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WHEN MALEFICENT PUT A CROWN ON AURORA’S HEAD, SHE DIDN’T THINK SHE WAS PUTTING HER IN DANGER. Ruling a kingdom is challenging under any circumstances. But Aurora—queen of Perceforest and queen of the Moors—is reigning under the weight of two crowns. Caught between the prejudices that...

Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters of America's past.

Black operations agent Connor Reed finds respite from a hellacious schedule to return to his home city. Reed, a leader within his own outlaw family, delights in an opportunity to punish a thug preying on the vulnerable. However, with his target high within a rival criminal organisation, can Reed exact retribution without dragging his relatives into an unnecessary and bloody war.

Despite being relatively brief, this very listenable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political groupings was far from inevitable. Its tone is accessible, supported by supplemental information, and is perfect for travellers to Spain.

Edwin Black, award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust, has mined scores of corporate and governmental archives to assemble thousands of previously uncovered and long-forgotten documents and studies into this dramatic story. Black traces a continuum of rapacious energy cartels and special interests dating back nearly 5,000 years, from wood to coal to oil, and then to the bicycle and electric battery cartels of the 1890s, which created thousands of electric vehicles that plied American streets a century ago.

When the woman he loves is taken, Forest "Trees" Scott abandons a mission to save her from the enemy. Fearing the worst, he moves heaven and earth to find her—until he realizes Laila Torres left him of her own free will for the man who used her for six years. He's stunned and wrecked. She played him—and he fell for it. One thing he's not doing? Giving up. He'll find her and he'll make her pay . . . in his bed.

Strange, scary rumors are flying about the tiny, snowy town below the mountains. Some say a tiger sprang loose from a circus train and roams the snowy meadows. Some say it stalks in the wintry forests. Some say it’s a monster.

Alea Binte al Mussad, Princess of Bezakistan, was abducted from her university, mentally tortured, and forced to witness the worst of humanity. She was rescued, but not before fear and her shattered soul made her retreat into herself. Two years later, she's living behind the palace's locked gates and the walls she's built surrounding her heart. Alea is comforted by the joyous family around her, but inside she feels so alone-except when she's with the steady trio of guards who relentlessly keep her safe…and tempt her with a passion she isn't sure she'll survive.

I wake with a gasp, surrounded by smoke and flames. Twelve hours earlier, my cousins cut their European vacation short and came home to spend my birthday with me. They promised me a day to remember. No one could have predicted how true that promise would turn out to be. When the clock strikes eleven-eleven on June sixth, I make a wish. But fate has other plans, and she deals me an unexpected hand. That’s the thing about fate: she doesn’t ask permission—she takes what she wants. When my world devolves into chaos, I decide to be like fate. And I want all three Fitzgerald brothers.

For years I’ve been told I’m not your typical omega. That I’m less because of the way I behave and think. It wasn’t until I met them that I knew I was worthy of love. Noah. James. Lucas. They rush in and capture my heart with their easy temperaments, and smooth words. Add in a cowboy twang and a few well placed Darlin’s and I find the walls around my heart knocked down. Will they still love me, even when they find all my hidden scars? They have their own secrets. Ones that might collide with mine and send us on a dark path.

Derek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derek’s father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first White supremacist website—Derek built the kids’ page—and David Duke was a mentor. Racist hatred, though often wrapped up in respectability and American history, was all Derek knew. It was their inheritance, their community, their identity. Then, while in college in 2013, Derek publicly renounced White nationalism and apologized for their actions and the suffering that they had caused.

Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the 19th century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history.

The international bestseller that will help you transform your personal and professional life by changing the way you think. Today, the pressure to achieve is intense. To be at our best, we need our minds working at peak potential. But unless you train it, your mind stays on autopilot, stuck in...

Les Archives du Mal explore les grandes affaires criminelles oubliées, dérangeantes ou méconnues, là où l’histoire rejoint parfois le mythe.Chaque épisode vous plonge dans une enquête vraie, mais souvent déformée par le temps, la peur… ou la justice elle-même.Crimes anciens, affaires hors-normes procès spectaculaires, légendes judiciaires : ici, les monstres ne sont pas toujours ceux qu’on croit.Pour nous écrire : lesarchivesdumal@gmail.com Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

April in Paris is a time for crime when a woman is blinded after an attack in the Passage Boule Blanche. Was the attacker actually a serial killer, or was he really after another woman who was similarly dressed--and found dead in the next passage?

Two friends face the Dark Knight’s deadliest scheme, but only one knight has the courage to overcome. Sir Quinlan leaves his boyhood friend to serve the Prince, fighting a battle darker and more intense than any he’s ever known. The mysterious Sir Baylor recruits him into the ranks of an elite unit of knights known as the Swords of Valor, but when tragedy strikes and everyone blames Quinlan, the Swords of Valor disband, ending a legacy of heroic deeds.

Decades ago, ambitious Zack Hayes set his sights on the White House. He's worked his whole life to become the leader of the free world - attending the right schools, marrying the perfect bride - all to aid his campaign. He didn't realize someone behind the scenes has been pulling the strings to manipulate Zack and the country he loves into a dangerous position - one he will risk his life to wrench free from. The one thing he can't risk is Elizabeth Matthews.

Security specialist Matt Montgomery has never forgotten—or forgiven—Madison Archer for walking away and ripping out his heart. Three years later, she crashes back into his life, terrified that her wealthy husband is trying to kill her. Matt vows to protect Madison, but there’s a price. He’ll have revenge by making her submit to his every sexual demand.

FBI Special Agent Maya Gray, 39, has seen it all. She’s one of BAU’s rising stars and the go-to agent for hard-to-crack serial cases. When she receives a handwritten postcard promising to release 12 kidnapped women if she will solve 12 cold cases, she assumes it’s a hoax. Until the note mentions that, among the captives, is her missing sister.

Power over death is the ultimate power. A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn’t succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call...