Ghost Market

From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel. The Shadow Market is a meeting point...

August is Ghost Month in Taiwan - a time to commemorate the dead: Burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, doesn't consider himself superstitious, but this August is going to haunt him no matter what he does. He is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered.

In Lagos, the dead usually stay dead. Unless they need a dress fitted by Friday. Efe Oladunni is a tailor who just wants to pay her rent. She keeps her head down in the chaos of Balogun Market, sewing lace and avoiding trouble. But trouble finds her at 2:13 a.m. when her phone buzzes with a WhatsApp message. It’s an order for a wine-colored lace gown. The problem? The client, Mrs. Shitta, has been buried for six months. Efe knows—she sewed the burial shroud herself. Terrified but broke, Efe sews the dress. By dawn, the gown appears on a fresh corpse in Tinubu Square. Now, the police are...

Soul-searching is a dirty business. In the wake of a thwarted war, Lana Harvey is more than ready for an extended vacation on the new houseboat she shares with the Lord of the Flies, but when the leaderless rebels begin poaching souls and selling them on the Ghost Market, Lana is tasked with heading up a new unit to stop them.

Was there any particular reason that, near the end of your lives, you suddenly stopped buying Bounty paper towels? So begins the first question from Bounty’s market research representative to Paul and Maggie. In this unique short story, a couple who died suddenly in their 50s recounts their use of Bounty paper towels and their sudden switch to a bargain brand near the end of their lives. What appears to be a run-of-the-mill spat between spouses at the Stop & Shop is revealed to be a defining moment of a marriage years in decline.

Caroline’s mattress had nothing to do with her untimely death at the age of 28—this, she wants Tempur-Pedic’s market research representative to know. But as she reflects on her first ever mattress purchase and their interview progresses, Caroline dives into the circumstances and decisions that led her and Nicholas—her boyfriend, 10 years her senior and prone to sleeping on the floor—to that particular bed in that particular shopping plaza.

In the alleys of Edinburgh, someone is killing for profit… Scotland has a dead body problem. Another one. And in the wake of a similar spate of tribute killings, Special Agents Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald know they have their work cut out for them. Working alongside a new team of agents...

A young woman with a rare ability finds refuge with the Shadowhunters of Victorian England in this “compulsively readable” (Booklist) first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, the prequel series to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments! Clockwork...

Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray are finally united after waiting over a century to be together, but they become aware a dark threat is looming over a child of the Shadow Market: a lost Herondale, from a line of Herondales who have used the Market to hide from their fellow Nephilim. Now is the time...

Matthew Fairchild is the Consul’s son and the golden-haired boy of the Nephilim. He has the love of his family and his parabatai James Herondale, and nothing to wish for, except excitement and artistry and beauty that do not seem to fit in with a warrior’s way of life. Matthew gets more than...

Anna Lightwood, eldest child of Gabriel and Cecily, is mad, bad, and dangerously dapper. Every rake has an origin story, though: now under Brother Zachariah’s eye we see Anna’s doomed love story unfold...

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow...

The Lightwoods, the Shadowhunters who run the New York Institute, are expecting a new addition to their family: the orphaned son of their father’s friend, Jace Wayland. Alec and Isabelle aren’t too sure they want a new brother, and their parents are not assuaging their fears, too occupied...

After a shifter is murdered, the clues lead to a black market trading in supernatural parts. Red must prevent a mysterious collector from harvesting her friend. As the investigation takes her into the Portland underground, she finds more than the collector's secrets— her own. Red will finally discover her origins. Can she survive the truth?

I'm Wren, a shifter without a pack in a world where unclaimed females are considered property. Luckily, friendly ghosts keep me one step ahead of greedy alphas while also helping me free other women before they’re sold to the highest bidder. Then a battle-scarred alpha who can banish ghosts with a single touch rips into my carefully controlled world. Locke offers me a deal: become his mate in name only, and he’ll fight by my side to free lone females.

Alec Lightwood, partner of the High Warlock of Brooklyn and father of a warlock child, visits Buenos Aires in the aftermath of the Dark War. When he arrives, he is not welcomed by the Shadowhunters there. He believes it is because of his companion Lily, the head of the New York vampire clan...

Have you ever wanted to take a road trip through the scariest parts of the state of Alabama? If this idea thrills you (and recent events prevent travel) then this book “The Most Haunted Places in the State of Alabama, USA” is for you. You can sit back and take a trip through the pages of our book to all the scariest haunts in Alabama. From real-life haunted houses/hotels to jails, battlegrounds, and cemeteries. You will find yourself thrilled as you read each page. There are even some photographs of some of the more popular sites. This book is certain to quench your thirsty desire for ...

This instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul. It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old...

Stop managing humans. Start engineering systems. The traditional agency model is dead. In the modern digital economy, human overhead is no longer a sign of scale—it is a dangerous liability. Every single employee adds communication friction, management complexity, and financial drag on your cash flow. The Solo AI Enterprise is the clinical, data-driven operational blueprint for a new breed of entrepreneur: the solo operator commanding a multi-department "Ghost Agency." Written by supply chain and automation strategist Callum Fraser Bennett, this action-oriented manual cuts through the ...

Mary Dunlavy didn't intend to become a professional babysitter. Of course, she didn't intend to die, either, or to become a crossroads ghost. As a babysitting ghost, she's been caring for the Price family for four generations, and she's planning to keep doing the job for the better part of forever. With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it's time for Mary to oversee the world's most chaotic family reunion. And that's before the Covenant of St. George launches a full-scale strike.