Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Nobody will touch what belongs to us, including the women we claim. Brutal. Fierce. Relentless. Everything I do I do for my family name. Now they’re giving me another task—take the bride my father chooses for me. They call it business. I call it revenge. Only one empire with mafia ties can rule. I’ll use her as a pawn. Break her down. She’s already damaged from the life she’s led. But then something happens. She rises from the ashes…and learns how to break me too. **A hero with an out-of-control possessive streak and the woman forced to be his bride. The claws come out, but the ...

He isn’t the man I wanted. But he might be the man I need. I’ve never made a choice for myself. Not a single decision about my life. And who I will marry is no different. I’m not surprised when my family bargains me to the most ruthless mafia family in Chicago. Am I supposed to be happy that they paid the highest price for me because I'm a virgin? Then the tables turn… Suddenly I’m accused of an unspeakable crime that breaks my family in two. Nobody believes I didn’t pull that trigger. One man doesn’t care if I did, and that confuses me most of all. Those intense nights doing ...

He's next in line to rule the Irish mob, and he’ll do anything to make me his. I’ve been sheltered from the dangers of my family’s criminal activity for most of my life, but when one mistake puts me in debt to the Irish, I have no choice but to accept responsibility and agree to their demands. As Declan MacKenzie’s fiancée. Rumors paint the notorious womanizer as ruthless, wicked and devastatingly handsome. But I don’t know what to believe. You see, I’ve actually run into the Irish mobster before. The Declan I met was intelligent, a fellow art lover, and undeniably gorgeous. ...

I was known as the traitor's daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letter Z, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian's reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore - until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it.

Sienna. It's been ten years since he left me with nothing but a pendant, a photo, and a broken heart. He was but a ghost, there one minute and gone the next. I picked myself up, dried my eyes, and built my life without him. Now he has come back into my life like a raging storm surrounded by crime and bloodshed. Elio. Ten years ago, I had to leave behind the only light I had in my life. Without her, I live in darkness. Everything I did had been to protect her. Now that she is back and we have a second chance, they will learn one way or another you do not touch my queen.

I was ordered to take Zoey as my bride. But fact is, I wanted to bind her to me in all ways. Now she’s slapped divorce papers in front of me and told me to get out. Except she’s in trouble, and it’s a given that I’ll protect what’s mine. Even if she doesn’t want me to. What I discover is a depth to my wife that I never imagined, and now I can’t sign those papers or let her go. Until I find out she’s betrayed me. The blackest hearts still beat…and mine drums with revenge against the people trying to end my family’s reign. And my disobedient wife will find out what my ...

I’m a bride he doesn’t want to claim. And I will do anything in my power to keep it that way. They call me Gabriel’s girl, but say it to my face and I will cut your heart out. The Rossis are ruthless. They will crush anyone in their path to the top. That happens to be me. But joke’s on them—I’m far from whole and have nothing to lose. Some say that makes me dangerous too. I won’t be a pawn or a plaything. Unfortunately, my heart didn’t get the memo. If arranged marriage and organized crime with dirty jerk alpha heroes is your thing, 1-click to read this book if you dare to ...

A one-night stand lands her in the middle of a mafia war. Rachael’s brand of innocence is as refreshing as it is alluring. Rarely do I meet someone who doesn’t know the Moran name. I’d love to keep her in the dark, but unfortunately my enemies have other plans. Let my little rabbit run. There’s nowhere she can go that I won’t follow, and not even a bullet is going to stop me. She’s mine to claim, mine to own, and mine to protect. A sexy stranger, one night of passion, no complications. That’s all Vonni was ever supposed to be. Now there’s no avoiding him, not even in my new ...

He’s a brutal mafia boss, my new patient…and soon to be my baby’s daddy. After his car accident, I was the doctor assigned to the ruthless mafia boss, Sebastian Petrosky. His sinfully wicked smile drew me in, and those haunting blue eyes held me captive as I treated him. I became more than his doctor– I became his obsession. Soon, he claimed me. I come undone at the mere brush of his fingers against my flesh. He lured me deep into his shadowy world, blurring ethical lines that could cost me my medical career if anyone found out. Now I’m in so deep, I may never make it out alive. I...

Heath She was supposed to be my wife. But betrayal severed ties. Now she shows up begging for sanctuary from the Russian mafia after her. I want to slam the door in her face. Until I look into those eyes I knew so well in our younger days. When we were promised to each other. Serenity Heath Connolly. Son of a mafia kingpin. Rumored to be the most dangerous of the Connolly triplets. I believed I’d call him husband. That all changed. He’s the only one who can keep me alive. But I see in his eyes he doesn’t care. I'll do anything if he’ll help me—even be his little toy. My life is in...