Casey McQuiston meets The Secret History in this unmissable dark academia fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lex Croucher following former childhood best friends who reunite at magical boarding school after years, only to find themselves enemies on opposite sides of the ugly secrets hidden within the gilded walls. Welcome to the Temple School of Thaumaturgy ... and your newest dark academia obsession. For as long as they can remember, Briar Jones dreamed of attending the Temple School of Thaumaturgy. Behind its looming ornate gates, the elite prep school—the place that has produced the most CEOs and Prime Ministers in British history—is whispered to be magical. Briar's best friend, Sebastian Wolfe, never cared about Temple or believed in the rumors. He just wanted them to stay together forever. When, at age 11, Seb gets an acceptance letter and Briar doesn't, their childhood friendship is shattered. Seb vanishes onto Temple's grounds and Briar resigns themself to a mundane life. But they can't completely forget their yearning for Temple, for the extraordinary, to be one of the chosen in the ivory tower. Seven years later, a summer job advert a temp position sorting through the junk in Temple’s attics. Briar takes it. And they discover that quiet, sensitive Seb, the boy they once loved more than anything else in the world, has become a beautiful, arrogant villain feared by most of the school. And worse, the secrets Temple is hiding might not be so magical after all, but a dark conspiracy with implications that extend far beyond the gates.

原名《意外怀了敌国太子的崽》 江国与隋国是世仇，双方你来我往的打了几十年，都想把对方按死在黄河边上。 为了实现这个目标，隋国派出那位天煞孤星，以冷血弑杀著称的太子隋衡，直捣江国都城。 江国派出他们德名遍天下、招揽名士无数的太子江蕴，带领心腹之士秘密潜入敌人后方，干扰敌军计划。 双方对自己的成果都很满意。 结果撤退的时候，发生了点意外。 江蕴被心腹暗算，滚落崖下，被同样遭人算计的隋衡给捡到了。 为了解毒，两人被迫发生关系…… 事后，看着那张雪白艳绝的脸庞，向来摒弃男色女色的隋衡难以控制的怦然心动。 便将这意外捡到的小美人带回了别院，当外室养。 江蕴想，左右是逃不了了，便将计就计，假装失忆，一边尽职尽责的给大煞星当外室，一边刺探敌国情报。 结果情报还没刺探出多少，肚子倒一天天大了起来。 江蕴：啊啊啊，请问现在跑还来得及吗？ ** 江国日盼夜盼的太子殿下终于回国了 不仅回来了，还带了个小拖油瓶。 没人知道孩子的爹是谁，也没人敢问。 只有江蕴看着长得漂亮乖软的像小兔子，每顿能干三碗饭、天生神力的小崽子。 愁得不行。 孩子太像爹了，该怎么办。 现在掐死还来得及么。 正干饭的崽崽：瑟瑟发抖ing ** 得知千娇万宠的外室可能逃到了江国，隋衡大怒，再次联合其他国家一起攻打江国。 前来迎战的是江国那位神秘的德名遍天下、有天下第一美人之称的江国太子。 隋衡冷笑吩咐：待会儿能取江蕴首级者，赏万金，封万户侯。 两军开战，看着那青衫玉带、翩然出现在阵前，和逃走的外室有九分像的青年。 隋衡懵了懵，大吼：“谁敢射箭，孤要你们狗命！” 隋国将士：？ 【封面来自ZDC画师大大授权图，感谢。】 【每天中午12点更，开了防盗功能，订阅比例不足的72小时后可见。】 阅读提示：1.又名《失忆后我成了敌国太子的外室》，受清冷大美人，攻阳光健气二哈（orz 2.日常较多，没有什么高级权谋，一切私设为剧情服务。 3.崽崽中后期出现。 4.坠崖后的剧情从第5章开始，但前几章有关键剧情和人物铺垫，不建议跳过哦！ 内容标签： 强强 生子 宫廷侯爵 甜文 搜索关键字：主角：江蕴；隋衡 ┃ 配角： ┃ 其它：

A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit—from celebrated author Tash Aw. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the local son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one. Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete. At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw’s masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change—a reimagined epic for our times.

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world―and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit. The only things in their way? A calculating new Araşti ambassador to the Isles of Lost Souls who’s got his eyes on Avra’s every move; Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own and a frankly inconvenient vow of celibacy; the fact that they’re sailing straight into sea serpent breeding season and almost certain doom. But if they can find a way to survive and sell the secret on the black market, they’ll all be as wealthy as kings―and, more important, they’ll be legends.

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire. Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.

Zhao Yelan was born as a criminal s*ave and was rescued by the Third Prince. After years of painstaking efforts to put him on the throne, Zhao Yelan became a sycophantic minister whom everyone detested, but he was actually given a marriage by that person to general Yan Mingting, the lone star of Tiansha. The general caused the death of his own father, his mother, his wife, and his dog. Everyone hoped that the curse would also kill Zhao Yelan as soon as possible. On the wedding night, Zhao Yelan, who was dressed in red, took out a dagger, his eyes sharp: “What do you want?” Yan Mingting held his hand tightly, and borrowed his dagger to carve a large character on the head of the bed – – Early. “You’re weak and frail, get up early every day and practice horse stance with me!” “?” The common people thought this marriage was truly wonderful! They heard that this big minister was beaten every day. He had to repair the roof tiles when the house leaked and also work in the kitchen. He served his husband and was very obedient, and from then on, he didn’t dare condemn people. Hey, the general was truly mighty! Zhao Yelan sat lazily by the bed, playing with the dagger, and raised the ends of his eyes slightly: “Where did these rumors come from?” “From my dog mouth.” Yan Mingting, who was in horse stance, patted his thigh. “Madam, please take the seat of honor. You don’t have to get up early tomorrow.”