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When the body of a 16-year-old girl is found in a remote hunting cabin in the middle of the snowy Maryland woods a shiver runs down Private Investigator Lucy Kendall’s spine. The handprints around her neck, her broken bones, and the incense left burning at the scene are vital clues to who committed this terrible crime—Mary Weston, a notorious serial killer. She has outwitted the police for many years and left many parents without daughters. Is the girl in the cabin a sign she is killing again?

Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends. That night, Denny—optimistic, guileless, brilliant Denny—is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, an indifferent police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history.

Finding himself stranded in the water after a devastating plane crash, Chris Grace helplessly watches the raft that holds is wife float out of his reach. Clinging to a stewardess’ life jacket to remain afloat, his life will be forever changed. When rescue comes in the form of an old wooden ship, he is forced to question the world around him, realizing over time that the storm that struck their airplane was no ordinary storm at all. Under the protection of the name she shares with a well-known duchess, Chris and Maria navigate their presence on the ship.

Undercover in occupied Europe, risking her life daily, Elena never planned to fall in love. But everything changes when she meets Santiago in a crowded bar. His warm, dark eyes and kind smile draw her in...but he can never know her real identity, and opening her heart to him could put both of them in jeopardy. Elena cannot help but fall for Santiago, but can she truly trust him? Then Elena is tasked with a dangerous assignment: delivering coded maps for the Resistance.

My guilt and his misconceptions made it so much harder. When he delivers my twins—our twins—that one icy night seems to seal our fate forever. I once drew hearts around his name. We pushed the boundaries of our fine lines, but he was my brother's best friend—off-limits and out of reach. Years later, the story hasn't changed. Derek is an OB-GYN at my new hospital, as sexy and self-assured as ever. Our stolen moments aren't just a PR nightmare. My heart isn't the only one I need to protect. And I refuse to be a pawn in a lovers' game.

¿Deseas sentirte más seguro en tus relaciones? Si la respuesta a cualquiera de estas preguntas es sí, es posible que tengas un apego ansioso que hace que sientas una gran cantidad de ansiedad por las actividades y comportamientos normales de la relación. No puedes relajarte en las relaciones cuando tienes esta ansiedad, así que te pierdes mucha de la felicidad que podrías tener si tuvieras un apego emocional seguro.

In the last two years, Professor Delaney McPhearson has uncovered two Atlantis sites. Each time, she's lost people. Now, all she wants to do is enjoy the peace with her love, Jake Rogan, and those she cares about. But fate has a different idea. Plans are in motion for Laney, Jake, and Henry Chandler that stretch back thousands of years and across the globe to a mysterious, ancient Egyptian necropolis.

They’ve been through it all. From crashing into the ocean to altering their own memories, the Adrift family is ready to go home. But what’s the best way to get there? And how can they be certain everyone arrives in one piece? Follow one group across Colonial America as the other sails the Atlantic. All of them with one singular destination, and none of them with quite the same plans to get there.

Con Planificación Patrimonial Facilitada, descubrirá que es más fácil de lo que jamás pensó que fuera posible. Numerosos expertos y personas con experiencia han contribuido a esta guía, lo que garantiza que desmitifique el mundo a menudo abrumador de la planificación patrimonial.

When an ancient papyrus linked to the lost city of Atlantis is stolen, Adrian West and Nick Harper are summoned to Athens to assist in the investigation, but they soon find themselves in a lethal game of cat and mouse with members of a shadowy yet powerful organization intent on finding the ruins of Atlantis for their own deadly ends.

Cecelia McCreary's life is not what she thinks. Arriving in the 18th century to be at last reunited with her sister, Cecelia struggles to find purpose in the life she's to be restored to. Traveling alongside her sister and new friends across the isthmus, Cecelia searches for a way to write her own story while seeking answers that might keep them all alive in the process.

Finding themselves captive to Juan Josef, the combined group of survivors must come to terms with their own morality, as they are faced with the dilemma of altering history in order to prevent tragedy. Escaping Juan Josef and returning home sit at the forefront of their minds, as the group blends. Relationships will be both tested and strengthened as they navigate captivity on an 18th-century pirate ship. They'll face rough waters, illnesses, and be forced to cope with a captor who is unstable.

Libby Trent has worked hard to make a good life for herself. She has a happy, messy home in Virginia, full of family and laughter. And a job she’s enormously proud of at a charity helping the disadvantaged, that suits her strong sense of what’s right and wrong. But everything changes the day she’s contacted by a government official asking questions about a man named Hans Brenner, a Nazi who escaped Germany after the Second World War. A war criminal guilty of the most heinous deeds. And the man they suspect is Libby’s own father.

When I left my captor behind and went home to prepare for my wedding, I was sure about a lot of things: I was never going to see Lucien Di Laurier again until he came to kill me in two years. I was never going to learn more about the reign of dragons, how it started, what it means. I was never going to change my mind about who my father is... who my mother was. And I was dead wrong about all of it. Pretty engagement dresses, fancy gifts, and parties do not change the truth about my life. I am a prisoner still, in my own home, in my own skin.

Kate has spent the past few weeks in the Lowcountry, caring for her mother after a stroke. Although she should have returned home by now, the allure of Magnolia Shores keeps her rooted in place. At a crossroads in her life, Kate rediscovers the carefree spirit of her youth. She faces a tough choice: return to a failing marriage in Texas or pursue a golden career opportunity in South Carolina looms large.

The rules of the Hunt: The prey will have a ten minute head start to run and hide.

At the signal, the hunter will enter the woods. The Hunt has begun.

If the prey isn’t captured before midnight, she gets $10,000.

If she makes it until dawn, she gets $100,000.

But if the hunter catches her, she’s his for the night.

On the streets of Philadelphia, as the snow falls and black ice settles in dark back alleys, lost and vulnerable teenagers are being snatched off the streets. When one of them is found alive, Private Investigator Lucy Kendall knows she will never forget the sight of the boy’s brown eyes, forever dulled. She vows to find the monster behind the suffering.

My stress levels skyrocketed after I discovered the deadly vampire who has taken over downtown is Considine Maledictus, one of the most powerful vampires alive. Now I’m even more reluctant to tangle with him, but he’s started showing up in the middle of my investigations, even if they’re outside his territory. I never know if he’s there to fight or to lend me some unexpected help. I don’t have time to ponder his weird behavior, because a group of local wizards are up to some shady practices.

When we summoned the Ether, we thought we were saving the world. We thought we were ending the reign of dragons, freeing the people of power-hungry Azarius kings and queens once and for all. Turns out, none of us had any idea what the reign of dragons truly meant.

On a trip to reignite the spark in her marriage, Alaina Grace’s upgraded first-class ticket places her far from her husband and next to the notorious Jack Volmer, a former teen actor who’d previously hung on posters in her childhood bedroom. When an unusual storm forces their plane out of the sky, her ticket will save her life and force her to question everything.