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Artist Annie Shaw seems to have it all: a dream career, a devoted husband, and a whip-smart teenage daughter. But when her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie’s carefully curated life starts to unravel. She’s spent her adulthood trying to escape her difficult upbringing—and has tried her best to give her own daughter a completely different, idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother’s death, Annie’s obsessive-compulsive disorder comes roaring back, and this time, the disturbing fixations swirling around in Annie’s brain might actually be coming true.

As a monster, Shrubley is forbidden from joining the adventurers guild. In a world where essence artists rank up in power and most monsters are feral beasts, Shrubley is among the weakest of creatures and is treated as an outcast. With curiosity essence bound to his spirit, Shrubley might be weak, but he's intelligent and determined. Against all the odds, he discovers a loophole from the Druid that gave him life—but there's a deadly catch. For a chance of ever being accepted as a true adventurer, he must challenge an otherworldly realm threatening to consume everything.

"Ash." Die Art, wie er meinen Namen aussprach, sanft und eindringlich, ließ zugleich Schmetterlinge in meinem Magen aufstoben und meinen Puls vor Furcht in die Höhe schnellen. Ash leidet seit dem rätselhaften Verschwinden ihrer besten Freundin unter Albträumen. Im Schlaf erlebt sie Nacht für Nacht, wie sie und ihr früherer Schwarm Liam von eiskalten Schatten überfallen werden. Um über den Verlust ihrer Freundin hinwegzukommen, zieht sie mit ihren Eltern um - weit weg von Liam.

Annie O'Malley has been signed off work and forced to take a holiday. With a lead on her missing sister, Annie travels north with DI Swift and together they rent a small cottage in the village where Mim was last spotted. Only, the village has a dark history of its own. The cottage was home to a family who haven't been seen in over forty years. Their things still packed away in the basement, awaiting their return. It's a macabre destination for the dark tourist, and the rest of the village isn't much more welcoming.

The title of this book describes the state of the western world's population at this moment in time. Life seems to be geared to make us feel isolated and financially stressed. Working from 9 to 5, we never question authority and are kept so busy that we have no time to contemplate life, nor to develop our critical thinking ability or investigate who we are. Most of our values and beliefs we learn from our parents, and these are then replaced by other institutions such as early childhood centers, high schools, religions, nationalities, and corporations.

Coming face to face with a vicious looking dog named Peggy, isn’t how Becca expected to meet her new landlord, who also happens to be her very sexy new neighbor. Becca Patterson is a successful photographer with a string of happy clients, including her BFF who is about to get married. Realizing she can’t be both the maid of honor and the photographer, she enlists the help of her assistant to take the lead. She thinks it’s all figured out until her very pregnant assistant is put on bedrest and can’t help on the wedding day.