Drei kurze Geschichten, die sich allesamt im amerikanischen Westen abspielen. Im 19. Jahrhundert verschlägt es ein Ehepaar von der amerikanischen Ostküste in den wilden Westen. Dort stoßen die beiden Jungvermählten auf unvorstellbares Grauen. Ein abenteuerlustiges Pärchen gerät auf einem Kletterausflug in Mesa Verde in dämonische Geschehnisse. Alte Legenden der Ureinwohner erweisen sich als real. Eine junge Frau versucht ihr Glück als Rodeo-Reiterin in Texas und begegnet dort einem mysteri...

In October 1869, Nathan Meeker, the New York Tribune's agricultural editor, visited the Colorado Territory. Impressed with the scenery, people, climate, and resources, he wrote an article, "A Western Colony," for the Tribune, inviting principled people with money to invest in a temperance and agricultural colony. Over 3,000 prospective colonists wrote to Meeker. On December 23, Meeker founded the Union Colony, a joint-stock colonization company, and chose 737 of the best applicants as memb...

Hier schleift ein Wasserfall eine verzauberte Welt, dort birgt ein blauer Stein unerwartete Legenden und im Feenwald geht es heiß her. Was hat eine alte Weide zu berichten? Wer boykottiert den Bau einer Therme? Werden Kastanien wirklich poliert? Und was veranlasst das Feenwasserwirtschaftsamt zum Einschreiten? Der Laubkönig lässt wieder erzählen: 12 kreativen Köpfen hat er Einblick in sein Reich gewährt. Entstanden ist eine magische, fantasievolle und vergnügliche Kurzgeschichtensammlung z...

Matters of succession lead to attempted murder in the latest of Greeley's popular mysteries.Archbishop Malachi Nolan has designs on the Diocese of Chicago despite the fact the Most Reverend Blackwood Ryan, himself recently appointed an archbishop, is currently in line for the post. Assigned to keep watch on his rival, Blackie travels to the Nolan family estate in Grand Banks, where he soon finds himself immersed in an entirely different dynastic struggle.Spike Nolan, founder ...

A psychic detective and her family are drawn into a century-old unsolved mystery in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Irish Whiskey.Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful Irish spitfire, now lives in Chicago with her husband, Dermot, and their new baby, Nellliecoyne. As Nuala fans may suspect, Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: she is fey like her mother, and can see into the past as well as the future.Both Nuala and her daugh...

The New York Times–bestselling author takes fabulous Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband once again to Ireland for another thrill-packed adventure.Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions, and someone starts shooting at Nuala while she is water-skiing in the cold Atlantic. Meanwhile, the handsome parish priest, Father Jack, has given Dermot the diary of a...

"An immersive queer reimagining" of the bride Mr. Darcy rejected to marry Elizabeth Bennett "reveal[s] the hidden depths of her character" ( Publishers Weekly).As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh was prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Sheltered, Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood tha...

"Blackwood, there's trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!"The church in question is St. Lucy's, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy's has long stood as a bulwark against evil and change, which some in the community have often seen as much the same thing.Now three dead bodies have been left in the sanctuary, stripped, mutilated, and shot through the head, execut...

"A delightful yet poignant historical...easily draws readers into the world . . . while largely staying true to Pride and Prejudice's original plot." — Publishers WeeklyCharlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine d...

Millionaire media mogul Raymond Neenan can't believe his ears--or his eyes. the seat next to him, empty for the whole flight, now barely contains a huge man who looks a lot like Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan.In fact, the "man" is the Archangel Michael ("Not Mike, not Mikey, but Michael. you got a problem with that?), and he's looking to make a deal for Neenan's immortal soul.Neenan isn't interested in his soul or anyone else's unless there is money in it, but a littl...

The irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan returns as his Cardinal dispatches Blackie to The University on the South Side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked-room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Divinity School-despite the fact that the door of his office was bolted shut from the inside and no killer was found within.Who shot Brother Semyon Ivanivich Popov? There were only four professors in the building on the night of the shootin...

A Chicago Cardinal faces sinister plots in the struggle to choose the next pope: "Maybe the best novel written about the intrigue of Vatican politics" ( Chicago-Sun Times ).Chicago's Sean Cardinal Cronin and his assistant, Bishop John "Blackie" Blackwood, have travelled to Rome to take part in the next papal election. They lead a reformist coalition that has chosen a gentle and brilliant Spanish scholar as their candidate....