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Sophie Mercer, lycéenne et sorcière, use de ses pouvoirs sans discernement. Sur ordre d’un puissant magicien, qui n’est autre que son père, elle est envoyée à Hex Hall, établissement ultra-select pour élèves très spéciaux. Spectres, loups-garous et vampires s’y côtoient. Sophie qui est tout sauf discrète, s’y fait vite quelques amis et beaucoup d’ennemis. Parmi ceux qu’elle juge dignes d’intérêt, il y a un séduisant jeune sorcier. Mais l’heure n’est pas à la romance car un terrible prédateur rôde... Et, Sophie, fille de l’un des enchanteurs les plus puissants au monde - et directeur de Hex Hall - est une cible idéale...

"Ouvrir ce livre, c’est comme ouvrir une boîte de chocolats : impossible de se retenir ! On rit à chaque page avec Sophie Mercer, héroïne spirituelle et sans concessions envers elle-même, et un meurtre mystérieux nous tient en haleine... En un mot : Sophie Mercer m’a jeté un sort !" Becca Fitzpatrick, auteur de Hush Hush.

Harper Price est belle, intelligente, populaire et elle sort avec le merveilleux Ryan. En bonne première de la classe, elle déteste David Stark, son rival de toujours ! Alors qu elle s apprête à être couronnée Reine du bal, tout bascule. Harper voit mourir le concierge du lycée, qui, dans un dernier souffle, lui transmet un pouvoir étrange, faisant d elle un Paladin. La voici transformée en ninja hyper entraînée. Sa mission ? Protéger une personne très, très précieuse : un Oracle. Et, bien sûr, cet oracle n est autre que David Strark, son ennemi juré !

Voilà qui risque de ne pas plaire à Ryan... d autant que ce dernier pourrait bien être, lui aussi, investi d une mission l obligeant à travailler main dans la main avec David !

Daisy Winters, Américaine de 17 ans, est catapultée dans le monde fastueux de la royauté lorsque sa sœur se fiance au prince d'Écosse.

Elle qui aime le franc-parler et la simplicité découvre un univers régi par le protocole et la retenue. Elle a bien du mal à s'adapter, surtout que rien ne se passe comme prévu : le petit frère du prince lui fait des avances, alors qu'elle s'amourache d'un certain duc pince-sans-rire, à qui on a demandé de jouer son faux petit ami pour la presse... Entre fantasme et réalité, il n'y a parfois qu'un pas.

Il n’y a pas encore de description précise, mais voilà ce qu’on sait :

Grim est un recueil de nouvelles sombres et tourmentées inspirées par les contes de fées des frères Grimm ainsi que d’autres classiques populaires écrites par dix-huit auteurs de bestsellers et acclamés par la critique :

Ellen Hopkins, Amanda Hockin, Julie Kagawa, Claudia Gray, Rachel Hawkins, Kimberly Derting, Myra McEntire, Malinda Lo, Sarah Rees-Brennan, Jackson Pearce, Christine Johnson, Jeri Smith Ready, Shaun David Hutchinson, Saundra Mitchell, Sonia Gensler, Tessa Gratton et Jon Skrovan.

Source : http://darkissharlequin.wordpress.com/page/2/

The seventeen original stories in Defy the Dark, an eerie, mind-bending YA anthology, could only take place in darkness.

Open the pages and discover: A creepy guy who stares too long. The secrets of the core of the earth. Dreams of other people’s lives. A girl who goes mad in the darkness. Monsters in Bavaria. A generational spaceship where night doesn’t exist. And other mysteries and oddities.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.

When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She’s also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off the beaten path. But like Lux, they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape.

Shimmering on the horizon after days at sea, Meroe Island is every bit the paradise the foursome expects, despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and even rumors of murder. But what they don’t expect is to discover another boat already anchored off Meroe’s sandy beaches. The owners of the Azure Sky, Jake and Eliza, are a true golden couple: gorgeous, laidback, and if their sleek catamaran and well-stocked bar are any indication, rich. Now a party of six, the new friends settle in to experience life on an exotic island, and the serenity of being completely off the grid. Lux hasn’t felt like she truly belonged anywhere in years, yet here on Meroe, with these fellow free spirits, she finally has a sense of peace.

But with the arrival of a skeevy stranger sailing alone in pursuit of a darker kind of good time, the balance of the group is disrupted. Soon, cracks begin to emerge: it seems that Brittany and Amma haven’t been completely honest with Lux about their pasts––and perhaps not even with each other. And though Jake and Eliza seem like the perfect pair, the rocky history of their relationship begins to resurface, and their reasons for sailing to Meroe might not be as innocent as they first appeared.

When it becomes clear that the group is even more cut off from civilization than they initially thought, it starts to feel like the island itself is closing in on them. And when one person goes missing, and another turns up dead, Lux begins to wonder if any of them are going to make it off the island alive.

On a tous besoin d'une seconde chance... Jane vient d'arriver en Alabama, où, faute de mieux, elle exerce le métier de pet-sitter. Dans la résidence cossue où elle promène des chiens toilettés, on croise de rutilants 4x4 et des femmes au foyer qui s'ennuient ferme entre deux manucures. Le genre d'endroit où personne ne remarquera si elle vole quelques bibelots. La chance lui sourit lorsqu'elle se fait renverser par une voiture.

A son bord, Eddie Rochester, le résident le plus mystérieux de Thornfield Estates, qui met un point d'honneur à lui venir en aide. Il est beau, riche, et pas insensible à son charme. Et puisqu'il est veuf, la voie est libre. Pourtant Jane est hantée par Bea, sa défunte épouse, une femme belle, sophistiquée et ambitieuse. Pourra-t-elle prendre sa place dans le coeur d'Eddie ? " Un roman à suspense qu'on dévore d'un bout à l'autre.

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.

As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.

Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce’s girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara. But he also sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Mari writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Lara composing a platinum album––and ends in Pierce’s brutal murder.

As Emily digs into the villa’s complicated history, she begins to think there might be more to the story of that fateful summer in 1974. That perhaps Pierce’s murder wasn’t just a tale of sex, drugs, and rock & roll gone wrong, but that something more sinister might have occurred––and that there might be clues hidden in the now-iconic works that Mari and Lara left behind.

Yet the closer that Emily gets to the truth, the more tension she feels developing between her and Chess. As secrets from the past come to light, equally dangerous betrayals from the present also emerge––and it begins to look like the villa will claim another victim before the summer ends.

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate—along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish—pass to her adopted son, Camden.

But to everyone’s surprise, Cam wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past.

Ten years later, Camden is a McTavish in name only, but a summons in the wake of his uncle’s death brings him and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but coming home reminds Cam why he was so quick to leave in the first place.

Jules, however, has other ideas, and the more she learns about Cam’s estranged family—and the twisted secrets they keep—the more determined she is for her husband to claim everything Ruby once intended for him to have.

But Ruby’s plans were always more complicated than they appeared. As Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will—and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.