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Grace’s life in the Anderson household is predictable and painful but not without merit. She is one of five slaves owned and stabled on the beautiful, sprawling estate. She’s well-fed, housed, even allowed to be intimate with other slaves. But she knows her best friend is nearby. She saw her on the street.

Wenn in schwedischen Wäldern der Tod lauert… In einem kleinen Waldstück bei Vimmerby, mitten in der schwedischen Provinz, wird eine weibliche Leiche gefunden. Sie hat weder Handy noch Papiere bei sich. Die Ermittler Marten Henriksson und Lena Wallin - einst glücklich verheiratet -...

Ostseeluft, Fischbrötchen und eine tote Schulleiterin – Willkommen im hohen Norden! Unbeliebt war sie schon immer. Doch als die Vize-Direktorin des Flensburger Marie-Louise-Gymnasiums an einem herrlichen Sommermorgen ermordet aufgefunden wird, sorgt das für Aufregung in der ganzen Stadt. Die...

This is a tale of adventure on the high seas, piracy, vengeance and action, set in the Caribbean seas from Port Royal to Tortuga. Follow Captain Mary and the crew of the Jenny’s Revenge as they hunt some of the most notorious and violent pirates in history, including Blackbeard himself!

The Virion script project is spinning out of control. As key personnel disappear, the finger of suspicion points to the Estonian mafia, and someone inside British Intelligence. Anna Faulkner, plucked from a mundane job in cyber-security, is briefed to locate the agoraphobic computer geek, Tom Morris. Is Morris the victim of a mistaken identity or can he really be the brains behind the Virion Script? Anna is soon immersed in a world of hostility and disinformation as she tries to determine the nature of the Script, who is involved, and why they are prepared to kill for its secrets.

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Novelists Jonathan Moss and Sage Merriweather should be a perfect match. They share not only the same publisher but also a deep friendship full of mutual respect and encouragement. But when an ill-fated attempt at taking their relationship to the next level fails in spectacular fashion, it appears as though that once-treasured bond is doomed for good. One year later, however, the duo gets a chance to salvage their relationship when Jonathan invites Sage on a do-over road trip from Phoenix to Tacoma.

What if you're a suburban mom with a snarky sense of humor and a wild imagination prone to dreaming up disasters? What if you and your friends take your daughters for a camping trip, and while on a quick trip to the nearest country market you see a man being bullied and then beaten? What do you do? Back away quietly? Not if you're Molly Deacon, who, along with her Mittyesque imagination, has a temper not to be trifled with.

A luxury yacht. A secret network. A woman who refuses to look away. In Key West, the rich come to disappear. Lena Cruz is just trying to keep her life afloat. She sings at La Concha by night, fights to save the charter boat Bone Tide by day, and battles a probate challenge that could take away the only thing a dead captain trusted her to protect. Then a young woman Lena helped place on a yacht job comes back beaten and terrified. The job wasn’t hospitality. It was recruitment.

It’s 1343 and Jeanne de Clisson is out for revenge. At forty-three, her perfect life—a loving husband, three young children, and two castles in the French countryside—shatters when Phillip VI, the King of France, arrests and beheads her husband for treachery. There’s no evidence and no trial—only the execution. The nobles are shocked. The paranoid king is relieved. And Jeanne…Jeanne wants the king’s head on a pike.

Hochsommer auf Usedom: Sonne. Meer. Tod! Vor der Ostseeinsel Usedom wird im Fangnetz eines Kutters ein Toter gefunden. Zunächst sieht es so aus, als sei der Fischer ins Wasser gestürzt und in die Schiffsschraube geraten, doch schnell stellt sich heraus, dass er ermordet wurde. Jette Curth, die...

Hip-hop-loving best friends Moore and Spit are back in Copper Cobra, Book 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series—a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud climate caper where friendship, activism, and Alaskan absurdity collide. Signing on for a summer salmon season, the duo expects long hours and big fish—not a toxic mining scheme slithering through backroom deals and straight into the heart of the world’s largest wild salmon run.

Eine stürmische Insel, ein uralter Brauch - und eine tödliche Spur aus Asche. Wenn das Jahr endet, ziehen auf Föhr die sogenannten Kenkner umher: maskierte Gestalten, die Reime aufsagen, um dafür Süßigkeiten oder Schnaps zu erhalten. Normalerweise ein harmloser Brauch - doch diesmal wird am Morgen danach eine bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verkohlte Frauenleiche am Strand entdeckt. Ihre Identität ist unklar, die Spuren durch Wind und Wetter verwischt und die Umstände verstörend.

As seen on Netflix—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bodyguard and Hello Stranger Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan...

This unforgettable debut, set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape, is “refreshingly different, vivid, and immediate. Midge Raymond has an extraordinary gift for description that puts the reader bang in the middle of its dangerous and endangered world” (M.L. Stedman, New York Times...

“Lori Lansens has created a heart-pounder of a book that is every bit as much of an emotional roller-coaster as an adventurous one” (New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult). In New York Times bestselling author Lori Lansens’ “moving portrait of the human spirit—as fierce...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation—and her life—on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed. Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert...

Both men tried to shoot her then, and the two women were stunned at the speed with which she moved. Penny charged straight at the gunmen then dove under their fire. Spinning on her back she kicked the legs from under one man, and as he fell, she kicked the gun from the other man’s hand. Spinning back to the first man she saw the gun barrel moving toward her, and she lashed out with her foot. Her boot crushed his skull and she rolled to her feet to grab the last man in a neck lock. A quick twist and he lay lifeless in her arms.

Sommer. Sonne. Soko. Es ist Hochsaison in Wyk auf Föhr. Nur der beliebte Barbesitzer Harald Königsberger verpasst den Trubel. Denn er liegt tot in seinem Haus am Strand. Die vielen Messerstiche im Körper des Opfers deuten auf einen Rache-Akt hin. Doch die Inselbewohner sind sich sicher...

Alles, was du siehst, ist nur Teil meiner Fassade. Ich spiele ein Spiel, das ich längst hätte verlieren sollen. Und dann kommt sie. Louisa Velmont. Die Tochter aus gutem Haus, der ich nicht zu nah kommen darf. Sie ist die verbotene Frucht. Verlobt. Unberührbar. Tabu. Ich wäre nicht Stone Blakewell, wenn ich es schaffen würde, mich von ihr fernzuhalten. Der erste Kuss ist elektrisierend und ich weiß sofort, dass ich mehr will. Doch wenn sie erfährt, was ich verberge, wird mein größter Fehler nicht mein Geheimnis sein, sondern, dass ich sie nicht gehen lassen kann.