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It is the middle of the night, and a girl in a blue dressing gown is standing at a door with a candle, a key and an apple in each pocket. Before she turns the key she tells the cat beside her a story. Years ago her father took her walking on a patch of […]

Felix has a rope knotted around his waist, its other end tied to a steel stake outside the back door, and a blindfold over his eyes. Bits of old picture frame laid in the dirt mark the path to the well, and every time his shoe touches one he jokes that it sounds like the […]

An emotional kaleidoscope of remorse, revenge, forgiveness, and more It helps if blame can be clearly assigned when bad things happen. This is the case for Edward (Eddy) Baxter when his marital bliss is threatened by a letter from an ex-lover: Trisha.  Like Edward himself in the 80s and early 90s, Trisha was living a […]

Some friendships heal you, some expose you, and the best ones have the nerve to do both. Some people join a cause because they want to save the world. Some people join because standing still hurts too much. S.M. Stevens understands the difference, and that distinction gives Beautiful and Terrible Things its emotional grip. Set […]

On the night before the Feast of All Saints, when New Orleans families whitewash the family vaults and dress them with flowers, a small girl climbs the stairs of a Rue Royale apartment with her bonnet ribbons undone and dirt on her boots. She carries a bouquet of white chrysanthemums almost as big as she […]

A big-hearted story with a bright spirit and bold determination about saving some of the ocean’s most vulnerable creatures When an English girl moves to a Caribbean island with her mother, a love for the ocean seems almost inevitable. But in the first book, she has a deep fear of the ocean. Now, in The […]