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When Aurora Bennett witnesses a murder by a ruthless Los Angeles crime boss, she ends up stuck in her apartment like she’s the one who committed the crime. Then a sexy new neighbor moves in, and he’s just the sort of bossy, broad-shouldered male that makes her crazy—in more ways than one. Devon Whitestone can’t tell his neighbor Aurora the truth—that he’s actually a personal bodyguard hired by her brother, the owner of Bennett Security. Rule number one: don’t touch.

In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal...

Aus Sorge um ihre Sicherheit engagiert er Milosh Petrov: diszipliniert, entschlossen und absolut unbestechlich. Für Milosh ist der Auftrag reine Routine. Doch schnell wird klar: Daphne ist alles andere als eine gewöhnliche Klientin. Er würde alles tun, um sie vor Gefahren zu beschützen und lässt sich dabei sogar eines Tages darauf ein, sich als ihr Freund auszugeben.

My Angel is the one who got away—the only person in the world I love. When she is caught in an unsanctioned bank robbery in my territory, only my reputation protects her. She should have stayed away. Instead, she charges back into my life like a shining beacon in my otherwise bleak existence. She has no place in my world where hardened criminals toy with the lives of the innocent.

How far would you go to save the ones you love? The first book in a stunning new crime series featuring DCI Anna Tate. When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right under their noses? No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. But DCI Anna Tate knows that nothing is impossible, and she also knows that time is quickly running out.

Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffel bag. He's been trained to kill but was never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.

Cenk Yavuz Aydin, um CEO turco, poderoso e arrogante, é implacável em suas conquistas, sejam elas nos negócios ou na vida amorosa. Ao se deparar com sua nova funcionária, a inglesa Ophelia Corbyn, teve certeza de que a seduziria. O que era para ser um relacionamento temporário, como tantos outros que já teve, no entanto, acaba se transformando em um caso a longo prazo e por um ano, eles saciam o desejo recíproco nos braços um do outro. E então, sem qualquer aviso, Ophelia vai embora de sua vida. Quando o magnata descobre a razão dela ter partido, ele jura vingança.

My husband sold me. Not only did he sell me, but he told me he loved me while doing the deal. What lies he tells. Only fools believe him. Unfortunately, one of those fools was me.

Keller is a man tormented by the nightmares he's had ever since a disastrous tour in Desert Storm. Destroyed by his experience, Keller now makes his living tracking bail jumpers for H&H, a North Carolina bail bonds company run by a reclusive, beautiful, and horribly scarred woman named Angela. In truth Keller doesn't work bail enforcement to live, he lives to work: the only thing that breaks through the numbness is the thrill of the hunt, the sound of gunfire, the high that comes with each successful takedown.

Дела Барановского все хуже и хуже: внутреннее управление может отстранить его от работы раньше, чем он закончит расследование. Напарник Барановского решает прибегнуть к радикальным мерам. В квартире убитой находят шокирующее видео.

1978: Der Mord an einem Einbrecher setzt eine Spirale in Gang, die Isaac Kane aus seinem bisherigen Leben als Dozent für Archäologie reißt. Plötzlich ist er gezwungen, sich seiner wahren Herkunft zu stellen und erfährt von dem, was hinter den Schatten lauert und jederzeit danach trachtet, die Menschen zu vernichten und ihre Seelen zu unterwerfen. Nur ein alter Mann scheint ihm Schutz geben zu können - aber ist das wirklich wahr? Schließlich war er es, der einen Werwolf unter den Menschen freigelassen hat.