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Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The Language of Bodies probes the seduction of vengeance using vivid, sensual imagery to explore how love transcends the particulars of body parts and how revenge blurs the line between victim and perpetrator, hero and villain.

"Portret Doriana Greja"- edinstvennyj opublikovannyj roman Oskara Uajl'da. Vpervye napechatan v ijule 1890 goda. Posle publikacii romana v obshhestve razrazilsja skandal. Vsja anglijskaja kritika osudila ego kak amoral'noe proizvedenie, a nekotorye kritiki trebovali podvergnut' ego zapretu, a avtora romana - sudebnomu nakazaniju. Uajl'da obvinjali v oskorblenii obshhestvennoj morali. Odnako obychnymi chitateljami roman byl prinjat vostorzhenno.

When Marcie met Jason Maddox, she couldn’t believe her luck. Becoming Jason’s second wife catapulted her into the elite world of high society. But underneath the polite, old-money manners, she knows she’ll always be an outsider, and her hard-won life hangs by a thread. Then Jason’s widowed boss brings back a new wife from his trip to London. Young, beautiful, reckless - nobody can take their eyes off Keisha. Including Jason. 

Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty much seen it all. But this is the first time she's come face to face with someone she knew on the slab. Someone she cared about. Geraldine Edwards, the teacher responsible for her returning to education after she got ensnared in a life of drugs. The woman who acted as a second mother to the orphaned Cassie. Deeply intuitive and convinced that she can pick up the last thoughts of the dead, Cassie senses that there must be more to the ruling of an accidental death.

The writing's on the wall for Harry Kvist. Once a notorious boxer, he now spends his days drinking, and his nights chasing debts amongst the pimps, prostitutes and petty thieves of 1930s Stockholm. When women can't satisfy him, men can. But one biting winter's night he pays a threatening visit to a debtor named Zetterberg, and when the man is found dead shortly afterwards, all eyes are on Kvist. Kvist's struggle to clear his name will lead him from the city's slums, gangster hideouts and gambling dens to its most opulent hotels and elite nightclubs.

After waiting to explore Preston Castle, the team is finally ready to go. Jason begins his research on the many paranormal experiences recorded through the years and instantly knows this is not a typical haunting. Wade’s ability to see and interact with spirits has become something he depends on, but Janice warns him against the shadow people they’ll encounter. He questions whether it’s safe for them to spend time at the old reform school, but if anyone knows how to handle a haunting, it’s Jason. Not this time.

The second of the Jo Brigg's novels, The Faberge Egg follows Jo and Izzy's relationships after "An Unusual Year", as they try to learn to live together, they get drawn into a world of Russian money laundering involving a lost Faberge Egg and a Russian teacher with a lot of secrets and surprises. Will Jo and Izzy manage to survive their next adventure and end up together?

Previously published as SINNERS by Boudreau, Catherine Marie. Cai and Elizabeth are two halves of the same soul, but there's one thing getting in the way. Elizabeth is a nun, and Cai was just sent to the all girls Catholic school where Ellie teaches Phys Ed. Cai is determined to take physical education to the next level, and Ellie seems to be to weak to stop it from happening. Road trips are taken. Looks of lust are given. The two women are separated by Mother Superior, a Monsignor/bishop, a Cardinal, (and the Pope?). Join Cai and Elizabeth on their journeys to free themselves from ...

A gripping tale of survival in a world overrun by the undead. In the world of The Dead Walk Diaries, where the dead have risen to prey on the living, survival is a relentless struggle. Against all odds, a diverse band of survivors has secured the ultimate stronghold: the Wholesale Club, a massive bulk warehouse packed with enough supplies to sustain them for years—if they ration carefully. Fortified from the ravenous horde outside and with every basic need met, they believe they've found a safe haven. What could possibly go wrong? Their luck is short-lived.

Just as Franny is settling into her new home and growing comfortable with her new family, her world is shaken when her biological father shows up at the foster house. Touting proof that he is, indeed, Franny’s father—while claiming he’d known nothing of her abuse by her mother—he insists on full custody of the young girl.

Meet Leander: lover, fighter, liar. He learnt a long time ago that nothing is as intoxicating as blood. And these days, whether it's his or someone else's, he frequently finds himself covered in it. Up to now, it's been his secret. But it's hard to remain invisible when you leave a trail of destruction everywhere you do go. And when he comes to the attention of one of London's most infamous criminals, Leander decides to put his appetite for violence to the ultimate test.

Who knew that a summer thunderstorm and a lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce D'Amico's life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods near their house to find his son, only to have lightning strike a tree near him, sending a branch down on his head. When he awakens the next day in the hospital, he discovers he has been blessed or cursed - he isn't sure which - with psychic ability.

Love that would never come to Bill finally came. But was love worth the baggage that it brought with it? His decision would change his life and the lives of many others. Hang on, it's a rough ride!

When a hot shot crew, practicing high altitude/low opening parachute jumps in the desert, lands on two chest freezers, it's just an interesting surprise. Until one of the crew discovers the Air Force accidentally dropped them in the boom-boom section of an active bombing range. As the jump master calls in a high-wire dust-off, one of the crew opens the freezers. Seconds later, they are calling it in as an active crime scene. And to contact the FBI…

In the gripping detective novel, "The Corpse in the Bog," readers are thrust into the intriguing world of DS Fiona Madden and her steadfast partner, Detective Garda Tracy. The story unfolds amidst the eerie landscapes of South Connemara, where an unexpected discovery sets off a chain of events that will test their mettle like never before. The tale kicks off when Fiona and Tracy stumble upon a chilling sight - a corpse unearthed from the depths of a desolate bog. Instinctively, they claim the case as their own, plunging headfirst into a relentless quest to uncover the identity of the ...

While Clint rallies support inside the prison, Cochise ventures outside the walls with Hallahan to pick up some “cargo”—unaware that he is about to embark on an unplanned rescue mission that will ultimately bring him to his knees and remind him what’s most important in life. Agent Alvarez and his men take up their own mission of mercy while, within the prison walls, the two gangsters find themselves in an unexpected situation that could not only cost them the mission—but their lives as well.

Un matin, Raphaëlle est troublée de découvrir des empreintes d'ours devant la porte de sa cabane. Quelques jours plus tard, sa chienne disparaît. Elle la retrouve gravement blessée par des collets illégalement posés. Folle de rage, elle laisse un message d'avertissement au braconnier. Lorsqu'elle retrouve des empreintes d'homme devant chez elle et une peau de coyote sur son lit, elle comprend que de chasseuse, elle est devenue chassée. Mais Raphaëlle n'est pas du genre à se laisser intimider.

Clients hide things from their lawyers all the time. Pam Wilson makes it an art form. Pam’s been on the run from the law for years and she was getting away with it. The statute of limitations ran out on most of her crimes. For her spouse Charlotte? Not so much. Though they were aging, they looked forward to enjoying their golden years and, hopefully, forgetting about the past. Life got complicated when Charlotte became gravely ill, their daughter got pregnant with the child of a married man…a married man someone took shots at from a rare motorcycle Pam happens to own. When the man was ...

The first one hundred days of President Dolus Moore’s presidency turned out to be the chaos half of the nation’s voters expected it to be. But for the LGBTQ community, it was nothing less than a nightmare. In book two of Sergeant Callaghan, Captain Fitz Turner is trying his best to move on with his life after the man who mysteriously entered his world one cold day in November on the side of the road left as suddenly as he appeared. Fitz enters into a relationship with the forest ranger, Grady Higgs. Grady is a young, handsome, kind and shy man who finds everything about the Alaskan ...

Another Standout Thriller From Christopher Murphy! "Phenomenal! This read is an uncontested highlight of the year. Murphy has a knack for making you care about his characters, along with putting them in intense situations that make his books impossible to put down. This crackling extension to The Other Side of the Mirror is further proof that Murphy is shaping up to be an author you do not want to miss." - Sam S. Highly Recommend! "Another page turner from Author Christopher Murphy! Compelling story and characters from start to finish that will keep you guessing until the end." -Khalil E. ...