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Architect Carter Grady is constructing his most prized design - a family. Two years after marrying his deceased best friend’s wife, Tori, he’s ready to officially adopt her two sons, independent Daniel, 12, and the sweet five-year-old Nathan. All he needs to do is sign the legal paperwork. But a phone call changes everything. A one-night stand from over a decade ago died in a freak accident and Carter now learns two things: the random stranger’s name...and that they share a 10-year-old son, Frances.

It takes a survivor to know a madman. When the police need to crawl inside the mind of a monster, they call Caroline. As a child, Caroline was abducted along with her twin sister. Caroline escaped. Her sister didn’t...But there’s something different about her latest case. Something familiar. Teenage girls are being murdered, their organs removed. As the scope of horror widens, Caroline begins to experience blackouts of lost time and disturbing hallucinations that are leading her to one terrible, impossible conclusion.

Ten years ago, Keaton Young turned his back briefly on his four-year-old daughter, Vivian, during a family picnic at the beach. Minutes later, she was gone, her floaties found in the ocean. Drowned. But they never found a body. And Keaton has never given up hope that, somehow, she’s still alive.

When Leah’s daughter, Nyla, unexpectedly appears at her cabin in the Appalachian Mountains, it’s a dream come true. For five years, Leah hasn’t seen or heard from her daughter—ever since Nyla stormed out of the house, determined to go live with her idealized father.

Percutant, divertissant et immersif ! Le premier tome d'une série steampunk trépidante et addictive, qui a remporté le Grand Prix de l'imaginaire 2021. Il fut un temps où les Alchimistes nourrissaient le Haut et Bas-Monde de leurs inventions merveilleuses, produits de magie et de science. Une époque révolue depuis que les Industriels ont éradiqué les Alchimistes et leur formidable savoir lors de la Grande-Fracture. Il se chuchote que les Alchimistes seraient parvenus, juste avant leur disparition, à cacher un fabuleux trésor dans une cité secrète.

Lane swore never to be like her late mother. But now she too is a serial killer. One difference remains - she only stalks and punishes the guilty. But while trailing a new killer of teenage girls dubbed “The Strangler”, Lane makes a terrible miscalculation and kills the wrong man. Now the family of the man she accidentally murdered is hunting the killer, and she is forced to cover her tracks by befriending them. Because everyone knows you keep your enemies close. But are they really enemies? Lane isn’t so sure.

PERCUTANT, DIVERTISSANT ET IMMERSIF ! "Les Alchimistes" est le deuxième tome d'une série steampunk addictive qui a remporté le Grand Prix de l'imaginaire 2021. L'équipage de L'Héliotrope est enfin parvenu aux portes de la Cité Impossible des Alchimistes, laissant à Prudence un étrange sentiment de déjà-vu. Outre un incommensurable trésor, qui dépasse leurs rêves les plus fous, les pirates y découvrent un surprenant sarcophage cryogénique qui contient la momie d'un Alchimiste.

Even though her husband was a TV evangelist, Nora never prayed unless she knew the cameras were focused on her. But she prayed tonight that they’d make this stupid baby he wanted. Meet Nora: Flawless. Enigmatic. Conniving. Ruthless. At 17, she escaped the grip of her cold and abusive mama after catching the eye of charismatic Merrell Hodges. His riches and fame became hers. In exchange, she could play the role of doting wife.

A dead teenage girl. A growing suspect list. A town full of liars. At 28, Detective Nell Brach is both the youngest and the first woman to make detective in her close-knit Tennessee community. Assigned her first case as lead investigator, she’s determined to prove herself and find out what happened to the 13-year-old “good girl” found in the woods. However, the deeper Nell and her new partner, Vaughn, dig, the more potential suspects they discover…including Nell’s lover, a local judge.

Jessica is headed over to her new neighbor Martha’s house one evening after casually volunteering to help her get settled in. Both are young nurses and, turns out, survivors of toxic relationships; in fact, they’ve got plenty in common. Plus, a fun and friendly peer is a welcome upgrade to their sleepy, suburban street bordered by woods.

I know who I am—Benny Thornton, college student. But I can’t speak. Or move. Or see. I’m in a coma. Yet I have no idea how I got here. As he lies in a hospital bed, trapped in a nightmare, fleeting memories of the past come back to him. He tries to piece it all together. The insomnia. The sleepwalking. The death of his father. His mother’s debilitating agoraphobia. Something amiss with his girlfriend that he can’t quite remember. And the horrifying realization that the real nightmare isn’t being in a coma. It’s waking up from it.

It's been three months since Lane made her first kill - the sadistic Decapitator - and now she feels both closer and more alienated than ever from her united, grieving family. Haunted by conflicting memories of her mother, Lane resumes her role as the vigilante Masked Savior out of a feeling of obligation - but her heart just isn't in it anymore. Now that Lane has felt the rush of deeper, darker thrills, a growing part of her wants to revisit its seductive power, and she's not sure how long she can resist.

Still reeling from the arrival of her derelict father—a virtual stranger—and its effect on her family, Detective Nell Brach finds welcome distraction in her work. The vicious murder of a homeless Jane Doe passing through Nell’s rural jurisdiction carries more questions when the subsequent identification shockingly links her to a long-closed murder case that Nell’s deceased grandfather investigated. A case whose convicted killer is scheduled to die soon by lethal injection.

PERCUTANT, DIVERTISSANT ET IMMERSIF ! "Le Passeur d'âmes" est le dernier tome d'une série steampunk addictive qui a remporté le Grand Prix de l'imaginaire 2021. De sombres nouvelles du monde extérieur sont parvenues jusqu'à la Cité Impossible, refuge de L'Héliotrope et de son équipage. La Désolation annoncée est en marche. C'est donc désormais un enseignement accéléré que suivent Prudence, Hilisbeth et Guifred auprès d'Ozymandias. Ce dernier révèle qu'il leur faut se rendre au Tartare, berceau de la magie originelle, s'ils veulent être de taille pour affronter le chaos à venir.

All Vanessa ever wanted was to be loved. Okay, strike that - all she wanted was not to die at the hands of the homicidal maniac who was obsessed with hunting her down - and to be loved. Was that too much to ask? Going to Jacob’s Well and becoming a Lottery Bride sounded like it would make all Vanessa’s dreams come true. For the first time in her life, she’d have a family. For the first time in her life, she’d have not just one person to love her, but five. And she’d be safe. from the notorious female slave trader, Lorenzo Bernal. There’s just one tiny problem.

Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. After-school job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick. Why? Because she might be one herself.

Stella Aldren, a talented witch from Salem, has been chosen by her coven to fulfill a seventeenth-century curse that can only end in death. If Stella doesn't want to get herself killed, she needs to find Ethan Mather, the infamous witch hunter's descendant who's running for governor, pluck a hair from his head, make a poppet of his sexy-as-sin self, and...strike him dead. But when Stella stalks her prey at a political gala, sparks fly. And it's more than their combustible sexual attraction. There's an unforeseen and unknown magic swirling around the mysterious and handsome candidate.

When she walks, time moves under her feet. With a single step, Onyx Querette Acerant travels through time and space, the ancient and the new, the past and seemingly forgotten spaces that only the supernatural can touch. Like her psychically gifted sisters, Onyx moves in the shadows, thriving in darkness, changing the fates of those the ancestors deem worthy.

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Gregory knows something is wrong with his house. His parents don’t believe him, but he can feel it—and he’s frightened. DC Rose Gifford is called out after neighbours report a series of disturbances at the property, and she can feel it too. She knows Gregory and his family are in danger, and she knows that it will be down to her specialist supernatural crimes team to uncover the truth. Something terrible happened at number 42 Wyndham Terrace. And it’s Rose’s job to find out what.