or a dark love that defies the gods themselves. Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire – her home, her humanity and, most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her, redemption feels impossible.

When Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a brutal past, she is forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself. But Mische is offered a chance at salvation by her sun god. All she has to do is betray Asar – and kill the god of death.

In the underworld, Mische and Asar must face treacherous trials, colossal beasts and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts. But most dangerous of all is the alluring call of the darkness, and Mische’s forbidden attraction to Asar. As the moment of her betrayal looms, Mische is forced to choose between faith and love – a decision that could lead to her redemption or her ruin … The Songbird and the Heart of Stone is the third book of the New York Times bestselling Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent, and the first book in the stunning Shadowborn Duet.

Percy needs three recommendation letters from the gods before his final year in high school comes to an end. And one thing Percy knows, the gods on Mount Olympus don’t do anything for free. To secure his second letter, Percy and his friends Annabeth and Grover agree to a new quest – pet-sitting for the goddess Hecate while she’s away over Halloween.

They just need to follow her simple rules:Look after the pets like their lives depend on it (because they do)Don’t touch anything – especially Hecate’s magic potions! See points 1 and 2 But when Grover’s curiosity gets the better of him, the trio find themselves with a giant goat, a destroyed house, and Hecate’s (terrifying and potentially deadly) pets on the loose in New York City. Now the trio have twenty-four hours to find the pets and restore the mansion to order – or face the full fury of Hecate and her horrifying three-heads.

Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. After some wayward years of bad men and bad decisions, she’s promised herself a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good.

She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband’s colleagues at the Embassy. And Teddy is good, until the Fourth of July, when her new life explodes with the fireworks above her head. She is caught on camera in the arms of the American ambassador just moments after spotting a man from the darkest corner of her past across the room.

There it is: the evidence of her depravity on film. Trying to recover the photographs and keep her reputation intact, Teddy descends into the dark underbelly of the city… but is she in over her head?

He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge.

Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears. Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision.

The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America’s own late capitalist mythos. Lyon’s reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it.

And as Iggy and Cal venture further into the trees, they hear whispers of a fading green magic, and scampering animals seem to be leading them to a secret deep at the heart of the wood. Could it be that the wood needs them just as much as they need it? Are you ready to join the Treetoppers? Then come on in – the Green is waiting!

Almost. Sure, she signed up for having to deal with the sordidness of pretty much any virtual space, but as she begins to explore the intricate worlds that she moderates, she notices two deeply troubling things: that there might be something much darker built into the very code of the company, and that William, technically her new boss, a man whose barriers are as mighty as her own, might just be that long-forgotten thing… Girlie’s type.

La trentenne Girlie Delmundo lavora come moderatrice di contenuti, segnalando e rimuovendo il peggio che arriva su internet. È anche una delle migliori nel suo campo: distaccata, risoluta, forse perché ha imparato per necessità a reprimere tutte le sue emozioni fin da bambina. Quindi non sorprende nessuno quando l’azienda di social media per cui lavora le offre un cospicuo aumento di stipendio e un ufficio per iniziare a moderare la sua nuova impresa: parchi a tema in realtà virtuale, simulazioni lussureggianti e pressoché perfette di civiltà scomparse da tempo. Girlie accetta il lavoro, e farsi pagare per passare le giornate a vagare tra la folla durante le giostre medievali o a esplorare la romantica Rive Gauche di Parigi sembra troppo bello per essere vero.

Quasi. Certo, aveva accettato di dover affrontare la squallida realtà di quasi tutti gli spazi virtuali, ma quando inizia a esplorare i mondi intricati che modera, nota due cose profondamente inquietanti: che potrebbe esserci qualcosa di molto più oscuro insito nel codice stesso dell’azienda, e che William, tecnicamente il suo nuovo capo, un uomo le cui barriere sono potenti quanto le sue, potrebbe essere proprio quella cosa dimenticata da tempo… il tipo da femminuccia.

When she manages to contact Bucky she can’t believe her luck. Over in Chicago, Bucky Bronco is down on his luck – and has been since the loss of his beloved wife Maybelle. The best he can hope for is to make ends meet, and try and stay high.

But then an unexpected invitation arrives, from someone he’s never met, to come to somewhere he’s never heard of. With nothing to lose – and in need of the cash – Bucky boards a plane. And so Bucky finds himself in rainy Scarborough, where everyone seems to know who is – preparing to play for an audience for the first time in nearly half a century.

Wise, hilarious and profound, Rare Singles is an unforgettable story about the power of music and friendship to bring us back to ourselves.

All of you are young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside world. You realise that cameras are tracking your every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans. Soon, ten men will arrive on foot – if they all survive the journey.

What will you have to do to win? And what happens to the losers? The Compound is an addictive literary satire on modern excess: it holds a twisted mirror up to our obsession with winning, losing and, above all, watching.

Ti svegli in un complesso residenziale in mezzo al deserto, insieme ad altre nove donne.

Siete tutte giovani, tutte belle, tutte desiderose di fuggire dalla povertà opprimente, dai disordini politici e dalla catastrofe ambientale del mondo esterno. Ti rendi conto che le telecamere stanno seguendo ogni tua mossa, trasmettendo tutto a milioni di fan dei reality. Presto arriveranno dieci uomini a piedi, se sopravviveranno tutti al viaggio.

Cosa dovrai fare per vincere? E cosa succederà ai perdenti? The Compound è un’avvincente satira letteraria sugli eccessi moderni: mette in scena uno specchio distorto della nostra ossessione per la vittoria, la sconfitta e, soprattutto, l’osservazione.

The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time. Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end — and secrets are revealed.

Full of the fascinating, entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities, dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish, flamboyant prose, Philippa Snow’s first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.