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"Bones--Murphy Shepherd's teacher, mentor, priest, and friend--is gone. Devastated by the loss and unsure how to continue the rescue work they started, Murph has no choice but to jump back in when the worst happens. His longtime friend and current United States vice president, Aaron Ashley, has been a silent partner in the fight against trafficking. But in spite of having the best security available, his three daughters have been taken, bound and...

"On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case...

"Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries ... When her failure to control her Shinigami abilities drives Ren out of London, she flees to Japan to seek the acceptance she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. Accompanied by her younger brother, the only being on earth to care for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death, only to learn that here, too, she must prove herself worthy"--...

The dreams of a dying rural town are haunted by the town pariah-and soon become waking nightmares-in this novel from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author. The formerly prosperous paper mill town of Bedford, Maine, has fallen on hard times. With the mill closed, nobody's making ends meet. What's worse, lately the people are dreaming about Susan Marley, a young woman fallen from grace whom they pity and fear. No one talks about the dreams even...

Aisha, a young black girl, has lost her parents to a car crush. She moves in with her grandmother, but the old woman is dying. The grandmother summons a spirit that has protected their family and asks it to watch over Aisha. At first, it seems as though the spirit, the Keeper, is doing what the grandmother asked. But soon it begins stealing life from others, becoming an uncontrollable monster.

A Los Angeles police officer, after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, flees to New Mexico to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy businessman. When mobsters kidnap her, he hunts them down and rescues her.

"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away and even starting a...

"An almost-mage discovers friendship--and maybe something more--in the unlikeliest of places in this delightfully charming novel from the author of The Teller of Small Fortunes. Certainty Bulrush wants to be useful--to the Guild of Mages that took her in as a novice, to the little brother who depends on her, and to anyone else she can help. Unfortunately, her tepid magic hasn't proven much use to anyone. When Certainty has the chance to earn her magehood...

"Luminous writing. Observations, psychological and those that bounce off the natural world, are daring and precise, real leaps of courage that work", said Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Stone Dia- ries. A homeless man's mysterious and brutal assault of an interior designer engaged in the renovation of Moses Rocket, a 19th century New England mill complex, ratchets up tensions within the team tasked with completing the project. The...

The Demon Demetri, upon his banishment to Hades by the Angel Gabriel, returns to Earth to harvest souls for his lord and master, Lucifer. The "Keeper" reveals Demetri's encounter, resurrection, and restoration by Lucifer. What appears as an act of benevolence by the prince of darkness, turns out to be anything but that. Demetri's stalking and indwelling of a down-on-his luck alcoholic, Columbia River fishing boat captain Luke Berringer, begins...