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601) Scarred for Life
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Book summarySet in a world parallel to our own amid a shaken society. A fateful night comes in December, Detectives Gabriele Rossi and Oliver Clinton call in a 273D to the Vargas family. Little do they know, all their lives will forever change in the festering chaos. While all around them collapses in on itself with Chrysler Islanders barely enduring, communications becoming lost and desperations burn high, the strange genesis of all this turmoil-the...
602) The Housemaid
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The Howards don't know who I really am, but I'm learning all their secrets. It seems like the perfect job. The wages are great, and accommodation is provided within the walls of an actual mansion. Not many little girls dream of becoming a maid, but this is an opportunity for me to get back on my feet. And to revisit my past...But the strict housekeeper, Mrs Huxley, watches my every move, emerging from the shadows when I least expect her. And Lord...
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Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American...
604) Still the Night Call
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STILL THE NIGHT CALL is about Calem Dewayne Honeycutt, a thirty-two-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But, just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's simple. In fact, Calem's internal voice eloquently leads us through his wondrous yet tortured past, his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, and his carefully laid plans to remedy the vicious Night Call that haunts his present. All he has to do is get through one last day on...
605) Vicious Promise
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There's only one choice for this innocent bride. Marry me or die.I never wanted a wife.But when the Bratva tries to take what was promised to me, it's time to claim what's mine.I thought she would be a burden, a nuisance. A wife that I could lock away forever and forget about after our wedding night.But Sofia Ferretti turns out to be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Sweet, innocent-and virginal.Too good for a ruthless killer like me.I'm not...
606) Twisted Obsession
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-Kami-Once upon a time, I kissed my best friend's older brother, the heir to the Medlock family fortune and the one man who held my heart in his hands. I knew what he was and who he would become, and I didn't care … until he was taken from me.Charged with murder, I lost him for four years, years I waited because there could be no one else for me, because I loved him with every shred of my broken heart.Then the heir returned, no longer a boy but...
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Reworked Omnibus of stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series, such as this Dark Fantasy-Gothic short story;The Locket And The ThiefWhat if you lost the last physical thing that reminds you of a lost beloved child through theft, and it happens to be found upon the body of the now dead thief, and it is now in the hands of the police would you if you had access to would you take it back? Is stealing back your own stolen thing, really theft or...
608) Ghosts From the Past
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When her life falls apart, Lara Rochester runs from her problems. She goes all the way to Cape Breton, where she's found a job cataloging books in the private library of a place called Schilling Manor. Arriving at the mansion, she finds that things weren't exactly as described. The place is run down. Phones don't necessarily work. Everything creeks and groans. She even sees ghosts. Worse, her coworkers all seem to have secrets. For some reason,...
609) The Rusted Lily
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Orphaned and sickly, young Joscelin Charpentier, along with older sister Eulalie, is taken in by a wealthy uncle. The children cope with Uncle Marcel's cold indifference as best as they can, but Eulalie enjoys all the attention as the healthier child while Joscelin is subjected to the cruelty of a resentful nurse. Comfort and affection come his way in the person of Aunt Rosanna, a rapidly fading gentlewoman from Italy who develops and nurtures a unique...
610) Grace Flower
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Carl is travelling by train with family from his city to get married. Everyone is very happy. But moments later, a black owl creates fear on the train. It stays with them everywhere. Even after Carl's marriage, the owl still reaches their house. It possesses his wife, Grace. Every passing day becomes unbearable for Carl and Grace. In order to save Grace from this calamity, his uncle Frederick, the priest, performs an exorcism. But he failed; instead,...
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Award-winning romance author Sophia Nash makes her women's fiction debut with a beautifully crafted, funny, and life-affirming story set in the Atlantic seaside region of France, as one woman returns to France to sell her family home and finds an unexpected chance to start over-perfect for fans of Le Divorce and The Little Paris Bookshop. Home is the last place Kate expected to find herself...
As a child, Kate Hamilton was packed off each summer...
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Rainleigh Mansion has a history filled with tragedy, but it's a story that many in the town of Oakmount have forgotten. Once the center of a bustling steel and coal industry, Oakmount is now a sleepy college town and those that remember the past are almost all gone.Rhys McArthy has felt different all his life, as if he didn't quite belong in a big city under the hot California sun. But when his long-shot application to attend Oakmount's exclusive...
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Can a believer and a skeptic move beyond their haunted pasts and find a way back - to each other?Julie Deveaux is used to believing in things she cannot see. But when a Jackson Square psychic calls her over for an impromptu prediction, she's as skeptical as the mystery blogger who's trying to take down her family's ghost tour business. According to the psychic, the grandson of her thesis subject, infamous French Quarter murderess Sophia Durocher,...
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Alexander Williams is forced to marry Valentina, the Curvy girl, in order to obtain the position of boss in the family construction company. Valentina did not know who her fiance was until the day of the wedding, for her he was the most handsome, manly man she had ever seen in her life. And it was love at first sight. For Alexander, he was the worst thing in the world, he looked at her with contempt. He even only touched her on her wedding night,...
615) Sunstone's Fire
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A fatal kiss, forbidden love-cursed in stone.
Aspiring author, Nate Wilson wants some space from his overbearing family and a job he doesn't like. A week on the Oregon coast sounds like paradise and just what he needs to get the creative juices flowing. Unfortunately, his plans are derailed when a storm moves in and a ghostly figure flashes in his headlights, sending him skidding off the road and into a tree. Lucky for him, he ends up in front of...
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Would God command a devout monk to wed a shepherdess? Ireland 940 ADOthers think young shepherdess Mara fey. No one else in her Clan hears the voices or sees mysterious visitors. But she knows the messengers come from God. Mara commits to keep silent about them until one proclaims she will marry a man meant to bring Scriptural truth to their Clan.Distraught by her hardships, Mara seeks aid from her childhood friend, Marcan mac Art, a scribe at Cill...
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This volume in this exciting new series provides a detailed yet accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused widely in many different genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story, the detective story and the adventure story.
It looks in particular how the Gothic attempted to resolve the psychological and theological problems thrown...
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High Crag on Cornwall's desolate storm-lashed coast is a mysterious place with dark secrets. On these bleak shores, the rebel offspring of the angelic race landed many millennia ago. Their memory was never forgotten and across the centuries, seers, mystics and witches basked in the occult power of this prehistoric landscape, awaiting the rebirth of the Fallen Ones. Yet their modern day descendents, the Grigori, are already among humanity, hidden yet...
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Love, ON ON is a romantic comedy where a reclusive man meets a brave woman whose strength and courage inspires him to set out on an epic adventure. She sees in him the romantic hero and he sees in her the unyielding force of nature. Together, their love explodes in the toughest environments and harsh extremes of competition and rescue. From the sandy beaches to the thin mountain air, the duo never fails to share a moment of mayhem, laughter and love....
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It began with a fire.
It would end with a battle. Kicked out of multiple schools, Mina Andresen's future depends upon graduating from tiny Havestad Lutheran College on Minnesota's north shore. While not her ideal situation, her classes interest her, her roommate is pleasant, and life holds promise. Then the local church burns down the weekend before finals, on the Festival of St. Lucia. Suddenly, the nights get darker, shadows move eerily, and Mina...
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