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Geraldine Borden has realized that there's one thing her bottomless wealth can't grant her: children. When an attempt to remedy her infertility fails, she's left with nothing but rage, jealousy, and a murderous idea. She aims to take a place that all children adore and transform it into a twisted arena of carnage. And while her true masterpiece is still under construction, she seeks to entertain herself with a crude prototype filled with barbaric backyard games. Several children from a small New England city have gone missing under mysterious circumstances.

Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades. But there’s a reason the structures in the bowels of her gothic castle have taken so long to develop—they were never meant to see the light of day.

Kylie Macklin is eager to live a normal life. Freshly moved from Florida to Alabama and finally in remission from cancer, the optimistic nine-year-old is used to dodging her overprotective mom’s warnings. So when a new playmate invites her to hang out, the happy girl thinks nothing of the playground being located in a graveyard for young victims of the Spanish Flu… and a local serial killer.

Stella Darnell is a cleaner. But when she isn't tackling dust and dirt and restoring order to chaos, Stella solves murders. Her latest case concerns a man convicted of killing his mistress. His daughter thinks he's innocent, and needs Stella to prove it. As Stella sifts through piles of evidence and interview suspects, she discovers a link between the recent murder and a famous case from forty years ago: the shocking death of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in the shadows of an empty playground. Stella knows that dredging up the past can be dangerous.

Jasmin Pascal-Andersson, Lieutenant in der schwedischen Armee, wird bei einem Kriegseinsatz schwer verwundet. Vierzig Sekunden lang steht ihr Herz still. Nach der Reanimation leidet sie an Halluzinationen, die Ärzte attestieren ihr ein posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom. Zurück in Stockholm entscheidet sie sich, aus dem Militärdienst auszutreten, um ein ruhigeres Leben zu führen. Sie findet einen Job als Sekretärin, bringt wenig später ein Kind zur Welt. Alles scheint in bester Ordnung.

Este audiolibro relata la experiencia de Gustavo Osorio, un hombre de familia, trabajador que vivía con su familia en la ciudad de Manizales ubicada en la región cafetera montañosa al oeste de Colombia. Gustavo y su familia viven una odisea cuando él es vinculado y apresado dentro de un operativo entre los gobiernos de Colombia y los Estados Unidos al que se le denomino “Operación Nevado”, y en el que esperaban capturar a una gran organización criminal dedicada al tráfico de estupefacientes.