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-Tu te souviens des légendes sur les wildlings ? demande-t-elle. -Si je m'en souviens ? Comment veux-tu que je les oublie ? On nous les a enfoncées dans le crâne avant même qu'on sache parler. -Et si je te disais que Clover a une brûlure sur la hanche, un groupe de nombres, qu'est-ce que tu en penserais ? -Je dirais que c'est pas cool et que tu devrais l'emmener chez le médecin, fait Cassie, ébahie. -Et le fait qu'elle soit restée une enfant de sept ans... ? -Mais enfin, Luna, elle ne peut pas être Clover ! -Et moi, je crois que c'est un wildling, réplique Luna et en le disant, elle sent que quelque chose a changé en elle.

Getrennt durch Jahrhunderte, doch verbunden durch ein verfluchtes Buch. 1594 wird Alison Balfour auf den Orkney-Inseln der Hexerei beschuldigt. Sie soll lebendig verbrannt werden. Mehr als 400 Jahre später sitzt Clem am Krankenbett ihrer Tochter Erin. Sie hat an einem Strand der Orkney-Inseln...

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection. 

Don’t miss this chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . . ’Cooke has creatively interwoven the darkness of reality with a magical realism that will truly have you gripped’ Woman & Home ‘Fascinating and enthralling’ Prima ‘Wonderfully atmospheric and compelling’...

Orkney 2024: a terrible discovery on an idyllic beach in Fynhallow Bay: a teenage boy has been burned to death, a girl is missing, and another girl, Erin, is in hospital and remembers just one thing – she is Nyx. Her mother, Clem, waits by her bed, desperate to bring her daughter back to reality. Orkney 1594: accused of witchcraft, Alison Balfour awaits trial. The punishment? Death by burning. Separated by four hundred years but united by the ancient clan of magic-wielders, the Triskele, two women stand imperiled.

A horrific car crash in Belize has devastated Helen Pengilly’s family, leaving her daughter in a coma and her husband Michael missing. Alone and terrified, Helen’s memory is dragged back to that day 22 years ago. To protect their family, Helen and Michael both said they would forget what happened. But now it seems that there is someone who will stop at nothing to make them remember.... 

Three women. Seven centuries. One unbreakable blood curse… It began in fire… Paris, 1307. When eleven-year-old Princess Isabella of France watches four men burn at the stake, a dying knight curses her bloodline: love will destroy everything she holds dear. It was forged in madness… Bedlam...

1901. On board the Ormen, a whaling ship battling through the unforgiving North Sea, Nicky Duthie awakes. Attacked and dragged there against her will, it’s just her and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them. 1973. Decades later, when the ship is found still drifting across the ocean, it’s deserted. Just one body is left on board, his face and feet mutilated, his cabin locked from the inside. Everyone else has vanished.

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who live in the grounds—and together they begin to unpick the secrets of this place.

Eine Frau erwacht an einem einsamen Strand, verletzt und ohne jede Erinnerung. Zum Glück wird sie von vier Fremden gefunden, die sich um sie kümmern wollen, bis es ihr gut genug geht, um die Insel wieder zu verlassen. Doch irgendetwas scheinen die zwei Männer und zwei Frauen zu verbergen - was wissen sie wirklich über ihren Schützling? Zeitgleich sucht man in London verzweifelt nach einer jungen Mutter und Ehefrau, die am helllichten Tag spurlos verschwunden ist. Stück für Stück lassen die Ermittlungen die perfekte Fassade von Ehe- und Familienglück bröckeln.

…But what if that’s the only thing you can remember? Komméno Island, Greece: I don't know where I am, who I am. Help me. A woman is washed up on a remote Greek island with no recollection of who she is or how she got there. Potter’s Lane, Twickenham, London: Eloïse Shelley is officially...

The grieving widower. The motherless daughters. A beautiful house in the woods. Deep in a remote Norwegian forest, Lexi has found a new home with architect Tom and his two young daughters. With snow underfoot and the sound of the nearby fjord in her ears, it’s as if Lexi has stepped into a fairy tale. But this family has a history – and this place has a past. Something was destroyed to build their beautiful new house. And those ancient, whispering woods have a long memory. Lexi begins to hear things, see things that don’t make sense. 

1965 wird die junge Pearl zur Entbindung nach Lichen Hall geschickt, einem gotischen Herrenhaus, das in Schottland inmitten eines Waldes steht. Unverheiratete Frauen kommen hierher, um heimlich ihre Kinder zur Welt zu bringen. Doch in Lichen Hall lauert Gefahr. Seltsame Schimmelpilze überwuchern die Wände und gespenstische Geheimnisse kriechen aus dem dunklen Wald heran …

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