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Everyone has secrets. YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April; secrets she’d rather you didn’t know - like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what’s buried in her backyard?

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard. She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn't right.

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought. Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost. And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one.

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby City, Emily delivers more babies than the number of hours of sleep she manages to squeeze in that night. And definitely more than the number of dates she's been on since she started her training in OB/GYN two years earlier.

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.

Choose from over 20 possible endings in this Pick Your Poison Adventure story! You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent, and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party . . . at an isolated mansion way out on Peyton's...

Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she's done. But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.

Rien ne va plus pour Blake. Licencié brutalement, il n'arrive plus à payer le prêt immobilier de la nouvelle maison qu'il partage avec sa fiancée. La solution ? Prendre une locataire pour les aider à payer les frais de la maison. Et Whitney correspond exactement à ce que le jeune couple recherche. Elle est sympathique, charmante, sérieuse. La locataire parfaite. En apparence. Rapidement, quelque chose cloche. Une odeur putride imprègne la maison et des bruits étranges réveillent Blake au milieu de la nuit.

Après avoir été au service des autres en tant que femme de ménage, Millie s'est enfin construit une vie à elle. Elle vient même d'emménager dans une belle maison, dans une petite impasse chic et tranquille, avec son mari et ses deux enfants. Mais son rêve d'une vie paisible est rapidement terni par la rencontre de ses voisins. Il y a Suzette, bien trop snob et aguicheuse, son insipide mari, mais surtout leur terrifiante femme de ménage au regard perçant et au comportement plus que suspect.

Motive. Means. Opportunity. Without proof of all three, the guilty can walk free. But even with an alibi, the innocent can still be condemned. For six award-winning, bestselling authors of psychological suspense, truth and lies weave together in a tangle of conflicting loyalties, hidden crimes, and dark secrets. Pull one thread, and there’s no telling what will unravel.

Von dieser Autorin bekommt man nicht genug: Der "New York Times"-Bestseller von Freida McFadden, der für schlaflose Nächte sorgt. Eigentlich hat Eve Bennett ein gutes Leben. Sie ist Mathelehrerin an der örtlichen Highschool und verheiratet mit Nate, der dort Englisch unterrichtet. Doch letztes Jahr wurde die Schule von einem Skandal erschüttert, in dessen Zentrum eine Schülerin stand. Und dieses Jahr ist diese Schülerin in Eves Klasse. Addie kann man nicht trauen, sie lügt und verletzt Menschen. Aber niemand kennt die wahre Addie. Niemand kennt das Geheimnis, das sie zerstören könnte.

Chaque jour, Millie fait le ménage dans la belle maison des Winchester, une riche famille new-yorkaise. Elle récupère aussi leur fille à l'école et prépare les repas avant d'aller se coucher dans sa chambre, au grenier. Pour la jeune femme, ce nouveau travail est une chance inespérée. L'occasion de repartir de zéro. Mais, sous des dehors respectables, sa patronne se montre de plus en plus instable et toxique. Et puis il y a aussi cette rumeur dérangeante qui court dans le quartier : madame Winchester aurait tenté de noyer sa fille il y a quelques années.

Sylvia Robinson wird im Haus der Barnetts als private Pflegekraft eingestellt. Nach einem Unfall benötigt Victoria Barnett rund um die Uhr Betreuung. Sie kann weder gehen noch sprechen und ist an ihr Bett im obersten Stockwerk des Hauses gefesselt. Daher hat ihr Mann Sylvia als Unterstützung hinzugeholt. Doch schon bald hat Sylvia das Gefühl, dass Victoria nicht so hilflos ist, wie sie scheint. Dann entdeckt sie Victorias Tagebuch versteckt in einer Kommode. Und was sie darin liest, zieht ihr den Boden unter den Füßen weg.

Wenn du glaubst, diese Geschichte zu durchschauen, fängt sie erst an. Millie kann ihr Glück kaum fassen, als die elegante Nina ihr die Stelle als Haushaltshilfe inklusive Kost und Logis bei ihrer Familie auf Long Island anbietet. Schließlich hat sie eine Vergangenheit, von der niemand etwas wissen soll. Doch kaum ist Millie eingezogen, zeigt Nina ihr wahres Gesicht: Sie verwüstet das Haus und unterstellt ihr Dinge, die sie nicht getan hat.

Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there’s the devil herself: Jane’s senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler wouldn’t wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband would change the toilet paper roll once every millennium. Still, in most ways, she has the ideal life she’d always imagined. Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. sexy surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved.

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.

It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?