1. Title: Safe Haven
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Katie, a young woman has just relocated to the small town of Southport in North Carolina. Naturally, the neighbours are intrigued by her self-effacing nature. Slowly, she drops her guard and starts opening up to Alex, a widower with two kids and Jo, her next door neighbour. Katie is apprehensive about revealing her tumultuous past that led her to travel across another country, nevertheless, she begins to confide in them. Jo's empathetic support and Alex's kind love eases her troubles of the dark past and she eventually realises that it is nothing but love that will rescue her to a safe haven.
2. Title: Private Berlin
Author: James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: Germany's Private Berlin is the headquarters for the world's most powerful and renowned investigation firm, and Chris Schneider is the firm's superstar agent. He is known to crack the most high-profile cases for Private. One fine day he goes missing. The circumstances of his disappearance are ambiguous and Mattie Engel, another top agent of the same firm who is also Chris' lover, devotes herself into finding him. Her search takes her to the secretive hinterlands of Berlin where she encounters more than just the truth.
3. Title: Gone Girl
Author: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Synopsis: On her fifth wedding anniversary Amy Dunne suddenly goes missing without a trace from her rented home in North Carthage, Missouri. Under pressure from the police, media and Amy's doting parents, Husband-of-the Year, Nick grapples with a never-ending chain of lies, deceits, and his own oddly evasive behaviour. As events get murkier, the needle of suspicion points at Nick as the killer of his beautiful wife. With his sister Margo by his side, Nick pleads innocence. Then what was in that silver gift box in the back of Amy's bedroom closet?
4. Title: Hopeless
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Colleen Hoover
Synopsis: This book is about the struggle of a 17-year-old girl named Sky who is on a journey to discovering the truth while believing the lies that surround her. When Sky first meets Dean Holder, she knows that the guy is nothing but trouble. However, Sky is captivated by Holder's charms and his ability to kindle feelings in her that she'd never experienced. Memories from a past that Sky wishes to keep at a distance seem knocking at the door again. Holder on the other hand comes across as a parasite who wants to learn everything about Sky. What about Holder's hidden truths? What is to become of Sky when his secrets are finally revealed?
5. Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Author: E.L. James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: E.L James, a former TV journalist and mom of two in West London, fulfills her childhood dream of writing a book with Fifty Shades of Grey, the first of the trilogy, and turns into a bestselling author. Serving erotica to the audience with a plot that revolves around a drop-dead-gorgeous billionaire Christian Grey and his dangerous liaison with literature student Anastasia Steele who goes to interview the young tycoon, and ends up falling for him. They embark on a passionate physical affair while Ana unravels Grey's dark desires including her own.
6. Title: Suspect
Author: Robert Crais
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Scott James is a Los Angeles policeman. He is also a victim of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after his partner Stephanie got assaulted and killed by unidentified men about eight months ago. Maggie, a German shepherd expert at sniffing explosives has served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. She too is badly affected by PTSD after her handler lost his life at the war. Both of them buddy up to console each other's indiscernible and personal wounds, only to emerge as a stronger than ever team.
7. Title: Ever After
Author: Kim Harrison
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Synopsis: The eleventh in the Hollow series, author Kim Harrison is back with an adventurous and sensuous tale of supernatural powers, demons in conflict and a world wrapped in the flames of an impending disaster. It is upon the magnetic witch and daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to fix the damage she is in a way responsible to have started in the first place. Her life too is in the hands of the almost invincible demonic power, the soul-eater Ku'Sox Sha-Ku'ru who has pledged to destroy her completely. She not only has to save her life but also rescue those she loves and are in the clutches of the super enemy. Will she be able to prevent the apocalypse?
8. Title: Fifty Shades Darker
Author: E.L James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: The second of the trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker explores the dilemma of Anastasia after her separation from Grey. She has moved on in her career, yet desires to go back to him, for the memories of their torrid physical affair still dominate her mind, and eventually she lands up with him in a new arrangement. Grey's inner demons grow darker, and as Ana delves deeper into his harrowing past, she is faced with the anger and jealousy of the women who came in his life before her.
9. Title: Fifty Shades Freed
Author: E.L James
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Since their first encounter, the third of the trilogy, and driven by their searing sexual desire for each other, Anastasia and Grey's lives have changed irrevocably. Initially repelled by Grey's need to control in bed, and his erotic tastes, Ana subsequently comes to terms with it, and demands from him a greater commitment. Grey agrees, and now they have everything going for them, from love, wealth, passion, to intimacy. But deep down Ana fears they'll never be able to stay together without her sacrificing her own identity.
10. Title: The Forgotten
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Agent John Puller has till date cracked the toughest crimes facing the nation and that makes him the most reliable man in the US Army. He's a veteran of combat and a relentless one at that. But now he is faced with a personal loss. His aunt has been found dead in the beach town Paradise in Florida and the local police have shrugged off responsibility by calling the incident as simply unfortunate and tragic. However, a letter from his aunt to Puller's father confirms the grimy details behind the picture-perfect facade of Paradise. Puller sets off on a personal mission to probe the truth behind his aunt's mysterious death and to unveil the conspiracies beneath Paradise's sandy beaches and palm trees.
11. Title: The Racketeer
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Malcolm Bannister, an ex-lawyer currently serving jail sentence at the Federal Prison Camp, Maryland, knows why Judge Raymond Fawcett was murdered and by whom. From the site of murder, the FBI couldn't deduce much for there was no forced entry, no sign of struggle, only two dead bodies, one of the Judge and the other of his young secretary's, and an opened and emptied extremely secure safe. Malcolm would like to give out every last detail, but there is one tiny hitch. He wants his freedom in exchange.
12. Title: Someone to Love
Author: Addison Moore
Publisher: Addison Moore
Synopsis: Twenty-year-old Kendall Jordan moves off from home to attend college at Garrison University, and certainly the last thing on her mind is a one-night-stand. As fate would have it, she runs into the handsome Cruise Elton from the same college who offers her a great night of passion and nothing more. Kendall takes it up and realises she is head-over-heels for the good looking Cruise, while Cruise too feels the same way about her. Both Kendall and Cruise non-believers in love find themselves grappling with this new feeling. As she proposes that he tutor her in turning into a female version of himself, their true feelings for each other begin to emerge. Will they redefine their relationship, and give love a chance?
13. Title: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Publisher: Jessica Sorensen
Synopsis: Callie's twelfth birthday turns out to be the most unfortunate day of her life. Everything gets stolen and she retreats into her solitude, cutting off from the world. But after six years too she is unable to come to terms with what had happened. Kayden has been silently obedient to life's instructions until one day, he makes a huge mistake. He is sure that his life is on the verge of ending but coincidentally Callie comes across to him as a saviour. Now that he and Callie are in the same college, he will do everything to get to know her and more importantly, save her from the reservations of her dejected life.
14. Title: The Fifth Assassin
Author: Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: There have been dozens of attempts to assassinate the President of the most powerful nation, the United States of America. Of them only four have been successful. As Beecher White tracks an assassin who is probably recreating the crimes of the four men who had earlier killed US Presidents, he is faced with a horrifying truth. Historians may have dubbed them 'four lone wolves', but White knows better. All four assassins in the course of hundred years have been working in tandem, and now there is a new addition to the lair, the fifth Assassin, who is all set to murder the current President.
15. Title: Bared to You
Author: Sylvia Day
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: Best-selling author Sylvia Day weaves an erotic, obsessive relationship between her two protagonists, Eva and Gideon, both fighting their respective demons of the past. Emotional turmoil juxtaposed with physical desire makes them bare their hearts to each other, only to complicate their present further.
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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