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A historian investigates Dracula's former home. She is sifting through too many notebooks and scrolls to keep track of as she discovers ancient letters tucked away in their pages. The historian tracks Vlad's metamorphosis into a vampire and his admiration for the pursuer, who may still capture him. The letters transport the historian to another time, when she experiences love and suspense alongside the characters. Is there a chance she'll unearth long-lost secrets? If so, how relevant are they in the modern world? If the truth were known, would that make a difference?

There is no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, just two guys in the wrong place at the wrong time. Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles until they become the unwitting scapegoats in a plot to murder the king. Sentenced to death, they have only one way out...and so begins this tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend. Avempartha is the second of a six book series entitled the Riyria Revelations. 

Meet Libra, an angel. After an argument with her heavenly parents, she escapes and falls to earth. She falls through the roof of a hospital. A tiny newborn baby is nearby, and the nurses are crying because the baby has died. Libra falls nearby, and they rush to help her. She has no pulse, and she is not breathing. The nurse runs to call for immediate help. When she runs back to Libra, she's gone and nowhere to be seen. But the baby is alive and crying.

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation. King finds himself immersed in an increasingly complex case, interviewing five witnesses and Arla herself as he questions whether Arla's responsibility for the massacre was a diminished as her legal team made out.

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who took that fateful trip and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night.