John Searles

Every marriage has its secrets….

Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis’s death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell….

A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty. Bored by her spouse and fired from her job when a questionable photo from her youth surfaces on social media, her only source of joy is an on-line affair with her very first love, a man she’s not seen in nearly thirty years, Teddy Cornwell…

While in New York City, Jeremy, a failed and bitter writer, accepts an assignment to review a new restaurant in Providence. Years ago, Providence was the site of his first great love and first great heartbreak—and maybe, just maybe, he’ll look her up when he’s back in town…

Part page-turning thriller, part homage to film noir, and dazzling in its insight into the often desperate desires of the human heart, Her Last Affair is a tense and atmospheric novel of love lost and found again. 

Her Last Affair

It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, fourteen-year-old Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon occupation: helping 'haunted souls' find peace. And yet something in Sylvie senses that this call is different from the others, especially when they are lured to the old church on the outskirts of town. Once there, her parents disappear, one after the other, behind the church's red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the car. Not long after, she drifts off to sleep, only to wake to the sound of gunfire. As the story weaves back and forth through the years leading up to that night and the months following, the ever-inquisitive Sylvie searched for answers and uncovers secrets that have haunted her family for years . . . Help for the Haunted is a psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, told in the captivating voice of a young heroine who is determined to discover the truth about what happened that winter night.

Help for the Haunted

After a mysterious fall from his Manhattan apartment, Philip Chase has moved home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death ofher younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Numb from watching too much TV and trading snipes with his mother, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes one winter night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep to deliver the news that she is pregnant ... and the father, she claims, is Ronnie. So begins the startling tale as Philip and his mother confront Melissa's past and their own. Their search for answers takes them on an emotional journey, placing them in the path of murder and revenge. At once a moving story of redemption and a heart-stopping work of suspense, Strange but True brings to life a cast of characters that no reader will soon forget. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

A Novel

Strange but True

Boy Still Missing It is June 1971 and Dominick Pindle, a tenderhearted but aimless Massachusetts teenager, spends his nights driving around with his mother and dragging his wayward father out of bars. Late one evening Dominick's search puts him face-to-face with his father's seductive mistress, Edie Kramer. Instantly in lust, he begins a forbidden relationship with this beautiful, mysterious woman. Before long, though, their erotic entanglement leads to a shocking death, and Dominick discovers that the mother he betrayed had secrets as dark and destructive as his own. Rapt with confusion and guilt as the startling facts about his family begin to emerge, Dominick heads to New York City in search of retribution and the truth about his mother's disquieting past. He soon finds refuge with Jeanny Garvey, a young, soulful idealist who might save him from his dire fate, but not before he makes a desperate choice that endangers everything he holds clear -- and puts both their lives at risk. Charged with the exhilarating narrative pace of a thriller and set during a complicated and explosive era, Boy Still Missing is a stunning debut novel. It renders a deeply affecting portrait of a boy whose passage into adulthood proves as complex and impassioned as the history that unfolds before his eyes.

Boy Still Missing

Returning home to live with his mother, who is still grieving over the death of her younger son, Ronnie, Philip Chase learns that Ronnie's former girlfriend is pregnant with Ronnie's child--despite the fact that Ronnie died five years earlier.

Strange But True

A Boston Globe Best Crime Novel of the Year An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten "Must List" Winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist starred reviews Sylvie Mason's parents have an unusual occupation: helping "haunted souls" find peace. After receiving a phone call late one snowy night, they are lured to an old church on the outskirts of town, where Sylvie falls asleep in the car and is awoken by the sound of gunshots. Orphaned on that night, Sylvie comes under the care of her reckless, distant older sister, still living in the rambling Tudor house that guards the relics of her parents' past. As she pursues the mystery of their deaths, Sylvie's story weaves back and forth between the time leading up to the murders and the months following, uncovering the truth of what happened that night—and the secrets that have haunted her family for years.

A hit with the millions of fun, fearless females who take the Cosmopolitan quiz each month, this collection on love, lust, and life is a must-have for those wanting to know more about themselves, their friends, and (especially) their men. Some are playful and sexy (Is He a Keeper? What s Your Lust Level?), while others offer more insight (Are You High Maintenance?, Do You Have a Healthy Ego?). "

27 Great Sex & Relationship Quizzes

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DVĚ SESTRY. JEDNO TEMNÉ TAJEMSTVÍ... Jedné zasněžené zimní noci vezmou rodiče svou dceru Sylvii s sebou na tajemnou schůzku do nedalekého kostela. Zatímco dívka čeká v zaparkovaném autě, jsou její otec i matka za nejasných okolností brutálně zavražděni. Dospívající dívka, žijící po tragické události v péči starší sestry, se rozhodne na vlastní pěst zjistit, co se té osudné noci v kostele doopravdy stalo a kdo nese zodpovědnost za smrt rodičů. Během neúnavného pátrání se vrací do let předcházejících zločinu i do období těsně poté a postupně odhaluje temné a nelítostné události, které navždy změnily osud celé její rodiny, včetně jí samotné... „Bohatý a vzrušující příběh... Napínavý a zároveň citlivý pohled pod povrch záhady jménem rodina.“ – Khaled Hosseini, autor bestselleru LOVEC DRAKŮ

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VRAŽDA A POMSTA, SMRT A LÁSKA... Po pádu z požárního schodiště u svého bytu na Manhattanu se Philip Chase nastěhuje zpátky domů ke své matce Charlene, zahořklé ženě, která se nikdy úplně nesmířila se smrtí mladšího syna Ronnieho, k níž došlo před pěti lety. Otupělý sledováním televize a hádkami s matkou upadne Philip do stavu netečnosti. Všechno se změní jedné zimní noci, kdy se na jejich prahu objeví Ronnieho přítelkyně ze střední školy Melissa Moodyová, aby jim oznámila, že je těhotná. A otcem, jak tvrdí, je Ronnie... Tak začíná podivuhodný příběh, v němž se Philip a jeho matka probírají Melissinou i svou minulostí. Ve snaze dobrat se odpovědí na otázky, které je trápily po celý život, podniknou neobvyklou cestu, během níž jsou nuceni čelit vraždě i pomstě, smrti i lásce, a na jejímž konci možná někdo z nich dojde i kýženého vykoupení... Podle knihy natáčí producent muzikálového hitu La La Land film s Amy Ryanovou a Gregem Kinnearem v hlavních rolích.

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