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This isn't the first time Lucas Fergus has woken up next to the bins outside a bar, but it is the first time he's done so with no memory of the days before. Something bad has happened, but he has no idea what. And things keep getting worse. With a sudden and unexpected change coming over him, Lucas finds himself trapped inside an old english pub with a group of people he doesn't much like. But messing with Lucas is a bad idea, for there is more to him than meets the eye. Soon there will be Hell to pay.

Time may heal all wounds, but time stands still for the dead. Twenty years have passed since the horrific night in the Whispering House. Now, Abigail lives a relatively normal life as an independent bookstore owner while her sister, Constance, struggles to navigate crippling physical and psychological damage. But when Abigail inherits the house, old memories and childhood traumas are awoken.

A parent should never have to bury a child. Lydia and Wade Jones live a simple life with their daughter, Adeline, in the rural countryside of southeastern Virginia. But when Adeline passes in a devastating accident, Lydia’s life falls apart and her perception of reality is altered forever.

Abigail thought she and her sister, Constance, had finally freed the spirits of their departed loved ones from the Whispering House. But in an unexpected turn of events, they discover a secret so vile, so terrible, that it’s haunted the women of their family for generations. A story a hundred years old is uncovered when Constance ventures into the world beyond the threshold of death. What she finds turns their world upside down and finally reveals the origins of their misery.

Un matrimonio per fermare una guerra. Ma tra loro, è solo l'inizio di un incendio. La mafia russa e quella italiana sono in guerra. Una guerra feroce, fatta di sangue, potere e vendetta. Entrambe le fazioni sono spietate, inflessibili, incapaci di perdonare. Ma quando viene deciso di unire i nostri mondi con un matrimonio, mi ritrovo di fronte la donna più bella del clan nemico… e il destino spinge tra le mie braccia quello che ho sempre desiderato.

Her memory loss must have been catastrophic because almost nothing was familiar. The language was foreign to her, with only a few words bearing some similarity to the language she thought in. Still, a full moon cycle had passed since her awakening, and little by little she was gaining basic understanding of it—only a few words and phrases, but she was learning more each day.

Controversial filmmaker William Ward doesn't believe in curses, but he's happy to have the hype surrounding his newest movie, an adaptation of a notorious screenplay with a dark history. As production begins and people start dying, he learns that the curse is all too real and the vengeful ghost haunting the script is only a piece of the puzzle.

Well, hello there! I see you are interested in learning about our young lad Luke. Oh? You’d like to know who is speaking to you first? It is I, the grand Apollo! You know, the god of music, prophecies, sometimes the sun, etcetera, etcetera! Glad to make your acquaintance! I am… currently trapped in Hell’s prison. Can you believe it!? This really annoying demon named Shax tricked me. He had poor Hephaestus lure me out into the open. I still practically scorched half his body, but the blasted demon managed to knock me out!

For Moon Boy, adulthood is coming no matter what. Even if he spends most nights drinking forties in the cemetery with his band, even if he drops out of community college to pursue multiple women for different reasons, and even if he can still see the ghost house rise from the quarry at midnight, he can’t stop the inevitable. When his sister goes missing on opening night at Kip Creeker’s Trail of Terror, Moon Boy’s already overcomplicated life takes a frightening turn, and his grasp on reality starts to slip.

You have been endowed a gift, Lucas. You have been entrusted with a sickle and a staff, whose use and inherent powers you have only seen glimpses of in your short life. These powers will steadily increase, condense, sharpen, and grow. They will progressively submit to the dominion of your command. As with all tools, instruments, weapons, and power, these have the potential to be misused or not, to be properly handled, or not.

A young woman named Jess is ensnared by his vampiric charms meets her end after a night of fun.

Wyatt died once. He remembers that much. But death was only the beginning. After killing his closest friend, Wyatt didn’t pass on he fell. Reincarnated into a world twisted by monsters, ruled by magic, and soaked in blood. A hell where survival is bought with suffering, and the past never stays buried. And Wyatt? He brought his demons with him.

The shadows are speaking. Can their riddle be unraveled? Eleven years ago, Royal bodyguard Giacomo da Prado first followed young Prince Luca into the shadows. Plunged against his will into a world of illicit magic, Giaco has tried to hold onto the rationality of a Reborn man, even as he walks the line between the two worlds. But now, called upon to serve as Prince Luca’s bodyguard once again, Giaco has to face all his worst fears. Luca has disappeared into the shadows - and Giaco’s beloved wife, the famed card-reader Amanda, is in danger of being pulled after him.

It’s been four years since Giacomo, bodyguard to Prince Luca of Fiori, followed his charge down into the shadowy world of forbidden magic. When Luca disappears once again, Giaco must cast aside his disbelief and delve into the world of fortune-telling and shadow-walking in order to find Luca and bring him back to safety. And beyond that, he must face up to his own worst fears. Everyone considers Giaco to be a hero, but he is about to learn the true meaning of heroism. More than his own life depends on it.

Few men walk into shadow. Fewer walk out. Giaco, famed battle hero turned bodyguard, is a Reborn man. He believes in reason, harmony, and intellect, and leaves magic for the foolish and superstitious. But when his charge, young Prince Luca, is stolen away, Giaco must set off on a search that will cause him to question everything he knows. The Rebirth is changing the face of La Città dei Fiori, but the old ways still hold sway, especially in the dark places of the city. In order to get Luca back, Giaco will have to undergo a different kind of Rebirth - one of fear and shadow.

Nicole was from New Orleans. When she found voodoo dolls in her gym locker, work desk, and on her front porch, she was scared. She knew what they meant. She was right. A few days later, she was murdered. A voodoo doll was next to her body. Can voodoo dolls kill? Liz, an amateur sleuth, is determined to find out and catch the killer. On a trip to New Orleans to attend a Cajun Creole cooking school, she meets with a gris-gris doctor who specializes in voodoo, hexes, spells, and superstitions.

How would you feel if you drew the Death Card from a Tarot deck? Seth, the bumbling and incompetent police chief of Red Cedar, calls Liz and asks her to help him solve the murder of his deputy, Leroy. He’s worried he might be a suspect because Leroy was going to run against him in the upcoming police chief election. His alibi is that he was getting a tarot card reading from Madame Dika when the murder occurred, but she vehemently denies that the reading ever occurred. And what about the relationship between Liz and Roger, the San Francisco lawyer she’s fallen in love with?

In what appears as a mental breakdown plagued by depression and addiction, is actually a spiritual awakening and initiation from the world of scientific materialism into an eternity of spiritual freedom. Volume 2 of 3.

The story follows a trial lawyer who believes he is a precocious teenager in London. In what appears as a mental breakdown plagued by mental illness and addiction, is actually a spiritual awakening and initiation from the world of scientific materialism into an eternity of spiritual freedom.