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Escape into Daylight
by Geoffrey HouseholdTwo children held captive in a remote, abandoned abbey must escape . . . or die At first, Mike believes he must be dreaming when he opens his eyes to total darkness. But before long, the awful truth becomes apparent: He is being held captive somewhere underground by persons unknown. At least he is not alone in this dank, cold, dungeonlike place; a frightened young girl named Carrie is trapped there alongside him, equally unsure of why she is there. With no light, food, water, or answers, and no obvious way out, their situation seems hopeless. While Carrie is a city girl born and bred, Mike is a resourceful boy, at home in the English countryside, and he refuses to let them die in this terrible place. But escape may not be the end of the nightmare, for the world surrounding them holds mysteries beyond their imaginings. A prolific storyteller and peerless creator of page-turning adventure, Geoffrey Household has been praised by the New York Times for having "helped to develop the suspense story into an art form." With Escape into Daylight, he demonstrates the wide range of his remarkable talents, delivering an electrifying thriller that will appeal to readers of every age.
The Escape Room: 'One of my favourite books of the year' LEE CHILD
by Megan GoldinWelcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead.When the four of them become trapped in an elevator escape room, things start to go horribly wrong. They have to put aside their fierce office rivalries and work together to solve the clues that will release them. But in the confines of the elevator the dark secrets of their team are laid bare. They are made to answer for profiting from a workplace where deception, intimidation and sexual harassment thrive.Tempers fray and the escape room's clues turn more and more ominous, leaving the four of them dangling on the precipice of disaster. If they want to survive, they'll have to solve one more final puzzle: which one of them is a killer?Praise for The Escape Room:"High wire tension from the first moment to the last. Four ruthless people locked in a deadly game where victory means survival. Gripping and unforgettable!" Harlan Coben"Fantastic. One of my favourite books of the year." Lee Child"Amazing...a thriller set in an elevator [that explores] the vast territory of people's worst natures. A nightmarish look inside ourselves. Simply riveting." Louise Penny"A sharp, slick, utterly engrossing thriller. This knockout debut hooked me from the first page and didn't let go." Cristina Alger, USA Today bestselling author of The Banker's Wife
The Escape Room: A Novel
by Megan Goldin"One of my favorite books of the year." —Lee Child“Cancel all your plans and call in sick; once you start reading, you'll be caught in your own escape room—the only key to freedom is turning the last page!” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)"A sleek, well-crafted ride." —The New York TimesIn Megan Goldin's unforgettable debut, The Escape Room, four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge.Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.Invited to participate in an escape room as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?
Escape Room (Underlined Paperbacks)
by Maren StoffelsThere's no escape from this room. Full of menace and suspense, it's an unputdownable thriller--and a paperback original!Alissa, Sky, Miles and Mint are ready for a night of fun at the Escape Room.It's simple.Choose their game.Get locked in a room.Find the clues.Solve the puzzles.And escape the room in 60 minutes.But what happens if the Game Master has no intention of letting them go?Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.
Escape Route
by Tanya StoweExposing a gang&’s leader… is the only way out of danger While flying above the Texas border, helicopter pilot Tara Jean &“TJ&” Baskins witnesses a brutal murder. Now a deadly arms-smuggling gang wants her out of the way. To stay alive, TJ must work with border patrol officer Trace Leyton—her old friend and the man who once betrayed her—to catch the ringleader. But when the search leads to Trace&’s family, can TJ trust him to save her?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Escape the Everglades (South Beach Security: K-9 Division #2)
by Caridad PiñeiroHis son is in danger And only one investigator and her K-9 can rescue him Two years after his wife&’s death, ex-marine Carlos Ruiz isn't looking for romance. But then army vet and security expert Natalie Rodriguez and her incredible K-9 walk into his life in the Everglades. Before long, the purely professional relationship turns all too personal, especially once Carlos&’s little boy goes missing. Now, as they follow the K-9's every lead, uncovering the truth becomes vital to the child's rescue. And to securing their all too precarious future…From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the South Beach Security: K-9 Division series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Sabotage OperationBook 2: Escape the EvergladesBook 3: Killer in the KennelBook 4: Danger in Dade
Escape the Night
by Mignon G. EberhartWhile visiting her sister, a woman becomes ensnared in a cursed houseSerena&’s last memories of California are of her sister Amanda&’s wedding to Sutton Condit, a wealthy rancher from Monterey&’s oldest family. But when she remembers those days, she doesn&’t think of the bride but instead dreams of Jem, a sturdy young man who won her heart so completely that, when she couldn&’t have him, she fled to New York. Four years later she returns for a visit, and Jem is as charming as ever. He hasn&’t changed, but everything else on the Condit ranch has. Bitterness has crept into Amanda&’s entourage, and strange secrets pollute the fine California air. Something terrible is afoot in the Condit mansion, and Serena has just begun to sense it when Sutton&’s aunt tumbles off a cliff near the house. The old woman&’s plunge seems like an accident until more murders follow. Nothing can protect Serena from the menace that haunts Monterey.
Escape the Night
by Richard North Patterson#1 New York Times–bestselling author Richard North Patterson delivers a riveting novel of suspense and a powerful family&’s secrets Peter Carey was born into privilege during the McCarthy era, when the paranoia of Washington infected his parents&’ house and seeped into Peter&’s bones. His father was so obsessed with the family publishing business that he never had time for his son. Even as a teenager, Peter barely knew his father—and one dark night, an accident on a lonely road ensured he never would. Peter&’s memories of that horrific night have been erased by amnesia, but decades later he is still tortured by nightmares. When a strange conspiracy threatens to steal his company and take his life, he will have to remember . . . and find the key to survival that is locked in his own mind.
Escape Theory
by Margaux FroleySixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she's not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford's psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for students in crisis. At first, it seems like it will be an easy fly-on-the-wall gig, but her expectations are turned upside down when Jason Hutchins (a.k.a. "Hutch"), one of the Keaton's most popular students, commits suicide. Devon dives into her new role providing support for Hutch's friends, but she's haunted by her own attachment to him. The two shared an extraordinary night during their first week freshman year; it was the only time at Keaton when she felt like someone else really understood her. As the secrets and confessions pile up in her sessions, Devon comes to a startling conclusion: Hutch couldn't have taken his own life. Bound by her oath of confidentiality--and tortured by her unrequited love--Devon embarks on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of Hutch's death, and the stakes are higher than she ever could have imagined.From the Hardcover edition.
Escape to Freedom (Secret of the Rose #3)
by Michael PhillipsA dramatic escape from the Iron Curtain tests the convictions of a father and daughter on the run in the Secret of the Rose series. Aided by her one-time love, the American Matthew McCallum, Sabina von Dortmann has succeeded in rescuing her father from a Russian prison where he was held by the Nazis for many years. But now Matthew and the von Dortmanns must begin the far more challenging task of escaping the Iron Curtain and eluding the Communist authorities. Once important members of an underground network dedicated to helping Jews escape the Nazi death camps, the von Dortmanns themselves must now rely on strangers in a hostile country—as well as their unwavering faith in God—to find their freedom.
Escape to Havana: A Foreign Affairs Mystery
by Nick WilkshireFor Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life — if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is desperate for a change. So when the chance at a posting to the Canadian embassy in Havana comes up, he jumps at it, grateful to get as far away as he can from his ex and his dead-end job at Foreign Affairs headquarters. At first, exotic Havana seems just the place to bury his past and start anew, but he didn’t count on finding a couple of kilos of cocaine under his bedroom floor, the kidnapping of a fellow diplomat, or the unsettling connection he uncovers between the former occupant of his house and a Colombian drug-runner. Before long, Charlie’s only concern is whether he’ll survive his posting at all.
Escape to Perdition: A Gripping international Thriller (The Prague Thrillers #1)
by James SilvesterA secret agent in Prague faces love, death, and a crisis of conscience in this gripping international thriller.Herbert Biely, aged hero of the Prague Spring, stands poised to reunite the Czech and Slovak Republics years after the Velvet Revolution. But other parties have their own agendas and plans for the fate of the region. A shadowy collective exists that will do anything to preserve the status quo. Peter Lowe’s mission is to prevent reunification by any means possible. But Peter is not all that he seems. A troubled man desperate to escape the past, he’s beginning to question the cause, his assignment, his superiors, and himself. And when he falls in love with his intended target, the danger escalates. As alliances shift and the body count rises, Prague becomes the focal point for intrigue on an international scale.
Escape to the Bayou (Southern Justice #1)
by Amber Leigh WilliamsCan she outrun the threat from her past…to stay alive and save her friends? Ten years ago, informant Javier Rivera helped free Dr. Grace LaCroix and her friends from human traffickers. When the leader of the cartel escapes and comes looking for vengeance, the traumatized surgeon must go on the run, again aided by Javier. Can she trust this man from her past? From the raucous streets of New Orleans&’s Mardi Gras to a ghostly plantation house deep in the bayou, Grace and Javier dodge the ruthless leader&’s attacks…until Grace&’s complicated feelings for her hero are threatened by the bombshell secret he keeps.From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama.Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Southern Justice series:Book 1: Escape to the BayouBook 2: Crossing Deadly Tides
Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel
by Jason M. HoughPart two of a thrilling action-adventure sci-fi duology featuring indomitable characters, incredible worlds, and plenty of rip-roaring action and thrills!Search, destroy, survive! Captains Skyler Luiken and Gloria Tsandi (and their respective crews) have smashed through the deadly Swarm Blockade but now find themselves scattered around the planet Carthage and the space stations she holds in her orbit. Their mission is now twofold: destroy the military compounds of a race of nefarious alien overlords and find a way back home to Earth. Standing in their way are a race of horrifying, technologically advanced aliens armed with incredible weapons. Low on supplies and with their ability to communicate compromised, the surviving humans must rely on all their cunning, strength, and plain old good luck to turn the tables and overcome their foes. The Dire Earth Duology begins with Injection Burn
Escape Velocity
by Victor ManiboA twisty new near-future genre-bending thriller: Knives Out in space with a Parasite twist.A decades-old murder looms over the glamorous clientele of a high-end space hotel . . . while an unforeseen threat percolates in the service corridors. The guests are about to experience the hospitality they deserve. Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends and rivals—and crucially, to advance their applications to live in an exclusive Mars settlement. Earth is dying, and only the best deserve to save themselves. Aboard the Altaire for their 25th reunion, finance magnate Ava pursues the truth about her brother&’s murder during their senior year, which cast a dark shadow over their time at Rochford. Laz, ambassador and political scion, hopes to finally win Ava&’s heart. Sloane, collecting secrets to conceal his family&’s decline, angles for a key client. And Henry, heir to a healthcare empire, creates an unorthodox opportunity to get to Mars in a last-ditch effort to outrun a childhood secret. While these erstwhile friends settle scores and rack up points, they fail to notice that other agendas are afoot at the Space Habitat Altaire, and their own futures aren&’t the only ones at stake—&“the best&” will soon regret underestimating those they would leave behind on Earth.
Escape Velocity: Sneak Peek
by Victor ManiboBe one of the first to read this sneak preview sample edition!A twisty new near-future genre-bending thriller: Knives Out in space with a Parasite twist.A decades-old murder looms over the glamorous clientele of a high-end space hotel . . . while an unforeseen threat percolates in the service corridors. The guests are about to experience the hospitality they deserve.Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends and rivals—and crucially, to advance their applications to live in an exclusive Mars settlement. Earth is dying, and only the best deserve to save themselves.Aboard the Altaire for their 25th reunion, finance magnate Ava pursues the truth about her brother&’s murder during their senior year, which cast a dark shadow over their time at Rochford. Laz, ambassador and political scion, hopes to finally win Ava&’s heart. Sloane, collecting secrets to conceal his family&’s decline, angles for a key client. And Henry, heir to a healthcare empire, creates an unorthodox opportunity to get to Mars in a last-ditch effort to outrun a childhood secret.While these erstwhile friends settle scores and rack up points, they fail to notice that other agendas are afoot at the Space Habitat Altaire, and their own futures aren&’t the only ones at stake—&“the best&” will soon regret underestimating those they would leave behind on Earth.
Escape with the Navy Seal (The Riley Code #3)
by Regan BlackA Navy SEAL and a childhood friend are pawns in a madman’s vendetta in this romantic suspense thriller by a USA Today–bestselling author.Seeing his shy childhood friend transformed into an intoxicating beauty has thrown Navy SEAL Mark Riley off balance. So much so that he’s caught off guard when a team of kidnappers sweep them into a deadly nightmare. Now he and Charlotte Hanover are hostages to a psychopath wreaking revenge on Mark’s father. Facing danger is Mark’s business, but with Charlotte’s life at stake, he’s never had so much to lose.
Escaping From Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper #3)
by Kerri ManiscalcoThe #1 bestselling series that started with Stalking Jack the Ripper and Hunting Prince Dracula continues its streak in this third bloody installment . . . Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell find themselves aboard a luxurious ocean liner that becomes a floating prison of horror when passengers are murdered one by one, with nowhere to run from the killer. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria , Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly. But privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. The strange and disturbing influence of the Moonlight Carnival pervades the decks as the murders grow more and more bizarre. It's up to Audrey Rose and Thomas to piece together the gruesome investigation before more passengers die before reaching their destination. But with clues to the next victim pointing to someone she loves, can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer's horrifying finale?
Escaping Reality (The Secret Life of Amy Bensen #1)
by Lisa Renee Jones*The Secret Life of Amy Bensen is now a streaming series on Passionflix!* The first book in the sexy, suspenseful Secret Life of Amy Bensen series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. I shouldn’t trust him. I shouldn’t tell him my secrets. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need. At the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loved to start a new life. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten—even if she cannot forget. But just when she lets her guard down, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run. On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing billionaire recluse, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. And what he wants is Amy. Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. He wants to possess her. He makes her want to be possessed. Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. But what if she is too devastated by tragedy to know when he wants more than she should give?
El escarabajo sagrado
by Salvador Bordoy Luque S. S. Van Dine¿Accidente o asesinato? Ante la duda y para no verse envuelto con la policía, Donald Scarlett, ayudante de Mindrum Bliss, recurre a Philo Vance. El fiscal de distrito John Markham y su departamento de policía no tardan en llegar al lugar de los hechos. Queda claro que Kyle financiaba las expediciones arqueológicas de Bliss: la mano del muerto aferra un informe financiero escrito de puño y letra por el dueño del museo. A complicar la situación de Bliss viene un broche de corbata, el escarabajo azul, que se encuentra a pocos pasos del muerto y le pertenece. En la suela de uno de sus zapatos hay manchas de sangre. Y las huellas dactilares en la estatuilla de la diosa Sakhet, con la que se ha destrozado el cráneo de Kyle, son de Bliss. La policía cree tener en sus manos al asesino, pero Philo Vance tiene otras ideas. ¿No son demasiado obvias las pistas como para tomarlas en serio?
The Escher Man
by T. R. NapperA cartel enforcer across South-east Asia must escape a world of paranoia and violence to save his family in this cerebral and multi-layered cyberpunk science fiction novel, from the award-winning author of 36 Streets. Perfect for fans of William Gibson's The Peripheral and Five Minds by Guy Morpuss.Your name is Endel &‘Endgame&’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101. You&’re head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. Your memories are being wiped and re-written. You keep this log because you&’re hard pressed to remember what day it is. But today is a special day, mate. This is your last day on the job.&”&‘Endgame&’ is a violent man, the perfect enforcer. But Endel is also a father and husband, haunted by the memories of his estranged family, and the life they once had. Endel wants them back, and he wants out. But life in the syndicate isn&’t one you can simply leave. Endgame is a violent man. Or is he? In a world where memory manipulation is the weapon of choice for the powerful, Endel can&’t tell friends and enemies apart anymore, can&’t be sure if he&’s a person or a tool. Trapped in a taut, twisting nightmare, Endel must find a way to escape the labyrinth they&’ve made of his mind, and take revenge.
The Escher Twist: a Homer Kelly mystery
by Jane LangtonLeonard is desperately in love with a disappearing woman. Homer and Mary offer to help, but they become lost in an Escher labyrinth as they encounter murders, secrets, and ghosts of the past.
The Escher Twist (The Homer Kelly Mysteries #16)
by Jane LangtonWith her sense of &“abandon and play,&” Langton sends her scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly up the down staircase on a labyrinthine search for a missing art lover (Eudora Welty). Leonard Sheldrake knows little about Frieda except that he loves her. A Harvard professor and admirer of the bizarre engravings of M. C. Escher, Leonard is visiting a Cambridge exhibition of the artist&’s work when he meets Frieda and falls instantly in love. As they trade remarks about the artwork, he learns a few brief things about her. Though young, she is a widow, an orphan, and has a terrible secret in her past. It is only after she vanishes that he realizes he didn&’t even learn her last name. Leonard enlists fellow professor Homer Kelly, the amateur sleuth, to help find this beguiling young widow. But as they comb Cambridge for the woman in the green coat, Homer and his friend find themselves slipping into a mysterious labyrinth, whose treacherous dimensions are as impossible to grasp as anything dreamed up by the late, great M. C. Escher himself.
La esclava de azul
by Joaquín BorrellSin un mísero sextante en su bolsa después de haber costeado el viaje desde Atenas, Diomedes quiere vender a la esclava Baiska, que le ha tocado en herencia, para regresar al Peloponeso a cuidar de sus olivos. Pero las cosas no son tan sencillas: Baiska no vale lo bastante para llegar a Ítaca. A sugerencia de Baiska, decide atender el consultorio de crímenes y misterios de su tío para reunir el dinero con el que escapar de una ciudad que detesta por su pomposa ordinariez. Los clientes se acumulan, como también los casos que es incapaz de resolver, hasta que una tarde la horrible madriguera en la que vive se llena de centuriones: Julio César en persona ha venido a contratarlo para que investigue un reciente atentado contra su vida.
Esclavos De Las Circunstancias
by Baron Alexander DeschauerDespués de que el Terror de junio mató a cientos de miles en todo el mundo, Jack Harding sabía que tenía que desaparecer. No queriendo arriesgarse a volar desde Europa, tomo el largo viaje a través de Rusia en tren, con el objetivo de volver a los EE.UU. cruzando el estrecho de Bering. Es víctima de una familia de traficantes de personas, que lo someten a meses de abusos indecibles. Cuando finalmente puede escapar, descubre que no es el único que busca venganza contra estos demonios. Junto con sus nuevos amigos, pusieron en marcha un plan para deshacer del mundo la esclavitud sexual, un criminal a la vez. A pesar de usar todas las artimañas del libro para ocultar sus fechorías, rápidamente llaman la atención de una rama secreta de la CIA. Pronto, Jack se ve arrastrado una vez más hacia un mundo que había intentado evitar tan desesperadamente. La quinta entrega de la serie ‘Man on the Run’ lucha con algunos de los problemas más urgentes de nuestra tiempo, desde la trata de personas hasta el papel de la violencia como herramienta para asegurar la paz. Nos obliga a mirar lo que yace debajo del mundo que nos rodea, y cuestiona, Hasta donde llegaríamos por justicia y amor.