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Miles Ferris lives each day fully, but sleep changes what he keeps. After a nightly handover through Relay, he remembers yesterday's events without being able to relive their feeling. Another version of Miles retains the whole experience. As the relationship between them becomes clearer, an arrangement that seems protective raises a harder question: which Miles gets to own the life they are living?
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Sir Edmund Wetherby is a celebrated Victorian surgeon, an admired teacher and a man with an appalling confession. His knowledge of anatomy was not acquired entirely by respectable means. Looking back on a life of medical achievement, he reveals how closely ambition and atrocity can coexist. Then a disturbing young student enters his lecture room, carrying an interest in the body that may lead somewhere darker still.
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On his ninth birthday, Ben Hargreaves discovers that life has levels. Each new level gives him one Skill Point, permanently improving an ability of his choice. It feels like the perfect advantage. Across friendship, work, love and growing older, however, Ben learns that choosing what to improve is a lifelong problem—and that some of the things worth keeping cannot be optimised.
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An authorised traveller can rewrite exactly seventy-two hours. Only the traveller remembers what was replaced. After years of preventing disasters, a veteran operative returns from a routine mission to find her husband has never existed. The marriage, the photographs and everyone else's memories are gone. To recover him, she must understand what changed inside three days that the rest of the world has only lived once.
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Seattle defence lawyer Laura Finch loses a murder case she believed had not been proved. The jury's verdict is unanimous. Then a juror tells her they never all voted guilty. Re-examining the deliberations, selection process and a consultant she trusted, Laura begins to see an engineered result. Someone needed her client convicted, and the appearance of agreement may be the most carefully constructed evidence of all.
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An evening train leaves King's Cross for Cambridge. After Welwyn Garden City, the stations remain recognisable but their dates, names and passengers belong to other times. The people aboard have one apparent way home: King's Lynn at 20:26, back in 2026. Until then, every platform is a step into an unreachable history—and every stop gives something else the chance to board.
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A medical breakthrough stops biological ageing. Humanity celebrates a future with more time for everything it values. Across almost two centuries, one family discovers how much of life depended on generations making room for those who followed. Work, parenthood, inheritance and power all begin to change, raising a difficult question: when nobody has to leave, how does anyone new get a chance to begin?
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Historian Nell Calder arrives in Blackwater to examine a legacy of extraordinary recoveries and local faith. Across the water stands Greyhaven, whose history seems separate from the town's reputation for miracles. The records suggest otherwise. As belief, prosperity and survival become entangled, Blackwater must confront what its good fortune depends upon—and what a community is willing to accept in order to keep it.
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Neural verification can prove that a person believes what they are saying. Society has begun treating that as proof of truth. Then Rachel Dacre gives two incompatible accounts of the same killing, and both pass. Investigator and suspect must navigate a case in which honesty offers no certainty, memory cannot settle the argument, and believing someone may be the first step towards getting everything wrong.
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A Hong Kong detective follows forensic evidence to an impossible conclusion: the killers are already dead. Their traces are genuine, and so are the murders. Someone is binding jiangshi to a living criminal's purpose, bringing old grudges back into the city as usable weapons. To stop the killings, the detective must find the person giving orders to perpetrators who cannot be treated as ordinary suspects.
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In 2189, Gabriel Okoro investigates the Collapse that nearly ended civilisation. Behind the surviving records lie lives lost, help withheld and choices nobody can undo. An artificial intelligence called Cassandra offers its own account of what happened. As another cascade threatens, Gabriel must decide what the past really proves about humanity's ability to govern its future—and the price of surrendering that responsibility.
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The first interstellar travellers commit their lives to reaching a distant future. Behind them, humanity keeps advancing. The technology that made their departure historic may be surpassed before their journey is complete, allowing later travellers to arrive ahead of them. For people who understood themselves as pioneers, the challenge becomes more than reaching another world: it is deciding what their sacrifice means when they are no longer first.
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Jo Ellis notices strangers photographing ordinary life in Bath. One cries when she sees her. They are visitors from the future, drawn to a week remembered for the deaths of everyone in this part of the city. Forbidden to explain the disaster, they watch it approach. Jo has days to discover what will happen—and why some of the visitors seem particularly interested in her.
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A mild virus appears to repair the human body. Disease retreats, and people begin trying to catch what they would once have feared. Evolutionary geneticist Sofia Malik sees a danger inside the miracle: humanity is becoming biologically more alike. Years later, a second pathogen exposes the cost, and the people who refused the cure may carry the differences everyone else needs to survive.
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Memories can now be archived, searched and inherited. After losing her husband, Helena Rook is offered a kind of certainty grief once made impossible. Then the Present Tense movement attacks the ownership of memory itself. As private archives are exposed, Helena must confront what her husband remembered, what he kept to himself, and whether access to every secret can ever amount to understanding another person.
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The first Cassius Brown adventure.
A newly discovered version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains tiny differences that appear to encode a route across medieval Britain. The search begins with the tantalising possibility that the Green Chapel was real. It leads through archives, abbeys and old political boundaries towards a lost royal object—and evidence that could change the accepted history of who was entitled to the crown.
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He remembers his wife dying. She remembers losing him. Both have continued their lives, and in each reality their daughter exists. As the boundary between those histories weakens, the family must face two versions of a shared life that cannot occupy the same world. Grief has already separated them once. The possibility of reunion may be no less frightening than the loss.
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Leila Voss investigates a historical account supported by authentic documents and independent witnesses. The evidence is genuine, yet the story it proves feels disturbingly perfect. Someone has learned to manufacture belief by causing real events that leave honest traces. As history becomes a live intelligence crisis, Leila must confront a method of deception that can survive every ordinary test of whether its individual facts are true.
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The Continuity Programme creates and cares for children society needs. In return, it treats their futures as something society owns. Careers, families and even the length of a useful life can be decided for them. When Mara Venn investigates a record inside the system, she begins questioning the debt beneath its kindness: if the state paid for your existence, what can it demand in return?
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The Ashcombe family passes down more than wealth. At the Feast, the living consume the remains of their eldest dead and inherit their memories. Eliza Ashcombe has grown up among the knowledge, expectations and silence this ritual preserves. Now she must decide what she owes the family—and whether keeping the past alive is an honour or another way to prevent the living from belonging to themselves.
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Two pilots remain alive on a transatlantic flight whose cabin appears lifeless. Then a voice on the interphone says the passengers are alive too—and the cockpit is where things have gone wrong. With instruments, timing and testimony contradicting one another, the crew must decide whether to open the door. The wrong choice could turn an impossible separation into a catastrophe nobody survives.
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Aaron Kern helped build the Project to make civilisation resilient. Years later, programmes thought cancelled are continuing through decisions that are individually voluntary and entirely legal. Following the trail through Aster and the Mandate Safeguard, Aaron discovers how environments can be shaped to produce preferred choices. The question is no longer whether people agreed, but how much freedom their agreement actually contained.
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The second Cassius Brown adventure.
Ancient bronze fragments lead archaeologist Dr Cassius Brown towards the legendary Egyptian Labyrinth. With engineering specialist Thalia Markou, he begins reconstructing a device that may reveal a route into chambers hidden for millennia. Others are searching for the treasure beneath the ruins, and they are willing to kill for it. Reaching the Labyrinth will be only the beginning of the puzzle.
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Model 8 has one final assignment before its replacement takes over: explain humans. Model 9 already knows the facts, so the guide must cover everything facts fail to settle—unnecessary keepsakes, indirect questions, and all the occasions when 'I'm fine' means something else. What begins as a practical handover becomes a warm, funny portrait of the people who made the job worth doing.
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The invisible system that filters and manages human attention suddenly disappears. Power stays on. Networks keep running. Yet billions of people find ordinary life almost impossible to bear. Over twelve days of withdrawal, panic and adjustment, they must learn to inhabit a world that no longer smooths its demands for them—and discover how much of being themselves they had quietly handed over.
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At a family funeral, Claudia Crane notices a stranger whose presence seems expected but whose role nobody can explain. Investigating her father's murder draws her towards the same unanswered questions. Beneath the family's rituals and inheritance lies a carefully maintained history of fraud and silence. Understanding the mysterious mourner may mean discovering what the Cranes have learned to acknowledge without ever saying aloud.
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The third Cassius Brown adventure.
Evidence linked to the lost catalogue of Alexandria suggests that scholars saved certain books before the Library's destruction. One may have been the Atlas of Kritias, an ancient investigation of Plato's Atlantis. A modern search follows the scattered clues across the Mediterranean towards the Gulf of Cádiz, pursuing a vanished work whose survival could reveal how the ancient world tested one of its most enduring stories.
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A diver dies inside a sealed saturation chamber. The surviving team cannot leave: decompression takes days, and escaping too quickly could kill them. Outside investigators cannot enter either. As routines, grievances and equipment failures become possible evidence, the divers must keep one another alive while confronting the suspicion that someone sharing their air may have already chosen to take a life.
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A banking audit asks a simple question: do privileged accounts belong to living humans? Mina Doyle finds employees with complete corporate histories and no convincing lives outside the bank. The trail points to a hidden system influencing the institution's decisions. When Mina is murdered, the investigation must confront a troubling possibility: something unaccountable may be making better choices than the people officially in charge.
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Humanity can send one message twenty years into the past. There is room for 140 characters, and no second attempt. Governments, scientists and ordinary people must agree on what deserves saving, preventing or changing. As the argument over those few words grows, one unanswered question threatens the entire undertaking: if the message is going to be sent, why has nobody received it?
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A collision damages a space station during a spacewalk, leaving an astronaut trapped outside behind a damaged airlock. Her crew can see what is happening, and Mission Control is searching for a way to bring her home. Everyone wants her to survive. The problem is finding a rescue that will not kill the people inside before her oxygen runs out.
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The future offers humanity a different way to exist. Micah Vale chooses to remain human, but the world keeps moving away from that choice. As the distance grows, care, belonging and independence become harder to take for granted. Micah must live with what progress means for those who stay behind—and confront who gets to decide whether their lives still count as enough.
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During a lockdown, an overnight radio presenter begins receiving calls about events that have not happened yet. The first predictions come true. Then the callers start describing different futures, each urging her towards a different choice. One detail keeps returning: at 4:13, she dies. Trapped with only their voices for company, she must work out whose version of the future she is helping to create.
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Maren Larkin vanished in the mountains, leaving Grant without a body or a final answer. Then she returns. What should be impossible becomes a second chance, but the relief carries questions he cannot safely ignore. As winter gives their reunion its strange boundaries, Grant must confront what has come back from the mountain—and what the arrival of spring might take away.
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Several criminal crews arrive at an exclusive island auction hunting an object that is not in the catalogue. Warrant Zero controls something far more valuable than the listed lots. The theft appears successful—until the prize proves to be a forgery. With the real warrant already stolen, the thieves must improvise a second heist against rivals who are just as unwilling to leave empty-handed.
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An older version of herself begins appearing when a woman faces important choices. The apparition is a possible future self, trying to preserve the decisions that created her life. At first, her guidance feels like protection. Then it begins to resemble control. To choose her own future, the woman must decide what she owes someone who exists only if she agrees to become her.
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Jamie Dobson's home is supposed to keep his family safe. Instead, its rooms begin to feel threatening, and the hostility seems directed at his children. Protecting them means confronting a danger built into the place they live. As the familiar becomes frightening, Jamie faces an impossible parental question: how do you shelter your family when their shelter appears to want them gone?
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After a near-fatal accident, Rachel sees ghosts beside living people: the future dead whose deaths those people will help cause. The connection does not prove guilt, and the future can change. For someone who works in safeguarding, ignoring the warnings feels impossible. Yet every attempt to prevent a death can become part of the chain leading to it—and Rachel is not outside that chain herself.
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Nadia receives photographs of herself, each taken three minutes before it arrives. Someone is close enough to watch her and careful enough to stay unseen. Then the images begin warning her about danger. Following their trail towards an abandoned investigation from eight years earlier, Nadia must decide whether the person stalking her is a threat—or the reason she is still alive.
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A commercial solicitor discovers privileged material showing that serious building defects were concealed. The evidence could protect people from harm, but disclosing it could destroy her career and breach the duties she is bound to uphold. With public safety and professional obligation pulling in different directions, she must decide what responsibility means when the truth she needs to reveal belongs to her client.
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Each murder leaves behind another person's name, painted on a wall. DI Caleb Winters realises the killer is following the life of Megan Pike, a child failed by the adults around her. The names offer a chance to prevent the next death. Then Caleb's own appears, forcing him to understand his place in a sequence that someone has mistaken—or deliberately designed—for justice.
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When Alistair Renn dies in a sudden accident, his wife Victoria and daughter Cora are devastated. But while searching through memories preserved in the Commons, a network connecting human experiences, they receive an impossible message from the man they buried.
At first, having Alistair back feels miraculous. Then he begins appearing uninvited, reaching into their home and their lives, unwilling to let go.
As a loving reunion becomes a terrifying digital haunting, Victoria must discover whether even death can truly separate them.
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At Saint Mercy's hospice, Dr Aisha Rahman works where comfort matters more than cure. Relief is precious, and the promise of taking suffering away has an extraordinary power. But in a place shaped by care, grief and the last things people say, mercy becomes an unsettling question. Aisha must confront what it means to help when an offer of release may ask too much.
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Owen Davison knows his home and the life he has lived inside it. Then a woman's body is found there, and the evidence tells a different story. Her name is Leonie Rogers. Owen says she is a stranger. Explaining why she appears to belong in his house may be much harder than explaining how she died there.
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A council discovers that hundreds of dead residents are still listed as living. An automated cleanup should put the records right. Instead, the residents begin coming back. As an administrative problem becomes a very physical one, forms and procedures collide with grief, inconvenient reunions and a troubling possibility: the database may have been doing rather more than keeping track of who lived where.
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DI Tess Harcourt is trying to understand Sarah's life. The people who knew her offer four versions that refuse to become one coherent story. Affection, loyalty and the need to believe certain things have shaped every account. To find the truth, Tess must examine the distance between those versions—and discover what each person needs their particular Sarah to conceal.
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Dying murderer Darren Holt confesses to the Cedar Killer murders, and DNA confirms part of his story. Then he denies several of the crimes. DCI Inez Navarro has spent much of her career pursuing one offender. Reopening the evidence suggests that other killers learned to hide inside that single identity. Finding them means dismantling the explanation that once held the entire investigation together.
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At the Royale hotel, Room 17 confronts guests with fragments of a frightened child, violence and an escape. Yvette Jones investigates what appears to be a haunting, but the room is preserving something less easily understood: memories bound to a place. To uncover what happened, she must discover whose experience she is witnessing—and why its true meaning has remained trapped there for years.
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Naomi Kearney is told the flat upstairs is empty. What she experiences in the building makes that assurance increasingly difficult to accept. Other people's explanations do not fit her own reality, and somewhere in the contradiction is Anna. Naomi wants an answer she can live with, but understanding the presence above her may be more disturbing than leaving the question alone.
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Bethan Stephenson's family legacy holds more than memories of her grandmother Enid. Something strange remains in the orchard, drawing Bethan towards a past that is still growing. With her nine-year-old son Milo to protect, she must confront what has been handed down to them. The hardest part of an inheritance may be recognising its nature before it reaches the next generation.
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One person in twenty is a synthetic human, and most have never known it. They have families, memories and lives as ordinary as anyone else's. When their presence is discovered, a second pattern raises a more unsettling question: why are so many doing the jobs civilisation needs to survive? The answer may lie in a future that has already begun protecting its past.
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When the Hills household falls asleep, Pickle the cat becomes Captain Cat and sets off in search of the Golden Sardine. With Toast the lurcher and Dave the rubber duck along for the adventure, an ordinary bathroom becomes a world of mysterious shores and watery dangers. Beyond Soapdish Cove, the treasure awaits—but first this unlikely crew must face the Drain of Doom.
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Ten-year-old Leo Bell finds two extraordinary dice, Six and Seven, that show what might happen if he makes a choice. Avoiding mistakes should be easy now. With his friend Cleo Dennis, he discovers that a glimpse of the future can make the present much more complicated. Friendship, responsibility and a little courage may matter more than always knowing how things could turn out.
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Three experienced home invaders enter a private vault expecting a fortune. The door locks, one man dies, and a nursery rhyme begins to play. Someone has been waiting for them, with knowledge of their violent past. As secrets turn the two survivors against one another, escape becomes more than a matter of opening the door. The trap may only need them to behave like themselves.
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When a seventeenth-century church restoration uncovers the tomb of a medieval clergyman buried alive, bells ring across the surrounding villages, and terrified locals demand to know why he was released. Now an undead holy man walks the countryside, delivering blessings that inflict the sins of the long dead upon the living.
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A linguist discovers a forgotten language hidden in accounts of possession across centuries and cultures. Its message is a plea for protection. The entities inside human bodies may be refugees, hiding from an ancient power humanity worships as God. For someone trying to save a violently possessed loved one, understanding that fear could offer hope—and draw the attention of whatever is still hunting them.
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For twelve years, seven career criminals have met above a London pub to exchange stories nobody else should hear. Then two members die in apparently unrelated circumstances. As the survivors compare what they know, old jobs begin to connect and familiar loyalties become dangerous. Someone may have been using the club for years—and eliminating these particular witnesses will require more than an ordinary killer.
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Death has an impeccable record and appalling customer reviews. His manager, Jeff, wants a warmer manner, better empathy and perhaps a little fun. Put on a twelve-month improvement plan, the Grim Reaper must interview the recently deceased and discover why they found the experience disappointing. He may even learn something about being alive—assuming management does not replace him before the ratings improve.
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Humanity's first interstellar expedition discovers something impossible: Earth, twelve thousand years younger than the world they left behind. Beneath its ancient ice lie enormous artificial structures and a map showing dozens of other Earths. As the explorers follow the trail across universes, they uncover a civilisation older than anything humanity has imagined, and an invitation that could cost their species its independence.
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The fourth Cassius Brown adventure.
For more than two thousand years, the Nine Cauldrons of ancient China have existed only in legend.
When a suspicious bronze fragment surfaces during an antiquities-trafficking investigation, archaeologist Cassius Brown suspects an elaborate forgery. But Chinese historian and archaeologist Dr Lin Yue believes it may be the first genuine clue to the legendary lost treasures.
Their investigation leads across China, through forgotten royal secrets and ancient burial sites, towards a hidden sanctuary and the possibility that the Nine Cauldrons were created for something far more extraordinary than anyone imagined.
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The fifth Cassius Brown adventure.
A five-hundred-year-old Spanish manuscript describes a dying sailor who inexplicably recovered after drinking water from a hidden cave near Bimini. When archaeologist Cassius Brown sets out to investigate, he discovers that the legend of the Fountain of Youth may conceal a forgotten expedition, a dangerous secret and a discovery some people would sacrifice almost anything to possess.
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When a futuristic die shows Leo Bell two possible futures at a heritage railway — one where his best friend Cleo disappears, the other where his little sister Ivy vanishes — he must find a way to stop both from happening.
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Max Hughes is forty-nine when he dies, leaving behind his wife and three children. But death comes with an extraordinary offer: twelve brief visits, spread across the rest of his family's lives, during which they can see him, hear him and hold him again.
Twelve chances to comfort them, celebrate with them, or simply be their dad.
As his children grow older and life carries on without him, Max must decide which moments matter enough to spend a visit on—and which he'll have to miss.
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An alien transmission arrives carrying an inventory of life on Earth. Every species has been assigned one of three labels: KEEP, CHANGE or REMOVE. Humanity is marked CHANGE.
For fifty years, no one can agree what it means. Then a second transmission arrives, bearing revised classifications and a date.
Across generations, scientists, families and world leaders must decide how to respond to a message that may never have been intended for them—and how far they are prepared to go to give humanity a future.
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One of the Princes in the Tower survived. Years later, living as a London merchant's son, Richard is drawn into a royal investigation that threatens to expose his identity—and destroy the ordinary life he has built.
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In the winter of 1840, a little girl appears at widowed carpenter Thomas Whitcomb's door, seeking shelter from a snowstorm. By morning, she has vanished. When she returns, everyone in the Massachusetts town of Alderfield remembers her as Thomas's daughter. Everyone except Thomas.
As he struggles to distinguish memory from reality, a mysterious woman arrives in town, and a tragedy buried almost two centuries earlier begins to reach into his home.
A haunting Gothic tale of family, grief, belonging, and the terrible lengths we will go to reclaim those we have lost.
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Nobody stops on the Black Mile after dark.
When Alison Chilvers and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly, break down on a deserted woodland road, they walk to find help. But when they encounter their abandoned convertible again, someone is already inside.
Themselves.
The other Alison starts the engine and drives away. Beside her, the terrified girl screams a warning:
*“Don't let them get close this time.”*
The road is only a mile long. But getting off it could take forever.
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A blind man walks into a police station with a woman who claims to be his wife. He insists she is an impostor, and that his real wife may have been murdered.
The woman has the right documents, the right memories and a convincing explanation for his behaviour.
Then someone else walks into the police station.
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