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After an attack on the job, Homicide Detective Isobel 'Bel' Emerson takes her dog and moves to the small town of Bajka in search of a less stressful life and career. But the quaint town's peace is disturbed when a local furniture designer is murdered, his body posed to look like a human chandelier. Thrust back into the fray, Bel must confront her personal demons as she investigates an impossible case, and as bodies turned into household objects start to pile up, all clues point to the reclusive millionaire who just bought the abandoned mansion at the edge of town.

When a mysterious man rescues her from near death, a young woman finds herself in the throes of a dark and dangerous storybook romance, where pleasure reigns but happy endings are no guarantee.

On the very first day of 2019 a ten-year-old girl is found murdered in a backyard in Odense, Denmark. Her body is set up as a morbid work of art; a detailed copy of the final scene in H. C. Andersen's fairy tale; The Little Match Girl; crippled, frozen to death, crunching a pile of burned-out...

Still reeling from her last case, Detective Isobel "Bel" Emerson finds comfort in both her dog and her newfound friendships. But when she and her new partner, Detective Gold, are called to the site of a bear attack, they discover something far more horrifying: the body of a young woman posed inside a cabin where the furniture is all too big. And to make matters worse, the cabin is located on Eamon Stone's property.

When his vicious cousin Alejandro makes a violent late-night visit, San Diego homicide detective Ray Delgado gets a brutal reminder of why he left his family behind. Alejandro wants Ray to find his sister, Sophia, who disappeared from the UC San Diego campus, before the FBI digs too deep into his business.

After her brush with death on a frozen mountain and an upsetting conversation with her boyfriend Eamon Stone, Detective Isobel "Bel" Emerson is desperate for her life to return to some semblance of normalcy. So when Aesop's Files, Hollywood's most popular paranormal crime drama, announces it'll be filming its upcoming episodes on location in Bajka, she hopes the excitement, the famous actors, and the overtime pay will be a welcome reprieve from the madness.

"Wendy Darling, I have your brothers. You'll never see them again. They're in Neverland now." Isobel "Bel" Emerson finds her life disrupted once again when Eamon Stone receives a disturbing phone call from an old friend's daughter. Her family is in danger, but she can't call the police. Eamon is the only person she can turn to, and he agrees to help under one condition: Bel comes with him. Working undercover with only Eamon for backup, Bel arrives at Wendy Darling's expansive estate where she learns that both of Wendy's younger brothers have been kidnapped.

While on their first romantic vacation, Detective Isobel "Bel" Emerson and Eamon Stone accidentally uncover a black market operation. Agent Jameson Barry and the FBI rush to their aid, but during the raid, Bel finds an inconsequential piece of evidence that the FBI dismisses as trash. Yet she can't get it out of her mind. It lodges in her brain long after she returns home, driving her and her partner, Detective Olivia Gold, to launch an investigation of their own.

Anastasia Cooper is the most hated woman in Sorelle. To avoid the modern slavery charges leveled against her by her scheming stepsister, she opts for a quiet life under house arrest to escape the frenzy of the media. But she wasn't banking on them. The Tate brothers. Feared by all, everyone knows that Christopher, Silas, and Rafael Tate are the real power behind the throne of Sorelle. And they've been looking for Stasi for a very long time. Determined to make Stasi's life as difficult as possible, Kit, Silas, and Rafe take every opportunity to remind her how far she's fallen.

I live with my Father, the eccentric old man if you listen to the people in town. My father leaves town to sell some things, but he hasn’t come back and it’s been a week. Concerned something has happened to him, I look for him. only to find a creature is holding him captive. Madison is my only hope of saving my father. If I ask her though, she will demand something from me. Something I don’t think I can give her. She will demand me.

She was supposed to play him. Instead, she gave him everything. The assignment was simple: infiltrate Gangland, gather evidence, and disappear. But Ali got caught in more than the streets... she got caught in him. Mikhail was supposed to be a monster. But behind closed doors, he became her escape, her obsession, her deepest craving. Now the lies are piling up, bodies are dropping, and the one man who made her feel safe… might be the one she has to run from. When the line between enemy and soulmate gets blurred, who do you trust?

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving...

Paige had always envisioned what her last couple of years of high school would be like when her parents finally would allow her to date. She already had the most amazing friends, and now she needed her dream lover. She had her eyes set on one quarterback at school, but as luck would have it, he would be the typical school jerk who had a darkness inside. Paige thought she would never find love until she met Declan, who showed her the meaning of love; he treated her like a queen. Declan was the prince in her fairy tale--until her fairy tale turned into a nightmare.

Through sheer determination—and a whole lot of stubbornness—I, Blanche Hood, managed to evade the Red-Cap curse. Unlike my mom, I didn't fall for the huntsman or get eaten by the wolf, but I did gain a purpose. I became an agent for the Fairytale Bureau. My job? Countering the ugly side of the Grimm Effect.

The woods were ours. They were where I first found her. Where we played. Where we hid. And where it all fell apart. There was a hundred acres of history that stood between us. We came from different worlds. Hers, poor and twisted. Mine, full of power and sin. Honey is sweet, but so is revenge.

Lara Wesson ist stolz und voller Vorfreude, als sie zu einer geheimen Sondereinheit von Scotland Yard versetzt wird: Der DIA. Ihr neuer Partner im Job, Chief Inspector Fionn Byrne, scheint hingegen nicht begeistert von der jungen Kollegin. Während sie ins malerische Cornwall reisen, um ihren ersten gemeinsamen Fall zu lösen, kommt es schnell zu Konflikten zwischen der taffen, lockeren Lara und dem sehr britischen und stets bestens gekleideten Fionn.

"Sie ist genau nach deiner Kragenweite. Einsam, verzweifelt und bildschön." Ich hätte es besser wissen müssen, als das Angebot meines besten Freundes Daven anzunehmen. Damit ich seine Geliebte am Leben lasse, verspricht er mir ein neues Spielzeug – ein hübsches und anschmiegsames Kätzchen. Noch in der Sekunde, in der ich Sienna zum ersten Mal sehe, bin ich verloren. Ich muss sie haben. Allerdings ist mir ein Rätsel, wie ich übersehen konnte, dass mein Kätzchen extrem scharfe Krallen hat.

Dangerous. Intense. Utterly obsessed. And so off limits, I'm in trouble. One kiss with Mr. Tall, Dark, and Scary broke the trance. I was sleepwalking through life until the day he stormed in. Gabriel Jackson. With his boy-next-door charm and dimpled grin, he jolts me wide awake. He makes me crave the dark heat he promises. To frolic in the lust behind his eyes.

I wasn't expecting to find a man whilst drowning my sorrows and hiding from my responsibilities in the filthiest bar in the city. Hatter is elusive, beautiful… and sad. Tempting enough to make me throw my usual caution aside and steal him. Just for a night. One night, to help us both forget. I expected him to leave me. But I didn't expect the invitation he left behind. Wonder. The most exclusive club in the city. Always moving, never discovered, and impossible to enter without permission. So naturally, I stole it. Except Wonder isn't quite what the whispers say.

Tricked. Hoodwinked. Swindled. Betrayed. Take your pick. Once upon a time, the inhabitants of Earth got hosed. Not long ago, GameChangers released their newest virtual reality game - Manifest. A game of exotic magic and fantastic adventure. A game where each player "manifested" with their optimal race, class, and attributes. A game of infinite possibilities where you could be your truest self. The game was an instant success, drawing countless players from across the globe. Manifest turned out to be much more than a mere game, however.