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One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

Auf der Jacht »Sapient Sailor« bringt Vicky den Studierenden das Segeln bei und versucht ihrem Traum, Kapitänin zu werden, ein Stück näher zu kommen. Nachdem sie jahrelang gemobbt wurde, will sie endlich zu sich selbst finden. An Bord trifft sie auf den geheimnisvollen und wahnsinnig attraktiven Jakob. Mit Details über sein Leben geht er vorsichtig um, und er scheint unter enormem Druck zu stehen. Trotzdem übt er eine Anziehungskraft auf Vicky aus, die sie so bisher nicht kannte. Mit jeder Sekunde, die sie gemeinsam verbringen, wachsen ihre Gefühle füreinander.

Nach einer schmerzhaften Trennung hofft Jules auf einen Neuanfang als studentische Hilfskraft auf der luxuriösen Segeljacht "Sapient Sailor". Doch seine Pläne werden von einer unerwarteten Mitbewohnerin durchkreuzt: Durch einen Fehler muss er sich seine kleine Kabine mit Elisa teilen, deren überbordender Optimismus und chaotisches Auftreten Jules zur Verzweiflung treiben. Doch je mehr Zeit sie miteinander verbringen, desto stärker sprühen die Funken. Als sie eine blinde Passagierin an Bord entdecken, werden ihre aufkeimenden Gefühle füreinander auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

In a celebrity-obsessed society, baby Muffin's death is big news. Was it cot death, or something more sinister? The bereaved parents, celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz, live in curate Callie Anson's parish, and Callie becomes involved with the funeral arrangements in the spite of the disapproval of the vicar. Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is called away from his honeymoon to investigate the case, with disastrous personal results, and journalist Lilith Noone's professional future is put on the line.

Alicen McAffery finally has the life her mother always dreamed for her: a beautiful home in Santa Monica, a successful husband, and an adorable daughter. Then tragedy blows her carefully assembled facade to pieces. Worse yet - Alicen feels solely responsible. At rock bottom, she decides to accompany a childhood friend back to Red Lodge, Montana, where they spent summers together as kids.

The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unsuspecting victims on the sands of an estuary and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain. This British Library anthology collects the best mysteries set on choppy seas, along snaking rivers and even in the supposed safety of a swimming pool, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Phyllis Bentley and R. Austin Freeman.

Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.

Sturm auf hoher See – und im Herzen. Meeresbiologiestudentin Henriette hat einen der begehrten Plätze auf der Segeljacht "Sapient Sailor" ergattert und verbringt ein exklusives Auslandssemester auf hoher See. Endlich hat sie die Chance, sich aus dem Schatten ihrer Schwester zu lösen. An Bord stößt Henriette auf den abenteuerlustigen Frauenheld Lukas, ihren Freund aus Kindertagen, der ihr inzwischen jedoch fremd ist. Das erste Wiedersehen ist eisig, doch zwischen Studienprojekten, gemeinsamen Tauchgängen im Südpazifik und intensiven Gesprächen funkt es gewaltig.

Willy Cherrymill and his stepdaughter, Lacey, are deeply bruised by a past brimming with unanswered questions. It’s been 30 years since May DuBerry, Willy’s young wife and Lacey’s mother, abandoned them both, leaving Willy to raise Lacey alone. Lacey Cherrymill is smart, stubborn, and focused. She’s also single mother to a young daughter recently diagnosed with a devastating illness. The last thing she needs to think about right now is the betrayal that rocked her childhood. Reluctantly, she has returned to her rural beginnings, a former dairy farm in the Maryland countryside.

In the depths of a remote forest, an enchanted castle preys on unwary travellers. The servants of the Goddess Morana sacrifice to their dark mistress every soul who crosses its threshold. One terrible night, three people who should never have met find themselves trapped there: a spoiled lady escaping an unwanted marriage, an aging warrior-prince on a deadly mission, and a resourceful rogue caught up in a botched heist. As their destinies entwine and the dawn approaches, the solution to the castle’s riddle becomes clear: if they want to escape, one of them must die.

Perfect for fans of The Mothers and Olive Kitteridge, in this stunning and perceptive debut novel three women learn what it means to come home--and to make peace with the family, love affairs, and memories they'd once left behind. "Here are voices from the heartland rendered real, raw, and...

Charismatic expat Bobby Little built his own funky version of paradise on the remote island of Rum Cay, a place where ambitious sport fishermen docked their yachts for fine French cuisine and crowded the bar to boast of big blue marlin catches while Bobby refilled their cognac on the house. Larger than life, Bobby was really the main attraction: a visionary entrepreneur, expert archer, reef surfer, bush pilot, master chef, seductive conversationalist.

Men of the Deep Waters is a collection of gripping sea stories featuring storms, shipwrecks, and the dangers of life on the open ocean. With vivid descriptions and thrilling action, Hodgson captures the power of the sea and the bravery of those who dare to sail it.

It is 1941, and America teeters on the brink of war. Outgoing naval officer Ensign Jim Avery escorts British convoys across the North Atlantic in a brand-new destroyer, the USS Atwood. Back on shore, Boston Navy Yard secretary Mary Stirling does her work quietly and efficiently, happy to be out of the limelight.