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This is a fictional story inspired by my two rescued hurricane survivor cats...

In einem Haifischbecken einer Forschungseinrichtung auf Rügen treibt die Leiche des Meeresbiologen Marius Langenfeld. Der Forscher war sehr bekannt und hatte sich aktiv für die Erhaltung der Meereswelt der Ostsee eingesetzt. Damit hatte er sich viele Feinde gemacht. Hauptkommissarin Gretchen Larssen und ihr Team beginnen zu ermitteln und stellen fest, dass Marius kaltblütig ermordet wurde, da er mit einem Seil gefesselt worden war.

My master created me for his entertainment, leading adventurers to ruin. Betraying them at the last moment, just when their glorious victory was on hand. I have been found again by the newest member of a quartet of dungeon crawlers. Poor fool. This time will be no different. Or does it have to be? Maybe I don't need to spend eternity left in a deep, dark dungeon waiting to devour would-be heroes. Maybe, just maybe, I can take him over and use this new identity to leave and masquerade as an adventurer myself.

With his monstrous army behind him, the caster Silenos has driven the king of Fadaka from his throne and left his palace in ruins. He then selects the deposed king's horrified daughter, Ado, as the kingdom's new ruler. Or, more precisely, his puppet. Her simpleminded subjects can labor under the illusion that they're free while Silenos sets to work radically reshaping this wretched civilization.

Summer love was never supposed to behave. Summer Lovin’ is a Spellwings Press anthology filled with romance, fantasy, darkness, humour, heat, heartbreak, and beautiful chaos. Across this collection, love takes many forms: dangerous vampires drawn together by blood and desire, ancient gods playing at war and seduction, a spicy ghost story, a chaotic Carnivale romp, longing and duty, and vulnerability beneath the summer sun. These stories range from sweet to spicy, dark to playful, tragic to satirical.

Michael didn't want to die. He didn't deserve to die. After a lost battle with cancer that started only a year after he retired, he'd lived what many people would call a full life, but it wasn't enough. He wanted more time. When he found himself drawn toward the light, he fought his way away from it. Unfortunately, that didn't take him back to the life he wanted to live.

Some families inherit wealth. Others inherit silence. When long-buried records surface and old alliances fracture, the Northington legacy faces its most dangerous reckoning yet. What began as a battle over land and power becomes a deeper confrontation with bloodlines carefully hidden, identities rewritten, and truths that were never meant to survive the light. As legal pressure mounts and personal loyalties strain, Jordan Northington is forced to confront the uncomfortable reality that history is not merely recorded—it is curated.

Le arrebataron a su hijo, enterraron la verdad y silenciaron el pasado. Pero la justicia nunca guarda silencio para siempre. A los diecisiete años, Jordan Grace fue obligada a entregar a su hijo recién nacido bajo amenazas y coerción por parte de una de las familias más poderosas de Texas. En el rancho Northington, proteger un apellido justificaba la violencia y el silencio.

Caster and New Dark Lord Silenos Shaiagrazni has vanished, and chaos reigns in his absence. Coalitions collapse into infighting and paranoia, the ambitious seek to exert influence wherever they can, and tyrants see opportunity in the crisis. As the ancient Archimage Mafari embarks on a merciless campaign of vengeance against Silenos's former allies, the New Dark Lord remains trapped in a mind-twisting alternate dimension. Only by transforming into a radically different and breathtakingly powerful being can Silenos hope to make an escape.

Still stuck in the world of their novel, Shango, Solitaire, and Beam have worked their way through hordes of goblins, thieves, and undead to become Redacle's premier mercenary team. With their debts cleared, the three boys join the kingdom's arena tournament to go toe-to-toe with the best fighters in all of Redacle and grind skill points.

Betrayed by his former gang and thrown into the Rendhold Underprison, Dantes has spent the last five years scraping by. A bastard of human, orcish, and elvish blood, he's lived on the periphery of the periphery, lying, cheating, and stealing to survive.

Even after the bombs fell, even after countries unleashed weapons beyond imagination on one another, even after lawlessness became the norm, people still expect their mail. As a deadman, I'm uniquely suited to deliver it.

Treat yourself to a glimpse into the dark future world of New Orleans, where humanity's base desires have overshadowed common decency, and very few are willing to stand in the way. With 10 stories by seven well-known independent authors, High Tech/Low Life is guaranteed to please.

The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard... Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer?

Greed and corruption, bribery and fraud, insiders getting fabulously rich while workers get robbed. Sound familiar? That was the great battle for Butte, Montana, at the dawn of the 20th century when it was the richest hill on earth. Copper was the treasure, eagerly sought for wiring the modern...

She's lived her whole life in the shadows of her mother's secrets. When Diantha Moro starts the last semester of her master's program at University of Echidna, she only has one thing on her mind: getting into the catacombs underneath campus so she can finally break the curse that's keeping her...

This is the Story of Five Marriages and One Gun A British couple wonders at the unknowable city beyond their guarded compound while building walls between themselves. An American suspects his new home is having an insidious effect on his Zimbabwean wife and their young daughter. An enthusiastic...

Eine junge Prostituierte stürzt von einer Brücke in ein fahrendes Auto. Eine Zweite sitzt tot an einem Campingtisch bei einer Raststation. Als die alarmierte Polizei am Tatort eintrifft, stellt sie fest, dass die toten Mädchen ein schreckliches gemeinsames Merkmal aufweisen: Sie haben Rabenmasken auf ihrem Gesicht geklebt.

From “one of the brightest stars in the British crime writing firmament” (John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author), a twisty thriller that combines Agatha Christie with Shutter Island as it follows a group of strangers in a race against time to stop a serial killer. Ten strangers...

Eine junge Mutter wird grausam zugerichtet auf einer Parkbank gefunden, neben sich ihr quicklebendiges Baby - und ein Rattenschädel. Das ist nicht der einzige geheimnisvolle Hinweis, den Chefinspektor Tony Braun erhält: Ausgerechnet Viktor Maly, ein Insasse der Psychiatrie, scheint mehr über den Fall zu wissen. Doch er hat seit über einem Jahr keinen Kontakt mehr zur Außenwelt. Wurde die Frau Opfer eines lange geplanten Komplotts? Da geschieht eine weitere Bluttat. Und es gibt nur einen Zeugen: Viktor Maly ...