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Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She’s come to Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She’s given up everything for this story—her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she’s made with her climbing failures in the past—but it’s a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track.

In the frigid summers of the Antarctic continent, the sun never sets, and Olivia Campbell has long dreamed of spending a sunlit night in this beautiful, remote place. So when her boyfriend—a high-powered art dealer with a taste for the finer things in life—decides to stage an ostentatious, career-making auction aboard a luxury cruise liner to Antarctica, Olivia can hardly believe her luck. That is, until the ship sets sail and her boyfriend is nowhere to be found, and she is left to manage both the auction and her own creeping fear of the open ocean entirely alone.

Illumen Hall is an elite boarding school. Tragedy strikes when the body of a student is discovered at their exclusive summer party - on her back is an elaborate tattoo of a magpie. When new girl Audrey arrives the following term, running from her own secrets back home in America, she is thrown into solving the case. Despite her best efforts to avoid any drama, her new roommate Ivy was close to the murdered girl, and the two of them can't help but get pulled in.

When Lacey Chu wakes up in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there, she knows something went really wrong. And with her cat baku, Jinx, missing in action and MONCHA, the company behind the invention of the robot pet, threatening her family, she isn't sure who to turn to for answers. When Lacey is expelled and her mom starts acting strangely after the latest update from MONCHA, Lacey and her friends work together to get to the bottom of it and discover a sinister plot at the heart of the corporation.

Lacey Chu has always dreamed of working as an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world and the company behind the "baku" - a customizable "pet" with all the capabilities of a smartphone. But when Lacey is rejected by the elite academy that promises that future, she's crushed. One night, Lacey comes across the broken form of a highly advanced baku. After she repairs it, the cat-shaped baku she calls Jinx opens its eyes and somehow gets her into her dream school. But Jinx is different than any other baku she's ever seen.... He seems real.

Eine Kreuzfahrt in die Antarktis, ein Killer an Bord und die erbarmungslose Mitternachtssonne. Die Antarktis ist das spektakulärste Reiseziel, das sich Olivia vorstellen kann. Aufgeregt bezieht sie ihre Kabine auf dem zu einem Luxusschiff umgebauten Eisbrecher. Die ersten riesigen Eisberge mit ihren schroffen Kanten versetzen sie in Staunen – bis ihr die Vorkommnisse an Bord den Atem rauben: Zwei Passagiere sterben! War es Mord? In der Antarktis gibt es keine Polizei, keine Telefone und keine Rettung.

Für die Story ihres Lebens riskiert sie alles. Diese Story ist die Chance ihres Lebens: Cecily darf als Erste den berühmten Bergsteiger Charles McVeigh interviewen, nachdem dieser innerhalb eines Jahres alle vierzehn Achttausender bestiegen hat. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Cecily bekommt das Interview erst, wenn sie mit ihm den letzten Gipfel, den Manaslu, erklommen hat. Die kleine Gruppe macht sich auf den Weg, da kommt es im Basislager zu einem tragischen Unfall.

Für die Story ihres Lebens riskiert sie alles. Diese Story ist die Chance ihres Lebens: Cecily darf als Erste den berühmten Bergsteiger Charles McVeigh interviewen, nachdem dieser innerhalb eines Jahres alle vierzehn Achttausender bestiegen hat. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Cecily bekommt das Interview erst, wenn sie mit ihm den letzten Gipfel, den Manaslu, erklommen hat. Die kleine Gruppe macht sich auf den Weg, da kommt es im Basislager zu einem tragischen Unfall.