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Flynn Dalton just wants to marry her girlfriend, Genesis, go back to her construction job, and get on with her life. But first she has to defeat a revenge-crazed psychic succubus who is erasing people from existence…. Flynn is in a tough spot. The National Psychic Registry will exile Genesis for her use of dark magic if Flynn doesn’t do their bidding… and Gen doesn’t even know the Registry is using her for leverage. The only way for Flynn to get her life back–and protect Gen–is to find and kill Tempest Granfeld, the disembodied succubus removing Registry members from time.

The writing's on the wall for Harry Kvist. Once a notorious boxer, he now spends his days drinking, and his nights chasing debts amongst the pimps, prostitutes and petty thieves of 1930s Stockholm. When women can't satisfy him, men can. But one biting winter's night he pays a threatening visit to a debtor named Zetterberg, and when the man is found dead shortly afterwards, all eyes are on Kvist. Kvist's struggle to clear his name will lead him from the city's slums, gangster hideouts and gambling dens to its most opulent hotels and elite nightclubs.

Something not quite human stalks the city streets under the full moon after the gay bars close. As the ravaged corpses start piling up, coroner Becky O’Brien and her unlikely allies realize they are the only defenders who can protect scores of unsuspecting pretty boys from a grisly, bone-crunching death by werewolf.

Two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of environmental collapse. Participation offers a prescient look at communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. As the groups consider—or neglect—their syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor disappears, a translator questions his role, a colleague known as “the capitalist” becomes a point of fixation, and “the news reports” filter through in fragments.

I left her when she was eight. Just a child. Too young to be alone. I killed myself because I could never atone for the things he made me do. There is something wrong with my family, you see. A fear runs through us, through our blood. A fear that circles above us, shredding the sky and clawing at our hearts, and now, from a deathless realm, I am forced to watch as my lonely daughter is tortured by the life I gave her to endure....

After waiting to explore Preston Castle, the team is finally ready to go. Jason begins his research on the many paranormal experiences recorded through the years and instantly knows this is not a typical haunting. Wade’s ability to see and interact with spirits has become something he depends on, but Janice warns him against the shadow people they’ll encounter. He questions whether it’s safe for them to spend time at the old reform school, but if anyone knows how to handle a haunting, it’s Jason. Not this time.

When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets.

Panda and Mitzi Fowler, a married couple, and their best friends Valerie and Juniper are processing their recent discovery that magic is real. Elves! Fairies! Magical flying creatures! And Mitzi has magical powers she never knew about which she may have to employ when they take off for Peru to search for Panda's long-lost parents.

She's taken over a thousand slaves from the city, and now they're in the forest. They're ill-equipped, poorly clothed, and in an alien environment. She's taking them north as winter approaches. Monsters, enemies, and old magics hamper the trail, and then there's the ghost of her ancestor. It's a long road to Elfhome, and not all are going to make it.

Their new home on Frederick Street in Clay Center, Kansas, was supposed to give writer Jonathan David and his husband, clinical psychologist Dr. Eddie Dorman, an opportunity to enjoy married life. But they have barely settled in when the nightmare begins. Noises, disembodied voices, and mysterious apparitions make Jonathan's life hell. Part of the house has decided to bare its teeth, show its jagged edges, and bring back the worst of Jonathan's past.

Is a little white lie a problem if it empowers your dream? Meet Idealist artist Lidia Lundon who lies to her wife to get her own NYC gallery and conspires with Dennis Gavin, accountant, internationally recognized ceramicist, and serial killer? Plagued with writer’s block and PTSD, Rachel Allen is distracted by discovering the owner of a 1937 teenager’s diary and unraveling a wealthy family’s murderous secrets still in play.

Devin Murphy wants to leave his violent past with Piper Monroe and find a happier, calmer life; he can only accomplish this by being a key witness in a court case against the man. When two undercover officers try to take him to a safe house before the trial, Devin finds both men dead in a restaurant’s restroom and runs for his life. Molly Basset, owner of adult shop The Pleasure Hole, finds Devin on a park bench, crying. She gives him a job and helps him start a new life.

Dan is a vlogging ghost hunter. He has devoted his life to documenting paranormal activity. In his converted van, he travels around the country exploring haunted sites. He loves the thrill of filming restless spirits. Chad Brewer, skeptic, works for an insurance company. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, but watching Dan’s vlog is his guilty pleasure. The cute vlogger is accident prone. He has Chad’s work extension on speed-dial. When Chad loses his job for approving too many claims, Dan offers him a position as his personal assistant.

When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay's 10th-floor hotel room, she is taken in for questioning by the police.

All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship’s dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family’s empty summer mansion on a gulf island.

The Mile-High City has its troubles. Fortunately it also has a troubleshooter, Riley Connors, who is more than what she seems: law student, waitress, and flirt. Because Riley has a past and connections that enable her to protect the people around her. She's a nemesis to many.

It begins with a chance meeting in a bar... Temporarily homeless, Neal MacIntyre is invited by a charitable stranger to spend the night at his apartment. "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone else," Neal says to his new acquaintance. "I always thought of myself as an honest man. I would have said a man of principle..." And with those words, Neal introduces an eerie tale of betrayal that leads to murder...

El amante alemán, primera novela del poeta y narrador Julián Martínez Gómez, es un libro que divierte, emociona y sorprende en cada página. A través de dos historias paralelas que trascienden el espacio y el tiempo, 'El amante alemán' habla de la distancia, de la familia, del retorno a los orígenes y, sobre todo, del amor: un amor sin límites capaz de vencer cualquier adversidad.

Nash is okay with things staying simple and small-town, until the person of interest shows up in a city of seven million, with old friends and older scores to settle. And then the war begins.

Decisa a cominciare una nuova vita, Ebba fa ritorno a Valö, la splendida isola della sua infanzia affacciata sulle casette bianche e le rocce scoscese di Fjällbacka, nell’idillio dell’arcipelago svedese. Vuole rimettere a posto la colonia che le appartiene e che non ha più rivisto dal giorno in cui, una vigilia di Pasqua di molti anni prima, la sua famiglia scomparve nel nulla, lasciando dietro di sé solo una tavola apparecchiata a festa e una bambina di un anno che vagava smarrita. Nessuno li rivide più; nessuno fu mai in grado di stabilire cosa fosse realmente accaduto.