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Eric Chistiansennot his real namehas been looking for sanctuary for a long time. He finally thinks hes found a crime syndicate that might watch his back while he tries to disentangle himself from his highly lucrative, highly illegal job as a killer for hire, albeit a picky one. Hes ready to hang up his guns for some peace.Brady Carnegie came to this little slice of desert between Meth and Hell because he wanted to help bring crime down. Hes deeply disappointed to find that his new boss and others in the department are crooked. But Brady has stumbled onto the key to ending the corruption plaguing the stretch of desert hes coming to love, if he can stay alive long enough to use it.Brady finds unexpected allies in the same unlikely group thats sheltering Eric and starts to realize that the good guys may not wear badges, and the bad guys who do have enough to lose to put his new friends at risk too. Bradys always been a solid law and order man, but he finds himself shifting allegiances like the desert sands shift beneath his feet.As Eric grows more protective of the earnest deputy, it becomes clear that a true warrior never gets to hang up his guns, and redemption doesnt come without a price. Can a hidden nest of vigilantes bring justice to their barren land while the cop and the hitman find comfort in each others arms? Or is the cost of redemption only measured in blood?

A thrilling story of a sibling bond tested by religious and ideological conflict. The final novel in a trilogy from the iconic Assassins Creed universe.Dive into the Inquisition and witch hunts in Renaissance France with Assassins Creed!1609. The Inquisition is raging across Europe, massacring thousands of men and women on charges of witchcraft. Raised in the Landes region of France, Margaux and Ermeline, 16 and 17 years old, are initiated by their adoptive mother Catherine into the practices of healing. While her younger sister flourishes in this simple life, Ermeline dreams of something more, of settling in town, far from the forests of south-west France.This peaceful life comes to an end when Catherine, denounced for witchcraft by a patient, is taken to Bayonne with her eldest daughter by Pierre de Lancre, a master inquisitor and Templar in search of an ancient artefact. The two girls witness their mother being burned at the stake: Ermeline as a hostage of the Templars, Margaux watching from hiding. Distraught, Margaux is taken in by Nicodemus, an Assassin close to Catherine, who will train her in the Creed, while the anger of the French people ferments against the Inquisition.Separated, the two sisters must mourn their happy youth, but also decide which path to take and which destiny to join. Assassin or Templar? The path of blood, or the path of the heart?

Ella buscaba calma, pero encontró una historia que no podrá olvidar.Un anillo perdido. Un pasado enterrado en una comunidad de vecinos. Un misterio irresistible.Cuando Koldo, una joven embarazada de alto riesgo, se muda a una antigua colonia escondida en el corazon de Madrid, espera tranquilidad. Pero el reposo forzoso pronto se ve truncado. En el patio de su nuevo hogar descubre los ecos de una tragedia olvidada: la violenta muerte de Pascual Silva, un carismatico heredero de una editorial, y la desaparicion de su prometida, junto con un misterioso anillo que nunca volvio a aparecer.Intrigada por la historia y por los silencios de sus nuevos vecinos, Koldo comenzara a indagar entre recuerdos, viejas cartas y secretos que el tiempo creia haber sepultado. Lo que empieza como una distraccion se convierte en una obsesion que la llevara a descubrir que algunos misterios no solo habitan en el pasado sino tambien en quienes los investigan.Con una atmosfera envolvente, personajes llenos de matices y una escritura elegante, Leticia Echavarri firma una novela que combina intriga, memoria y emociones profundas.Ayer en mi patio es una historia sobre lo que permanece oculto, sobre las heridas que dejan los secretos y sobre como el pasado, tarde o temprano, siempre llama a la puerta.

The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. Shed spent 40 years as a field agent. Shed been skilled, resourceful, dedicated everything that makes a good agent, but shed rubbed too many of her bosses the wrong way. They jumped on a botched op as an excuse to fire her. Now in her 70s, waiting in a doctors office, she reads a magazine article that startles her out of retirement. The story casts doubt on everything she believed about her first and happiest posting in Hayalistan, one of the old Soviet republics. Lilys angry, and she decides to find out what really happened when she was stationed there. As word of her investigation gets back to the CIA, the Company knows they must silence her. But Lilys aging body cant perform the feats it managed in her 40s and 50s, and escaping their attempts on her life will test her physical and mental skills at a whole new level.

In the glittering city of Port Astor, where fae roads criss-cross human highways and ghosts whisper to the living, nothing is ever as it seems.From Sunburst Award-winning author A. C. Wise, this utterly original dark fantasy tale of faith and fanaticism, doomed love and desperate bargains is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Ava Reid.Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation and Port Astor decided to forget.Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astors wraiths and spectres from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancee in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.While investigating the glamorous and notoriously haunted Peony Hotel, Brix and Belle come across a young couple tangled up in one of the citys most infamous tales. Jimmy Valentine, silver screen idol and one-time favorite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realize his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen wont give up her kingdom so easily.

The Barrowland Ballroom voted best music venue in the UK by musicians and artists (Time Out) has been a cornerstone of Glasgows live music scene for decades, embodying the citys identity and spirit.In Barrowland: the inside story of Glasgows beloved ballroom, Alison Irvine immerses readers in the tales of the individuals behind this iconic venue, from memorable gigs to backstage moments. Its a must-read for music lovers and anyone who treasures Glasgows magic!

Um advogado nova-iorquino de meados do século XIX resolve contratar um novo copista. Atendendo ao anúncio do advogado, apresenta-se à porta de seu escritório um jovem que ele caracteriza como uma fig

1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians are close to creating an atomic bomb.Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ is sent to Scotland, to a listening station in the Highlands at Kilbray. Beatties arrival is greeted with suspicion by the stations staff. She faces an uphill battle to turn things around. When Beattie discovers that her uncle Howard, who lives nearby, has gone missing, she becomes convinced his disappearance is more sinister. She learns Howard has been visiting a remote Highland lodge used during the war to hide out of favour special operation executive officers. As she delves deeper, there is no one she feels she can trust except for private detective Patrick Corrigan. But Corrigan has troubles of his own as he needs to get out of London after crossing the Kutsnetsov brothers, a pair of notorious Russian gangsters.As the snow begins to fall hard and fast, Beattie realises the search is putting her life and that of Corrigans in danger, and that the answers she is looking for lie buried in her wartime past.

¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la investigación de un crimen?Él solo quería hacer reír. Ella solo quería justicia. Lo que no sabían es que juntos podían incendiar el país.Bécquer es la estrella más famosa de la television. Elena Izaguirre, inspectora de policia e hija de un agente asesinado hace veinte años, lleva toda su vida buscando respuestas que nadie quiere darle.Cuando una tragedia irrumpe en la vida de Becquer, sus caminos se cruzan. Lo que comienza como una alianza improbable entre una estrella mediatica y una policia curtida acaba destapando la verdad detras del crimen que cambio a Elena para siempre.Entre ataques encubiertos, traiciones internas, viajes internacionales y un romance tan inevitable como peligroso, Becquer y Elena se enfrentan al mayor poder del pais: una red de corrupcion que opera en las sombras... y cuyo brazo llega hasta la mismisima embajada española en Paris. Ahora, con su propia vida en juego, solo una cosa esta clara: el humor puede ser un arma... pero la verdad es una bomba.Un thriller frenetico, emocional y adictivo, donde la estrella mas famosa del pais y una inspectora marcada por la tragedia unen fuerzas para desmantelar una red de corrupcion que llega hasta el corazon del Estado.

Exquisite and unputdownable. RACHEL JOYCETenacious and tender . . . a modern tale of love blossoming in unlikely circumstances. AUBE RAY LESCUREPowerful and meditative . . . this will stay with me for years to come. CRYSTAL HANA KIMThis is a love story of two people working side by side but living worlds apart.Miras days are filled with duty and light on freedom. In a new country, living with a husband she barely knows - and who she fears shell never love - Mira is desperate to discover all that her new life in England might offer.And then theres Tahliil. The quiet, beautiful man she sees at work each day. With a depth in his eyes and a face full of questions. The first person in this new world who listens to Miras hopes for who she yearns to become.But beyond their lunchtime encounters, the pair couldnt lead more different lives: the duties that bind them, the homes they are trying to build threaten to subsume them. As Mira and Tahliil navigate the deep and turbulent waters of their new worlds can they find a way to be together, and will finding each other set them free?

Hes back! In this second travel memoir, The Man Without a Plan lands in Belize, a country about which he knows nada. But he quickly amasses an array of new friends some of whom can even match his penchant for being in a near-constant buzz from industrial-quantity drugs and drink.As ever, the characters with whom Steven ingratiates himself become his surrogate (dysfunctional) family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of kids led by the feral Molokai soon have Steven suspecting that his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, ensnaring him in a web of scams. Will he be left for broke, stranded in this shabby paradise? Is his paranoia justifiable, or the result of continuous cocaine use? His response is to embark with the gang on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail.Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully uninformed, Froelich is nevertheless observant and interested. Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where theyre from or where theyre headed.

A dark love that is not allowed to be - D.C. Odesza tells the story of a forbidden passionNuria has been pursued by a stranger for months. To escape the stalker, she leaves her home in Spain and flees to Australia, where she works as an au pair. But more secrets await her there: The familys daughter has disappeared and Zain, the eldest son, seems to know more about it than he is letting on. His dark charisma annoys Nuria enormously, and yet she is drawn to him. A fatal desire, because suddenly her stalker is once again lurking in the shadows of her room at night to protect her from Zain of all people ...The first in the dark romance series by bestselling author D.C. OdeszaD.C. Odesza is the pseudonym of a young German bestselling author. Since completing her studies in German and History, she has been writing thrilling novels that are characterized by deep emotions and sensuality.

Dark games and forbidden desiresNuria wants to continue to live out her passion for the mysterious stalker who has followed her to Australia and appears in her room at night. His nocturnal visits become a beloved taboo full of temptation for Nuria. But then a dark figure from her past reappears and wants to win Nuria over. She is torn between the two men, one more dangerous than the other and both enemies to the core. Nuria must decide who she will give herself to and trust.The second volume in the dark romance series by bestselling author D.C. OdeszaD.C. Odesza is the pseudonym of a young German bestselling author. Since completing her studies in German and History, she has been writing thrilling novels that are characterized by deep emotions and sensuality.

Deep in the folklore of Tallinor lies a dark legend: the story of a powerful sentient who almost destroyed the entire land.Now, centuries later, any sentient who is discovered is executed. But in a village far from the royal city, a young scribe, Torkyn Gynt, blazes with undetected power and healing abilities. To fulfil his destiny, Tor must leave his home and his love, Alyssa to become apprentice to the royal physic.Guided by a falcon and a mysterious woman who appears to him in his dreams, Tor embarks on a journey that will test his courage and his heart.A journey that can only end in triumph or betrayal.

The world is counting down to the millennium and to disaster. When a childs body is found on a remote island east of London, journalist Jonny Murphy is sent to investigate. What he uncovers is more than a tragedy. Its a warning. Something catastrophic is coming and Jonny might be the only one who can stop it.A propulsive, atmospheric thriller that ratchets up the tension with every pageTM LoganA powerhouse writerJo SpainCleverly layered and beautifully atmospheric Sarah Sultoon has become an auto-buy author for meKia AbdullahThe clock ticks down towards a fantastic payoff Abandoned islands, thrilling chases, investigative journalists what more could you want?Holly WattThey feared the machines. They should have feared the peopleLondon, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But fifty miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A childs body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him.At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects. An anonymous call led officers to the scene, but no one knows who made it. While the world fixates on a digital apocalypse, Jonny sees the real disaster unfolding closer to home. With just twenty-hour hours before the century turns, he heads to Blackwater driven by curiosity, desperation, and the sting of rejection from his colleague Paloma.But Blackwater has secrets buried deep in the frozen ground. More victims some dead, others still paying for past sins. And when Paloma catches up to him, they stumble onto something far bigger than either of them imagined. Something that could change everything. The millennium is coming. The clock is ticking. Can Jonny stop it? Should he?And what if Y2K wasnt a hoax, but a warning?Propulsive characters and a simmering mystery explode into a race against time it had me grippedRod ReynoldsAtmospheric, tense and all the more shocking for mirroring real state crimesEve SmithAuthenticity that demands your attentionWill CarverA distinctively chilling roller-coasterPeter Hain Readers who love mysteries, bleak landscapes and a lingering sense of dread will enjoy this, and the authors notes may haunt youMature TimesA thrilling, tightly plotted, and important readMichael J MalonePraise for Sarah Sultoon**Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger****WINNER of the Crime Fiction Lover Debut Thriller Award**A first-class political thrillerSteve CavanaghA bitingly sharp, pacy thriller. Devilishly good. I inhaled itFreya BerryA brave and thought-provoking debut novelAdam HamdyA taut and thought-provoking book thats all the more unnerving for how much it echoes the headlines in real lifeCultureFlyA tense thriller, a remarkable debut, heartbreaking, but ultimately this is a story of resilience and survivalNB...

General Wyl Thirsk of Morgravia has endured unimaginable loss at the hands of King Celimus - his best friend murdered, his sister imprisoned, and his mentor condemned to death. Now, Celimus has set his sights on the neighbouring realm of Briavel and its inexperienced Queen Valentyna, pressuring her into a doomed political marriage.Wyl is desperate to save the woman he loves from this hideous fate, but destiny intervenes. Trapped by a gift from the witch, Myrren, Wyl must embark on a perilous journey to find the elusive Manwitch, the only one capable of breaking the dangerous enchantment over him.As war looms from all directions, Wyls quest becomes terrifyingly woven into the future of three realms - and he must confront his destiny to protect everything he holds dear.

An official prequel novel to World of Warcraft: MidnightArator the Redeemer was born to heroism. The son of High Exarch Turalyon and the legendary Alleria Windrunner, Arator has long borne the weight and expectations of their legacy. . . a legacy he inherited as a babe, the day his parents disappeared through the Dark Portal.Alleria and Turalyons journey took them farther afield than theyd intended. While their absence spanned mere decades on Azeroth, the heroes experienced a thousand years at war against the Burning Legiona demonic army seeking the destruction of all worlds. When at last they reunited with their son, Arator was a man grown, pledged to the very order of paladins for which they had once fought. The Legion fell quickly in a decisive final battle, yet the millennium of distance between the family was less easily conquered.Now, on the other side of recent events in Khaz Algar, Arator embarks on a new journey, investigating rumors of a strange glow emanating from the ruins of a long-abandoned Legion base. Turalyon and Alleria volunteer to assist, eager to eliminate their ancient enemy before it can threaten their world anew. As the family delves further into the mystery, Arator works to reconcile his parents heroic legacy with the flawed people he has come to know. He sees both of his parents in himself: his fathers high standards, his mothers intellect, their unwavering commitment to the defense of Azeroth. But Arator exists at the conflux of their greatest strengths and weaknessesweaknesses that are revealed as the demonic threat proves to be a former lieutenant of the Burning Legion, intent on using Azeroth to launch a new campaign of destruction.

A chilling supernatural revenge novella from the acclaimed author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. Perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Delilah S. Dawson. At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and thats it. No friends, no family. When hes done with work, he returns homea remote, single room apartment located above a garageand that is where his true work begins.Winston Kemper is a collector of voices, and his magnum opusThe Butterfly Girlsis a sprawling epic of untapped imagination. It has no single canvas, no particular frame. It is everywherescribbled on the walls, the floor, and countless notebooks.Winston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his art he has been murdering forgotten women. Poor souls who slip through the cracks of society, who no ones looking for. Mothers, sisters, daughters to someone, but no more.Winston takes their lives, their voices.But now he can hear them. They whisper to him. They talk of revenge.Winston Kemper might not believe in ghosts, but he is about to learn they are very real. And they are very, very angry.

Xu is a writer to watch Isabel Banta, author of HoneySmart, engaging, and thought-provoking Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftover WomanElizabeth Zhang knows her place in the world. She knows shes in the tenth percentile for likability, the seventieth percentile for attractiveness, and the ninety-ninth percentile for academics.With a hard-working ethic instilled in her by immigrant parents, armed with impeccable grades, Elizabeth thinks she is set for Harvard Law School. Until she is rejected for being too ordinary, which she translates to mean shes just another boring Asian female. But when her classmate Laura Kim gets in, everything falls apart. Why was Laura accepted? What makes her so interesting?At first, she follows her because shes just curious. What Laura eats for lunch. Where Laura shops. The answer for Elizabeths failure must lie somewhere in Lauras life. But still, Elizabeth just cant see it. The only thing she sees is that Laura has taken her spot at Harvard.A spot she knows she deserves. A spot that shell simply have to take back.Layered, subversive, and satirical, this novel brings to light how, in the face of societal expectations and self-inflicted pressures, a person can unlock the darkest parts of themselves and show how far theyre willing to go to achieve their vision of success.

Ficção Completa de Edgar Allan Poe reúne, em dois volumes, todos os contos escritos por um dos maiores mestres da literatura fantástica e das tramas de suspense, além de seu único romance, "A narrati