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After decades of bashing, slashing, and executing his way through the ranks of the evil tyrant king, Orin Ironfinger is… tired. Victorious and feared the world over, to be sure, but tired all the same. Leading a rebellion as the highest-ranking Barbarian in the world is no easy feat, but now that he’s spilled enough blood to turn the seas red and burned enough vengeance to dim the sun, all Orin wants is to embark on his long-held dream of retiring into a quiet life as a small-town blacksmith. But the gods have other plans.

So far, retirement has been good to this hidden Legend. Well, aside from all of the mystery and mayhem… Orin Ironfinger just wants to enjoy his work. He may have been feared and revered all over the world as a Legendary Barbarian, but now he’s eager to settle into his small yet important life as a blacksmith. Unfortunately, Orin’s long-awaited dream of a quiet retirement keeps getting interrupted by the echoes of his past.

'Once I've taken his house from him, I will be entering through the front door.' In a garden somewhere in London, a fox is watching a man called Ben and his family through their kitchen doors. The fox has been stealing pieces of their lives - the odd shoe, a colourful sock, various bits of...

Mason Curacao is a big dreamer with an even bigger legacy to uphold. After the unexpected deaths of his famous Alchemist parents, it’s been a long, lonely summer for the new Alchemy Academy graduate. But as summer comes to a close, it looks like his new life can begin at last. It’s finally time to open his very own Tonic Shop, and he’s got an idea that no one has tried before.

Granted, being murdered first thing in the morning would make anybody cranky, but when local contractor Max Wheeler meets his unnatural end, he takes it more personally than most. As any perturbed ghost looking for justice would, he goes straight to the local sheriff to report the crime. That's when Hunter learns there's even more weirdness beneath the surface of his small Southern town than he thought.

The bee swarm wasn't the craziest thing that happened to Kelly. Waking up in someone else’s head takes that honor. Looking out through another person's eyes was an amusing ability at first until Kelly's head intrusions caused one friend to crash his car and another friend to overdose on sleeping pills. If Kelly knew what she was doing her friends wouldn't end up dead or suicidal, but head hopping never came with instructions. Kelly has no idea why she ended up with this curse, but she knows the bees awakened the ability within her so they must hold the key.

Meet Max, a free spirit and his only family, a floppy-eared German Shepherd, Rhett. Then imagine facing a double whammy: stage 4 brain cancer and a visit from an irate Devil. What would you do if the Devil demanded you write a book using your life as an example of why our world is descending into hell on earth, threatening his relevance?

Die einäugige Hündin Narbe kann sich nicht vorstellen, dass eine wie sie jemals geliebt werden könnte. Doch dann verirrt sich der sanfte Hund Max zu der Müllkippe, auf der Narbe lebt. Er erzählt ihr von seinem wunderschönen Zuhause bei den Menschen, und in der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben begleitet Narbe den Fremden auf die gefährliche Heimreise. Unterwegs wird Max von Alpträumen geplagt, in denen die beiden ein Liebespaar sind und von einem Menschen getötet werden. Aber sind es wirklich Alpträume oder vielmehr Erinnerungen? Narbe wehrt sich anfangs dagegen, dass es ihr Schicksal sein soll, Max zu lieben.

Come with twelve year old Sam, as he journeys from loss to transformation and learns what it really means to grow up. A life-changing event forces Sam to follow a stranger hundreds of miles to an unfamiliar but magical place. Will Sam choose to stay with a new family, or will his killer instincts lead to his fatal downfall?