family secrets

For their Nana's eightieth birthday party, Daisy Darker and her entire estranged family assembles on Nana's tidal island and in her disintegrating, Gothic house. When the tide comes in, the whole family will be trapped together on the island for eight hours, and, when a storm hits at midnight, one of them finds Nana's murdered corpse. Her death is followed one hour later by that of another family member, and Daisy realizes there is a killer among the Darkers.

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.

Lily Armitage is summoned to her family's grand manor for Christmas by her estranged aunt who wants her to take part in a family tradition to play the Christmas game, promising that whoever wins will secure the deed to the home. As Lily gathers with her cousins to play the game, she realizes that each of them have their own agenda and they're not about to play fair. But Lily isn't interested in the home, she wants to learn who killed her mother there twenty-one years ago. When a snowstorm strands them however, she realizes someone is hiding a secret and the game takes a deadly turn.

When Paloma and her family travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for her father Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma decides to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. But everything changes when she meets Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S., a group whose members are the children of men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentina's "Dirty War." Franco agrees to help Paloma, but as she digs into her father's past, she begins to wonder if the truth will come at much too high a cost.

With gripping results, this companion novel to Undercover Latina returns to the high-stakes world of the Factory--an international organization of spies protecting people of color. Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall?s biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a white private school?until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Suddenly, she?s reeling from the news that her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, and her scientist dad has gone MIA. At the same time, she has to navigate an underfunded school in the city, suffering the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students, including the cute boy who?s an old family friend. How much danger is their family really in, and how untraceable are they trying to be? Her mom offers only half-answers and roundabout lies, so Amani starts to investigate. But her sleuthing has unexpected consequences, uncovering secret family legacies that will change their lives forever. A revealing prequel to Undercover Latina for existing fans, Untraceable also serves as a thrilling introduction to the world of the Factory for readers encountering this fast-paced spy series for the first time.

Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah end up on an orphan train to rural Arkansas where Lilah is adopted, but Verity is not. She finds work as a farmhand in the town of Wheeler but soon learns about dark secrets surrounding the town. When she discovers her family's mysterious connection to Wheeler, Verity is about to find out that ghosts are closer than they appear.

"Since before Miguel was born, his family has had one rule: NO MUSIC! But Miguel has a secret he wants to share with his great-grandmother Coco. He wants to be a musician! Will he follow the wishes of his family, or will he follow his heart?--Back cover.

When bookseller Summer Merriwether of Brigid's Island, NC, joins her local library's mystery panel discussion, she learns her late mother's deadly secret: she was somehow linked with an actual murder that rocked Brigid's Island thirty-five years ago, which became the inspiration for a popular novel. When the life of the book's author is threatened, Brigid finds the knowledge of it threatening her own life, as well.

A crime wave has hit Archer's Grove and Maddison disovered the secret in her father's past, and a cold case has changed from "missing" to murder.