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Dive into the enigmatic world of Ravenwood Manor, where the echoes of the past reverberate within its ancient walls. In "The Secret of the Hidden Room: A Mystery of Intrigue," follow Evelyn, a determined detective, as she unravels the veil of secrecy cloaking this mysterious estate.
Amidst the moonlit corridors and whispered legends, Ravenwood Manor holds untold secrets, each locked away behind hidden passages and obscured truths. When Evelyn receives...
142) Christmas is Hell
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The Manchurian CandidateA darkly funny Christmas story.It was a strange day when Blake Alexander found out about this odd case everyone at his hospital wanted to decorate the hospital for Christmas drunk on the Christmas cheer.But that was nothing the reapers were trying to get the after life business in line with fate's decree that they celebrate Christmas with reapers collecting people as Santa Clauses which Blake was totally against. To him it...
143) Shepherd
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The intriguingly dark and dangerous SHEPHERD is at your fingertips in this rich reading experience by USA TODAY bestselling author, Addison Cain. A thought-provoking collection of the first three novels of the celebrated Alpha's Claim series will draw you into the journey of an obsessive and powerful antihero who has met his match in resistant Claire. One look and he knew she would be his. Willing to do anything for his morally incorruptible, idealistic...
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2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2023 Golden Crown Literary Award Winner, Paranormal/Occult/Horror Love demands sacrifice. Her blood. Her body. Even her life. Singapore, 1927. Verity Edevane needs blood. And not just anyone's blood. She craves the sweet, salty rush from a young woman's veins, the heady swirl of desire mixed with fealty-such a rarity in this foreign colony. It's a lot to ask. But doesn't she deserve the...
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Hello darkness, my old friendBlake said in a dark room alone in the afterlife wonder what brought him to be there lost in thoughts of darkness and sadness as he quite often did when he had time to himself. Listening to his favorite Coldplay album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends song 42 was playing when in barged a grim reaper with a ghost. He was spooked for a moment only startled.He'd seen them before the Reaper was his assistant the ghost...
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An suburban ghost story with foxes; an alternative account of Ned Kelly's last stand, with robots; what might have happened on Jane Eyre's wedding night, but probably didn't; a young adoptee learns her place in her new home, which turns out to be at the bottom of her garden; an alternative history of Tasmania including an epidemic which was written before COVID; a tribute to one of my favorite, late writers of fantasy; dystopia with dogs; dealing...
147) Angel's Fall
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There are too many secrets in the Paris Opera House and Christine Daaé knows them all, for her lover, Erik, the infamous Phantom of the Opera, is at their center. To protect Erik from the cruel world above, Christine must deceive her childhood friend and first love, Raoul, a man committed to destroying Erik. But will the lies and darkness claim Christine's soul before she can save anyone? Faced with the ghosts of the past and the demons of doubt,...
148) Brutal Loyalty
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A lamb enters the lion's den…Elena Popov has a mission: kill Viktor Sokolov. But standing between her and her target is the ruthless Roman Garnovich. And if Viktor doesn't die soon, Elena's father will have her head.Pretending to defect to a rival family, Elena soon finds herself torn between loyalty and her growing hatred of her evil father. And then there's Roman and his tests, looking for weaknesses and vulnerabilities so he can break her down.Roman...
149) Ghost Song
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A once-glittering music hall now hides dark mysteries in this atmospheric thriller set in both present day and Edwardian London.
A hundred years ago, the Tarleton Music Hall on London's south bank was one of the city's most popular attractions. People lined up night after night to see its headliner, the legendary song-and-dance man Toby Chance. But that was before Toby disappeared in 1914. People were shocked to see the Tarleton suddenly locked up....
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Readers can get a thorough understanding of Gothic literature by reading the ebook "Birth of Gothic Literature: Guide to Understanding The Start of Gothic Era Writings," which explores the genre's beginnings and traits.Beginning in the 18th century, the guide delves into the historical and cultural circumstances that gave rise to Gothic literature. It looks at how the rise of Gothic themes in literature was influenced by changes in society, political...
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A woman is accused of killing her husband, but is she actually guilty? Inspired by a true historical case, this novel will delight and engross readers.
Liverpool, England, 1889: In the shadowy streets, the air is thick with secrets and the line between guilt and innocence blurs. Twenty-six-year-old Constance Sullivan is brought to trial charged with poisoning her husband, William. But William was no ordinary victim…
As Constance's barrister...
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Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge of Scotland Yard is a changed man, and not for the better it seems. The prime suspect in a terrible crime he did not commit, Gredge launches an impassioned defence. The problem is that he does not know if he is guilty or innocent. Midnight Gunn must uncover the cause of Gredge's unsettling behaviour before the Inspector loses his mind, his job, or very possibly his life. It is a task that must be conducted with the...
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This collection of stories by one of Britain's most beloved novelists depicts domestic life during World War II as seen through the eyes of both children and adults In "The Red-haired Miss Daintreys," four six-foot-tall sisters capture the imagination of young Rebecca when she and her family are on holiday. Beautifully crafted and informed by Lehmann's eye for telling detail, it is a moving meditation on familial ties, romantic love, and the end...
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Mrs. Bennet's marital schemes aren't the only horrors Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy face this season in Hertfordshire…
After learning Netherfield is set to lease at last, Elizabeth Bennet ventures onto the shadowed estate for a glimpse of Longbourn's newest neighbors. There she finds herself confused by the eccentric Bingley sisters and drawn to the enigmatic Mr. Darcy.
But the forbidding grounds whisper of mysteries as sinister as they are ancient....
155) Tanglewood
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Aoife Ni Coillte is the eldest daughter of an Irish Indentured family, living in a poor village near the estate of Tanglewood Manor. In love with George Oliver Williams, the eldest son of the wealthy Williams family to whom the manor belongs, Aoife is rejected as an unsuitable match in favour of the heiress, Dido Dubois. Pride and bigotry drive her to unkindness towards Dido's younger sister, Bellouise, until one fateful evening, when she is jointly...
156) The Holybrooke Curse
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It was a ghastly horror of a house party. Miss Penelope Childe and all the others were awaiting the end of the wicked earl's rotten life.Murder is done. The centuries-old curse has struck again. Penelope alone heard the supernatural scream and sees the ghosts that no one else can.Penelope is a reluctant bride-to-be, contracted to wed a man she's never met before. With a murderer in the haunted house, dare she trust her betrothed, Lord Taredell? Is...
157) The Cuckoo Wood
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A spate of suicides-and stories of angel sightings-lead a detective into the dark underbelly of an isolated English village . . .
Samantha Jaynes ended her life in a cold lake. Now Rosie Trimble has done the same. Both claimed they had seen an angel. And they're not the only ones. The series of teenage suicides is rattling the rural community of Kirkdale in England's Lake District; is it collective hallucination-or is something more sinister leading...
158) Silverhill
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A woman risks her life to piece together the puzzling past of her estranged New England family. After decades away, Malinda Rice returns to the New Hampshire estate of Silverhill to make sure her departed mother is buried in her rightful place in the family plot. Still carrying the scars of her past, she's determined to solve the mysteries behind the bad blood that has divided her family. But, like old memories, Malinda is not welcome at Silverhill....
159) Loving Lily
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Lies brought them together.Truth drove them apart.Love made them whole. When beautiful Lily, Lady Bradden, is abducted and forced to 'summon the spirits' of a nobleman's deceased daughter whom she closely resembles, enigmatic newspaper editor Hamish McTavish vows to expose her as a fraud. But as he unravels the mystery shrouding the new sensation gripping London, an incendiary passion ignites between them. As shadowy dangers close in, Hamish must...
160) Spindrift
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New York Times bestseller: A New Year's Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to accept her father's death as a suicide. When she returns to her mother-in-law Theodora's stately Newport mansion, Christy is determined to find out who killed...
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