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What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah?s generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It'll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R. But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare. A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep. How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them? - Baker & Taylor.

In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come. Eleven years later she is replaced. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec. Soon the impostor is living Bec's life. Sleeping in her bed. Hugging her mother and father. Learning her best friends' names. Playing with her twin brothers. But Bec's welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. As the impostor dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter-and soon realizes that whoever took Bec is still at large, and that she is in imminent danger. As the pretender walks in Rebecca's shoes, she realizes that whoever is responsible for Bec's disappearance is still in her life. In this chilling psychological thriller, one woman's dark past becomes another's deadly future.

After her parents die, Grace's uncle brings her to the elite Alaskan boarding school where he is headmaster. There she rooms with her cousin and learns that the school is filled with werewolves, dragons, witches, and vampires. Grace meets Jaxon Vega, a vampire with deadly secrets, and the closer she gets to him, the more she realizes that she is being used as bait to wake the power in Jaxon, a power that could kill them all.

To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukunahave beenlost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural! In order to thwart the culling game, Itadori needs the help of Kinji Hakari, a third-year who is currently suspended from Jujutsu High,so he decides to participatein an underground fight clubwhere Hakari works asa bookie. Meanwhile, Fushiguroinfiltrates the fight cluband heads for Hakari's base of operations, but another Jujutsu High third-year is using their cursed technique to block his way!.

"When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels a peace she's never experienced since...well, forever.. Then she meets Ivy, a teenage runaway, who barrels into her heart. She sees a lot of herself in Ivy and takes her under her wing, but the teenager has secrets... When those secrets explode, it changes Harper's new world, and she'll learn, it's never too late to start over, it's never too late to figure out your life, and best of all, it's never too late to let yourself believe in love."--Publisher marketing.

While on a flight to Denver to start working with a mysterious client, Jake Buchannan knows he recognizes the woman sitting next to him in seat 2A; he just can't figure out from where. When the woman, Clara, reveals that she's heading to Denver to kill herself in the mountains, Jake is left reeling. As Jake begins to work with his client and Clara travels to Aspen to kill herself, they both begin to realize that their meeting was no accident and that long-forgotten events from their childhoods are coming back to haunt them in the present.

Confined by high-powered parents, overachieving siblings, and a controlling boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Izzy has learned to keep a low profile and her thoughts to herself. When she accidentally enters a comedy club on open mic night, Izzy performs and meets a new group of aspiring comedians who quickly become her friends. Keeping her newfound activities a secret, Izzy begins a desperate ploy to keep her two lives separate, but must eventually reckon with her suspicious boyfriend and best friend.

A retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" in which Belle encounters a lonely Beast and must learn to see with the eyes of her heart.

Otherworldly creature Mirabelle, whose human form appears about twelve years old, lives with a diverse group of monsters at the House of Rookhaven near an English village. After the end of World War II, orphaned siblings Jem and sickly Tom arrive at Rookhaven, making the monsters aware for the first time that there's a tear in the Glamour, the barrier created as a truce with the nearby humans and to protect them from other monsters who want to harm them. Mirabelle and the family soon learn something is after them, a monster is on the loose, and they need to protect themselves while trying to keep peace with the local village.

Freelance book editor Jessica Reid lives in small-town Redford, Georgia with her father and likes the steady pace of life there. When the town's benefactor, Jasper Wilhelm, dies, residents are thrown into a state of upheaval when they're paired off to compete in a series of competitions for his fortune. It's there that Jess meets Japser's grandson, Carter Barclay, an Atlanta financier who is among the contestants. While the two develop an attraction to each other, they are both set on winning his millions and staying in the towns where they live, which could end their relationship before it has a chance to develop into something more.