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Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

In einer Welt, in der der Tod nur der Anfang ist, wird Avery James' Leben erschüttert, als sie in den Armen der Person aufwacht, die sie nur benutzt und verraten hat. Während die Schülerin damit ringt, sich in ihrem neuen Leben und Körper zurechtzufinden, wird sie von unheimlichen Albträumen und Visionen heimgesucht, die von versteckten Wahrheiten flüstern. Averys Kampf, sich mit ihrem Schicksal abzufinden, wird noch erschwert, als sie erfährt, dass ihre Zukunft unklar ist und sie alles, was ihr lieb und teuer ist, im Handumdrehen verlieren könnte.

I don't know what I was thinking when I hired someone to attack me. Maybe I was bored, or lonely, or there was a void so deep inside of me that I needed something explosive to fill it. It was supposed to be safe. A thrill. A way to break through the monotony of everyday life. It was an illusion of danger that I could walk away from as soon as it was over. Except that it wasn't.

It all comes down to this. I should have known my freedom from Mercer would only last so long before my pack was hunted down, and I was dragged back into it all. It’s suffocating being back in this place that twisted my shifter side forever and threatened to change who I am. But this time is different.

Berlin detective Jan Tommen expected to wake up with a hangover - not a murder charge. But a well-known judge has been brutally killed and hard evidence places Jan at the crime scene. When disturbing gaps in Jan’s memory make finding an alibi impossible, the case against him looks open and shut. Faced with life on the inside, Jan flees police custody to take refuge with an old friend deeply enmeshed in the capital’s seedy underworld.