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Sloane Thompson has a daughter named Daisy, attends school activities with other parents, and even has an amicable relationship with her ex-husband. But after ten years in bucolic Sycamore Glen, Sloane has yet to find someone to call a true friend. Until Harper and Ben Wilson move in next door. Harper is open, charismatic, and restless. She and Sloane quickly become confidantes and fall into a deep and intoxicating friendship. Then one afternoon, Daisy’s dependable babysitter, Margaret, fails to show.

A scandalous revelation is about to devastate a picturesque town where the houses are immaculate and the neighborhoods are tightly knit. Devoted mother Cora O’Connell has found the journal of her friend Laurel’s daughter - a beautiful college student who lives next door - revealing an illicit encounter. Hours later, Laurel makes a shattering discovery of her own: her daughter has vanished without a trace. Over the course of one weekend, the crises of two close families are about to trigger a chain reaction that will expose a far more disturbing web of secrets.

A decade ago in upstate New York, art student Emma McCullough walked into the woods and was never seen again. It’s a mystery that still haunts her bucolic university town and her broken family, especially her sister Haley, whose need for closure has become an obsession. But now, finally, the first piece of evidence in the vanishing has been found: Emma’s bracelet, lodged in a frozen piece of earth at the bottom of a gorge.

When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August, it’s off to the relaxing Connecticut shore for her; her husband, Tom; and their young daughter. It’s just what they need to ease family tensions and reconnect. All that’s left to do is leave behind their house keys—to a stranger. For Anna, Georgia and Tom’s house in the cool woodlands is a dream break from the oppressive heat of a New York City summer—and from an increasingly ill-fated relationship with her lover. A month apart and Anna can clear her head and reassess her future. She’s found the perfect place to do it.

After the traumatic birth of her daughter at a New York City hospital, Rowan O’Sullivan returns home to her apartment with her perfect newborn, Lila. At her side are her husband, Gabe, and June, a part-time babysitter hired to help Rowan in any way she can. But in this time of joy, Rowan can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. She feels dread. She’s breaking.

Edén interrumpido se centra en los estados emocionales y en la inestabilidad psicológica, con la que cualquiera de nosotros puede identificarse, del protagonista. Nuestra mente y pensamientos pueden ser más terroríficos que cualquier factor externo, incluso pueden convertirse en nuestro peor enemigo.

El hombre despierta en la habitación de una casa que no reconoce. No recuerda nada: ni quién es, ni cómo ha llegado allí. De pronto se encuentra rodeado de un grupo de hombres de los que desconfía; parecen peligrosos y andan enredados en una misión que parece, si no ilegal, potencialmente peligrosa. No entiende nada de lo que hacen y cada instante le genera un sinfín de preguntas. Como no logra acceder a sus recuerdos, decide manejarse con prudencia, ya que desconoce si es el jefe, el prisionero, o un miembro más de esa banda.

La esperada segunda entrega de la saga de vampiros Rojo. América no responde. Ya nadie está a los mandos. En el resto del mundo, los medios evitan usar la palabra “vampiro”. Los llaman El Enemigo, la Marea Roja, o metahumanos, pero se les llame como se les llame, están llegando a Europa. Son cada vez más fuertes. Las mentes sincronizadas de Elexia y Alkibiades están despertando a los Nueve, y sus planes de venganza son imparables. En Canadá, la Tormenta ha privado a los supervivientes del respiro del Sol, y en su epicentro se reconstruye la vieja gloria de Tusla Edron.

Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.