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Magic has been outlawed for almost a century, and anyone caught wielding it or bearing its mark is executed. Which is why I know every day could be my last. I'm marked for death. My skin bears the branding of the moon. I just thank the stars that it's not somewhere visible. For one night, I willingly put myself in danger, picking a stranger to lose myself in before I begin my life of servitude to the crown as a member of the King's Guard. But the man I thought was a stranger turns out to be the Blade of the King, Thorn, my new boss.

It's a dark night in an alley when Seo Jin-tae marks me. A death sentence written across my skin that there's no escaping from. No matter how far I run, or how well I hide, he'll come for me. But when he returns to carry out his grim mission, something changes. Instead of ending my life, he claims it. I become his obsession—the one thing he can't bring himself to destroy. And as passion burns between us, I realize I don't stand a chance. I find myself drawn to the man who once sought to kill me.

Pierce Ambrose. That was the name of the man I'd been sent to kill. The man I'd failed to kill. I have one day left to make good on my contract before the thugs holding my sister and her son start sending me pieces of them. Pierce Ambrose. A man with a secret I didn't uncover until it was too late to turn back, too late to give up on trying to kill him. Now, if I want to see my sister and nephew again, I have to try one last time. My name is Mac Brennan, and this time I'm playing for keeps.

I finally went to get a tattoo. It was supposed to be a beautiful white lily, but the big, grumpy tattoo artist had something else in mind. Only, he didn't freaking tell me before he got started. When it's time for the big reveal, I don't see a pretty flower; I see his name tattooed across the back of my shoulder. He says I'm his. That I'm his mate. My friends tell him to go to hell. That we're suing. But this grouchy beast isn't shaken. He doesn't care one bit and keeps saying that he's marked me, so I belong to him now.

In the frigid woods at the edge of a storm, I'm going to find myself or die trying. I'm a fugitive of the fae city of Windhelm, framed for a murder I didn't commit. I only made it out of their dungeons by luck, and now I'm on the run - but so is the Prince.

Being a different breed of shapeshifter—a walker—Mercy can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River—and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil.

A few months ago, we danced. We flirted. I've never wanted a woman more. But she was too young for me. Too unguarded. Wide-eyed college girls with curves for days don't end up with possessive bikers that have blood on their hands. Somehow, I found the strength to push her away. Now she's back, walking into my tattoo shop and asking another man to put his mark on her skin. Over my dead body. If she gets inked, it'll be by my hand or no one's. My bad boy biker rep might not match with her sunshine. But I know we belong together, so this time I'm not letting her go.

It’s 1803, and widowed aristocrat Sophy De Browarec must flee France after being exposed as an undercover British agent. Fearing for her life, she returns to Cornwall to seek help from the only living link to her past, Fitzwilliam 'Fitz' Ravensbourne. Lord Ravensbourne has suffered his own share of misfortune, and it has left its mark in more ways than one. He has become a near recluse at the Ravensbourne Estate but still reluctantly accepts Sophy into his home. Sophy and Fitz’s relationship is strained, and her return could bring danger to Ravensbourne....

Fourth in the “flawless” (The Reading Café) New York Times bestselling series from the author of Vision in Silver. For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity...

Arwen Forester may be a socially awkward introvert, but she’s an expert tracker, archer, and forager who has a pickling recipe for every vegetable in the garden. Unfortunately, none of these skills earn her a lot of money. And when the taxes go up on her father’s farm, she’s not sure how to help him keep the property. Then someone offers her a lucrative new gig: Hunt down a haughty half-dragon criminal with the power to incinerate those who irritate him.

What do you do if people say you are born with the “mark of the devil,” especially in Jamaica where many believe in the spirits of good and evil? If you are Isabella “Bella” Pigmore, born with a birthmark so pronounced that she faces ridicule for most of her young life, you feel bad—very bad. Growing up feeling like a freak, Bella clings to the only support she has, her mother. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances and she is left alone with her abusive father, Bella suffers dearly at the hands of the man who should protect her.

Sometimes the penalty for magic is death. The Midwest Pack used the Clostra to perform a powerful and dangerous spell to save me. Now the pack is dealing with the aftermath and doing damage control. But they can't hide how the magic has changed the dynamics of the otherworld-or that they are responsible. Ethan has dangerous secrets and so do I. The worst one: I developed new and disturbing powers reminiscent of a deadly being that once ruled and terrorized the otherworld. What Ethan and I are has been exposed.

October 1143. A mysterious archer who kills cleanly and 'dissolves' into the forest, a missing train of pack mules on the salt road from Wich and a lord in the wrong place at the wrong time mean a crime the lord Sheriff of Worcestershire cannot ignore. Bradecote, Catchpoll and the eager Walkelin are hunting a killer and a gang and whoever is giving them orders. They are not helped by a reeve keen to keep his position, a lord with his own ends to serve and a distrusting and vengeful widow with a haunted past, to whom Bradecote is increasingly attracted.

"Idet Rebecca sagde dette, faldt hun på knæ på en højst tragisk måde, tog sir Pitts barkede sorte hånd mellem sine to hænder (der var hvide og smukke og så bløde som silke) og så op i hans ansigt med et udtryk af dyb følelse og tillid, da - da døren gik op, og miss Crawley sejlede ind." Rebecca Sharp har en fordrukken far og en mor, hvis moral lader meget tilbage at ønske. Hun vil bort fra sit miljø og op i det gode selskab.

"Mr. Sedley blinkede på en ualmindelig underfundig måde, og han så hen på Amelia, og Amelia hang med hovedet og rødmede, som kun unge damer på sytten år kan rødme, og som Rebecca aldrig i sit liv havde rødmet -" Rebecca Sharp har en fordrukken far og en mor, hvis moral lader meget tilbage at ønske. Hun vil bort fra sit miljø og op i det gode selskab.

"Nu fik Rebecca sin hævn over disse uforskammede damer. Det var rygtedes i hotellet, at kaptajn Crawley havde ladet sine heste blive hjemme, og da panikken satte ind, nedlod lady Bareacres sig til at sende sin kammerpige op til kaptajnens frue med hilsen fra mylady og en forespørgsel om, hvor meget mrs. Crawleys heste kostede." Rebecca Sharp har en fordrukken far og en mor, hvis moral lader meget tilbage at ønske. Hun vil bort fra sit miljø og op i det gode selskab.

EMT Kaitlin North can’t believe the shooting victim at an isolated Ozark cabin is the man who once saved her life. Now, the only way she can keep undercover police officer Daniel Ryan alive is to help him elude the hitmen on his trail. With danger closing in, can Kaitlin and Ryan trust each other’s instincts...and take a chance on love?

Between spending Valentine’s Day with her sweetheart Sam and shopping upcoming Presidents’ Day sales with the Good Buy Girls, everything is coming up roses and bargains for Maggie Gerber. But then the mother of Maggie’s nemesis comes to town, hoping to set her spoiled daughter up with Sam. When Maggie heads to her romantic rival’s house to put a stop to the scheming, she discovers Summer standing over a dead body - holding a weapon. As much as Maggie would love to see Summer get her just desserts, she can’t shake the feeling that the meddling menace is, in fact, innocent.

Kissed by the spray of the Iguaçú Falls in the lush heart of the Brazilian rain forest, the luminous woman Tamires kneels, searching for answers. The falls have always beckoned her, their pull as mysterious as the fire that burns inside her - a fire whose elemental force is the key to unlocking her mystical destiny. Thirty years earlier, young Tamires was abandoned beneath the falls with only a sparkling amethyst pendant linking her to her origins.

The story begins and the story ends, but the questions linger, leaving us to ponder the depths of fear and the darkness that may lurk within even the most unexpected places. Marked by Malevolence explores encounters, collisions, engagements, and battles between the seen, unseen, and everything in between. Universal, global, local, and unknown locations, entities, and alien worlds await our exploration. All stories are fictional but may relate symbolically to real events, experiences, and emotions. New episodes are uploaded weekly.