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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fifteen-year-old Reuben Cole is about to learn about the viciousness of the lawless West.After he comes to the aid of a fleeing Native American pursued by a murderous gang, Reuben accidentally kills one of them and puts his own life in danger. A whirlwind of danger ensues, as Reuben is pursued by a band of ruthless killers.Baptized in the violence of the unforgiving West, Reuben has to learn the arts of tracking and survival. These harsh lessons from his early days will turn him into the dangerous, powerful man he is to become.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reuben Cole and Sterling Roose are firm friends. Working for the United States Army as scouts, they are true professionals at what they do.But when a bank robbery goes wrong and a young woman asks for help, Sterling cannot resist. Cole is there beside him, forever his friend and ally, but love has found its way into Sterling's soul, and it just might be the most dangerous opponent he has ever come up against.Can Cole thwart the bank robbers and protect Sterling from a broken heart. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deidra Ann is a twelve-year-old girl living in southern United States during the mid-1960s. Living with her grandmother and aunt, Deidra Ann has never met her mother.Behind their house is a forest where mysterious things happen; a forest that is off limits to Deidra Ann. Some claim that her grandmother is a witch.When Deidra Ann's classmate Jenny goes missing, they all want to help. Especially Deidra Ann, as it gives her a chance to explore the secretive, mysterious woods - and maybe prove the rumors about her grandmother right.But what is really hiding deep in the forest, and could the stories about Deidra Ann's grandmother be true.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When they crossed Reuben Cole, they signed their death warrant.Reuben Cole is not the sort of man they should have messed with, and breaking into his home proves a bad idea. After his friend, Sheriff Roose, hunts down the robbers who took everything of value, the reasons for the burglary are revealed and a crooked railroad magnate's ambitions exposed.Cole's enemies are about to learn that the ways of the Old West, despite it being a new century, are not quite over yet.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After a blacksmith and his wife find a baby hidden in the bushes near their smithy, they decide to take him in and raise him as their own.According to a mysterious old man, he is to become a dragon slayer. Jedrek grows up completely unaware of this, until one day when he rescues a stranger from a group of bandits.Plunged into a world of magic swords and derring-do, he sets out to rescue his sister from the clutches of an evil magician. On the way, he meets pirates, dragons, unearthly creatures and a beautiful princess, who isn't quite what she seems to be.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Peytra Sike is a gifted, but frustrated sculptor. After the masked duke, Jors Ameros, is taken with her and her artwork, he commissions Peytra to carve the mantels in his castle.There, Peytra discovers a world of artistry and friendship that cloaks the secrets of the Duke. Despite his unwillingness to be seen, their difference in status, and some castle meddling, their love for each other grows each passing day. But can their love overcome her dangerous curiosity In the vein of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Mask Of The Nobleman is a story of fiery passion and long-kept secrets.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his darkest hour, hiding in the depths of the Somerset marshes in 878 AD, King Alfred devises a scheme to save his kingdom from the Vikings threatening to overwhelm the country.His spectacular success, beginning with the triumphant battle of Ethandun, involves creating a sense of nation among his subjects. To help with this, Alfred gathers a small band of brilliant foreign scholars in his court, chief among them John the Old Saxon.Follow this epic tale set in medieval England and see how King Alfred laid the foundations for a united country, and the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon Renaissance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A hundred years from now, everything you know will be gone.Growing up an orphan in privately run New Britain, Gideon Rayne had just one dream: to work for Kaoteck Industries as one of the Constables. But when selection day comes around, nothing goes as expected.Soon, Gideon is entrusted with a miraculous suit of high-tech armor, and thrown into a terrifying adventure that puts him on a collision course with forces darker than he never knew existed.Gideon Rayne - Maelstorm is an exciting new series that will keep you turning 'just one more page', as you delve deeper into Gideon's journey through the chaotic world of New Britain in the year 2120.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dear reader,When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us.As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to spot. Monsters had too much teeth, too much fur, too much size.These were lies. We stopped wanting to be heroes. We started to want to be more, to be too much. We wanted, needed, more than the world could give us. We wanted more than what we were told we should be. We wanted to become monsters.Dear reader,I want three things for you as you read these stories. I hope you find a story that brings you joy. I hope you find a story that gives you some discomfort. Finally, I hope you find a story here that makes you too much, that makes you just a little bit monstrous.May you be enthralled and entertained by my accounts of monsters. and may these stories help you wake up the monster inside.This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In ancient Egypt, the venom of a strange, hooded serpent connects two souls.Reincarnated over and over again, their fates are forever intertwined. In times of both war and peace, one is fated to be the maker of kings and the other the narrator of their shared history. Soon, the two will have to face the one inevitable thing in their existence: change.From Egypt 2500 BC to medieval Scotland and hundreds of years into the future, the plot of this damnable play never changes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a monk is found poisoned at St. Emma's Priory, the Chief Constable - a friend of the Prior - insists that Andy Ross and his team handle the investigation.The case turns out to be more complex than they first thought. After a second victim is found with a pitchfork thrust through his body, Ross discovers that to solve the case, they must reopen a cold case from years ago.When connections to the old East German Secret Police - the Stasi - are revealed, Ross realizes that nothing is as it seems in The Mersey Monastery Murders.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He is known as The Master. A spy, double agent and freelance assassin, he has been at the top of his game for decades. The Master has worked for Nazis, Communists, intelligence agencies and terrorists alike. No one knows his true identity.Now, the world's most secretive assassin has disappeared, and several intelligence networks want him captured, interrogated and 'redacted'.Jack Grant, now a contract agent for the French Secret Service, is assigned to track the Master down. Hot on his heels is a deadly and beautiful CIA bounty hunter who's more than capable of hunting down both of them.But the Master has an agenda of his own, and he's ready to begin a war that will engulf them all.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes.Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra - these ghosts can kill.Lil is elegant and troubled. Ann has just retired and is about to divorce: she sees vistas of nothingness in her future. Mabel is wedded to her garden. Kat is fifteen and has tried hard to drop out of life.It takes these four women, one cup of tea at a time, to face the ghosts and other supernatural beings in Canberra. But can they face down the darkness and keep Canberra's streets clear of danger.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Real estate agent Ryan Chaise lives a quiet life in Southern Spain with his beautiful girlfriend. Everything in his life seems perfectly ordinary.Except that Ryan has a secret.A former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service, Chaise gets embroiled in a world of drug-pushers and gangsters after accidentally killing a petty criminal absconding with a package of cocaine. Forced to protect himself and his family, Chaise's old skills come to the fore as danger and death tolls rise.Who to trust, who to ignore, who to kill. Chaise has many choices, and he'll need to make the right ones to survive. It's going to be a difficult balancing act.But does he still have the tools to make it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's hot, remote, desolate and dangerous - and about as deep into the infamous Australian outback as anyone would dare to venture. An eminent neurosurgeon and his family, on the holiday of a lifetime, are shot dead, their shattered bodies left to the ravages of the desert sun and carrion-eating wildlife.Detective Inspector Russell Foley and his best friend, Detective Sergeant Sam Rose, are sent into the heart of the legendary Harold Lasseter, 'Lost Reef of Gold' country, to investigate the brutal murders.But is it Gold Fever, the twisted mind of a deranged killer protecting that which he believes is his. or something else entirely.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A family curse can reach across generations.After bank manager Jonathan Ward inherits an old manor, strange things begin to happen. On his first night at the property, a beautiful young woman appears outside his door, pleading for help. Moments later, she has disappeared.Strange apparitions and unearthly sounds follow, as does the young woman seeking refuge. Desperate for information, Jonathan turns to the vast knowledge of the town librarian for help.As the dark history of the manor unfolds, Jonathan begins to realize the full extent of the horror to come. Is it too late to save those dearest to him. and himself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the run after a disastrous affair, artist Leah Mason plans to reinvent herself in a small Cornish village where nothing ever happens.But life is in St. Jofra is far from quiet, and soon Leah befriends her next-door neighbour Nat, and crosses paths with the handsome doctor Joshua Gray.When an old friend tracks her down with vengeance in mind, Leah is forced to confront all the things she had hoped to forget. But can she find love.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - February 1554, Guildhall, London. Queen Mary the 1st, England's first queen regnant, is about to make the most important, rallying speech of her life.Her good friend and advisor, Sir Francis Englefield, is with her all the way, supporting her Roman heritage. Mary plans to marry the Catholic Prince of Spain, Philip II, much against the advice of her parliament and most of the people. Even before the lavish wedding ceremony at Salisbury Cathedral, Mary finds she is deeply in love with Philip.Juggling the tasks of governing a country, putting down rebellions and keeping Philip in England rather than Spain, Mary faces an overwhelming amount of challenges. Soon, sweeping changes, civil unrest and war turn their country upside down.In vivid detail, Derek Ansell's The Titian Portrait follows the life of Mary I, a queen in her own right and an almost forgotten figure in history.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers in American history.Killing Cousins documents the shocking story of an abusive childhood that created a monster, and the suspect's possible involvement in a separate string of killings of teenagers in Rochester, New York.Did this man truly have multiple personalities, or was he a cunning sociopath enacting a daring hoax against the criminal justice system By the end, you make up your own mind.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Socrates Blackwing - wizard, warrior, bounty hunter - has fallen into disfavor with his grandfather, The General.It's the year 2070, and Socrates is stationed in Tacoma, PC-Washington. His mission is to investigate the people living in this Plane of Reality, and locate the ne'er-do-wells from his own Known Seven Planes that may have crossed over to wreak havoc.But is his magic stronger than the technology of 2070, and what will he do when confronted with one of his own kind.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1779 Kanadasaga, Sullivan's Expedition torches a Seneca village and many others, destroying the Iroquois Confederacy. Awakened from sleep, Pilan and Teka flee their blazing longhouse into the woodlands. After a soldier's bullet thwarts their escape, Pilan vows to meet his beloved Teka again in another life.Two hundred years later in present-day Geneva, New York, historical relics rise. Twilight Ends, a grand Victorian bed-and-breakfast run by the Newhouse family, sits on the property the Iroquois village used to thrive on.After Twilight Ends' long-standing matriarch Tessa Newhouse dies, her daughter and granddaughter, Skylar and Twyla, discover two artifacts under the maple tree in the backyard, and an ancient mystery as old as time begins to unravel.But will they have the courage to follow the path their ancestors did.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Young Bartholomew isn't allowed to go to school, play outside or make art. so he sketches in secret.When Bartholomew meets the skateboarding artist, Alexander DeVinci, he's yanked into a mythical realm of living paintings and breathing sculptures: Artania. The two soon learn that the strange world, where everything seems to be possible, is on the verge of destruction.With Egyptian gods and goddesses by their side, they face daring battles and narrow skateboarding escapes. But can they defeat the evil Sickhert's army, and bring art back to the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 22nd century, human cloning has become a reality.Soon, the pharma-tech company Phoenvartis will create the first artificial human being. The head of the development team, Rollie Sweats, is tasked to produce the replicant.His orders are to use samples from the ruling World Council, but his gut tells him to use the DNA of his great-grandmother, who claims to be a distant relative of an American Founding Father.Rollie has 24 hours to meet the government's demands. What he doesn't realize is that his actions will forever define the future of the human race.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Professor Luke Mann is the leader of a team heading back to the Languedoc, year 1305. Their goal To study the environment, refine delta T and, in Luke's words, 'to change the universe'. With him is Artemisia Wormwood: a Medieval historian who needs the money to save the life of her dying sister.But time travel is untested, and dangerous. Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, a village in Languedoc, is a desert of souls. Monastery, pilgrimage path, and legend; that's all there is. Perfect for scientists who have promised their work will not interfere with history.They have nine months, and they're not telling Artemisia about their research. Who needs a historian when the village looks like a gamer's dream Prepare for a bumpy ride with bad coffee.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Breathe. if you dare.English countryside, 1958. The idyllic village of Olney St. Mary has stood in its peaceful location for over 900 years.Until one day, when two teenage boys are struck by a mysterious illness. The newly arrived Doctor Hilary Newton suspects a common flu to be the cause of their malady. Before long, the doctor and residents of Olney St. Mary are plunged into a nightmare, as the disease ravages the local population. Despite the doctors employing the latest medicine available, the death toll keeps rising.Someone in the village knows the reason behind the pestilence that has struck at the heart of the village, but can the medics learn the truth before it's too late, or will they join the growing list of names that appear on the death roll in Olney St. Mary.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the table of psychiatrist Robert Cavendish lay a strange set of papers, claimed to be the journal of the infamous Whitechapel murderer whose crimes instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London.Delving deeper into the journal, Robert is convinced of its authenticity, and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him. Unable to cast the pages aside, he is drawn into the dark, sinister world of Jack The Ripper. Robert is about to find out just how thin the line between sanity and madness really is. But can he distinguish fact from fantasy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate.But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The Doctor. All evidence points to romantic connections between the killer and his prey, with an eerie lullaby left playing on an old tape recorder next to the victims.As one body after another is found, Andy Ross and his team race against time to identify the killer. But The Doctor is already courting his next victim.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a monk is found poisoned at St. Emma's Priory, the Chief Constable - a friend of the Prior - insists that Andy Ross and his team handle the investigation.The case turns out to be more complex than they first thought. After a second victim is found with a pitchfork thrust through his body, Ross discovers that to solve the case, they must reopen a cold case from years ago.When connections to the old East German Secret Police - the Stasi - are revealed, Ross realizes that nothing is as it seems in The Mersey Monastery Murders.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Who killed the strange man staying at the Roarke and Daughters Inn At a masquerade ball to raise money for renovations to the Memorial Library, Kellan finds a dead body dressed in a Dr. Evil costume. Soon after, a stalker targets school president Ursula.With a special flower exhibit in town and the arrival of strange letters, Kellan can't decide which mystery in his life should take priority. Every lead seems to trace back to the Stoddards: a new family who recently moved in.What Kellan doesn't know is that the biggest mystery of all has yet to be exposed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eighteen years after the events of A Study in Red, young Jack Reid - nephew of Robert Cavendish - discovers the journal that previously belonged to his uncle.A troubled child with psychological issues, Jack's recent years have been relatively problem-free. But after discovering the mysterious journal, his personality changes overnight, and he soon leaves his home.Soon, a series of gruesome murders similar to the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 start taking place in the seaside resort of Brighton. Detective Inspector Mike Holland and Sergeant George Wright are pulled into a case that will tax their investigative skills to the limit.Who is the man in the strange old house on Abbotsford Road, and does he have a connection to the young Jack Reid And what is the truth behind the riddle in the Legacy of The Ripper.…