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Wandering Wild

I’ve never feared dying.

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The Girl and the Ghost

‘Let’s buy a chateau’, they said . . . ‘It’ll be an adventure’, they said . . . ‘You’ll meet a prince’, they said . . .

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The Next Conversation

Not long after uploading my first video, I started to receive messages—thousands of them.

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How To Love Better

We met quite young, both of us still finding our footing in college, but as soon as we were in each other’s gravity, Sara and I felt an undeniable pull that kept bringing us even closer together.

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The Tell

I ran. I ran in the mornings and in the afternoons, and I ran at night.

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The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

My earworm for today is ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by the Boomtown Rats.

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Wild Dark Shore

I have hated my mother for most of my life but it is her face I see as I drown.

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Nemesis

Tommy Stojack.

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Three Days in June

People don’t tap their watches anymore; have you noticed?

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When The Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole

New Zealand was greener than Emilia could ever have imagined.

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Our Infinite Fates

The dining table was set for a feast, but all the carving knives had been hidden.

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Cruel is the Light

God created man and demon.

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All In

Why are there no relationship classes in high school?

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Blood Pact

As Lou widened her eyes with mischievous pleasure and blew him a kiss over the heads of other customers in the gelato bar, Jack smiled at her delight.

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The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone

When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we’d made a terrible mistake. People warned us that e-readers were taking over. People warned us that we’d never compete with Amazon. The one thing they didn’t warn us about was the murders.

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We All Live Here

There is a framed photograph on Lila’s bedside table that she hasn’t yet had the energy, or perhaps the inclination, to get rid of.

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Fire

When I was twelve years old, I was buried alive within the grounds of a construction site.

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