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  The General's Wife

  Meihan Boey

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  An unwanted daughter is betrothed to a reclusive man. She arrives at his beautiful home on a lonely island, to find there is no husband, only a forbidding housekeeper. A mysterious locked door; an oddly-behaved cat; perhaps she didn't come here to be a bride ...

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  The Salt Grows Heavy

  Cassandra Khaw

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  From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal“This brilliant novella is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED reviewYou may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes.On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them.The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

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  Someone in the House

  Barbara Michaels

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  New York Times–Bestselling Author: A summertime writing project in an isolated mansion leads to passion and terror . . . “A consummate storyteller.” —Mary Higgins Clark 
   
  An English Gothic mansion transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat—a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together.  
   
  But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work—for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven’s shocking past—something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive—unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear . . . and unearthly passion. 
   
  “This writer is ingenious.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  “A master of the modern Gothic novel.” —Library Journal

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  The Young Bull

  Geraint Goodwin

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  Arthur Geraint Goodwin (1903 – 1941) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. Although Goodwin died at the age of 38 of tuberculosis, the works he has left to posterity remain full of life, fresh and vigorous. "The Young Bull" is the story of a farmer on the Welsh border who is trapped in a hostile and combative marriage which is nonetheless charged with suppressed sexual tension. An episode where he is forced to do battle with his enraged bull and his wife steps into the fray to help serves both as an allegory of his marriage and the catalyst to breaking the barrier between the couple.

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  Seconds

  David Ely

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  A disaffected banker gives up his life for a chance to start over—with a new identity and body—in the cult classic sci-fi thriller.  
   
  Though he possesses all the trappings of success, Antiochus Wilson is completely and utterly bored with his life. But that all changes when he gets a call from a dead friend. Turns out the friend isn’t exactly dead. He simply traded in his old life for a new one. And Wilson can do it too. As a Reborn, he can have all the excitement, wealth, and happiness he’s been missing . . . for a price.  
   
  Intrigued, Wilson encounters a mysterious and exclusive organization—one that arranges for a client’s demise and outfits each with a new body in which to begin again. But there’s no turning back, and no room for second-guessing.  
   
  When Wilson begins to question his new circumstances, he finds himself surrounded by danger. And as he pushes against the boundaries of his reborn life, his second chance may be his last.

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  Tales of Strange Islands and...

  H. G. Wells, J. S. Fletcher,...

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  A brilliant anthology of weird and fantastic stories about islands and sea monsters.    'The Sea-Raiders' by H. G. Wells    'Alone on a Wide Wide Sea' by J. S. Fletcher    'Dagon' by H. P. Lovecraft    'A Tropical Horror' by William Hope Hodgson    'No Ships Pass' by Eleanor Smith    'Aepyornis Island' by H. G. Wells    'The Vengeance of La Maraye' by J. S. Fletcher    'Absolute Evil' by Julian Hawthorne    'The Shadows' by Henry S. Whitehead    'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher    'Over the Border' by Morgan Robertson    'Treasure Trove' by Neil Munro

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