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In the tradition of her acclaimed fairy-tale-inspired novel, The Serpent's Shadow, best-selling author Mercedes Lackey re-imagines Sleeping Beauty-as a dark and enchanting Edwardian fantasy.Marina is the cherished daughter of the wealthy Roeswood family, practioners of Elemental Magic. But evil portents have warned her parents that Marina will be killed before her 18th birthday-by the hand of her own aunt.

As he struggles to fight the gangsters at large, he is also trying to sustain an ordinary life. At least, as ordinary as it can get when you're a vampire... Death hasn't ended Jack Fleming's problems. His girlfriend, Bobbi, has caught the attention of a famous radio star, who promises to open doors for the lovely singer - including the one to his bedroom.

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby. "[Narrator Greg D. Barnett's] incisive performance enhances [Nghi] Vo's lush, lyrical prose and the novel's surreal...

El Coronel Abernathy ex miembro de las Fuerzas Armadas de Su Majestad se retiró a su residencia de soltero en Londres muchos años atrás. Es miembro del Club de Caballeros de Londres y es en una tarde de lluvia que comparte con un miembro del club, una anécdota de su tiempo en la armada, cuando estaba en la entonces Guyana Británica, en América del Sur. Ahí se encontró con a historia del León, un animal extraordinario extinto hace miles de años.