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Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

Il casolare del Mas Clavell si nasconde tra le montagne dei Pirenei: è una fattoria frequentata da cacciatori di lupi, banditi, fantasmi, bestie e demoni, radicata nel terreno come una zecca.

NELLA FORESTA DI ROKTHAN, un piccolo, insignificante villaggio come ce ne sono tanti, gli animali cominciano a sparire. Sorin, un cacciatore, cerca di comprenderne il motivo. Ma la diminuzione delle prede non è la sua unica preoccupazione: da un paio di giorni, infatti, suo figlio Jas è vittima di strane crisi di violenza. Intanto, un vecchio straniero dall'aspetto emaciato che si fa chiamare Maestro fa la sua comparsa nel paese, portandosi dietro una scia di sangue e di misteri.

Crime reporter Joe Carpenter lost his wife and two daughters in the crash of Flight 353. Joe is unable to work, think, or do anything but grieve, and wait for his own death. Then Joe meets Rose, a woman who claims to be the crash’s sole survivor. But before Joe can probe further, the elusive Rose slips away and Joe is left with haunting questions: If Rose lived through the crash, is it possible his family could have survived it, too? Did the authorities conspire to hide what really happened that night? Joe’s search for the truth will shatter him - and force him to question everything he thinks he knows about life and death.

Oscilando entre el terror, la fantasía y la ciencia ficción, cada una de las diez historias que componen el libro son una cara de una sociedad posapocalíptica, enferma y desgastada -que podría estar ubicada en cualquier lugar del mundo-, cuyos personajes parecen dar la última pelea por...

A los 18 años, Aimée se siente atraída por el frío encanto de Candre Marchère, un rico y joven terrateniente que busca desposarla. Llena de ilusiones, ella deja a su familia y se va a vivir con él al Bosque Dorado, un lugar lúgubre y apartado de la Francia rural del siglo XIX. Pero muy pronto Aimée se enfrenta a los largos silencios de su marido y descubre con horror que Aleth, su primera esposa, murió misteriosamente poco tiempo después de casarse. Ahora ella se entrega al mismo hombre, duerme en la misma cama y usa los vestidos que dejó la difunta Aleth.

El dolor de una traición. Un pacto con el Diablo. Un amor imposible. La belleza de la libertad. Y un corazón roto. Es posible que los finales felices no existan. O sí. Pregúntale a la chica de algodón de azúcar.

Carmen recobra la conciencia en medio de la noche. Tiene un cuchillo en la mano, está cubierta de sangre, pero no recuerda nada. ¿Cometió un crimen? ¿Le tendieron una trampa? Con un tono de terror e incertidumbre entramos en su historia y la de sus hermanas, en la tragedia familiar que las cambió para siempre. ¿Fueron demonios internos o externos los que la llevaron hasta ahí?

A giant redneck in Fairyland, what could possibly go wrong? Everything. Absolutely everything. Monsters, Magic, & Mayhem collects four novella chronicling Bubba the Monster Hunter's trip through the lands of the Fae in search of his kidnapped sister.

As the heir to the Halliday name and fortune, Win's entire life has been carefully orchestrated from the moment he came into the world. He's never been allowed to aspire for anything outside that plan, including love. After the tragedy that followed his younger brother chasing his foolish heart, the Halliday Matriarch insists on picking a bride that's up to her outrageously high standards. Unfortunately, the only woman Win would ever consider marrying isn't found anywhere on his mother's list.

Robert "Bubba" Brabham never wanted to hunt monsters. He mostly wanted to drink beer, hunt deer, and chase women, like every other giant redneck in the world. But life interfered, and Bubba found himself holster-deep in the family business: monster hunting. Now he's the Southeastern Regional Hunter for the Holy Roman Catholic Church...Bubba has to save the world from the things that go bump in the night! Just as soon as he's done with his beer. And maybe after one more lap dance.

Kaum nach Shellville zurückgekehrt, müssen sich Faith und ihre Freunde gegen eine Invasion von mörderischen Riesenspinnen zur Wehr setzen, die eine alte Feindin entfesselt hat, um das Faith-Team in einem möglichst verwundbaren Moment zu überrumpeln. So können Delia und Alaine nicht eingreifen, als Faith erneut in einen Eisklotz eingeschlossen wird.

The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime. Sebastian's only hope of surviving the Court and bringing home Prince Lyne's traitorous brother lies with Duine, a magickless Unseelie servant desperate to win his freedom. A servant for whom Sebastian, an estranged Seelie royal himself, is developing a dangerous and deepening affection.