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I know what I want. So when opportunity knocked, I took it. I grabbed my shot, willing to do anything to make it happen. From the beginning, I knew I was destined to be with the six-foot-four, bourbon-eyed Rock God. Only back in the early days, he wasn’t a god. Rhys Granger was my brother’s friend, the boy next door who wrote verses and played his guitar in our garage. He was talented. Exciting. Damaged. The kind of guy who made all the girls cry…. Except for me. I thought I was special. Turns out I’m not. And now…I despise him.

I don’t apologize or regret the destruction I’m about to cause. I’m at peace with what I must do...nothing can or will stand in my way. Not even the raven-haired beauty with golden eyes who haunts my dreams. No one is innocent in the story of my life. Fairy tales don’t exist! I. Make. No. Excuses. Everyone needs to atone, and I’m the man who is going to see to it.

‘This is fantasy at its finest’ – Leigh Bardugo, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author The Ragpicker King is the epic, gripping sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare. His life is an illusion. Her lie is a gamble. Can two outliers save a kingdom? The...

Bound by poverty, I’m but an offering to the gods worshipped by the Frehja. Left astray at the hands of my greed-filled father, I’m a sacrificial pawn to the Ghryadiel, leaving me with one choice: death. A fickle hope lies in my desperate desire to rebel against fate. I don’t run from my demise like the gods expect—I embrace it. Four Ghryadiel Dragons band together to kidnap me from the brink of plunging catastrophe. An act of rebellion against their forefathers. Little do I know, our psychotic tendencies are what bond us as my act of defiance lays the mark of sin upon my clammy flesh.

Er ist der Typ, für den ich schwärme, seit meine Schwester seinen Bruder geheiratet hat. Danil Koslov, der jüngste Koslov-Bruder. Und der Sexieste, wenn du mich fragst. Wir sind schon eine Weile befreundet, aber irgendetwas hat sich in unserer Beziehung verändert. Nur bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob er genauso fühlt. Als ich herausfinde, dass sein Bruder ihm befohlen hat, mir zu folgen, um mich vor einem Stalker zu schützen, fühle ich mich verraten. Ist das der einzige Grund, warum er mir näher gekommen ist, um seinen Brüdern etwas zu beweisen?

Er hat mich vor dem sicheren Tod gerettet, weigert sich aber, mir seine Identität zu verraten. Er sagte mir, er beobachte mich schon seit Jahren. Ich sollte Angst haben. Aber aus irgendeinem verrückten Grund vertraue ich ihm. Er ist in meinem Zimmer, während ich schlafe, und beschützt mich, Aber ich sehne mich nach mehr. Ich bettele ihn an, bis er mir gibt, was ich will. Trotzdem weigert er sich immer noch, mir zu zeigen, wer er ist. Er ist berauschend. Ich kann ohne ihn nicht atmen. Aber er verheimlicht mir etwas. 

They say Lance Knight bathes in blood money. That he's the devil who keeps my brother's empire running. The enforcer who can kill with just his bare hands. I should be terrified when he becomes my shadow. Instead, I'm burning for the monster assigned to protect me. (Ten years of forbidden fantasies are finally within reach.) Then the nightmares tear through me. His name rips from my throat in the dark. And suddenly he's there—all raw power and deadly grace.

Kathy O'Hara and Brent McQueen were wild kids whose high school romance segued into the perfect marriage - until sudden tragedy drove them apart, leaving Kathy a single mom raising their daughter, Shanna, on her own. But when Brent is rumored to have been aboard a yacht that exploded in fire, leaving no survivors, Kathy grieves for the celebrated rock musician she still loves. Except Brent isn't dead. And now his family is in mortal jeopardy.