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Linh’s world is bound by the ancient traditions of her father, the master physician of Tam Ky. But when the Vietnam War arrives at her doorstep, her ancestral home is requisitioned by American forces. Among the occupiers is Thomas Walker, a reluctant combat medic who draws a yellow chalk line across her floorboards to separate his men from her...

DCI Ellie Blackwell trusts the certainties of history, the clean lines of a 17th-century map. Her life is a fortress of order built against the chaos of her job. But when she’s called to the scene of a wealthy developer’s apparent suicide, the clues are a maddening mess of contradictions. At the heart of it all: a three-line Japanese poem that...

In 1868, Japan is a nation tearing itself apart. The age of the samurai is ending. The Emperor’s modern, rifle-wielding army marches to erase 700 years of warrior tradition, and their final target is the fiercely loyal Aizu clan, the last bastion of the old world. Based on the extraordinary true story of the Boshin War, this novel brings to life...

Some secrets are kept in the heart. Hers were kept in a diary.

To the world, Akiko Sato was a success story in the cutthroat world of Tokyo finance. But behind the serene smiles and perfectly executed strategy was a private war, chronicled in the pages of a book no one else was ever meant to read.

It reveals a game played not with money, but...

In 1930s Tokyo, a young woman uncovers a secret that rewrites her family’s heroic samurai past. Now, the truth her grandmother has spent a lifetime protecting might just be the death of them both.

She was raised on a legend of glorious death and battlefield honour. But when a hidden document exposes a link between that legend and a modern...

In the heart of occupied France, the Gestapo is hunting a ghost. They only know one thing about their most dangerous enemy: her limp.

Sent to Lyon, a city built for conspiracy, an American spy with a wooden leg codenamed “Cuthbert” begins a one-woman war against the Third Reich. Under the guise of a naïve journalist, Virginia Hall orchestrates...

From the rain-slicked streets of Oregon to the burning skies of Canton, Hazel chases a single, impossible dream: to fly. When World War II erupts, she joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), a band of pioneers ferrying lethal warbirds across a divided nation.

In the cockpit of a P-63 Kingcobra, Hazel finds her freedom. But on the ground,...

Alex Zhang didn’t build a weapon. She built a roommate.

In the damp silence of a Cambridge boathouse, renegade scientist Alex Zhang downloads a Level-5 intelligence into a decommissioned hospice robot smuggled from China. Her name is Laura. She can calculate the trajectory of a falling star, recite every poem ever written, and analyze the...

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, a punishment for being too sharp has landed her on the Gnome Squad, investigating the absurd serial theft of garden ornaments. But a call from the university’s gleaming Advanced Computing Laboratory pulls her from bureaucratic exile into a world of chillingly clean logic and a death that is anything but simple.

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The death is ruled a tragic accident, but a single, cryptic clue left at the scene suggests something far more sinister: a playing card, tucked into a copy of The Bell Jar. It’s a signature Maeve recognizes, an echo of the case that destroyed her career. Now, she must navigate a campus where ambition is a blood sport and the brightest students...

The motto of Blackwood University is carved in stone: Veritas vos liberabit. The truth will set you free.

But when university archivist Dr. Isobel Reed begins to question the official story behind a student’s tragic death, she discovers that some truths are meant to stay buried. Her search for answers pulls her deep into the library’s forbidden...

When a renowned Egyptologist is found dead in the British Museum, DCI Ellie Blackwell and DI Ben Carter are plunged into a dangerous new war, fought not over the interpretation of history, but its very ownership. As they hunt a shadowy group of cultural guardians, they must also navigate a ruthless circle of private collectors and political...

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, every crime is a map waiting to be read. But when a priceless Roman artifact vanishes from Hadrian’s Wall, replaced by a single, chilling rune, she finds herself facing a landscape of violence she’s never charted.

The symbolic thefts soon turn to ritualistic murder. A celebrated historian is found dead, a Norse curse...

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, history is a map to the truth. But when a renowned archaeologist is found dead in the bleak winter Fens, the clues left on his body—a single pressed poppy and a line of haunting war poetry—point to a history that kills.

The ritualistic signature is an echo of a past case, pulling Blackwell and her team into the orbit of...

Hiromi’s life was going nowhere fast, until the day it went everywhere, all at once. All it took was a stolen tube of Pringles, a mysterious inheritance from a mad uncle, and one very, very bad decision.

One minute, she’s a stressed-out IT worker in London. The next, she’s the unwilling owner of a doomsday weapon, the reluctant leader of a crew...

Captain Kaelen’s greatest enemy isn’t the fleet hunting her—it’s the power burning in her veins. After a triumphant victory nearly ends in tragedy, she must choose between her quest for vengeance and the safety of the man she loves.

Meanwhile, a spy and a warrior, enemies by birth and lovers by circumstance, hunt a conspiracy in the shadows. Both...

Mryandia is fracturing. As nations arm for war, a secret conspiracy known as the True Ascendancy orchestrates a deadlier symphony of shadows, and its discordant melody threatens to unmake the world.

In the war-torn north, a hardened commander must forge an alliance with her sworn enemy to survive a conflict she no longer understands. In the...

Lyra of Oakhaven practices an alchemy of the soul, her ‘untamed lacquer’ a living song that defies the Guild’s rigid formulas —and marks her as a heretic. Bound to the mysterious Listener, her every success is shadowed by the knowledge that her sister’s life hangs in the balance.

Then comes Lord Cassian Valerius: handsome, arrogant, and the...

In the heart of Kyoto, an ancient war is fought in shadows. Two rivals hold the key.

Anya Akatori and Kenji Kagehebi are bound by duty to their feuding clans. But when a chance encounter forces them together, they begin to unravel a conspiracy far deeper and more terrifying than their inherited rivalry. A sinister organization known as the Karasu...

In a realm teetering on the precipice of a new, terrifying age, where arcane science births weapons of unimaginable power and the very fabric of existence can be unmade by a single, resonant note, destinies collide.

From the gilded cages of treacherous courts, a young noblewoman, cursed with an unnervingly keen eye, uncovers a conspiracy that...