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Die Schlange hat ihr Gift, auch wenn sie unter den schönsten Blumen liegt. (Dänisches Sprichwort). venom (engl.) – Gift, speziell: Schlangengift. Auch: Bosheit, Gehässigkeit. Stell dir vor, die Polizei klopft an deiner Tür, um dir mitzuteilen, dass sich ein extrem reicher Unternehmer umgebracht hat. Neben seiner Leiche wurde ein Abschiedsbrief gefunden, in dem er sich für alles entschuldigt, was er dir angetan hat. Deswegen macht er dich mit seinem letzten Willen zur Alleinerbin seines Imperiums.

Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, first introduced in The Various Haunts of Men, is on a painting holiday in Venice when he is summoned home by a telephone call. He has family problems to face, and the stress and grind of running a busy police station. When a little boy is snatched as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for his lift to school, an ordinary community realises that terror and evil are in their very midst.

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Frustrated with his life and haunted by his past, everything changes for Uzi when he gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by feeding information to WikiLeaks. But once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man...

From New York Times best-selling author of The Dollar Series comes the first novel in a dark romance duet. She is a woman divided. Her past, present, and future are as twisted as the lies she's lived for the past eight years. Desperate to get the truth, she must turn to the one man who may also be her greatest enemy...He is the president of Pure Corruption MC. A heartless biker and retribution-deliverer. He accepts no rules, obeys no one, and lives only to reap revenge on those who wronged him. And now he has stolen her, body and soul.

Re-released in a second edition with new content. The town of Bliss, Colorado, offered Hope McLean a second chance at life, a gift she cherishes every day. Her past was dominated by dark secrets and regret, most of which centered on a man named Christian Grady. All of that was behind her now, years of horror distilled down into the occasional nightmare or a random feeling of being watched. Surrounded by new friends, she tried hard to leave the past where it belonged - in the rearview mirror.

She is my fair lady—my Eliza Doolittle if you like. A blank canvas on which I will create a masterpiece. Somebody to fool the most discerning eye. But I am no gentleman. I am the man she fears the most. The devil waiting behind the mountain range. I will teach her how to be my perfect woman, and she will thank me for it. I am the master of the game. She doesn't even realize we are playing one. She signed a contract inked in tears and sealed with blood. Now she is mine, and there is nothing she can do about that because hidden in the small print—she gifted me her soul.

It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning. As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes. Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him - and no one will say why.

Zahn's involvement in the hunt for ancient relics linked to the legends of Camelot had become his whole world. One of his new companions is the fabled beauty known as Guinevere. Along with his companions, they have made their home upon Avalon itself. None of that has made his life any safer. Those who want to possess the near-absolute power behind Merlin's Staff and the sword Excalibur will stop at nothing to achieve those goals. Some wish to ensure they remain out of the hands of dangerous people.

Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he assumes will be the promised afterlife of days on the golf course and celebrity endorsements. But markets tank, family disintegrates, fame fades, and the holes in his mind from a career of punishment on the field become too large and frightening to ignore. When he hears of a miracle brain damage treatment forbidden in the U.S., he travels to Honduras in search of a chance to restore himself to the man he was.

When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter's companion, her life changes forever. Transported from her remote island home to the Scottish borderlands, Iseabail is unnerved both by her precocious young charge and the house's secrets: a hidden chapel, servants who speak in a foreign tongue, a mute stableboy. And then the merchant returns with a mysterious cargo. Why has Iseabail really been summoned here? Will Iseabail ever make it back home to her beloved island?

Snow White is living a quiet life at the dwarf village, talking to the animals and hiding from the Snow Queen who wants her captured. When she meets a huntsman in the woods, he sparks a desire in her to stop hiding and fight the Snow Queen once and for all. She gladly accepts the huntsman as her aid, but little does she know he was sent by the Snow Queen to capture her.

Shirley Dobbins wants nothing more than to live a quiet life and become a head housekeeper at a prestigious house. So when she is invited to come work for the mysterious baronet Sir Joseph Hunting at his estate, she thinks it is the chance of a lifetime. However, from the moment she arrives, things are not what they seem. As she becomes wrapped up in more of the baronet's radical science, she realizes something dark and otherworldly is loose within the estate. And if left unchecked, it'll claim the lives of all she holds dear.

She came from a past Arthur "Kill" Killian never forgot. She made him sin and made him suffer. She tugged him from the shadows and showed him he wasn't as dead as he thought. And with her resurrection came betrayal, deceit, and war. But then they took her. Stole her. Imprisoned her. Now Kill's carefully laid plans for vengeance are complete. He craves action, retribution - the blood of his enemies. War has begun. War is all they'll know until they've paid their penance. He will get her back-and rewrite their destiny....

A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past. A psychological crime novel about the past, the nature of justice, family secrets, the nature of forgiveness, revenge, identity, hunting, and predation.

FBI Special Agent Harley Cole is summoned to a remote part of the Southwestern desert when a victim of a serial killer is found in an abandoned nuclear silo. As Harley races to enter this killer’s mind, she can’t help but wonder: Can she outsmart him before he strikes again?

Ever since her mother died while serving time for a murder she didn’t commit, Bellhas been focused on one thing: revenge. She knows her mother was set up by the head of the powerful Gable family, international bankers who will crush anyone for profit, or amusement. Now she’s determined to take the Gables down - from the inside. Seducing her way into the life - and bed - of the family's rebellious youngest son, Lander, she figures it should be easy to uncover the secrets she needs to destroy the Gables. But Lander turns out to be much more complicated than Bell ever could have imagined.

As a repossession specialist, Gavin Sykes has the means to legally and morally do what he does best - take things that aren't his. He thrives on repossessing high-end merchandise, hoping to atone for his shadowy past. But even with all his experience, he never could have anticipated the future that awaits him. When Sabrina Grady is hired to expedite the repossession process, she finally has the means to fulfill a promise she made long ago.

The beautiful, angry Bell has revenge in her heart and Lander Gable in her sights. She's seduced her way into his arms with the intent to destroy his wealthy family. But now that she's there, lust and passion have begun squeezing out that desire for vengeance. It's a dangerous game Bell is playing, and sex, mystery, and lies are the most intriguing game pieces of all.