Resultado narrado por "Patricia Santomasso" em Todas as categorias

After life threw Maggie Walker a few curveballs, she’s happy to be back in the small, Berkshires town where she spent so much time as a child. Marlowe holds many memories for her, and now it also offers a fresh start. Maggie has always loved gardening, so it’s only natural to sign on to help Violet Bloom set up a community garden. When opening day arrives, Violet is nowhere to be found, and the gardeners are restless. Things go from bad to worse when Maggie finds a boot buried in one of the plots… and there’s a body attached to it.

Former Navy SEAL Ty Chambers never thought the fallout from one of his past covert missions would reach him in Lantern Beach. But when a sinister plot is exposed, Ty realizes everything—and everyone—he loves is at risk. Police Chief Cassidy Chambers is knee-deep in investigating hundreds of dead fish that have mysteriously washed ashore. When her husband, Ty, shares a secret from his past, everything tilts around her. She knows the danger is real—and imminent.

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . Such tales of the dark and the unknown have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

After a shocking betrayal, Amber Benson was forced to do the unthinkable: drink a potion that will bring shadow souls—the dark forces trying to take over the city—straight to her. If that wasn’t bad enough, the potion is eating away her sun magic. Poisoning her. Weakening her with each passing day. Then, there’s Damien. The vampire king who abducted Amber and tricked her into living in his palace in a twisted attempt to make her his bride. He’s furious with her for drinking the potion. Unfortunately, they’re going to have to figure out how to work together.

Abby Mendez wants a new start doing what she loves: acting. But when she stumbles upon a dead body backstage in her theater, she’s drawn into a dangerous plot—with a script she didn’t write. Former Navy SEAL Hunter Bancroft has no intentions of opening his heart again to any woman. But when a killer sets his sights on Abby and those near to her, Hunter is willing to risk more than he expected to protect the beautiful, intriguing actress.

The Beasts in Your Brain is a guide and companion equally for you and your loved ones, here to provide that essential first dose of information, understanding, and validation about mental illness and how it affects the young people of today.

As security agent Jonah Gray zeroes in on his current mission, he finds scientist Rachel Atwood in his crosshairs. Right before his foster brother died, he handed Jonah a slip of paper with the woman’s name on it and muttered the word “killed.” But the more Jonah gets to know Rachel, the more he’s uncertain if she’s a killer or a target. Rachel Atwood hopes to leave trouble behind when she takes a new research position at a cosmetics company located on Lantern Beach. But things aren’t as idyllic on the coastal island as she’d assumed.

Old lore says that powerful dragons once created Andlang, ruling over it for thousands and thousands of years until man’s greed and cruelty destroyed it all. The dragons are long dead and gone, and now, her world is suffering. Crops are failing, livestock is starving, and the population is dwindling, making fertile women a precious resource—more valuable than gold.

From childhood, Sally Ride was a daring adventurer, and her parents encouraged her to pursue the things she loved. Those things included science and math, fast rides, and the stars in the sky. Eventually her passions and her hard work led her to NASA, where she became the country's first female astronaut, inspiring generations of young people to follow their own dreams of space exploration.

Cora's mission is clear: thwart the Stone before their doomsday plan plunges the world into chaos. Just a typical Tuesday. Intel leads her through the quaint, cobbled streets of Copenhagen, but the enigmatic Stone always seems to be one elusive step ahead, taunting her with cryptic, chilling messages and presenting a horrifying bargain-abandon the pursuit, and the doomsday device remains dormant. But Cora is no quitter.

When Melinda Marx receives a mysterious invitation to visit the quaint, historic oceanfront inn in Carova, NC, where she spent her childhood summers, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regroup after her painful divorce. But when she arrives, she learns this is no ordinary beach getaway. The inn’s owner has died, and four strangers with their own invitations are already there waiting for answers.

Fourteen-year-old freshman Violet V Jiménez knows Emma will have her back on their first anxiety-ridden day of high school. So when her best friend is kidnapped just as classes begin, the determined V vows to save Emma at any cost. But her resolve is thrown a major curve with her mother's sudden cancer diagnosis.

As Cora hunts down the leads given to her by Andrew and Andrea, she stumbles across stories of the shadowy founder of the Evolved. The revelation puts her in a position she'd been congratulating herself for sidestepping. Cora has a choice to make. Will she stand by her principles and watch the world burn? Or will she accept the hand of fate and become the assassin she never wanted to be?

Daphne survived a megaquake, escaped flood waters rushing through the city, and walked away from a horrific bus crash. With confirmation her family is alive and searching for her at a refugee facility, she's determined to reach them. But the facility isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Daphne will face her greatest obstacles yet in the fight to find her family.

Olivia Beaumont’s father left behind a legacy of destruction, and it’s up to her to restore her family’s reputation. She heads to Kiawah Island, South Carolina, to unravel the mysteries of her father’s secret life. But when she arrives, she discovers the house he left behind—The House on Dagger Point—holds secrets of its own.

Cora gave up everything to stay alive. Her relationship, her home, and her actual life. She didn't even get a t-shirt to go with her ethically murky career path and the two foster kids who crash landed in her life. Parenting the powerful comes with growing pains no one could prepare Cora for.

I’m a witch. My mom, and my aunt, and their mom were also witches. Maybe my dad? There’s just a whole lotta witches in my family. And in this town too. Stormy Josie, off-limits Beck, even cocky-boy Spade all have enchanted abilities. We were supposed to get invites to the High Council Witch Academy… maybe. But, the death of a classmate interrupted our fate. Now, no one’s sure. (You’d think fate would know, after all, it’s fate. But, I digress.) The High Council will only accept the strongest, most magical bonds. So now, we’ve got to do it all again.

Survival was only the beginning. Adjusting to her new reality comes with a new set of extenuating circumstances that Cora must navigate with caution. First step: avoid going into the "family business" and becoming an assassin.

Two days after a megaquake and tsunami combine to wreak havoc on the Pacific Northwest, Clint and his daughter are together at last. Instead of retreating to safety, they're on a one-way mission into the heart of the disaster. Chaos on the streets, impassable routes, and the worst of human nature combine to thwart them at every turn. But Mika's mom is missing, and they won't stop until they find her.

My whole world changed when I started the new school year. We moved to a new place, I started the new grade, but everything about this small town feels a little… off. Including my aunt. We’ve been together forever, just the two of us against the world. But this is where she and Mom grew up. Family secrets are thick in the air.