![]() A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Listeners will love the Wildes of Lindow Castle! The first book in Eloisa James’s dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and sexy charm-and introduces a large, eccentric family. He’s never lost a battle.īut a spirited woman like Willa isn’t going to make it easy. She wants nothing to do with a man whose private life is splashed over every newspaper.Īlaric has never met a woman he wanted for his own. ![]() Her love of books and bawdy jokes is purely for the delight of her intimate friends. Willa presents the façade of a serene young lady to the world. Alaric escapes to his father’s castle, but just as he grasps that he’s not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very private, very witty, Miss Willa Ffynche. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. When the time comes, will they choose loyalty or love? But fighting for what’s right might mean betraying their countries, their families, and each other. When Akos and Cyra are caught in the middle of a raging rebellion, everything they’ve been led to believe about their world and themselves must be called into question. But as Akos fights for his own survival, he recognizes that Cyra is also fighting for hers, and that her true gift-resilience-might be what saves them both. Cyra is known for her deadly power of transferring extraordinary pain unto others with simple touch, and her tyrant brother uses her as a weapon against those who challenge him. When Akos and his brother are kidnapped by the ruling Noavek family, Akos is forced to serve Cyra, the sister of a dictator who governs with violence and fear. “Roth offers a richly imagined, often brutal world of political intrigue and adventure, with a slow-burning romance at its core.” -ALA BooklistĬyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth have grown up in enemy countries locked in a long-standing fight for dominance over their shared planet. “Roth skillfully weaves the careful world-building and intricate web of characters that distinguished Divergent.” -VOYA (starred review) ![]() #1 New York Times bestseller * Wall Street Journal bestseller * USA Today bestseller * #1 IndieBound bestseller Globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth delivers a breathtaking fantasy featuring an unusual friendship, an epic love story, and a galaxy-sweeping adventure. With “fearless, stirring, rhythmic” (Nick Flynn) prose, Sentilles lays bare an intimate, powerful story, with universal concerns: How can we care for and protect each other? How do we ensure a more hopeful future for life on this planet? And if we’re all related–tree, bird, star, person–how might we better live? Ultimately, Coco’s story reminds us that we depend on family, and that family can take different forms. ![]() “You were never ours,” Sarah tells Coco, “yet we belong to each other.”Ī love letter to Coco, and to the countless children like her, Stranger Care chronicles Sarah’s discovery of what it means to mother–in this case, not just a vulnerable infant, but the birth mother who loves her, too. Sarah and Eric bring this newborn stranger home. After years of starts and stops, and endless navigation of the complexities and injustices of the foster care system, a phone call finally comes: a three-day old baby girl, named Coco, in immediate need of a foster family. Despite knowing that the system’s goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family–even if it means most likely having to give them back. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide to adopt via the foster care system.
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