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In this chilling story from the bestselling author of The Secret Mother, it’s the wedding day of Alice’s dreams. Until it becomes a nightmare… Alice and Seth are a perfect love story: the handsome doctor and his beautiful fiancée. They’re wealthy, well liked and made for each...

"Are you my mummy?" Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she’s his mother. But Tessa doesn’t have any children. Not anymore. She doesn’t know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of taking the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own. Tessa isn’t sure what to believe or who to trust. Because someone is lying. To find out who, she must confront her painful past. But is the truth more dangerous than Tessa realises?

The white-washed Italian villa is perfect. I thought it might feel odd, living in a stranger’s house for the summer, but as my husband and children swim in the infinity pool, I start to relax. And then, in the back of a wardrobe, I find something that shatters everything.... Sparkling green eyes, square jaw, lopsided smile. A young man with his arm around a beautiful woman. The picture is old and faded, but I’d recognize him anywhere. The man is my husband.

Her sister stole her future. Now she’s coming to take it back. Twins, separated at birth. One privileged, one forgotten. Only one knows the truth—and only one will survive. Bella has it all: the dream house, the successful business, the perfect boyfriend. But while she builds her charmed...

»Mami, sie ist weg ...« Gemma Ballantine macht sich morgens für die Arbeit fertig, als sie erlebt, wovor sich jede Mutter fürchtet: Die Haustür ist offen und ihre sechsjährige Tochter Katie ist verschwunden. Voller Angst beginnt Gemma eine nervenzerreißende Suche nach ihrem kleinen Mädchen.

Der große Tag ist endlich da. Mein Herz schlägt höher vor Aufregung, als ich am Arm meines Vaters auf den Altar zuschreite. Doch als mein zukünftiger Ehemann sich zu mir umdreht, ist es nicht Seths Gesicht, das mich erwartungsvoll anblickt vor mir steht ein Fremder. Seth ist der Mann meiner...

Denk nicht mal darüber nach, zum Klassentreffen zu kommen. Niemand will dich dahaben. Und wenn du doch auftauchst, wirst du es bitter bereuen. Die Einladung zum Klassentreffen ihrer elitären Privatschule hätte für Chloe Flynn zu keinem schlechteren Zeitpunkt kommen können. Sie ist frisch...

Lizzy Beresford is at home alone when she finds a chilling letter in her kitchen. Someone has been into her home - someone who wishes Lizzy harm. In her little country cottage, with her doting boyfriend, not far from the close-knit village, Lizzy can’t imagine who might want to hurt her. But when the threatening letters keep coming, she starts to suspect everyone around her. Desperate, Lizzy reaches out to her sister, Emma. They haven’t spoken in years, not since the argument that tore them apart. But Emma says: ‘I’ve been receiving letters too....’

Willow McAllister is desperate to start over. Quiet town. Blank slate. No attachments. When she meets her friendly new neighbour, Priya, it feels like a lifeline: the start of something good. And then there’s Gabe: charming, funny, easy to talk to. Maybe she’s allowed a little happiness. Maybe she can trust again. But Willow’s instincts have been wrong before. And when she discovers that Gabe and Priya share a past, the cracks start to show. Willow can’t help wondering if Priya’s arrival next door really was by chance. Because coincidences like this? They don’t feel like coincidences at all.

Deine Tochter ist verschwunden. Ist ihr Entführer dir näher, als du denkst? Sie sollte eigentlich bei deinem Ehemann sein. Doch er hat dir nichts von seiner Planänderung erzählt. Deine Schwiegermutter sagt, sie hätte sie keine Sekunde aus den Augen gelassen. Aber als die kleine Bea...

Gemma Ballantine is getting ready for work one morning when her eldest child comes running down the stairs saying the words every mother dreads. The front door is open. And her six-year-old daughter has disappeared. Frantic with fear, Gemma starts a nail-biting search for her little girl. After what feels like forever, her mother-in-law, Diane, finds Katie wandering lost a few streets away. Relieved to have her youngest child back in her arms, breathing in the sweet scent of her hair, Gemma thinks the nightmare is over. But then her perfect family starts to fall apart....

Kirstie Rawlings is jolted awake by a child crying. Racing upstairs to check on her newborn, she is plunged into every parents’ worst nightmare. She hears an unknown voice in the baby monitor, saying: "Let’s take the child - and go." Is someone trying to steal her little girl? In the bedroom, her daughter is safe asleep in her cot. Is the voice coming from a nearby house? But there aren’t any other children living on her quiet country road....

It was supposed to be the happiest time of their lives. But for newlywed Stella, the dream honeymoon has turned into a nightmare overnight. Her perfect husband, Austin, has vanished without a trace. Alone in Venice, Stella frantically searches for him. But as fear turns into confusion, she finds herself questioning everything she knows about the man she married. Has Austin really abandoned her, or has someone from his past finally caught up with him—the business partner he threatened to sue? The obsessive ex-girlfriend who refuses to let go?

It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. Zoe was sitting in her hotel room, in her perfect white dress, looking forward to the moment when she would make kind, handsome Toby her husband. Then, there was a blank. They said she must have fainted, overcome with emotion. But nothing felt quite right afterward. Did something happen in that missing time? 

Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink, plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare. Holly is taken by a stranger and never found. Nine years later, Rachel is living a quiet life in Dorset. She’s tried to keep things together since the traumatic day when she lost her eldest daughter.

A spellbinding vampire adventure that spans the centuries from modern-day England to the wilds of ancient Scythia. Be swept away in this heart-pounding tale of ancient legends, star-crossed love and nail-biting supernatural adventure. Maddy and Alex are running scared. The Cappadocian vampires are closing in. But Alex is so busy worrying about the vampires, he can't see the terrible threat right under his nose.... Something else is hunting Alexandre. Something ancient and powerful. 

This fast-paced paranormal adventure combines passion and drama with a historical twist. The lives of Madison and Alexandre are plunged into darkness and danger. To save Maddy, Alexandre is forced back to a world he thought was dead and buried. But time is running out. The chase is on.

On Madison Greene's 16th birthday, she inherits a mansion with sinister secrets. Sucked into a nightmare that spans the centuries, she must fight to save the ones she loves. Alexandre is an 18-year-old French aristocrat with arrogance and charm. A single kiss is all it takes to throw his life into danger, darkness...and the adventure of his life. Together, Maddy and Alex are drawn into the past - toward their destruction. The legend of the vampire has never been so gripping. Falling in love has never been so dangerous....

Als Mia James an einem sonnigen Tag am Strand angespült wird, weiß sie weder, wer sie ist, noch was mit ihr passiert ist. Selbst ihr Gesicht ist das einer Fremden–bis ihr Partner Piers sich bei der Polizei meldet und sie identifiziert. Piers ist gut aussehend und fürsorglich, ihr luxuriöses Zuhause ist makellos eingerichtet, und ihre Freunde versuchen voller Hilfsbereitschaft die Lücken in ihrem Gedächtnis zu füllen. Eigentlich sollte Mia glücklich sein, nach dem Unfall in dieses perfekte Leben zurückzukehren.

Dein neuer Ehemann hat ein Geheimnis. Und deine Schwiegermutter würde alles tun, um es zu bewahren…Von dem ersten Moment an, als ich meine neue Schwiegermutter Lilian Fletcher treffe, macht sie eins deutlich: Sie hasst mich. Und ist fest entschlossen, mich aus dem Leben ihres Sohnes zu vertreiben. Ich spüre, wie sie mich stets beobachtet, und plötzlich passieren Dinge, die mir angehängt werden: ein heruntergefallener Geburtstagskuchen, ein verschütteten Glas Wein. Dann erfahre ich, dass Seb schon einmal verheiratet war und seine erste Frau gestorben ist.