Mirna Čubranić Books

Dragons, mischief and mayhem abound in this wonderful third story in The Boy Who Grew Dragons series.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. It is 1625, and John and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, John's mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Little does he know that one day, to keep hold of all that he holds most dear, he most realize his mother's vision - he must serve the Saturnall Feast.

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train.

A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. "A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine "One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time

A tizenhét esztendős Johnny Petersonnak különös érzéke van ahhoz, hogy egyetlen szavával, mosolyával bearanyozza környezetét. A jóképű fiatalember előtt ígéretes jövő áll, évfolyamelső az iskolában, remek sportember, családja büszkesége, valóságos angyal. Ám a szalagavatója napján beszáll egy autóba... Édesanyja nem tudja feldolgozni imádott fia tragikus halálát. Kórházba kerül, ahol azonban különös látomása támad: megjelenik előtte Johnny, és szokásos szelídségével arra bíztatja az asszonyt, hogy ne adja fel a küzdelmet. Ettől kezdve az „angyal” a legvalószínűtlenebb helyeken bukkan fel, nyomában csodák sorjáznak. De csak ketten láthatják – azok, akiknek a legnagyobb szükségük van rá... A Johnny Angyal felejthetetlen történet a szeretetről. Hol megnevetteti az olvasót, hol könnyeket csal a szemébe, mígnem a mese végére mindannyian szorosabban öleljük magunkhoz szeretteinket.

A remarkable debut - a classic crime novel in the tradition of James and Rendell.

Reduce inner 'clutter' and disarray and create harmonious personal feelings through a title which tells how to enhance creativity and confront personal fears. Meditations and personal lessons are packed into a guide which contrasts the author's own avenues of enlightenment with suggestions for improvement.

James absconds leaving Claire with a new-born baby. In the absence of a better offer, she goes home to her family. There she recovers from her upset, so much so, that when James tries to get back into her life, he finds he's in for a big surprise.

Jesen 1646. godine. Mladi Atto Melani, kastrat u službi obitelji Medici, putuje u Pariz na tajnu operu po nalogu kardinala Mazarina. Njihovo putovanje prekida gusarski napad, a sudbina ih baca na Gorgonu, otok u Toskanskom moru. Atto, zajedno sa svojim skrbnikom, tajnikom viteza Sozzifantija, i grupom neobičnih suputnika – dvojicom pjevača-kastrata, četvoricom uglednih znanstvenika i dvojicom neurednih gusara – suočava se s intrigantnom prevarom koja, iako naizgled zanimljiva samo filolozima, ima dalekosežne posljedice: dovodi u pitanje cjelokupnu povijest čovječanstva. Postavlja se pitanje jesu li djela najpoznatijih antičkih autora krivotvorine, te kako su izgledali Rimsko Carstvo, grčka antika i drevni Egipat. Također se istražuje postojanje Platona i Aristotela, kao i tajna imena koja otključava njihova djela. Živimo li u 21. ili 18. stoljeću poslije Krista? Ova književna avantura, rezultat višegodišnjih istraživanja, razotkriva antiku kao najveću bajku u povijesti, dok mladog Atta Melanija, opata i špijuna Kralja Sunca, prikazuje ranjivim, ali oštroumnim, kakvog ga poznajemo iz njegovih kasnijih dogodovština.

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.

An extraordinary, unputdownable debut novel exploring trauma, connection, and our cultural obsession with dead girls.

"A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a young poultry farmer named Chinonso. His life is set off course when he sees a woman who is about to jump off a bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, he hurls two of his prized chickens off the bridge. The woman, Ndali, is stopped in her tracks. Chinonso and Ndali fall in love but she is from an educated and wealthy family. When her family objects to the union on the grounds that he is not her social equal, he sells most of his possessions to attend college in Cyprus. But when he arrives in Cyprus, he discovers that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements for him. Penniless, homeless, we watch as he gets further and further away from his dream and from home."--Publisher's description

11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle of Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous tavern to be placed under quarantine. While detained there, French spy Atto Melani discovers a secret network of passages under the city. They lead him into the Roman underworld and the startling discovery of a plot to assassinate the pope and a plan to use the plague as a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West…

Veljača je 1711. U Europi rat za španjolsko naslijeđe traje već godinama i velika su kraljevstva potpuno financijski iscrpljena. Kralj Sunce mora angažirati svoga najboljeg špijuna, kastrata i opata Atta Melanija, koji, iako slijep i u poodmaklim godinama, jedini može ostvariti njegove ciljeve. Atto Melani na prijevaru šalje svoga patuljastoga pomoćnika iz Rima u bogati Beč, gdje će raditi kao ovlašteni kraljevski dimnjačar. Njih dvojica ubrzo će se naći u neizvjesnoj misiji gdje mladoga naprednoga kralja i cara Josipa Prvog pokušavaju obavijestiti o urotnicima koji mu rade o glavi. Istovremeno u Beč nenajavljeno dolazi i turski aga. Gradom ubrzo zaredaju tajanstvena i bizarna umorstva, a Attov se pomoćnik sa skupinom studenata nađe usred najčudesnijih zgoda, koje uključuju i tajanstveni leteći brod. Veritas, treći roman iz serije o Attu Melaniju, bez sumnje potvrđuje da su Rita Monaldi i Francesco Sorti najintrigantniji i najbolji spisateljski dvojac današnjice.

On je ubojica koji pod okriljem noći tiho ulazi u kuće svojih žrtava. Preciznost ubojičinih rezova na ženskim tijelima dovodi se u vezu s njegovim poznavanjem medicine, osobito kirurgije, pa ga stoga novinari bostonskih novina prozivaju Kirurgom. Sve što istražitelji o njemu znaju jest to da žrtve uvijek ubija na isti način. Doktorica Catherine Cordell i sama je bila žrtvom ubojice koji je ubijao na isti način. U okršaju se uspjela obraniti i ubiti napadača. Sad, kad se ponovno pojavi ubojica koji ubija na identičan način, njezina će pomoć policiji biti neophodna. Je li ubojica uopće mrtav? Otkuda ubojica koji ubija na jednak način kao i njegov prethodnik? Sa svakim novim ubojstvom ubojica će biti sve bliži doktorici Cordell, njezinoj bolnici, njezinu domu. Jedinu sigurnost, ali i privlačnost, doktorica će osjećati uz istražitelja Thomasa Moorea, no ni on je neće moći zaštititi od savršenog lovca koji se skriva u njezinoj neposrednoj blizini.

On je povučeni pisac čija mašta stvara jezovite romane strave i užasa. Ona je neuspješna glumica čija se karijera svela na lutkarske predstave za djecu. On zna desetak načina kako likove u svojim romanima ubiti golim rukama. Ona zna desetak načina da publika umre od smijeha. Ali sad se ne smije. Annie Hewitt došla je na otok Peregrine usred snježne oluje i na izmaku snaga. Bez novca je, potištena, ali još nije posve spremna odustati. Njezine lutke, ljubavni romani koje obožava i malo hrabrosti jedino je što joj je preostalo. Annie ne može biti nespremnija no što jest za ono što zatiče u kolibi Moonraker, i za muškarca koji živi u kući Harp, tajanstvenom zdanju koje se nadvija nad kolibom. Kad je bila tinejdžerica, taj muškarac izdao ju je na način koji ona neće moći nikad zaboraviti ni oprostiti. Sad su zarobljeni zajedno na zaleđenom otoku s usamljenom udovicom, nijemom djevojčicom i stanovnicima grada koji ne znaju brinuti svoja posla. Je li on negativac kakvog pamti ili se je promijenio? Glava joj govori da se nije promijenio. Srce da jest. Zima će biti duga i vrela.

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ***** There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris - their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh. ***** 'Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature' Ian McEwan 'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann 'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

When troubled young Billy seeks help from private eye Cormoran Strike regarding a crime he believes he witnessed as a child, Strike feels a deep unease. Despite Billy's evident mental distress and hazy memories, there's a sincerity to his account. Before Strike can delve deeper, Billy panics and flees. Determined to uncover the truth, Strike and his partner, Robin Ellacott, embark on a complex investigation that takes them through London's backstreets, into a secretive area within Parliament, and to a beautiful yet eerie manor in the countryside. Meanwhile, Strike's life becomes increasingly complicated; his newfound fame as a private investigator prevents him from working in the shadows as he used to. Additionally, his relationship with Robin, now a crucial part of the agency, is more complicated than ever. This installment showcases the gripping mystery and evolving dynamics between Strike and Robin, making it a standout in the series. With praise highlighting its inventive storytelling and compelling characters, this novel promises to keep readers engaged from start to finish.

Discovered by the former quarterback she was hired to tail, detective Piper Dove pretends to be the athlete's stalker and is subsequently hired as his bodyguard, an arrangement threatened by their growing chemistry.

Evil is on the prowl. A severed hand is found in an alleyway in Boston's Chinatown. Detective Jane Rizzoli discovers the rest of the body on a nearby rooftop, the head nearly severed. The only clue Jane has is two strands of hair, but it's enough for Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles to make a startling connection. This violent attack has its roots in an unsolved murder-suicide case from nineteen years ago. The only witness, a beautiful martial arts master, has never dared to speak. And she may never get the chance ...

In a placid suburb of Cleveland, Shaker Heights, the summer buzzes with talk of Isabelle Richardson, who has burned down the family home. This meticulously planned community prides itself on order and success, epitomized by Elena Richardson, who believes in playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist and single mother, who arrives with her daughter Pearl, renting a house from the Richardsons. As Mia and Pearl become entwined with the Richardson family, all four of Elena's children are drawn to them. However, Mia's mysterious past and her disregard for societal norms threaten to disrupt the community's harmony. Tensions rise when a custody battle over a Chinese-American baby divides the town, pitting Mia against Elena. Suspicious of Mia's intentions, Elena becomes obsessed with uncovering her secrets, leading to unforeseen and devastating consequences. The narrative explores themes of motherhood, identity, and the complexities of community, revealing how deeply rooted beliefs can clash in the face of personal truths.

Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before... A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.

“[A] sexy and whimsical modern fairy tale.” — Greensboro News & Record “The always-funny Susan Elizabeth Phillips…has the heat turned up all the way for this one.” — Detroit Free Press The only four-time recipient of the Romance Writer’s of America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award, the incomparable Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of America’s most beloved authors—and Lady Be Good is one of the perennial New York Times bestseller’s hottest, funniest, and most delightfully wild romance novels . The uproarious tale of a proper English headmistress hell-bent on destroying her reputation and a disgraced Texas athlete playboy determined to salvage his own, Lady Be Good is funny, sexy, and irrefutable proof of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune ’s assertion that “Next to Tracy and Hepburn, no one does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips.”

At the scene of a tragic accident, life changes immediately for everyone involved. Finding it impossible to stay in Bristol, Jenna Gray moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast. She is desperate to escape the past, but is haunted by the accident, by the loss of her son, and by her own fears. DI Ray Stevens is determined to get to the bottom of this case. The investigation takes him away from his family and he finds himself growing closer to Kate Evans, a young and forthright detective on his team. But Jenna's past is about to catch up with her, with devastating consequences

In Gerritsens latest "New York Times" bestseller, medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli take on a society of scholars that studies the history of evil--and the grisly killer it has spawned.

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own, and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervish's timeless message for herself. This is a mesmerizing novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places. 'With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon.' Independent

Firma de pantofi Angelini, care realizeaza incaltaminte de lux la comanda de peste o suta de ani, fiind una dintre ultimele afaceri de familie din Greenwich Village, New York, se afla in pragul falimentului. Tanara Valentine Roncalli, nepoata si ucenica maestrei artizan Teodora Angelini, isi doreste cu ardoare sa salveze afacerea, dar pentru asta trebuie sa o modernizeze, sa o aduca in secolul XXI. Viata ei se imparte intre datoria fata de familie, povestea de dragoste cu maestrul bucatar Roman Falconi si provocarea profesionala oferita de sansa de a participa la competitia organizata de un prestigios magazin new-yorkez. Calatorind in Italia sa invete tehnici noi si sa gaseasca materialul cel mai potrivit pentru pantofii cu care isi va dobori adversarii, Valentine isi descopera propriul simt artistic, dar si un secret de familie care ii va schimba viata intr-un mod cu totul neasteptat. Scrisa cu sensibilitate, dar si cu umor, cartea Adrianei Trigiani este o celebrare a dragostei, o desfatare pentru cititorul pasionat de experiente de viata implinite.

You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall. Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying. Your husband said it would he fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back every half-hour. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. She's gone. You've never had to call the police before. But now they're in your home, and who knows what they'll find there... What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit ?

Amazon.com's #1 Book of the Year 2014 Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened. Everything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race.

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As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of thirty thousand men, women and children. Almost two centuries later, in 1788, John Lemprière published his classical dictionary. This much is fact. Lawrence Norfolk tells us how the first two events led, inescapably, to the third.This amazing tale encompasses the Great Voyages of Discovery and multinational financial conspiracies, and leads a motley cast of scholars and eccentrics, drunk aristocrats and whores, assassins and octogenarian pirates through two centuries and three continents to the brink of French Revolution.John Lemprière reluctantly enters this world as an introverted scholar, obsessed by the myths of antiquity. At the end of this astonishing story he understands that it takes far more than learning to lay the ghosts of the past to rest.

In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped. And most of all she’s afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool . . .

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.

Nedavno razvedena Merilee Talbot Dunlap dolazi sa svoje dvoje djece u Sweet Apple, predgrađe Atlante, Georgia. Kad njezin propali brak postane jedna od tema anonimnog lokalnog bloga, Merilee nalazi određenu utjehu i mir u društvu svoje stanodavke Sugar Prescott. Zahvaljujući Sugarinim pričama Merilee počinje drukčije gledati na njihov gradić i njegove imućne kućanice u suknjicama za tenis i blistavim terencima, čak i na svoje novo prijateljstvo s glamuroznom mladom majkom Heather Blackford. U gradiću kao što je Sweet Apple, u kojem se grijesi i tajne skrivaju i iza zidova ograđenih palača, i u mračnoj šumi oko Merileeine kuće, sve je zapravo privid. Ali tri žene sve će se zaprepastiti kad shvate koliko ta obmana može biti opasna…

Muškarac koji ne prihvaća NE kao odgovor. Žena koja se boji PREDATI ljubavi. Kada se njihovi životi spoje, tajne više neće moći ostati skrivene Susret s Jettom bio je poput munje. Opasan. Bilo ga je bolje ne dirati. Bilo je bolje što prije ga zaboraviti. Ali munja uvijek udara dvaput... Brooke Stewart, agentica za prodaju nekretnina, nije cura od ozbiljnih veza. Kad je pošalju na službeni put kako bi dogovorila prodaju jednog imanja, otkrije da je njezin novi šef nitko drugi nego tip kojeg je nedavno nakon vruće noći ostavila nagog u krevetu. Seksi, opasno zgodan i bahat, Jett Mayfield privlači nevolje i žene poput gromobrana. Ali one večeri kad upozna Brooke, dobit će više no što je očekivao. Zelenooki milijunaš i zavodnik nije navikao prihvaćati ne kao odgovor i nema namjeru to činiti ni u budućnosti.

Sezona uragana rano počinje i tutnji cijelo ljeto, do duboko u rujan. Životi ljudi često odražavaju vremenske (ne)prilike, a ovaj roman donosi upravo takvu priču. Maisie, Liz i Ashley tri su generacije žena jedne obitelji. Maisie Pringle voli da njezina riječ uvijek bude zadnja u svemu, a naročito kad je posve u krivu. Njezina kći Liz uhvaćena je u klasičan vrtlog srednjih godina i emotivno zahtjevnog posla, koji će joj na kraju otvoriti oči prema razočaravajućoj istini. A Lizina prekrasna kći Ashley sa svojim sanjarskim ambicijama o malo vjerojatnoj budućnosti unosi razdor među sve njih. Tog će se ljeta s ove tri žene sudbina poigrati na vrlo ozbiljan način i sve će se naći u središtu naizgled bezizlaznih situacija, a mudrost starijih dama donijet će rješenje mladima. Istodobno ozbiljan ali i izvanredno duhovit novi roman autorice hita Posljednja prva supruga ponovno je odlično ispričana priča o životu žena koje žive od ljubavi i za ljubav i koje će se kao lavice boriti protiv svega što tu ljubav može ugroziti.

Robin Ellacott zgrozit će se kad u tajanstvenom paketu naslovljenom na svoje ime pronađe odrezanu žensku nogu. Njezin šef, privatni detektiv Cormoran Strike, manje je iznenađen, ali nimalo manje uznemiren. Četvoricu ljudi iz svoje prošlosti drži mogućim krivcima - i zna da je svaki od njih neopisivo okrutan. Dok se policija usredotočava na jednog sumnjivca za kojeg je Strike sve sigurniji da nije počinitelj zločina, Robin i on uzimaju stvari u svoje ruke i istražuju mračan i izopačen svijet ostale trojice muškaraca. Ali kad se dogode nova strašna djela, vrijeme im počne odmicati... Vraški pametna zagonetka s neočekivanim obratima na svakom uglu, Karijera zla ujedno je napeta priča o muškarcu i ženi na raskršću u privatnom i profesionalnom životu. Ovu knjigu nećete moći pustiti iz ruke.

Nakon šokantnog saznanja tajne koja ih je, čini se, zauvijek razdvojila Brooke Stewart nije bila sigurna je li to što je upoznala Jetta sreća ili, ustvari, nesreća. Uvjerila se da je to, u svakom slučaju, opasno. I nepredvidljivo. Odlučila ga je izbjegavati. Znala je da su u njegovoj igri ulozi visoki. Ali jesu li vrijedni rizika? Brooke uviđa da je teško zaboraviti, ali još teže oprostiti. Kad je iznevjeri muškarac kojem je vjerovala, jedini način da ga zaboravi jest krenuti dalje. Brooke je odlučna započeti novi život, ali samo dok ponovno ne naleti na njega: zelenookog, zavodljivog, metar i devedeset visokog boga seksa. Muškarca koji je igrao podlo. Muškarca koji ju je izigrao. Seksi, zgodan i bahat, Jett Mayfield zna da je pogriješio. Mogao je imati svaku drugu ženu, ali on želi samo Brooke. Kad se nove okolnosti sudare sa starim tajnama i Brooke zaprijeti prošlost, Jett je odlučan zaštititi je. Ona nevoljko prihvaća njegovu pomoć, ali igru želi igrati pod svojim uvjetima. I nema namjeru oprostiti mu ili ga pustiti natrag u svoj krevet. Što učiniti kad muškarac kojeg mrzi odjednom postane onaj kome bi trebala vjerovati? Hoće li je on uspjeti osvojiti... ili zauvijek izgubiti?

On je povučeni pisac čija mašta stvara jezovite romane strave i užasa. Ona je neuspješna glumica čija se karijera svela na lutkarske predstave za djecu. On zna desetak načina kako likove u svojim romanima ubiti golim rukama. Ona zna desetak načina da publika umre od smijeha. Ali sad se ne smije. Annie Hewitt došla je na otok Peregrine usred snježne oluje i na izmaku snaga. Bez novca je, potištena, ali još nije posve spremna odustati. Njezine lutke, ljubavni romani koje obožava i malo hrabrosti jedino je što joj je preostalo. Annie ne može biti nespremnija no što jest za ono što zatiče u kolibi Moonraker, i za muškarca koji živi u kući Harp, tajanstvenom zdanju koje se nadvija nad kolibom. Kad je bila tinejdžerica, taj muškarac izdao ju je na način koji ona neće moći nikad zaboraviti ni oprostiti. Sad su zarobljeni zajedno na zaleđenom otoku s usamljenom udovicom, nijemom djevojčicom i stanovnicima grada koji ne znaju brinuti svoja posla. Je li on negativac kakvog pamti ili se je promijenio? Glava joj govori da se nije promijenio. Srce da jest. Zima će biti duga i vrela.

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