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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.

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.

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.

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...

Jackson and Bear. A spree killer awakened. An impending hurricane. The perfect storm. His legal troubles behind him, Jackson Clay joins his friend and business partner, Bear Beauchamp, for a hunting trip on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. An opportunity for some “R&R”, it’s supposed to be a relaxing getaway to the quiet town of Chincoteague. But when Jackson and Bear’s hunting guide is found dead, things soon change. The police ruled the death a tragic accident, but Jackson isn’t so sure. He starts looking into the beloved local when a tourist is also found dead in the local wildlife refuge.

The gods have been banished from Asgard! Odin, paranoid in a fit of paranoia over the prophecy of his death, has stranded them on earth until the time of Ragnarok, the apocalyptic war that permanently ends their lives the life of the gods. These the Asgardian outcasts, now living among humans, are now hiding in plain sight among humans on earth.

In einem Linzer Nobelvorort wird scheinbar grundlos eine angesehene Arztfamilie ermordet und die sechsjährige Tochter Hannah entführt. Es gibt keine Lösegeldforderungen und somit auch kein offensichtliches Motiv für die Bluttat. Doch jemand verfolgt mit dem Duft des Todes einen eigenen Plan...

After a personal tragedy, Professor Alistair Quill left his life as a technological crimes investigator behind for a comfortable life in academia, only to be drawn back into a dangerous world of intrigue when an intercepted smuggling operation ends in a deadly explosion. He is joined by Professor Kimberly O’Neill, a trailblazing scientist whose revolutionary work on steam-based learning machines has been twisted into a weapon capable of reshaping the modern world.

Mit Entsetzen wird mir klar: Diese Frau im Spiegel bin ich und ich habe gerade meinen Liebhaber getötet. Die Fotografin Adriana See schreckt aus dem Schlaf auf. Sie liegt neben ihrem Mann zuhause in ihrem Bett, so als wäre nichts geschehen. War alles nur ein böser Traum – oder hat Adriana tatsächlich ihren Liebhaber getötet? Alles erscheint ihr in der Erinnerung so real… Als sie der Sache auf den Grund geht, stellt sie mit Schrecken fest, dass ihr Liebhaber anscheinend nie existiert hat.

My second year at the prestigious Harkwright Academy is about to begin. This year I have even more trials to face, from attending the retreat after being claimed by Aeron, to seeing the infamous Harkwright Prince, with no more disguises in place. The cards may not seem stacked against me right now, but can I stay in the Harkwrights good graces without losing myself? Will I continue to see this place as nothing more than a means to an end, or will it offer me the things I never even knew I wanted? 

For the last two years, the only thing Collett knew was the key to her survival remained hinged on staying one step ahead of the Darkness that wanted her dead. Or so she thought. Everything changes when Cade tries to help her. Born a werewolf nearly 300 years earlier, he is no stranger to the unpredictability that accompanies the secret world of the supernatural. Committing himself to helping the alluring Collett, Cade quickly learns that the ultimate cost for helping may be his own heart.

Armed with a wry voice and a swift sword, Eno the Thracian finds his simple mission to rid an island of a harpy turns into a mystery that shakes the throne of Zeus himself. With both Hekate, Witch Queen of the Underworld, and Aphrodite, Goddess of Desire, taking a 'personal' interest in Eno, the secrets he doesn't even know himself will become unexpectedly important if he is to overcome the Undead Army that threatens the entire world.

A new gang boss is taking over the meat-packing district of Chicago and his tools are murder and intimidation. He calls himself the Butcher and the trail of death and destruction he leaves in his wake is a testament to that moniker. Now it will take all of the Bagman's skills and know-how to unmask this savage foe and save the streets of the Windy City from a new and bloody gang war.

He's back! One of pulpdom's all-time favorite heroes, Jim Anthony, Super Detective, in three fast-paced action adventures. From the dense, hot jungles of Guatemala to the dark alleys of New York City, Jim Anthony and his associates battle the forces of evil and injustice.

From the mists of Krynn's earliest history came the Barbarians. A young brother and sister escape a pack of predators and strike out on their own, their lives taking parallel courses linked to the destiny of different tribes. But dark powers watch the rise of civilization with cold calculation and deadly intent.

When the leader of the Silvanesti elves dies, conflict threatens to drive his sons apart. While Sithas wishes the elves to withdraw more and more from any contact with other races, Kith-Kanan and his Wildrunners forge connections and trade goods with the humans of Ergoth. As the world of Krynn watches, a new elven nation rises from the strife.

On August 25, 2012, the Voyager 1 probe crossed into interstellar space. It contained a "golden record" with sounds, pictures, and greetings from Earth. On March 15, 2013, NASA received a transmission from the spacecraft that said: "Hello. We received your golden record. Let's meet." Now, internationally best-selling author B.C. Chase invites you on a daring first contact mission into deep space with five intrepid astronauts, one spunky cosmonaut, and a 75-year-old truck driver.

Um ein Hundeasyl auf Mallorca vor der Schließung zu bewahren, nimmt der frühere BND-Ermittler David Stein einen neuen Auftrag an. Diesmal wird er nach Marrakesch gerufen, um den gefährlichen Terroristen Schwarzer Skorpion unschädlich zu machen, der einen Terroranschlag in München plant. Zur gleichen Zeit wird in Marrakesch die junge Stella Heisenberg entführt und in eine Kiste gesperrt. Was verbirgt sich hinter dieser Entführung und welche Rolle spielt die geheimnisvolle Leyla Khan, die überraschend in Marrakesch auftaucht?