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In der Wüste von Nevada, nahe Las Vegas, errichtet der Paläontologe Sondstrup einen Vergnügungspark mit lebensecht nachgebildeten Dinosaurier-Skulpturen. Der Fotoreporter Craigh Sanders und seine Kollegin Betty sollen eine Reportage über das ungewöhnliche Projekt machen. Doch schon bald beschleicht die beiden ein seltsames Gefühl. Haben die grausigen Morde der letzten Nächte etwas mit dem Park zu tun? Es scheint, als ob die Opfer riesigen Bestien in die Klauen geraten seien.

Norman Tait und seine Freunde suchen vor der Küste Floridas den Schatz zweier vor vielen Jahrhunderten im Meer versunkenen spanischen Galeonen. Da hört er von einer Frau mit dem Namen Doreen Carlyle, die in den Sümpfen lebt und als Hexe verschrien ist. Und tatsächlich: die Alte übergibt ihm eine Karte, mit deren Hilfe der Schatz zu finden ist. Doch der Preis, den Norman Tait und seine Freunde für das Gold und die Münzen zahlen müssen, ist hoch.

Elvis Enger has everything a man could want—wealth, power, and a reputation that commands attention. Yet beneath his polished charm lies a restless emptiness, a man bored by beauty and blinded by his own pride. When a scathing anonymous blog paints him as a “brute in a suit,” Elvis sets out to expose the writer—only to discover she works right under his nose. What begins as a game of revenge turns into a dangerous attraction, as the sharp-tongued accountant who mocked him becomes the one woman he can’t outwit—or forget.

Touching Stephanie Swift is disorienting, exhilarating, and highly erotic. They can read each other’s thoughts the way he could with his brother, and he knows her father forced her into an engagement she fears and detests. But this mind-to-mind joining is different from what he had with Sam.

Als Harriet Gill nach einem langen Leben stirbt, erben ihre zwei Großnichten, Sophia und Amanda Gill, ihr altes Haus in der Nähe von Boston. Doch es ist ein zweischneidiges Erbe: denn die beiden Schwestern dürfen das Anwesen erst nach zehn Jahren verkaufen und müssen so lange selbst darin wohnen, was eine teure Angelegenheit zu werden droht. Nur gut, dass die findige Sophia eine Idee hat, mit dem Problem umzugehen. Sophia und Amanda verwandeln das Anwesen kurzerhand in eine Pension. Doch sie haben nicht mit dem Widerstand der Verstorbenen gerechnet.

In dem beschaulichen englischen Dorf Cornhill ereignen sich sonderbare Vorfälle. Seit Wochen verschwinden immer wieder Menschen auf unerklärliche Weise in den nebelverhangenen Sümpfen. Einige der vermissten Personen tauchen nach kurzer Zeit, schrecklich entstellt, wieder auf und fallen gierig über die Dorfbewohner her. Schon ist die Rede von einem uralten Fluch, der seit Jahrhunderten auf der kleinen Gemeinde lasten soll.

In Saint-Pierre—where banners rise above stone keeps and villagers toil—17-year-old Etienne learns that loyalty is everything under the stern Lord Bertrand.

'Lyrical, twisty short stories' Evening Standard A collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop...

Lucy—single, childless, in her thirties—studies insects and ecosystems, in part to make sense of human behavior. That insight is shattered when her mother dies prematurely, her sister claims the California family home, and Lucy learns that her biological father is apparently a Costa Rican they knew when the family spent summers in the coastal village of Palmita. Reeling, Lucy heads south in search of this father. But he is nowhere to be found, and none of the locals seem to remember her. The dreamy, off-grid paradise she recalls from childhood has become a hard-edged town leery of outsiders.

At 7:58 a.m., Laura Henson walks away from her parked car. At 8:58 a.m., her phone quietly reconnects to the network. In between, nothing officially occurs. Assigned to Laura’s disappearance, Detective Mara Ellison encounters a case that seems determined to close itself. No evidence of violence. A plausible personal explanation. A confession that fits just well enough. Every report nudges the narrative toward voluntary absence.

Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman's solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she's resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence.

Rafi and his younger sister, Rosi, are excited to help Abuela make her holiday order for sixty pasteles, a traditional Puerto Rican root vegetable dish. When Abuela discovers she is missing one key ingredient, Rafi and Rosi set out to buy it. On the way back they get to make crunchy arañitas and at home they learn Abuela's secret recipe for yummy guava shells in syrup. Later, when their friends can't come to help make the pasteles, Rafi and Rosi save the day, and the best Pasteles Making Party ensues!

La tormenta de nieve está causando estragos en Alaska. En el corazón de la tormenta, un niño desaparece. Ella sale a buscarlo, seguida de cerca por los pocos habitantes de este extremo del mundo. Comienza entonces una frenética carrera contra la muerte, donde se revela el destino de cada uno frente a los elementos. Con esta mirada en el corazón de la naturaleza, Marie Vingtras, con una escritura incisiva, se centra en la intimidad de sus personajes y, con delicadeza, revela los tormentos de sus almas.

Eve y Charlie acaban de mudarse a un viejo caserón en un entorno boscoso y aislado. Un día, mientras Charlie está fuera, llaman a la puerta. Al otro lado hay un hombre con su familia; según dice, vivió allí de pequeño y le gustaría enseñarles la casa a sus hijos. Eve los deja pasar. Tan pronto como los desconocidos entran en la casa, empiezan a suceder cosas inexplicables. Y, a medida que pasa el tiempo, la familia no parece dispuesta a terminar la visita, ni siquiera cuando regresa Charlie.

While desperately fleeing from the henchmen of a Baltimore mobster, Elizabeth Forester crashes her car into a light pole. She wakes up in the hospital with no memory of who she is. But the moment Doctor Mathew touches her, glimpses of her past come zinging back. Along with the memories, a scorching sexual heat flares between them.

What if every time you tipped an hourglass, the world held its breath and secret doorways appeared where you'd never seen them before? Alex discovers a mysterious, cracked hourglass tucked away in Mira's shop—an artifact that doesn't just stop time, but focuses it, revealing "hidden paths" at the seams of human choice. As Alex learns to step into these frozen moments, they realize that time shows more than what happens; it shows the footprints not taken and the truth of what could have been.

Life in NYC is amazing until something eerie and seemingly impossible makes its way on Earth. Such an artifact has the ability to bridge different realities where upon the user finds himself in an upside-down realm with peculiar technology and nightmarish toys that are as alive as him. Horror grips his mind as he tries to find a way to survive.

Billy Lennox is the son of the bear holding me captive. He has no idea what we are to each other. And I'll do anything to keep it that way. Because if his father discovers my secret, senses how my body is about to betray me, he won't just ruin my life. He'll destroy Billy too.

Farren and her men suddenly find themselves thrust into the next challenge in the Warrior Games, but it appears that the fae world has taken things into her own hands, throwing things their way that they hadn't even thought to prepare for. It doesn't help that she hasn't deemed it necessary to...

That psychopath has taken her, and the only reason we aren't watching the world burn in our grief is because of Grey, or should I say Hades! He has assured us he would've felt her soul depart if she was dead. We're going to get her back and get help from an unlikely place, more mysteries get thrown our way, and somehow throughout it all, we have to remember that we're on a task for the Warrior Games, and fae knows what the fae realm will throw at us next.