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After the bloom by Leslie ShimotakaharaLily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins to carry out her own investigation. In the course of searching for her mom, she is forced to confront a labyrinth of secrets surrounding the family’s internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War, their postwar immigration to Toronto, and the father she has never known.
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Goodnight from London by Jennifer RobsonAn ambitious American journalist determined to start a new life an ocean away from her past relocates to London in 1940 to report on World War II, only to lose everything and find herself dependent on strangers during the horrors of the Blitz.
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Fractured by Catherine McKenzieAfter moving with her family across the country to Cincinnati to get away from a stalker, novelist Julie Prentice seems to click with her new neighbor, until a series of misunderstandings lead Julie and her family to become the victims of troubling harassment
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The only child by Andrew PyperThe award-winning author of The Demonologist reimagines the origins of gothic literature's founding masterpieces—Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula—in the story of a man who may be an actual monster, and the only woman who has a chance of finding him.
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Bonus Reads: Spotlight on Chevy Stevens
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Never let you go by Chevy StevensEnding a marriage to an abusive man sentenced to prison, Lindsey starts over with a new business while raising a traumatized daughter who she is challenged to protect when her ex is released and someone begins stalking through their new hometown.
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Still missing by Chevy StevensCaptured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
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Never knowing by Chevy StevensStruggling with a need for closure in spite of her successful career and happy engagement, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.
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Those girls by Chevy StevensWhen tragedy strikes, the Campbell sisters, who once lived on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they worked hard and tried to stay out of the way of their father's fists, are forced to confront a horrific event from their past that left them with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.
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