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Ten years ago, Alice Metcalf vanished after a car accident, leaving her daughter Jenna to grow up grappling with the mystery of her disappearance • Jenna has never believed that her mother could have simply left her. Determined to uncover the truth of what happened to Alice, she sets out to retrace the events of that fateful night • But nothing can prepare her for the answers that await

Katie Fisher is Amish. For eighteen years, she has grown up in a community set apart from the modern world by lifestyle and belief. It is a community fiercely protective of its way of life. To turn your back on it is to lose everything – your church, your home, and your family • So in the middle of the night when the baby comes, Katie does the only thing she knows how to do in times of stress: she prays • Exhausted, she falls asleep. When she wakes, the child is gone. Her prayer has been answered • But faith alone cannot help when the baby’s body is found

As a career-driven Assistant District Attorney, Nina Frost’s life is dedicated to balancing being a mother to five-year old son Nathaniel and seeking justice to keep those who commit the most unthinkable of all crimes behind bars • But this delicate balance is upset when Nina and husband Caleb find out that Nathaniel has fallen victim to the same crime she strives to fight • Broken and angry, Nina is determined to seek justice for her son. But as her desire for vengeance drives her to the brink, the lines between justice and crime threaten to blur forever • From the internationally bestselling author comes a complex and masterful tale of motherly love

When Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, her life starts to fall apart. And when her daughter, Faith, begins to confide in an imaginary friend, Mariah’s own brush with insanity starts to take on a darker meaning • Then Faith appears to start performing miracles, and all at once the situation is spiralling beyond Mariah’s control. Is Faith truly seeing God? Or is she just a troubled young girl seeking refuge from her parents’ divorce? • When it comes to matters of faith, it’s hard to know who to believe

Since the death of his fiancee Aimee, Ross Wakeman has been unable to fill the hole she has left in his life. Seeking to end his pain, he becomes a ghost hunter, despite never having seen a ghost • However, when his job leads him to the town of Comtosook, it becomes apparent that Ross isn’t the only one haunted by the past. When he meets the mysterious Lia, who brings him to life for the first time in years, redemption seems around the corner • But the discoveries that await him are beyond anything he could dream of – in this world or the next

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from takeaways to school drop-offs. So it’s no surprise when teenagers Chris and Emily, soul mates since they were born, start dating • When the late-night call comes in from hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily has died from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But the local detective has his doubts, and in the wake of this unthinkable act, two devastated families must ask themselves: how well do we ever really know our children?

Tall and handsome, Jack St. Bride has everything going for him, until a string of lies resulting from a student’s crush leaves his reputation in tatters and forces him to leave his hometown • Arriving in the town of Salem Falls, he is ready to seize the chance of a new life, until the malicious interest of a group of bored teenage girls drag him back into the same situation he was forced to flee from • Jack knows he’s innocent. But in a small town, even the best-hidden secrets have a way of coming to light

После трагического происшествия, оставившего у нее глубокий шрам не только в душе, но и на лице, Сейдж стала сторониться людей. Ночью она выпекает хлеб, а днем спит. Однажды она знакомится с Джозефом Вебером, пожилым школьным учителем, и сближается с ним, несмотря на разницу в возрасте. Сейдж кажется, что жизнь наконец-то дала ей шанс на исцеление. Однако все меняется в тот день, когда Джозеф доверительно сообщает о своем прошлом. Оказывается, этот добрый, внимательный и застенчивый человек был офицером СС в Освенциме, узницей которого в свое время была бабушка Сейдж, рассказавшая внучке о пережитых в концлагере ужасах. И вот теперь Джозеф, много лет страдающий от осознания вины в совершенных им злодеяниях, хочет умереть и просит Сейдж простить его от имени всех убитых в лагере евреев и помочь ему уйти из жизни

After years of cruel bullying from his classmates, Peter Houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of Sterling are dead. When the case goes to trial, the reeling town is determined to seek justice for the innocents Peter killed • But as the trial unfolds, Peter’s testimony casts light on the terrible role the residents of Sterling have played in turning a sweet, loving boy into a killer, and it isn’t long before Sterling’s illusions of innocence find themselves shattered forever

A woman is found in a graveyard in Los Angeles, unable to remember anything about herself or her life. No one is more surprised than she when her husband comes to the police station to take her home – and turns out to be Hollywood’s leading film star • Bewildered by the perfect life that has been suddenly thrust upon her, Cassie finds herself living a dream. But there is something dark and disturbing behind this glamorous facade – and it is only as her memory gradually returns that it will all come crumbling down

A woman's body is found in a river just outside of Lisbon. Inspectors Isabel Reis and Aleksandr Voronov identify the murder victim as Marta Nunes - a youth centre worker who, like Isabel, classifies as Gifted. Born with special abilities, the Gifted are often looked at with a certain level of suspicion • In the search for her killer, Reis digs into Marta's past. She soon discovers that she is connected to a number of missing women. All young, all telepathic Gifted, all vanished off the face of the earth • Marta might have been helping these missing girls, or she might have been hurting them. But Inspector Reis needs to find the truth about who killed Marta and why, and she needs to find where the missing girls go. Because some of them might still be alive out there

Вошедшие в данный сборник рождественские рассказы Энид Блайтон по праву считаются нестареющей классикой детской литературы. Эта книга - отличный подарок для тех, кто насладился этими историями в детстве и хочет познакомить с ними новое поколение читателей • Книга «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories» оказалась столь популярной, что издательство Hodder & Stoughton по просьбам читателей выпустило второй праздничный сборник, и именно его вы держите в руках! Энид Блайтон передаёт атмосферу Рождества с несравненным мастерством, какой бы аспект праздника она ни описывала: колядки, ожидание подарков, праздничный стол и, конечно, посиделки с родными и близкими… Да, в историях Блайтон, как обычно, нашлось место для озорства и хаоса, но добро и веселье в них всегда на первом месте! • Рассказы из этой книги ранее не публиковались в «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories»