This Thursday temptations post is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.
Dark Days Hotel
One dark winter night, a young woman – barefoot, in silk pyjamas and holding a hotel room key – collapses in the carpark of a Tasmanian hospital. The only witness is Liv, an exhausted emergency nurse who fails to save her.
Haunted by her mistake and determined to discover the woman’s identity, Liv's search takes her to remote wilds of Macquarie Heads. There an exclusive health resort rises from the coastline: the Aonaran, where the ultra-wealthy come to reset, renew, and remake themselves.
For Liv, whose 'self-care' involves sneaking Valium mid-shift and burying everything she feels, this promise is almost enough to distract her from her search.
But the deeper Liv goes, the more unsettling the resort becomes. A staff member has vanished. The guests seem to be watching her. And beneath the Aonaran’s serene surface, a different kind of transformation is taking place – one that will force Liv to ask: what is the true cost of a better life, and is she prepared to pay?
The Guilt Toll
Two women. One dead man. Only one of them knows the truth.
They say my husband killed himself. They say I should have seen it coming.
But I knew Hayden better than anyone. And I know he didn’t drive into that tree on purpose.
He was a devoted dad. Everyone’s best mate. Four generations of his family in this town.
Everyone in Maldon has an answer. In a goldfields town this small, none of them is the truth.
I’m falling apart. I don’t sleep. I forget things. I catch people watching me in the supermarket.
Then Charles comes home.
Charlise Vee. My oldest friend, my son’s godmother, the girl this town never forgave for leaving. She’s glossy and composed and she won’t take off her sunglasses, and underneath them is a black eye she won’t explain. There’s a cast on her arm too.
The whole town whispers that she’s the reason my husband is dead. And the terrible thing is, I’ve started to wonder too.
Because in the weeks before he died, Hayden did things I still can't make sense of. He sent our teenage son away to stay with Charles. He drove out to a house he had no reason to visit. And he went quiet in a way I’d never seen.
My husband was trying to tell me something. I was just too broken to hear it.
Someone close to me has been lying for a very long time. Someone will do anything to keep it that way.
The Mortons
Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency - and business is booming.
The Mortons are a modern-day, old-money dynasty with impeccable taste, from their exquisitely crafted cocktails to their expertly tailored vintage garments. They are also stone-cold killers.
They, along with the other crime families, send their progeny to Helshire College, where legacy students learn to exercise control over their wealthy peers. Jessica Morton has always excelled at Helshire, secure in her knowledge that she is the prodigy of her generation. Now, having committed her first kill, it should be Jessica’s moment, her honor.
But that kill will cut more ways than one - and it will set in motion a series of consequences from which there is no turning back.
The Damned
Old rivals become new adversaries in the explosive new installment of the bestselling Logan Booth series.
Retired assassin Logan Booth is ready to settle down after surviving a war that almost destroyed his life – but Jacinta Murphy, the President of the United States, has other ideas.
Paranoid he will expose her past mistakes, the President sets off a chain of events that drive Logan to Colombia and into the middle of an old war.
After colliding with the wrong cartel, Logan finds himself on the run across the mountainous Colombian countryside. His only chance of survival lies with Alice Mason, an unlikely friend and confidant. Desperate to keep her out of harm’s way, Logan refuses to call on her for aid. But what if she turns up unbidden? How can Logan protect her if he can’t even guarantee he’ll make it out of this alive?
The Diamonds of Tilly Devine
1931 - The height of the Depression, Sydney, New South Wales
They were diamonds: beautiful, sparkling and irresistible.
Nice girls do not accept employment from infamous Tilly Devine, the brothel owner with jewels on her fingers and a pistol in her handbag. All of Sydney knows her as the queen of crime, ruling an empire of bootleg whisky and gambling clubs, and rumour has it she's quick to pull the trigger on anyone who crosses her - including her husband.
Yet, destitute after her mother's death, Constance McKie realises she has three choices: starve, jump over The Gap, or enter a life no respectable girl would dare consider. When Tilly Devine offers her a role as one of her 'diamonds', Connie finds that perhaps she's not the girl she thought she was.
A diamond's role is complex, demanding, usually glamorous and entirely secret, and kept far away from Tilly's world of gang wars, bribery and blackmail. But when murder is suspected in the mansion that becomes her home, Connie soon learns that it's not only diamonds that are tougher than steel.
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