NBS recommends dark desires

REVENGE WEARS PRADA:

THE DEVIL RETURNS

By Lauren Weisberger

P299

MANILA, Philippines - Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs quit the job “a million girls would die for” working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine—a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined forces to start a high-end bridal magazine. The Plunge has quickly become required reading for the young and stylish. Now they get to call all the shots: Andy writes and travels to her heart’s content; Emily plans parties and secures advertising like a seasoned pro. Even better, Andy has met the love of her life. Max Harrison, scion of a storied media family, a confident, successful, and drop-dead gorgeous man. Their wedding will be splashed across all the society pages as their friends and family gather to toast the glowing couple. Andy Sachs is on top of the world. But karma’s a bitch. The morning of her wedding, Andy can’t shake the past. And when she discovers a secret letter with crushing implications, her wedding day jitters turn to cold dread. Andy realizes that nothing, not her husband or her beloved career, is as it seems. She never suspected that her efforts to build a bright new life would lead her back to the darkness she barely escaped 10  years ago and directly into the path of the devil herself.

SEDUCTION

By Velvet

P475

Former part-time escort Mason Anthony manages The Black Door Two – a club catering to a much younger, sexually uninhibited clientele than the original uptown elite Black Door club. In a world where customers are always right, Mason makes sure that he fully accommodates all of their needs and cravings. But controlling his passion-starved spirit long enough to focus on his new leadership role is tough, especially when he’s on the search for romance. Will he be able to resist temptation to win the heart of the one woman he loves? Or will secrets and scandal come knocking on his door one steamy night?

ENTWINED WITH YOU:

A CROSSFIRE NOVEL

By Sylvia Day

P485

From the moment she first met Gideon Cross, she recognized something in him that she needed. Something she couldn’t resist. She saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside so much like her own.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS: A NOVEL

By Kevin Kwan

P659

When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn’t know is that Nick’s family home happens to look like a palace, that she’ll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia’s most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the “it” girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick’s formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should and should not marry.

UNDER THE DOME: A NOVEL

By Stephen King

P799

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when or if it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing even murder to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.