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A cruel fate. Two souls condemned. An impossible love. I knew he’d choose me before he came to our door on the night of the Tithing. I bore the mark that would make me his. It was my ancestor who spoke the words that bound us together, and his demon-god who promised protection for the price of blood. My blood. I was prepared to be that sacrifice if it would keep my family safe. Loving Azrael? The thought never crossed my mind. He was and would forever be my enemy.

In the mysterious city of Queen Mab, the forces of light and darkness are locked in a murderous struggle for truth. The dedicated agents of the Holy Inquisition battle with their shadowy counterparts, the infamous Cognitae, to discover the encrypted identity of the enigmatic, all-powerful King in Yellow. Caught at the heart of this struggle is the pariah Alizebeth Bequin. Bequin must withstand an onslaught of angels, daemons, and even the monstrous warriors of the Traitor Legions, to unpick the greatest riddle of her life.

Michael Kelly, Boston homicide detective, can’t seem to escape his tough Dorchester upbringing or the lifelong bonds it forged. When he's called to a church where a priest has been murdered, his bosses see a media circus in the making, but Kelly sees a connection between this victim and a cold case that he’s been trying to solve for years. Closing one case might answer the questions that have haunted Kelly for almost his entire career and finally bring him a measure of peace.

A lone survivor on a battlefield many years later, Pall dazedly recovers from the wounds of war. Despite the dead cast about him, everything he looks upon is unfamiliar to him. Wandering away from this scene of carnage, he encounters John Savage, a giant of a man who puts Pall within the sight of Savage’s seven-foot, nocked longbow.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the 10 consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor.

Lady Myrtle McQuoid has always felt a little forgotten, and this season is no exception. When her boisterous family vacates their London townhouse for the country, Myrtle finds she’s been left behind. But she just needs to stay warm, keep her belly full, and distract herself until her relatives realize their mistake and turn back to collect her. Surely that won’t take long.

This book is a series of 28 sermons on the Parable of the Prodigal from Luke 15. "The main scope of this parable is to set forth the rich grace of God to miserable self-undone sinners, and the great pleasure which he takes in their conversion. It therefore presents us with the pattern of a grievous sinner, and discovers to us, both what he is before conversion, and how he is converted, and what welcome he finds with God upon his return unto him." Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a New England puritan Born in 1640 at Concord, Massachusetts, Samuel Willard was one of the most important ...

Earth has ascended . . . Magic tears through an unsuspecting planet of humans, bringing mythology and monsters to life—and providing humanity a chance to prove their mettle. The world teeters on the precipice between salvation . . . and damnation. With the anomaly in control of one of...

Moira and Carl Morgan have saved the city from the horror of Michael and his wives, but victory has come at terrible cost. And there are consequences to every choice, every victory. Word has spread that someone has broken Lilith’s power, that someone has defied the ancient queen. And she’s not happy.

A woman is found bludgeoned to death in a swimming pool. A pensioner who disappeared many moons ago turns up out of the blue. A cockeyed boxer has more success outside the ring than in it. What connects these events may be the clue DI Charlie West is looking for to solve the latest murder on her patch. But just when West has a likely suspect in custody, Munro returns to the scene - his enforced repose having done little to dent his appetite for the finer and richer things in life - with an oblique angle on the case. 

Ten years ago, his wife died in his arms. God saved him for Himself. Now, he wants his first love to catch her killer. Tom Greer left Myerton six months after his wife Joan’s death, determined to leave the painful memories behind. Ten years later, now-Father Tom Greer returns for a four-month assignment as the temporary pastor of Saint Clare's Parish in Myerton. His only desire is to serve God's people quietly, then leave again. But the past won't leave Father Tom alone…

The Church moved him. The law forgot him. Someone remembered.When a defrocked priest is found dead in his Belfast flat, the scene is disturbing but the reaction is muted. Father Dermot Quinn abused seventeen children. Spent thirty years escaping justice. Lived on a Church pension until someone arranged him like a saint awaiting judgment—candles lit, rosary threaded through his fingers, psalm open at his head.DS Rose Gallagher knows murder when she sees it. And when a second priest appears—same staging, same history, same escape from accountability—she knows she's hunting someone with ...

Two men hung on the edge of eternity. One cursed the world; the other found a King. Dismas was a man of the shadows, a thief who survived by his wits and a rusted blade in the unforgiving gutters of Jerusalem. He lived by a simple code: take what you can and trust no one. But when a desperate theft leads to a Roman dungeon, he finds himself swept up in a tide of history he cannot escape.

Un asesino despiadado, conocido como el Segador, está torturando y matando a párrocos en el interior de sus iglesias; firma los crímenes con una cita bíblica escrita con sangre, y luego prende fuego a los cadáveres. Un ritual cuyo fin aparente es desatar el caos.

The youngest son of a despised king, thrust upon a throne he never wanted, Desmond nevertheless tried to be a good monarch to Benta. Despite his efforts, the rebels were discontent with him, the alliance with the Harken Empire have taken control, and Desmond's private guards are either dead or turned traitor.

A hidden system of punishment. A theology of shame. A century of stolen lives. For over a hundred years, the Magdalen Asylums promised “rescue” and “reform” for fallen women—while operating as carceral laundries that profited from their unpaid labor and silence. THE FALLEN AND THE PENITENT: The Dark Legacy of the Magdalen Asylums exposes how this network of Catholic-run institutions quietly shaped moral expectations, family decisions, and the fate of countless girls and women in Ireland and beyond. Drawing on survivor testimony, parish records, Poor Law files, sermons, school ...

Zeke Smith is a drifter haunted by his past. Once a feared bounty hunter and lawman, he now roams the West in search of peace—and redemption. But destiny has little mercy, and it’s not long before the ghosts of yesterday and new enemies come riding hard on his trail. In every dusty town he passes through, Zeke lends a hand to those in need. When he arrives in the seemingly quiet Arizona town of Pleasant Grove, he finds anything but peace. The local marshal and his brutal deputies rule with fear, extorting farmers and terrorizing townsfolk. Hired as a ranch hand by widow Rebecca Stevens,...

Drow god vs. Drow god! When Lolth and Eilistraee, two drow goddesses, compete for control of the dark elves of Faern, more than just the drow are caught in the middle. Though the drow will survive their game, what's at stake is the very nature of what it means to be a dark elf.

Semana Santa. En el pequeño pueblo riojano de Calahorra, las historias de seis personajes completamente dispares entre sí terminarán confluyendo. Dos hechos grotescos, también dispares, lo alientan: el asesinato de Nuria Isabel, una niña de catorce años de etnia gitana, así como la celebración en Jueves y Viernes Santo de Los Borregos, un sorprendente juego de apuestas al que acuden desde antiguo y sin excepción todos los varones del lugar.

Goddesses vie for the soul of people... Halisstra Melarn, convert to the cause of the goddess Eilistraee, was sent to the deepest depths of the Outer Planes to kill the demon goddess she once worshiped, but instead was transformed into a hideous creature bent to the vengeful will of her former mistress.For the Queen of the Demonweb Pits not only survived her Silence but evolved into something greater than she was before - something that no longer needs to share the domain she calls her own.