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Patricia Green, a 17-year-old girl, has been missing for 48 hours. The team on site have no leads and have asked the Edinburgh special unit for help. At first, everyone assumes that she has run away. But Truce digs deeper and finds out that Patricia has a secret boyfriend, much older than her. He also hears rumours about parties at Blaine Forest - a place with an unpleasant reputation, where once women accused of witchcraft were hung.

When the world is rewritten by the System, twins Kalen and Aria are torn from their family and thrust into a deadly tutorial—where every choice is permanent, every monster is lethal, and survival is anything but guaranteed.

Once every generation there is a Chosen One, who will stand between humanity and darkness. But why is the Chosen One so often a teenager? Why do only children get swept through portals to save the fantastic world on the other side? Whose idea was it to put the fate of the world in the hands of someone without a fully developed prefrontal cortex? In Never Too Old to Save the World, nineteen authors explore what would happen if the Chosen One were called midlife.

When Gavin travels to Edinburgh with his good friend Oscar Barratt, he’s eager to acquire a centuries-old book on witchcraft for the soon-to-open Glass Library. Even with ruthless railroad magnate John J. Defoe in the bidding, the victory comes easily. Perhaps too easily. Hours later, the book is stolen. A single clue links the theft to the recent abduction of two women, both magicians.

Wil would do anything to keep Bayn; break in a pair of green soldiers, march as a pack of five—go to war. He'd even get married. Again.

A rider will emerge from amongst the fae. She is of the sea, air, and land. She will be a thread, and a bridge, and a vessel, and a sword. She will usher in the triumvirate era. With those four lines, the three elder dragons known to humankind as the Immortals had ushered in the Triumvirate Age.

Agile Project Management for Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry—not just software development—agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away. Create a product roadmap and prepare for product launches with ease, thanks to this Dummies guide.

Shadow bruja Ren Santiago was relentlessly pursued by the evil Aztec Lords of Night, who claimed that she was destined to be their queen, a destiny she wasn’t willing to accept. So she chose death instead. Too bad death wasn’t the answer to her problems. Ren soon realizes she must return to the land of the living to make things right. Unfortunately, that means negotiating with Ixtab, queen of the underworld.

Fourteen-year-old Renata Santiago is the most powerful godborn of them all, a bruja with a unique combination of DNA. The Mexica blood from her dad's side gives her the ability to manipulate shadows. Her mom Pacific, a Maya goddess, gifted her a magical rope that controls time, and Ren recently used it to save a few gods from getting stuck forever in 1987. She brought them back to the present, but her BFF Ah Puch, the once fearsome god of death, darkness, and destruction, is now a teenager with no divine powers.

Loki - mercenary spy ship and bounty hunter. It's the legal arm of the Merchanters' Alliance; but once enlisted, no crew member leaves Loki alive. Bet Yeager - a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost. Now she's forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades. Yeager has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. A single wrong word can give her away. And the fighting skills she must use to survive may be her death warrant.  

People have been disappearing from Shadow Bay for years. No one asks why. When a true-crime podcaster vanishes while investigating a cult tied to the town’s past, Police Chief Shauna Peterson follows a trail most people in Shadow Bay would rather forget. What begins as a missing-person case quickly reveals something far darker —a network built on silence, ritual, and control that has been hiding in plain sight for years. As Shauna digs deeper, the town begins closing ranks. Witnesses stop talking. Old records vanish.

A dysphoric teen attempts suicide and wakes from a coma in a magical land called Albion, a world filled with enchanted creatures: giants, dragons and elves. In Albion, Angel is free from the consternation of others. The city of Caer is beset by the dark forces of the Claste, a malevolent power threatening the land of Albion and all life within its bounds. In their desperation, and spurred on by a dangerous demon, the Claste summon draugr and vorles, undead warriors and monstrous wolves, to attack and eradicate the communities of mankind.

Power was never meant to stay buried. Weeks after leaving the haunted forest behind, Seryth believes she’s free of the Crown’s influence —until whispers of a new ruler on the black throne reach her. The forest’s shadow is growing again, and this time, it isn’t waiting for her to return. Drawn into a web of fractured alliances and dangerous bargains, Seryth must face a world where enemies wear familiar faces, and allies may demand more than she’s willing to give. The Crown has found a new bearer… and its hunger is greater than before.

Da en enhedsleder pludselig falder død om under en reception på Nationalmuseet, kastes historikeren Flemming og videnskabsjournalisten Maya ud i en uofficiel opklaring af, hvad der i første omgang ligner et tragisk tilfælde – men hurtigt viser sig at være mord. Begge er fraskilte, lidt...

In this third book of the Steiner House Saga, Jacqueline Rhodes is adapting to her new life and learning that the world is nothing close to what she thought it was.

"C.J. Box owns the modern American frontier." --Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cry Havoc "Raining here, but I've got a cup of hot tea and a Joe Pickett novel, so who has it better than me?" --Stephen King Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is back in this riveting new thriller...

In a world where family secrets intertwine with supernatural forces, the Aldridge family faces their greatest challenges yet. With ancient heritage discovered and newfound powers revealed, they must unite like never before to protect their loved ones and uncover truths that could change their lives forever. As dark forces gather, can they remain strong together and keep the shadows at bay?

A group of college students is sent on a trip to Ireland for their International Relations and Affairs class. When they find themselves trapped with a psychopathic killer in a remote castle refurbished into a bed and breakfast. Their exploration throughout the castle is more than they bargained for, with puzzles and riddles to solve. Who will survive, and how is Ashley connected?

Ambrosia is severely injured, and Ashley’s body has disappeared. When Nick boards a large deep-sea fishing vessel, will he be able to help everyone survive the night, or are they in too deep? What will happen when everything comes crashing down in a storm of fury and battle of wills?

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