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The girl in room nine
Twenty years ago, Lily Hale vanished from room nine. Tonight, she’s back—and she hasn’t aged a day.
When a rain-soaked woman and her young daughter arrive at the Mariner Hotel just before midnight, owner Mara Vale offers them shelter. The girl insists on room nine. Before morning, her mother disappears.
The police recognise the child immediately. But the woman Mara welcomed upstairs has been dead since 2006.
As photographs change and old guest registers reveal impossible entries, Mara discovers that her family’s hotel holds more than memories. Behind its doors are people lost between years—and secrets her grandmother kept carefully hidden.…
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The Apology Department
Nell Arlen delivers other people’s apologies. Then one arrives from her dead sister.
At the Apology Department, Nell offers strangers the words they have waited years to hear. She knows the rules: never ask for forgiveness, never promise the truth, and always remind the recipient that opening the envelope is a choice.
But nothing prepares her for Evie’s letter.
For nineteen years, Nell has believed she was responsible for the collision that killed Tom Reed. In a few handwritten lines, her sister confesses that she was driving—and their mother helped conceal it.…
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The veil of silence
He knows how to silence his victims. But silence cannot keep them buried.
To his colleagues, Thomas Greene is a quiet, dependable hospital support worker. Behind his unremarkable exterior lies an obsession with the human body—and the power to decide when a life ends.
In an abandoned warehouse, far from the operating theatres where he goes unnoticed, Thomas turns that obsession into a deadly ritual. But as the police close in and a woman fights to survive his scalpel, his carefully ordered world begins to unravel.
Then a boy appears in the shadows. A boy Thomas knows should be dead.
As control gives way to terror, the boundary between guilt and something far darker begins to blur. And for those caught in Thomas’s wake, surviving him may be only the beginning.…
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Two places set at the table. Two beds neatly made. No children answering her calls.
Mary has built her life around Emily and Daniel. Every meal, every routine, every carefully arranged toy is proof of the family she refuses to lose. But behind the closed curtains of her quiet home, the whispers are growing louder.
Outside, other mothers seem to have everything she ever wanted. Their happiness feeds her resentment, and the voices turn envy into something deadly.
As a series of brutal murders shakes the neighbourhood, Thomas Greene offers Mary a fragile connection to the world she is retreating from. But the closer he comes, the harder it becomes for her to keep her carefully constructed life intact.
Mary will do anything to protect her children.…