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There's nothing magical about midlife for Abby McBride, unless dealing with pesky ghosts counts.Between hot flashes and brain fog and the dead paying a call at all hours, she's had her share of spirited mayhem, while trying to hold up a perfect image among her cul-de-sac crowd. Not easy! But, after decades of suppressing her psychic gift, it all comes crashing down at the annual Halloween bash and her quiet suburban life goes up in spectral smoke.The ghosts of 125 Magnolia Lane have demands and are not opposed to dragging the living into their hellish afterlife if that's what it takes. Can Abby finally embrace the powers she's long denied in order to save her family and friends from eternal ...

A blockbuster of a thriller. Robert “Doc” Langdon sells Timeshares. At least this is what his relatives and a few close friends believe. A retired Navy SEAL, “Doc” lives a clandestine life. Widowed and left without his precious young daughter, his true line of work has become his existence. As an elite member of a little-known operative group, he is the best of the best among its small ranks.Nathan Thomas, a former U.S. President, now owner and Chief Executive of an international corporation, is the antithesis of Langdon. Sure, they share a few traits. Both men are dogged in all they do. Both strive for dominance. Langdon, though, does things for others and his country. Thomas? Well,...

Everyday Romantic Doggerel is a collection of poems for ordinary but quirky people, by an ordinary but quirky writer who is much more confident in her prose than in her poetic abilities. Still, she aims to entertain. You will find poems about love, grief, and cats within.

Crossings take us from one point to another. In these stories journeys are made between different states of being. Boundaries are broken. Envelopes are pushed. Beliefs are abandoned and replaced, and transgressions are entertained and occasionally acted upon. All of this is done by fairly ordinary people just like the ones sharing space with you—even if their realm is not your own. Includes: "Shroedinger's Landlord," "The Old Man," "Lot's Daughter," "A Mediocre and Fairly Public Place," "In a Name," "Vocations," and "More Than the Quest."

Crossings take us from one point to another. In these stories journeys are made between different states of being. Boundaries are broken. Envelopes are pushed. Beliefs are abandoned and replaced, and transgressions are entertained and occasionally acted upon. All of this is done by fairly ordinary people just like the ones sharing space with you—even if their realm is not your own. Includes: "Shroedinger's Landlord," "The Old Man," "Lot's Daughter," "A Mediocre and Fairly Public Place," "In a Name," "Vocations," and "More Than the Quest."

“If you were a fan of Bridgerton, you will also enjoy Arden’s Act. It has all the steamy chemistry you need, with a side of drama and enough suspense to keep you on your toes.” –Caitlin Barshaw, bookwormhairstylist.com.1661–The King has returned to the throne, bringing plays and entertainments back with him. Arden West arrives in London, determined to become one of the first actresses of the English stage, having fled her abusive Puritan stepfather to do so. When she meets jaded and sensual aristocrat Robert Courtenay, the attraction is instant. To deter her stepfather from dragging her home, Arden agrees to enter a scandalous arrangement with Courtenay. Though passionate love bloo...

“If you were a fan of Bridgerton, you will also enjoy Arden’s Act. It has all the steamy chemistry you need, with a side of drama and enough suspense to keep you on your toes.” –Caitlin Barshaw, bookwormhairstylist.com.1661–The King has returned to the throne, bringing plays and entertainments back with him. Arden West arrives in London, determined to become one of the first actresses of the English stage, having fled her abusive Puritan stepfather to do so. When she meets jaded and sensual aristocrat Robert Courtenay, the attraction is instant. To deter her stepfather from dragging her home, Arden agrees to enter a scandalous arrangement with Courtenay. Though passionate love bloo...

Iceland, 2028. One year after a devastating attack in the North Atlantic. Five women are hunted across the vast island by a global organisation determined to wipe out their plans for sustainable energy and food production. Gradually, they turn the tables, becoming the hunters, even as their attackers become more desperate. Meanwhile, a serial killer has landed and begins to cut a swathe across the vast Icelandic tundra.In a world where no one is what they seem to be, life and death balance precariously against a backdrop of cities and landscapes filled with droids and drones, and where dependence on advanced technologies could come down to the hand-to-hand combat skills passed down from the ...

Maija is an ex-cop, and ex-assassin. She’s also a functioning alcoholic, with a hunting business that’s almost breaking even. But when a horror from her past reaches out and threatens to drag her down into the maelstrom, she must summon up all of her lethal skills to save her family, as they are hunted through the snowy forests of eastern Finland.For a force of pure evil has awakened on the other side of the world, and it has travelled to this great northern land in search of vengeance. The question for Maija is, what does it have to do with her ex-husband?From the jungles of Queensland and Indonesia, to the vast lakes and forests of eastern Finland, a wolf pack is forming, and the hunt ...

The sequel to Tilda & Lærke.

One year after the murderous mayhem that broke out across the Danish islands, Lucas is drawn back into a steel Zurich tomb for a conversation with his dead wife.

Meanwhile, dark forces are circling the Nordic region, as an ancient English trading company, steeped in its piratical past, sets in motion a plan to destroy the North Sea energy grids.

Only Lucas and his father, Nikolaj, hold the key to unlocking the terrifying plan, aided by the mysterious Liesl, who harbours a dark secret of her own.

Meanwhile, a serial killer is stalking technology conferences on Sjælland…and on a collision course with Nikolaj.

Twenty-seven years ago they left her for dead on a Minorcan beach. Now she's back in Denmark, hunting them down one by one. But she got more than she bargained for, and opened up a vipers nest of assassins from a global organisation that will stop at nothing to neutralise her. Her one chance at salvation is her former lover, whom she hasn't seen in a quarter of century, and he is caught up in a complex web with one of her targets.
From Jylland, across Fyn, and onto Sjælland, the chase is on as the most ruthless assassin races against time to get to her quarry before they kill her.

London, 1887.When illness strikes Abby Smith, she’s taken to Eden Hills Asylum—a rotting fortress where medicine ends and madness begins. Within its bloodstained walls, the screams never stop... and neither does the work of Dr. Gehring.Dr. Gehring carves through flesh and mind in the name of science, while Abby, brilliant and fragile, becomes his prized subject—shaped for something monstrous. Eden Hills is alive with vengeance. Spirits claw at the seams of reality. The dead whisper…. and they remember.Beyond the Gates is a relentless descent into horror—where innocence is devoured, sanity is dissected, and evil wears a human face.Will Abby survive the nightmare... or become its fin...