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In a quiet orchard by the sea, a woman tends to the trees her family left behind — each one named after a person she never had the courage to forgive. Every pruning cut, every season of fruit and frost, becomes a conversation with absence: the letters she never sent, the voices that once filled the branches. As she works, fragments of memory return — a lost brother, a forgotten promise, a mother’s unfinished song. The orchard becomes her confession, her prayer, and her reckoning.

Hiral and his raid group have achieved A-Rank and conquered the Cradle of Tomorrow, but there’s no time to celebrate. Closing the Black Gates won’t be enough, the Raze will still overwhelm all of Genesis. Now, the only chance the world has lies with the brightest and most dangerous minds ever to grace the world: The Fallen. If anybody had a plan to stop the Raze, it would be them. Too bad they’ve never been the most cooperative. To get the Fallen’s answers and have a hope of fighting the Raze, Hiral and his companions will need enough strength to face the storm they know is coming.

They come back to the shore that once held everything: a crooked lifeguard tower, a boardwalk that sighs, a lighthouse that remembers storms better than names. In salt-stung mornings and long, forgiving light, the narrator gathers driftwood, sea glass, and old letters—small relics of a love finished but not failed. Across low tides and sudden tempests, the sea becomes witness and teacher: that silence can corrode or preserve; that breaking can be another form of shaping; that memory does not keep so much as transform.

The first time I met Yulian Dimitriev, it was hate at first sight. He’s brash, chaotic, and a violence-junkie. In short, everything I disregard. As heirs to two notorious mafia organizations, we were shoved together in an unorthodox setting. The more I learn about Yulian, the deeper my loathing seeps. Until I truly see the person within, and something forbidden sparks between us. But our coexistence is cut short when tragedy strikes. Yulian and I go back to our respective, parallel worlds that shouldn’t cross. But they do.

Secrets lay hidden in the earth. Fate whispers of it upon the wind. The ash stirs across the battlefields. And the ocean rises to watch the cards fall.

Becker James is having a spectacularly bad season. Once a top draft pick, he’s now riding the bench in the minors, one failed save away from being cut. The highlight of his week? A lonely hour on a barstool at Sports Balls, Denver’s queerest watering hole—and Forest, the bartender with flannel sleeves, a gruff voice, and a beard that stars in Beck’s dreams.

Set in small town Montana, this romance series follows the six siblings of the Eden family as they each find love.

This philosophical study explores the concept of the "pluri person"—the multiplicity and fragmentation of selfhood—through the lens of irony as both rhetorical strategy and existential condition. The book argues that ironic consciousness reveals the inherently plural nature of human identity, challenging unified models of subjectivity that dominate Western philosophical traditions. The book investigates how irony functions as more than a literary device, serving as a fundamental mode of being that acknowledges contradiction, multiplicity, and performativity at the core of personal identity.

Except the Pirates were too late, and now not one but two of the enemy are loose in the galaxy. And they are equipped with starships more powerful than Valkyrie. A direct fight would be hopeless, so the Pirates must rely on wacky ideas from the mushy brain of a monkey—and some serious sketchiness.

It's been nearly a millennium since wolves prowled the earth. They're only spoken of as mythical destroyers of life. But one solitary wolf, born a simple, primal beast, is becoming the very monster of legend feared by both humans and otherworldly creatures. A multilimbed shapeshifter, it slaughters anything that threatens it or the pack of allies it has sworn to protect, including Emhreeil; her human friend, Katherine; and a goblin known as Scruffy. All three are grateful for the wolf's guidance but frightened of its growing power.

Crime journalist Oakley Novak has built her career exposing Boston’s darkest secrets, but she never expected a serial killer to turn the tables and stalk her. Xander Rhodes spent weeks watching her through hidden cameras, captivated by her sharp mind and relentless drive, until she catches him red-handed and, instead of running, challenges him with a glare that could melt steel. Xander’s either found his soulmate or lost his damn mind. Probably both.

There has been a prison break—and Wendy is right in the middle of it, being swarmed by violent inmates who haven’t had a woman in years. She’s going to be taken hostage. But by whom? Locked in a cell with two men who have no choice but to share their treasure, Wendy is surprised to find…she likes being caught, as long it’s Klay and Ruger doing the trapping. Good thing, too. Because they aren’t letting her go.

She's finally back aboveground, but she's not home free just yet. The Gray family is still missing, and their situation is a little more complicated than she first thought. The only one she can locate is Nick, the older brother, and he has been captured by the Blood Syndicate, an international crime syndicate headquartered in one of the most dangerous regions on the continent. With group of unlikely allies, she needs to dive into the Jungle and help mount an attack on the Blood Syndicate to rescue her humans.

For decades, a father in the Bay Area made his living taking people’s portraits, but he harbored a monstrous secret. When one woman vanished in 1976, the only clue police had was that she’d gone to a restaurant to meet a photographer about a modeling job. Other women who’d gone to get their pictures taken were found murdered in the woods in Marin County. This disconnected series of homicides and disappearances remained stubbornly unsolved. But then in 2010, a probation officer caught a lucky break.

The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.

Raeve und Kaan kehren zurück! In der mit Spannung erwarteten Fortsetzung des internationalen Bestsellers »When The Moon Hatched« gibt es noch mehr Gefahr, Magie, Romantik und Drachen!

»Rites of the Starling« ist eine mitreißende Slow-Burn-Romantasy, in der Feinde zu Geliebten werden, Monster Kronen tragen und eine vergessene Prinzessin die Macht in sich trägt, ein ganzes Königreich in Brand zu setzen. In der atemberaubenden Fortsetzung des großen »New York Times«-Bestsellers »Shield of Sparrows« warten auf Odessa nicht nur neue Herausforderungen und noch gefährlichere Monster, sie muss auch um ihre große Liebe kämpfen ... Enthaltene Tropes: Engagement/Marriage of Convenience, Enemies to Lovers Spice-Level: 2 von 5

Getting trapped with Greyson Reyes during a hurricane was not part of my plan. He’s grumpy, gorgeous, and the town’s most eligible billionaire. Oh, he’s also the man who has hated me since the day all my secrets blew up in our faces. Worse, he’s even better at getting me naked than he is at getting under my skin. And he’s very good at that.

In a kingdom of velvet corridors and hidden daggers, Queen Selvaris de Marenne has lived a life of duty, grace, and silence. Her royal marriage masks a web of betrayal, while whispers of treason threaten her powerful family. When a mysterious handmaiden from another world arrives, foreknowledge of tragedy becomes a dangerous weapon. As rivals rise and loyalties crumble, Selvaris must decide whether to endure, to fight, or to seize the throne herself.

Clara Wren thought her arranged marriage to Julian Voss was nothing more than a contract—an heir for his family, freedom for her career. Their quiet divorce seemed to close that chapter, until fate, ambition, and a glittering dating show threw them together again. Under the unblinking eye of cameras and the chaos of online fandoms, every glance, every word between them is dissected, twisted, and adored. Torn between rivals, rumors, and her own rising career, Clara must decide if love is worth the risk of exposure.