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Verborgen in den schottischen Highlands, umgeben von alten Steinmauern, liegt die Sorrowsong University. Hier studieren die Sprösslinge der mächtigsten und skrupellosesten Familien. Nur ein Stipendium ermöglicht es Ophelia, diese Eliteschule zu besuchen. Dabei interessiert sie sich weniger für einen Abschluss, sondern will den Tod ihrer Eltern rächen. Als jemand Ophelia stalkt und bedroht, wird sie von Alex – dem Sohn ihres Hauptverdächtigen – beschützt. Ist er doch nicht das kaltherzige Monster, für das sie ihn gehalten hat? Ophelia kommt Alex immer näher und weiß nicht mehr, was sie fühlen soll.

My father called them messengers. He once told me they walked among us and that somewhere in this dark and godless city, there shined a faint sliver of hope. I had only to look for the signs. Well, I’ve spent my whole life investigating the inexplicable and all I've found are the unsettling vestiges of iniquity—the evidence of another world shrouded by the obscure. Purgatory to some, where depravity hides in shadows, and girls like me are little more than delicious bites of temptation. Others call it Nightshade.

Rafael Moretti is a gorgeous monster. Tall and broad, he dominates New York's underworld with an iron grip and cold, silver-gray eyes. But before he was the man everyone feared, he was my protector. My friend. The boy I could never forget. Then, tragedy struck. My father was killed, and Rafael was implicated in the murder. There was no room for forgiveness. I dedicated my life to revenge.

"Nightshade" by Dashiell Hammett is a short story appearing in "Mystery League Magazine, October 1933" featuring Jack Bye, who encounters a young woman, Helen Warner, stranded near Piney Falls bridge. Helen urgently asks for a ride into town, escaping from two men, Tony Forrest and Fred Barnes, who seem wary of Jack. Jack helps Helen and drives her into town, where they stop at a speakeasy for drinks. Their interaction is lighthearted but tinged with tension.

Martha's Vineyard has been home to Victoria Trumbull for most of her 92 years. Its magic, history, and picture-perfect calm are part of her very being. But one evening, Victoria hears something that doesn't quite belong: a scream followed by a splash and a sound of a car speeding away. She investigates and discovers a body on the outgoing tide.

After a sudden fire leaves Matt's senile and troubled grandmother homeless, she moves in with the family. Her ceaseless demands cause unrelieved tension - and with her comes a shameful secret about her daughters that traps Matt between a dead aunt who haunts him and his own mother, who seeks redemption for her sister's sins - and her own. Matt transforms from a gregarious teenager to a hostile loner prone to fits of rage - tortured by chilling memories and haunted by nightmares.

London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade, a smaller, child-like skeleton curled at its feet. The body bears evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms, and is accompanied by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl, a curious coin-like token, a set of tiny ivory sculls.

Gothic Vibes treffen auf den Trope Unlikely Allies – das Finale der opulenten Romantasy-Reihe von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Hannah Whitten! Lores Anstrengungen sind gescheitert: König Bastian erlag der finsteren Stimme der Gottheit, die seinen Verstand vergiftete, sie selbst musste ihre Heimat verlassen. Im Exil setzt sie alles ein, was ihre Vergangenheit sie gelehrt hat, um jene, die sie liebt, aus den Klauen der dunklen Macht zu befreien. Lore fasst den riskanten Plan, die verstreuten Teile eines Artefakts – angeblich die Quelle der göttlichen Kraft – zu finden und wieder zusammenzufügen.

When a murdered young girl miraculously returns to life saying she's spoken to God, it's clear that sinister forces are at play. And when those who speak to her inexplicably commit suicide shortly afterwards, Nightingale is called in. He discovers a demon has possessed the girl's body…and the only way to banish it is to kill her. And that's not all he has to deal with. After a farmer kills eight people before turning the gun on himself, the press label him as a Satanist.

The moment her eyes locked on Colt Nightshade, she knew he was trouble. But Lieutenant Althea Grayson prided herself on being in control, and she wouldn't let her new partner ruin that. The man was a renegade, no respect for rules - and the worst part was he got to her. The way he challenged Althea's thinking, stared right into her eyes...and held her in his arms. What defense could her heart have when Nightshade didn't play fair?

Michael Hart is sin in a suit: dark blond curls, icy blue eyes, and tattoos etched in secrets. By day, he's a billionaire tech mogul. By night, a mafia king. Our paths were never meant to cross—until I was promised to one of his brutal underbosses. Obviously, I run. Guess who tracks me down? The devil himself. I expect punishment. Pain. A cage. Instead, I'm offered a way out: marry Michael and live under his protection. Safe. Untouchable.

Pain is an abyss. How naive of me to think I’d already reached the very depths of it when fate shook my world with a crushing blow. It turns out there are fathomless levels of pain, like a winding labyrinth of doors leading to shadowy figures and long-forgotten secrets. The kind of inescapable descent into madness that twists nightmares into reality. What lies at the end of this obscure path I have yet to discover. But where it begins is a place called Infernium: an asylum feared by those in Nightshade and untrodden by the angels who’ve forsaken its many lost souls.

Alex McKenna is the new Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Bureau of Preternatural Investigations - the division tasked with investigating crimes involving shades. Or vampires, as they're more widely known. Children have been going missing, and agents are routinely being slaughtered. It's up to McKenna, and some unlikely allies, to get to the bottom of the problem, and find the kids before it's too late.

Langt oppe i det skotske højland, skjult bag tåge og gamle stenmure, ligger Sorrowsong University – en skole for børn af verdens mest magtfulde familier. Ophelia hører ikke til der. Men et stipendium giver hende en chance for at komme helt tæt på dem, der måske bærer skylden for hendes forældres død. En ulykke, sagde de. Hun ved bedre. Men nogen holder øje med Ophelia, og da truslerne begynder, er det Alex Corbeau-Green, søn af hendes hovedmistænkte, der uventet træder til som hendes beskytter.

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Suzy discovers one of her classmates murdered in the basement of the school, and the only witness is a ghost that speaks in riddles and rhymes. Determined to unmask the killer, Suzy enlists the help of Snowball and Alfie, but something doesn't feel right. The toil and trouble doubles when almost everyone in Hemlock begins acting differently, including Alfie. Can Suzy cast her way out of another case of murder, mystery, and mayhem, or will whatever is taking over the town get her, too?

A routine trip to the vet begins a wild adventure when Suzy Maycomber and her cat, Snowball, take a shortcut through the cemetery and find themselves in the mystical land of Nightshade, where magic exists and cats talk. Only the librarian, Rachel, the most powerful witch in Nightshade, can help Suzy get home. One big problem: Rachel's just been murdered. Desperate to find her way home, Suzy reluctantly agrees to take Rachel's place as Nightshade's resident witch, where she'll have access to the spell books that might hold the answers she needs.

Gothic Vibes treffen auf die Tropes Forbidden Romance und Love Triangle – Teil 2 der opulenten Romantasy-Reihe von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Hannah Whitten! Nach dem Tod des korrupten Königs besteigt Prinz Bastian den Thron von Dellaire und erhebt die Totenmagierin Lore zur Gefährtin an seiner Seite. Doch der Frieden ist nicht von Dauer: Eine mysteriöse dunkle Kraft breitet sich aus, die Bastian, den Lore zu kennen und lieben glaubte, plötzlich bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verändert. Lores starke Gefühle für Gabriel, mittlerweile der zweitmächtigste Mann im Reich, sind ihr dabei Trost und Hindernis zugleich.

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Nightshade pulls you deep into the underbelly of Los Angeles, where Detective Renée Ballard teams up with retired legend Harry Bosch to track a murderer whose signature is both botanical and brutal. As victims surface, each marked by a nightshade flower, the case spirals into a chilling conspiracy involving toxicology, experimental trials, and high-level corruption.