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After weeks of relentless rain and fog, summer graces the Maine coast. Sarah Deane wants only to help her in-laws adjust to living in Ocean Tide, an "architect-designed home-town community", and enjoy the warm weather before she returns to teaching in the fall. She absolutely does not want to become embroiled in another murder investigation. Even when police find the body of an 18 year old on Ocean Tide's golf course, Sarah vows not to let it sidetrack her from an agenda of rest and relaxation.

English teacher Sarah Deane and her boyfriend, Dr. Alex McKenzie, leave snowy Maine to join Sarah's feisty Aunt Julia for Christmas at the exclusive Rancho del Gato Blanco resort in Arizona. But they soon realize there's no place like home for the holidays when ranch guests become the prey of a prankster whose destructive acts are tallying up like a Yuletide carol: Garden hose a-spraying... Lounge chair collapsing... Mud in the coffee... Golf carts a-stalling... Rubber snake in bathtub... Wagon wheel a-flying... The pranks take a murderous turn Christmas morning when one of the guests turns up dead among the gifts in Santa's sack.

Imagine what your life would be like if your days were filled with purpose, productivity, and time to enjoy the little things. (Instead of chaos, overwhelm, and exhaustion.) You can make this happen by building a daily routine that perfectly blends your personality with your career and personal obligations. Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to stick to a day-to-day ritual. You might be so busy that you can't add anything else to your crowded schedule. Or you might be following advice that doesn't match who you are.

He had craved the little light that was left inside her. She craved the darkness inside him. Death would've been a blessing. Death would've been a cure. But with him at her heels, he wanted to give her a reason. A single reason. To breathe another day. A killer. A maniac. A hunter. Cold and empty. Soulless. Cursed to live among the living. Who craves to live. Haunted. Tortured. Scarred. Full of darkness, with cracks of light. Forced to live with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Who craves to die. Two unfortunate souls, who have no right to meet. Spins a tale full of pain. Death.

Someone killed Susan Wheeler by breaking her neck, hid her body in a country lane and made off with the content of her purse–a vulgar enough crime, on the surface. By what is a masterpiece of actual and deductive sleuthing, two young men prove that it was motivated by long-dead scandals and smothered hatreds, pin the crime on a proper person among a number of suspects, and finally run their quarry to earth in the network of streets that border on the London docks. One of the most beautifully knit and exciting novels by J.S. Fletcher.

Da en af de lokale mænd dør, formentlig af et slangebid, bliver der brug for Claras viden. Hun bliver rystet, da ligsynet afslører en højere koncentration af slangegift i den afdødes krop, end der nogensinde ville forekomme efter et enkelt slangebid. Alt tyder på, at han er blevet myrdet, men hvem kunne have adgang til så meget slangegift? Og hvorfor slå ihjel på en så grusom måde?

Den unge kriminalbetjent Lacey Flint har altid været fascineret af myten om Jack the Ripper, Englands mest berygtede seriemorder, som i 1800-tallets London skamferede og myrdede en række prostituerede. Hun har dog aldrig selv arbejdet på en mordsag, før hun en aften gør det chokerende fund af en døende kvinde. Kvinden er blevet frygteligt lemlæstet med en kniv og udånder i Laceys arme. Da Lacey kort tid efter hører om et brev, som angiveligt er afsendt af morderen, løber det hende koldt ned ad ryggen.

When Harper Deveraugh flies to San Francisco to visit her half-brother Michael, she never expects her world to turn upside down. She’s barely off the plane before she meets Laken Howlkind—a mysterious man who seems to spark something primal in her. What Harper doesn’t know is that Laken is more than just Michael’s best friend—he’s the Alpha of the San Francisco Area werewolf pack. With Michael secretly battling terminal cancer, he has one final request: that Laken marry Harper to ensure she’s cared for after he’s gone. The last thing Harper expected was an arranged marriage to a stranger.

When their parents sail the world without them, 12-year-old twins Tabitha and Timothy are sent to the remote island of Papala, known as the "Bird Island." Great Uncle Tamhas becomes their guardian in a world as strange as the island itself. Tabitha is frustrated with the island's isolation and limited Wi-Fi, but Timothy is delighted to uncover the island’s natural secrets. The twins soon realise however, they are not the only newcomers to the island.

Where we peel back the layers of fear to uncover the meaning behind the madness.

The empire is settled from its civil wars with a strong new ruler in Septimius Severus, and while the emperor campaigns in the east, a cohort of Praetorians has been left in control of Rome under Rufinus, now a tribune of the Guard. But adventure calls once more, as Rufinus receives a worrying letter that sends him on a quest in the north, which will take him and his new faithful companion to the edge of empire, where he will uncover a secret that puts the whole world in danger.

When her life as a New York City attorney becomes an unbearable moral burden, Lois Golden packs up her teenage daughter Janet and heads to rural Vermont to fulfill her childhood dream of owning a small town inn. However, this inn holds a wealth of dark secrets, full of deceit, death, and horrifying experiments that have left an undeniable mark of evil. When a vengeful spirit emerges, forcing all within the inn to experience their greatest fears, will Lois be able to fight back and salvage her dream from the nightmare it has become?

Florence und Alec stehen kurz vor ihrem ersten offiziellen Auftritt als Paar im Kreise der Königsfamilie. Während Davies sich um ein geeignetes Druckmittel kümmert, deckt er eine schockierende Wahrheit auf, die sein Leben komplett verändert. Können Alec und Davies sicherstellen, dass Florence vor den Mächten der Krone geschützt ist? Oder stehen sie einem übermächtigen Feind gegenüber, der unaufhaltsam ist?

Grumpy billionaire seeking wife…must enjoy sudden trips to Paris, love poems, sparkly diamonds and being pampered. That’s what the headline in the newspaper read right next to the photo of my best friend’s brother, billionaire tycoon Wes Carrington. His handsome, arrogant face is now plastered all over the City with women calling him morning, noon, and night seeking dates.

Designers n' Distress is a D&D group that consists of nine Industrial and Innovative Design students. Kick back and relax as we travel the world of Gelia causing shenanigans left and right.On the continent Acheron, twelve cities have stood tall amongst the landscape. Ruled by twelve demigods, set on subjugating their citizens under their iron fist. A millennia after a mass genocide of the unruly, one of these demigods decides the time has come for their sins to be judged. After all, "by their blood the deaths of thousands were signed. Now by our blood the death of twelve is signed". Join the ...

When a supposedly cursed traditional Japanese instrument arrives at the British School of Kyoto, strange things start to happen. A phantom geisha haunts the halls, a star student vanishes, and cryptic symbols appear across the campus.

Ex-DCI Luke Sackville is asked by Globo Energy to investigate two environmental movements. Both groups promote protests and nonviolent civil disobedience, but when members of his Ethics Team go undercover they discover this is a facade. Beneath the surface sinister forces are at work. Luke becomes embroiled in a race to find and stop a murderer who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Sow the Wind is the sixth book in the series of crime thrillers featuring Luke Sackville and his Ethics Team.

Uh, hi. I’m Oisin. Not to brag, but I’ve written a few fantasy novels that boast only the most scathing of reviews. This one’s different, though. It happened to me. Well, me and a few other people you meet in the first few chapters. Eedee (she owns the comic book store I work at) and I were just having fun making our own graphic novel, and bam! Suddenly we and a couple shoppers are sucked into another world that’s technically a version of Earth. Swords, sorcery, the whole deal. Oh, and it’s the one we were just drawing and writing about.

With their outpost secure, the newly crowned king of the Dragonhammer dwarves finds himself more concerned with trade and infrastructure than conquest. The failed invasion weakened their enemies, and the dwarves have graciously declined to counterattack. After all, the Dragonhammer Clan sees the monument to their dead every day. But the goblins can't afford to leave well enough alone. Desperate for resources only available within the dwarven-controlled region, they try to barter. And when the dwarves refuse to deal with their enemies, the goblins resort to theft.

The planet Ardulum has died and taken with it every last andal tree, and piece of andal cellulose tech—dissolving the Alpha Plane down to lightspeed travel and archaic communication. Yet Ardulum’s consciousness still lives, unwelcome, inside Atalant’s body. But two consciousnesses cannot share one host—especially not when one is a former planet. Amidst the remains of a shattered galaxy, Guard Four and the Keft scrapper Bell chance a return to the Neek homeworld, where andal is still rumored to grow. A stable forest of andal could power the Cell-Tal technology to save Eld Atalant's life.