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Hard-bitten bodyguard Charlie McCabe is lucky to be alive after her recent foray into Boston’s criminal underworld. So she’s taking no chances with this next job: protecting Hayden Cobb, key witness in the trial against a trio of murderous cops known as the East Boston Three. If Cobb drops dead, the Three walk. After an attempt on Cobb’s life, Charlie suspects the Three have somehow put a hit on him from behind bars, and the assassin’s still at large.

When NYPD detective Marie Reinhart met Nessa Roth, a Manhattan socialite and dabbler in the occult, sparks flew. Then came the gunfire. Nessa and Marie are the Witch and her Knight, characters from a fairy tale brought to life and trapped in an endless curse: to meet, fall in love, and be torn from each other’s arms by violent death, again and again for all eternity. Now they have one slim chance to escape their doom. It lies in Wisdom's Grave, the resting-place of the first witch who ever lived, and the wellspring of magic.

To the church, she is a heretic, tried in absentia and sentenced to burn. To her brother, Carlo, she stands as a threat to his corrupt rule and a symbol of resistance. To her new "allies" in the East, she is a pawn to be played and sacrificed as they see fit. They don't hear the whispers that follow her in the streets: whispers of hope and the name of a long-dead saint. When Livia rises up to fight, she will not rise alone.

Felix Rossini is a man with a thousand enemies. Framed for murder, hunted by Mirenze's protectors as well as the criminal underworld, he struggles to survive and fight back against the conspiracy that has marked him for death. A conspiracy of another kind is brewing across the ocean, as the corrupt aristocracy draws Livia Serafini's oldest friends into a plot to destroy her. If she can't find a way to overcome the occult infection spreading through her veins, they may not have to.

Seelie Rose knows a thing or two about visions. As a fledgling witch and the inheritor of a magical legacy, it's her duty to watch over the dreamscape of New York City. Usually that means battling errant nightmares; now she's facing down alien intelligences, incursions from other realms, and the dawning suspicion that she isn't the only dream-witch in town.

When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark. She finds work as a professional bodyguard, but to save her father, she needs to get serious cash together fast. However, her father isn’t the only one who needs saving. When Charlie’s first client - a wealthy executive with a shady past - narrowly escapes a bomb plot, Charlie’s investigation leads her into the heart of Boston’s criminal underworld.

Irresistibly drawn to mysteries, if only to debunk them, reporter Lionel Page exposes supernatural frauds, swindlers, and charlatans. His latest case is an obsession—at least for an ancient and wealthy heiress: verify the authenticity of a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript circulating through New York City’s literary underworld. But the shrewd Regina Dunkle offers more than money. It’s a pact. Fulfill her request, and Lionel’s own notorious buried past, one he’s been running from since he was a child, will remain hidden.

For Roy Mackey—a recovering addict who makes his living as an unlicensed PI and occasional muscle for hire—tracking down a dead writer's final manuscript should be a walk in the park. Too bad his client is a phony, the dead writer is a thief, and shadowy men are watching his every move. All clues lead to a canceled pulp-adventure comic, The Midnight Jury, and its reclusive author.

Las Vegas, Stadt der Sünde – und der Dämonen, wie Daniel Faust, Gangster und Magier, nur allzu gut weiß. Als er angeheuert wird, um Rache an den Mördern einer jungen Frau zu nehmen, gerät Daniel ins Netz einer Intrige, in deren Zentrum niemand geringeres als der Prinz der Hölle steht. Jemand, der Faust heißt, sollte eigentlich wissen, was passiert, wenn man sich mit Dämonen einlässt. Doch Caitlin, die rechte Hand des Höllenfürsten, ist klug und verführerisch – und so lässt er sich breitschlagen, einem uralten Artefakt nachzuspüren, für das jeder magisch Begabte in Las Vegas über Leichen gehen würde.

Once upon a time, Lionel Page didn’t believe in magic. That was before his odyssey to New York City, the quest for a lost manuscript that ended in mysteries, murder, and the buried secrets of his own past. He used to be a professional skeptic. Now, he’s a witch in the service of Hekate, chasing myths across the heartland of a haunted America

It all ends here. It ends as Livia Serafini returns to her homeland with an army at her back, an exiled refugee turned ruthless conqueror, bringing war and witchcraft to any who dare stand in her way. It ends as Renata Nicchi and her ragged band of hunters and outlaws infiltrate a city under siege, making a last, desperate bid to save her lover from the jaws of the criminal underworld and be reunited at last.

The discovery of lost letters between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, describing historical events that never happened, sends shockwaves through the academic world. Meanwhile, a citywide surveillance program is coming to New York, on a groundswell of dirty money and dead bodies. To hard-nosed Brooklyn reporter Nell Bluth, the two mysteries couldn't be more different - until she finds the missing link. A secret war is raging on the streets of New York. It's a battle to control the narrative of history itself, and the winner rewrites the world.

Jan Fabel, Chef der Mordkommission in Hamburg, hat sich verändert. Vor zwei Jahren ist er beinahe gestorben, als ein Mann ihn anschoss. Er hatte eine Nahtod-Erfahrung, die ihn noch mehr zu einem intuitiv arbeitenden Polizisten werden lässt. Als bei Bauarbeiten eine Leiche gefunden wird, ahnt er sofort, dass es sich um die sterblichen Überreste von Monika Krone handelt, die vor fünfzehn Jahren spurlos verschwand. Wenig später beginnt eine unheimliche Mordserie.

Lionel Page hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, all die Scharlatane und Wunderheiler zu entlarven, die anständigen Leuten das Geld aus der Tasche ziehen wollen. An übernatürliche Phänomene glaubt der gerissene Reporter nicht. Doch als er eines Tages in New York ein verschollenes Manuskript von Edgar Allan Poe aufspüren soll, muss Lionel feststellen, dass offenbar nicht alles, worüber der Horror-Großmeister geschrieben hat, seiner Fantasie entsprungen ist – und dass Lionel selbst dem Übernatürlichen bereits näher gekommen ist, als er geahnt hat.

In New York erfuhr Journalist Lionel Page, dass das Übersinnliche real und er selbst ein Hexer ist. Als seine Freundin Maggie verschwindet, macht er sich auf die Suche nach ihr. Die Spur führt ihn zu Cordell Spears, einem Millionär, der Ausgrabungen in Griechenland finanziert und eine Ausstellung der Fundstücke plant. Als Cordell von einer Frau angegriffen wird, die ihn des Mordes an ihrem Mann, einem Archäologen, beschuldigt und ein kleines Tongefäß mit dem Namen Tisiphone bei sich trägt, wird Lionel klar, dass es bei dieser Ausstellung um mehr geht als bloßen Marmor und dass auch Maggie etwas damit zu tun hat.