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The stench of death hangs over Happyville. When Flintlock rides into town, he sees windows caked in dust, food rotting on tables, and a forgotten corpse hanging at the gallows. The citizens of Happyville are dead in their beds, taken down by a deadly scourge, and Flintlock must stay put, or risk spreading the killer disease. His quarantine is broken by Cage Kingfisher, a mad clergyman who preaches the gospel of death.

The winter around Cheyenne Wyoming that year was devastating killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. His dreams of a settled life were as dead as everything else.

Eva has been in love with her dad’s best friend since she was a teenager. Logan is everything she craves. He’s smart, successful, kind, and mind-numbingly hot—no matter that he’s nearly twice her age. Her relentless obsession has kept her from wanting anyone else, and her fantasies have twisted until all she can imagine is him slipping into her room at night to do dirty things to her. Knowing she desperately needs to get over Logan, she schedules an appointment at a club where a “daddy” might fulfill all her fantasies and end her fixation on the one man she can never have.

It was a law Cotton Pickens never asked for and never wanted to enforce. But due to the vigilance of the Women’s Temperance Society, and the timidity of their businessmen husbands, the town of Doubtful, Wyoming, is going dry. As of January 1st. No exceptions. No turning back. Doubtful’s hell-raisers will not take this lying down, and Sheriff Pickens is fighting bootleggers and vigilantes when the next boot drops. The righteous women push through an even worse law bound to spark an outright insurrection.

Jill Kismet is back from the grave in this explosive conclusion to Lilith Saintcrow's fantasy series. She wakes up in her own grave. She doesn't know who put her there, she doesn't know where she is, and she has no friends or family. She only knows two things: She has a job to do - cleansing the night of evil. And she knows her name - Jill Kismet.

When a new hellbreed comes calling, playing nice isn't an option. Jill Kismet has no choice but to seek treacherous allies - Perry, the devil she knows, and Melisande Belisa, the cunning Sorrows temptress whose true loyalties are unknown. Kismet knows Perry and Belisa are likely playing for the same thing - her soul. It's just too bad, because she expects to beat them at their own game. Except their game is vengeance. Nobody plays vengeance like Kismet. But if the revenge she seeks damns her, her enemies might get her soul after all....

Ein eisiger Wind weht durch die Täler des zerbrochenen Reiches. Während Donatus im Schatten seine nächsten Züge plant und der neue Erzherzog allen Berührten den Krieg erklärt, trennen sich die Pfade der Gefährten: Hänsel zieht mit der schlummernden Gretel in die Ferne, um einen geheimnisvollen Verbündeten aus Melchiors Vergangenheit zu suchen. Unterdessen führen Perchta und Melchior die geretteten Kinder nach Lahnstein zu Helmsig – doch dort, wo sie Zuflucht suchten, ist längst das Chaos entfesselt.

Von drauß' vom Walde komm ich her is the pilot episode of DARK WOODS and the beginning of the three-chapter adventure of Perchta, Hänsel, and Melchior, three unlikely companions whose fates are more closely linked than they realize. In a world full of gifted beings and the threat of war. And it all begins with a witch.

Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes. Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives.

The city of Haven has changed Hawk and Fisher from what they once were...but what, or who, were they? Discontent and a political assassination draw them to the Forest Kingdom. King Harald is dead and the kingdom is in turmoil. The King's Questor seeks out Hawk and Fisher to find the killer break some spells and help restore a kind of peace.

The city of Haven has changed Hawk and Fisher from what they once were...but what, or who, were they? Discontent and a political assassination draw them to the Forest Kingdom. King Harald is dead and the kingdom is in turmoil. The King's Questor seeks out Hawk and Fisher to find the killer break some spells and help restore a kind of peace.

The city of Haven has changed Hawk and Fisher from what they once were...but what, or who, were they? Discontent and a political assassination draw them to the Forest Kingdom. King Harald is dead and the kingdom is in turmoil. The King's Questor seeks out Hawk and Fisher to find the killer break some spells and help restore a kind of peace.

After a two-year drought, the Kerrigan ranch is dry as a bone and as dusty as a honky-tonk bible. On the brink of ruin, Kate Kerrigan hires the rainmaker Professor Somerset Lazarus, who promises salvation — in the form of a deluge. Kate is desperate enough to try anything. But when four angry gunmen show up, ready to lynch the phony rainmaker for swindling them out of their money, the Kerrigans have to choose sides fast — before the bullets start to fly. 

Like most families, the Jensens gather together to celebrate the holidays. This year, since half the clan is scattered across the American West, they've decided to split the difference and meet up in Tucson. Matt and Luke will be there, for sure, and maybe Ace and Chance, too. That leaves Sally, Preacher, and Smoke Jensen, who've reserved three seats on a westbound stage to make sure they don't miss out on the festivities. What could possibly go wrong?

Boot Stoner spent 12 years of his life behind bars for stealing a horse and rustling cattle. Upon release, he adds murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills, slaughtering his own parents before exacting revenge upon the man responsible for his incarceration and abducting a young Creek girl his folks adopted. The best hope for stopping Stoner's bloody rampage in Oklahoma Indian Territory is the veteran manhunter, John Ward, deputy marshal.

The quest for Earth's domination remains the primary directive of an ancient, inhuman enemy. Challenging this alien bid for iron rule, an elite force led by former magistrates wages war against Earth's enslavers. These rebel commandos are resourceful, dedicated and possess the immutable human willpower to survive — by any means necessary....

Cotton Pickens got where he is by virtue of a quick draw and slow wit. He knows the difference between lawbreakers you have to lock up...and the kind you might as well just let go. Deputy Rusty Irons, though, ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. Someone kidnapped Rusty's mail order brides. They were probably doing Irons a favor, but a deputy in love is blind.

Der Tod des Erzherzogs hat das Land in Dunkelheit gehüllt. Während eine finstere Macht im Verborgenen geheime Fäden webt, um den Dunklen zurückzubringen, verfolgt der Sohn des verstorbenen Erzherzogs eigene Pläne: Mit List und kaltem Herzen trachtet er danach, die Krone des geteilten Reiches an sich zu reißen und alle zu vernichten, die von der alten Magie berührt worden sind. Perchta, Melchior und Hänsel setzen unterdessen ihre Reise fort – eine Reise, auf der sie nicht nur finsteren Gestalten begegnen, sondern auch eine Offenbarung erwartet.

Time is running out and Gloria Weidman must decide if the very mysterious, much younger man she's falling for is just a smooth-talking serial killer or the vampire with a killer backstory he claims to be. When a series of grisly, inexplicable murders rocks her small East Texas town, Gloria is inspired to write again but finds her research keeps leading her back to Henry Wynter, a new student in her creative writing class.

Ellen Seymore sucht den Psychiater Robert Sanders auf, denn sie leidet seit anderthalb Jahren an wiederkehrenden Albträumen und vermehrt an Blackouts, bekommt Angstzustände und schließt sich immer mehr in ihrer Wohnung ein. Kann Dr. Sanders ihr helfen? Und was hat das alles mit einer gewissen Gloria zu tun, der Ellen geradezu verfallen zu sein scheint? Robert Sanders begibt sich auf die Suche und kommt der Wahrheit immer näher, bis es eines Abends zum großen Finale kommt, in... Glorias Schloss.