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What the sea takes for its own can never return… Portugal, 1750s. Cecilia Lamb knew being a sea captain's wife would mean a life of waiting and watching the horizon for her husband's ship. But John has been gone longer than any voyage should last. Everyone else has given up hope of his return. But she knows in her bones that he is not lost. Gone, but not lost. Barely able to tear her eyes from the shimmering sea, she feels drawn to the sun-baked...
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"Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs--a good house for children,...
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What happens when writers vacation together... And challenge each other to write ghost stories? On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change history and create the gothic genre. The result is three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Lord Byron's A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the...
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A young hiker is out one day and ventures upon the old Witch's house nestled in the darkest part of the forest. She is dead, but the house seems to call to the young man, who brazenly enters. Once inside, he finds an old book and begins reading as the story of the Witch unfolds before him. All she ever wanted was to love and be treated like the rest of the town. The animosity of the townspeople, however, changed her whole life and she was forced to...
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Ian Ashtons Großvater, Lord Ashton, liegt im Sterben. Seit dem Tod seiner Eltern ist Ian ihm sehr verbunden und wacht daher an seinem Sterbebett. Im Fieberwahn spricht Lord Ashton immer wieder von Ians vor Jahren im Moor verschollenen Schwester Celice. Zudem nimmt er Ian das Versprechen ab, das Gemälde im Treppenaufgang von Ashton Manor nie aus den Augen zu lassen.
Keine leichte Aufgabe für Ian, der das Bild seit Jahren meidet, denn die Augen...
6) Calling
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On a bus outside Vegas, a washed-up gambler meets a strange preacher As the bus rolls away from the Las Vegas strip, Timber Goodman screws his eyes shut and tries to keep his stomach from lurching. He came to Vegas in hopes of jump-starting his fading broadcasting career, but he leaves hung over and dead broke. Beside him sits a preacher in cowboy boots, whose only luggage is a Bible, a bottle of bourbon, and a razor-sharp bowie knife. This is Ezekiel...
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Tuala looks like you and me-human, that is-but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than her sweet seductive svelte self. She needs to be sated so she can earn her earthly upkeep as a sex worker in sweltering Kuala Lumpur. She must imbibe humans-whole, body and soul, all the blood and juices....
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Left without family and with financial resources, Mara Marsden learns she has inherited a property in Colorado Territory from an unknown benefactor. She travels west, not knowing someone or something is determined to keep her away from Trail's End. In searching for a storied treasure hidden in the ranch house, Mara discovers another, more precious and enduring treasure.
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Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American master The Complete Short Stories is the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabre-from the world-famous classics "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Cask of the Amontillado" to lesser-known masterpieces such as "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Devil in the Belfry." Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover...
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When George Smeaton inherits his Uncle Samuel's estate, he sees it as an opportunity to uproot his family and start anew. But as he settles into Cringlemire Hall, he realizes that something is not quite right. The servants are keeping secrets, his youngest child falls ill with a mysterious illness, and George himself disappears en route to a business trip in Edinburgh.
As the family grapples with these strange occurrences, they turn to Inspector...
12) Unreal City
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In the dark streets of 1920s London, private detective Christian Le Cozh is the only one foolish (or desperate) enough to take on the a bizarre case from a man who claims his dead wife still lives. But when a string of supernatural revelations lead him to the conclusion that the world is far more dangerous than he ever imagined, he's drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse that threatens to consume him. With the help of an Austrian professor and...
13) Broken glass
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, comes book two of the haunting saga of identical twin sisters tortured by their perfectionist mother--until one of them snaps. Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald are twin sisters who have been forced to be identical in every way by their domineering mother. She insists they wear the same clothes, eat the same food, get the same grades,...
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A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's life, and a wonderfully imaginative exploration of the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Europe, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the continent in ash and clouds. Amid the gloom of this "year without summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby boy William, and her stepsister Claire...
15) Grey Dog
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A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage
The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd - spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist - accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students,...
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"As identical twins, Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald have always done things in exactly the same way. Under their mother's guidance their every outfit, every meal, and every thought was identical. But now things are different. With Kaylee back at home after her sister's betrayal, her life has been turned inside out. Both her mother and Haylee are away and Kaylee's alone and more lost than ever. Her father suggests going to a new school where she can...
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The sign for the town reads:Traveler's Rest Here. Stop and Pass Time.The Depression hit Traveler's Rest hard.A wanderer stumbles into Traveler's Rest after an absence of many years. He doesn't remember much.But the townspeople remember him.They welcome him, reach out to him, ask him to stop and pass time.
18) Czar
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After a lifetime of being sheltered, I decided to study abroad in St. Petersburg to push myself out of my comfort zone. Dimitri definitely fits the bill. He's gorgeous, mysterious, and everything I never knew I wanted.I'm willing to give him my innocence, but he demands more. When it's time for me to return to America, he won't let me go. My lover becomes my captor. He wants all of me, even if that means pushing me to my breaking point. He won't stop...
19) Cowered
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Nobody bends forever. Dragged to hell,Compelled to comply,Ronnie Hudson struggles to fight in a system where she is bound to lose. She must find the strength to take on her sociopathic ex,There's no choice but to bring down his darkness,Tom might hold all the cards,But Ronnie has to win.She'll do anything to protect her child… Read all three books in the Cowered series, available for the first time in one discounted collection. Discover why so many...
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She's moved into a new house, trying to get over a breakup. The house is old. It smells old. Someone keeps walking back and forth, up and down the hallway. Sometimes they knock on her door. They won't go away, no matter how many times she asks them to leave. This someone looks familiar. In fact, this someone may know something about her past, something she doesn't want anyone to know, something she doesn't want to face.
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