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Echoes in the Stone, written by Joshua Bish. Some places do not need ghosts. The walls remember them. When freelance journalist Ellie Glass enters the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, she believes she’s chasing a forgotten chapter of West Virginia history, a trail of vanished patients, missing records, and whispered rumors buried beneath the stone. What she finds instead is something far older than the hospital’s crumbling halls… and far hungrier than the dead who never left. The deeper Ellie searches, the more the asylum changes around her. Corridors shift. Shadows breathe.

È l'anno fatidico 2001. A New York, Harvey Sonnenfeld, agente CIA messo un po' in disparte ma carico di esperienza, ha un'intuizione, una di quelle convinzioni tenaci che non si sa da dove vengano ma che possono essere più radicate di un ragionamento articolato: ci sarà un attentato. "New York conta un bel po' di milioni di abitanti, e nessuno può sapere esattamente quanti stanno preparando un attentato. Loro sono qui e io prima o poi li annuserò". Ingaggia allo scopo un gruppo di persone tanto assurdo quanto efficace.

“A stunner, exquisitely plotted and characterized, with Todd’s trademark meticulous backdrop of World War I-era England.”—Strand Magazine The Great War is still raging when Francesca Hatton’s adored grandfather dies on his estate in England’s isolated Exe Valley. She is his sole heir...

Part two in the brand new Roman pirate series by Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25, the Adriaticum. Pirate ships hunt merchantmen across the stormy waters of the vast seas. But their control of these waters is threatened by the actions of a callous Roman...

Set in the gritty, fog-drenched streets of 19th-century London, Beneath the Cobblestones is a gripping tale of resilience, sisterhood, and the fight against exploitation. The narrative masterfully weaves a story that blends historical realism with thrilling suspense, drawing readers into the harrowing world of Annabelle and Susan, two working-class sisters trying to survive in an unforgiving society.

In the heart of Shadow Gulch, Eli Stone, a blacksmith with a lawman's past, faces a crisis that strikes at the very foundation of what he believes. The discovery of silver has turned his once-peaceful home into a den of opportunists and decay. As Judge Harlan Beck's questionable justice system starts to show its true colors, Eli is drawn back into a life he thought he had left behind, compelled to defend the underdog against an ever-growing tide of injustice.

To save his father's waning gym business, Ethan takes a lucrative out-of-town job - way out of town, at a space resort orbiting Earth. Flying debris devastates the resort, leaving sole survivors Ethan and his friend Ascot exiled for eight years until they can aim an escape pod at their home planet. Back on Earth, they realize that years of living in artificial gravity have augmented their strength and senses. The US is now ruled by militaristic corporations, including Eden, Inc., creator of the cosmic resort.

1931 - Brock Stone returns from places unknown to claim an inheritance and unravel a mystery his grandfather left behind. Stone and his companions set off on an action-packed adventure where enemies lurk in the shadows and the past comes to life. Mysteries, thrills, monsters, and more in David Wood's classic-style adventure, Arena of Souls. Fans of Indiana Jones and Doc Savage will love Brock Stone!

It is the time of Jack the Ripper. The widowed Queen Victoria sits on the throne of England. The whole of London is on edge, wondering when or where Jack will kill next. The Palace, Parliament, and the press are demanding the police do more to find him. In another part of London, rough-around-the-edges war hero Metropolitan Detective Inspector Rudyard Bloodstone has his own serial killer to find. Interdepartmental rivalries, politics, and little evidence to go on hamper the investigation at every turn.

William “Billy” Quantrill is destined to become America’s most notorious outlaw. As the Civil War threatens to destroy the country from within, Billy - a schoolteacher turned gunslinger - is working for the Pony Express when he is lured into a gunfight over a gambling debt set up by a dangerous and crooked politician. Just when he was beginning to make a name for himself, Billy is thrust into a world of politics as a hired gun. While living the life of an outlaw, Billy is recruited by a powerful secret society with plans to change the way the country is run.