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Laurel Hawthorne has worked hard to create a good life for her family, determined not to raise her daughter in the subdued, secretive household that she herself grew up in. And everything is just fine until the night she is awoken by a ghost in her bedroom; the ghost of 14-year-old neighbour Molly, whose body is now floating, face-down and lifeless in Laurel's swimming pool . . . The whole town thinks it was an accident, but Laurel knows in her bones that there is something more sinister afoot. And that's when her perfect world begins to crumble. With the help of her eccentric sister, Laurel sets off on a mission to investigate what really happened to the girl who stopped swimming. But along the way she starts to uncover the truth about her family, and just what did happen in the woods all those years ago - on a day she has managed to blank out, until now . . .

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Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. 'Wonderful – suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' LEE CHILD 'I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough' CLARE MACKINTOSH It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighbourhood, knows exactly what that is. Roux promises she will go away – if Amy plays by her rules. But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner. 'Once I started, I couldn't put this one down' CHRISTINA DALCHER 'Wow – what a book! I devoured it in one day' RACHEL ABBOTT The new edge-of-your-seat domestic thriller from Joshilyn Jackson – Mother May I – is out in May 2021 and available to pre-order now.

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When Lena Fleet goes to college, she makes three promises to God: she will stop fornicating with every boy she meets; never tell another lie and never, ever go back to her hometown of Possett, Alabama. All she wants from God in return is that He makes sure the body is never found...But ten years later, it looks like God's going back on His deal. Lena's high school archenemy appears on her doorstep, looking for the golden haired football god who disappeared during their senior year. To make matters worse, her African American boyfriend has issued her with an ultimatum - introduce him to her lily-white family or he's gone...While she would rather burn in a fire than let him meet her steel magnolia Aunt Florence, her half-mad Mama, her sweet-as-pecan-pie cousin Clarice and the rest of her eccentric and racist family, Lena realises it is time to go home to Alabama and confront the past once and for all...

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Nacida en Alabama, Paula Vauss pasó la primera década de su vida en la carretera junto a su joven madre de espíritu libre, Kai, una cuenta cuentos itinerante que mezclaba la mitología hindú con la tradición oral sureña para reinventar su historia mientras vagaban. Pero todo, incluyendo el nombre de nacimiento de Paula, Kali Jai, cambió cuando ella relató su propia historia: una que llevó a Kai a la cárcel y a Paula a sistemas de hogares temporales. Separadas, guardando cada una sus propios secretos, el intenso vínculo que antes compartían quedó fracturado. Ahora Paula se ha reencarnado en una dura abogada de divorcios con un exitoso bufete en Atlanta. Aunque no ha visto a Kai en quince años, sigue haciendo pagos a esa deuda kármica, hasta el día en que su último cheque fue devuelto en el correo, junto con una nota enigmática: «Voy a hacer un viaje, Kali. Voy a volver al principio; la muerte no es el fin. Tú serás el fin. Nos volveremos a encontrar, y habrá nuevas historias. Ya sabes cómo funciona el karma». Entonces, el secreto más guardado de Kai llega literalmente a la puerta de Paula, llevando su vida al caos y cambiándola de ser hija única a ser hermana mayor. Desesperada por encontrar a su madre antes de que sea demasiado tarde, Paula emprende un viaje de descubrimiento que la llevará de nuevo al pasado y a los rincones más profundos de su corazón. Con la ayuda de su examante Birdwine, un detective privado emocionalmente volátil que sigue estando enamorado de ella, esta brillante mujer, experta en familias destrozadas, ahora tiene que descubrir cómo restaurar una: la suya propia. Esta es una historia sobre la historia misma, cómo los relatos que contamos nos conectan, nos quebrantan y nos definen, y cómo los finales y los principios que escogemos pueden destruirnos… y restaurarnos. Con toques de humor y una perspectiva conmovedora, la querida autora best seller del New York Times, Joshilyn Jackson, está en su mejor momento.

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'Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month 'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian 'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street Journal It's every mother's worst nightmare. 'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME. Tell no one. Do not call the police. Do not call your husband. Be at your house by 5:15 PM. Or he’s gone for good...' To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime, caught up in a tangled web of secrets that threatens to destroy the perfect life she has built. Mother May I is a pulse-racing, heart-pounding thriller that will have you turning the pages in the race to save Bree's baby, and find the kidnapper. Praise for Joshilyn Jackson 'Jackson writes the kind of book that will set even the most blameless on edge, leaving us to wonder who might know our imperfect histories' Christina Dalcher 'A master of domestic suspense' Entertainment Weekly 'Wonderful – suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' Lee Child

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