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Es beginnt mit einer Tragödie: Als der Pilot eines Passagierflugzeugs einen Herzinfarkt erleidet, stürzt die Maschine auf das Gelände eines Atomkraftwerks. Schnell wird klar: Im Kraftwerk steht eine Kernschmelze bevor, da die Kühlung auszufallen droht. Während im Reaktor eine Crew versucht, das Worst-Case-Szenario abzuwenden, kämpfen zwei Einsatzkräfte um das Leben eines einzelnen Kindes: Herumfliegende Flugzeugtrümmer führten zu einer tödlichen Massenkarambolage, und unter den Opfern sind auch die Eltern des kleinen Connor, der sich nicht mehr aus dem Auto befreien kann.

Set against the backdrop of World War II, the novel confronts Nazi racism, ideological extremism, and the fragile relationship between science, power, and human life. It also draws inspiration from the early history of immunology and the later global emergence of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). While it is historically accepted that AIDS emerged from Africa and crossed into the human population during the twentieth century, The Shibboleth imagines an alternative explanation—one shaped by fear, secrecy, and political ambition.

In this Lone Woolf Task Force Orange short story, Drake Woolf, the "Man from Orange," is sent on a singleton operation to collect intelligence - from and on - Iranian major general and commander, Qasem Soleimani, of the Quds Force, a wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for IRGC foreign operations. While conducting his mission to thwart a potential CONUS attack, the powers that be decide to seize the opportunity to target the elusive military leader. This fictionalized version of a true event places the Man from Orange front and center of a political ...

Humans had finally made it. They had found the way to create the perfect soldier, part human part machine, able to heal itself and fight for the sake of humankind. They developed a high technology using nanocybots to enhance the soldiers from their embryonic stage. But it took them too long to see the results of this fabulous technology, so they decided to try it in an adult soldier, a man wounded in the battlefield. The transformation was a total hit. What they didn’t expect was not being able to fully control the new cyborg. This is the story of Jarcor, a man turned into a cyborg and ...

"If you love Stephen King, David Baldacci, Ken Follett, or Dan Brown books, you've found your sweet spot." WHAT WAS CARVED INTO THE VICTIMS' FOREHEADS? It was the summer of 1960, and Jackie McCabe was just 11. He and his pal Hugo DeMann were always out for adventure at Lake Maxinkuckee. During a sleepover one night, Hugo urged his friend to sneak out of the family cottage to explore. Several shocking events quickly sent them scurrying home. A few days later, the boys were hunting for wayward golf balls in the woods next to the golf course. They knew the greenskeeper would pay them enough to...

Kealin and Tulasiro journey North with haste and the half-elf of Urlas knows he may not return. His challenger has haunted his mind and struck down his loved ones; Vankou, the god of death, will not take another. Kealin will have vengeance for the fallen. Armed with the god-sword gifted to him by a fallen deity and the blood of the Dwemhar surging in his veins, Kealin prepares for the final battle. But the seas he once sailed upon have changed much in the last few years. The world quakes as all the energies of magic swirl towards a gathering in the heavens above the dark parts of the north.

HOSTILE EXTRACTION: A Special Tactics Rescue By J.T. Maddox The convoy never made it to the summit. Twelve personnel. Three vehicles. A U.S. Ambassador en route to the most critical energy summit in a decade. One narrow mountain pass in Sarsovia - and then nothing. No distress signal. No survivors. Just burning wreckage swallowed by the dark, and a woman's voice cutting through three hours of static: "Hostile contact, repeat, hostile - location unknown-" Then silence. Ambassador Amelia Monroe is alive. Somewhere in those mountains, in the hands of a paramilitary force with no insignia and ...

In the beginning, men believed in their god. That was their first mistake... Vasruda, God of Light, watched over the infant fifth race. Within Vasruhal, the City of Flame, the race of men grew from just a small handful to millions. But a goddess beyond the realm named Mortua saw an opportunity to curse that which was pure. Now, with cataclysm spreading across the lands, a newly christened Holy Templar, and Anointed One named Habrin, prepares to defend their capital city, their people, and the seat of their One God. His Vahami, his 'holy journey', ended with chaos. He prepares for what ...

A SIGNAL FROM ORBIT CHANGES EVERYTHING A transmission no one can decode. A private space station hiding something impossible. A weapon that could end the world without a single missile launch. When MI-6 operative Julian North intercepts a mysterious orbital signal, he expects espionage, corporate warfare, maybe sabotage. He does not expect extinction. The message is buried under layers of encryption so advanced it shouldn’t exist. Its origin is even more disturbing, Astraeus, a privately funded space station officially built for research, innovation, and profit. But someone is lying. And ...

They call him Spider. And people come to him when they have a problem. So when teenager Parker Cole approaches Spider at night school, he figures she's just another problem waiting to happen. But then she tells him about her father, who runs a cult called Cloudland based at the foot of mystical Mount Shasta, California. And then she tells Spider about her best friend, who is now dead, her body completely drained of blood. Spider wonders if the death is the work of a fellow vampire...or if he's now the target of a sinister game designed to lure him to Cloudland.

For Jay Hutchin, the line blurs on a sultry night in a cheap motel on Tango Key. One moment's jealous rage is all it takes for the esteemed judge to murder Diane Jackson, a beautiful starlet whose fatal mistake was to underestimate her married lover's devotion - and the depth of his jealousy. Having made a name for herself taking on high-profile cases, defense attorney Kit Parrish has everything to lose this time around.

He had given his all for the war... including his right eye and half of his body. He fought for more than a century to bring galactic peace. The arrogant elite had other ideas. So, he is going back to war - will this one tear his galaxy apart? The most decorated Warrior hero of the Slave War was not one to sit idly by while the arrogant Houses conspired... secretly meeting to steal the Ancient relics, build the dimensional door and enslave the spirituality of billions of beings. All to unleash the Dark One and gain his unlimited power. But they underestimated Tor Benet’s passion for honor...

She is an elite, battle hardened Warrior. With the end of the Slave War, she feels lost, confused and alone. Then, an arrogant family tried to kill her… Thrown out of Space Fleet for using her Warrior skills to defend herself, she travels to the edge of the galaxy to seek answers about herself and her destiny. But not without an evil family trying to kill her, pirates trying to kill her, Privateers trying to kill her, then being kidnapped and having to battle to escape as a branded mining slave. A journey that would test her soul . . . Then, and only then, does she realize her destiny. ...

The week of Leo Torres’ sixteenth birthday, he decides to finally start living as the boy he is. Armed with a new haircut, a chest binder, and a stack of notes declaring his new name to his teachers, Leo shows up to the first day of school ready for a brand new start. But the ghosts of the past aren’t so easy to overcome. As word about him spreads around school, Leo has to deal with confused classmates, a furious sister, and recurring dreams featuring his long-dead father, who promises he can teach Leo how to “dream walk.”

A prophetic dream. An island drowning in sorrow. A djinn who feeds on grief itself. Rukes, Blademaster of Urlas, has walked between worlds before... But when visions of a distant island plague his dreams—where shadows weep and manifestations of grief walk among the living—he knows the barriers between realms are fraying in ways he never imagined. On the Isle of Marmara, an ancient copper lamp has been dredged from the depths, unleashing a force that transforms sorrow into living nightmare. The dead appear to torment the living. Guilt takes physical form. And at the heart of it all waits...

"I taught them to fight and never to back down. Now, they're all dead. Curse me, by Etha, curse me. Can I ever be forgiven?" Master Rukes taught to empower the future of the Urlas High elves but cataclysm after cataclysm has left few alive. Now, with rumors that the ancient ethereal Void Gates are opening, the last of Urlas set sail to secure the realms from the ethereal demonic forces. The Blademaster blames himself for all the fallen elves he taught. Will he defeat the inner demons long enough to destroy the real ones invading the Far North? Full of brutal fights and a dark final showdown...

His conquest was for his ancestors. His glory was within grasp. His failure has left all of his companions dead. They say that the race of men took that which belonged to the dwarves. Turgon Highstone was taking it back. Claiming his family's right to lost cities across a region once overran by orc hordes, he amassed many loyal dwarves to fight by his side... but the war turned against him. Suddenly finding himself locked in a dungeon, a stranger appears and provides a way out of captivity. Turgon wants revenge for his brothers and sisters-in-arms, but instead, he runs into an overbearing ...

From all appearances, the dragon who fill the skies, burning cities, and rounding up innocent humans, are the reason Earth fell. The dragons and their slyth overlords are despised among those who survived the invasion. Surin was ordered to torture and kill Eloise. Her fate is sealed… Until Surin discovers she is his fated mate. While Surin is overcome with guilt for torturing Eloise, he’s determined to save her at any cost. To heal her, Surin uses his blood in a claiming ritual. . . an act that ties them together permanently. Though Surin longs to make Eloise his in every sense of the ...

Peter Toombs never stopped loving Diana Ward. Not after they broke up; not after she married someone else; not after she died. Peter never got over how he failed Diana when she needed him most when they were in college. Even as he became a successful TV writer, his failure haunted him more than the monsters he created to scare others. His obsession prompts him to lease Diana's childhood home in the small Utah town of Bern.

Er ist ein Mythos. Ein Geist. Eine Legende. Ein so gefürchteter Bratva-Auftragsmörder, dass einige sich nicht einmal trauen, seinen Namen auszusprechen. Er kommt, um Vergeltung für den Tod seines Bruders zu suchen, aber was Malek Antonov stattdessen findet, ist sie. Riley Keller.

Eine freche Lektorin, von der er denkt, sie sei jemand anderes. Jemand, der nichts mit dem Mann zu tun hat, der seinen Bruder getötet hat. Nur, dass das nicht stimmt.