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All Night Andrews wants is to do his job and live his life in peace, so he can forget his past and all he's been through. Keeping to himself, he trusts no one, and lets no one near, other than the three people he shares house and work with. But when Rhodri Hughes walks into the nightclub owned by Night's benefactor, trouble follows him in the form of the gang he hangs with. When the group of troublemakers drag Rhodri to the toilets, Night decides to follow, triggered by the look he caught in the young man's eyes. What he comes upon wakes a killer rage inside him and opens the door to the ...

When Jai decides to rent the house he shared with his late husband, he has no idea he's about to meet the man who'll change his life. For Lin DaoShi's not only famous, he's also straight – and comes nursing an eating disorder and a broken heart. After a riding accident that threatens to end his dancing career and hamper his acting, he trades China for the UK in an attempt to flee the spotlight and find some peace. What he finds, though, when crossing paths with Jai, is his life changing and his world turned upside down. For after their chance meeting, DaoShi no longer knows who he is or ...

Song Jaesun knew what he was getting into, when he married Jok OnMi and became her child’s legal guardian. He knew the challenges he’d face, raising a trans pre-teen alone, after his wife's death. He’s known all this well in advance, and believes himself ready, eager, even, for it provides him with the one thing he’s longed for but is beyond his reach: his own family. He believes himself man enough to stand up to the hurdles and face every trial. What he didn’t count on, though - and sure wasn’t ready for - is the father of his late wife’s child. Now that Kai HaoTian’s ...

The Borun-Ma. A world rife with magic and dangers, threatened as it is by the haunting of demons and creatures that take the bodies and lives of the common people and feed on their souls. Or so it is, in the head of David Lau, travel photographer turned novelist, who created this imaginary world for his soon-to-be-published first book, where he tells the story of Liòng Dashià, Hawkeye and Zephyr, Reapers of the Borun-Ma who destroy Infestations in the form of creatures and demons. But his characters bear far too many resemblances to himself, and the girl who spills his drink at a crowded ...

'Chaos' Nilsson has it all: a successful career in the music industry, fame, money, the girl. He also has a monkey on his back, brought about by the visions that plague his mind and haunt his every waking moment; visions that will only be quietened when he numbs himself with generous amounts of alcohol and drugs. After an accident that nearly costs him his life, he embarks on a journey of self discovery, in search of his roots and the secret to the blood coursing through his veins CW: Blood, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide ideation, self-harm, fat-shaming, violence, domestic abuse, child abuse

Meet Jaya Hasen, 30, a workaholic who hasn't had a break in years from her post as Fashion Designer at Hasen House, the company owned by her family. Nepotism, much? Jaya thinks so, too, hence her need to constantly prove herself She lives for her job, neglecting every other aspect of her life: friends, family, her health, and even when out on a date, she's counting the minutes until it's no longer unpolite to leave and go back to work. When burnout threatens to set in and her younger brother invites her to spend a couple of weeks in Kawa Bay, with him and his boyfriend, Jaya doesn't ...

After Igernna's revelations, Morganne and Artuìr part ways, with her running to Cornwall and settling at the lands of her father, and the King falling prey to a Pictish ambush. In the midst of his despair, Artuìr allows Myrddin to take the reins of his destiny, and finds himself bound by a treaty he hasn't foreseen, but one that promises to deliver peace into his hands. But dark forces rise behind the scenes and plot against the dream he's shared of a Kingdom of Summer and a land without strife, and before they know it, Artuìr, Morganne and Myrddin find themselves unwitting players in a ...

When Yseult Urquhart's magic finally manifests, she finds herself saving her own life and faced with a choice.Submitting to her family's demands that she returns to Scotland and joins Avalon Hall - a school for witches who come late into their magic - the youngest member of the powerful Urquhart clan enters a place of mysteries and secrets, where nothing is what it seems.Voices from the past, visions of long ago times, even a possible ghost, all materialise before Yseult's eyes and ears, driving her to a spiral of confusion and curiosity that has her delving into what lies behind Avalon ...

While Emrys and Yseult struggle to focus her powers and make them work in their advantage, Nora must find a way to break a binding she and Aaron have been put under, while in the Avalon of old, Artuir comes of age and stands on the brink of becoming king and choosing his queen...

He was chased, beaten, stabbed and left to die alone in the woods. But death granted him a gift, a second chance at life, if only he was willing to become the night.Now he must face secrets hidden in a past that should have been his, of a life he should have lived, if only those who should have loved him hadn't feared him so much...

FIfteen years after the suicide of two of his friends, Ezra King returns to the prestigious University of St. Cyr, this time as a teacher. Following on the footsteps of his former mentor Darren Whitford, he reopens the elitist study group specialising in Chaos Alchemy, guiding his students in the pursuit of results that will make life easier for all the Nonpareil.When those connected to the prior group, of which Ezra was a part of, start showing up dead, his own demons resurface, and the ghosts lying dormant in St. Cyr threaten to rise from their graves...

On May 2003 Sebastian White comes home from his morning jog to find his wife and their four weeks old daughter dead. The deaths are deemed as a murder followed by suicide, but as he spirals down into self destruction, he insists there was foul play. Eight years later he crosses paths with someone who finally believes him and both set out to get to the bottom of what happened that morning, as they both must struggle to come to terms with their own past and the secrets they hide.

Trust no one. The exciting last novel on The Preternaturals Series, follows the events on Supernatural. Rune's life may seem as it is now fallen into place, while he settles into domestic bliss in the woods of Rovaniemi and later on the streets of Helsinki, in an attempt of running away from the world and keeping whatever evils lurk there at bay. But the highest of treasons are those that come from the inside, and this time, no one is safe nor free of suspition. In a riveting finale, the series comes to a conclusion with one certainty only: that you can always misplace your trust on the ...

After the attack of the Svärdaveld scion and Sasha's death while giving birth to his son, Rune is forced to leave Port Eynon with his closest friends and family members As he makes his way back to Oakridge Falls, his dreams are plagued with Sasha's presence, in a way so vivid as to make him want nothing but to fall asleep so he can be with her again. In the meanwhile, there's a killer on the loose in New Orleans, and it's not just any murderer. This one targets vampires and Fey blood is the weapon of choice, making Blanche Bonmot stand on edge and on the alert to every newcomer in her city...

"The fabric covering my body makes my skin crawl, smothers me, adheres to both seen and unseen scars, ripping off scabs just barely healing, making me bleed once again; not only from the wounds, the cuts I inflict upon myself every night on stage; from my heart, my soul. The fabric that covers me is a mask I have no use for, and serves only to comply myself to what others want from me. And yet, the crowd roaring tells me they have come for more, they have come for something else, not for this, certainly not for something as wishy-washy and bland as this." "SCARS", the second novella on the ...

“I’m what’s been made of me, a product of someone else’s depravity. There are scars going deeper than the eye can see, they’re carved into our blood, placed there by the actions of others. You, of all people, should know this. Threatening Caius was the only way I knew of to assure your undivided attention. If you couldn’t love me, at least you’d hate me. But you would notice me.” What secrets hide in Marianne’s past? After being thrown to a time portal by Nora Bell’s magic, Marianne finds herself face to face with her own past, one she must now share with Marcus. Will ...

On the Eight Sho-Dan of the Second Infestation Era at Kyosian Gunshiho in Dong ShiHo, ShinJi Dobashi, sole male heir to his father's myojie, struggles with the expectations he's met with. Trapped in an unwanted marriage with someone who is abhorrent to him and his own nature, ShinJi wiles his days away writing poetry, composing music and painting, as he dreams of freedom and a chance of leaving his father's Gunshiho so he can return to the Temple and live a scholarly life. One day, after a confrontation with his wife, he watches a crane fly - envying the bird its carefree existence, wishing...

On June twenty 2015, an eighteen-year-old Swedish model goes into cardiac arrest at a party in the British countryside. He flat lines for eight minutes before being revived at precisely ten forty six pm. On the same night, a seventeen-year-old British boy residing in the West Coast of Portugal loses use of his legs in a car accident. His mother survives the crash, but his adoptive father is pronounced dead at ten forty six pm. Five years later, their lives enter a collision course, apparently led by a string of coincidences. But as heat escalates between them, how much of their passion can ...

The woods around Weaversmoor hide a secret. The very town, sleepy and placid as it seems, hides secrets, only allowing inside it those who know, those whose blood runs with the same magic that ignites the trees around it. Into the town comes Nyx Vaughn, to live with her uncle Spencer in the same house where her mother once grew up, to attend the same school, learn the same craft. And unravel the secrets that lie behind her forced estrangement from her own grandmother, secrets that could place both her and Spencer in danger, as well as the entire town. Into Weaversmoor, he comes too, on the ...

When Sasha Devereaux enters the offices of London based genealogist Ruth Fleming, she has no idea her life is about to change. Plummeted into a world filled with magic and lore, Sasha soon finds her vision of the world as she knew it come crumbling down, as she is forced to face the truth about herself and her origins.