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She spent a fortune on the dress. It would have been cheaper to buy unicorn horn, but before she can even put it on, a scream splits the air...and the first body is found. Patricia and her friends are the special guests of the world’s third richest man, her benefactor, the Maharaja of Zangrabar. At a banquet thrown to celebrate a new peace treaty between his country, and long-time hostile neighbour, Itarnia, the murder of Itarnia’s ambassador does not bode well. To prevent a return to war, Patricia and her team must unravel the clues to find the killer.

Immortal wizard Otto Schneider misjudged his deal with Daniel badly. Now, he’s a demon’s puppet, and he's kidnapping people because he has no choice...or so the demons think. Forced to perform dread work or watch others suffer, he must bide his time, but millennia of being unopposed has made the demons complacent, and they turn their back on him at their peril.

Hay secretos enterrados en el pasado de la Tierra. Anastasia podría ser uno de ellos. El mundo no sabe nada de los sobrenaturales entre ellos ... ... pero eso está a punto de cambiar. Cuando Anastasia Aaronson tropieza con dos criaturas infernales, su cuerpo reacciona canalizando la magia para defenderse y desata un poder que la Tierra ha olvidado. Pero mientras despliega su nuevo músculo mágico, atrae la atención de un demonio que tiene un uso muy particular para ella. Ahora debe aprender a controlar el poder que puede ejercer mientras un mundo de seres mágicos se interesa por ella. ...

Jane Butterworth doesn’t believe in normal, but then she used to be a vampire, and she works at a paranormal investigation agency. Oh, and she’s a boy. When a name from her past suddenly surfaces, Jane knows that she is the only one that could solve the case. With the detectives unavailable, and a tearfully desperate client, there is no choice but to pretend she knows what she is doing and answer the cry for help

Fire. Every creature fears it. Except one. When a call late one evening leads Jane to Buckingham Palace, she holds no concern the dragon they want her to investigate is real. Until she gets there, that is.

Called to investigate a mystery at a local gypsum mine, paranormal detective Tempest Michaels expects to find a rational explanation for the strange events.... Instead, he discovers a body and a horrified staff. Recent earthworks exposed something ancient, twisted, and above all evil. It has claimed one life already, and the staff is terrified for who might be next.

Tempest Michaels has a zombie problem. Crazy people craving human flesh have been appearing without warning in hoards in towns across Kent. He is just as mystified as everyone else, but when the elderly husband of the recent viral internet sensation known as Zombie Granny asks him to prove she is no such thing, he has to take the case. Then outside his office, people start screaming...

Incarcerated for a crime he gladly committed, paranormal detective Tempest Michaels has been enjoying the peace and quiet. But all that is about to change. There’s a monster roaming the prison’s passageways at night and it’s just taken a life. The legend of the jailhouse golem is more than 200 years old, and though it has been investigated in the past, no one has ever come close to solving the mystery.

My name's Jane Butterworth. For me, the paranormal is just a day job. I work at the Blue Moon Investigation Agency, a firm that specialises in cases that no one else will take, cases that start at strange and unexplainable and tier rapidly south from there.

'If you want a series with a strong, kick-ass female lead, then this is it!' Hounded by the police, trying to learn a new job in a new town, and constantly picking up after her slob of a flatmate, Anastasia has all she needs on her plate … … add being hunted by demons to the mix won’t help then. When former soldier, Anastasia Aaronson, stumbles across two hellish creatures, her body reacts by channeling magic to defend itself and unleashes a power the Earth has forgotten. The sudden and unwanted discovery soon attracts a lot of heat: the demons all seem to want her, but the ancient ...

Está atrapado en el infierno. Es esclavo de un demonio. Él va a hacerlos pagar. El mago inmortal, Otto Schneider, juzgó mal su trato con Daniel y ahora es una marioneta del demonio, secuestrando a la gente porque no tiene otra opción … ... o eso es lo que los demonios creen. Obligado a realizar un trabajo espantoso, o a ver sufrir a los demás, él debe esperar su momento, pero milenios sin oposición han hecho que los demonios sean complacientes y le den la espalda por su cuenta y riesgo. Otto pretende encontrar el camino de vuelta a Bremen, a su mujer, a su nueva alumna, Katja, y a ...

When an old school friend begs for her help, Patricia takes on a case more suited to her friend Tempest Michaels - a criminal dubbed "the Banshee" is attacking people in their homes and paralyzing them with its scream. The police believe it is a burglar with a unique twist, but Tempest seems to know differently. The two teams join forces again, but this case will test them to their limits.

A woman whose dead husband is haunting her? That sounds like a routine case. Until she reveals her husband’s name...and a past event Tempest wants to forget comes back to haunt him. Taking a case he doesn’t want, it's only hours before he finds a threat on his doorstep.

When two bikers are found half-eaten, the coroner’s report records an animal attack. But England doesn’t have any large predators. Unless you count werewolves. Tempest Michaels, paranormal detective, gets hired by the dead bikers’ gang to find out what happened and point the finger at a new rival motorcycle club in the next town. Calling themselves the Herne Bay Howlers, they proudly display a werewolf on their jackets, and they are far from your average Hell’s Angels.

—No busques pelea con él. No perderás. Morirás. Zachary tiene un secreto que intenta mantener oculto... ... si solo la gente le dejara. Cuando llega a una remota comunidad agrícola en busca de trabajo, los problemas comienzan antes de que pida el desayuno. Normalmente evitaría el problema y seguiría adelante, pero hay una chica. No una mujer. Una niña. Y los hombres que quieren dominar el pueblo amenazan su sustento. Y eso no sirve. Hay algo muy podrido en esta comunidad, pero indagar en ello le lleva a enfrentarse a algo más poderoso, incluso que él; algo antiguo e imparable. No...

Jane is missing. Taken by a serial killed known only as the Sandman, Tempest and friends must unravel the clues to find her before night falls. Why so soon? Because that is when he kills his victims, bringing them dreams as he sings them to sleep, just like in the song. The police won’t even acknowledge the serial killer exists which leaves them on their own, sifting through Jane’s notes and piecing together fractured clues and half-baked theories in a desperate scramble to find the man at the core of this mystery. However, the Sandman wants to be found.

Hornear. Puede matar a alguien. “Cuando Steve Higgs escribe, lo hace de maravilla. Me encuentro riendo a carcajadas y con frecuencia”. Cuando un superintendente de detectives retirado decide hacer un tour culinario por las Islas Británicas, espera encontrar sabrosos manjares y deliciosos pasteles... lo que encuentra es la pista de un crimen en los ingredientes de su pastel de puerco. Su perro, Rex Harrison, un ex perro policía despedido por tener una mala actitud, no puede entender por qué los humanos se esfuerzan por resolver el misterio. Él ya puede oler la respuesta: está ...

The death curse has fallen. The demons and angels have invaded the Earth. They plan to rule over humanity, but which side will win and can the people of Earth do anything to stop them? Beelzebub and the demons are too powerful to be stopped. Godfrey and the angels have an ancient weapon that can kill with a thought. The humans have pluck. Um, that might not get it done. In a magical war, conventional weapons are all but pointless, so all that stands between humanity and total annihilation is a handful of people with supernatural abilities - shifters and wizards, plus Anastasia Aaronson who ...

Thieves have broken into the Federal Reserve and made off with millions in gold. The catch? They were dressed like leprechauns, and by all accounts, used magic to do it. Cue up a fresh case for Sergeant Chloe Mayfield, but if she thought the last one was fraught with danger, she’s going to have to redefine her terminology. If it were not bad enough that she has to negotiate rogue gunmen, sword-wielding mercenaries, and a famous monster hunter, she has enemies within Boston PD to contend with, at least one of whom thinks their life would be easier if she were dead.

I am sixteen years old, and my teacher believes I might be the most powerful supernatural in the mortal realm. It’s quite a burden. Not least because I must fight so hard to avoid using magic to silence the bitches at school. Do you wonder what would happen if I let my control slip? Today is the day I find out.