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When ships under the command of white Europeans first sailed into the Delaware Bay in 1609, southeastern Pennsylvania's documented history of the strange and unusual began. This book tackles seven true "dark histories" from Chester and Delaware counties, which include tales of murder, witchcraft, cannibalism, tragic accidents, and macabre events that actually happened in the Greater Philadelphia region. All stories are meticulously researched and placed within the greater context of Pennsylvania and world history.

Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West Virginia, until the shocking deaths of both their parents closed the church down. Now twenty, reclusive Essa lives alone in her childhood home in the shadow of New Hope, which to her horror has been taken over by a new charismatic, unsettling pastor who continues the dangerous practice. So when the church burns down, she's glad—until she learns that two people died in the blaze, and her brother's the prime suspect.

Erik Monteague has spent the past thirteen months trapped by the memories of his scorching-hot one-night stand with Kat Owens. When she takes over his advertising account, he’s more than happy to discuss positioning…but not the kind to increase his business…the kind that will put her back in his bed and in his life. While his perfectly executed seduction gets Kat back into his bed, their emotional connection rips open old wounds, and Erik is forced to either face his tragic past or spend the rest of his life running.

I skipped around a small stack of pylons while my deputy cousin unloaded more of the same from the back of the sheriff's pickup. I beamed at Robert Carlisle, not because I adored him. Quite the opposite. I couldn't stand the wretched little piece of loathing with his seventies-esque bush of a black mustache or his pompous superiority. No, I grinned and waved out of sheer delight at his less than enthusiastic expression as he grunted his way through hefting a rather heavy looking barricade onto the sidewalk.

While out scouting in southern Indiana, Alessa Duvalier comes across a Kurian Conference being attended by every major military sect the Kurians have in the Midwest. Taking advantage of the strategic opportunity to cripple their enemy, Alessa and her warriors strike and achieve victory—only to discover an even greater threat to humanity. Most of the world's resistance leaders and the Lifeweavers are gathering for a peace conference in Helsinki, Finland, and according to the intelligence materials Alessa recovered during her raid, the Kurians have already inserted an agent among the delegates.

In Pam Houston's bestselling story collection, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a shrewd and intoxicating look at men and women—together and apart.

With renovations of the new annex to Petunia's in full swing, Fiona's life might be more in order, but her habit of digging into criminal cases hasn't changed one bit. Doesn't help when her mother is on the suspect list, the death of a famous cooking show judge leading Fee into the dark side of bake offs, television, and murder.

On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves.

It was almost as if someone wrapped the room in a cold hand, chill in the air triggering goosebumps on my skin. I caught motion in the corner of my eye, turned in time to see a glowing, ghostly figure float through the pocket door and come to a halt at the far end of the table. This time, rather than a static image, the young man raised both arms, eyes black pits of emptiness, mouth gaping open as he reached for Emelia. Who screamed and reached back. "Manuel!"

My hands were already full with two great guys, a daughter, and a brand-new baby. Not to mention, my job as a victim’s advocate and psychic medium for the Orange County Police Department. But evidently, the universe thought I needed more. A lot more. Namely, the brother I never knew I had showing up and claiming our long-lost father was in grave danger, a series of murders that only I can solve, and enough family secrets to fill an entire season of the Jerry Springer Show.

The Supernatural War is reaching its conclusion, and what's coming is worse than vampire-witch Kat Troy ever expected. There's no such thing as a good monster. That's the motto of Colonel Sheila Baxter and the Hunter Network. The hunters don't care who gets in the way. Human casualties are the cost of war. Kat and her team race to prevent the humans from developing a devastating weapon that threatens the existence of all supernaturals.

Defiance led Lisa Thompson to the male-dominated world of mountain climbing. But after battling breast cancer, she needed to understand the motivations behind the risks she took while climbing. Finding Elevation is more than her climbing memoir. It is an examination of the human spirit and motivation.

Reinstated by the FBI, Smoke and Sid launch an investigation into the source of the swarming dragons. In abandoned warehouses on the fringe of the city, dragon hounds and draykis lie in wait to trap the heroes. Meanwhile, a notorious gang of shapeshifting slave traders snatches Sam and Mandi, putting Abraham, Guppy, and Streak on the hunt for the wicked meddlers.

Kat has earned the loyalty of the werewolves. Now, she must fight her way to the top of the vampire hierarchy and become their queen. Can she fulfill the witch ancestors' prophecy about her destiny to defeat the looming darkness? War is inevitable, and there's another problem. Her newly restored magic is volatile and unstable. Kat must prove herself worthy of the vampire throne, but Cain Abrams's renegade faction sense her powers are unpredictable and use it to their advantage.

A war is looming between humans and the supernatural. The murders of a wealthy Chicago family could be the match that lights the powder keg. Who killed the Jonassons? Could it be the same people who outed them as werewolves? Kat is the key to stopping an apocalypse, and she has no memory of her witchy side. With enemies on all sides, they're not sure who they can trust. Can the team persuade the ancestors to help in time? Even if they do, will it be enough to stop the prophecy from coming true?

Melody Hurst’s days as a Southern belle are over. Now she’s widowed and alone in the foothills of the Rockies, struggling to make a life in a dangerous world. She’s determined to secure a future by marrying—but love is out of the question. Cole Baywood has turned bounty hunter after serving in the horrors of the Civil War, but the ghosts of the men and women he’s killed still haunt him. He’s drawn to the beautiful widow trying to seduce him, only the darkness in his soul forces him to reject her.

Tessa Lamar is at it again. She's ginormously pregnant, raising her 10-year-old psychic medium daughter, and is married to not one—but two—magical guys. Tessa is a smidge busy. Unfortunately, monsters don’t keep calendars.

Stranded on another world, the heroes clash with new enemies bent on their destruction and fight their way home. The artifacts needed to defeat the Lord Master are stolen by wily mages, and a dangerous recovery mission is launched in the heart of enemy territory. Smoke and Abraham lead a quest to find a wizard that can return them home, while Sid goes through a mysterious transformation. Meanwhile, back in DC, Sticks and Streak must find Boon and mount a risk-it-all rescue mission.

Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one agrees with her until two young studio writers, Julius and Philip Epstein, decide to back Renie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca.

Smoke, Sid, Abraham, and their allies see the writing on the wall. They have one focus—use Boon’s portals to seek and destroy their foes before it’s too late. But the unpredictable portals bring trouble as people from other worlds arrive, posing nefarious problems. Meanwhile, the humongous, all-powerful Lord Master arrives in DC with a host of dragons at his disposal and the United States government under his claw. Specks launches a counterattack that leaves the heroes in the lurch, banishing them from their home forever.