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I never meant to stay here. I came to pack up her things, to close the door on a life that no longer exists. But when I step into the apartment, I feel her everywhere. Her laughter echoes in the silence. Her perfume still lingers. I swear I see her in the corners of the room, her voice calling my name. But she’s gone. She has to be. Except, sometimes... I’m not so sure. As I move through the space we once shared, the line between grief and specter starts to blur. And the more I linger, the more I realize: I haven’t left either. We’re both still here.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Silas Deemer kept his store so faithfully that the people of Hillbrook set their lives by him — and not even death seemed reason enough to close up shop. Weeks after they laid him in the ground, a respectable banker walks home past the darkened...

A young man living alone in Saint Petersburg longs for companionship. With only his old maid, Matryona, to keep him company, he has resigned to a life of loneliness. That is until he meets the charming and beautiful Nastenka, whom he rescues from being harassed in the street. He confides in Nastenka about his feelings of isolation, and a budding friendship ensues. But as our protagonist's feelings grow, complications begin to surface; desires go unspoken, miscommunications arise and hearts get broken.

Being laid off from his job, a grief-stricken Thomas Charles Baker, or simply TC Baker, finds an escape in smoking a joint with his friend, Richard. But the situation takes an unexpected turn when, during his trip, he meets the great Elvis Presley. Although TC swishes away the trip he took with the star as a mere hallucination, things are not the same for the singer.

Dr. Margaret Richter has it all. She’s rich, thanks to her best-selling self-help books. She has a beautiful home in Cape Cod overlooking the beach. And she has a monthly book club that everyone is dying to get invited to. Literally. Because behind the crystal wine glasses, the fine linens and the catered hors d'oeuvres lies a tangled web of secrets, of deceit, of murder. No member of the book club is innocent—and many are guilty. And the person with the most to hide is Margaret Richter herself.

This audiobook collection includes every installment in the Blood and Ruin trilogy, an extra spicy and action-packed why choose paranormal romance series: Blood and Ruin, Blood and Wrath, and Blood and Reign.

After traveling across the entirety of the Sealance Empire and the deserts of Lowenthal, Larek has returned home to the Kingdom of Androthe to find that the situation is quite different from what he remembered. Not only are there massive Apertures called Calamities consuming large portions of the landscape, but most of his friends are also scattered to locations unknown around the Kingdom. Worse yet, they have no idea who he is because of the Dominion magic used on them before he was transported to the Empire.

Die frühen Erzählungen von Heinrich Böll wären andere gewesen, wenn er nicht mit Anfang zwanzig, zu Beginn seines Germanistikstudiums, zur Wehrmacht eingezogen worden wäre. Statt zu studieren, war er plötzlich Soldat. Nach dem Krieg war es für Böll eine Frage der Moral, Krieg und Nachkriegszeit so zu beschreiben, wie sie wirklich waren. Gerade in der kurzen Form fand Böll die Möglichkeit sich auszudrücken.

Everything’s naughtier after dark. Meet the Wilds, four sinfully sexy billionaires who’ll burn up the sheets, stealing hearts one leading lady at a time. Boxed set contains: Four novella-length steamy love stories featuring alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. Please note that the follow-on series, Bad Boys After Dark, are all full-length novels.

In diesen 16 sexy Kurzgeschichten geht es heftig zur Sache! Ob lesbischer Sex mit zwei Frauen, Sex von Hinten, mit der Diebin oder mit der Domina-Freundin... Hier wird kaum eine Variante der Lust und Sexgier ausgelassen. Lassen Sie sich von diesen fantasievollen, wollüstigen Geschichten abwechslungsreich verwöhnen.

Book one in the magnificent Empire Trilogy by bestselling authors Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. Enter the mysterious and exotic world of Kelewan… Mara, the youngest child of the ancient and noble Acoma family, is about to take her pledge of servitude to the goddess Lashima when the...

Clarice Lispector gilt neben Virginia Woolf als bedeutendste Schriftstellerin der Moderne. Zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag erscheint der zweite und letzte Band ihrer gesammelten Erzählungen in der gefeierten Neuübersetzung von Luis Ruby. Hannelore Hoger, eine große Kennerin und Verehrerin Lispectors, liest ihre persönlichen Lieblingserzählungen aus beiden Bänden. Mit ihrer markanten Stimme und einem tiefen Verständnis für die komplexen Gefühle, die hinter Lispectors nur scheinbar einfacher Sprache aufscheinen, verleiht sie dieser Prosa einen kongenialen Ausdruck.

Damals hat Greg sie verlassen, nun soll Ana mit ihm ein Kochbuch herausbringen. Und noch immer sind seine Blicke heißer als die Flammen des Gasherds. Wird sie sich an ihm erneut die Finger verbrennen?

From amnesiac vampire slayers to fallen angels, space vampires to cursed tattoo artists, sleep paralysis demons to ancient wish-granting entities—six stories prove that even monsters deserve a happily ever after. Treat yourself to a collection that's equal parts spooky and steamy.

I’m the last single mom standing. We had a plan. Move into my great aunt’s old house and raise our kids together. Just four best friends, doing their best to stay afloat. But then three of them had to go and fall in love. Now, my crumbling brownstone is filled with loving couples, leaving me in the cold.

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Hero is a duology comprised of two previously published novella length variations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Ilona Andrews, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series, invites you to a fresh start for Kate, Curran and Conlan, in a long novella and a short novel. The places and faces may be different, but they’ve brought some familiar friends and all the special brand of chaos they create!

Das Böse schläft nie und zieht aus dem Verborgenen die Strippen seiner Marionetten, während wir ahnungslos in das Land der Träume gleiten. Begleitet Agathe, Micha & Vincent – nur um ein paar der armen Seelen zu nennen, die in den siebzehn Geschichten dieser Anthologie bis an die Grenzen des Erträglichen getrieben werden. Fühlt ihre Verzweiflung, versinkt in ihren Gedanken, entdeckt Monster oder unscheinbare Mörder.

Book two in the magnificent Empire Trilogy by bestselling authors Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. Nobody knows how to play the Game of the Council better than Mara of the Acoma. Through bloody political manoeuvring she has become a powerful force within the Empire; but surrounded by deadly...

Jack und seine Assistentin Emma sind auf dem Weg zu einer wichtigen Buchhändlertagung. Doch auf einmal bleibt das Auto stehen - und das, obwohl genügend Sprit im Tank ist. Ein freundlicher Mann bietet an, die beiden Gestrandeten ins nahegelegene Dorf mitzunehmen. Alles scheint friedlich - bis Jack ein Gespräch belauscht: Die Menschen hier beten einen Dämonenkönig an. Und der ist hungrig - nach frischem Blut!