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A secluded Montana ranch. A family under siege. A seductive wife. And Jack Widow. Once Quiet is a taut action thriller where Widow must fight against his insatiable feelings for a married woman in order to stop a sinister enemy that lurks in the shadows. Lately, Widow has enjoyed a quiet life on the road with no troubles, but a lifestyle like his costs money. A low bank account balance causes Widow to take temporary work on a dying, secluded cattle ranch in Northern Montana.

Lia is the princess of Locris, a dying desert nation cursed centuries ago by an earth goddess—one still worshipped by the thriving and adversarial nation of Ilion. Every year, Ilion offers the goddess a sacrifice: two Locrian maidens forced to compete in a life-and-death race to reach her temple. In a millennium, no maiden has made it out of Ilion alive. This year, Lia is one of the hunted.

A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder. With twenty hit titles, and a highly anticipated movie tie-in, celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is at the top of her game. Fans around the world adore her. But on the final night of her latest book tour, one face in the crowd makes the author collapse. And by the next morning, she’s lying dead in a pool of blood.

Once upon a time, she was Robyn Hart, a dogged journalist covering an arson case who saw too much and wasn't afraid to expose it. But that courage nearly cost Robyn her life. Now under the safety of the Witness Protection program, she has a new identity - Carly Quinn - with a new job in a new city. As she struggles to make the best of her new life in Boston, the terror of the past still lingers, and Carly lives in fear that her enemies will find her.

When a tabloid exposes her personal life, a bestselling author reconnects with a man from her past to unearth the secrets behind her sister's murder. Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of...

Vernal break is over, and I’m back at Willowmere College with more witches in my coven, stronger magic, and a growing reputation as the warlock nobody saw coming. Too bad the Witches Council thinks I’m too dangerous to let roam free. Now I’m facing questions I don’t know how to answer—about my lineage, my power, and a past I didn’t even know I had.

Hunter can track anything, anywhere, anytime. But he is both horrified and shocked as he begins to follow the creature’s bloody path leading directly toward a city. For the beast is both more powerful and more merciless than any animal Hunter has tracked before. In fact, it seems to embody the most ancient and darkest heart of man – a power that mankind has always feared as the greatest beast of prey.

When Dana was killed and resurrected by a necromancer, she didn't know what to expect. She didn't expect to be handed a list of magical items that might cure her if she can find them. She definitely didn't expect the house succubus to come along to service her dangerous needs. And she definitely didn't expect to go head to head with an international organization dedicated to keeping magic out of human hands.

A gritty Western action series where frontier justice is paid for in blood. He stands between two worlds—and both want him dead. Nash is a hardened gunfighter with Apache blood in his veins, riding a lawless frontier where neutrality is a luxury few survive. He knows the land, the people, and the cost of choosing sides—but some trails lead only to violence. Hired to escort a desperate miner through hostile territory, Nash understands the risks before the first mile is ridden. Tensions run high. Old wounds refuse to stay buried. And when they discover a wagon slaughtered and left to rot ...

His adventure started when he started sailing across the ocean to New York at five years old. Learning from the sailors, later running the streets of the city. At 10, he found his passion, the west. Luck gives him opportunities to learn from an old mountain man and the local people. Now, at 16, he finally sets out to pursue his dreams. His travels will take him to places of impossible beauty and his Colts will keep him alive.

Never steal from the poor and never shoot a man in the back. Horse thief Chase McGraw lives by these rules, but they don’t stop the noose from tightening around his neck after he’s caught stealing purebred horses from cattle baron Edwin Kensington. His only way out? A devil’s bargain: recover a stolen herd from ruthless outlaw Brenner Pike, or swing at dawn. Chase is forced to partner with Takoda, a quiet Indian with secrets of his own for helping. Their shaky alliance is further tested by the arrival of Eliza Hart, a frontier doctor with her own vendetta against Pike. But Pike’s no...

Missie Pickard is dead. Main street has burned. And the outlaw that pulled the trigger has disappeared into the scorched Arizona desert. The townspeople demand justice. When young miner Miles McLean returns home to find his town in ruins, he wants justice as much as anybody. Miles must find Willy Helm, the murderous bank robber seen fleeing the scene of the crime… Willy Helm. He’ll kill for money and he’ll kill for fun. Nobody has come close enough to collect the bounty on his head. As Miles searches alone in the sweltering desert, he finds himself entangled in bloody Apache wars and ...

Running from a past he didn’t choose, Cal Brooker is forced to leave New Orleans after being falsely accused of a bloody crime. Hoping to escape the wrath of a vicious gambler who will stop at nothing to punish Cal for the death of his brother, he joins a wagon train heading to Oregon. Along the way, he is determined to survive the difficult trail, but the fear that his past is catching up to him looms large... Will he be able to find the refuge his heart yearns for on this treacherous journey out West? Etta Foreman is a spirited young woman with a heavy past. Much like Cal, she and her ...

Phantom is a man who wore death like a second skin – until his daughter is taken. A former sheriff, bounty hunter, and grieving widower, he’d carved out a hard peace raising his girl Maddie alone. Now, with her snatched by ruthless men, the ghosts of his past roar back to life. His rules are simple: no mercy, no prisoners. Just a Colt and the uncanny silence that made his name legendary. Hannah West never asked for trouble. A schoolteacher with a spine of steel and a heart too big for the frontier, she’s already buried one life when her husband died. But when she witnesses Maddie’s ...

U.S. Marshal Morgan "Morg" Fraser has spent a lifetime walking the hard line between justice and survival. Now sixty, and with his days on the trail numbered, Morg wants nothing more than to fade quietly into the Nebraska Sandhills he's always known. But when he's unexpectedly tasked with caring for his 12-year-old son, Andy—a boy he's barely seen since the end of a broken marriage—Morg realizes that some trails don't end quietly. Old grudges run deep, and there are those who would see Morg buried before they let him ride off into the sunset.

¡Prepárate para una emocionante experiencia con esta nueva historia que trae de regreso el clásico Libro Vaquero! Con una serie Neo-Western cargada de acción y aventuras, serás testigo de un mundo postapocalíptico en el año 2100, donde la humanidad se enfrenta al borde de la extinción tras múltiples pandemias y experimentos médicos que han causado una infertilidad masiva.

En un mundo extrañamente parecido al nuestro Roland Deschain de Gilead persigue a su enemigo, el hombre de negro. Roland, solitario, quizá maldito, anda sin descanso a través de un paisaje triste y abandonado. Conoce a Jake, un chico de Nueva York pero de otro tiempo, y ambos unen sus destinos. Ante ellos están las montañas. Y mucho más allá, la Torre Oscura....

Las autoridades mexicanas y del estado de Texas organizan una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número posible de indios. Es el Grupo Glanton, y tienen como líder espiritual al juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel. Nunca duerme, viola y asesina niños de ambos sexos y afirma que nunca morirá. Todo cambia cuando los carniceros de Glanton dejan de asesinar indios y empiezan a exterminar a los mexicanos que les pagan. Se instaura así la ley de la selva, el terreno moral donde la figura del juez se convierte en una especie de dios arbitrario.

TEXAS, 1919 La guerra ha terminado, pero Harry Wilson regresa convertido en la sombra de sí mismo. Sin una pierna, sin esperanza y con un corazón endurecido por el dolor, ha renunciado a todo, incluso a la posibilidad de volver a amar. Cuando Lucy Martin, la mujer que lo engañó para casarse con él en el pasado, se entera de su estado, decide hacer lo impensado: regresar a su vida para cuidarlo, aun sabiendo que él la odia. Lucy está dispuesta a soportar el desprecio de Harry con tal de devolverle la esperanza y lo que alguna vez le arrebató: la felicidad. En medio del rencor, la ...

Charlie Nunca imaginé que mi vida de ensueño se desmoronaría en un instante. Pensé que lo tenía todo: un atractivo novio escocés, el trabajo perfecto, una mejor amiga y muchos planes de futuro. Sin embargo, ese «todo» era una cortina de humo, y lo supe de la peor manera posible. Decepcionada y triste, me dirigía a mi apartamento cuando el encuentro con un abogado misterioso lo cambió todo. Ahora estoy en un avión, voy a dejar atrás las calles de Nueva York para dejarme atrapar por los increíbles paisajes de Montana. ¿Os lo podéis creer? He heredado un rancho, yo, una contable...

En un valle remoto, oculto entre la cordillera de los Andes, se encuentra «País de los ciegos»: un pueblo donde todos sus habitantes han perdido la visión. Cuando un aventurero llega a sus tierras, luego de una expedición fallida en las montañas, la vida de los pobladores—tan apacible y ordenada hasta ese momento—da un vuelco inesperado.

Diego es un pintor con un don único: puede ver y retratar las almas de las personas en sus lienzos. Sus pinturas no solo capturan el aspecto físico de aquellos que posan para él, sino también los secretos más profundos de sus almas. Sin embargo, cuando una misteriosa figura sin rostro comienza a aparecer en todas sus obras, Diego se ve arrastrado a una búsqueda que lo llevará a descubrir verdades ocultas sobre el mundo espiritual. A medida que se adentra en este enigmático viaje, Diego se enfrentará a una poderosa conspiración que amenaza con romper el delicado equilibrio entre el...

Logan Collins y Madison Brooks se conocen en una web de matrimonios concertados. Logan busca esposa para recuperar la confianza en sí mismo que perdió después de que su novia lo dejara sin demasiados escrúpulos. Madison busca un lugar donde vivir, lejos de Los Ángeles para dejar atrás un pasado un tanto peligroso, y la ciudad de Wheatland en Wyoming puede ser el escenario perfecto para conseguirlo.

El célebre y legendario duelo de O.K. corral, en la localidad de Tombstone (Arizona), inmortalizado en decenas de películas, sirve de pretexto a Cela para escribir, contra todo pronóstico, un particularísimo western que se cuenta entre sus novelas más portentosas.