Past Three O'Clock: A Christmas Ghost Story Unfolds in Victorian LondonSebelius Sallow, a kind-hearted clockmaker, finds his peaceful life disrupted on Christmas Eve as he becomes entangled in a series of mysterious events. While the city bustles with Christmas cheer, Sebelius seeks to unravel a puzzle that connects him to an old friend, a charismatic publican, and a young girl in need of his help.Sebelius’s journey brings him face to face with the ghosts of his past and the ...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises.Lysander au Lune, the displac...

During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world’s rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbread racehorses.From the Jockey Club to Kentucky, from Royal Ascot to Belmont Park, high society and new money celebrated a horsebreeders’ bonanza as hundreds of millions of dollars were waged in the ultim...

Newly updated to feature award-winning narrator, Christopher Tester!Frankenstein is one of the earliest examples of science fiction, introducing the prototypical “mad scientist” who creates a monster who destroys everyone and everything that is dear to him. The scientist is the eponymous character of the novel but the name, Frankenstein, has become popularly attached to the creature itself, who has become one of the best-known monsters in the history of motion pict...

London, 1878. A secret gift. A deadly vision. A relentless hunt for the truth.Electra Poole has spent much of her life hiding her abilities, fearing the same fate as her mother, who was labeled mad and locked away. But in order to survive on her own, she plays into London's obsession with spiritualism, offering carefully crafted séances to those desperate for answers. Yet when she foresees the death of a wealthy noblewoman and chooses to stay silent, the guilt is s...

One of the most famous adventure novels of all time, The Count of Monte Cristo follows the sailor Edmond Dantès, who is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and then imprisoned in an infamous island fortress without a trial. Fellow prisoner Abbé Faria takes Edmond under his wing, mentoring him, teaching him to read, and eventually revealing a secret to him: the secret of a treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo.With the promise of the hidden fortune, Edmond ...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises.Lysander au Lune, the displac...

In a town where health is currency and longing is lure, a reluctant investigator and seamstress must uncover whether hunger will anchor a man already slipping into the dark.Behind the decrepit doors of an infirmary said to offer miraculous cures to London's ailing elite, people are vanishing. Private Investigator and estranged heir to French aristocracy Jacques Valmont is summoned across the channel to sleuth, despite the lingering sickness of his own—one of grief ...

"They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life.A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought for on one last desp...

The sensational conclusion to the massive #1 New York Times bestselling series…It’s been over three months since my friends and I took down Cyrus. Three months where my biggest fear was what paper was due next... But I should have known it was too good to last. Now everything is falling apart.The Vampire Court has no king, the Dragon Court has no heart, and the Gargoyle Court has me—a teenager in way over her head. And it’s the worst possible timing, because a threat is bre...

When the kingdom of Praiton began overthrowing the surrounding kingdoms of Krigor, no one knew why.As a healer for Praiton, Deya believed there was no higher honor in the realm. When Deya is imprisoned after learning an enormous secret that threatens the regime, her love and loyalty for her kingdom are shattered. Beaten, and tortured, a new, terrible power is unleashed inside of her, a power that she cannot control.Forced outside of the only kingdom she has...

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