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Here is a tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries - many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today. Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history.

Born the night that the Archmagus Valeria died, Endrance was gifted with the talent and mind for magic. He'd proven that he was more than capable of mastering the forces of magic and intellectual study at the hands of a master as mad as he was crafty. He was one of the Scribed; mages who had undergone a painful yet powerful ritual that granted them the ability to tattoo spells upon their very skin. He had finally proven himself to his master, and was free to practice magic at his own pace.

Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash...

Los Angeles interior designer and former foster kid Kendall Green is in high demand, both for her impeccable eye and for her uncanny ability to uncover the provenance of any piece. But for all her success, skyrocketing costs have put her California home and her business in jeopardy. Then an unexpected inheritance provides a timely solution: a grandmother she never knew has left her a group of historic properties in a tiny Colorado town on the edge of ruin.

Pushed to the limits of his sanity by an ominous apparition, Almon Plum-Kilmer forsakes the safety of his home, venturing to the untamed Dragonbreath mountain. Ignited by a deep-seated obsession to uncover the truth behind his family's torment, it is here, at the pinnacle of the world, that Almon encounters the enigmatic Supreme Historian.

When Bree Warren goes out for a night on the town with her best friend, she never expects to run into the man she's dreamt of for the past 10 years. The nightmare has haunted her sleep for so long. The startled look of recognition in the stranger's eyes is even more unexpected. What happens next will throw these two people together in ways they never imagined.

Un cadavere, una ragazza scomparsa e una lama d'argento. Tutti gli indizi portano a una sola persona: me. Mi chiamo Evangeline e sono un ex-assassina che non vuole avere più niente a che fare con la malavita. Un editto di un Signore Demoniaco mi costringe però a tornare dall'uomo e dalla vita che ho lasciato. Ho solo sette giorni per dimostrare la mia innocenza. La mia unica certezza è che chiunque mi abbia incastrato morirà.

Based on a true love story, this adult romance introduces us to Emma Sorensen, an American woman and art curator, and Luc Stronheim, a Frenchman and industrialist, who fell deeply in love as teenagers in 1960 and were then inexplicably separated by their parents. When they meet again in Paris in 1982, they realize a happy future together will be impossible, until they solve the mystery surrounding a Rembrandt that links his father’s questionable Nazi past and her grandfather’s death in Auschwitz.

When a student at the University of Cambridge takes possession of a mysterious manuscript, he closes the door on his old life and opens up a dangerous secret that threatens to consume him. Armed with only his knowledge of Renaissance art, he embarks on a cat and mouse chase that takes him from the deserted precincts of his ancient university to the dim subterranean vaults beneath the Louvre.

A dead body. A missing daughter. A silver blade. All the clues point to one person: Me. My name is Evangeline, and I’m a retired assassin who wants nothing to do with the underworld. But an edict from a Demonic Lord forces me to return to the man and the life I left behind. I have seven days to prove my innocence. Whoever set me up is going to die.

Crushed by the betrayal of her husband and best friend, DCI Logan is forced to put her private life on hold while she investigates the remains of an unknown murder victim, buried 25 years earlier. With her new DC, Tristan Fry, who has joined the police force for all the wrong reasons, her enquiries soon lead her to Maggi Drew's door. Maggi, a scrub nurse, readily admits to burying the body along with her partner, Norah, a virtuoso oboist, and their best friend, Jonny, an A+E nurse, though she will not reveal the body's identity until Logan has heard her account of the murder.

Once upon a time, I fell for an Archangel’s trick. He bonded me to him for eternity. Then left me in Hell to survive alone. I’m no longer the woman I was before. I’m stronger. Faster. Harder. And lethal. It’s my turn to deliver justice where it’s due.

My name is Gwen, and I’m a succubus with a control problem. Except, I didn’t create this mess. And the only one who believes me is the ruling monarch who has spent the last two decades helping me master my sinful nature. Lord Zebulon. The dangerously sexy demonic king of North America.

A simple mission turns deadly as the daughter of death is kidnapped by an old enemy seeking revenge. Now it's up to me to find her and I will kill anyone who steps in my path. The son of chaos isn't playing. I'm armed, I'm pissed, and I want my Evangeline back. It's time for heaven and hell to meet the real archangel inside of me. Everyone will pay. Many will die. Silver will slay. And a new power will ascend from the Shadows....

Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker’s dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one - not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance - suspected the successful businessman, husband, and father they loved and thought they knew was a black man passing for white. In 1931, in the segregated South, marriage between whites and blacks is illegal. Maggie, now a criminal, faces jail. When Lance receives death threats to atone for his father’s betrayal, the family flees the US for a new life in Paris.

Tanto tempo fa venni ingannata da un Arcangelo. Mi legò a lui per l’eternità e poi mi lasciò all’Inferno a sopravvivere da sola. Non sono più la donna che ero una volta, sono più forte. Più veloce. Più dura. E letale. E sto venendo a prendere te, Arcangelo Ezra.

When a mysterious man orchestrates an attack on archaeologist Annja Creed and then offers her an assignment, Annja is baffled. But the mission is too intriguing for her to refuse. She must find an object that possesses a sacred and powerful secret offering atonement to anyone who uncovers it — or wreaking havoc on the world.

Il cadavere di un umano. Il marchio di un Succubo. Un decreto che rispedisce la colpevole all’Inferno. E la colpevole sono io. Mi chiamo Gwen, e sono un Succubo con problemi di autocontrollo. Ma non sono stata io a combinare questo casino. Adesso ho dodici giorni per dimostrare la mia innocenza. Nessun problema. Se non fosse per un piccolo dettaglio: i due sensuali demoni decisi a darmi una mano a scagionarmi. Lord Zebulon riesce a farmi venire voglia di buttarmi in ginocchio con una sola occhiata. E Zane di recente mi ha spezzato il cuore.

The year is 332 BC when two Celtic farmers born in present-day Switzerland fight alongside their friends against a neighboring tribe. In the aftermath, they are sold as slaves and sent to ancient Athens, where they are eventually conscripted into the military and included in a plan to steal a massive treasure from an Illyrian fortress. When finally returning to their homeland in the north, they encounter a phenomenon that changes the course of their lives and their involvement in the historical events to come.

🃏Capricious Provenance is an award winning Multi-System AP Audio Drama fusion set in an arcanepunk, partially homebrewed world of 5e's Eberron! After The Last War devastated Khorvaire - and their lives - fate follows four unlikely friends attempting to grapple with their own destinies as the fate of the world falls into a chaotic uncertainty. We’re an all queer & trans, majority BIPOC cast of tabletop creatives that bend the rules, change the lore, and break the game to tell a story of fighting tooth and nail against the way things are, and daring to hope for change.