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Christine is an actress, a breakout star in truth. She never believed in wizards. She never knew of the darkest wizard ever to have existed: Mortem. But Mortem knows of her. Christine is the sole survivor of his assassination of two wizarding journalists that resulted in a destroyed cafe and many dead civilians. Fearful her rising celebrity will bring his great plan to take over the wizarding world into the consciousness of the public, he seeks her out, and Christine is forced on the run.

A pilot of a airmail flight battles a horrific snow storm in order to keep himself and a passenger alive.

Teddy is a runner who hopes to win a 1962 Cadillac by running across the United States. As could be imagined, Teddy "runs" into many challenges along the way, including filth, thirst, hunger, loneliness, injuries, scoffing, bullying and near-death experiences.

Feature One follows Parker and Doris as they attempt to will information and a confession out of a known financier of terrorism. Feature Two follows Detective Redgrove as she investigates the mysterious death of a Purple Heart and bronze star recipient.

Rafi is an 8 year old child living on a volcanic island who becomes trapped in a cave when a volcano unexpectedly erupts and covers the child's home and village with lava. On the 77th day, Rafi awakened to tears again, waking up every day crying. Rafi was sad and disillusioned and was beginning to give up hope. One day, Ifar appeared and rescued Rafi. They lived together for a while, fought vultures, constructed a glider based upon the great thinker Leonid's drawings and prepared to fly to a new life in the green land.

In Hunted, a chilling blend of thriller and horror, Dr. Cassandra Stokes leads a team deep into the unforgiving wilderness on a mission not just about scientific discovery, but personal revenge. A series of brutal killings in the northern forests has left the locals terrorised, their whispers filled with tales of wolves, wolves, not quite wolves.

Everett’s brother rocked the world with his incredible musical talent. And Everett is…fine. But he’s okay with that. He’s a member of “a certain lovable class of men who never accomplish anything in particular”. But when traveling in the West, Everett meets a remarkable woman who is dying, and discovers that she has a history her brother, he gives her the greatest gift of all during her final days—the gift of understanding.