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Die gesamte Douglas-Schwestern-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Charlotte Jacobi jetzt als Hörbuch-Sammelband. 1910: Maria Carsten weiß schon früh, was sie im Leben will. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester Anna ist sie entschlossen, eine Welt der Düfte in Hamburg zu eröffnen. Und auch wenn der Vater das Unterfangen der Schwestern tatkräftig unterstütz, sabotiert die ängstliche Mutter ihre Idee, wo sie nur kann. Doch Maria und Anna finden einen Weg, die erste Douglas-Filiale in Hamburg zu eröffnen. Und damit beginnt das eigentliche Abenteuer.

Betörende Düfte und zwei starke Schwestern. Schon als kleines Mädchen ist Maria Carstens fasziniert von den Parfüms der feinen Hamburger Damen. Und so versprechen sie und ihre Schwester Anna sich, eines Tages ihre eigene Parfümerie zu eröffnen. Doch während der Vater die beiden tatkräftig unterstützt, sabotiert die ängstliche Mutter das Vorhaben ihrer Töchter.

The man known as Falconer was born the bastard son of a whore, served the royal court as a predator trainer, and warred against the infidel Saracens as a conscripted soldier in the Holy Land. But it wasn't until he found himself in the arms of a creature called Pythia that he found his destiny - as a vampire.

For years, the Jackson family has vacationed at Rowena Wandigaux Lee's old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition and legend off the southern coast of the U.S. One particular summer, young Beau follows his cousin Sumter into a hidden shack in the woods - and christens this new clubhouse "Neverland." The rundown shack in the woods is the key to an age-old mystery, a place forbidden to all. But Neverland becomes the place where children begin to worship a creature of shadows, which Sumter calls "Lucy."

Wie die Parfümerie Douglas die Roaring Twenties erlebte Hamburg, 1920: Zehn Jahre gibt es die Parfümerie Douglas bereits, ein Grund zum Feiern! Weil sie sich darauf konzentrieren möchten, neue internationale Kontakte zu knüpfen, geben die "Douglas-Schwestern" Marie und Anna Carstens das Tagesgeschäft in die Hände ihrer Patentöchter Hertha und Lucie Harders. Doch den jungen Frauen stehen schwierige Zeiten bevor: Die deutsche Wirtschaft leidet unter den Reparationszahlungen, die Inflation lässt die Kundenzahlen sinken.

The Halloween Man walks when the screaming begins, and only Stony Crawford holds the key to the power of the chilling mystery of Stonehaven - and to the power of the unspeakable creature trapped within a summer mansion...

After rescuing Pythia, the creature who turned him into a vampire, Aleric follows her back to the land of the Saracens. There, they must raise an army, for Aleric's lost love, Enora, has become the Queen of the Wastelands. Aided by her minions and her legions of wolves, she has begun the quest to call the Dark Madonna from beyond the Veil into the world of man. To stop the end of all, Aleric must become what he was destined to be - the Messiah of the Damned - and lead the undead in a final battle against the Mother of Darkness.

In this gripping supernatural thriller of horror and suspense, something is terribly wrong with the children of Colony, West Virginia. Innocent though they seem, these kids come out at night - to hunt. When Joe returns with his wife and two young children to the peaceful mountain town of Colony, West Virginia, he doesn’t expect to find the girl who disappeared when he was a boy. But she remembers Joe and her other friends who left her behind in a deep well within a mysterious barn. Now, she's out for blood.

Hailed as the prophesied messiah of the vampyre, Aleric seemed destined for glory - until, like many of his brethren, he was captured by the sorceress Enora. Imprisoned, he is now forced to fight in the arena for her amusement. To end Enora's reign of terror, Aleric must escape and find the alchemist behind her power, though that may mean unleashing Pythia, the Lady of Serpents - and Aleric's old enemy, the seductress who ended his mortal life.

Set at Harrow in the 1920s, the grandson of its creator has come to claim his deadly inheritance and explore the terrifying mystery within the ancient stones and passages of the house.

The mansion looms above the Hudson River, just outside the town of Watch Point, New York. Converted into a school for boys, its evil has remained dormant for many years. But when a boy named Jim Hook enters Harrow Academy, all hell breaks loose - and his worst nightmare may just come true.

At Darden State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, psychopath Agnes' rage is triggered when her psychiatrist Trey leaves town for a family vacation. She'll ensure his vacation is anything but restful in this twisted thriller. "A sleek, smooth, and constantly surprising page-turner..." Bad Karma is a fast-paced, full-length suspense thriller of heart-pounding terror and reincarnation from critically-acclaimed, award-winning novelist, Douglas Clegg. Book #1 in the Criminally Insane series.

It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds. How could his kidnappers know that the ransom would be their own souls? For, as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites - and soon, they become real.

There are rules to every game. You must never play the Dark Game after sunset - it becomes real then. It takes you over... The Hour Before Dark is a riveting gothic suspense novel of supernatural horror from best-selling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg - author of The Children's Hour and Halloween Man. When his father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo Raglan must return to the New England island he thought he'd escaped for good...and the shadowy home called Hawthorn.

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank?

From the critically-acclaimed, award-winning author, Douglas Clegg, comes a twisting, dark psychological thriller of dangerous obsession. Owen Crites has watched Jenna Montgomery become a beautiful young woman as they've practically grown up together through the summer. Owen is the gardener's son, and one day he will become groundskeeper of the Montgomery summer estate on Outerbridge Island, off the New England coast.

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg brings us Isis, an unforgettable novella that is sure to become a classic tale of the supernatural. If you lost someone you loved, what would you pay to bring them back from the dead? Old Marsh, the gardener at Belerion Hall, warned the Villiers girl about the old ruins along the sea-cliffs. "Never go in, miss. Never say a prayer at its door. If you are angry, do not seek revenge by the Laughing Maiden stone or at the threshold of the Tombs.