Songs of the Dead<\/a><\/center>
When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London\u2019s West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history.<\/p>\n
Jack also soon discovers that many of those who reside in the stratums of London\u2019s past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channeled by a powerful society of light-and-music-based magic wielders who can cross the realms between life and death, between the present and the past. A past where the dead are sowing revolution against the living, and all of history is at stake.<\/p>\n
Welcome to the Strata Wars.<\/p>\n
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Someone Else’s Husband<\/a><\/center>
Gretchen Falk, a Park Avenue sophisticate born into great wealth and blessed with a storybook marriage, knows she lives a charmed life, and she\u2019s not about to risk losing any part of it. That\u2019s why she tried to convince Richard, her devoted husband and the father to their three children, not to join his old college friends on an expedition to the imposing peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Little did she know that the beautiful artist climbing alongside him might prove the far greater danger.<\/p>\n
Frankie Callahan\u2019s dream of artistic success is within reach, with her career-making exhibition at a celebrated New York gallery only weeks away. If all goes well, the show will leave her financially independent, free of the tainted money that ties her to a past\u2014and a man\u2014she\u2019s desperate to escape. To mark this new beginning, she is going to climb Kilimanjaro. But when she learns she\u2019s the sole female accompanying a group of male friends, Frankie realizes that nothing about the trip will be as she expected. She certainly hasn\u2019t counted on meeting anyone like the very charismatic, very rich, very married Richard Falk. By the time they descend\u2014with one fewer in their group than when they began\u2014they have lost more than they ever could have imagined.<\/p>\n
Now, less than two weeks after their return to New York, Frankie\u2019s East Village loft is a blood-soaked crime scene, and Richard has been charged with her murder. It falls to Gretchen to figure how the life she so carefully constructed could have imploded so completely. There are only two things she knows for sure: she\u2019s the only woman Richard has ever loved, and he would never hurt anyone. <\/p>\n
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The Someday Garden<\/a><\/center>
When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summer\u2014for a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor House\u2014she doesn\u2019t expect to fall in love.<\/p>\n
But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers, and the towering hedge maze. With the quirky staff and the enigmatic woman who owns the place.<\/p>\n
And then, the door appears. Never in the same place twice, it leads her to a secret, and unfinished, garden with a frustrated thundercloud of a man trapped inside.<\/p>\n
This mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophie\u2019s careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manor\u2019s owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retires\u2014including her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer.<\/p>\n
Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.<\/p>\n
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Tropesick<\/a><\/center>
Katie Caruso is a completely normal twenty-five-year-old girl. At least, for the past eight years, she\u2019s tried to be. She likes glitter and sequins and flirting with cute boys at New York City bars. She\u2019s also a ghostwriter for Meredith Bradford, the bestselling romance novelist of all time. But then Tyler McNally walks back into Katie\u2019s life, and that bedazzled facade crumbles at her platform-sneakered feet.<\/p>\n
Katie and Tyler haven\u2019t seen or spoken to each other since the overdose death of Katie\u2019s older brother, a standout MLB pitching prospect. Tyler was her brother\u2019s best friend, and Katie\u2014naturally\u2014was the girl next door. But now, Tyler is a sleeve-tattooed, Ivy League\u2013educated aspiring literary fiction novelist, nine years sober . . . and Katie\u2019s writing partner for the summer.<\/p>\n
As genre conventions require, Katie and Tyler soon find themselves removed from Manhattan and instead writing their love story in \u201cforced proximity\u201d at Meredith\u2019s isolated Southampton home. As the summer unfolds, the tropes Katie and Tyler have written into their novel begin to play out in their own lives. Call it destiny, fate, or magic itself: it\u2019s clear their love story isn\u2019t finished. This time, though, they\u2019ll work through the pain that tore them apart\u2014and fight for their happy ending.<\/p>\n
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Romantic Hero<\/a><\/center>
Gertie Bickerstaff writes happily-ever-afters for a living. . . . Or she did, until her own love life fell apart. Now her ex is thriving, her deadline is looming, and she can\u2019t write a single word.<\/p>\n
The last thing Gertie needs is more drama\u2014like waking up to find a confused and rugged cowboy on her sofa. And not just any cowboy, but River Oakley, the villain from her unfinished novel. Somehow very real . . . and very shirtless.<\/p>\n
River wants to go home. Gertie wants her life back. So they strike a deal: he\u2019ll use his cunning ways to help her win back her ex, she\u2019ll finish the novel, and, surely, he\u2019ll return to whatever world he rode in from.<\/p>\n
But as River Oakley proves to be so much more than just the bad guy, Gertie has to choose: the ending she thought she wanted . . . or the plot twist she never saw coming.<\/p>\n
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The Lowe Job<\/a><\/center>
When Lili Lowe gets caught having an affair with her married boss, an admired politician, she finds herself at the epicenter of a scandal that could dismantle her life as she knows it. She turns, as many daughters would, to her mother. Yet Lydia Lowe is a former talent agent, and it’s not long before the whole world knows the name Lili Lowe.<\/p>\n
As the spotlight brightens on Lili and her three younger sisters Stevie, Iris, and Katie, the Lowe women’s lives are changed in ways they could never have predicted. It’s soon clear that fame and fortune, comes with a price\u2014and sometimes, the louder one\u2019s voice (especially a woman\u2019s), the more others will seek to silence it.<\/p>\n
Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n