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  Wartime for the Shop Girls: The...

  Joanna Toye

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  War brings changes three friends could never foresee… 
  ‘Highly recommended’ Anna Jacobs 
  ‘A warm domestic drama’ People’s Friend 
  It’s 1942 and as shortages of staff – and goods – begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales junior at Marlow’s department store. 
  Bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, and nothing can prepare Lily for the secrets that come tumbling out when her favourite brother comes home on leave… 
  Somehow, she must keep smiling through. Community, family and friends rally round as her home town – and the whole country – is tested once again. 
  The book is a riveting journey through the 20th century, set against the backdrop of World War II. The romance and life sagas of Lily, Gladys, and Beryl are intricately woven into the fabric of military history, making Wartime for the Shop Girls a bestseller in historical fiction. 
  For fans of Lesley Eames (Wedding Bells at the Wartime Bookshop), Elaine Everest (The Teashop Girls at War), Fenella J Miller (Wartime Arrivals at Harbour House), Maisie Thomas (Hope for the Railway Girls), and Daisy Styles (A Mother's Love).

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  The Witch at the Edge of the Wood

  Liz Delton

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  Velina has escaped the workhouse on the hunt for one thing: the witch who can grant her wish to live a normal life. Born with silver hair and noticeably pointy ears, she's passed from workhouse to workhouse since she can remember—shunned for her mysterious heritage. 
  But the witch’s cottage she finds at the edge of the wood is abandoned, and as soon as she starts making herself at home, someone else comes calling: a noble with a wish of his own. With the promise of his coin, she agrees to help him, when she starts noticing something strange about the cottage. 
  Velina must find a way to help the noble, and others who come calling—but can she help herself?

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  August Heat

  W. F. Harvey

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  Title: August Heat 
  Author: W. F. Harvey 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1910 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 35 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  August Heat by W. F. Harvey is a study in fate and foreboding — a story where coincidence feels like prophecy and the ordinary turns quietly terrifying. On a blistering summer afternoon, an artist sketches the image of a man destined for death. By chance, or by something darker, he meets that very man soon after — and together they face a future that may already be set in stone. 
  Harvey’s understated masterpiece captures the dread of inevitability without a single ghost or monster. Its horror lies in what cannot be changed — the creeping sense that destiny is real, and that some meetings are written long before they occur. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance evokes the suffocating heat, the weight of coincidence, and the chill of realization that closes around both men. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre, August Heat stands as a haunting reminder that true terror needs no apparition — only time, silence, and the certainty of what must come.

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  To Aide a Wolf

  Jessica Cage

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  An injured wolf. A reluctant fairy. A chance to save millions. 
  Fate intertwines the paths of Kiora, a reluctant fairy, and Raden, an injured wolf, in an unexpected alliance with far-reaching consequences. When Kiora discovers Raden's wounded form within the fairy territory, she faces a crucial choice: uphold the laws of her kind or follow her instincts to help the creature in need. 
  As their bond deepens, secrets emerge, challenging Kiora to confront her loyalties and the true extent of her courage. With millions at stake, Kiora must navigate treacherous terrain, where every decision could determine the fate of both worlds.Will she choose to stand by Raden's side, defying convention, or retreat into safety, leaving him to face his destiny alone?To Aide a Wolf is a gripping tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unlikely alliances in the face of adversity written by USA Today Bestselling Author, Jessica Cage. 
  Order your copy today!

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  Wolf in League

  A.F. Henley

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  It's been months since anyone at the Committee has had any contact from the O'Connell family or their pack members, and they are not happy. Suspicious of the activities that took place in D.C. and determined to find out what the wolves are up to, the Committee recruits one of their newest residents, Dr. Matthew Dietrich, to play the part of neighbor and infiltrate the family.
  
  
  Matthew has always been a keep-to-himself kind of person. Though idealistic and optimistic, he prefers to work in solitude, at night, while he researches the findings that he hopes will one day change the world. When he's approached by the executives of the Center, he has no idea why they'd choose him. And to say he is skeptical over the concept of men that can shift into wolves would be an understatement.

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  Carmilla

  Joseph Sheridan La Fanu

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  The moonlight spills like silver across ancient walls, and somewhere in the velvet darkness, a whisper stirs—a name, half-sighed, half-forgotten. Carmilla. A name as soft as a caress, as chilling as a shadow at the edge of the candle's glow. She does not knock at your door; she drifts through it like a dream. She is beauty wrapped in mystery, desire woven with dread.
  This is not a story of fangs bared in the night, nor of crude terrors lurking in the crypt. Carmilla is subtler, more intoxicating—a tale that shivers on the border between love and death, fascination and fear. It is the pulse quickened without reason, the gaze held too long, the hush of silken footsteps on cold stone.
  Long before Dracula cast his shadow over the genre, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu shaped the vampire legend with an elegance both haunting and hypnotic. He understood that true horror does not always come in the shape of monsters but in the slow unraveling of certainty, the delicate trespass of the unknown into the familiar.
  To read Carmilla is to step into a dream—one of moonlit corridors and stolen glances, of fevered devotion and something else, something nameless and ancient, curling at the edges of the night. But beware: dreams have a way of lingering, and shadows… shadows are never empty.

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