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Retired Guild Artemis Inquisitor Georgia Drake, with help from her Hades mastiff, Benjamin, is asked to investigate the death of a wealthy local patriarch on her new home, Whitewitch Island. While his normal human family insists he died from natural causes, her friend, medical examiner and necromancer, Dr. Mavis Fernsby, seems to think he's been murdered. And with his wife, a fellow paranormal hiding among mortals, begging for answers, how can Georgia say no? What's more interesting, however?

Lies filled with half-truths—especially when you want to believe them—are the easiest to believe. After her husband's murder, Riley Bishop is working to put the pieces of her life back together, but there is one lie she never imagined being true. It's going to take everything in her to survive what happens next.

Embalmer's assistant Imogene Lynch may or may not get the final sensations of the dead when she touches their hair. She used to, but something strange is going on. Her sixth sense disappears when the body of a local treasure hunter shows up at Greener Pastures Mortuary. But that doesn't keep her from becoming embroiled in two bone-chilling mysteries. Her boss's lover is awol, and a tipsy ghost is giving her the hiccups. Someone's obviously been murdered. She dearly hopes it's not the missing woman.

Bethany Parker finally feels at home. With a found family of fellow supernatural outcasts, the fifty-year-old divorcée starts to believe she can make peace with her past. But when the vampire she freed receives a visit from his former partner-in-crime, she discovers she's not the only one running from trouble. Threatened with death by the new arrival unless she retrieves a magical artifact, Bethany plots to thwart the bloodsucker's trap. But even with the help of her level-headed medium friend and loyal talking cat, the recently awakened mystic fears she won't master her powers in time.

Ashley Branson is sure of one thing after experiencing a disastrous blind date—she would much rather enjoy the single life and hang out with playful felines at her studio, A Purrfect Pose, than ever compromise her inner peace like that again. When the mysterious guy makes a late arrival then has the nerve to dine and dash, it's embarrassing. But when he winds up dead in his apartment that same night? Ash suddenly finds herself thrust into a twisted murder investigation and questioning if she might be shaping up to be the suspect . . . or the next victim.

Investigating a noise in the attic of her historic home, Maggie Holliday encounters a handsome man in a Civil War uniform. He calls her "Isabel", seduces her in ways the shy academic had never dreamed of, then literally vanishes. With every fleeting visit, Maggie's mysterious lover, Ethan, takes her closer to the edge of ecstasy and madness. Is he really a ghost? Far from chilling her, his touch is incendiary; it all feels so real and so very, very good. And so very familiar.

Determined to make his ranch profitable, bitter rancher Eben MacCallister, desperately in need of money, is shocked to discover that the fortune he inherited from his late sister is actually four mischievous children who, along with his ex-girlfriend Maggie, teach him about love and family.

Ryan is the only human male in the Ouachita shifter clan, but that hasn’t stopped him from making a home among them. They’re family, and human or not, he’s one of them. For four years, he’s had his heart set on a certain sassy, foul-mouthed cougar shifter to spend the rest of his life with. Except she’s made it clear she won’t take a mate, and definitely not a human. For the first time, he feels the weight of being different, and there’s nothing to do but leave the mountains behind… along with his shattered heart.

Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the city centre. This northern city has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre, bristling with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre the Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a place where you can get anything and see anything - a place teeming with life. The market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural and magnificent.

Nach einem Streit mit ihrer Freundin beschließt Lilith, mit dem Hund eine Runde um den Block zu gehen, um den Kopf wieder klar zu bekommen. Doch als sie nach nur 30 Minuten nach Hause zurückkehrt, ist nichts mehr wie es war. Weder der Name ihrer Freundin findet sich noch an der Wohnungsklingel, noch passt Liliths Schlüssel in das Schloss. Als ihr dann auch noch eine fremde Frau die Tür öffnet und ihr erzählt, dass hier nie eine Frau namens Xena gewohnt hat, ist Lilith kurz davor, durchzudrehen und zu glauben, dass sie diejenige ist, die sich alles nur eingebildet hat.

Plongez dans un monde où la différence est célébrée, où l'incroyable devient la norme et où chaque histoire est un pas vers l'acceptation de soi. Ce pack contient les histoires :. -Adam et le fabuleux cirque Von Trapèze de Ziga X Gombac et Maja Kastelic. -Les incroyables ou les enfants les plus étonnants que j'ai croisés de Clotilde Perrin. -Les gens normaux de Mickaël Escoffier et Laure Monloubou. -Biglouche d'Alyssa et Myrha Verbizh. -La petite dragonne qui ne savait pas cracher du feu de Gemma Merimo.

Plongez dans l'univers magique des doudous et leurs aventures pleines de fantaisie ! Découvrez Pacha l'ours coloré, le sauvetage de Berk le canard ou la quête de bisous de la petite princesse. Ce pack contient les histoires :. -Un ours pas comme les autres de Grégoire Solotareff. -Le bain de berk de Julien Béziat. -La nuit de Berk de Julien Béziat. -Le doudou de la reine des bisous de Kristien Aertssen. -C'est beaucoup de soucis d'élever un doudou de Gwendoline Raisson et Ilheim Abdel-Jelil.

From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. “Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the...

Denise wants to help women unlock the power of adaptability. She wants to show you how to be your own life-coach and how to meet the demands of the different roles we take on in life. With her guidance and utilising the seven lessons she has taken from her time on and off the track, she hopes women can reach their full potential, develop tools to pick themselves up and own their multifaceted identities at work and beyond.

Zweiter Teil der Krimi-Reihe um Kommissarin Vivien Stein. Mit viel ostfriesischem Charme, spannenden Charakteren und einer Prise Humor. Der malerische Hafen in Greetsiel birgt eine unangenehme Überraschung: Die Leiche eines wohlhabenden Anwohners wird aus dem Wasser geborgen. Vivien Stein und Tamme Martens erfahren schnell, dass das Opfer im Ort sehr unbeliebt war. Niemand scheint um ihn zu trauern. Bei ihren Befragungen stoßen Vivien Stein und Tamme Martens nicht nur auf verschlossene Türen und schweigsame Zeugen, sondern auch auf seltsame Gerüchte.

A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of...

Nominiert für das beste Buch beim Selfpublishing-Buchpreis 2023/24! Und so zog die Schöne aus, das Biest zu erschlagen... Sechzehn Jahre hat Jade Labelle auf den Tag gewartet, an dem sie offiziell in die Gilde der Monsterjägerinnen aufgenommen wird. Als sie den Auftrag erhält, eine Bestie auf einem verlassenen Adelsgrundstück zu töten, scheint ihr Ziel endlich in Reichweite. Auf dem alten Beauprince-Anwesen wartet allerdings kein Ungeheuer auf sie, sondern eine verängstigte junge Frau namens Louise.

Tough, gorgeous soldier of fortune Reilly (Whatever his other name is) promised his best friend he’d take care of his wife and baby, bringing them out of the war-torn South American country they were stuck in. He was expecting a spoiled, glamorous socialite, not a quiet, stubborn girl devoted to the tiny infant.

Le destin hors du commun de Sonia Pierre, fille de coupeurs de canne, qui fit de sa vie un combat pour les droits humains. République dominicaine, 1963. Sonia Pierre voit le jour à Lechería, dans un batey, un campement de coupeurs de canne à sucre. Consciente du traitement inhumain réservé à ces travailleurs, elle organise, à treize ans seulement, une grève pour faire valoir leurs droits. Une des rares habitantes du batey à suivre des études, elle devient avocate et consacrera sa vie tout entière à combattre l'injustice jusqu'à sa mort tragique.

All of Gemma's dreams come true when she's asked to step into the role of Puddleducks Playgroup leader. She knows the place better than anyone and is determined to prove she's the right person for the job. Nothing is going to spoil this opportunity for her... Until she meets Joe Balls, the newly appointed head of reception at the neighbouring infant school. An ex-banker more comfortable with numbers than nursery rhymes, Joe has this annoying habit of interfering with Gemma and her plans for the playgroup.