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Füreinander bestimmt, gegen jede Vernunft. Wieder eine neue Highschool, wieder neue Menschen, und diesmal auch noch mitten in der Wüste: Als Vi mit ihrem Vater für seine Forschungsarbeit ins sonnig trockene Arizona zieht, ist sie alles andere als glücklich. Doch schnell lebt sie sich ein und lässt sich von ihrem neuen Mitschüler Liam mit den strahlend blauen Augen nur zu gern ablenken. Als die beiden sich zufällig berühren, passieren plötzlich seltsame Dinge: Vi hat Visionen, und als sie verletzt ist, heilt Liam ihre Wunden.

"Han fick något mörkt över blicken, och jag nickade nästan osynligt. Han tog ett snabbt steg framåt, lade ena handen bakom min nacke och tryckte mitt huvud mot hans medan den andra handen lyfte min skobeklädda fot och virade den runt hans midja. Han kysste mig igen. Hårt."

Three strangers destined to be brought together by war and revenge. Marzal - an exiled daughter with a plan for revenge. Rayn - a rebel blacksmith with a blade of blood. Elena - a gentle midwife with a fiercely protected secret. Each young woman wants peace, but not everyone is fighting by the same rules. What some call fate, others call design...and someone's pulling the strings. When the flames fade, beware the hidden danger of...black heat.

Endlich kehrte die lange verreiste Admiralin der Freien Nation zurück, doch im glücklichen Wiedersehen schleicht sich eine geheimnisvolle Krankheit in die Heimat. Schnell sind weite Teile der Bevölkerung des Inselreiches infiziert und es ist an ihrer Tochter, Tiana, zusammen mit der tapferen Mannschaft der Wellenbrecher am Festland ein Heilmittel zu finden, denn die alten Feinde der Nation warten bereits sehnsüchtig darauf die Schwächung Malnesias auszunutzen. Auf ihrer Reise muss Tiana Gefahren trotzen, die den Horizont der meisten Menschen übersteigen.

At 28, Violet's father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband. But every suitor he presents, Violet finds a new and inventive means of rebuffing. Because Violet does not want to marry. She wants to work, and make her own way in the world. But more than anything, she wants to find her mother Lily, who disappeared from Hastings Pier 10 years earlier. Finding the missing is no job for a lady, but when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off a chain of events that will put more than just her reputation at risk.

Teil 3 der Taranique Bay-Storyline. Fragg und Maggie haben keine Zeit zum Durchatmen, denn sie müssen zurück in die Stadt. Ihr oberstes Ziel: Das Shuttle finden und den Tesseract bergen; eine hochentwickelte KI, die gedroht hat, sich abzuschalten und somit alle Hoffnung auf einen Sieg über das außerirdische Bakterium zu zerstören. Also starten die beiden Helden wider Willen einen halsbrecherischen Abstieg in den Bauch der Bestie: die Innenstadt von Taranique Bay.

Celeste Caffarelli (nicknamed CeCe) has been caught off guard by Cupid's arrows intended for another person. She's fallen in love with the wrong type of man. Without warning, Celeste is carried away with a man she didn't even know existed, but soon he'd become her first love.

Teil 2 der "Taranique Bay"-Storyline. Fragg hat es mit Ach und Krach in das Militärlager an der R46 geschafft. Hier trifft er auf Dr. Margaret Simon, die auf der Suche nach ihrer Vorgesetzten bei der IRFA ist. Diese soll an einem Antibiotikum gearbeitet haben, das dem Bakterium Einhalt gebieten soll. Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf den Weg in den Wald von Calla County. Dort gibt es zwar kein verseuchtes Wasser mehr - aber die Katastrophe hat auch hier ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Und auch hier lässt das Unheil nicht lange auf sich warten.

"Plötsligt hade han handen på min höft och strax efteråt hånglade vi vilt i en taxi på väg hem till honom". Julia har ett rikt liv. Hon har en fartfylld karriär som hon älskar, väninnorna i BBI (Bokklubben Basic Instinct) och en fin relation med sin snart vuxna dotter. Det enda hon saknar är samvaron med en man. En relation som skänker såväl spänning som trygghet. Som både är fysiskt och mentalt stimulerande. En livskamrat helt enkelt.

Rose thought she had it all, but her perfect life crumbled when her so-called friend seduced her husband and destroyed her marriage. Now Rose is left without any passion, romance or plans for the future. Lucy believed she finally had her fairy-tale ending, but being the wife isn't half as glamorous as being the mistress. They desperately envy Connie: happily married, effortlessly juggling two children and a fulfilling career. Connie has found genuine contentment. Until, that is, a dangerous old flame flickers back into view.

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille. Her quiet life as a well-integrated immigrant is suddenly shaken when her beautiful eldest daughter, Bamby, becomes the main suspect in two murders linked to a lethal illegal immigration racket. Is Bamby really involved? And why is everyone desperate to get their hands on Leyli's mysterious red notebook?

Kate and Bella, Bella and Kate. From childhood they were inseparable yet polar opposites: Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious and just a little dangerous. Then men came into their lives and things changed: a black seed was set in in the heart of their relationship. Over decades, acts of both cruelty and love feed that seed until one shocking event leads to further tragedy. Neither will escape unscathed.

By April 1916, the fervour that accompanied war’s outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the Western Front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism.

A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world; a schoolgirl draws a blood-filled picture of Jael; a swimming pool reveals a beauteous monster in its depths. The settings range from the heat of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scandinavia, from chalk-strewn classrooms to herb-scented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds.

'Wonderfully entertaining . . . Maeve is on cracking form' - Jilly Cooper In A Country Garden is a heartwarming, hilarious tale of growing old not-so-gracefully, from the bestselling author of The Time of Their Lives, Maeve Haran. Lifelong friends Claudia, Ella, Laura and Sal celebrated sixty as...

The official companion to the BBC’s hit magazine show, The One Show Book will be a compilation of the quirkiest, strangest, most random and most fascinating stories pulled from the brains of Icon Film’s One Show research desk. Did you know that Michael Jackson was once made an honorary...

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