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The oldest bonds are the hardest severed. When Fabio’s aunt Lucretia flexes her match-making muscles, he seeks escape from a marriage to shy, bored Adriane. Luckily, his friend Petros needs help investigating a possible rebellion in Vademlutra. All Fabio has to do is pretend to be poor and keep his wits about him. Certain there’s nothing to investigate, Fabio settles down for a week in the tavern until a lost young woman in the woods captivates him. Where is she from and why is she so keen to die?

When a string of gruesome modern-day murders sparks chilling echoes of the Whitechapel killings of 1888, profiler Jonah Merrin begins to see a pattern far older—and far darker—than anyone suspects. Victims are found drained of blood, mutilated not in haste but in contempt. No motive. No remorse. Only a presence that moves through shadow, feeding not on need… but on belief. A creature who sees humanity not as prey, but as proof of its own superiority.

In 1920s Fredericksburg, Virginia, young country boy Middy Grove sets out on his own, working at a pickle factory and searching for a place for himself in a constantly changing town uncertain of its identity. One day Middy finds himself drawn to a mysterious city girl with bobbed hair and eyes that seem to shine in the darkness from under her brimmed hat. Like she's some angel fallen from Heaven, he never seems to fully draw her attention, though she always leaves him with the strange phrase "You're too good for me."

Londen, begin 1914: zijn naam is Feliks. Hij is naar Londen gekomen om een moord te plegen die de loop van de geschiedenis voorgoed zal veranderen. Feliks is een meester in het manipuleren, en heeft vele andere wapens tot zijn beschikking. Maar zijn tegenstanders zijn de voltallige Engelse politie, een briljante en invloedrijke lord, en de jonge Winston Churchill zelf. Tegen zo'n overmacht is niemand opgewassen – behalve de man van St. Petersburg.

Ben, an engineer, was sitting in Our Bar when he heard the horrific news of the train crash. He ran out of the bar, with his best friend Mark following him, and learns that his girlfriend, Christy, is permanently blinded by the explosion from the crash. He vows to take care of her, but Christy doesn't want him to. She sinks into a depression, and ends up taking her life. Earlier that same day, Ben discovered a new surgery to restore eyesight. He rushes home to tell Christy, only to find her dead by overdose of sleeping pills.