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Lisa, a single mother, devotes herself to raising her 16-year-old daughter, Ava. She doesn’t speak of her past or Ava’s absent father. Ava is getting tired of her overprotective mother. She wants to live like a normal teenager. As her life begins to unravel, Lisa knows that the only way she can protect herself and her daughter is to face her fears. Yet courage won’t be enough. She’ll need help from the only person she can trust - her best friend, Marilyn. Between them, they have to save Ava, and to do that, they have to be honest with each other.

Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar, and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she's thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar...who says the kiss was a terrible mistake but who still can't keep his eyes off Louise.

Emma can’t sleep. It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer. Her mother stopped sleeping just before her own fortieth birthday. She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it. Is that what’s happening to Emma?

"Once a cheat, always a cheat," they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts, and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn’t easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.

Natasha doesn't remember how she ended up in the icy water that night, but she does know this—it wasn't an accident, and she wasn't suicidal. Her two closest friends are acting strangely, and Natasha turns to Becca, the best friend she dumped years before when she got popular, to help her figure out what happened.

Louise. Mère célibataire, elle est coincée dans un quotidien minuté. Un soir pourtant elle embrasse un homme dans un bar... sans savoir qu'il est son nouveau patron. David. Psychiatre renommé et dévoué à sa femme, il regrette ce baiser mais ne peut s'empêcher de tomber amoureux de son assistante. Adèle. L'épouse de David semble n'avoir aucun défaut. Si ce n'est de vouloir à tout prix devenir l'amie de Louise... Fascinée par ce couple modèle, Louise se retrouve malgré elle piégée au cœur de leur mariage.

Lisa : Brisée par un passé tragique, elle n'a d'autre rêve qu'une vie sans histoires à l'abri des regards avec sa fille Ava. Ava : Quand l'adolescente sauve un petit garçon de la noyade, et qu'elle devient une héroïne locale, leur monde menace de s'effondrer. Marilyn : Femme parfaite, mari parfait, maison parfaite et boulot idéal. Pourtant, lorsque la vie de sa meilleure amie, Lisa, est sur le point de s'écrouler, la sienne bascule. Un instant aura suffi à bouleverser l'existence de ces trois femmes. Il y a des secrets qu'il vaudrait mieux ne jamais voir ressurgir.

A new killer is stalking the streets of London’s East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him 'the Torso Killer’, this murderer’s work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel crimes. The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames - and the heads are missing….

That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.

After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong. Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily’s alone, so are they happening at all?

Imagine a kingdom poisoned by secrets, a poor girl with dreams of love, a magical fairy godmother and a romantic ball . . . And then imagine them all again . . . Welcome to the story of Cinderella, retold as it always should have been.

Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know. The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what - or who - might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone. Based on the hit series created by Russell T. Davies, Long Time Dead is a prequel....

Imagine a land brimming with magic, a wicked queen, a charming prince, and a poisoned apple . . . And then imagine them all again . . . Welcome to the story of Snow White, retold as it always should have been.

It's Blane Gentle-King's lucky day. A drug-dealing prince who rules a London apartment complex, he's languished the last three months in jail, accused of murder. His cellmate has worn his nerves wire-thin. Over the past weeks, fewer and fewer guards have stalked the prison, and the prisoners' meals have dwindled to one a day. At first Blane fears he and everyone else will starve behind bars, until his right-hand man and childhood friend Charlie Nash shows up to spring him....

In the near future, children are tested for the defective gene. Those who possess it are taken from their homes, torn from their families, and sent to the Death House. Standing alone on a remote island, it looks like a 1940s boarding school. But a school prepares children for life, and these children are destined to die. Idling their time away in pointless classes, supervised by cold matrons, their days have no purpose, because neither do their futures. When the sickness hits, death comes quickly. Until a van arrives with a group of new kids, and everything changes.

Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London - and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. Now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames, and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy.

Imagine a castle lost to history, a brave prince, a beautiful princess and a curse waiting to be broken . . . And then imagine them all again . . .This is the tale of Sleeping Beauty, retold as it always should have been.

After the worst birthday ever, teenager Maddy Wood finds her family life torn apart in a city ravaged by the flesh-eating walking dead. Told through the entries in her personal diary, she is forced to take refuge with other survivors as the zombie virus spreads throughout the country, and Maddy realises for the first time that nobody is safe…

Als Louise in einer Bar den faszinierenden David kennenlernt und der Abend mit einem leidenschaftlichen Kuss endet, weiß sie noch nichts. Weder, dass David ihr zukünftiger Chef, noch, dass er verheiratet ist. Verheiratet mit einer Frau, die sich bald als ihre beste Freundin bezeichnen und ihr Leben von Grund auf verändern wird. Und die ihr nach und nach auch die dunklen Geheimnisse ihrer Ehe enthüllt. Als Louise zu ahnen beginnt, was Adele in Wahrheit im Schilde führt, ist es schon fast zu spät.

A woman sits beside her father's bed as the night ticks away the final hours of his life. As she watches over him, she relives the past week and the events that have brought the family together. Sitting through her lonely vigil, she remembers what she saw all those years ago, the thing they found her screaming for. And as she peers through the window, she finds herself hoping it will come again.