1. Title: Six Years
Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Penguin Group
Synopsis: It has been six years since Natalie left Jake to marry another man called Todd. Heartbroken and dejected Jake tries to overcome the emotional turmoil by devoting all his time to his career as a college professor. But no matter how hard he tries to forget her, the feelings come rushing back every time he is alone. Then one day he stumbles upon Todd's obituary and decides to sneak in to the funeral hoping to get a glimpse of Natalie. But the widow mourning for Todd is not Natalie. Confused and shocked, he now sets out on a journey to find the truth; to find Natalie.
2. Title: Wait For You
Author: J. Lynn
Publisher: J. Lynn
Synopsis: To escape the ghosts of the past, one must take a step towards a new future. And for nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten, the past harbours ghosts from a 5-year-old Halloween party that she is determined to leave behind. Opportunity comes knocking and she packs her bags to a better life in a college thousands of miles away from where she is now. And there she meets the gorgeously handsome Cameron Hamilton. The dimple cheeked, 6 feet three inches high lad has all the girls swooning over him and soon, Avery too is smitten by his charm. But their special friendship is short-lived as Avery starts receiving threatening calls and emails once again.
3. Title: The Storyteller
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: Josef Weber is a friendly old man, adored by all in the neighbourhood. At the local bakery, he meets a young girl named Sage Singer and they both become friends at once. But one day he comes up with an odd request to Sage - he asks her to kill him. Sage, confused and a little taken aback refuses and that is when he reveals that he was a Nazi SS guard and he only deserves to be killed. To make things worse, Sage remembers that her grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. The question of confession, punishment and justice hence grows complicated, entangling the vulnerable threads of friendship.
4. Title: Exposed
Author: Kyra Davis
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: 'Exposed' is the second book of the 'Just One Night' series by Kyra Davis. Kasie Fitzgerald accepts her friend's challenge to sleep with a stranger with glee and she does so in a hotel room of Las Vegas. Only later does she realise that the stranger she slept with, Robert Dade, is actually a very important client of the company she works with. Thrilled by his moves in bed and charmed by his personality at work, Kasie finds herself completely obsessed with the dashing Robert Dade. The only hitch is her fiance, Dave who now knows her secret and will do anything to get her back.
5. Title: Alex Cross, Run
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: James Patterson is one of the most popular and oft-repeated authors featured on the New York Times Bestseller Lists. This time, our detective Alex Cross is preoccupied with three cases and he realises he does not have much time on him to nab the serial killers who have wrecked havoc in Washington DC. While a woman was found murdered with a lock of her hair ripped off, the second woman's body was discovered hanging from a sixth-floor window and the brutally bruised body of the third victim sent chills down the spines of many. Alex is unable to handle the pressure, so much so that he is oblivious to the conspiracy being planned somewhere against him. He is under someone else's investigation mission he is unaware of. Where will this game of vengeance, rumours, killings and conspiracies end? Who is this someone who is obsessively after Alex?
6. 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?
7. Title: A Week in Winter
Author: Maeve Binchy
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Synopsis: Maeve Binchy finished writing this book days before she died in 2012. A grand storyteller, her books are a sheer joy to read. A Week in Winter celebrates the magic of life in all colours. A small town located on the west coast of Ireland is almost like one big family where everybody knows everybody. All families in Stoneybridge have their own little heartwarming stories and the way they live is unique and a lot of fun. Everyone thinks Chicky has lost her mind when she decides to turn a decaying mansion overlooking the Atlantic Ocean into a quaint place for a holiday by the sea. All done up, Chicky welcomes her first guests to Stone House's big warm kitchen, log fires, impressive bedrooms and what not. With a gang of characters from John, the American movie star, Winnie and Lillian, Nicola and Henry, Anders who has a knack for music to Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher; this holiday brings together innumerable stories and mysteries readers are sure to get engrossed in.
8. Title: Falling into you
Author: Jasinda Wilder
Publisher: Jasinda Wilder
Synopsis: Nell Hawthorne has been in love with Kyle Calloway since forever. They were inseparable until fate played spoilsport and Kyle suddenly died. In a way, a part of Nell also died with him and she thought she could never feel the same way about anyone. Then she meets Colton, Kyle's elder brother. They start spending time together, talking and discussing life in general. He doesn't do anything to soothe her but she finds his presence healing. Slowly, she understands that to move on in life, she has to let go of the past, and that a broken heart too heals with time
9. Title: Three Sisters
Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: Harlequin
Synopsis: Book 2 of the Blackberry Island Series, Three Sisters by Susan Mallery revolves around the complicated lives of three women, all of them on a journey to heal their injured past and find love again. Our very first woman in the novel, Andi Gordon is devastated because her fiance strands at the altar. After the marriage is called off, Andi makes a reckless decision to move to Blackberry Island. She buys one of the Three Sisters Queen Anne houses there. Wade King is the 'hunky' construction worker that Andi hires to renovate the house. Wade, of course, is trying to overcome the much recent death of his wife. She was suffering from cancer. Next, we have Boston and Zeke King who happen to share the most ideal relationship that often make others jealous. However, things go awry when their little son succumbs to a heart condition. Deanna Phillips's (our third protagonist) marriage to Colin has hit rough waters. She suspects her husband of an illicit affair but fails to realise her own follies that's leading to the crumbling of their marriage. Will these three women ever come back on the track of happiness and joy they truly deserve?
10. Title: The Host
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Synopsis: Thanks to Andrew Niccol's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's 600-plus-page book that released to packed theatres last weekend, 'The Host' is back on the New York Times Bestseller List this week. Moving away from the conventions of a vampire fiction, Stephenie Meyer, this time, explores the arid Arizona Desert in her science-fiction novel, The Host. Fans of Twilight series will, however, be delighted to discover a similar narrative style in Meyer's latest and learn about romantic love through the lens of Melanie Stryder. The world has been invaded by aliens that take possession of the minds of human beings and leave their bodies intact. Melanie is one such human 'host' whose invading soul, Wanderer is struggling to put away the former tenant of her body, still in control of Melanie's mind. Melanie manipulates Wanderer's thoughts and unable to completely keep away from her body's desires, Wanderer and Melanie, both as allies embark on a journey in search of the man they both love. One of the riveting love triangles by Meyer, The Host is about the essence of humanity and the emotion of love.
11. 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.
12. Title: The Stranger
Author: Kyra Davis
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Synopsis: As much as Kasie Fitzgerald tries to turn a deaf ear to her best friend's kinky idea of a pre-wedding fling, she can't help but fall for the good looking-well-suited Robert Dade as she sets her eyes on him in one of the Vegas' casinos. What next, she sleeps with him and is obviously left feeling guilty about the man she has promised to exchange 'marital vows' with. As if things were not already messed up, on her return, Kasie learns that Dade has hired her firm to work with his company in a bid to bring her back into his life and the knowledge of her being engaged does not affect him in the least. Which man will Kasie walk down the aisle with- The 'stranger' Vegas man or the one she is supposed to? Part 1 of Just One Night Series, 'The Stranger' is sure to leave readers asking for more.
13. Title: Surrender Your Love
Author: J.C Reed
Publisher: J.C Reeds
Synopsis: Brooke Stewart, a New York-based realtor doesn't do relationships, but her reclusive existence is thrown out of gear when she runs into her new boss, Jeff Mayfield, the man she left naked in bed. Jeff, the green-eyed millionaire, is handsome, sexy and dangerous, and would not take no for an answer. And with Brooke he got more than he bargained for after their night of passion. He wants to continue this arrangement, of no strings sex, and Brooke though initially skeptical gives in. When Jeff realises he wants more from Brooke, and Brooke despite herself is unwilling to surrender to Jeff, you have a love story that is both gripping and evocative. The author plans to release the sequel 'Conquer Your Love' this June.
14. 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.
15. Title: Admission
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Synopsis: Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz runs a parallel plot; one of the admission procedure at the Princeton University lead by its admission officer, the 38-year-old Portia Nathan, and second of the dark secrets of her past she dreads admitting. For years now Portia has been hiding her true self behind her exacting career, but when she is faced with this life-altering decision to confront her past her resolve weakens. Just as thousands of students await their fate, Portia too must pick up courage to make her own ghastly admission.
(Compiled by Anwesha Mittra, Arunima Mazumdar and Ipshita Mitra)
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