettos, and moves.  
  She's not expecting to move in with a room mate named Persnickle, just as she was not expecting to trip over a dead body on her first day. Is she the intended victim, and can she really be arrested for drinking coffee?

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  You Were Summer

  Rachel C. Goodhand

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  ‘You Were Summer’ is a captivating, thoughtful, romantic comedy with sharp, witty twists and turns to keep you laughing until the last page.When Jo Washington’s literary agent suggests a brief change of scenery, how could he know she would swap storytelling and London for a house renovation project and the Lake District?  With a stray dog in tow and a handsome contractor twenty years her junior, Jo finds herself firmly inside the pages of her own hilarious and often touching tale, with her past and present showing her a future she never thought she’d write about.

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  Thieves Beasts & Men

  Shan Leah

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  "" AMERICAN FICTION AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NEW FICTION 2021 ""For Fans of Emily Fridlund's History of Wolves and Fiona Mozley's Elmet.This stunning debut uses the irresistible scenario of a hermit living in near-complete self-sufficiency in the wilderness, and asks the universally relevant question: what is the value of existing within a civilization when it is fraught with evil? Adelaide has lived a long, solitary existence in the Blue Ridge Mountains. On the verge of ending it all, she discovers two feral children raiding her garden and rescues them in a misguided attempt at a new life. Now she must find a way to care for children who are more beast than human. They only communicate with chirps and grunts, and they pine for their feral mother. When dangerous men and a wild woman emerge from the darkness in pursuit, Adelaide faces a grueling choice. She can release the children back to the wild, saving her own life but losing everything she has grown to love, or fight to defend her new family, risking the death she no longer seeks. Thieves, Beasts & Men asks who are the thieves in this story? Who are the beasts? And what, ultimately, defines humanity?

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