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There’s a very particular reason why Chloe Sinclair hasn’t met her Mr Right: he doesn’t exist. And the reason he doesn’t exist? The wrong people meeting at the wrong time throughout history. Now, Chloe has to travel back in time to matchmake like her love life depends on it. Present-day Chloe is staying at the iconic Hotel Del Coronado – part historic landmark, part Californian fairytale. Guided here by a very special friendship, Chloe embarks on a magical journey through the decades: from the Victorian era to the glamorous Roaring Twenties, stopping off in the Fabulous Fifties before grooving into the eighties. Her adventures of the heart go far beyond her wildest imaginings, as Chloe soon learns that true love is all a matter of timing. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529433715 • Author: Belinda Jones • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm

Two sworn enemies. One inconvenient truce When the beloved Duke of Severn is murdered, rumours are that Henrietta – his young and scandalous wife – was behind it. Especially once she goes on the run! But Henrietta is not alone. Theo Hawke, her sworn enemy and ruthless journalist, is on her trail determined to be the first to get the scoop. With no other choice Henrietta presents a truce: if he helps her unmask the true identity of the killer then he can publish whatever he likes. Except when their inconvenient truce begins to cause inconvenient feelings, it’s not just Henrietta’s reputation at stake but her heart too . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398722224 • Author: Felicity George • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.69 x 12.7 x 2.29 cm

It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake . . . . . . and it is yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lie the answers, and you don't have a choice but to find them . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405949842 • Author: Gillian McAllister • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.9 x 13 x 2.5 cm

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies – never to be seen again. With too many unanswered questions, Dani simply can’t accept Theo’s disappearance and reports him missing, even though no one else seems concerned, including Theo’s father. Ten years later, Dani returns to the college as a history professor. With her mother suffering from severe dementia, and her past at St Edmunds still haunting her, she’s trying for a new start. But not all is as it seems behind the cloistered college walls – meanwhile, Dani is hiding secrets of her own. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529419252 • Author: Jo Spain • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm

ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. FOUR GUILTY WOMEN. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event. Because only one of them may have taken Milo - but they could all be blamed . . . IN A COMMUNITY FULL OF SECRETS, WHO IS REALLY AT FAULT? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780552177986 • Author: Andrea Mara • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There's been an accident: she hit a man with her car and he's dead. She's overcome with terror - fearing years in a foreign jail away from her child. She asks for your help. It wasn't her fault, not really. She'd cover for you, so will you do the same for her? But when the police come calling, the lies start. And you each begin to doubt your trust in one another. What really happened that night? Who is lying to who? And who will be the first to crack? . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405942447 • Author: Gillian McAllister • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.7 cm

It is a truth universally acknowledged... that a widowed woman in possession of a large Georgian home but no money for tea or toilet paper must find a creative solution. For 70-year-old Marion Gaynor, the answer lies in opening her doors-and her heart-to two unexpected housemates: Felicity Booth, a brilliant but frazzled PhD student, balancing research and the chaos of academia, and Lana Rolls, newly separated and searching for a fresh start. Together, these three women discover that friendship blooms in the unlikeliest of places, and the bonds they form will change their lives forever. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398717886 • Author: Kate Forster • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

Trouble is never far away . . . The Women’s Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco’s finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano takes the case. But assigning blame is made impossible due to the victim’s chaotic version of events – and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing memory. As Yuki argues the toughest case of her career, Lindsay must chase down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Women’s Murder Club short a bridesmaid . . . or two. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529160130 • Author: James Patterson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm

Online Only! Get more for less with The Work’s expertly hand-picked Book Bundles. These are a collection of great quality products, grouped together to give you amazing value. Enter the world of Phantasma with this two-book bundle of Kaylie Smith’s romantasy series, Wicked Games! Includes: • Phantasma • Enchantra Product Information: • Author: Kaylie Smith • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Book Bundle

Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith. Why? Because she's the best criminal defence attorney in the Hamptons - the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she's tough. She's strong. As Jane is preparing to defend a high-profile client accused of a triple homicide, she's also hired to revive a cold case - a cluster of unsolved murders. Then another bombshell lands. A devastating medical diagnosis. Terminal. She's got a year to live. But for now, she has a trial to win. Unless one of her many enemies kills her first. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529160055 • Author: James Patterson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.1 x 2.4 cm

A heart-warming story about how a letter with surprising news changes everything September was adopted when she was fifteen months old. She knows nothing about her early life, but she grew up safe and loved. Now, though, it’s just September and her feckless boyfriend Shaun. And she’s at her wits’ end. There’s never enough money, and she has nothing to look forward to. Then a letter comes. September has inherited a house – and Shaun can see endless opportunities if she sells it. But, almost as soon as she sets foot in the garden, September knows she cannot let this home go. And she longs to find out more about the mysterious Lucia who left it to her. When the members of Lucia’s book club arrive, for the first time September hears stories of her mother, of the aunt who adored her, and of the secrets that broke the family apart. And she begins to make new friends. September feels safe here. But money alone can’t bring contentment. September is at the start of a journey full of surprises, shocks – and opportunities, if she’s brave enough . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035416059 • Author: Stephanie Butland • Publisher: Hodder Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm

Discover the gripping, Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller that will keep you hooked to the very end. Two children get on the train. Only one gets off... No one saw it happen. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. Everyone is lying. It's only when you reach the next stop that you truly begin to panic. Because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one. Someone is to blame. Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804990780 • Author: Andrea Mara • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 cm

It takes a special family to turn a home into a nightmare. Since her husband’s unsolved murder three years ago, Iris Blodgett’s life has unraveled. Awash in grief and buried in debt, she can’t pay her mortgage—and now that she’s lost her job, she has no idea how she’ll provide for her unruly teenage daughter, Ellory. Facing eviction, Iris turns to her new beau, prominent architect Hugh Smoll, for a shoulder to cry on. But the seemingly perfect Hugh offers her something more: an invitation to move in to his mother’s centuries-old mansion while he renovates the property. It seems like the perfect solution, but when Iris and Ellory arrive at Ravencliff, the family inside isn’t quite what they expected. Iris didn’t even know Hugh had siblings, much less that they’d all be living together. With repairs underway, the house gives up its dark secrets one by one. Before long, Iris unearths a chilling family history—and the terrifying reason she and Ellory were invited in the first place… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780778334460 • Author: Katie Garner • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.39 x 2.41 cm

After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, intelligence officer Amy Cornwall is eager to return home to her husband and their young daughter. But as soon as she steps into the house, she knows that something is terribly wrong. HER FAMILY IS MISSING The kidnappers leave a message: if she wants to see her husband and daughter alive again, Amy must complete a near impossible task...and she has 48 hours to do it. SHE'LL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BRING THEM HOME Alone, afraid and officially AWOL, Amy will sacrifice everything to find her family – her career, her reputation, maybe even her own life... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781787462212 • Author: James Patterson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.6 cm

The highly anticipated follow-up to the TikTok sensation Unsteady which follows hopeless romantic Ro and player – on and off the ice – Freddy as they form an unexpected bond. Matt 'Freddy' Fredderic is all smiles – at least on the surface. On the ice, he’s the star left winger for the Waterfell Wolves with a stellar reputation in bed. But in the classroom, he’s retaking failed classes and struggling with dyslexia, dyscalculia and ADHD. Now tied to a National Hockey League contract upon graduation, Freddy needs help to pass biology. Ro Shariff has a history of terrible luck in love – and now, she is Freddy’s tutor. Trying to convince herself that she’s very happy with her on-again/off-again boyfriend, Ro is desperate for real affection. As her tutoring sessions with Freddy lead to late-night phone calls and an understanding of each other’s pains, a friendship emerges between them. And, inevitably, a wistful secret pining hidden by them both. Together, they will show each other how easy it is to love the right person, no matter their flaws. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398537118 • Author: Peyton Corinne • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.78 cm

At this school, the first lesson is survival. Dr Brandt Savage's plans for his sabbatical from the University of Chicago change drastically when he is enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor is relentless in her lessons. She's also his captor. Savage is forced to undertake intense physical and mental training, with no idea why he was chosen or what is expected of him. But as he learns more about his abductor, Savage discovers just how deeply entwined their lives are. And why, together, they must make a pledge: Do right by all, and wrong to no one. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529159837 • Author: James Patterson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2 cm

Rhys is desperate to feel anything. Sadie wants to stop feeling so much. Rhys Koteskiy is back—at least, he’s supposed to be. During last year’s Frozen Four, the Waterfell University hockey captain and NHL legacy took a brutal hit that left him with a concussion and a new discomfort on the ice. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks every time he attempts to skate, Rhys wonders if he’ll ever play again—or if he’ll ever want to. Sadie Brown is staying focused this semester—no matter what. Currently drowning in debt, custody hearings for her younger brothers, and skating practices, she’s just trying to make it to the next day. A spitfire figure skater known for her bad attitude and frequent disappearing acts, Sadie has a reputation on campus. And it’s not a pretty one. When she accidentally witnesses one of the golden boy hockey captain’s panic attacks and attempts to help him, a strange sort of understanding strikes up between them. No questions asked. Just comfort. But Rhys finds himself drawn to Sadie. Where he feels empty, a shell of the man and player he was before, Sadie is so full of everything, it bursts from her; every emotion she feels seems like it’s blasted at max volume. Rhys is desperate to feel anything. Sadie wants to stop feeling so much. But healing doesn’t mix with secrets, and they’re both skating on thin ice. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398537088 • Author: Peyton Corinne • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.2 cm

The epic sequel to the bestselling TikTok sensation We Hunt the Flame , by the #1 bestselling author of A Tempest of Tea This is YA fantasy at it's best. Lush, hopeful and devestating, We Free the Stars is Hafsah Faizal's spellbinding conclusion to the Sands of Arawiya duology, set in a world inspired by ancient Arabia. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series. Darkness surged in his veins. Power bled from her bones. The battle is over, but the war is just beginning. Low on resources and allies alike, Zafira and Nasir are determined to finish their mission; to restore magic to their kingdom. But the land teems with the return of an ancient evil, and as Nasir fights to command the magic in his blood, Zafira battles a very different darkness. And yet, in spite of everything, they find themselves falling into a love they can't stand to lose. Time is running out and if order is to be restored, sacrifices will have to be made . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035058761 • Author: Hafsah Faizal • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 624

Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, We Hunt the Flame is a breathtaking story of magic, conquering fear and taking identity into your own hands. From Hafsah Faizal, the number one bestselling author of A Tempest of Tea. There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence. Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she risks everything to provide for her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death. A feared assassin who is forever bound to the command of his father, the sultan. Both are legends in their kingdom – but neither wants to be. And when Zafira embarks on a dangerous quest to return magic to their suffering land, Nasir is sent on a similar mission. But as their journey unfolds, an ancient evil begins to stir . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035058754 • Author: Hafsah Faizal • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 528

Welcome to Enchantra. There’s only one rule: Never, ever trust your heart. When Genevieve Grimm‘s mother is killed, Genevieve wants answers no one can give… until she receives an invitation to Enchantra, a cursed palace filled with temptations and illusions. Arrogant and dangerously handsome, Rowin Silver meets her at the door and refuses to let her inside. But Genevieve finds her own way in… And soon realizes her mistake. Enchantra is a twisted labyrinth of marble and thorns, where Rowin’s family are trapped forever in a deadly game. Now, Genevieve must win or die. Rowin offers her a deal. They can compete together… if they convince everyone watching that they’re desperately in love. Genevieve knows she can’t trust Rowin, but she’ll do whatever it takes to survive. As they hunt and hide together, Genevieve tries to ignore the desire burning between them. She absolutely cannot fall for this man. Cannot forget that she’s only pretending to be in love. After all, it was Rowin who taught her Enchantra’s first rule: Never, ever trust your heart. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836182559 • Author: Kaylie Smith • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm