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Cora was born with a veil. She is able to discern spirits and wield the power of both the dark and the light as well as the ability to heal. Her grandmother, Mi, called it The Knowing. Cora has carried it as both a prophetic blessing and a curse, struggling under the burden until one decision changes her world. Possessed with a healer’s compulsion to help, she is unable to turn away when Fannie arrives on her doorstep, ripped, torn, and hanging precariously on the knife’s edge of death.

The forests of Lyle Mountain have always served as a safe haven for six-year-old Sheridan and her doll Becca when fleeing from her stepfather's drunken rampages, until the night a new brutal predator enters her harrowing world. His intent: to annihilate her, as it is foretold her existence threatens to reveal the heinous wrath he maliciously inflicts upon unsuspecting victims.

Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She's had plenty of practice, burying thoughts and feelings that might anger her strict evangelical pastor father. The Knowing, as Grace calls it, offers glimpses of people's pasts and futures. It enables her to see into the depth of her mother's sadness, and even allows Grace to talk to Isaac, her twin brother who died at birth. To her wise, loving Aunt Pearl, the Knowing is a family gift; to her daddy, it's close to witchcraft.

Bethany Walker wakes up in the hospital with a head injury and no memory of her attacker or how she got there. Worse, she learns her father is back in jail and her family is headed for a crisis. Now, an even bigger threat looms as an unseen enemy stalk her from the shadows, ready to take her down with her father. The only person she can lean on is her boyfriend, Kirk Sterling, the man her family blames for all their problems.

Returning from the Crimean War, Lawrence Pownall Beaumont is given a string bound bundle of cryptic letters by his dying father. They bear the family seal and have crossed land and sea to find him - they are written by his brother Nathaniel’s hand. The mysterious letters lead Lawrence into a labyrinth of supernatural and occult worlds, scandals, and betrayals to arouse violent passions, and a journey far from home to explore lands of cultures past and present.

Kurz vor ihrer Hochzeit erfährt die adoptierte Sara etwas Unfassbares: Ihr leiblicher Vater ist ein berüchtigter Serienkiller...

Cada día crece más el pueblo musulmán en los Estados Unidos, implantando consigo su cultura y su religión. Cinco jóvenes, estudiantes sobresalientes de diferentes universidades, son asignados por el Gobierno para que hagan un estudio profundo sobre el porqué del aumento exagerado musulmán en el pueblo de Hamtramck, Michigan. Pero el enfoque de la investigación muy pronto toma otro rumbo, cuando descubren que varios jóvenes han sido enviados a cumplir una peregrinación a La Meca, en Arabia Saudita, pero nunca regresan.

Es una historia de coincidencias que termina haciendo que la vida de cuatros niños (Elvira Isabel, Micaela, Carlos Roberto y Gustavo Andrés) se vean entrelazadas a medida que crecen. Ellos comparten muchas cosas: nacieron en Caracas, Venezuela, sus madres confirman sus embarazos el mismo día y nacen en la misma fecha con una marca en diferentes partes del lado izquierdo de sus cuerpos. Es un lunar con una forma parecida al símbolo celta conocido como “Triskelion”.

He looked like the kind of man even my mother would call smokin' hot. Eventually, she did. He felt like the kind of man who didn't just break the rules, but made new ones. He led and it was follow or get out of the way. Why did a billionaire with a voice like liquid silk and a face like a bad angel take a second look at a girl in no-name jeans, with a fifteen-dollar haircut and a beat up car she calls her "Eep" because the 'J' fell off long ago?