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My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options. Go to prison or put myself under his wrath. I choose to have a roof over my head. What’s so hard about acting, right? Wrong. The moment I step into his wife’s shoes, everything spirals out of control. My only way of survival is through Adrian. Or is it?

After nearly two years and with one token left to hide, a powerful magical event hits Talohna and causes the failure of the most important spell Kael has ever cast. The horrific results leave him a wanted man and all of his efforts to form an alliance against the Ri’Tek fall apart. With the tokens hidden at last, Kael wants nothing more than to forget the past and to spend time with his family, but knowing they will never be safe no matter where they hide, he recruits Treach in a bid to scour the Arcane Library catacombs for an answer.

Grover Hughes is the president of the Dark Horse MC. Ryan Turner is the one who got away. Or rather, the one who ran away. She needs help and protection. He's too stubborn to follow his gut. She's too stubborn to beg. Their past was laced with betrayal. They were never meant to cross paths again. She could be everything he ever wanted. He could be the ruin of her.

Blood. Death. War. A dynasty destroyed, leaving me as the ultimate prize. I'm an unmated Omega Wolf, a princess destined to rule. But the remaining Alpha Princes all want to claim me, their brutal methods terrifying and cruel. I’ve spent the last century running and hiding in places where no one would think to look. Only he found me: Prince Kieran, the most powerful shifter of them all. Our game of hide and seek has come to an end. It’s time for me to submit...or to die fighting.

En esta peculiar y sorprendente novela, Izumi Kyoka pone en práctica una suerte de "gótico japonés", con la escalofriante historia de Akira, un joven obsesionado con una melodía de una canción de su infancia, el único recuerdo que aún lo ata a su madre fallecida. En su búsqueda por mantener vivo el recuerdo llegará a la Puerta Negra, una mansión encantada. Con ayuda de un monje y un anciano, entrará en la mansión en busca de su premio... aunque le esperan numerosos peligros antes de conseguirlo.

New England, 1890. Doctor John Shepherd arrives at a women's mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Intrigued by a girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. In this chilling literary thriller everyone has something to hide and no one is what they seem.

Carmen Ronaldo is my enemy and my obsession. I'll conquer her and make her mine. For years, Carmen has hated me. I seduced her to learn her family's secrets, and then I used those secrets to fracture the Ronaldo cartel, taking half of their territory for myself. I made myself a king, but I've never been fully satisfied in my victory. I've never experienced regret. The emotions that rule weaker men don't affect me. Until her. I've waited far too long to claim Carmen for myself.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tomorrow by Damian Dibben, read by George Blagden. Tomorrow tells the story of a 217-year-old dog and his search for his lost master. His adventures take him through the London Frost Fair, the strange court of King Charles I, the wars of the Spanish succession, Versailles, the Golden Age of Amsterdam, 19th-century Venice and the Battle of Waterloo.

The Perfect Lie, book three: This was supposed to be so easy. We go out west and start a new life. But then a gun goes off and everything changes. What happens now? How do we get through this? My hopes start to evaporate with each passing moment. But as long as Tyler is breathing, I have to keep fighting. The Perfect Life, book four: Everyone thinks I’m a murderer, and after a while, it’s easier to just give in....

Das Wesen richtete sich mühsam auf, von einem unheiligen Zauber geweckt. Jahrtausende hatte der Gigant geschlafen; hier unten, auf dem finsteren, sandigen Grund des Meeres. Mit noch schwerfälligen, doch ungeheuer kraftvollen Bewegungen strebte er nun dem Licht entgegen. Schon spürte er die Nähe seines Opfers. Und wenige Augenblicke später sah er die dunkle Silhouette des Schiffes über sich.

Ein riesiger Mottenschwarm belagert Andara House. Alles, was die scheinbar harmlosen Tiere berühren, zerfällt in Sekunden zu Staub. Als Robert Craven versucht, das Rätsel um die Herkunft der mysteriösen Insekten zu lüften, stößt er auf eine Spur, die ihn zu jemandem führt, den er bisher zu kennen glaubte: zu seinem Freund H. P. Lovecraft.

Als Robert Craven nach einer Panne im Haus des mysteriösen Mister Boldwinn unterkommt, ahnt er nicht, dass er in eine sorgfältig vorbereitete Falle tappt, die ihm einer der Großen Alten gestellt hat. Er stellt sich dem Kampf - und muss einen hohen Preis dafür bezahlen.

Zusammen mit den Tempelrittern betritt Robert Craven erneut das unheimliche Haus in Amsterdam, um das Kristallhirn, welches das mörderische Labyrinth erschaffen hat, zu zerstören. Das Vorhaben scheitert und das Hirn wird entwendet. Bei dem Versuch, es zurück zu bekommen, merkt Robert plötzlich, dass ihm ein scheinbar unüberwindlicher Gegner auf den Fersen ist. Das ist das letzte Abenteuer aus der Welt von Wolfgang Hohlbeins Hexer-Zyklus.

Auf der Fahrt nach London geraten Robert Craven und seine Begleiter in eine Falle der Grossen Alten: Ein Shoggote ergreift Besitz von dem Wald, den sie durchqueren. Zu spät erkennen sie, dass kein Weg mehr hinausführt. Dem Hexer bleibt keine Wahl: Er muss sich dem Kampf mit der Kreatur stellen.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, published in 1886, is another brilliant work from Robert Louis Stevenson about the life and death struggle between two opposing personalities - one essentially good, the other essentially evil - for the soul of one man. The kind and intelligent Dr. Jekyll concocts a drug intended to separate his good self from his evil self, and after drinking it, turns into a psychopathic monster: Mr. Hyde!