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Underground revolutionaries, The Nail, and their rookie, Luke, snatch 23- year-old heiress Adeline Woolsaw. Her parents, the Woolsaws, control a vast empire outsourcing everything from prisons to bases. The Nail aims to expose this shadowy power grab. But their plan twists. Adeline's pregnant. Her child, about to be born, isn’t human. It’s a supernatural being, product of a demonic ritual in the Woolsaws’ Highgate mansion. The family’s endgame? An infernal kingdom with Adeline's son as king.

For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They don’t want a ransom—they want to expose the Woolsaw Group, the source of Adeline’s parents’ enormous wealth, a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centers, and prisons.

Als ihr das Geld ausgeht, nimmt sie einen Job in München an. Als sie drei Frauen kennenlernt, die sich ihren Lifestyle mit zweifelhaften Methoden finanzieren, ist sie fasziniert. Schnell findet Leonie ihr eigenes Geschäftsfeld: Menschen mit frisch gebrochenem Herzen bezahlen sie für raffinierte Racheaktionen. Doch nach einer Weile kommen ihr Zweifel: Wie viel Geld braucht man wirklich für ein gutes Leben? Und wie viel Risiko ist sie bereit, dafür einzugehen?

The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse – a world that Margaret Atwood declared ‘soooo genius’. In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider...

Jack has survived high school by staying quiet, staying low, and staying invisible, especially around Greg, the golden boy who’s always been too close for comfort. So when Greg pulls him into the shadows at prom and something almost happens, Jack dares to believe this night might change everything. Then the music shifts, the crowd turns feral, and the world tears itself apart. Now, with secrets clawing their way under his skin, Jack has to figure out what he’s becoming and whether he can hold on long enough to survive it.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women’s Wear Daily, and more “Dark academia clan...

The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and ‘WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME’ plays over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’ But tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.

A man goes to terrifying extremes to adopt his celebrity doppelganger's life in this darkly comedic psychological suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Upgrade. The basis for the upcoming A24 film Famous, starring Zac Efron. “My name is Lancelot Blue...

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER* “Fans of The White Lotus and Knives Out will gobble up this whip-smart whodunit.”—Marie Claire "A gripping whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie, A Killer Wedding will keep you guessing until the final, shocking twist.” —Liv Constantine, New York Times...

Our moon is something special. It illuminates the magical things that could otherwise hide from view. Here there be witches and werewolves. A horror-comedy collection from the author of Demons and Other Inconveniences, What Tangled Webs, and Mortimer Grim.

When Harry Andrews meets Martin Haggerty, two human statues collide in a battle that will transform the Chelmsley High Street into a battlefield of the absurd. What starts as a simple act of jealous sabotage becomes a life-consuming obsession that will push them beyond the limits of dignity, sanity, and the law.

A chaotic young doctor might be the only person who can catch a killer in this "hilarious, macabre, and heartrending" (Lucy Foley) debut mystery from Adam Kay, former doctor and BAFTA-winning author of This is Going to Hurt. “A thrilling, twisting mystery. . . . Impossibly funny but also...

Many full moons ago, a young American boy with ambition in his belly and the moon in his veins followed his destiny west, determined to carve a path to success no matter the carnage. Two centuries later, a city is captivated by the strange and savage murder of a young woman. Her roommate, Natasha, no longer able to afford their apartment alone—and hounded by both rumors of wolves and a pop-star’s angry fan-swarm—has resorted to living in her car. There’s nothing left for her ... except vengeance.

Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with ‘No experience preferred,’ he puts on his good shirt and marches down to their average-looking office to unknowingly sign his life away. Malachia is the only human left in the City of Silence and she spends her time wandering its empty, bone-filled streets. Until one day she finds a lone figure hunched over a typewriter, his fingers enmeshed with the keys. Could he be the answer to finding her missing girlfriend?

'Completely gripping and incredibly addictive... I absolutely loved it and can't recommend it highly enough!' - The Book Magnet blog ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Another great and clever book from Jo Jakeman. I struggled to put this down. I was completely hooked and loved every minute . . . highly...

Lauryn Harper had a plan. A high achieving, perfectly constructed, five-year plan. But after a (totally blown out of proportion) mishap at work that plan is put to the test. As punishment for her mistake she is transferred to the Ryser Charity Department, a branch of her corporation that just so happens to be located in the hometown she abandoned long ago—the same hometown that her powerful corporation is responsible for running into the ground.

Als ihre langjährige Ehe ein unerwartetes Ende findet, sucht Brigitte Trost bei ihren vier besten Freundinnen. Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid, denn auch deren Leben verläuft nicht unbedingt nach Plan. Nach etlichen gemeinsam geleerten Gläsern ›Eifelgeist‹ kommen sie auf eine Idee, vielleicht nur eine Schnapsidee, aber auf alle Fälle ein Abenteuer. Gönnt euch dieses herrlich skurrile Buch über Freundschaft, Dorfleben, und die Wehwehchen des beginnenden Alters, denen 5 Freundinnen mit Humor, Sarkasmus und immer einer Flasche ›Eifelgeist‹ in Reichweite, begegnen.

An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become “Death” for the next millennium. By training the boy in the ways of death and dying, Reaper grooms his young apprentice and through suspenseful and horror-laced events, he unknowingly gives Sonny something he never intended: A reason to live.

Überm Sargnagel kreist der Pleitegeier, seit das Krematorium abgebrannt ist und die kriminelle Verwandtschaft sich selbst eliminiert hat. Es spukt, es geistert, es kracht gewaltig in Totenheim. Die Totenheimer Chronistin empfiehlt: Lest zuerst Sargnagel 1, bevor ihr euch mit den Helden ins zweite rabenschwarze Abenteuer stürzt.

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