Nieuwe Young Adult boeken april 2024

Elke maand posten wij de nieuwe Young Adult boeken waar jij naar uit kan kijken. Naar welk boek kijk jij het meest uit? Wij zetten al onze nieuwe toevoegingen voor je op een rijtje.

The Doll Twin

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€9,99

Janine Beacham - Engels - Paperback

Una Wexford is thrilled to be adopted after the great war, but an eerie secret lurks in her new home – a life sized animated copy of herself. Is ‘Ani’ as innocent as she seems or does she want to steal Una’s new family – and her life?

A Spartan’s Sorrow

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€11,99

Hannah Lynn - Engels - Paperback

From an award winning author comes a story of feminist revenge perfect for readers of Madeleine Miller and Natalie HaynesAll murders must be avenged. While the rest of Greece mourns for the war that has taken their husbands away, Clytemnestra fears the day it will bring Agamemnon back. When he husband willingly sacrifices their eldest daughter to appease the gods, Clytemnestra vows to do whatever it takes to protect her remaining children.

But history turns strong women into monsters, and in saving her family she risks losing them altogether and becoming the most hated woman in Greece…

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€18,99

Holly Jackson - Engels - Hardback

A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead.

The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again . . .

Darker by Four

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€25,00

June C.L. Tan - Engels - Hardback

June CL Tan’s DARKER BY FOUR, pitched as The Shadowhunter Chronicles meets the Chinese underworld, where an Exorcist-in-training makes a deal with a trickster death god to regain the magic she lost — and save the life of the boy who stole it.

Draw Down the Moon

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€25,00

Kirstin Cast, P.C. Cast - Engels - Hardback

New York Times bestsellers P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast return with a new duology set in a dark and magical world filled with incredible danger and irresistible romance.

Wren Nightingale isn’t supposed to have any powers. Born of magical parents but not under a moon sign, she was destined for life as a Mundane—right up until she starts glowing on her eighteenth birthday. In a heartbeat, Wren’s life is turned upside down, and she’s suddenly leaving her home for the mystical Academia de la Luna—a secret magical school on a hidden island off the Seattle coast.

Lee Young has always known about his future at the Academia. He has one goal: pass the trials, impress the Moon Council, and uphold his family’s reputation. But he wasn’t expecting to be attending alongside the girl he’s been secretly in love with for as long as he can remember.

As Wren and Lee are thrown into the Academie’s gruelling trials, they quickly learn there’s something different–and dangerous–about the school this year. Wren will have to navigate a web of secrets, prophecies–and murder. And Lee will have to decide who to protect–his family’s legacy, or the girl he loves.

Fate Be Changed

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€24,99

Farrah Rochon - Engels - Hardback

What if the witch gave Merida a different spell? This New York Times best-selling series twists Disney•Pixar’s Brave into a fast-paced story in which Merida is sent back in time.

If you could change your fate, would you? Merida understands that as princess of Clan DunBroch, she has certain obligations—but that doesn’t mean she has to like it. Especially when one of those obligations means losing her freedom by becoming betrothed to a man she has never met. Merida balks at this tradition, but her mother Queen Elinor insists that Merida must do this to embrace her role as future queen.

Determined to chart her own path, Merida follows magical wisps to a witch’s cottage, where she is given a magic pastry and promised it will incite “a great transformation” in her mother. But instead of feeding Elinor the pastry, Merida eats it herself.

Merida awakens in the past, a now-teenage Elinor holding a knife to her throat and accusing her of espionage. She’s been transported to a time when the Clans MacCameron and DunBroch are bitter enemies. And it just so happens that the timing of Merida’s arrival has kept Elinor and Fergus from meeting.

Will Merida be able to bridge the rival clans, help her parents fall in love, and change her own fate?

Nosy Neighbors

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€21,99

Freya Sampson - Engels - Paperback

wo neighbors-at-war band together to stop a dangerous criminal in their midst in this enthralling new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Ticket.

Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, and especially not in crumbling Shelley House. According to her neighbors, she’s prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past.

Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling is Shelley House’s longest resident, and if you believe the other tenants, she’s as cantankerous and vindictive as they come. Except there’s a good reason Dorothy spends her days spying on her neighbors—a closely guarded secret that no else knows and the reason Dorothy barely leaves her beloved home.

When their building faces demolition, sworn enemies Kat and Dorothy become unlikely allies in their quest to save their historic home. But when someone starts to play dirty and viciously targets one of the residents, Dorothy and Kat suspect foul play in their community. After the police close the investigation, it’s up to this improbable pair to bring a criminal to justice.

How to Plot a Payback

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€21,99

Melissa Ferguson - Engels - Paperback

He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn’t enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her.

Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood’s highest-rated, longest-running sitcoms. The only downside? It will put him back in proximity of the show’s universally adored, optimistic, altruistic star, Lavender Rhodes, who has been inadvertently ruining his life since they were school chums in England. But she doesn’t even know she destroyed his acting career and wrecked his relationship with the love of his life.

He’s not about to let this woman yank yet another dream out from under his feet. In fact, he realizes he’s been given the ideal opportunity to plot his payback: spinning her character in shocking new directions.

What could go wrong? Only everything. As Finn’s not-so-brilliant plot backfires one scene after the next, catching him in the blasts, he’s forced to think about this impossible, infuriating… and maybe even lovable woman in an entirely new light.

House of War and Bone

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€11,99

Leia Stone - Engels - Paperback

“And what if I go dark?” I whimpered.
His face sobered. “Then I will jump into the shadows and pull you back to the Light.”

Seventeen-year-old Fallon Bane was born with a a single touch from another person will always cause her excruciating pain. Thus, she has accepted that she will die without ever being kissed, without even hugging her own father.

But when her beloved father falls ill, she breaks into the magical Gilded City to find a healer fae that can save him. When handsome healer Ariyon Madden agrees to help, everything she knows about herself and her curse changes. Because during her father’s healing, Ariyon reaches out and touches her bare skin. She waits for the agony… but it never comes.

For the first time in her life, she imagines a new future for herself. However, that fantasy is short-lived, because not only does Ariyon flee from her in disgust when he learns of her curse; he also reveals her existence to powerful fae who want to hurt her.

Fallon is then swept away to a magical academy, there she learns the terrifying truth about her family history and her dark magic. Her life and the future of fae everywhere hang in the balance, and all the while Fallon is dreaming of being touched by Ariyon Madden one more time before she dies…

One by One

Verschijningsdatum: 02/04/2024

€11,99

Freida McFadden - Engels - Paperback

One by one, they will get what they deserve…

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.

She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven.

Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought.

Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost.

And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them?

But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear:

Only one of them will return home alive.

Your Blood, My Bones

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€25,00

Kelly Andrew - Engels - Hardback

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of ourselves . . . and the people who love those parts most of all.

Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she’s just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.

Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family’s property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can’t really live, either. Not while he’s bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There’s only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line.

He needs to kill Wyatt.

With Wyatt’s parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter — the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who’s sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.

The Reappearance of Rachel Price (paperback)

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€15,00

Holly Jackson - Engels - Paperback

A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!

A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€21,99

Kate Khavari - Engels - Paperback

he Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure.

Debut author Kate Khavari deftly entwines a pulse-pounding mystery with the struggles of a woman in a male-dominated field in 1923 London.

Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues’ beliefs about women’s academic inabilities and not-so-subtle hints that her deceased father’s reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn.

When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university’s large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn’t expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors’ wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin.

Dr. Maxwell, Saffron’s mentor, is the main suspect and evidence quickly mounts. Joined by fellow researcher–and potential romantic interest–Alexander Ashton, Saffron uses her knowledge of botany as she explores steamy greenhouses, dark gardens, and deadly poisons to clear Maxwell’s name.

Will she be able to uncover the truth, or will her investigation land her on the murderer’s list, in this entertaining examination of society’s expectations?

How to End a Love Story

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€24,99

Yulin Kuang - Engels - Paperback

The brilliant contemporary romance novel debut from Yulin Kuang, the acclaimed screenwriter of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation and director of the forthcoming Beach Read feature film.

Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever.

Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer’s block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is the fresh start she needs. After all, no one knows her there. Except…

Grant has done everything in his power to move on from the past, including building a life across the country. And while the panic attacks have never quite gone away, he’s well liked around town as a screenwriter. He knows he shouldn’t have taken the job on Helen’s show, but it will open doors to developing his own projects that he just can’t pass up.

Grant’s exactly as Helen remembers him—charming, funny, popular, and lovable in ways that she’s never been. And Helen’s exactly as Grant remembers too—brilliant, beautiful, closed off. But working together is messy, and electrifying, and Helen’s parents, who have never forgiven Grant, have no idea he’s in the picture at all.

When secrets come to light, they must reckon with the fact that theirs was never meant to be any kind of love story. And yet… the key to making peace with their past—and themselves—might just lie in holding on to each other in the present.

The Kiss Countdown

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€12,99

Etta Easton - Engels - Paperback

A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut.

Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamble on her shaky start-up, the last thing she needed was to run into her smug ex and his new, less complicated girlfriend at Amerie’s favorite coffee shop. Panicked, she pretends to be dating the annoyingly sexy man she met by spilling Americano all over his abs. He plays along—for a price.

Half the single men in Houston claim to be astronauts, but Vincent Rogers turns out to be the real deal. What started as a one-off lie morphs into a for the three months leading up to his mission, Amerie will play Vincent’s doting partner in front of his loving but overly invested family. In exchange, she gets a rent-free room in his house and can put every penny toward her struggling business.

What Amerie doesn’t plan for is Vincent’s gravitational pull. While her mind tells her a future with this astronaut is too unpredictable, her heart says he’s exactly what she needs. As their time together counts down, Amerie must decide if she’ll settle for the safe life—or shoot for the stars.

An Enchanting Case Of Spirits

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€21,99

Melissa Holtz - Engels - Paperback

When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz.

Alyssa Mann isn’t adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there’s no way to avoid celebrating the big 4-0, so when her best friends drag her out for drinks and a tarot reading, she throws caution to the wind and decides to see what the spirits have to say. It’s all fun and games, until she wakes up the next morning with a wicked hangover—and a ghost perched on the edge of her bed.

Sheer panic sends her running to get help from Nick West, the (very attractive) detective who lives next door. When he finds no one inside, Alyssa has to accept that she really did see a ghost. As the dearly departed keep appearing, Alyssa and her friends do their best to learn how to control her newfound power. Trading insults with ghosts, tracking down family heirlooms, and getting closer to the skeptical but helpful Nick is more fun than Alyssa imagined. But when looking into one ghost’s past reveals unexpected—and unwelcome—facts about Alyssa’s late husband’s death, she discovers she just may be in over her head.

Better Left Unsent

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€12,99

Lia Louis - Engels - Paperback

So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life…So little time.

A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.

Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing to keep everything to herself—her feelings, her truths, even her dreams—in an effort to protect herself from getting hurt again.

But Millie does write emails—sarcastic replies to her rude boss, hard truths to her friends, and of course, that one-thousand-word love declaration to her ex who is now engaged to someone else. The emails live safely in her drafts, but after a server outage at work, Millie wakes up to discover that all her emails have been sent. Every. Single. One.

As every truth, lie, and secret she’s worked so hard to keep only to herself are catapulted out into the open, Millie must fix the chaos her words have caused, and face everything she’s ever swept under the carpet.

The Familiar (UK Edition)

Verschijningsdatum: 04/04/2024

€25,00

Leigh Bardugo - Engels - Hardback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age.
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family’s social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen–and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive–even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

Let op: dit boek wordt geïmporteerd uit de Verenigde Staten. Het kan daardoor tot 1-2 weken na release duren voor we het boek in huis hebben.

The Summer She Went Missing

Verschijningsdatum: 05/04/2024

€11,99

Chelsea Ichaso - Engels - Paperback

Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they’ll search for the truth. Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy days sunning at the waterfalls and nights partying at the sprawling houses of the rich families who vacation there. The Covingtons are one of these families, and beautiful, brilliant Audrey Covington is Paige’s best friend. And last year, when Audrey’s crush-worthy brother Dylan finally started noticing Paige, she was sure it would be the best summer ever. Except Audrey didn’t seem quite like herself. Then one night, she didn’t come home. Though Audrey wasn’t the first girl to disappear in Clearwater Ridge, she left behind more lies than clues. Now, one summer later, her case has gone cold, and nobody, least of all Paige, can make sense of what happened. When Paige stumbles across a secret hidden in Audrey’s room, however, it changes everything she thought she knew about last summer. She and Dylan set out on their own investigation, discovering things even the police don’t know about the people of Clearwater Ridge. But tracking down missing girls―girls who might be beyond saving by now―means entering a world far darker than Paige has ever imagined. And if she isn’t careful, she’ll become the next girl to vanish.

The Prospects

Verschijningsdatum: 08/04/2024

€12,99

KT Hoffman - Engels - Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, and triumphant rivals to lovers debut romance.

Hope is familiar territory for Gene Ionescu. He has always loved baseball, a sport made for underdogs and optimists like him. He also loves his team, the minor league Beaverton Beavers, and, for the most part, he loves the career he’s built. As the first openly trans player in professional baseball, Gene has nearly everything he’s ever let himself dream of—that is, until Luis Estrada, Gene’s former teammate and current rival, gets traded to the Beavers, destroying the careful equilibrium of Gene’s life.

Gene and Luis can’t manage a civil conversation off the field or a competent play on it, but in the close confines of dugout benches and roadie buses, they begrudgingly rediscover a comfortable rhythm. As the two grow closer, the tension between them turns electric, and their chemistry spills past the confines of the stadium. For every tight double play they execute, there’s also a glance at summer-tan shoulders or a secret shared, each one a breathless moment of possibility that ignites in Gene the visceral, terrifying kind of desire he’s never allowed himself. Soon, Gene has to reconcile the quiet, minor-league-sized life he used to find fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis makes feel possible.

A joyful, heartfelt debut rom-com revealing what’s possible when we allow ourselves to want something enough to swing for the fences.

Dear Wendy

Verschijningsdatum: 08/04/2024

€24,99

Ann Zhao - Engels - Hardback

Dear Wendy’s Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual college students, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao

Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she’d attend a “real” university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular “Dear Wendy” account.

When Joanna “Jo” Ephron (also a first-year aroace college student) created their “Sincerely Wanda” account, it wasn’t at all meant to take off or be taken seriously-not like Wendy’s.

But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy’s account? Oops. As if Jo’s not busy enough having existential crises over gender identity, whether she’ll ever truly be loved, and the possibility of her few friends finding The One then forgetting her!

While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity and start a campus organization for other a-spec students. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who’s behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?

Exploring a-spec identities, college life, and more, while perfect for fans of Alice Oseman’s Loveless, this is ultimately a love story about two people who are not-and will not-be in love!

The Book That Broke the World

Verschijningsdatum: 08/04/2024

€21,99

Mark Lawrence - Engels - Hardback

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.

We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true.

Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other’s reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she’s to return to her life. While Evar’s journey leads him outside into the vastness of a world he’s never seen, Livira’s destination lies deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.

And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira’s old life – friends and foe alike – back together beneath new skies.

Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences. Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.

The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure, discovery, and romance, but it’s also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of all shades too.

A Sweet Sting of Salt

Verschijningsdatum: 08/04/2024

€18,99

Rose Sutherland - Engels - Paperback

Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale The Selkie Wife.

When a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she’s convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers—a young woman in labor, already drenched to the bone in the freezing cold and barely able to speak a word of English.

Although Jean is the only midwife in the village and for miles around, she’s at a loss as to who this woman is or where she’s from; Jean can only assume she must be the new wife of the neighbor up the road, Tobias. And when Tobias does indeed arrive at her cabin in search of his wife, Muirin, Jean’s questions continue to grow. Why has he kept his wife’s pregnancy a secret? And why does Muirin’s open demeanor change completely the moment she’s in his presence?

Though Jean learned long ago that she should stay out of other people’s business, her growing concern—and growing feelings—for Muirin mean she can’t simply set her worries aside. But when the answers she finds are more harrowing than she ever could have imagined, she fears she may have endangered herself, Muirin, and the baby. Will she be able to put things right and save the woman she loves before it’s too late, or will someone have to pay for Jean’s actions with their life?

The Scarlet Veil

Verschijningsdatum: 08/04/2024

€13,99

Shelby Mahurin - Engels - Paperback

Full of everything I love: a sparkling and fully-realized heroine, an intricate and deadly system of magic, and a searing romance that kept me reading long into the night. Sarah J Maas on Serpent & Dove Six months have passed since Célie took her sacred vows and joined the ranks of the Chasseurs as their first huntswoman. With her fiancé, Jean Luc, as captain, she is determined to find her foothold in her new role and help protect Belterra. But whispers from her past still haunt her, and a new evil is rising―one that Célie herself must vanquish, unless she falls prey to the darkness.

Een dag om nooit te vergeten

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€23,99

Jill Mansell - Nederlands - Paperback

De eerste druk van Een dag om nooit te vergeten verschijnt met prachtig, bedrukt boekblok! (op = op)

Lottie is te gast op dé bruiloft van het jaar, een dag om nooit te vergeten. Daar ziet ze Max voor het eerst in vijftien jaar. Hun laatste kus was de beste uit Lotties leven. Ze stonden aan de vooravond van een prachtig liefdesverhaal. Toen gebeurde er iets schokkends dat hen uit elkaar dreef. Nu is hij hier, natuurlijk knap als altijd, en hij plaagt Lottie weer als vanouds – en die tintelende elektrische aantrekkingskracht is meteen terug. Lottie kan het niet uitstaan. Bovendien is Max buiten bereik. Ruby’s man Peter zal het huwelijk inzegenen. Zij heeft hem altijd gesteund, maar wanneer ze de waarheid over hem ontdekt is ze zo verontwaardigd en vol ongeloof dat ze een heel impulsieve beslissing neemt, zonder aan de gevolgen te denken. En niets zal ooit nog hetzelfde zijn… Zal dé bruiloft van het jaar nog plaatsvinden? Als er liefde in de lucht hangt, kan er van alles gebeuren…

De kleermaakster van Parijs

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€22,99

Georgia Kaufmann - Engels - Paperback

Rosa Kusstatscher heeft een mode-imperium weten op te bouwen dankzij haar onfeilbare gevoel voor stijl. Maar vanavond, terwijl ze zich voorbereidt op de belangrijkste ontmoeting van haar leven, laat haar zelfverzekerdheid haar in de steek. Wat heeft haar hier gebracht? Terwijl ze twijfelt over de juiste jurk en lippenstift, begint Rosa haar ongelooflijke verhaal te vertellen. Het verhaal van een arm plattelandsmeisje uit de Italiaanse bergen. Van de nazibezetting en haar vlucht. Een verhaal over hoop en verdriet in Zwitserland, glamour en liefde in Parijs. Over ambitie en verlies in Rio de Janeiro, succes en zelfontplooiing in New York. Een heel leven op de vlucht, realiseert ze zich nu. Maar ze wil niet langer vluchten.

A Touch of Chaos (hardback)

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€26,99

Scarlett St. Clair - Engels - Hardback

The World Will Burn

Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever—but he did.

A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it’s a world Persephone never thought she would see. To end the chaos, she must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she’s become—Goddess, Wife, Queen of the Underworld.

Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves, now she will go to war for them.

Wild Love

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€14,99

Elsie Silver - Engels - Paperback

“Elsie Silver’s writing is a true revelation!” ALI HAZELWOODSmall-town, big characters, four addictive love stories . . .

meet the single dads of Rose Hill’s recreational bowling team. Perfect for fans of steamy romance, Lucy Score, and Elsie’s smash hit Chestnut Springs series. ____She’s been driving him wild for years .

. . the good kind of wild.

The kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend’s little sister and knowing you can’t have her. Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World’s Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he’s her biological father.

Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his best friend’s sister, Rosie Belmont. After living in the city, Rosie came blasting back into town like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic.

And one wide-eyed, desperate plea for a job is all it takes for Ford to hire her. He vows to keep her at arm’s length. Tries to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners.

But with her, verbal sparring is a type of foreplay-friction that soon turns to blistering heat. Ford knows damn well he shouldn’t cross this line. But shouldn’t and can’t are two very different things.

And the only thing he truly can’t do is resist her. Readers can’t get enough of Wild Love . .

. ‘Billionaire romance but make it rustic . .

. Elsie Silver just hits the mark every time’? ? ? ? ?’Hands-down my favorite book Elsie has written. HIGHLY recommend’? ? ? ? ?’Did I devour this in a single day? You bet I did!’? ? ? ? ?’Elsie Silver is the queen of small-town romances’? ? ? ? ?’The banter.

The tension. The relationship between Ford & Rosie. The character development.

Wow’? ? ? ? ?’I was hooked from the first chapter’? ? ? ? ?

How to End a Love Story

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€12,99

Yulin Kuang - Engels - Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding’s signature sparkling voice!

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin’s’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can’t seem to stop saying yes.

With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, which to her translates to putting almost all her new money to buying a failing flower farm in Asheville, North Carolina to let the flowers live out their plant destiny while she uses the cabin on the property to start her painting business.

But her plans for isolation and self-preservation go hopelessly awry when an angry (albeit gorgeous) Pepper Smith is waiting for her at her new farm. Pepper states she’s the rightful owner of Thistle and Bloom Farms, and isn’t moving out. The unlikely pair strike up an agreement of co-habitation, and butt-heads at every turn. Can these opposites both live out their dreams and plant roots? Or will their combustible arguing (and growing attraction) burn the whole place down?

A Botanist’s Guide To Flowers And Fatality

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€23,99

Kate Khavari - Engels - Paperback

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh is back and ready for adventure in Kate Khavari’s next mesmerizing historical mystery.

“A cleverly plotted puzzle” (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this second installment is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.

1920s London isn’t the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions. But research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to beat the odds in a male-dominated field at the University College of London. Saffron embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably charming Dr. Michael Lee, traveling the countryside with him in response to reports of poisonings. But when Detective Inspector Green is given a case with a set of unusual clues, he asks for Saffron’s assistance.

The victims, all women, received bouquets filled with poisonous flowers. Digging deeper, Saffron discovers that the bouquets may be more than just unpleasant flowers— there may be a hidden message within them, revealed through the use of the old Victorian practice of floriography. A dire message, indeed, as each woman who received the flowers has turned up dead.

Alongside Dr. Lee and her best friend, Elizabeth, Saffron trails a group of suspects through a dark jazz club, a lavish country estate, and a glittering theatre, delving deeper into a part of society she thought she’d left behind forever.

Will Saffron be able to catch the killer before they send their next bouquet, or will she find herself with fatal flowers of her own in Kate Khavari’s second intoxicating installment.

I’ve Got My Mind Set On Brew

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€22,99

Stephanie Jayne - Engels - Paperback

A down-on-her-luck craft beer brewer and her privileged new boss clash as they work together to save a quirky brewpub in this enemies-to-lovers workplace romcom, perfect for fans of Rachel Lynn Solomon’s The Ex Talk.

Kat Malone is left cash-strapped after a job loss and a bad breakup (pro never offer to pay living expenses for a freeloading poetry major) when she discovers a surprising new career craft beer brewer.

When the brewpub is sold, the new owner places his light-on-experience son in charge of the pub. Ryan is as basic as a pale lager and aims to turn quirky Resistance into a run-of-the-mill sports bar. Worse, he won’t consider Kat for the position of brewer’s assistant—the job she’d been promised by the previous owners.

Despite clashes between Kat and Ryan, he confides that Resistance is in financial trouble and that drastic changes will be needed if the pub has any hope of survival. Forced to collaborate, Kat realizes Ryan isn’t as bland as she assumed—he might even be exactly what she’s been craving.

But just as Ryan promises Kat a true partnership in the face of his father’s opposition, Kat is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. “Marrying the beer” used to be Kat’s only goal, but can she craft a brew for her life that allows her to have it all?

Fans of Kate Clayborn and Ali Hazelwood will be raising a pint to this crisp, satisfying romance.

And Then There Was Us

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€18,99

Kern Carter - Engels - Hardback

A mother’s death forces a teen girl to reevaluate their tumultuous relationship in this powerful coming-of-age novel for teens. For fans of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter .

Coi is just eighteen years old, but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother’s house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they’ve created a peaceful life. That peace ends suddenly when her mother dies.

While Coi struggles to find kindness in her heart for the woman who only hurt her, she starts having lucid dreams, forcing her to relive moments of abuse and emotional trauma that eventually led to Coi’s abandonment.

Her mother’s passing also reopens the door to her mother’s side of the family, including her beloved younger half-sister, Kayla, her stepfather and her grandmother. Each of them challenge Coi’s long-held views about her mother, especially Kayla, who, Coi realizes, is taking their mother’s loss hard. As she reconnects with her family, Coi learns to see parts of her mother she never experienced, and for the first time since she was abandoned, opens her heart to forgiveness.

The Familiar (US Limited Edition)

Verschijningsdatum: 09/04/2024

€34,99

Leigh Bardugo - Engels - Hardback

Ziel van As en Bloed (Limited Edition)

Verschijningsdatum: 10/04/2024

€25,00

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Nederlands - Paperback

De 1e druk Ziel van As en Bloed verschijnt in Limited Edition met kleur op snee en fanart op de schutbladen.

‘Ziel van As en Bloed’ van Jennifer L. Armentrout is het vijfde deel in de succesvolle fantasy-serie Blood- & Ash.

Poppy zal door een speciale rite veranderen in de oergodin van het leven. Om deze rite te voltooien, moet ze echter eerst een diepe slaap doormaken. En niemand weet hoe lang die slaap zal duren. Terwijl om hen heen de goden opstaan en zich opmaken voor de volgende oorlog, is Cas als de dood om Poppy kwijt te raken. Daarom besluit hij het enige te doen wat hij kan: met haar praten. En haar herinneren aan de reis die ze samen hebben afgelegd. Alleen zijn herinneringen kunnen haar redden…

The Hemlock Queen

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€27,50

Hannah Whitten - Engels - Hardback

In the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten’s lush, romantic epic fantasy series, a young woman who can raise the dead must navigate the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King’s royal court.

The corrupt king August is dead. Prince Bastian has seized the throne and raised Lore—a necromancer and former smuggler—to his right hand side. Together they plan to cut out the rot from the heart of the sainted court and help the people of Dellaire. But not everyone is happy with the changes. The nobles are sowing dissent, the Kyrithean Empire is beating down their door, and Lore’s old allies are pulling away. Even Prince Bastian’s changed. No longer the hopeful, rakish, charismatic man Lore knows and loves, instead he’s reckless, domineering and cold.

And something’s been whispering in her ear. A voice, dark and haunting, that’s telling her there’s more to the story than she knows and more to her power than she can even imagine. A truth buried deep that could change everything.

With Bastian’s coronation fast approaching and enemies whispering on all sides, Lore must figure out how to protect herself, her prince, and her country before they all come crumbling down and whatever dark power has been creeping through the catacombs is unleashed.

Deep Is the Fen

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€13,99

Lili Wilkinson - Engels - Paperback

Merry doesn’t need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is. Simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble.

But Merry’s best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen—a secret society who specialize in backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions—and Merry is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with the person she hates most: her academic archnemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face under a glamour.

An ancient Toad ritual is being held in the sinister Deeping Fen, and if Merry doesn’t rescue Teddy before it’s finished, she’ll lose him forever. But the Toadmen have been keeping dangerous secrets, and so has Caraway. The farther Merry travels into Deeping Fen’s foul waters, the more she wonders if she’s truly come to save her friend . . . or if she’s walking straight into a trap.

There’s nothing the Toadmen love more than a damsel in distress.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€25,00

John Wiswell - Engels - Hardback

“Do love stories often end this way?” “Why do you think it’s over?”

Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she’s fallen in love.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human in turn.

Shesheshen is loath to deceive, but just as she’s about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she’s hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn’t curse anyone, but to give them both a chance at happiness, she must figure out why Homily’s twisted family thinks she did. And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with the woman she loves.

A glorious, funny, occasionally slightly violent love story which asks us to examine – and re-examine – the meaning of legacy, family and love.

The Heart of Winter

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€16,99

Shona Kinsella - Engels - Paperback

When Brigit is faced with a forced marriage to Aengus, god of Summer, she flees into the highlands in search of the Cailleach, the Queen of Winter. There, she hopes to learn how to live on her own terms, without the need for a man to speak for her, but can she persuade the Cailleach that she is worthy? Caught between two gods and finding an unlikely ally in the Fae witch, Nicnevin, Brigit will be tested to her limits and beyond.

Clean Breaks

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€11,99

Ruby Lang - Engels - Paperback

Love could be just what the doctor ordered… Sarah Soon may have recovered from cancer, but her brush with mortality has left the usually confident ob/gyn doctor shaken. One thing is certain, she doesn’t want Jake Li, her brother’s annoyingly good – and disturbingly hot – best friend hanging around.

Everyone tells newly divorced social worker Jake that he shouldn’t look for a serious relationship right now. But Jake can’t stay away from Sarah, and despite her complicated past Sarah can’t stop wanting Jake. This is one break that neither of them can make.

A gorgeously heartwarming second chance romance for readers of Kate Clayborn and Kwana Jackson.

Acute Reactions

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€11,99

Ruby Lang - Engels - Paperback

The man with allergies never gets the girl, at least according to the movies—and Portland restaurateur Ian Zamora wants to be the guy who gets the girl. So to rid himself of the sensitivities brought on by his sometimes-girlfriend’s cat, he makes an appointment with allergist Petra Lale. But he suddenly finds himself acutely attracted to the very woman who is supposed to be helping him take care of his problem.

Petra’s intrigued by Ian’s quiet strength and sexy body, but her solo practice is new and struggling. She can’t afford to compromise her ethics—or risk her medical license—by dating a patient. Falling in love certainly wasn’t this doctor’s order. She tries to stay away from Ian, but fate, and her weak willpower, keep bringing them back together.

Do two career-driven people with inexperienced hearts stand a chance of finding the right prescription for love?

Hard Knocks

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€11,99

Ruby Lang - Engels - Paperback

Neurologist Helen Chang Frobisher is on a mission to ban hockey from Portland to prevent the kind of concussive brain injury that plagues her father. Oregon Wolves player Adam Magnus is desperately trying to secure his career and his retirement despite the team’s dismal record.

But while the two spar in public over the future of a sports franchise on the brink, in private, they battle an impossible attraction. When their no-strings-attached fling turns into the real thing, Helen and Adam must decide what’s really important to them. Will their relationship end up in the penalty box, or are they a winning combination?

Love Redesigned (Nederlands)

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€20,00

Lauren Asher - Engels - Paperback

JULIAN

Als ik midden op straat zou struikelen, zou Dahlia Muñoz me niet overeind helpen. Sterker nog, ze zou me laten liggen, en met een glimlach over me heen stappen. Dus wanneer Dahlia weer terugkeert naar Lake Wisteria, doe ik mijn best haar te ontlopen.

Totdat mijn bemoeizuchtige moeder me schaakmat zet. Ze komt met een creatief plan waarmee ik Dahlia een zetje in de goede richting kan geven, wat er hopelijk voor zorgt dat ze de stad snel weer zal verlaten. In dat plan zag ik één klein dingetje over het hoofd: wat gebeurt er als ik eigenlijk wil dat ze blijft?

DAHLIA

Julian Lopez is al bijna mijn hele leven mijn rivaal, en de aartsvijand van mijn familie. Als ik na mijn verbroken verloving terugkom naar Lake Wisteria, zit ik er niet op te wachten om hem tegen het lijf te moeten lopen.

Maar dan doet die hatelijke rijkaard me een onweerstaanbaar aanbod. Als we samen een historisch pand renoveren kunnen we onze winst verdrievoudigen. We sluiten een tijdelijke wapenstilstand, maar dat is lastiger dan gedacht na al die jaren van ontkende aantrekkingskracht en tegenstrijdige gevoelens. Verliefd op elkaar worden was géén onderdeel van ons plan.

De mystery guest

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€22,99

Nita Prose - Nederlands - Hardback

Molly Gray is in het Regency Grand Hotel opgeklommen van kamermeisje tot hoofd Hotelhuishouding. Een titel die ze met trots draagt terwijl ze kussens opschudt, geheimen onder het kleed veegt, in alle stilte elke kamer tot in de puntjes verzorgt. Maar net wanneer ze alles perfect op orde heeft, komt haar wereld op zijn kop te staan. Een beroemde schrijver van detectiveromans valt dood neer in het hotel. Als rechercheur Stark – Molly’s oude vijand nota bene – op de zaak gezet wordt, blijkt al snel dat er een luchtje aan zit. Geruchten te over, maar Molly blijkt de enige die het mysterie kan ontrafelen. Dat betekent wel dat er in haar verleden gegraven zal worden, want Molly kende het slachtoffer, en hij haar…

The Hemlock Queen (paperback)

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€21,99

Hannah Whitten - Engels - Paperback

Next to You

Verschijningsdatum: 11/04/2024

€12,99

Hannah Bonam-Young - Engels - Paperback

Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and simply put? She’s not happy. So after a night out celebrating (drinking) on her birthday she makes one hell of an impulsive purchase. A giant, yellow, forty-eight passenger school bus that she intends to make a home.
With little-to-no renovation experience but a large sum of inheritance money, Lane enlists the help of her friend Matt—a mechanic by trade, handyman by practice, and hottie by nature.
While their mutual attraction is undeniable, Matt and Lane have silently agreed that a friendship is the only thing that could ever exist between them. Matt’s a total family guy with “settle down with me” tattooed across his forehead whereas Lane is entirely commitment-averse.
So, when Matt offers to help her with the bus and in the bedroom with no strings attached, Lane’s feelings evolve faster than you can say “just good friends.” But she soon discovers that in order to build something new, she has to first heal her past.

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Next To You is a standalone friends to idiots to lovers romance featuring a tattooed, anxious, chaotic bisexual lead and a cinnamon-roll hero with a heart of gold and filthy mouth. Featuring meddling friends, an escapee pet rabbit, an aggressive amount of siblings, and a doomed wedding. Read as these two friends who are definitely *not* in love attempt to keep their sex free from attachments and find their happily ever after, after grief has put a pause on life.
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Trigger warnings: Sudden death of parent from car accident (referenced throughout) Anxiety/PTSD symptoms and treatments.

Uit de diepte

Verschijningsdatum: 15/04/2024

€16,95

Lysander Mazee - Nederlands - Paperback

Wanneer Sigurd na een heftig jaar bij de marine rust denkt te vinden in zijn nieuwe werk op een boorplatform, verschijnt de mysterieuze Reykr uit de diepte van de zee. De zee kent veel geheimen, maar Reykr lijkt er juist op gebrand om Sigurd zijn zwijgen te laten doorbreken. Sigurds zieke oma lijkt meer te weten over Reykrs herkomst, maar wanneer oma overlijdt, erft hij alleen maar meer geheimen.

Late Bloomer

Verschijningsdatum: 15/04/2024

€13,99

Mazey Eddings - Engels - Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding’s signature sparkling voice!

Merciless Saviors

Verschijningsdatum: 15/04/2024

€12,90

H.E. Edgmon - Engels - Paperback

Gem and the other gods wake to find themselves returned to the Ether, in the bodies they had a thousand years prior. Now in a world deeply corrupted by a millennia of the Shade’s rule, they must all find how they fit into this new chaos. Alliances break and form as Gem and the others travel across their old kingdoms, having to decide the fate of not just this world, but all worlds.

Taming 7

Verschijningsdatum: 16/04/2024

€13,99

Chloe Walsh - Engels - Paperback

She’s the quintessential sunshine girl. He’s the lovable class clown. But storm clouds are rolling in, and this Tommen boy is about to get serious.

Tommen’s cheeky lad, Gerard ‘Gibsie’ Gibson, is a comedian at heart, but underneath his happy-go-lucky-nature lurks a broken boy, tortured by the events of his past. Using humour to cope with his demons, Gibsie hides everything from the world.

Only one person knows who he truly is on the inside. His friend’s little sister. His Claire-bear.

Enveloped in sunshine, Claire Biggs, has spent her whole life adoring the boy across the street. Her brother’s friend. Seeing a side to Gerard that no one else sees, Claire is determined to tame her wild-at-heart childhood best friend.

But when the unexpected occurs and lines are crossed, will Gibsie and Claire’s friendship survive? Will it blossom into something more, or will they lose themselves in the riptide?

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

Verschijningsdatum: 18/04/2024

€18,99

Molly X. Chang - Engels - Hardback

She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one?

Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.

Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.

When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again. But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence.

Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?

Funny Story

Verschijningsdatum: 18/04/2024

€18,99

Emily Henry - Engels - Paperback

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?

This Day Changes Everything

Verschijningsdatum: 18/04/2024

€21,99

Edward Underhill - Engels - Hardback

Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in Edward Underhill’s new whirlwind rom-com about two queer teens who spend one life-changing day together in New York City.

Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City—if that’s not proof that magical things can happen, what is? New York also happens to be the setting of her favorite romance novel, making it the perfect place for Abby to finally tell her best friend Kat that she’s in love with her (and, um, gay). She’s carefully annotated a copy of the book as a gift for Kat, and she’s counting on the Universe to provide an Epic Scene worthy of her own rom-com.

Leo Brewer, on the other hand, just wants to get through this trip without falling apart. He doesn’t believe the Universe is magical at all, mostly because he’s about to be outed to his very Southern extended family on national TV as the trans boy he really is. He’s not excited for the parade, and he’s even less excited for an entire day of sightseeing with his band.

But the Universe has other ideas. When fate throws Abby and Leo together on the wrong subway train, they soon find themselves lost in the middle of Manhattan. Even worse, Leo accidentally causes Abby to lose her Epic Gift for Kat. So to salvage the day, they come up with a new mission: find a souvenir from every location mentioned in the book for Abby to give Kat instead. But as Leo and Abby traverse the city, from the streets of Chinatown to the halls of Grand Central Station and the top of the Empire State Building, their initial expectations for the trip—and of each other—begin to shift. Maybe, if they let it, this could be the day that changes everything, for both of them.

Taming 7 (US edition)

Verschijningsdatum: 18/04/2024

€20,99

Chloe Walsh - Engels - Paperback

She’s the quintessential sunshine girl. He’s the lovable class clown. But storm clouds are rolling in, and this Tommen boy is about to get serious.

Only one person knows who he truly is on the inside. His friend’s little sister. His Claire-bear.

But when the unexpected occurs and lines are crossed, will Gibsie and Claire’s friendship survive? Will it blossom into something more, or will they lose themselves in the riptide?

Rune (Tweeluik & Limited Edition)

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€24,99

Adrian Stone - Nederlands - Hardback

De eerste druk van Rune (Tweeluik) verschijnt als Limited Edition met dubbelzijdig bedrukt stofomslag en folie, leeslint, uniek bandmateriaal en boekblokbedrukking.

Marak Viervinger, de held van Adrian Stones De Duivel Trilogie, is niet meer. Maar de informatie in zijn Nagelaten Vertellingen biedt de Godkeizer van het naargeestige Kadish een unieke kans. Met de kennis uit de geschriften van Marak is het namelijk mogelijk de almachtig makende Achtste Rune te ontsluiten, en dan zal de meedogenloze heerser onoverwinnelijk zijn. Een jonge Runenpriester en een zwaardmeester krijgen opdracht het boek voor hem in Carolia te stelen, een vrijwel onmogelijke taak. Tegelijkertijd wordt Serina, een jonge priesteres uit Carolina, door Runenpriesters gevangengenomen. Haar wacht een periode van kwelling en ellende in het verschrikkelijke Zusterschaphuis, waar ze op vernederende wijze kennismaakt met de Godkeizer, de tiran wiens macht verder reikt dan men ooit heeft kunnen vermoeden… Zo ziet het boek eruit: – Gebonden boek met dubbelzijdig bedrukt stofomslag – Met glimmend folie op de glas-in-loodelementen – Omslagillustraties van wereldster Erik Kriek – Speciaal bandmateriaal – Met blauwe folie bedrukt boekblok – Voor het eerst in groot formaat, compleet met nieuw zetwerk – Leeslintje ‘Adrian Stone heeft zichzelf overtroffen.’ Magic Tales

Dragon Rider (Hardback)

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€21,99

Taran Matharu - Engels - Hardback

Can an orphan captive learn the secrets of the Dragon Riders to stand up and avenge his people? Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court—ever since his father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves. When the emperor’s son and heir is betrothed to Princess Erica of the neighboring Dansk Kingdom, she brings with her dragons. Endemic to the northern nation, these powerful beasts come in several forms, but mystery surrounds them. Only Dansk royalty know the secret to soulbonding with these dangerous beasts to draw on their power and strength. This marriage—and the alliance that forms—will change that forever. But conspirators lurk in the shadows, and soon the Sabine Court is in chaos. With his life in danger, Jai uses the opportunity to escape with the Dansk handmaiden, Frida, and a stolen hatchling. Hunted at every turn, he must learn to cultivate magic and become a soulbound warrior if he has any chance of finding safety, seizing his destiny…and seeking his revenge.

A Letter to the Luminous Deep (hardcover)

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€23,99

Sylvie Cathrall - Engels - Hardback

Dive into the curious correspondence of Sylvie Cathrall’s delightful debut novel, A Letter to the Luminous Deep.

A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other.

Together, they uncover a mystery from the unknown depths, destined to transform the underwater world they both equally fear and love. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys E.’s home, and she and Henerey vanish.

A year later, E.’s sister Sophy, and Henerey’s brother Vyerin, are left to solve the mystery of their siblings’ disappearances with the letters, sketches and field notes left behind. As they uncover the wondrous love their siblings shared, Sophy and Vyerin learn the key to their disappearance – and what it could mean for life as they know it.

Perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and TJ Klune, A Letter to the Luminous Deep is a whimsical epistolary fantasy set in a mystical underwater world with mystery and heart-warming romance.

A Letter to the Luminous Deep (paperback)

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€21,99

Sylvie Cathrall - Engels - Paperback

Dive into the curious correspondence of Sylvie Cathrall’s delightful debut novel, A Letter to the Luminous Deep.

Perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and TJ Klune, A Letter to the Luminous Deep is a whimsical epistolary fantasy set in a mystical underwater world with mystery and heart-warming romance.

Such a Lovely Family

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€19,99

Aggie Blum Thompson - Engels - Paperback

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Washington, D.C., and the Calhouns are in the midst of hosting their annual party to celebrate the best of the spring season. With a house full of friends, neighbors, and their beloved three adult children, the Calhouns are expecting another picture-perfect event. But a brutal murder in the middle of the celebration transforms the yearly gathering into a homicide scene, and all the guests into suspects.

Behind their façade of perfection, the Calhoun family has been keeping some very dark secrets. Parents who use money and emotional manipulation to control their children. Two sons, one the black sheep who is desperate to outrun mistakes he’s made, and the other a new father, willing to risk everything to protect his child. And a an Instagram influencer who refuses to face the truth about the man she married.

As the investigation heats up, family tensions build, and alliances shift. Long-buried resentments surface, forcing the Calhouns to face their darkest secrets before it’s too late.

Bad Like Us

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€18,99

Gabriella Lepore - Engels - Hardback

As the investigation heats up, family tensions build, and alliances shift. Long-buried resentments surface, forcing the Calhouns to face their darkest secrets before it’s too late.

The Light That Blinds Us

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€12,99

Andy Darcy Theo - Engels - Paperback

When consumed by shadow, even the faintest light can be blinding…

After a childhood haunted by disturbing hallucinations of the Shadow Man, Alexis Michaels’s only comfort is the blue amulet he’s had since before he can remember. Now, the visions have gone, and Alexis craves a normal life.

But when a trip to Stonehenge unites him with three other teens carrying similar gems, normality is abandoned when they are plunged into a hidden world of power-wielding Elementals, and told they are the chosen ones, destined to save the world from an eternal night. Trained by legends and guided by heroes, Alexis and his companions must venture on a perilous quest, facing tests of love, loss, and loyalty.

But a dark past plagues Alexis as they prepare to defeat an adversary more ominous than they could imagine, and a looming secret sets to corrupt the mission, their lives, and his mind.

A high-stakes, speculative romance, which masterfully weaves themes of mental health, psychosis, and found family.

Unsteady

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€12,99

Peyton Corinne - Engels - Paperback

Rhys Koteskiy is back — at least, he’s supposed to be.

During last year’s Frozen Four, the Waterfell University hockey captain, and NHL legacy, took a brutal hit that left him with a concussion and a new discomfort on the ice. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks every time he attempt to skate, Rhys wonders if he’ll ever play again — if he’ll ever want to.

Sadie Brown is staying focused this semester — no matter what.

Currently drowning in debt, custody hearings for her younger brothers and skating practices, she’s just trying to make it to the next day. A spitfire figure skater known for her bad attitude and frequent disappearing acts, she has a reputation on campus. And it’s not a pretty one.

When she accidentally witnesses one of the golden boy hockey captain’s panic attacks and attempts to help him, a strange sort of understanding strikes up between them.

No questions asked. Just comfort.

But Rhys finds himself drawn to Sadie. Where he feels empty, a shell of the man and player he was before, Sadie is so full of everything it bursts from her; every emotion she feels seems like it’s blasted at max. Rhys is desperate to feel anything, Sadie wants to stop feeling so much.

But healing doesn’t mix with secrets, and they’re both skating a thin line, unsteady .

Blood Justice (paperback)

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€21,99

Terry J. Benton-Walker - Engels - Paperback

Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice.

Having restored their family’s stolen throne, the time has come to look forward to a brighter future for the magical community.

But for Valentina Savant, she lost everything and is hellbent on revenge. And lucky for her, she’s not the only one.

Hateful anti-magic protesters and a ruthless detective with a personal vendetta sabotage their reign at every turn. Worst of all, to protect the boy he loves, Clem has summoned a brutal god that stalks them from the shadows.

Shocking murders, disappearances, and new alliances are changing the game forever – and not everyone will survive the final round.

The Good Ones Are Taken

Verschijningsdatum: 22/04/2024

€24,99

Taj McCoy - Engels - Paperback

When Maggie’s best friend admits he’s in love with her, she’ll have to decide whether it’s worth giving up something good for something that could be amazing in this laugh-out-loud friends-to-lovers rom-com.

After a bad breakup, Maggie wants to find her Prince Charming, but all she’s finding are frogs. When her best friends, Savvy and Joan, apply pressure and demand she find a date worthy of attending their respective weddings, she agrees to take her own advice and try online dating. Since she’s the maid of honor for both weddings, her bridal party duties are massive, but both brides insist that Maggie prioritize finding a date. After an onslaught of maybes, noes, and hell noes, she’s close to giving up, when she meets a handsome doctor at the gym who just might be the one.

Meanwhile, her college bestie, Garrett, throws salt in everyone’s game. At every turn, he points out the red flags and tells Maggie to keep looking. Things come to a head when Maggie demands that Garrett be happy for her, and he finally admits that he can’t. Not when he’s not with her. When he blurts out his feelings, Maggie’s world is turned upside down. Now she must choose between the perfect guy and a friendship that is the foundation for everything she’s ever wanted.

Burning Crowns

Verschijningsdatum: 23/04/2024

€11,99

Catherine Doyle, Katherine Webber - Engels - Paperback

Bestselling authors and real-life sisters-in-law Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber join forces on a compelling YA fantasy bursting with high-stakes adventure, romance and humour! ‘Twin Crowns cast a spell on me from the very first pages with its glittering blend of harrowing adventure, charming wit, and intricate world-building.I was thoroughly bewitched by this marvelous book. Don’t miss it!’ – Sarah J Maas, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Wren and Rose rule the kingdom of Eana. But an ancient, powerful enemy moves in the shadows.

Oonagh, the twins’ evil undead ancestor, is creating a terrifying army, and she is determined to fight for the throne. Rose must gather support from the four corners of the kingdom whilst she wrestles with what the future holds for her and her beloved Shen. Meanwhile, Wren and Alarik set out to destroy the curse that both unites and weakens them.

Caught between the King of Gevra and his Captain of the Guard, Tor, Wren must decide where her heart truly lies . . .

When Oonagh’s true plans are revealed and Rose’s life hangs in the balance, the stage for the final battle is set. Sacrifices will be made, blood will be spilled. Who will survive to rule the kingdom of Eana? The epic, breathtaking conclusion to this bestselling romantasy trilogy!

Love at First Knight

Verschijningsdatum: 23/04/2024

€11,99

Megan Clawson - Engels - Paperback

She’s no damsel in distress, and he’s certainly not wearing shining armour. But one knight can change everything…

Daisy Hastings has always thought she was born in the wrong era. So when she bags a summer job at the Tower of London helping to run their Knight school, it feels like a step in the right direction.

Theodore ‘Teddy’ Fairfax is a loose cannon. A disgraced distant relative of the royal family, he’s tall, dark and now (begrudgingly) helping with the Tower of London’s summer programme – and there’s nowhere he’d like to be less.

When Teddy’s oath to be an obstruction almost gets Daisy fired, she declares war. But as the two cross swords, they start to discover they both need a little rescuing…

And that maybe, just maybe, love can bloom, even on a battlefield…

The Redemption of Morgan Bright

Verschijningsdatum: 23/04/2024

€12,99

Chris Panatier - Engels - Paperback

From the subversive voice behind The Phlebotomist comes a story that combines the uncanny atmosphere of Don’t Worry Darling with the narrative twists of The Last House on Needless StreetWhat would guilt make you do? Hadleigh Keene died on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylum. The reasons are unknown. Her sister Morgan blames herself.

A year later with the case still unsolved, Morgan creates a false identity, that of a troubled housewife named Charlotte Turner, and goes inside. Morgan quickly discovers that Hollyhock is… not right. She is shaken by the hospital’s peculiar routines and is soon beset by strange episodes. All the while, the persona of Charlotte takes on a life of its own, becoming stronger with each passing day.

As her identity begins unraveling, Morgan finds herself tracing Hadleigh’s footsteps and peering into the places they lead. The terrifying reality of The Redemption of Morgan Bright unfolds over the course of chapters told from the points of view of both Charlotte and Morgan, police interviews, and text messages. File Under: Horror [ Twirl With Them | Sisterly Bond | It’s a Doozy | Be Careful What You Wish For ]

Het spel van de duivel

Verschijningsdatum: 25/04/2024

€15,99

Tahereh Mafi - Nederlands - Paperback

Het derde deel van de Alizeh-serie van de auteur van Touching Juliette!

Alizeh is eindelijk uit de schaduwen gestapt als de verloren gewaande koningin van Arya. Ze heeft haar volk gevonden, en ook haar kroon; het koninkrijk van Toulan is van haar, mits ze met koning Cyrus trouwt en hem uiteindelijk vermoordt. Dat laatste zou gemakkelijk moeten zijn – iedereen weet welke gruwelijke misdaden Cyrus heeft begaan. Bovendien kon dit weleens de enige manier zijn waarop Alizeh de Djinn zou kunnen redden. Maar hoe meer ze over de wrede koning te weten komt, hoe meer ze zich afvraagt of die vreselijke verhalen over hem wel waar zijn.

De terugkeer van Rachel Price

Verschijningsdatum: 25/04/2024

€18,99

Holly Jackson - Nederlands - Paperback

Zestien jaar geleden verdween Rachel Price. Haar toen tweejarige dochter Bel Price was de enige getuige. Ze heeft aan deze ingrijpende gebeurtenis geen herinneringen en ze leeft sindsdien in de schaduw van deze mysterieuze verdwijning. Rachel Price is weg, waarschijnlijk dood, en Bel zou het liefst willen dat iedereen gewoon verder gaat met leven.

De zaak wordt plotseling weer relevant als de familie Price instemt met een true crime-documentaire. En dan gebeurt wat al die tijd onmogelijk had geleken: Rachel Price keert terug. Bels leven zal nooit meer normaal zijn. Haar moeder vertelt een ongelooflijk verhaal over wat haar is overkomen. Letterlijk ongelooflijk, want Bel weet zeker dat Rachel niet de waarheid spreekt. Maar als Rachel liegt, waar heeft ze dan al die tijd gezeten? En belangrijker nog: zou ze gevaarlijk kunnen zijn?

Terwijl de camera’s nog draaien, probeert Bel de waarheid over haar moeder te achterhalen en erachter te komen waarom Rachel werkelijk is teruggekeerd uit de dood.

King of Sloth

Verschijningsdatum: 28/04/2024

€12,99

Ana Huang - Engels - Paperback

Meet the Kings of Sin . . .

The must-read billionaire romance from the bestselling author of the Twisted series. ‘Get ready for all the spice, all the build-up and all the sizzling tension’ GLAMOUR Read King of Sloth now for a steamy reverse grumpy sunshine romance. He’d never wanted anyone enough to chase them . . . until he met her.

Charming, easy-going, and rich beyond belief, Xavier Castillo has the world at his fingertips. He also has no interest in taking over his family’s empire (much to his father’s chagrin), but that hasn’t stopped women from throwing themselves at him . . . unless the woman in question is his publicist. Nothing brings him more joy than riling her up, but when a tragedy forces them closer than ever, he must grapple with the uncertainty of his future – and the realization that the only person immune to his charms is the only one he truly wants.

***Cool, intelligent, and ambitious, Sloane Kensington is a high-powered publicist who’s used to dealing with difficult clients. However, none infuriate – or tempt – her more than a certain billionaire heir, with his stupid dimples and laid-back attitude. She may be forced to work with him, but she’ll never fall for him . . . no matter how fast he makes her heart beat or how thoughtful he is beneath his party persona.

He’s her client, and that’s all he’ll ever be. Right? King of Sloth is a steamy reverse grumpy sunshine billionaire romance. It includes explicit content and profanity.

Morgan Is My Name

Verschijningsdatum: 28/04/2024

€12,99

Sophie Keetch - Engels - Paperback

An atmospheric, feminist retelling of the early life of famed villainess Morgan le Fay, set against the colourful chivalric backdrop of Arthurian legend. ‘The start of what will be a classic trilogy.’ The TimesMy name is Morgan… And there aren’t enough words for all that I am.

When King Uther Pendragon murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage, Morgan refuses to be crushed. Trapped amid the machinations of men in a world of isolated castles and gossiping courts, she discovers secret powers. Vengeful and brilliant, it’s not long before Morgan becomes a worthy adversary to Merlin, influential sorcerer to the king.

But fighting for her freedom, she risks losing everything – her reputation, her loved ones and her life. ‘Beautifully written…with fabulous, nuanced characters!’ Elodie Harper, bestselling author of The Wolf Den trilogy’Evocative, haunting and utterly addictive, this is a book to lose yourself in.’ Tracy Borman, author of The King’s Witch

Orphia And Eurydicius

Verschijningsdatum: 28/04/2024

€12,99

Elyse John - Engels - Paperback

The stunning, gender-flipped novel about love, creativity and the power of speaking out – perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. ‘Poetic and evocative … this story will thrill readers’ PIP WILLIAMS, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words Their love transcends every boundary.

Can it cheat death? Orphia dreams of something more than the warrior crafts she’s been forced to learn. Hidden away on a far-flung island, her blood sings with poetry and her words can move flowers to bloom and forests to grow … but her father, the sun god Apollo, has forbidden her this art.

A chance meeting with a young shield-maker, Eurydicius, gives her the courage to use her voice. After wielding all her gifts to defeat one final champion, Orphia draws the scrutiny of the gods. Performing her poetry, she wins the protection of the goddesses of the arts: the powerful Muses, who welcome her to their sanctuary on Mount Parnassus.

Orphia learns to hone her talents, crafting words of magic infused with history, love and tragedy. When Eurydicius joins her, Orphia struggles with her desire for fame and her budding love. As her bond with the gentle shield-maker grows, she joins the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece.

Facing dragons, sirens and ruthless warriors on the voyage, Orphia earns unparalleled fame, but she longs to return to Eurydicius. Yet she has a darker journey to make – one which will see her fight for her love with all the power of her poetry. Praise for Orphia and Eurydicius’As I read, I imagined the muses beside Elyse John, focusing her mind and guiding her hand.

Happy Medium

Verschijningsdatum: 29/04/2024

€13,99

Sarah Adler - Engels - Paperback

A clever con woman must convince a skeptical, sexy farmer of his property’s resident real-life ghost if she’s to save them all from a fate worse than death, in this delightful new novel from the author of Mrs. Nash’s Ashes .

Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best ( wealthiest) client hires her to investigate the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner’s struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a fraud, but she’d like to think she’s a beneficent one. So if “cleansing” the property will help a nice old man finally retire and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who’s she to say no?

Of course, it turns out said bridge partner isn’t the kindly AARP member Gretchen imagined—Charlie Waybill is young, hot as hell, and extremely unconvinced that Gretchen can communicate with the dead. (Which, fair.) Except, to her surprise, Gretchen finds herself face-to-face with the very real, very chatty ghost that’s been wreaking havoc during every open house. And he wants her to help ensure Charlie avoids the same family curse that’s had Everett haunting Gilded Creek since the 1920s.

Now, Gretchen has one month to convince Charlie he can’t sell the property. Unfortunately, hard work and honesty seem to be the way to win over the stubborn farmer—not exactly Gretchen’s strengths. But trust isn’t the only thing growing between them, and the risk of losing Charlie to the spirit realm looms over Gretchen almost as annoyingly as Everett himself. To save the goat farm, its friendly phantom, and the man she’s beginning to love, Gretchen will need to pull off the greatest con of her being fully, genuinely herself.

A Match to Remember

Verschijningsdatum: 29/04/2024

€24,99

Helen Hawkins - Engels - Hardback

Lizzie Morris is ready for the first day of the rest of her life – she’s starting as a trainee teacher at Cranswell Primary and she’s hopeful that she’ll make the squad for the final of her team’s football tournament. Finally, Lizzie seems to be putting her tragic past behind her and she is sure that her parents would be proud. Coming face to face with Noah Hatton, however, was not part of the plan.

He is still as athletic and handsome as she remembered and seeing him drags up painful memories. Horrifyingly, the Head Teacher then asks the pair of them to organise the school’s Sports Day and thrown together, their chemistry and competitive relationship reignites. Will the unwelcome distraction of Noah derail Lizzie’s teacher training and will she survive this blast from the past?

The Dark Side of the Sky

Verschijningsdatum: 29/04/2024

€14,99

Francesco Dimitri - Engels - Paperback

A page-turning literary fantasy filled with terror and wonder, set in a sun-baked Southern Italy, for fans of The Girls by Emma Cline, The Magus by John Fowles and The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.

It’s been labelled a doomsday cult, but the Bastion might be humanity’s last hope. Amidst all the lies and chaos, come hear their true story, in their own words.

On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion, offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcome new members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them to release their burdens and create a better world, in a journey of self-discovery and spiritual teachings.

But the Bastion has secrets. The Bastion has a destiny. Deep in the Inner Pinewood, a place of real magic and beauty, they are all that stands against the dark forces that would tear the sky wide open

And what of those who call Becca and Ric liars? Cult leaders and con artists? What of those who tried to leave the Bastion? As it becomes increasingly difficult to tell truth from fiction, who can you trust to save us all?

No Season but the Summer

Verschijningsdatum: 29/04/2024

€12,99

Matilda Leyser - Engels - Paperback

What happens when our oldest stories fail us? When all the rules have changed? The classic myth of Persephone — reimagined for a modern-day reader.

Persephone spends six months under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years. But when she emerges this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the gods have lost control. While Demeter tries to regain her powers and fend off her daughter’s husband, who wants to drag his queen back underground for good, Persephone finally gets a taste of freedom. But what will this mean for her mother, her husband, and for the new shoots of life inside her?

Legendes & Lattes (NL Limited Edition)

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€22,99

Travis Baldree - Nederlands - Hardback

De 1e druk van Legends & Lattes verschijnt in Limited Edition met print op snee en een boekenlegger.

Legends & Lattes is hét cozy fantasy-boek van TikTok. De avontuurlijke ork Viv besluit haar zwaard in te ruilen voor een koffiebar in een klein dorp. Rivalen proberen haar plannen te dwarsbomen, maar met nieuwe vrienden, vertrouwen en geluk lijkt Viv niets meer in de weg te staan. Of is ze zelf haar grootste vijand?

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€32,99

Jeneva Rose - Engels - Hardback

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here, comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.

After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate.

Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end.

Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction.

Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.

While going through their parent’s belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends. Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.

The Boyfriend Subscription

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€11,99

Steven Salvatore - Engels - Paperback

Equal parts sizzling, sweet and irresistibly fresh, Steven Salvatore’s The Boyfriend Subscription is the LGBTQIA+Pretty Woman rom-com fans have been waiting for.

What happens when a simple deal gets…complicated?

After losing his marriage and his beloved retail plant business, Teddy Hughes is ready to drown his sorrows—or would be, if he could afford another beer in his favorite dive bar. He has no choice but to uproot his dreams and leave New York for good. And then a gorgeous stranger walks in with cheekbones that could cut glass and a confidence that leaves Teddy panting.

Like the leather harness he wears under his designer suit, Cole Vivien is a mass of contradictions. He’s a successful entrepreneur whose app, VERSTL, allows consumers and sex workers to form real—if temporary—connections. But now Cole is in the unfamiliar position of needing something from someone else. A fake boyfriend can help Cole project a more traditional image for a potential investor. And Teddy—shy, smart and so much hotter than he knows—is perfect for the part. Maybe too perfect.

Cole just has two conditions: no kissing and no falling in love. In exchange for one week together, Teddy will get enough money to get back on his feet, and no messy feelings will be in the mix.

But some rules are made to be broken…

Song of the Six Realms

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€24,99

Judy I. Lin - Engels - Hardback

Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn’t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract.

With no family and no patron, Xue is facing the possibility of a lifetime of servitude playing the qin for nobles that praise her talent with one breath and sneer at her lowly social status with the next. Then one night she is unexpectedly called to the garden to put on a private performance for the enigmatic Duke Meng. The young man is strangely kind and awkward for nobility, and surprises Xue further with an irresistible offer: serve as a musician in residence at his manor for one year, and he’ll set her free of her indenture.

But the Duke’s motives become increasingly more suspect when he and Xue barely survive an attack by a nightmarish monster, and when he whisks her away to his estate, she discovers he’s not just some country noble: He’s the Duke of Dreams, one of the divine rulers of the Celestial Realm. There she learns the Six Realms are on the brink of disaster, and incursions by demonic beasts are growing more frequent.

The Duke needs Xue’s help to unlock memories from her past that could hold the answers to how to stop the impending war… but first Xue will need to survive being the target of every monster and deity in the Six Realms.

Hera

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€25,00

Jennifer Saint - Engels - Hardback

The stage is set, and the witch-hunt is about to begin . . .

*** A spellbinding debut novel perfect for fans of Stacey Halls, Laura Purcell and Bridget Collins. *** England, 1645. After his half-brother dies, aspiring playwright Nicholas Pearce is apprenticed to Judge William Percival, an infamous former witch-hunter who is under pressure to resume his old profession.

In a country torn apart by civil war, with escalating tensions between Catholics and Protestants, Royalists and Roundheads, and rumours of witchcraft, Nicholas hides a secret: the dead sing. He hears their secrets, but will he find the courage to speak up and save innocent lives, even if it means putting himself in great danger? ‘Evocative… weaves sublimely like its witch knots’ SUSAN STOKES CHAPMAN, bestselling author of Pandora ‘Darkly fascinating’ JENNIFER SAINT, bestselling author of Ariadne ‘Wonderfully atmospheric’ ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den ‘Compelling’ LAURA SHEPPERSON, bestselling author of The Heroines ‘A delicious, witchy delight’ HANNAH KANER, bestselling author of Godkiller

The Puzzle Wood

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€21,99

Rosie Andrews - Engels - Hardback

Deep in the woods, something is stirring.

When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a position as governess at remote Locksley Abbey in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she is apprehensive.

It is not the echoing, near empty house with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the Abbey or even the dogs that the owner, Sir Rowland, encourages to stalk the grounds, baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny: her reference and very identity are fraudulent. She is travelling in disguise to investigate the fate of the last governess at the house, who took her own life out in the woods. For that governess was Catherine’s own sister, but until now she had believed Emily had died many years before, when they were just children.

In Rosie Andrew’s extraordinary follow up to the bestselling The Leviathan – one of the biggest debuts of 2022 – an isolated forest becomes the unsettling, beguiling backdrop to a tale of myths, memory and murder.

The Family Fortuna

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€11,99

Lindsay Eagar - Engels - Paperback

Lindsay Eagar’s dazzling YA debut welcomes us backstage at the Family Fortuna circus, where wonders lurk in wait to steal your breath away. You won’t believe your eyes!

Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She’s the most lucrative circus act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna, and Avita feeds on the shrieks, the gasps, the fear. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she’s appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster—all sharp beak and razor teeth, obsidian eyes and ruffled feathers? Determined to be more, Avita devises a plan to snatch freedom out from under the greased mustache of her charismatic father, the domineering proprietor and ringmaster. But will their fragile circus family survive the showdown she has in mind? By turns delightful and disturbing, bawdy and breathtaking, horrific and heartfelt, this electric and exquisitely crafted story about a family like no other challenges our every notion of what it means to be different—subject to an earful of screams—and to step out of the shadows and shine anyway.

The Suspicions of Mr Whisker

Verschijningsdatum: 30/04/2024

€12,99

mandy morton - Engels - Paperback

Hettie Bagshot and Tilly Jenkins are hired to investigate a spate of mysterious deaths at Mr Whisker’s Academy for Wayward Cats. Before Tilly even opens her notebook, the hockey mistress is brutally murdered on the playing field. Faced with an increasing body count, our feline detectives sharpen their claws and set out to catch a serial killer.

Did Pomadora Moseley really murder her family on the rollercoaster at Butlins? Is Clara Toddlebury’s Country Dance Class under threat? And why does Mr Whisker lock himself in his headmaster’s study?Join Hettie and Tilly as they chalk up another case, revealing a school full of scandal, a dormitory of death and the latest Butters’ pie filling.

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November: Goed & Kwaad

november 18, 2024

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De Limited Edition van Wicked, geschreven door Gregory Maguire, is verschenen met:
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In de box vond je onderstaande items:
Collectible pin
Collectible potion boekenlegger gemaakt door @leoraaileen
Een A5-artprint gemaakt door @mysticscribbles_
Totebag van universiteit Sjiz
Ansichtkaart met envelop van Smaragdstad
Muismat in Wicked-stijl

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Recensie – ‘Orakel’ – Thomas Olde Heuvelt

november 15, 2024

Op een mistige winterochtend ontdekken Luca en Emma een mysterieus, achttiende-eeuws schip in een bollenveld bij de duin. Het schip, genaamd Orakel, trekt Emma onweerstaanbaar aan – maar zodra ze aan boord gaat, verdwijnt ze spoorloos. Terwijl geheime diensten in het duister tasten, wordt langzaam duidelijk dat het schip meer is dan een raadsel uit het verleden; het is een dreigend teken voor de toekomst.

Recensie – ‘The Four Seasons Crown’ – B.B. Salem

november 7, 2024

Prinses Vivian wordt uitgehuwelijkt aan Xavier, de Winter Koning en één van de heersers over het elfenrijk. Vivians vader heerst over het mensenrijk en geeft Vivian de opdracht om haar echtgenoot te doden. Voor Xavier is het huwelijk slechts een middel om zijn macht te versterken. Geen goed begin.