A steamy strangers to friends to lovers romance from Ana Huang, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kings of Sin and Twisted series

One year, two opposites, and a love that will blindside and, ultimately, shatter them.

She's an aspiring interior designer who dreams of falling in love.
He's an ex-football star who thinks love is a con.

She's a virgin, and he doesn't do virgins.
He's cocky, infuriating, and not her type.

She wants the fairytale.
He wants freedom.

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Blake and Farrah shouldn't have fallen for each other the way they did: totally, completely, and irrevocably.

Because they're studying abroad in Shanghai, and they only have one year.
Because forces at home threaten to rip them apart, even if they don't know it yet.
And because, eventually, they must face the most heart-breaking lesson they'll ever learn: sometimes, even the greatest love can't conquer all . . .

This is the first book in a duet. It's a full-length novel with no sudden cliffhangers, but Blake and Farrah's story concludes in book two, If the Sun Never Sets. Recommended for 18+.

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Why fans love Ana Huang   !

'King of Greed? More like King of my Heart (Ana Huang's Version)' Lauren Asher

'WE HAVE NO NOTES JUST LOTS OF HORNY FEELINGS' Ali Hazelwood

'Ana did not come to play . . . it was giving everything I asked for. It exceeded my expectations astronomically. I'm now severely depressed it's finished' @Aymanreads

'Ana Huang has done it ONCE again. But are we really surprised? No. Ana Huang truly is the queen of billionaire romances' Goodreads Review

'This book broke me into pieces and then pieced them back together' Goodreads Review

'Ana really said whether morally grey is your favourite OR NOT, let me give you someone to swoon over' Goodreads Review

'Ana Huang never disappoints. This was my most anticipated read of the month and it was EVERYTHING!!' Goodreads Review

'This masterpiece is the novel of the decade, if not the century' New York Times

*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026*

MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE JAMAICA OF HIS BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS

Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .'

The Disappearers is Marlon Jamess triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings  a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal.

So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston in 1988, answering the casting call for an openly queer play, they are already taking a big risk. But that is nothing compared to what rains down on them when a mob descends on one of their rehearsals.

By the end of this night, one man is dead, all are injured, and two subsequently disappear. As the survivors heal, each man finds he must confront the bigotry and homophobia that the attack laid bare. Some try to forget; some embrace their rage; and some simply vanish  but all are forever scarred.

As one of the victims puts it, theres a difference between when something ends and when something stops. And this story wont stop until both the disappearers and the perpetrators have been tracked, along trails both hot and cold, and an ending reached.

Epic and intimate, violent and forgiving, The Disappearers is a tour de force which only Marlon James could have written  both an unflinching portrait of the hatred and shame faced by gay men in a society which refuses to accept them, and a deeply human story of acceptance and insight.

'A triumph . . . Mighty, grand and peripatetic' Guardian

A writer of complexity, depth and uncompromising vision . . . An exceptional and important novel' Financial Times

An epic, virtuosic, propulsive performance, alternately hilarious and viscerally horrifying' Daily Mail