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Jason Sterling had a simple life by all accounts. He had worked the same job his entire adult life, he had never married, and he had no children. He was used to doing things on his own. His comfortable life was shaken to the core the day he learned of his fathers death. It was a mysterious meeting that set life-altering events in motion, and the allure of a new life was too great to walk away from. When an electromagnetic pulse brings the modern world to its knees, Jason's choice proves to be the right one.

Captain Decker Donald is perfectly content in his isolated misery, until he receives news that his friend and former colleague has vanished. Decker intends to get to the bottom of his friend’s disappearance, and more importantly, keep the light on. Harriet was looking forward to being posted alongside her father, but he was gone before she arrived, and there is something wrong in the tower. Stenner Braunn commands the Daylight Crew. Their ship is headed east, with nothing but ancient ruins to guide their way.

In a world ravaged by the devastating arrival of the squid, status and age no longer matter. Everyone fought, and the war was still lost. Burke, a veteran of the squid invasion, is facing a new enemy: age. All he wants is to get through the remainder of his days without any trouble, but the world is unforgiving and peace is a distant memory.

Cyan. One second, I’m battling an overgrown hedge with a pair of clippers. The next, I’m running for my life, positive I’ve stumbled onto a prank reality show set, complete with a towering, red-haired guy in costume who throws me over his shoulder like I weigh nothing - I’m a big girl, never been thin. Kinre. Horde life is simple. Hunt the enemy, kill the enemy. Then I make a big mistake. Huge. I rescue a helpless human, only to discover this curvy, tempting morsel is an Omega about to send me into a rut.

I know they’re delivering breeders to my luxurious apartment - excuse me, cage - to entice me to choose a mate. What I don’t know is why. The joke’s on them though. My mate comes, unseen, to clean my quarters twice a week. But tonight, she’s waiting for me in my bedroom, tempting me in all her red-headed, defiant glory. Great Mother Beast help me, I want to claim her. Free her. Avenge her. But she serves the man who enslaved me, and I don’t know what they want from the pair of us. If I mate her, they win. If I don’t mate her, I lose my mind.

Chris Roark just got a new job. He fell in love, got married, moved to a new town, and bought a historic home overlooking Paducah Indiana. College was always a breeze for him, life was always easy, and now it was time to sit back and enjoy the American dream. If only life were that simple. His work more sinister than he imagined. His new wive's only son, Brian, is unsettling. The whole town is under a cloud of gathering darkness, the perfect storm is brewing.

Fourteen days after a coordinated attack on the 4th of July decimated the electrical grid, triggered earthquakes, and sent monstrous tsunamis inland, a father and daughter must escape Oregon and journey to safety. However, with no power, communication lines down, and thousands of miles from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jackson and Zoe’s hope of being united with family means navigating a hostile country and facing off against the worst of society.

Kidnapped and taken from her home, Sienna is stuck in a beast community without the resources to find her way back. But she’s a survivor. Just like the wounded, bone-thin beast she finds in the desert. Torrent was warned never to steal a human woman - especially if she’s his pair. He didn’t listen. Captured, beaten, starved by Men of Earth, he’s as near to death as he can get without tipping into the void.

Is she a pretty spy, or a seductive assassin who’ll murder him in his bed? With nothing to show for his efforts to find Men of Earth - which will win him New City for his people - Mayhem switches tactics. He holds pair auctions, confident the enemy will jump at the chance to slip a spy in among the throng of hopefuls. It’s a sound strategy, but he’s bored as hell. He’s a hunter, doesn’t wait for prey to come to him. Then he spots a supple, grey-eyed woman in the latest batch of eager females. When their eyes meet, every hunting instinct in his body goes on alert.

Wer war Jack the Ripper wirklich? Dieser unvorstellbar grausame Serienmörder? Autor Jan Gaspard hat eine verwegene Theorie, die einen der prominentesten Vertreter des viktorianischen Zeitalters der Tat zweifelsfrei überführt. Im Gespräch mit den Protagonisten seiner Hörspiel-Serie "Offenbarung 23" zeichnet Gaspard ein vollständiges Bild des perfiden Killers. Alles passt: Motiv, Gelegenheit, psychologisches Profil - selbst das offizielle Phantombild und ein Schriften-Vergleich mit dem Ripper-Brief "From Hell" stimmen perfekt überein.

A young girl discovers that her life is not what she thought it was.