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It is Antonina Beaulieu's first Grand Season in the elegant city of Loisail. A chance to take her place in high society, to find a suitable husband, and to leave her checkered past behind. Because Antonina possesses telekinetic powers, powers she can't control, that have made her the subject of cruel gossip.

Famed telekinetic performer Hector Auvray is also new to the city. He arrives in Loisail with the intent of recapturing the heart of his former flame, the beautiful Valérie Beaulieu, and finds his way into her household by courting Antonina.

Astounded by Hector's abilities, which she wishes to master, and flattered by his attention, Antonina does not suspect the duplicitous drama which will unfold.

Set in a sumptuous world inspired by the Belle Epoque, where scandal is a dreaded weapon, The Beautiful Ones is a tale of desire and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion.

Un manoir isolé. Un aristocrate dangereusement séduisant. Et une jeune mondaine poussée à dévoiler leurs atroces secrets.

Après avoir reçu un mystérieux appel à l'aide de sa cousine récemment mariée, Noemí Taboada se rend à High Place, un manoir isolé dans la campagne mexicaine. Elle ignore ce qu'elle va y trouver, ne connaissant ni la région ni le compagnon de sa cousine, un séduisant Anglais.

Avec ses robes chic et son rouge à lèvre, Noemí semble plus à sa place aux soirées mondaines de Mexico que dans une enquête de détective amateur. Elle n'a pourtant peur ni de l'époux de sa cousine, un homme à la fois troublant et hostile, ni du patriarche de la famille, fasciné par son invitée... ni du manoir lui-même, qui projette dans les rêves de Noemí des visions de meurtre et de sang.

Car High Place cache bien des secrets entre ses murs. Autrefois, la fortune colossale de la famille la préservait des regards indiscrets. Aujourd'hui, Noemí découvre peu à peu d'effrayantes histoires de violence et de folie.

Si elle ne s'en échappe pas très vite, elle risque fort de ne plus jamais pouvoir quitter cette demeure énigmatique...

Un roman aussi captivant que glaçant, déjà vendu à près de 300 000 exemplaires aux États-Unis et dont les droits ont été acquis dans 24 pays.

« Lovecraft rencontre les soeurs Brontë en Amérique latine. » The Guardian

« Une terrifiante réécriture du roman d'horreur gothique. » Kirkus Reviews

« C'est comme si une puissance surnaturelle nous forçait à tourner les pages de ce captivant roman. » The Washington Post

« Retenez le nom de Silvia Moreno-Garcia, dont la prose hypnotique et attachante est promise à un bel avenir. » Nerdist

« Un thriller d'époque, riche en suspense, avec une belle atmosphère évoquant les années 50. » Entertainment Weekly

« Un sombre conte de fées inspiré par le folklore mexicain. L'autrice de Mexican Gothic nous offre un récit envoûtant qui aborde les thèmes de l'identité, de la liberté et de l'amour, et qui ne ressemble à rien de ce que vous avez pu lire. » Bustle

Finaliste du prix Nebula • Sélectionné parmi les meilleurs livres de l'année par NPR

Mexique, années 20. Le Jazz Age bat son plein, mais Casiopea Tun est trop occupée à récurer les sols de la maison de son richissime grand-père pour répondre à son appel. Elle rêve pourtant d'une vie loin de sa petite ville du sud du Mexique. Une vie dont elle serait maîtresse.

Cet avenir semble aussi inaccessible que les étoiles jusqu'au jour où elle découvre un mystérieux coffre en bois dans la chambre de son grand-père. C'est ainsi qu'elle libère - bien malgré elle - l'esprit d'un dieu de la mort maya. Un dieu qui lui demande de l'aider à récupérer le trône qui lui a été volé par son traître de frère. Un échec signifierait la mort, mais réussir permettrait à Casiopea de réaliser tous ses rêves...

En compagnie de ce dieu étrangement séduisant, et usant de son esprit aiguisé, Casiopea se lance dans un périple à travers son pays, des jungles du Yucatán aux lumières éblouissantes de Mexico... en passant par les noires profondeurs du monde des morts maya.

« Un étourdissant voyage dans le Mexique des années 20 mêlant jazz, révolutions, dieux, démons et magie. » NPR

« Des dialogues ciselés, un univers à couper le souffle, une prose lyrique et une magnifique histoire d'amour qui s'épanouit peu à peu. Enchanteur. » Library Journal

« Un captivant récit sur la dualité, la tradition et le changement... Le mélange de mythologie et d'Histoire offre un cadre parfait au parcours d'une héroïne en quête d'identité. On se plonge avec délice dans ce roman riche et sophistiqué. » Publishers Weekly

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a “delicious, twisted treat for lovers of noir” about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of a missing woman they’re both desperate to find.

1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger.

Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman—and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents.

Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for Leonora at the behest of his boss, a shadowy figure who commands goon squads dedicated to squashing political activists. Elvis is an eccentric criminal who longs to escape his own life: He loathes violence and loves old movies and rock ’n’ roll. But as Elvis searches for the missing woman, he comes to observe Maite from a distance—and grows more and more obsessed with this woman who shares his love of music and the unspoken loneliness of his heart.

Now as Maite and Elvis come closer to discovering the truth behind Leonora’s disappearance, they can no longer escape the danger that threatens to consume their lives, with hitmen, government agents, and Russian spies all aiming to protect Leonora’s secrets—at gunpoint.

Velvet Was the Night is an edgy, simmering historical novel for lovers of smoky noirs and anti-heroes.

A coming-of-age story set in Mexico quickly turns dark when a young woman meets three enigmatic tourists.

Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She’s bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children.

Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana is magnetized. She immediately becomes entwined in the glamorous foreigners’ lives. They offer excitement, and perhaps an escape from the promise of a humdrum future.

When one of them dies, Viridiana lies to protect her friends. Soon enough, someone’s asking questions, and Viridiana has some of her own about the identity of her new acquaintances. Sharks may be dangerous, but there are worse predators nearby, ready to devour a naïve young woman who is quickly being tangled in a web of deceit.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is one of the most exciting voices in fiction, and with her first crime novel, UNTAMED SHORE, she crafts a blazing novel of suspense with an eerie seaside setting and a literary edge that proves her a master of the genre.

From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a magical journey of revenge and redemption.

Yalxi, the deposed Supreme Mistress of the Guild of Sorcerers, is on a desperate mission. Her lover and confidant seized her throne and stole the precious diamond heart, the jewel that is the engine of her power. Yalxi sets out to regain her magic and find a weapon capable of destroying the usurper. But this will mean turning to unlikely allies and opening herself up to unpleasant memories that have been suppressed for many years. For Yalxi is no great hero, but a cunning sorceress who once forged her path in blood – and must reckon with the consequences.

Set in a fantastical land where jewels and blood provide symbiotic magical powers to their wearers, The Return of the Sorceress evokes the energy of classic sword and sorcery, while building a thoroughly fresh and exciting adventure ripe for our era.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore.

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized.

Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn't include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both start closing in.

Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? Or will the city devour them all?

A literary fantasy about love, music and sorcery, set against the background of Mexico City.

Mexico City, 1988: Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said “I love you” with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, has two equally unhip friends -- Sebastian and Daniela -- and a whole lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. With help from this newfound magic, the three friends will piece together their broken families, change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love...

Mexico City, 2009: Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father’s funeral. It’s hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, and it revives memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? And, is there any magic left?

Love, life, dreams, and a world beyond reach.

Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend, selling her blood to old folks with money who hope to rejuvenate themselves with it, enacting a fractured love story. And yet there’s Mars, at the edge of the silver screen, of life. It awaits her.

Carlota Moreau : jeune femme ayant grandi dans une propriété isolée à l'environnement luxuriant, loin des conflits qui secouent la péninsule du Yucatán. Fille unique d'un chercheur soit génial... soit fou.

Montgomery Laughton : marginal, chef d'équipe mélancolique au passé tragique, porté sur la boisson. Aide le docteur Moreau dans ses expériences financées par les Lizalde, propriétaires fortunés de splendides haciendas.

Les hybrides : fruit des travaux du docteur, destinés à obéir aveuglément à leur créateur et à rester dans l'ombre. Monstres mi-humains, mi-animaux formant un groupe hétéroclite.

Tous vivent dans un monde stable et routinier ébranlé par l'arrivée soudaine d'Eduardo Lizalde, charmant et insouciant, fils du mécène du docteur Moreau, qui déclenchera sans le vouloir une dangereuse réaction en chaîne.

Car Moreau a des secrets, Carlota des interrogations, et dans la chaleur accablante de la jungle, les passions pourraient bien s'embraser.

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.

During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, in this wickedly sensuous short story by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

Judith knows her sister, Alice, is the pretty one—but that doesn’t stop her from wishing for love. When a handsome and gentlemanly hunter appears in their village, seeking lodging from the cold, she believes her lover has finally arrived. He does, indeed, choose to stay—but as Alice’s husband, not her own. When another stranger comes out of the woods, looking every bit a vagrant, he offers Judith something mysterious and enticingly strange. Against reason and decency, she welcomes both men into her life, in different ways. As forbidden longings ensnare each of them, an unrelenting winter storm and an evasive wolf on the prowl have everyone on edge…and ravenous. By spring thaw, will any of their hungers be satisfied?