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I tried not to look at the men so that I could focus on keeping my movements silent. I certainly did not want to be detected. It was impossible, however, to keep my eyes completely off the terrifying drama unfolding before me. I was certain they planned to kill the man, and I had no way of helping him. The best I could do was get to safety and call the police. I had slunk my way to the left of them and was right alongside the river now. I crept along keeping a wary eye on the men.

Natasha Romanoff is one of the world's most lethal assassins. Trained from a young age in the arts of death and deception, Natasha was given the title of Black Widow by Ivan Somodorov, her brutal teacher at the Red Room, Moscow's infamous academy for operatives.

Seventeen-year-old Winnie Flynn, a closet horror fan with a starkly realistic worldview, has never known her maternal aunt Mona: a high-profile reality TV producer. Winnie's mom allegedly committed suicide several months ago, and her father has checked out in the wake of the tragedy. When Mona recruits Winnie to spend a summer in their family's home state, working as a production assistant, Winnie figures that she has nothing to lose.

In the dramatic conclusion to the best-selling Confessions series, Tandy Angel's next murder case could be her own! Tandy Angel is losing her mind - or so she thinks. Even as she's forced to fight for the family company, she's imagining new dangers in every shadow. And as her detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, she has to face the very real possibility that the stalker she's convinced will take her life could be all in her head - or the very real danger that finally brings her down.

When 17-year-old Georgia's brother drowns while surfing halfway around the world in Australia, she refuses to believe Lucky's death was just bad luck. Lucky was smart. He wouldn't have surfed in waters more dangerous than he could handle. Then a stranger named Fin arrives in False Bay, claiming to have been Lucky's best friend. Soon Fin is working for Lucky's father, charming Lucky's mother, dating his girlfriend. Georgia begins to wonder: Did Fin murder Lucky in order to take over his whole life?

When Evan's father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk - a book his dad had been reading when he passed away. The book is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in WWII. Why was his father reading it? What is in this account that Evan's grandfather, whom Evan has never met before, fears so much that he will do anything to prevent its being seen? And what could this possibly mean for Evan?

Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon - like all the girls in her class - she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a writer - a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: Her father is found dead. Charles Montfort shot himself while cleaning his pistol.

Della Tsang is facing the toughest fight of her life - and the most personal. In her new role as an elite paranormal investigator, she's assigned a 20-year-old murder case...and the accused killer is none other than her own father. Making matters worse, since she was reborn, she's been bound to the mysterious and infuriatingly gorgeous Chase Tallman - a vampire with his own hidden agenda. Della still feels betrayed by all the secrets he's kept from her, but she'll need his help to find out the truth about her father.

Twenty minutes after his murder on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1896, 17-year-old Zebulon Finch awakens, resurrected to suffer an eternity upon the planet. But of all people...why him? Is it because he was a violent Chicago gangster and this is his chance at redemption?

Paint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world. Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her strokeridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears... Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.

The police are on the alert. Vandals are attacking local schools with spray-paint and graffiti. When the gang's next target is Kayo and Rosie's elementary school, the two sixth-grade friends are angry and frightened by the senseless crime. Suddenly one night, the two girls and their canine buddy, Bone Breath, surprise the vandals in action. In the silence, Bone Breath barks. As Kayo and Rosie run, they hear footsteps behind them. A hand reaches out for Rosie.

"No one gets something for nothing. We all should know better." Teenagers at Wisconsin's Nottawa High School are drawn deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need...regardless of the consequences. Soon the site turns sinister, with simple pranks escalating to malicious crimes. The body count rises.

Ever since The Night in Question left her with a hideous scar and no memory of what happened, Theo Lane has been hiding. An aspiring filmmaker, she uses a hidden button cam to keep the world at bay. She spends the entire summer in a Manhattan cafe, secretly documenting random "subjects".

In the back of Adam Farmer's mind, he always knew there was something not quite right about his family. It was more than just the fact that his dad seemed to be stoically going through the motions or that his sad-eyed mother spent most of her time in her room. Somewhere in the recesses of Adam's memory, he recalled a frantic journey in the middle of the night, hurried like criminals onto a bus, staring out the windows at some dark, malevolent thing none of them could see.

One night when Jane Jerome's family is away, four high schoolers invade her Cape Cod cottage and trash it. They slash the mattresses, smash the mirrors, flood the bathrooms, and rip the furniture apart. When Jane's sister, Karen, arrives home early and interrupts the destruction, she is sexually assaulted by the teens. The vandals are not hoods or gang members. They are ordinary teenagers from an upscale town looking for some action and finding it in Jane's house.

Stella Gordon's life is a lie. She does not belong in Thunder Basin, Nebraska. As the star witness in a murder trial against a drug dealer, Stella is now in the Witness Protection Program. The small town locals can never know who she really is. Not even Chet Falconer, the one boy who makes her want to reveal her true self. She knows that telling the truth will only bring violence to this safe haven.

I Den ydmyge amulet følger vi den unge magiker Josephine Teller, hvis liv pludselig ændres af lige dele magi, mordgåder og mystiske ånder fra fortiden.Den unge magiker Josephine Teller er rejst med sin onkel og faster til landsbyen Haselby, hvor de vil åbne et hotel i et gammelt, forladt hus. Josephine glæder sig ikke til at skulle tilbringe sommeren med hotelarbejde, men da husets høloft afslører en uhyggelig hemmelighed, bliver hun med ét draget ind i et årtier gammelt mysterium, som truer med at ødelægge hotellet og hendes families forretning.

Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb, and she is hiding. The bomb is defused, but the would-be bomber is still at large - and everyone at Central High School is a suspect. The school starts a top-secret crisis help line, and Gabi is invited to join. When she does, she is drawn into a suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the bomber, who has unfinished business.

When Gabby Perez is almost drugged at a nightclub, she decides to take action. Teaming up with a mysterious stranger known as X, the two go after a gang who is drugging and kidnapping innocent girls off the Miami streets and forcing them into prostitution. As their search deepens, Gabby and X can't ignore their undeniable attraction to each other. Then Gabby discovers the truth about who X really is and the danger that surrounds him. Can their love survive the light of day?

Josephine og Liam er blevet mærket af den onde amulet Humaran, og nu er den forsvundet. Sammen er de nødt til at finde den og bringe den tilbage til azynerne, så den kan blive uskadeliggjort - og de selv kan blive frie igen. Deres rejse fører dem vidt omkring: Til azynernes hovedsæde i Rusland og siden til Tibet - til malivespierne, Nells folk. På malivespiernes opfordring slår de to børn sig sammen med den fremmede Morgan, en af de gådefulde og lyssky Unaturlige. Som historien skrider frem, breder mystikken sig: Hvad vil amuletten med de to børn? Hvad er det, der er galt med Josephines magi? Og kan de stole på deres nye, sære rejseledsager?