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My name is Emma. That was the name I was given on the first day I remember. The forty years before that remain secret. My only clue to life before the Pages & Potions bookshop is the scar from a botched C-section. It is probably better that my past remains a mystery. Still, I crave answers. Who hurt me? Are people searching for me? What happened to the baby I was carrying? And why can I see the ghost of the customer who died last week?

Brought to you by Penguin. A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice...

Combining corporate culture, the start-up scene, cabin life, and punny coffee drinks, Firebrand takes a campy, loving look at impostor syndrome, authenticity, and the absurdities of the corporate world.

It is 1795. As war spreads across the globe, Harry Ludlow joins the struggle for the richest trade in the world. When half his crew is illegally pressed into the Royal Navy by the vicious Captain Toner, Harry sets off in pursuit. Toner's ship reaches the West Indies with Harry close behind, and they sail into a maelstrom of piracy, corruption, and murder, stirred up by a French privateer. Soon, the British officer in charge of the station calls upon each man to help as best he can.

Even those closest to Ricky Crowe have no idea what she has suffered. The humiliating violations. The betrayals. Her sister’s murder. All have left crippling scars that will never heal. And only the Egyptian mystic, Luja Issa, knows that Ricky’s sacrifices saved the world. Her reward? More chaos. Ricky is now on the run, forced to leave behind forever her few friends, the tatters of a broken life, and a man she might love. Sinister groups pursue her, convinced she has the power to control the five ancient elements: earth, air, fire, water, and akash —the magical essence of all things!

The Book of Invasions is a globe-spanning adventure, a romp through history and mythology, a grudging love story, and an all-in battle against an evil hidden in plain sight. The world is stunned by the inexplicable murder of a dozen climate scientists at a remote research station in Greenland.

It’s been a hard year for Steve and Katie Nicholas. They fought vengeful ghosts as well as psychotic living relatives, and that was just their first year of marriage. But when Steve surprises Katie with a peaceful Christmas getaway at a secluded cabin in the mountains they awaken slumbering spirits with unfinished business. Tying together seemingly unrelated supernatural threads Steve fears his picture-perfect vacation will be shattered and his peace dashed.

During a late-night storm, the abrupt arrival of a distraught client on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street forces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to investigate a case that will lead them through the most sinister streets and alleys of London, confronting dangerous and vicious criminals along the way. The consulting detective and his companion are put to the test when a young woman is found brutally murdered in her lodgings. Scotland Yard is at a loss, and time is running out for the two protagonists, with scant evidence and a growing list of suspects.

Everly Gray and Tynan Pierce, her sexy, secretive husband, take on projects no one else wants to deal with. Known as the TaP (Touch and Persuade) Team, they combine the best in extrasensory perception and tactical ability. And then they accept the Lecoq contract. It should have been a slam-dunk. A straightforward assignment to expose the truth behind a manufacturing company's government contract, and it offered a perfect opportunity for Everly to practice her undercover skills.

After completing the biggest case of his career, private detective Hank DeShear returns home to start treatment for a disabling genetic condition that could end his life, but he learns his partner on the prior case has just been murdered. Was he wrong to conclude the secretive killer known as The Greyhound had declared a truce? Or, have disciples of The Greyhound surfaced to carry on with the murders?

In An Element of Peril, the 10th Peter Sharp legal mystery, Peter faces a unique triple task: First, he must defend a domestic servant who has been charged with the chainsaw-killing of her boss; second, if he can get the servant acquitted, he must then defend the insurance company from being forced to pay a five-million-dollar life insurance policy on the boss's life by proving that she was not murdered and is still alive; and third, he must discover how the alleged corpse of the servant's boss disappeared.

Steve Nicholas knows some things are worse than death. But he’s about to discover that the only thing worse than being buried alive is being buried alive with the restless dead. As Steve and his friend, Trent, search for his missing wife, they are taken captive by his psychotic brother-in-law and thrust into a secluded and haunted mining operation in the mountains.

Katie has left. Trent is missing. Steve Nicholas is alone now more than ever. But, the worst of it is still to come: During his search for his missing friend, Steve is led to a small Oklahoma town where a spree of murders has the people shaken and short on trust for strangers. What's more, dark supernatural forces appear to be behind the recent killings, as well as some very old ones. Will Steve uncover the killer spirit in time to save his friend....and himself? Start listening!

When two prison guards are found beheaded in the barren countryside surrounding Her Majesty's Prison at Wormwood Scrubs, Inspector Lestrade seeks Holmes' singular powers to determine how the murders could have been committed in separate locations with the only footprints being those of the murdered guards themselves. With Doctor Watson at his side, Holmes sets out on this new adventure and uncovers deeper mysteries still.

In the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Caribbean Sea, there are waters of legend. Three points serve as the boundaries of these waters - the southern tip of Florida, the island of Puerto Rico, and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda. This is the Bermuda Triangle. Throughout history, many ships and planes have mysteriously gone missing in these cursed tides. What dark thing resides there? One year after the events of A Ghost of Fire, newly married Steve and Katie Nicholas are about to find out the answer to one of the ocean's darkest mysteries. But will they make it out together?

A mummified body, crimes from the ‘30’s, ‘80’s and present day, a Native American forensic specialist with the FBI and the women who can lead him to the body as well as the solution to the crimes of the past and present. Bullets and a blizzard drive Kam and David together, is that enough along with some shared heritage? What is Kam hiding that could drive her away from Riverview and the new man in her life? What has Megan survived that causes her nightmares? Who is trying to stop the investigation and why? All questions answered in this novel. Riverview, a ranching town where your neighbors are your friends and stand behind you when you need them. Rugged country to test all those who enter it away from the safety of town.