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"e;I remember how things used to be. I had a garden with flowers in it. I've seen the ocean, I've eaten real food. Now all we've got is this."e;Bermondsey's inhabitants are shut in, all their needs met in automated tower blocks. No one goes outside because the streets regularly flood. Just to keep rich people on the other side of the river safe.Idonny's days are spent answering pointless online surveys for luxury goods she'll never see, her nights in the arms of tough guys who only see her as a warm body.Everything shifts when Idonny meets Kaver, an injured stranger who needs her help. For the first time, she defies her current boyfriend to help Kaver. She reaches out to her neighbors in the tower block, banding together against the gangs prowling the hallways.Then, the government begins withdrawing resources from her community and food becomes scarce. Idonny tries to get involved in the underground economy providing for her fellow residents, but they don't trust her. And her forbidden friendship with Kaver deepens, offering her a chance at real love—if she's brave enough to take it.When violence between rival gangs erupts around her, Idonny must decide whether to stay enmeshed as the ever-loyal girlfriend or strike out on her own.

She loathes him but the cult beckons. 1908, the height of the British Empire. Clara's autonomy is shattered when her long-absent husband summons her to join him at his eerie sect's headquarters, insulated on a sparsely inhabited island in the Bahamas. After a harrowing sea voyage, Clara and her children disembark into an unfamiliar landscape and climate. The children explore the marvels and mysteries of Andros Island and develop friendships with a Bahamian family, while Clara struggles to find her place as a woman within the cult.But what seems at first to be a spiritual haven for Clara reveals itself to be a monster-worshiping cult intent on draining her family of more than their fortune.Must Clara give up her quest for independence to protect her children from the cult's depravity?What lies beneath the surface of Andros Island?With themes of Spiritualism, motherhood, and female empowerment, The Cultist's Wife will appeal to fans of The Ghost Woods and The Quickening.299 pp.

An ambitious young milliner. A shy noblewoman fleeing an arranged marriage. Love is a risk neither can afford.Solange doesn't have time for love. She's too busy working her way up in the Parisian millinery trade. Her goal: to become rich and lift her family out of poverty. So when a beautiful aristo whirls into the millinery fascinated by hat making, Solange isn't interested. Or so she tells herself. Louise-Marie hates the fancy parties she's dragged to at Versailles and never wanted to marry. She just wanted to be left alone, making hats. Running away from home to become a milliner seemed like a good idea but the life of a working-class shop girl is harder than she imagined. And her new coworker doesn't seem to like her much. When they're thrown together in the cramped backroom of a millinery shop and a shared garret room, tensions fray.Buy the book now and immerse yourself in this cosy, low-spice historical sapphic romance set in a Belle Epoque That Never Was, 19th century Paris with a hint of steampunk.