[BOOK TWO] "They speak of dreams as beautiful things. They are mistaken. All that beauty is a façade." With the kingdom finally free of Commander Vang's clutches and the towers abolished, everything seems to finally have been set right. Melody's coronation is to be held soon; the kingdom is in capable hands. Bird and her companions, meanwhile, journey to the sea as they finally set out for their home in the High North. But not all is right with the world. Terrible rumors of fire and magic begin to surface, and it isn't long before Bird realizes that she, and everyone she cares about, is in grave danger. The ghosts of her pasts are rising anew, and Bird must struggle with lies, heartbreak, and her love for a certain young wizard in order to keep her already damaged world from falling apart entirely.

It was the moment Dr. Collin Murphy saw Beatrice kissing another man that caused the memories of their entire relationship fly through his mind like bullets full of mementos, destroying every layer of skin they hit. Rushing to confront her, he gets hit by a car and misses his opportunity. Recovering from the accident with minor injuries and his old college friend by his side, Collin's search for answers leads to a side he's never felt before. Will this new Collin get answers to his questions or will it lead him to a world of regrets?

SINOPSE: Baseado em Fatos Reais "Três vítimas, quatro criminosos e a faminta crueldade de mentes doentias. O que você faria se fosse sequestrado, torturado e presenciado sua colega ser estuprada?" Um misterioso sequestro mexe profundamente com a vida de Dark Costello. Enquanto ele tentava explicar pra si mesmo que não estava ficando louco, uma voz dentro da sua cabeça não parava de falar sobre um determinado código que lhe foi destinado a desvendar. Um garoto periférico que sonhava ser um autor de muito sucesso. Em meio ao caos da vida conturbada que o cercava logo se depara com um misterioso amuleto e ao possuí-lo, acaba criando o código da sabedoria. Um código criado para explicar a pirâmide da sabedoria em uma fórmula extremamente perfeita. Mas foi na cidade uma vez intitulada a mais violenta do Brasil que ele e os seus colegas foram sequestrados. Numa linda manhã de primavera, Dark, Fin e Cassie foram colher frutas próximo a uma fazenda na região metropolitana de Salvador e lá se depararam com três perigosos bandidos, que além de amarrá-los e tortura-los, resolvem estuprá-la e raptá-la por horas. O crime chocou a população local e despertou o interesse da polícia para as buscas e investigações.

A battle between spy and sniper that lasts four and a half minutes turned into a book that adds a backstory to the game. (Based on the game SpyParty) I'd like to thank Chris Hecker, the creator of SpyParty, my friend Pires, my friend Rui and every reader!

MOONLIGHTING IN VERMONT: Sometimes a girl just has to get dirty TROUBLE FOLLOWS SOME WOMEN... Bella Bree MacGowan is your average country girl. She works two jobs to support her farm and the menagerie of stray animals that accumulate there; she's almost always covered in mud; and everyone in her small town of South Royalton, Vermont, feels free to comment on everything from her love life ("That Jim just isn't right for you!") to her expired inspection sticker ("Better get that car looked at!"). Is there any such thing as privacy anymore? ... BUT IT FELL IN LOVE WITH BREE MACGOWAN. When Bree finds a dead body at the five-star resort where she moonlights as a maid, her life careens out of control. Her lawyer boyfriend, Jim, dumps her; the surly and sensual investigating officer, Lieutenant Miles Brooks, keeps giving her the beady eyeball; and a reporter at the paper where she works names Bree as the primary suspect in the murder! Can your average hard-working country girl prove her innocence, rein in a love life gone wild, and maintain her sanity all at the same time?

A century-old murder mystery A dangerous ghost An amateur historian... What binds them together? Cora Tozzi is a retired businesswoman who, after nursing her mother through her final illness, wishes only for a peaceful orderly world in her suburban Chicago home. When an angry spirit begins to leave cryptic messages on her computer and threatens those around her, Cora is forced to dig into the town's notorious past to uncover secrets that will free the bonds that tie her and the spirit. With the help of her husband and their friend, Frannie, Cora uses her skills as an amateur historian in a search that takes them into unexpected terrain including subterranean passages, an eerie graveyard, and shadowy paths in isolated forests where a sinister predator is awakened. As they battle unpredictable supernatural powers, the story takes a poignant turn: the spirit's life is revealed, and both women, a century apart, examine threads into the past and the future, their loss and longing linked across the generations.

Genie for Hire: A Biff Andromeda Mystery is a private eye novel-with a paranormal twist. An ancient genie in a modern, buff body, Biff can't use his magical powers for his own benefit, so he opens a detective agency in a Miami suburb. A damsel in distress, photographer Sveta Pshkov, hires him to retrieve a stolen set of boudoir photos she took of a Russian mobster's wife-snapped for her boyfriend's pleasure, not her husband's. Biff's investigation uncovers the spreading tentacles of the Russian mafia. The case turns personal when he realizes that the dangerous female genie he has loved and lost over centuries has a desperate stake in the outcome. Joined by his companions, a resusciated squirrel and a magical sylph who takes the form of a butterfly, Biff follows his super-sensitive nose into hidden corners of South Florida and dark regions of human behavior. With his sarcastic wit, his ability to turn into a wisp of vapor, and magic as old as the ages, Biff battles a pack of ruthless criminals - and his own romantic obsession.

When Psychology Professor Pamela Barnes discovers her department's star researcher strangled to death in the computer lab, she's determined to find out who did it. Will an accidental recording of the murder allow Pamela to use her expertise in acoustics to identify the killer? A unique cozy mystery--set in the world of academia and high-stakes research--full of excitement, humor, and romance.

Lola Hussey, 24 years old, no boyfriend, still living with her mum on a London housing estate and stuck in a going nowhere job in a third rate Private Investigation Agency. Life had to get better surely? When Derek Lewis, rich Australian playboy, is found dead after falling from the roof of his office in salacious circumstances, Lola's opportunity to flex her investigative muscles had begun. But it wasn't only Lola's professional career that was about to take off. Little did she know it, her love life was too. Between her new boss, Julian, who was an uptight Adonis, and Joe the office Romeo, Lola was having a hard time to keep her professional integrity intact and her sassy comments to herself. Still, a job was a job, and if it involved working with two handsome men then who else would be up for the challenge?