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A decade is a long time to wait to start your life. Can a marriage on the brink of extinction be saved? Kia Nelson has only loved one man. She has devoted herself to him and only him. The problem is that man has spread his attentions to every woman who crosses his path. She has always accepted his indiscretions as part of the club life. Until the other men started settling down, proving that monogamy is not dead. Handles is the Nasty Bastard MC attorney. He loves his life. There is not a single complaint to be had by him. He’s got a wife at home and any woman he wants at the club.

When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won't help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes.

Stephen Norman is to inherit her father’s vast fortune and estate. She seeks to ask Leonard Everard (a wastrel) to marry her, but only to prove that she can ask a man to marry her and defy 19th-century convention which says a man can only ask a woman to marry. This sets into motion a showdown between two old rivals for her hand in marriage, as Harold An Wolf (a gentleman) is in love with her.

For generations, the townsfolk have whispered about the Ashcroft estate — a place where shadows move on their own, where a young girl vanished without a trace, and where the past refuses to stay buried. Most stay far away. Except Henry. Driven by a dare and a longing he cannot explain, thirteen-year-old Henry steps through the gate one fateful Halloween night. What begins as a test of courage becomes a journey through the echoes of another life — a life where he once loved, lost, and promised to return.

Dunkel, verführerisch sexy, und süchtig machend. Dramatisch und so spannend, dass du dich bei jeder Seite fragen wirst… Wer ist dieser König von Afterlife? Keira ist neu in der Stadt und flieht vor ihrer Vergangenheit. Eine Vergangenheit, die ihre Träume heimsucht, bis ein neuer Alptraum sie anfängt zu jagen… groß, dunkel und sexy. Ihr neuer Boss, Dominic Draven. Die Frage ist, was läuft in diesem berüchtigten Gothic Nachtclub in der kleinen Stadt Evergreen Falls? Und noch wichtiger, was hat sein mächtiger Besitzer mit ihr vor?

Anglo-Saxon England, AD 997. Brother Galen is anxious about leaving the haven of his abbey. Suddenly reconciled with his father after being disowned, he fears he will never again fit in with his estranged family. But when he’s commissioned to produce a manuscript for the king, the shy scribe has the chance to visit his relatives after three years of banishment.

Elizabeth Murray has been condemned to burn at the stake when a strange man visits her. He offers her a deal: her soul in return for immortality. What he offers is not a normal life. To survive, Elizabeth must become Death. Elizabeth must ease the passing of all those who die, using her compassion to guide them. She accepts and, for 500 years, whirls from one death to the next. Until one day, everything changes. She - Death - falls in love. Desperate to escape from her deal, she summons the man who saved her. He agrees to release her the condition that she gives him five lives.

Beneath the light of a full moon, the Nightbloods and Seers are dancing. They are dancing as they await another Awakening, a dream that defines every witch's destiny. It doesn't matter that the coven is cheering and anticipating her turn into womanhood, because Calli doesn't want any of it.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide.