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#2 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 103 week(s).

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“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal...

2) The crash

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McFadden, Freida

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#3 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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Eight months pregnant and abandoned by her baby's father, Tegan embarks on a desperate journey to her brother's house during a storm, only to crash and find herself at the mercy of a remote couple with potentially sinister intentions.

3) Ward D

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McFadden, Freida

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#5 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and...

4) Lights out

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Allen, Navessa

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#6 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 23 week(s).

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Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn't need any more kinks. She likes the one she's landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. She fantasizes about one man in particular hunting her down. But she never could have guessed that one drunken text could make those dreams into reality. Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps...

5) Verity

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Hoover, Colleen

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#7 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. It has been on the list for 153 week(s).

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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get started. Lowen uncovers an unfinished...

6) The housemaid's secret

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McFadden, Freida

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#9 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 47 week(s).

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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs. Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...

7) A court of thorns and roses

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Maas, Sarah J

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#10 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 53 week(s).

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"When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into...

8) Quicksilver

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Hart, Callie

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#11 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice...

9) The Boyfriend

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McFadden, Freida

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#12 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

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She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.

Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works

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10) The nightingale

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Hannah, Kristin

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#13 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 113 week(s).

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"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher. "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...

11) The frozen river: a novel

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Lawhon, Ariel

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#14 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).

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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial"-- Provided by publisher.

12) Funny Story

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Henry, Emily

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#15 on the Paperback Trade Fiction list for 2025-04-27. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024
Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more!

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter...