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Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Miss Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation.

In ancient Rome, a poor philosopher races to rescue his kidnapped lover before she is abused by the sinister Christian cult. The son of a wealthy Roman family, Marcus gave up the prestige and riches that were his birthright to devote himself to philosophy. His noble mind attracted Tullia, a Senator’s daughter whose father wanted her to have nothing to do with the penniless intellectual. The news that she is to marry a prosperous merchant shatters Marcus, who goes to her house, hoping to plead his case, only to see her attacked and abducted by disguised ruffians.

My name's Cèsar Hawke, and the people in my life are filled with good intentions. We all know where that ends up. A fissure to Hell has ripped from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, and now half the City of Dis is in my hometown. Helltown's hotter than ever. Demon dynasties are on the rise. Nightmares are out to get me. Staying alive means forgiving people I've kicked out of my life, it means getting vicious with magic, and yeah, it means I'm dealing with dead bodies. Lots of them.

Tailor's sins are laid bare in a nightmarish prison of her own making. Once a woman of power and control, she now lies confined in a glass casket, buried alive and left to suffer a fate worse than death. But this is no accident. Her husband, Charlie, orchestrates her slow, torturous demise as punishment for the lies, betrayals, and murder that tore their lives apart. There is no escape, no mercy, only the endless terror of being consumed alive.

Daniel Powell has been living in a small cabin on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, never able to leave it because of a dark entity keeps his spirit trapped to be tormented. Anytime people come to reside in his cabin, he does what he can to run them off before the shadowy thing can get its deathly hold on them.

Jennifer's dream vacation in sunny Portugal has suddenly turned into an unending nightmare! The two brothers she encounters are bound by the same strange family heritage: a fascination with fire. Jennifer is attracted to both Neil and Philip Alenquer, but one of them is lying about the tragedy that has taken place in their castle overlooking the Atlantic.

Бывшего ректора Академии магического познания предпочитали обходить стороной. Поговаривали, будто высокого поста его лишили за занятия темной магией. И надо же было завистливой сокурснице подстроить так, чтобы Лике пришлось забраться в его дом! Разумеется, она попалась и теперь в качестве наказания обязана ассистировать Раяну в сомнительных экспериментах. Но останутся ли отношения только рабочими? Ведь Раян видит в ней то, что не замечали другие, да и сама Лика рядом с ним обретает силу.

As Confederate and Union forces clash in and around the Missouri community of St. Charles, Constance McAdams fights a war of her own. Her mind has been fractured, her heart ravaged, and her soul nearly torn from its very existence. Her husband, Gavin, threatened by a corrupt sheriff and judge, is the binding that holds her together.