As Nazi propaganda consumes Czechoslovakia, a Jewish family's fight for survival hinges on the loyalty of their governess, whose own secret affair with a betrayer threatens to unravel their last hope.
Three mixed-race siblings, raised with music and a dream of transcending identity, find their lives separating as one becomes an activist, another faces racial stereotypes in opera, and the third tries to hold their fractured family together.
Dinesen's debut collection blends aristocratic boredom with the macabre, telling stories of doomed romance, supernatural events, and deep psychological insight, all in a 19th-century Gothic style.
A luxurious desert spa becomes a nightmarish trap where disappearing guests and monstrous entities in the pool are just part of the 'relaxation' package.
In 1347, an orphan apprentice monk uncovers a buried angel, a talking goblin, and a dangerous world of Old Magic, all while two cloaked strangers hunt for answers within the abbey walls.
A fiercely independent mother and her observant daughter chase the elusive American dream from rural Wisconsin to the glitz of Los Angeles, leaving a trail of unpaid bills and unspoken resentments in their wake.
A troubled teen fights to protect her disabled brother and keep her fragile world from shattering, finding unexpected comfort in a boy with his own problems, all while battling forces threatening to tear her family apart.
Imprisoned for protest songs, a Burmese dissident spends seven years in solitary confinement. He uses Buddhist patience to connect with his jailers and forms a freeing friendship with a young orphan within the brutal prison walls.
In a chilling Italian seaside spectacle, the sinister magician Cipolla ensnares his audience, mirroring the seductive and coercive rise of fascism in Europe.
A Victorian man awakens in a future England that is an idyllic, moneyless, and government-free socialist utopia, where art and nature blend with daily life.
A shy tattoo artist haunted by his past must fight to hold onto the love of a paramedic when their fragile world shatters under the weight of trauma and secrets.
In 19th-century Edinburgh, two medical students, Fettes and Macfarlane, descend into depravity, trading their souls for bodies, as their professor's shadow and the specter of damnation close in.
Four traumatized teenagers build an invisible helicopter to escape their difficult lives, only to learn that real freedom comes from facing the problems they tried to leave behind.
A genetically altered girl, more at home in the ocean than on land, discovers she's part of a secret project to build an underwater civilization and must lead a group of reluctant, super-powered kids across a perilous sea to escape a pursuing government.
A Carmelite nun's divine visions are tied to her severe headaches, making her question if her spiritual ecstasy is a gift from God or a symptom of illness.
Horrid Henry is a mischievous menace whose funny escapades and constant torment of his saintly brother, Perfect Peter, guarantee chaotic fun and a good laugh for any child who loves a bit of naughtiness.
A greedy king's wish to turn all he touches into gold backfires spectacularly when his beloved daughter becomes a shimmering, lifeless statue, revealing the true cost of his golden obsession.
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse must solve a murder that implicates her vampire lover, Eric Northman, while navigating the dangerous politics of the vampire world and an enemy determined to destroy her.