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Eisige Luft wehte Celia Holborn ins Gesicht und ließ sie frösteln. Langsamen Schrittes verließ sie, als erste der Trauergäste, den kleinen, verwahrlosten Friedhof. Urplötzlich zuckte sie zusammen. War da nicht ein Geräusch gewesen? Bedächtig drehte sie ihren Körper in Richtung des wild wuchernden Busches, von dem der Laut gekommen war. Da war doch jemand. Sie erschrak, als sich eine mit Erde bedeckte, halb verweste Hand aus dem Halbdunkel schälte. Ihr Schrei zerriss die Stille. Vor ihr stand ein Toter.

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

The esper Patricia Blackburn and her loving alien girlfriend princess Etsilla have returned back to the ship on the Blue Hills Reservation only to have found it ransacked. What made matters worse was that Etsilla's polymath Telnor and maid Oryssa were found badly injured as well as lost the relic, the Mura Stone, to the legion Gordon Stone.

The Nartakaturian Governor Esmara has been killed by the evil conqueror Orvak the Relentless. Esmara’s only daughter, Princess Etsilla and a band of survivors from a massacre orchestrated by Orvak, made the choice to leave their planet Nartakatur of the Eayila system to find a new home that they can feel safe. Before leaving, Etsilla took Orvak’s valued relic with her, the Mura Stone, an orb which has the power to absorb and counter all elements. Throughout their search of the universe the Nartakaturians have found the planet Earth and began to settle there.

Als ze de vrijgevochten commune waarin ze is opgegroeid omruilt voor een New Yorkse universiteitscampus, realiseert Sandra Tierney zich dat ze niet langer de eindjes aan elkaar kan knopen met alleen de 'gunfactor'. Mark Hollings heeft meer geld en macht dan waar de meeste mannen van kunnen dromen. Hij is dan ook geschokt als zijn pittige assistente hem uitdaagt met een schandalig voorstel. Mark en Sandra zijn al snel verwikkeld in een gepassioneerd machtsspel.

The angel Seraphina thought that her father, the almighty Michael, was the best father she could ever had. Because she refused to marry someone she had just met and wanted to spend the rest of her life with her beloved maid Angela, Seraphina was banished to the demonic domain known as the Dark Realm.

After witnessing Astaroth being imprisoned by Kafziel, his daughter Elysia and son Byleth set off to finding the key to set him free. Under the request of stopping this by Kafziel, Kenan undergoes a week of training to become a time mage. With the aid of Kafziel's limousine driver Gordon Stone and his demon girlfriend Asmodeus, they set off to Heaven to warn the angels of an incoming assault led by Elysia and Byleth.

Shy, nerdy, and secretly head-over-heels for a boy she can barely talk to, Sarah Lewis has always lived more comfortably in her fantasies than in the real world. But as a gentle giantess at a university where power and size are often abused, Sarah’s voice—and her heart—are about to grow louder than she ever thought possible.

The know dancing duet Tommy and Maria believed that their lives were in perfect order. Unfortunately, the pair was notified of the secrets that their parents have kept from their whole lives. Part of it entails being hunted by demons. They also entailed to Tommy's beloved mother Erinyes and Maria's father Thanatos were not only not their biological parents, but they were also demons living on Earth to protect humans. Witnessing their late parent's deaths caused Tommy and Maria to explore the abandoned hospital where Thanatos and Erinyes found them when they were babies.

Steve has been shrinking since his tenth birthday. Now that he’s an adult, he’s a mere six-inches tall. Amber suffers a different disease—one that’s made her eight feet tall. The two of them have fun together, but now she wants something a little . . . bigger. Enter Nick. With his reputation for being . . . gifted with large equipment, Amber knows he’s probably the right guy to satisfy her. Only Steve isn’t impressed . . . The giants force him into the fun.

Daniel Aurora thought a jury duty notice would give him a break from the job that had been wearing him down - a healthcare insurance company where denying coverage had become routine, and every decision felt like it could cost someone their life. Instead, he is drafted into The Selected, a new government program that eliminates due process and sends its members into the streets to deliver judgment on the crimes they witness.

The newly formed group of superheroes known as The Otherkind along with their allies The Seven Deadly Sins have made it into Heaven. Without question, Heaven's leader and the former Devil Seraphina's father, the archangel Michael, allowed them to set foot inside of the front gate and into the Heavenly Palace.

Boston police officer Michael Wheeler finds his beloved wife Shawna dead on the morning of his second day on the force. Because he couldn't trust the authorities, Michael decided to investigate the murder on his own. With the aid of the proud owner of Johnston Industries, Kenan Johnston, Michael used the time machine known as The Cassius to travel back to various timelines to attain more information behind the tragedy.

Chris Collins rose to the highest levels of business and politics—only to face a fall from grace that nearly destroyed him. As a successful entrepreneur and the first member of Congress to endorse Donald J. Trump for President, Collins was a power player at the peak of American influence. You could often find him in the halls of Congress, in Presidential meetings in the Roosevelt room, aboard Air Force One, or inside the Oval Office.

After spending some years abroad, Gerard Roylake returns to England to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. As he assumes his complicated new life amongst strangers, his encounter with Cristel Toller, the miller’s daughter, recalls happier childhood memories and brings him into contact with a strangely beautiful man known only as the Lodger.

Seven years have passed since the family reunion at Kafziel's mansion. As Kenan moved on being married to Kafziels' daughter Elysia, working as a time guardian and as an assistant for Johnston Industries, he began to have dreams of a murder happening in Boston before it even occurred. As a way to prevent the atrocity, Kenan and Elysia went after the culprits after watching a video of them killing a man on the spot. The killers turned out to be two masked women both having supernatural abilities. One of the women was an esper named Psyche and the other was an alien named Ember.

Published in 1888, The Legacy of Cain is the last of Wilkie Collins’s completed novels. Two sisters, Helen and Eunice, are brought up by their father, Reverend Gracedieu. He has deliberately kept the girls in ignorance of their true ages, to disguise the fact that one of them was adopted after her birth mother was executed for the brutal murder of her husband. In time, both girls fall for the same man, Philip Dunboyne, but when he eventually chooses one of the sisters, events take a sinister turn.

When a joke upload to an alien survey rewrites reality, Tom wakes in a world ruled by colossal women—and they all insist he’s family. Trapped in a towering home with his “mother” Naomi and teasing “sister” Mika, Tom must navigate a society where giantesses reign and tiny men exist to serve, obey… and entertain. What began as a prank becomes a surreal, erotic descent into submission, awe, and adaptation.

In their oversized home built for a giantess and her human husband, Paisley and Reid’s marriage has grown cold. What was once playful and passionate has become distant and uncertain. For Paisley, whose enormous jaws can crush anything from cars to steel beams, that loss of trust cuts deeper than any wound.

From the Ozark mountains edged in oak and pine, to the outlaw paradise of Hot Springs, Arkansas—where gangsters like Al Capone line the bar at the Southern Club—the sisters’ quests for vengeance, healing, and love will drive them forward, in search of a future as transformative and powerful as the purest Strong moonshine.