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Maxwell Morgan has always been a very practical guy. He started working at age fifteen because his foster family was stretched thin. He joined the army right out of high school to earn money for college. Even after getting his first job after college, he kept working the three jobs that let him get there—National Guard infantryman, farmer, and blacksmith. About nine months into his new job as an HR Generalist, Max’s boss arranged a one-week team-building event for the team. Max and his five attractive, female co-workers boarded the plane for Sheridan, Wyoming, and then things went sideways.

Selene DiSilva, goddess of the hunt, squares off against a killer who threatens the very existence of the gods themselves in this stunning sequel to Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Immortals, "a lively re-imaging of classical mythology." (Deborah Harkness) Winter in New York: snow falls, lights...

In this modern-day "lively re-imagining of classical mythology" (Deborah Harkness), when a string of women are murdered in an ancient pagan ritual, Selene DiSilvia -- known by some as the goddess Artemis -- hears their cries for help and takes up her bow once more. Manhattan has many secrets...

In September 2019, Max Morgan boarded a vintage Beech Twin aircraft with the five ladies from his office and the three-person flight crew for a flight to Sheridan, Wyoming. Max’s boss had scheduled a team-building exercise for survival training, so they had bags packed with camping gear, firearms, and ammunition. Then the aircraft hit a mysterious vortex in the air that pulled them inexorably toward the west at a dizzying speed. That vortex dumped their aircraft back in time in northern Germany 1,700 years earlier.

Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a struggle of spies and sorcerers. The Witch Who Came in from the Cold follows agents on opposing sides of two struggles: the Cold War and an ancient conflict between two occult secret societies: the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame. A CIA and KGB agent will find their loyalties to country tested when they realize they must work together to prevent the destruction of the world at the hands of the Flame.

Welcome to Prague, 1970: ground zero in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient organizations that seek to harness elemental magic. Tanya Morozova is a KGB officer and the latest in a long of Ice sorceresses; Gabe Pritchard is a CIA officer and reluctant Ice recruit. Enemies at one turn, but forced into alliances at the next, their relationship is as explosive as the Cold War itself.

Paris, 1789 - Leo hat alles: Reichtum, einen Titel und zahlreiche Liebhaber. Bis zu der Nacht, in der er alles verliert. Ihm bleibt nichts, nichts als der Hunger und ein Mann, der ihn immer tiefer in die verführerische Dunkelheit zieht.

When a mysterious human, Sir Rowan arrives in the immortal realm of Thalassaria seeking the legendary Tidal Pearl, Thalassarian guard Nerys is assigned as his escort and to keep close whilst he’s in the palace. But her duty wars with her desires as the more time she spends with Rowan, the harder it becomes for them to ignore their growing attraction. Powerful, enigmatic, and devastatingly mortal, Rowan stirs something deep within her that could change the course of her future.

Nel 1792, Parigi è sconvolta dal regime del Terrore imposto dai giacobini. L'ultima speranza per la nobiltà francese sta nel misterioso eroe che organizza la spericolata evasione e il successivo espatrio dei condannati a morte armato solo della propria inventiva e utilizzando i più impensabili travestimenti: la Primula rossa, così chiamata perché ogni sua impresa è annunciata da un biglietto di sfida firmato con uno scarlatto simbolo floreale.

Dans l'histoire dont il est le héros, Bjorg le barbare est associé à une Narratrice plus qu'étouffante ! Déjà qu'il n'aime pas les descriptions, mais en plus elle se permet de le juger. La vie de ce binôme change quand un jour, leurs rôles s'inversent : la Narratrice se matérialise dans un corps de personnage tandis que Bjorg devient le Narrateur de l'histoire ! Bien décidés à ce que les choses redeviennent ce qu'elles étaient, le duo doit coopérer tant bien que mal afin que chacun retrouve sa place initiale. D'autant plus que les pires périls de leur monde les attendent.