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Spinster, sweet Spinster... Isabella Lambert is a nice person. She is biddable, polite, soft-spoken, and eager to please. She also happens to be a spinster, and one of the writers of the infamous Spinster Chronicles, where she is less polite, more outspoken, and may not please anyone. Izzy also has a secret that only one person knows, and that one person may hold the key to its success. Sebastian Morton finds Izzy Lambert fascinating. She is the perfect mentor for his younger sister as well as a capable and charming friend for him.

My half sister died at the hands of a friend, and I vowed to make him pay. In the midst of a brewing war between two rival families, the mysterious and friendly Grey Westbrook sweeps me off my feet when I need it the most. However, my childhood friend Levi Torres—now an obsessive, vicious boy—has made it his mission to erase him from my life. His arrogant and hedonistic cousin, Apollo Torres, offers protection against Levi's wrath if I agree to all his filthy demands. But Levi and Apollo aren't my only problems…

In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny…a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed--as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.

The terror continues in Spine Chillers Volumes 16-20, where each tale leads you further into the dark. Here, haunted houses echo with restless footsteps, unseen eyes track your every move, and ancient curses stir awake after centuries of silence. This book holds nightmares that twist the ordinary into the unthinkable. A quiet street becomes a hunting ground. An empty room conceals something breathing just out of sight. And once the horrors reveal themselves, escape is no longer possible.

Georgiana Allen is a spinster, and everybody knows it. She also happens to be one of the writers for the Spinster Chronicles, and everybody knows that, as well. She’s accepted her lot in life, and along with the other spinsters in her circle, takes great pride in the articles she writes and the influence she has. Then, Captain Anthony Sterling infiltrates their group and her life, and Georgie impossibly begins to hope, once more.

Alain Whitstock II. hat eine besondere Schwäche für alte Gegenstände. Sobald er sie berührt, lösen sie eine so warme, wohltuende Schwere in ihm aus, dass er schier süchtig nach solchen Artefakten ist. Je älter sie sind, desto länger hält dieses Gefühl an. Bei einem Besuch in Japan findet er einen Schrein, zu dem ein schwarzes Messer zählt, Alain spürt schon von weitem, was für ein unglaubliches Alter diese Antiquität ausstrahlt. Wenn er dieses Messer zu seinem Eigen zählen könnte, würde es ihm jahrelang dieses wunderbare Gefühl bereiten. Welche Grenzen wird Alain überschreiten, um an das schwarze Messer zu gelangen?

Die Elfen aus Sandra Regniers Bestseller-Trilogie "Pan" sind zurück! Die unterirdischen Gassen Edinburghs sind für die 16-jährige Allison nichts weiter als eine Touristenattraktion. Bis sie bei einer Führung mit ihrer Schulklasse aus Versehen eine mysteriöse Pforte öffnet und unsägliches Chaos anrichtet. Denn von nun an heftet Finn sich an ihre Fersen, der zwar verdammt gut aussieht, aber leider ziemlich arrogant ist und obendrein behauptet, ein Elfenwächter zu sein. Er verlangt von Allison, das Tor zur magischen Welt wieder zu schließen.

Die junge Tempeldienerin Cassia weiß genau, wer hinter dem Tod ihrer Freundinnen steckt, aber der skrupellose Dämon Ianus wird in ganz Rom als Gott verehrt und scheint unantastbar. Als dem Mädchen, das immun gegenüber dämonischen Kräften ist, eines Tages in Aussicht gestellt wird, Ianus zu Fall zu bringen, willigt sie ohne zu zögern ein, sich als Sklavin in dessen Villa einschleusen zu lassen. Doch dort bringt ein unerwarteter Gast ihre Pläne durcheinander: Belial, seines Zeichens angehender Teufel und Ianus' Erzrivale.

In Spine Chillers Volumes 21–25, the nightmares cut deeper, twisting familiar places into traps you cannot escape. Empty roads whisper with voices that shouldn’t exist. Locked doors swing wide to invite you inside. And shadows you thought were harmless reach out with claws.

Milan von Arentin wurde in die mächtigste Adelsfamilie der Welt hineingeboren. Eine Welt, in der es nur ums skrupellose Geschäft geht. Macht, Geld, Partys, Drogen und Gewalt. Alles beginnt mit einer weiteren Entführung. Eine Frau, die er am liebsten auf der Stelle umbringen würde. Doch es ist ausgerechnet sie, für die er schon bald jede Grenze überschreiten wird.

Prudence Westfall, spinster, has unexpectedly had the greatest misfortune of all: she has inherited a fortune, and is now an heiress. But as a spinster, and a stammering shy one, nothing could be worse than having a bevy of suitors pay her attention. Opportunity strikes at a house party when the most unlikely person offers the perfect solution.

Julia Dorning is a spinster, or at least on the road to becoming one. She has no social life, hates her career, and lives in her parent's basement with her cat, Charlie. With the arrival of Jared Moody, the new hire at work, Julia's mundane life is suddenly turned upside down. Her instant (and totally ridiculous) crush on the new guy causes Julia to finally make some long-overdue changes, in hopes to find a life that includes more than baking and hanging out with Charlie. But when the biggest and most unexpected change comes, will the new and improved Julia be able to overcome it?

The shadows have returned in Spine Chillers Volumes 6-10. In this book, strangers linger where they don’t belong, hungry secrets stir in family homes, and forgotten places hide experiments that should never see the light of day. From phantom visitors to monstrous hungers, from cursed bargains to the footsteps that follow when you’re alone, each story drags you deeper into the dark. No matter where you turn—quiet barrooms, lonely islands, or the streets outside your door—the chill of fear waits to greet you.

The night my sister died, a piece of me died with her. So I made a vow to enroll at Spine Ridge University just like her, find the person responsible… and make them pay. Until I meet three sick boys of the Skull & Serpent Society: Felix, Dylan, Alistair. Rude, heartless, vicious guys who are obsessed with making me regret I ever stepped foot on campus. They make me a deal: My body in exchange for a glimpse at their violence.

Mary Hamilton has had enough of being passed over by all of the eligible men in London, though she's had years and years of practice, and she's ready to give it up. But before she hangs up her dancing shoes for good, she wants one season of everything she's never had - invitations, flirtation, and suitors. But will all of that actually give her what she's always secretly wanted? Behind every little secret, there's another secret waiting....

"Für viele Frauen ist er sicher der Inbegriff eines perfekten Mannes, und da schließe ich meine Wenigkeit nicht aus, er ist nur nichts für mich." Das redet sich die erfolgreiche Personalchefin Heather Moore immer wieder ein. Der charismatische Cole McAllister passt mit seinem ungezwungenen Lebensstil nicht in ihre geordnete Welt, in der alles seinen festen Platz hat und einem strikten Ablauf folgt. Dennoch knistert es seit ihrem Kennenlernen gewaltig, sodass es beiden immer schwerer fällt, sich dem zu entziehen.

Spine Chillers Volumes 11–15 brings another wave of terrifying short stories, each one designed to leave you breathless with dread. In this book, shadows stir in forgotten rooms. Whispers echo from the walls. Doors open on their own, revealing places that should never exist. Ghosts, curses, and things older than time reach out with cold hands, eager to claim the living.

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported 10,000 years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals”. In this future, humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined. Turk and his young friend, Isaac Dvali, are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.