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In 1879, when Anna Buchanan first met Callum MacGhille, she recognized him instantly —he was the man who haunted her dreams. She hadn’t come to Ireland in search of love. She wanted freedom, a life beyond the cage of her father’s garden walls. Yet at Baile Glas, a remote estate bound by secrets, Anna discovers that her dreams are not dreams at all. They are warnings. The visions do not end with Callum. He is only the beginning. At Baile Glas, echoes of the dead stir through locked rooms, shadows slip across corridors, and old stories breathe again.

There’s no murder in paradise. Homicide detective Siro Ferreira-Nunes must solve his most challenging case. More and more people end up dead in the “city of dreams,” an allegedly perfect society. The victims haven’t just been murdered; they’ve also been horribly mutilated and stripped of their neural implants and augmentations. This is not the work of a serial killer but the signature of crime syndicates who sell the costly augmentations on the black market. A specialist in organized crime, detective Ferreira-Nunes is the right man for job.

The extraordinary new dystopian novel from the author of the international best seller I'm Not Scared. Summer has ended, but the heat will not let up. Ash has covered everything. Anna and Astor live in the house behind the fence, surviving in a world stripped of adults. The rooms are piled high with rubbish. Their mother's skeleton lies perfect on the bed. And every few days, Anna must head out beyond the fence for provisions and medicine. Each time she goes, she may never come back.

IN SPACE, THE ONLY LAW IS SURVIVAL. The Space Punks have a reputation for taking the jobs nobody else will touch. Their warship is fast, heavily armed, and crewed by people dangerous enough to make most enemies think twice. David is their newest recruit. He soon discovers that working for the Space Punks means far more than collecting a paycheck. Their missions take them from the roughest corners of the solar system into conflicts involving powerful enemies, advanced technology, cyborgs, mechs, and forces that don't always play by the rules.

In a world gone to hell, Elle Milton - once the darling of the Sydney social scene - has carved a role for herself as the communications officer for the toughest commando team fighting for humanity's survival - Hell Squad. It's her chance to make a difference and make up for horrible past mistakes, despite the fact that its battle-hardened commander never wanted her on his team.

Homicide detective Siro Ferreira-Nunes must solve his most challenging case. More and more people end up dead in the “city of dreams,” an allegedly perfect society. The victims haven’t just been murdered; they’ve been also horribly mutilated and stripped of their neural implants and augmentations. This is not the work of a serial killer but the signature of crime syndicates who sell the costly augmentations on the black market. A specialist in organized crime, detective Ferreira-Nunes is the right man for job.

Kai thought he had the best job in the world. Playing VR games for a living. Not if the games are trying to kill you. The Net is the last great frontier, a wilderness of data filled with mysteries beyond imagination. Bugs, a harmless annoyance in earlier decades, have become a deadly menace in times when gamers connect their brains directly to VR.

"Am liebsten aber waren mir die alten Märchen. Seltsamerweise fühlte ich mich in ihnen am meisten zu Hause. Als würde ich in alten Erinnerungen blättern.“Die 15-jährige Emilia verliert sich in Büchern wie in vertrauten Welten. Ihr neuer Mitschüler Crispin sucht seinen Bruder, der spurlos in einem Märchenpark verschwunden ist. Zusammen entdecken sie nicht nur zarte Gefühle füreinander, sondern auch Ragnamar, ein fantastisches Märchenreich, in dem schon die Brüder Grimm Inspiration für ihre Geschichten gefunden haben.

Getting kidnapped by a cyborg wasn't in her plans. Previously published - has been lightly edited. For unlucky-in-love salvage mechanic Malin Phoenix, all she wants is to buy some parts and get back to her work fixing starships. She didn't intend to get caught up in a coup on a cyborg planet, and she definitely didn't plan to get kidnapped by a sexy cyborg.

From the busy market world of Souk to the high-tech cyborg world of Centax, join these treasure hunts for priceless artifacts of old Earth. In a Dangerous Orbit contains two action-packed novellas in the Phoenix Adventures series. These novellas were previously published and have been lightly edited. Beneath a Trojan Moon: A woman with a secret she’ll kill to protect. Fortune teller Relda Dela-Cruz hides in plain sight on the market world of Souk. She never lets anyone too close and protects her deadly secret.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A young woman lies alone in her room, out of step with her age. The world around her is one of noise, cheap fashion and machines, and she longs for a beauty that seems to have left the earth. Then she opens a magazine and reads a few lines of free verse...

Hi there, I'm Anna Dark.Welcome to 'Let Me Tell You A Scary Story', which, as the name suggests, is a podcast where I read scary true-life stories from ordinary people.Join me here Monday to Friday as I tell tales of intrigue, the paranormal, and the outright spooky!If you have a true story of something scary that happened to you and you would like me to read it out on the show, then please send it to me at letmetellyouascarystory@yahoo.comIf you enjoy this podcast, please leave me a positive review on Apple Podcasts. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Now if you're ready, let's begin…

Brought to you by Penguin. 'It's dangerous to go alone at night...' Yana, a vampire hunter, rides into Koprivci promising salvation. The village’s curse has endured for many years and rumour has it that Anka – whose parents died on the night of her birth – is to blame. But enduring the...

Raised from birth to be a soldier, Kace Tameron is a disciplined, military-trained gladiator. He is on contract to the Kor Magna Arena to hone his fighting skills on the blood-soaked arena sand and then return to the military. He lives for one thing: To protect his planet, and on his world, love is forbidden. But then he collides with a feisty redhead from Earth who threatens to shatter his legendary control.

In una Sicilia distopica, una ragazzina di tredici anni parte alla ricerca del fratellino rapito. Decimata da un virus che uccide solo gli adulti, l'isola è percorsa da selvagge orde di ragazzini e cani randagi.

Cool and driven Madeline Cochran made a successful career for herself as civilian commander of a space station orbiting Jupiter...until the day it was attacked and she was abducted by alien slavers. Her organized existence shattered, Madeline suffered during her captivity, but since her rescue by the tough gladiators of the House of Galen, she's struggling to assimilate to her new life. As she navigates the desert world of Carthago and the gladiator city of Kor Magna, she desperately misses her teenage son back on Earth.

In the second book of The Redemption series, Levi uses Anna’s love for those she cares about to further his own agenda. He forces her to do something for him that not even Lucifer was able to accomplish in a thousand years of scheming. While Anna attempts to work through her feelings for Lucifer, she becomes increasingly confused by his actions. One moment he seems to want to form a connection with her, and the next he does something which could tear them permanently apart.

Anna Cameron is a new sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job, she discovers she'll be working with her ex, Jamie. In at the deep end emotionally, she's also plunged headlong into the violent underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag – the haunt of working girls, drug dealers and sad, seedy men. When Cath attempts to get involved in a situation she is no longer equipped or entitled to tackle, the consequences for both women could be far-reaching.

Sub-Captain Eve Traynor knows a suicide mission when she sees one. With deadly insectoid aliens threatening to invade Earth, the planet's only chance of survival is to get the attention of the fierce Eon Warriors. But the Eon want nothing to do with Earth, and Eve wants nothing to do with abducting War Commander Davion Thann-Eon off his warship. But when Earth's Space Corps threaten her sisters, Eve will do anything to keep them safe, even if it means she might not make it back.

Dr. Eos Rai has spent a lifetime dedicated to her mother's dream of finding the long-lost Mona Lisa. When Eos uncovers tantalizing evidence of Star's End—the last known location of the masterpiece—she's shocked when her employer, the Galactic Institute of Historic Preservation, refuses to back her expedition. Left with no choice, she does the unthinkable—joins forces with the most notorious treasure hunter in the galaxy. A man she finds infuriating, annoying, and far too tempting.