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Thrice Upon a Time is the story of the search for the identity of an abandoned child - an inventive novel which is at once a gripping mystery and a morally resounding feminist history, set in British Columbia.

Agile Security's mission to rescue an innocent hostage spirals into chaos, putting former spy Simona Novotny in the crosshairs of danger. As bullets fly, her life hangs by a thread, saved only by the skilled hands of the team's new trauma surgeon. Sparks flare between Simona and the undaunted Dr. Jameson 'Scotch' Scott. Too bad she's infuriated by everything the muscle-bound Navy hero represents.

OSCURO COME UNA LEGGENDA TRAMANDATA SOTTOVOCE. Dopo la tragica perdita del figlio, Rachel e Finn Kennan sono alla deriva, estranei l'uno all'altra e sempre più distanti. Rachel, capo della polizia in una piccola città della Virginia, si rifugia nel lavoro, cercando risposte nei casi su cui indaga piuttosto che dentro di sé. Finn, scrittore il cui talento si è spento insieme alla sua determinazione, lotta contro il peso della colpa.

When Skye showed up I knew there was gonna be trouble. Because her mission was to stop the arsonist. And my mission was to forget the night we shared. But best laid plans get wrecked. Especially when the perpetrator of the attack on your sanity can see right into your soul. And gets assigned to work with you. So while the pretty ATF agent chases clues in my small town, I realize my mission to stay away from her is impossible. Turns out she isn't only cracking the case, she's cracking open the rock inside my chest.

Master Sergeant Cole Strong would never leave his former girlfriend, Sierra, in trouble. When a suspicious accident leaves her in the hospital thousands of miles away, he's on the first plane. But her amnesia and him pretending to be her fiancé is a disaster in the making. He knew she never wanted to see him again . . . but the Air Force pilot can't remember him. Or the way he tore her family apart to save her from a violent assault. When Sierra goes missing he faces the most deadly threat of all to bring her home.

The town used to be a safe haven from the problems of the big city. Now many youth in the town are turning to drugs. Jake knows many of these kids in the crumbling downtown section aren't local. A robbery in a local bar at the center of town takes the town into an even worse spin. The bar owner, Babe, is a friend to Jake, but rescuing her sets off a chain of crimes increasing in challenge and severity. The bloody trail leads to a golf bag and a bag of golf balls that may not be what they seem to be.

It's not just the winter murder of a young woman that has Jake Hines concerned. When the body is found at the river near a highway overpass, Jake's girlfriend Trudy is supposed to be there as a crime scene expert from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Trudy is missing, the BCA is understaffed, the Rutherford Police Department needs more officers, and the snowstorm is covering up the body and evidence.

If Lucy, the pregnant giant anteater from Belize, didn't kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did? California zookeeper Teddy Bentley must find the real murderer before her furry friend is shipped off to another zoo in disgrace. Then another human bites the dust, the monkeys riot, the wolves go nuts - and that's just the beginning.

Bounty hunter Anderson Gunn has had enough of this alien stuff. He can accept that offworlders live among us. He can even be friends with them. But that doesn't mean he wants to be involved in their affairs. So, naturally, it’s just his luck that when Gunn tries to go back to his normal life of collecting bail-jumpers and minding his business, the Gatekeeper - Austin’s kingpin of extraterrestrial commerce - offers him a job.

When zookeeper Theodora “Teddy” Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn’t drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate’s killer implicate other animal keepers at the Gunn Zoo, including Outback Bill, marsupial keeper and Kate’s Aussie ex-boyfriend.

Coroner Martha Gunn is among the first to be called to the scene when a man's body is found in a small cottage fronting the river. Floating face-down in the rising water, it appears to have been raised from the cellar by the flood.

Callum Hughes has been labelled a killer and a psycho - by the press, by his classmates and by the family of the boy he stabbed. Roger Gough has been labelled a victim. He is described by everyone as a sporty, funny, and popular boy who was brutally murdered by Callum. But things are rarely so black and white.

Tænk at skulle dø for at blive synlig og virkelig Så elegant som en elg i Systembolaget! Siv Dahlin er den nævenyttige løsarbejder og fritidsdetektiv fra Dalarna. I Holdt i et jerngreb møder vi Siv, mens hun er helt nede og vende. Hendes svensk-røde træhus er ved at falde sammen, el-forsyningen svigter, og der er langt mellem handy-mændene. Uden penge tvinges Siv til at tage sort arbejde på en skummel herregård, hvor hun går til hånde mellem underbetalte tallerkenvaskere, en selvhjælpsgruppe for eks-alkoholikere, en krystalhealer og hans apostle og - ikke at forglemme - en godsejerfamilie, der har hentet sin formue op af de kilometerdybe minegange.

A tale in the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca, in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers...

In this second book of the Dark Souls series, fate curses the brothers, and they must navigate ancient deceits and potent forewarnings to save the ones they love. Can the two enemies become each other’s saviors? Or will the Circles fall and love fade?

Dare Buckley has come home - or at least, he's come back to Palladian, the small town he left as a teenager. After a major lapse in judgment forced him to resign from the Seattle PD, Palladian is the only place that'll hire him. There's one benefit to hitting rock bottom, though: the chance to investigate the mystery of his father's suicide.

Little Mian Ross and the big, bad Knight didn't find their fairy-tale ending. Together they found war. The Knight is the second and final novel in the Stolen Duet.

I'll never forget the night I caught her sneaking around my place. She thought she could steal from me and get away with it, but I have no intention of letting her get away at all. Mian Ross has a lesson to learn, and I'm going to be the one to teach it to her.

Victoria Vitucci was the only light in my dark world. She's forbidden, but so am I. I'm not free to be with her, but I want her more than anything. My secrets will shatter her. But I underestimated my little Mafioso Princess. There is a reason she is the daughter of the most feared Cosa Nostra godfather. Maybe I will be the one shattered in the end.

Bold, blonde Defense Intelligence officer B. J. Chase isn't exactly thrilled when she's summoned from personal leave to investigate an alarming national security breach - until the suspicious death of a government official blows her covert mission sky-high. Gorgeous Black Ops bad boy Raphael Mendoza always feared his family's dark history would haunt him. But he never expected it might hold the key to dismantling a rogue weapons system.