C'est un matin comme les autres. Mattie discute avec sa fille Kim, seize ans, avant que celle-ci ne parte à l'école, fait quelques longueurs dans sa piscine, planifie sa journée. Mais intérieurement, Mattie bouillonne. Encore une fois, elle a trouvé la preuve d'une infidélité de son mari Jake. Elle est décidée à le mettre à la porte lorsqu'une nouvelle bien plus dramatique vient bouleverser sa vie. Atteinte d'une maladie incurable, Mattie se voit confrontée à l'impensable. Jadis, elle et Jake s'étaient bien promis de s'aimer "... pour le meilleur et pour le pire, dans la maladie et l'adversité, jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare...". Mais dans cette épreuve terrible, Mattie pourra-t-elle compter sur son mari ?
'I think my real name is Samantha. I think I'm your daughter.' Caroline Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears those words from the voice on the other end of the phone. Instantly, she's thrust 15 years into the past, to a posh resort in Baja, Mexico and the fateful night her world collapsed. The trip is supposed to be a celebration. Caroline's husband, Hunter, convinces her to leave their two young daughters, Michelle and Samantha, alone in their hotel suite while the couple enjoys an anniversary dinner in the restaurant downstairs. But returning afterward, Caroline and Hunter make a horrifying discovery: Two-year-old Samantha has vanished without a trace. What follows are days, weeks and years of anguish for Caroline. She's tormented by media attention that has branded her a cold, incompetent mother, while she struggles to save her marriage. Caroline also has to deal with the demands of her needy elder daughter, Michelle, who is driven to cope in dangerous ways. Through it all, Caroline desperately clings to the hope that Samantha will someday be found only to be stung again and again by cruel reality. Plunged back into the still-raw heartbreak of her daughter's disappearance, and the suspicions and inconsistencies surrounding a case long gone cold, Caroline doesn't know whom or what to believe. The only thing she can be sure of is that someone is fiercely determined to hide the truth of what happened to Samantha.
An Amazon Charts bestseller. A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible. Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive. Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret. Unable to let go, Finn keeps vigil as they struggle to reclaim their shattered lives. Jack, her father, who seeks vengeance against the one person he can blame other than himself; her best friend, Mo, who bravely searches for the truth as the story of their survival is rewritten; her sister Chloe, who knows Finn lingers and yearns to join her; and her mother, Ann, who saved them all but is haunted by her decisions. Finn needs to move on, but how can she with her family still in pieces? Heartrending yet ultimately redemptive, In an Instant is a story about the power of love, the meaning of family, and carrying on...even when it seems impossible.
New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding takes readers on a terror-charged hunt for a serial killer holding a small South Florida town in a vice-like grip of fear, suspicion, and violence. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators in Torrance, Florida, were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl...and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town's new high school English teacher. With a marriage on the rocks, thanks to her husband's online affairs, and a beautiful teenage daughter to protect, Sandy wishes she'd never come to the seemingly quiet town with shocking depths of scandal, sex, and brutality roiling beneath its surface. And as Sheriff Weber digs up more questions than answers in a dead-end investigation, one truth emerges: the prettiest ones are being targeted, the heartstoppers. And this killer intends to give them their due....
Gabriella, petite fille modèle, aux yeux candides, est battue par sa mère. À 9 ans, elle est confiée aux sœurs d'un couvent. Elle y fait des études brillantes, ne sort jamais et semble bien s'être résolue à prendre le voile. Devenue sœur Bernie pour l'Église, Gabriella s'apprête à prononcer les vœux éternels ... lorsqu'un jeune et beau prêtre fait son apparition au couvent. [babelio.com]
Serenity makepeace knows a lot about whole--grain bread but she doesn't know beans about business. Her new catalog company featuring local handicrafts will benefit her offbeat artist community in Writt's end Washington, but she needs a crack financial adviser to make it work. So she charms her way into the office of Caleb Ventress, only to find a handsome wolf in conservative clothing. An expert in the art of the deal, Caleb has no talent for long term relationships, and isn't sure what to do about this unconventional beauty who walks into his life. A pass from a paragon of conformity--even one as handsome as Caleb--is more than free--spirited serenity bargained for. But when intrigues back in Witt's end threaten serenity's plans and perhaps her life, she begins to trust Caleb without reading his fine print...and the bottom line might be true love....
With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage—or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. With nothing left to lose, Charlie takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself.
A shocking shooting exposes the hidden secrets of five families living in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac. This psychological thriller delves into the complexities of their lives, revealing how deeply intertwined their fates are and the dark truths they conceal. As tensions rise, the narrative unfolds to explore themes of trust, betrayal, and the facades people maintain in seemingly perfect neighborhoods.
Archaeologist Frannie Monsanto has no reason to connect handsome widower Oliver Halkin and his son Edward with the obscure prophecies from a drunken Ouija board session six years ago--until each of the Ouija predictions occur with bloody accuracy. Author Peter James is the Stephen King of Great Britain.
À la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale, Edward Henderson vit retiré à la campagne, à trois heures de route de New York, avec ses deux filles. Olivia, douce et réservée, s'occupe à merveille de l'intendance et de la bonne marche de la maison, tandis que sa soeur jumelle, Victoria, n'en fait qu'à sa tête, soutenant la lutte pour l'émancipation des femmes et assistant à des réunions de suffragettes. Semblables au point que même leur père ne parvient pas à les différencier, elles en ont profité pour jouer de nombreux tours à leur famille en échangeant leur identité. Lors d'un séjour à New York, Victoria se laisse séduire par Tobias Whitticomb, un coureur de jupons impénitent, marié et père de trois enfants. Lorsque cette liaison éclate au grand jour, Edward réagit vigoureusement en mariant Victoria à Charles Dawson, un jeune veuf qui élève seul son petit garçon de neuf ans. Alors qu'ils se trouvent en Europe pour leur lune de miel, la guerre est déclarée. Pensant à la sécurité de sa famille, Charles décide aussitôt d'écourter leur voyage, ce qui déplaît fortement à Victoria. De retour à New York, la jeune femme s'ennuie ; elle néglige ses devoirs de maîtresse de maison, se refuse à Charles, et ne s'intéresse qu'à la politique, au grand désespoir d'Olivia qui, elle, aime Charles depuis toujours. Ne supportant plus sa vie monotone et terne, prenant petit à petit Charles en horreur, Victoria pense que son salut viendra de l'éloignement. La guerre faisant rage en Europe, elle décide d'y partir et de se rendre utile sur les champs de bataille français. Agissant à l'insu de Charles et de son père, elle met Olivia dans la confidence et lui propose de prendre sa place auprès de Charles le temps de son absence. Toute à son bonheur Olivia accepte et, bien malgré elle, met en route la machine infernale.
