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The citizens of New Orleans have a right to know when there’s a murderer in their midst. Investigative reporter ‘Justice’ Harper stumbles onto the fresh murder scene of a hated New Orleans businessman. His mere presence causes police to suspect him—along with three upstanding citizens, each with a unique motive. The Sinner: Blaze Barbeau, a wealthy woman married to a local businessman, who supposedly had an affair with the victim. The Saint: Lucinda Boyd, a generous widow heavily involved with charity events, who had her business stolen through dubious means. The Serpent: Belladonna...

Berlin, 1943: Amanda Hamilton, a Scottish photographer and violinist, marries a Nazi Party official and spends ten years in Germany absorbing a new culture, immersed in one of the most tumultuous periods in human history. Her life takes a turbulent turn in the midst of World War II, when an English spy named Michael York arrives in Berlin and convinces her to betray her adopted country. A favorite of Hitler, admired by Goebbels and Göring, her photographs document life in the upper echelons of the Nazi party, a world that none on earth ever dreamed existed. It was there that Amanda ...

A road with a hunger. A mirror that steals more than your reflection. A basement apartment where the walls breathe. In this collection of five interconnected tales, ordinary people discover the darkness hiding just beneath the surface of everyday life. A carpenter races against time to break a curse that has claimed the men in his family for generations. A young woman on a late-night drive realizes the road is repeating itself, trapped in a loop she cant escape. A struggling student moves into a cheap apartment only to hear breathing in the walls and whispers that sound almost like words. ...

From the static between stations… a signal of pure terror. When the world goes quiet after midnight, another channel begins to broadcast. Five stories wait for you in the dark, each a frequency tuned to a different fear. Tune in to a radio station where the pines whisper back… and they’ve learned your voice. Move into a smart apartment that doesn’t just watch you—it wants to improve you, permanently. Unearth an ancient guardian from the peat, and discover the terrible price for disturbing its rest. Reopen a forgotten drive-in, only to find its midnight show is for an audience of ...

Two brothers. One promise. A deadly path to justice. As boys, Leo and Samuel swore a blood oath in their treehouse: brothers, no matter what. Leo, the rule-follower, would become the law. Samuel, the shadow, would become a force of his own. Fifteen years later, Detective Leo Valdez is hunting the city’s most elusive serial killer—The Watchmaker. A vigilante who murders the corrupt with chilling precision, leaving a vintage pocket watch and a playing card as his signature. The killer is brilliant, ruthless, and always one step ahead. Because he knows how Leo thinks. As the investigation ...

'A page-turner rife with historical details and timeless intrigue' - Kirkus Reviews Two mysteries rolled into one: who is the killer and who gets killed? Lake Como, 1921: Penelope Jones thinks someone is trying to kill her. After a failed suicide attempt—which she insists was a botched murder—she’s admitted to Lakeside Sanitarium and treated by psychiatrist Joseph Barnett. She’s married to war hero Alexander Cavendish, a man Barnett despises. Both had been wounded at the Somme and treated at an Amiens hospital where Barnett met and later married Rose, a renowned English poet. Soon ...

FIVE AFTER MIDNIGHT: THE SHADOW LIBRARY You didn't find this book. It found you. A librarian who discovers a book that collects human sounds instead of stories. A woman who moves into a quiet suburb where the houses feed on memories. A lonely man who buys a strange statue at a garage sale and accidentally becomes a god's only worshipper. A meticulous widow whose heartbeat is replaced by a ticking that demands perfect order. A collector of apocalypses who acquires an artifact that begins the end of the world—just for him. These are not stories. They are warnings. Catalog entries from a ...

You’ve tried the productivity hacks. You’ve read the playbooks. You’ve chased the next big thing—only to find yourself stuck, burned out, or still searching for the missing piece. Next Level Self is not another advice book. It’s a blueprint for transformation, told through the stories of real entrepreneurs who reinvented themselves by doing less, aligning more, and finally building businesses that felt like them. In this powerhouse collection, ten growth-minded experts reveal the moment everything changed—the pivot that unlocked clarity, confidence, and sustainable success.

They said the app was a miracle. A way to hear your dead loved ones again. For Elias Crowe, the grieving creator of Echo, it was the only thing keeping him sane after losing his sister. But when the voices start saying things they shouldnt know, when they begin predicting the future and speaking through devices that arent connected, Elias realizes he hasnt just built a grief tool. He has opened a door. Now the dead are everywhere. In phones. In radios. In the static between stations. And they are hungry for more than just conversation. From a cabin in the woods to a Cold War bunker to the ...

Die Häresie erreichte Calth ohne Vorwarnung. In nur wenigen Stunden desVerrats und Blutvergießens wurden die stolzen Krieger der XIII. Legion - Guillaumes Ultramarines - von ihren früheren Brüdern der XVII. Legion heimtückisch überwältigt. Jetzt droht den überlebenden auf einem Planeten, der von Eruptionen der verwundeten SonneVeridian versengt wird, in den finsteren Arkologie-Komplexen unter der Oberfläche der Untergang. Der einzige Ausweg: Sie müssen den Kampf zu den Word Bearers und deren grausigen Verbündeten tragen.

After a life long battle with his inner Demons, Alan Reed must face his after a girl is abducted and the cops think he may have something to do with it, then he finds the Pedophile Papers, and everything changes.

Some houses don't just hold memories. They hold onto feelings. Gail Vance isn't a traditional therapist. She’s an empath, able to see the emotional Echoes that trauma leaves behind. Most are simple to untangle—a Shroud of Despondency, a Phantom of Paranoia. But when she’s called to the Miller family, she faces something far more dangerous. Their home is drowning in a living, sentient grief—a Leviathan—born from the tragic loss of their son. This entity doesn't just haunt the halls; it feeds on the family's deepest secrets and unspoken guilt, twisting their sorrow into a weapon. To...

The Beautiful Horror Arthur Pembrooke’s life is a masterpiece of precision. An actuary by trade, he has built a stable, orderly world with his vibrant wife, Clara, serving as the beautiful, chaotic counterpoint to his quiet existence. But Arthur harbors a secret void within—a chilling emptiness he calls the Quiet, where emotions are just data and human connection is a script he performs. When a random act of violence shatters his carefully constructed life, the dam holding back the Quiet breaks. The police catch the two men responsible, but the justice system offers a flawed, ...

A lifetime of stories, one box of treasures. When Elara’s mother is on her deathbed, her final request sends Elara to a dusty closet and a faded blue box. Inside, she doesn’t find riches, but a collection of seemingly ordinary objects: a tarnished thimble, a yellowed ticket stub, a smooth grey stone. Each artifact holds a key to a life she never knew her mother lived. As Agnes’s whispered stories unfold, a hidden history is revealed—a tapestry woven with secret resilience, a great love born in a USO canteen, quiet rebellions, and a profound strength forged in the challenges of ...

A father's desperate search becomes a journey into the impossible. For three years, Elias Thorne has lived in the suffocating silence of his son’s disappearance. The official search in the remote North Cascades found nothing—no body, no clue. Leo was simply gone. But Elias, a forestry expert, cannot accept the official story. Driven by a father's intuition, he returns alone to the one place no one dared to fully search: the mysterious "Valley of No Return." What he finds there defies all logic. A single, small sneaker… placed near a footprint of impossible size and shape. The legend ...

He gave everything for his art. Now, he can't tell where the performance ends and he begins. Julian Vale is the most dedicated actor of his generation. He doesn't just play his roles—he vanishes into them, leaving his own life behind. His method acting has made him a legend, but it has cost him his relationships, his sanity, and any sense of his own identity. His latest role is Alistair Finch, a paranoid media titan who believes the world is a staged reality. To prepare, Julian surrenders completely, living in Finch’s penthouse, monitored by his handler, Anya, and fed a diet of ...

"You're not alone in your vision." Sebastian Cole was a brilliant scholar with a dangerous obsession—understanding how power corrupts, how societies fall, and how one man can reshape the world in his image. But when a shadowy secret society offers him the keys to true transformation, the line between academic curiosity and monstrous ambition begins to blur. Haunted by his past and seduced by the promise of absolute control, Sebastian descends into a world of occult rituals, political manipulation, and an insatiable hunger that threatens to consume him from within. Only one person sees the...

The rain in Ashfen doesn't just whisper... it remembers. Corbin fled his rain-drenched hometown and its painful memories, building a new life far from the decaying streets and the shadow of his fragile sister, Sera. But when Sera vanishes after sending a frantic, impossible message—corbin its in the rain it talks—he is dragged back to a past he tried to forget. He returns to find Ashfen is a place rotting from the inside out. Sera’s home has been transformed into a war room, charting a history of mysterious disappearances the town calls "The Sinking." At the center of her obsession is...

On an old oak bench, four lives intersect, and four destinies unfold. An ancient, weathered bench in a quiet park bears silent witness to the human dramas that play out upon its planks. For Arthur, a historian consumed by failure, it becomes the ground zero for a terrifying mystery—a stone box that defies all logic and could rewrite history itself. For Elara and Leo, two young artists, it is the sun-drenched stage for a perfect, fleeting love, destined to be tested by the real world. For Ben, a desperate young man, it is the key to a horrifying inheritance—a legacy of dread that ...

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin who needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go. Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin.