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Helena driver den lilla handelsträdgården Fridakull i Dalarna. Vid ett besök i Stockholm återser hon farmor och farfars gamla gröna kåk, Drömslottet, som ligger uppe på Söders höjder med utsikt över Riddarfjärden. Där vid Drömslottet spenderade hon många härliga somrar under sin uppväxt. Farfar som var konstnär lärde henne att se skönheten i färg och form. Av farmor ärvde Helena intresset för växter och odling. Men nu verkar deras vackra hus vara obebott och trädgården förfallen.

Det är något som inte stämmer i Nackareservatets nybyggen. Husen är sjuka. Människorna som bor där blir också sjuka. Hypokondriker, säger maktens företrädare. När en trebarnsmamma till slut försöker ta tag i saken blir det startskottet på en rad obehagliga händelser. En anlagd brand riskerar livet på en oskyldig flicka som nästan blir innebränd. Var tilltaget tänkt att tysta? Inte långt senare hittas en kvinna död i Söderbysjön, inlindad i en presenning och vriden i en onaturlig ställning. Var hon också någon som behövde tystas?

I screwed up. Not only did I make my first innocent kill, I failed to get rid of the evidence in time. Now the Circle of the Veil has sent a hunter after me. Not just any hunter. Arsen. My twin flame, the light to my dark. My literal other half. I won't run from him. If he comes for me, I'll give him the fight of his life. Every moment spent divided from him sends me spiraling deeper into the void. If Arsen wants to bring our volatile bond to a tragic and violent end, he'll have to hurry. Because he's not the only one coming for me.

With its backdrop of US Supreme Court corruption and nuclear power plant sabotage, Contract with the Lycanthrope is one wild ride into the grisly dominion of The Lycanthrope, whose ancient origin reveals the source of his otherworldly power.

This is Book Five in the Scottsdale series....

Nineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from 20 to 70-plus, tell their stories of living and thriving in diverse fields - in sport, the arts, medicine, business, and more. With refreshing frankness, they share their successes along with their struggles - grit is the one characteristic they all have in common. These are not stories of people overcoming disability - they’re stories of people accommodating disability while pursuing their dreams. Pure Grit shines a light on boundless possibility whatever the individual challenge.

My fated mate promised to kill me. Now he needs my help. Twin flames. One light. One dark. Two individual halves of the same soul. Twin flames share a calling that brings them together even if it means bonding me, a bartending werewolf, to a rogue hunting nephilim dragon shifter. Bonded flames don't have it easy. The price they pay for the power they share often includes their sanity. When Arsen straight up rejects me and our bond, it's a slap in the face. I didn't ask for this either. Arsen ran from fate, leaving me behind.

For years, Laura and I sat helplessly on the sidelines while our best friend Megan ran from a deadly cartel. When Megan went radio silent, and strange men came creeping out of the darkness, we feared that we’d landed in the cartel’s crosshairs. Our fears were answered when Laura was taken. Unable to depend on the law, desperation led me to reach out to a few unconventional sources for help.

When Sirena Martell finds herself lost and alone on a backwoods road near the Great Serpent Mound, panic pounds her troubled heart. But when she finally does reach the stranger she is supposed to meet - Enoch - with his clutch of artifact eggs, Sirena breathes a sigh of relief...until the real trouble hatches. With unnerving action from the Great Serpent Mound site to Maysville, Kentucky, and overseas from Paris to Amsterdam, Serpent Egg Rapture is one scorcher of a listen across a harrowing landscape that is wrought from pure evil.

Now a major film! New York Times bestselling author and “one of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small-town life. Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They...

In Prague researching the legend of the Golem, a fantastical "living" creature made of clay, archaeologist Annja Creed is faced with an even bigger mystery on her hands when someone begins murdering the homeless. And every day there's a fresh corpse. As the suspicion that Golem is behind the deaths circulates quietly on the streets of the city, Annja cannot resist unraveling the thread that binds science to superstition. According to Czech history, these aren't new attacks.

For archaeologist and TV host Annja Creed, a late-night phone call from the NYPD means one thing: there's been a murder and the police need her expertise. The only link between a dead body and the killer is a small elephant of white jade. An artifact that's gone missing. Once belonging to Catherine the Great of Russia, the elephant was key in a risky political gambit all those years ago. But there is another story attached to the artifact - a rumor of an ancient hidden treasure.

Skalunda Barrow, Sweden, has long been rumored to be the final resting place of the legendary Nordic hero Beowulf. And there's something of Beowulf's that charismatic and zealous right-wing politician Karl Thorssen wants very badly. Intent on getting his hands on the mythical sword Nægling, Sweden's golden-boy politico puts together a team to excavate the barrow. A team that American archaeologist Annja Creed manages to finagle her way onto. She wouldn't miss this possible discovery for anything.

During a dig in Morocco, archaeologist Annja Creed and her companions are nearly buried alive when the khettara ceiling collapses, revealing a 1,300-year-old corpse. But when Bedouin bandits raid the camp, Annja barely escapes with her life...and half of a scroll in ancient Kufic script. Her companions' survival now depends on her.

A frigid spring morning at a Native American archaeological dig erupts into sudden and brutal violence, leaving five people dead and one man gravely wounded. And in a hospital, with archaeologist Annja Creed at his side, the last survivor utters his final words to name his killer — a skinwalker. The skinwalker is feared among the Navajo and Apache. It is witchcraft of a most terrible nature that allows a man to take the shape of a wolf — and kill.

The oligarchy of Overlords battling to resurrect alien rule on Earth remains ever threatened by a group of rebels determined to meet the ancient Sumerian enemies with a show of force. While glimmers of containment, if not victory, have appeared, humanity still inhabits a world where buried secrets and impossible truths lie coiled in the shadows....

In his human skin, Baron Cobalt's quest for power nearly destroyed Cerberus. Now, evolved into his godly Annunaki form as Overlord Marduk, he's reconsolidating his power and claiming the Mediterranean. As Marduk's Nephilim-led forces challenge the ruling Hera Olympiad and her legion of cybernetic demigods to a death dance, Kane and the Cerberus warriors harness the power of a cyber army eager to bring retribution and justice to the real monsters of antiquity.

Built upon a predark military installation in former California, a ville called Progress could be the utopia Ryan Cawdor and his companions have been seeking. A place where humanity and technology thrive, it's the nucleus of a new hope for Deathlands. The successful replacement of Ryan's missing eye with a cybernetic prosthetic nearly convinces the group that their days of surviving hell are behind them. Then they discover that the high tech in Progress isn't designed to enhance human life, but to destroy it.

Post-nuclear America has changed little since the primal leveling of the 21st century. Warrior survivalists Ryan Cawdor and his band live by a code that honors the kind of absolute freedom only a raw frontier can provide. Until rumors of a wider, more prosperous world than the Deathlands thriving deep in Mexico, untouched by the nukecaust, lure them into uncharted waters....

Using a rigid code of honor learned from pre-nukecaust fantasies and westerns, Thunder Rider is a self-styled superhero, serving up mass murder in a haze of napalm and nerve gas. Seeing his trail of destruction firsthand, Ryan Cawdor accepts a bounty from a ravaged ville to find and eliminate this vigilante. But Thunder Rider is determined to have Krysty Wroth, Ryan's lover, as his new sidekick and her abduction makes Ryan's quest deeply personal, and unleashes the vengeful fury of Cawdor and his warrior companions.