Verlag: Bauer Books
Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.
On a searing summer afternoon, the silence is softly broken by the beautiful melody of a strange instrument. A man finds love at first sight with the one who plays it, soon to be engulfed by the strange curse her family bears. On a star-lit stage, the two dance as death draws near, pulled in by the mystical music of the countless constellations. The relentless rhythm lusts for blood, unless the malicious puzzle is solved.Zum Buch
Deborah Harkness meets Preston & Child in this edge-of-your-seat debut thriller—a superb blend of mystery, fantasy, horror, and the supernaturalWhen Lauren's father dies, she makes a shocking discovery. The man she knew as John Reardon was once a completely different person, with a different name. Now she's determined to find out who he really was, even though her only clues are an old photograph and the name of a town: Gideon.But someone—or something—doesn't want her to discover the truth. A strange man is stalking her, appearing everywhere she turns, and those who try to help her end up dead. Neither a shadowy enemy nor her own fear will prevent her from solving the mystery of her father—and unlocking the secrets of her own life. Making her way to Gideon, Lauren finds herself more confused than ever. Nothing in this small midwestern town is what it seems, including time itself. Residents start going missing, and Lauren is threatened by almost everyone she encounters. Two hundred years ago, a witch was burned at the stake, but in Gideon the past feels all too chillingly present. . . .Zum Buch
All Reagan Whelan wants is to live a normal life, graduate highschool and go to college like most 18 year olds. But the sudden tragic death of both of her parents makes that hard to do. Grieving for her parents and insecure about her future, she is moved across the world to a new country with part of her family that she has never met. But when she arrives she learns that everything she thought her life was before is a lie. She isn't just an 18 year old girl getting ready to start her adult life, she is an over 600 year old Nephilim whose memories were altered to create the illusion of being a typical American child after her parents left the family business for a new start. Angry and feeling betrayed, with the help of her grandfather and his handsome, young chief of security Aiden Kennedy, Reagan begins to dig into her family history only to find out that she is not just any angelic descendant, she is the offspring of two angelic lines one good and one evil who are currently at war with each other for control over the fate of humanity. How does she decide which side to take? Who is telling her the truth? Hidden Angel is an exhilarating beginning story of Reagan Whalen by Bronwyn Aisling. If you enjoy following the journey of a female heroine coming into her own, this is for you.Zum Buch
Holidays can be a monster. Giovanni and Beatrice left vampire conspiracies and supernatural adventures for a peaceful family life. But peace only lasts so long for a vampire assassin and an undying scribe. The death of an old friend leaves Giovanni with a rare opportunity. He knows that Lady Penelope’s library hides more than one rare book, but can he break into her family’s ancestral home without raising the alarm? Giovanni and Beatrice are looking for literary treasure. Other lurking immortals might be searching for a different and more dangerous haul. Back in Los Angeles, Ben and Tenzin were put in charge of protecting the family. But can two powerful vampires survive the mercurial mood swings of a preteen girl? Ben and Tenzin could be facing the end… of their sanity. Fangs, Frost, and Folios is a holiday novella and a brand-new adventure for Giovanni and Beatrice, the heroes of the Elemental Mysteries series by eleven-time USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter.Zum Buch
"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomes.Critic William Fulwiler writes that "'Polaris' is one of Lovecraft's most autobiographical stories, reflecting his feelings of guilt, frustration, and uselessness during World War I. Like the narrator, HPL was 'denied a warrior's part', for he 'was feeble and given to strange faintings when subjected to stress and hardships'".Like many Lovecraft stories, "Polaris" was in part inspired by a dream, which he described in a letter: "Several nights ago I had a strange dream of a strange city-a city of many palaces and gilded domes, lying in a hollow betwixt ranges of grey, horrible hills.... I was, as I said, aware of this city visually. I was in it and around it. But certainly I had no corporeal existence."Zum Buch
Ben is at the mercy of a group who wish to infect others with the monsters that flow through their veins. The only hope he has is to gain their confidence, their trust, until he has a chance to escape. But there's something about the blood-driven that doesn't sit right with him, and the more he gets to know them, the more he distrusts everything he thought he knew.... In the Blood is a serialized novel, told in four books over four months. An Author's Republic audio production.Zum Buch
