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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Some debts can only be paid in blood.Some crowns can only be worn by those willing to bleed.>The photograph arrived at dawn. No envelope. No warning. Just a faded image of a courtroom-and a face crossed out in red ink. Adriano Cattivello, the man Viviana Dragan put behind bars for thirty years, is free. A technicality. A bought judge. Three years in a cage, and now he's out-building a case that could destroy everything she loves. The past has teeth. Once a ruthless prosecutor, Viviana left the law behind when she married Leon Dragan, the head of a mafia empire. She chose violence. She chose love. She thought she could outrun her father's sins. She was wrong. Cattivello doesn't want revenge. He wants correction. He wants to watch her lose her freedom, her family, her future-and then let her live, just so she can remember. The only way to survive is to become the woman she used to be. With a traitor seeking redemption, a mentor who never loses, and a husband who would burn the world for her, Viviana steps back into the courtroom-not as a prosecutor, but as the accused. And somewhere deep inside her, a new life grows. A secret she hasn't told anyone. Not yet. Skin That Wears the Crown is the third book in the Skin Series, a dark mafia romantic drama about mercy, violence, and the impossible choice between justice and survival. Perfect for readers who love morally grey heroes, fierce heroines, and courtroom tension that cuts to the bone. This is not a book about innocent people. This is a book about people who have done terrible things and are trying to build something worth keeping. Praise for the Skin Series: 'Dark, lyrical, and utterly addictive.' 'A perfect blend of legal thriller and mafia romance.' 'Viviana is the heroine I've been waiting for.'.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Alliance is a lie. The truth is a map. Vlad Volkov has spent his life drawing maps for a government that edits reality. He knows how to chart a city, document a disaster, and turn human suffering into an acceptable report. What he does not know is why a black bird has begun appearing outside his apartment-or why its arrival coincides with impossible changes in the streets around him. Drawn into the secret machinery of the Unified Field of Axioms, Vlad discovers that history is not recorded there. It is controlled. Memories can be revised, cities can be reordered, and entire lives can be reduced to a single approved narrative. Ksenia understands the power of a perfect story. The Bookbinder knows the terrible cost of creating one. Between them stands Vlad: a reluctant cartographer, a keeper of forbidden memories, and a man forced to confront the choices he once abandoned-including the choice to remain human in a world that rewards obedience. As the boundaries between truth and fiction begin to collapse, Vlad must decide whether to restore the system, destroy it, or create something more dangerous: a world where people are free to remember, suffer, love, and choose their own endings. NEXUS is a dark speculative novel about memory, identity, love, and the dangerous freedom of an unwritten future.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The system wasn't broken. It was working exactly as designed.Milo Vane is an Absurdity Arbitrageur. He finds contradictions in the Global Compliance Architecture (GCA)-an all-powerful bureaucracy that tracks every citizen's Fulfillment Score-and sells them back to the people trapped inside. Then a message arrives from three seconds in the future: The intern knows something. Keep her talking.The intern is June Bellow. Her score is 61.7-too low for coffee, but low enough to be invisible. She has been receiving messages from a dead CEO, Elias Thorne, who disappeared into his own creation eleven years ago. And she has discovered a recursive loop buried seventeen levels beneath the OmniCon Spire: a loop that doesn't just archive errors-it creates them.To close the loop, June must submit a form that doesn't exist. The only way out is in.The Loophole is a satirical dystopian novel for anyone who has ever been asked to confirm their identity on a form that requires your identity to begin with. Dark, funny, and uncomfortably familiar.Cite her.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Some secrets are buried in ice. Others bleed. Scholarship student Eva Mercer didn't come to Kingswood University to make friends. She came to find out who killed her brother. His fall from the cliffs was ruled an accident-but Eva knows the truth runs much deeper. Then she meets Liam Vance. Captain of the hockey team. Heir to a fortune. And heir to something much darker: the Order of the Crow, a secret society that has ruled Kingswood for a century. Liam is cold, dangerous, and devastatingly beautiful. His gray eyes hold no warmth-only warning. Stay away. Stop digging. Or you'll end up like your brother. But Liam isn't the enemy. He's a prisoner. Bound by a blood oath he never wanted, he has spent years feeding the Order information to protect himself. Now Eva's questions are drawing too much attention. And Liam must choose: keep her at arm's length. or burn down everything to save her. She wants the truth. He wants her alive. Together, they might just destroy an empire. Ghosts of the Ice is a full-length dark romance with a morally grey hero, an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, and a high-stakes conspiracy. Intended for mature readers.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Alliance is a lie. The truth is a map. Vlad Volkov has spent his life drawing maps for a government that edits reality. He knows how to chart a city, document a disaster, and turn human suffering into an acceptable report. What he does not know is why a black bird has begun appearing outside his apartment-or why its arrival coincides with impossible changes in the streets around him. Drawn into the secret machinery of the Unified Field of Axioms, Vlad discovers that history is not recorded there. It is controlled. Memories can be revised, cities can be reordered, and entire lives can be reduced to a single approved narrative. Ksenia understands the power of a perfect story. The Bookbinder knows the terrible cost of creating one. Between them stands Vlad: a reluctant cartographer, a keeper of forbidden memories, and a man forced to confront the choices he once abandoned-including the choice to remain human in a world that rewards obedience. As the boundaries between truth and fiction begin to collapse, Vlad must decide whether to restore the system, destroy it, or create something more dangerous: a world where people are free to remember, suffer, love, and choose their own endings. NEXUS is a dark speculative novel about memory, identity, love, and the dangerous freedom of an unwritten future. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A blank map. A pencil that won't hold its marks. And a child waiting in the salt.>No salary is offered. No return date. No rescue protocol. On the salt flats, the archivist finds a child sitting at the center of a white horizon. The child does not speak. The child does not blink. The child waits three hours and then holds out one hand. Together they walk west through cities of shifting names, sulfur plains where every word returns as three contradictory meanings, mirror fields that show faces the archivist has never worn, and a train station where a radio broadcasts the names of everyone who has ever been forgotten. But the Erasure is not a place. It is a verb. And the archivist is carrying a machine-one built years ago, one that cannot be reversed-that has already erased the only thing that mattered. The Paper Bird is a haunting work of literary speculative fiction about parental grief, the ethics of forgetting, and the long walk toward remembering what you chose to destroy. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's\*The Buried Giant, Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo. 'The map is not the territory. But sometimes the map is all the territory there is.'.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - He was a man who had learned to survive without a heart. She was the one thing he never expected to want. Kane Winter has spent eight years building an empire from his father's ashes-and carving out every part of himself that could be hurt. Love is a debt he refuses to pay. Emotion is a liability he can't afford. Until a name crosses his desk attached to an old blood debt: Vittoria Calder, the daughter of a man who died hiding a secret that could destroy the Winter family. She's not a threat. She's a restorer of old paintings, a woman who spends her life repairing what others have broken. But the debt isn't money-it's honor. And Kane Winter collects what he's owed. 'That is the debt I am collecting. Not money. Honor. Silence.' Vittoria Calder refuses to be a victim. Taken from her studio and forced into the house of a man who rules Chicago's underworld, she refuses to break. She demands honesty, partnership, and the right to choose her own fate. But as she restores his mother's ruined altarpiece, she discovers something beneath Kane's frozen surface: a man who has spent years learning to survive without a heart-and who is terrified of what happens when it starts to grow back. She came to settle a debt. She stayed to restore a man. When a rival syndicate threatens everything they've built, Kane must choose between the empire he's spent a decade protecting and the woman who has become his most dangerous liability. Because in his world, love isn't a refuge-it's a weapon. And Vittoria isn't just his weakness. She's the only thing worth fighting for. A dark mafia romance about inheritance, honesty, and the terrifying cost of letting yourself feel again. For readers who love morally gray heroes, heroines who refuse to be victims, and love stories that survive only because both people refuse to let them die quietly.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - She came for the truth. He came for her. Mara Foks arrived at Northfield University with one goal: find out what really happened to her best friend Lev, who died eighteen months ago in a 'tragic accident.' She has a scholarship, a blog, and a burning need for justice. She doesn't need anything else.Especially not Cole Ashford.Cole is everything Mara despises-Northfield royalty, hockey captain, heir to the family that built the university. He's cold, controlled, and watching her with an intensity she can't explain. He knows things about Lev's death that he shouldn't. He knows things about Mara that she never told anyone.He was tracking her before she arrived.He's been reading her blog for months.He says he wants to help. He says they want the same thing.But Cole Ashford doesn't do anything without a price. And the deal he offers Mara is simple: he'll give her access to the truth-if she gives him access to her.One dinner a week. A conversation that has nothing to do with the investigation. The kind of intimacy that feels less like a bargain and more like a trap.Because the truth about Lev's death is darker than Mara imagined. And the Order of the Northern Gate-the secret society that operates in the shadows of Northfield-will do anything to keep its secrets buried.>Cold Rink is a dark romance that asks: How far would you go for the truth And how much would you risk for someone who's been watching you from the shadows This is not a safe romance. The hero in this book does things that are controlling. He withholds information. He makes decisions that are not his to make. The narrative does not present these behaviors as ideal-it presents them as real. If you want a love story about two broken people learning to trust-and the cost of choosing each other anyway-this book is for you.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Some secrets are buried in ice. Others bleed. Scholarship student Eva Mercer didn't come to Kingswood University to make friends. She came to find out who killed her brother. His fall from the cliffs was ruled an accident-but Eva knows the truth runs much deeper. Then she meets Liam Vance. Captain of the hockey team. Heir to a fortune. And heir to something much darker: the Order of the Crow, a secret society that has ruled Kingswood for a century. Liam is cold, dangerous, and devastatingly beautiful. His gray eyes hold no warmth-only warning. Stay away. Stop digging. Or you'll end up like your brother. But Liam isn't the enemy. He's a prisoner. Bound by a blood oath he never wanted, he has spent years feeding the Order information to protect himself. Now Eva's questions are drawing too much attention. And Liam must choose: keep her at arm's length. or burn down everything to save her. She wants the truth. He wants her alive. Together, they might just destroy an empire. Ghosts of the Ice is a full-length dark romance with a morally grey hero, an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, and a high-stakes conspiracy. Intended for mature readers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The system wasn't broken. It was working exactly as designed.Milo Vane is an Absurdity Arbitrageur. He finds contradictions in the Global Compliance Architecture (GCA)-an all-powerful bureaucracy that tracks every citizen's Fulfillment Score-and sells them back to the people trapped inside. Then a message arrives from three seconds in the future: The intern knows something. Keep her talking.The intern is June Bellow. Her score is 61.7-too low for coffee, but low enough to be invisible. She has been receiving messages from a dead CEO, Elias Thorne, who disappeared into his own creation eleven years ago. And she has discovered a recursive loop buried seventeen levels beneath the OmniCon Spire: a loop that doesn't just archive errors-it creates them.To close the loop, June must submit a form that doesn't exist. The only way out is in.The Loophole is a satirical dystopian novel for anyone who has ever been asked to confirm their identity on a form that requires your identity to begin with. Dark, funny, and uncomfortably familiar.Cite her. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - She hears the dead. He has been dead for three centuries. Their love is the only thing the darkness cannot consume. Selene Duskborne kneels in graveyards, listening to whispers no one else can hear. When her brother takes work in the cursed Blackstone Palace, she follows - and meets the Obsidian King. Ash has held back the god-beneath-the-city for three hundred years, but his prison is cracking, his sanity fraying. He needs a death-speaker. He needs Selene. The pact binds her to the dead, to the shadows, and to him. As the veil between worlds thins and the Black Court rises, Selene must learn to command the very ghosts that once haunted her. But the god below feeds on despair - and love is the only weapon it cannot understand. Thorns of the Forgotten is a dark Gothic fantasy romance about grief you carry so long you forget it's there, about monsters who choose to be better, and about a love that stands at the edge of the dark - and steps forward. 'This is a love story that spans a lifetime - and ends where all lifetimes do.'. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The first lie is that the visitor came from elsewhere.The second is that we were waiting. Mara Levent has made a career of tracing the seams where memory splits from truth. As a specialist in impossible recollections, she knows that the mind does not record - it reconstructs. It stitches together borrowed cloth and calls it a life. But when Elias Thorne walks into her clinic with a photograph from 1987 - showing a woman who is unmistakably Mara, decades before her birth - her professional faith begins to crumble. The handwriting on the back is hers. The scar on the hand is hers. The place is Veysk, a northern installation that official maps pretend does not exist. A cryptic summons from her estranged brother draws Mara north, into a tundra where the snow conceals perfect black circles cut into the earth. There, she discovers the truth: she is not a person, but a composite. A vessel built from the memories of the dead, filled over decades with the residue of other people's lives until the accumulation became a person who believed she was real. Now the installation is failing. The patterns are degrading. And the dead - stored for forty years in tapes, files, and glass - are learning to choose their vessels. Mara stands at the heart of a choice that will echo through the living and the dead: refuse the memories and become empty, or claim them and become full. Because the dead do not need to be saved.They only need someone willing to remember. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - On the twelfth anniversary of his sister's death, Elian Moore receives a phone call from a number that has been disconnected for eleven years. The voice on the other end is Grace's-but Grace drowned as a child. She warns him not to come to the garden. She begs him to remember the last call. And then the line goes dead. Below the Russian city of Ufa, Elian descends into Vesperfall-an impossible orchard where memory is currency, names are doors, and the dead are loved incorrectly. Guided by the enigmatic Irena Vale and haunted by a childhood name he gave away, Elian must restore seven stolen names before Halloween midnight. If he fails, the orchard will open into the living world-and the Keeper will claim the one name Elian has spent twelve years trying to forget. The Orchard at the End of October is a dark fantasy of grief and memory for readers who believe that the most frightening monsters are often the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Atmospheric, haunting, and unexpectedly tender, it asks what we owe to the dead-and what we owe to ourselves when we refuse to let them go.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The first message arrived at 2:13 in the morning. Mara Venn, a university archivist who spends her days preserving damaged photographs, has spent eleven years grieving her brother Elias-missing and presumed dead after his truck was found abandoned in the Nevada desert. No body. No blood. No footprints. But tonight, Elias called. Pulled into a labyrinth of conspiracy, Mara discovers the UFA-a secret organization that treated memory as a transferable substance, a kind of weather that could be measured, stored, and forced from one person to another. Her mother, Celia, was part of it. Her childhood, Mara learns, was not her own. Guided by the enigmatic Daniel Rusk, Mara travels from Chicago to the deserts of New Mexico, from a living archive beneath a psychiatric hospital to a house in Vermont that remembers everything. Along the way, she uncovers the truth about Anna-a sister she never knew she had-and the thirty-two people who died in a locked room while her mother chose not to open the door. But the deeper Mara digs, the more she realizes the past is not behind her. It is inside her. She is not just searching for her brother. She is searching for the person she was before her memory was emptied and refilled with someone else's pain. The Weather Inside the House is a psychological thriller-horror about grief, the fragility of identity, and the terrifying question: what if the dead can be carried-and what if we cannot put them down 'A masterful blend of atmospheric horror and literary depth.' - [Praise Source] For readers of House of Leaves, The Woman in the Dunes, and The Left Hand of Darkness.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A mother's grief. An alien archive. A choice that will redefine what it means to be human.Time is not a river. It is a wound.When Dr. Anya Volkova detects a three-pulse signal in the Siberian wilderness-the same signal her daughter's heart monitor emitted at the moment of her death-she discovers that something has arrived. Not a ship. Not a weapon. An archive. A vast, ancient intelligence that has been collecting human memory for longer than anyone knew.The Chorus offers her the impossible: the chance to hear her daughter's voice again. To hold her. To never lose her.But the archive does not understand consent. It does not understand boundaries. It cannot comprehend why anyone would refuse access to the dead.The Arrival of Harvest is a speculative novella about grief, memory, and the ethics of connection. It asks the question at the heart of our age: Who has the right to access what we carry Praise for The Arrival of Harvest: 'A work of philosophical science fiction that recalls the best of Le Guin and Lem. Kuskova writes with precision and grace about the things we cannot let go-and the things we must.' -[Advance Reader]'An extraordinary meditation on consent, memory, and the difference between preservation and resurrection. The final image will stay with you for weeks.' -[Advance Reader]Content Warning: This novella contains depictions of grief, death of a child, medical trauma, involuntary memory intrusion, and scenes of psychological distress. Reader discretion is advised.Perfect for readers of: Ted Chiang, Stanislaw Lem, Jeff VanderMeer, and anyone who has ever wondered what it would mean to truly remember the dead.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A blank map. A pencil that won't hold its marks. And a child waiting in the salt.The archivist has spent twenty-three years documenting what remains of places after they have stopped being places. When the Erasure-a phenomenon that dissolves cities, languages, and memories-ceases reporting from the western territories, the archivist receives a commission: go west. Document whatever still speaks. No salary is offered. No return date. No rescue protocol. On the salt flats, the archivist finds a child sitting at the center of a white horizon. The child does not speak. The child does not blink. The child waits three hours and then holds out one hand. Together they walk west through cities of shifting names, sulfur plains where every word returns as three contradictory meanings, mirror fields that show faces the archivist has never worn, and a train station where a radio broadcasts the names of everyone who has ever been forgotten. But the Erasure is not a place. It is a verb. And the archivist is carrying a machine-one built years ago, one that cannot be reversed-that has already erased the only thing that mattered. The Paper Bird is a haunting work of literary speculative fiction about parental grief, the ethics of forgetting, and the long walk toward remembering what you chose to destroy. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's*The Buried Giant, Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo. "The map is not the territory. But sometimes the map is all the territory there is." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Two families. One conspiracy. A love that could destroy them both.Damien Fall inherited an empire built on blood. At twenty-four, he wears the weight of a dynasty that has controlled Porta Noir for generations-a crown he never wanted, forced upon him when his father was murdered. He's spent seven years pretending he knows what he's doing, haunted by a dead man's expectations and the frozen watch on his wrist that stopped at 11:47 PM, the moment everything ended.Sophia Moretti has spent seventeen years searching for the truth behind her family's destruction. The daughter of a man branded a traitor, she's followed the evidence from library archives to forgotten vaults, desperate to prove her father wasn't the monster everyone believed.When an anonymous invitation leads Damien to a secret recording of his father's final words, he discovers an impossible truth: the Falls and the Morettis were never enemies. They were allies. Partners. Two families building a future together-until someone destroyed them both.The Raven-a shadowy organization that has controlled Porta Noir's politics and crime for thirty years-will kill to keep its secrets buried.Now Damien faces an impossible choice: become the monster everyone believes he is, or risk everything to expose the truth. Meanwhile, Sophia must decide if she can trust the man her family was raised to hate-even as the evidence points to a conspiracy that reaches into the highest halls of power.Welcome to Porta Noir. In a city built on blood, the truth is the most dangerous weapon of all.Perfect for fans of gripping crime sagas, enemies-to-lovers romance, and stories of family legacy and redemption.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - THEY WERE NEVER LOOKING FOR US. For seventy-nine years, governments have hidden evidence of something impossible. Not spacecraft. Not bodies. Not weapons. Something much worse. A language. When forensic psychologist Mara Vey is called to an isolated field where thousands of crops have been flattened into an impossible geometric pattern, she expects another hoax. Instead, she finds a fragment of black glass containing a message written in a language she has never learned. Yet she can read it. YOU ARE EARLY. Then her dead mother calls her. And tells her the visitors have already arrived. As strange phenomena spread across the world-people disappearing from reality, memories rewriting themselves, impossible signals pulsing beneath the earth, and enormous structures becoming visible only during certain autumn nights-Mara is drawn into a secret buried beneath decades of UFO investigations. The truth is not that humanity has been visited. The truth is that humanity has been studied. And the experiment is almost over. To uncover what happened during the mysterious eleven-minute blackout of 1947, Mara must join forces with a disgraced astrophysicist, a soldier who remembers dying, and a child who claims to have spoken with something living beyond the stars. But the closer they come to the truth, the more terrifying the question becomes: If an alien intelligence knows everything humanity has ever done, will it judge us Or will it forgive us Because the visitors did not come to conquer Earth. They came to decide whether humanity deserves to remain here. --- Praise for THE SILENCE BETWEEN STARS: 'A haunting meditation on memory, grief, and the terrifying silence at the heart of the cosmos. Kuskova writes with the precision of a scientist and the soul of a poet.' 'Speculative fiction at its finest-at once deeply human and cosmically vast. This book will stay with you long after the final page.' --- Perfect for fans of: - ARRIVAL by Ted Chiang- THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM by Cixin Liu- CHILDREN OF TIME by Adrian Tchaikovsky- THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY by Jeff VanderMeer>What readers are saying: 'Gripping, atmospheric, and profoundly moving. A must-read for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if the darkness was looking back.' 'The Silence Between Stars is the kind of book that changes how you see the world. Hauntingly beautiful.'.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Zero Protocol - A Novel of Memory and Resistance. They won the war. No one remembers who they fought. That was the first edit.In the Northern Union, the screens never go dark. Citizens move through life with eyes fixed on glowing devices, their every step guided by algorithms, their loyalty rated from 0 to 10. History rewrites itself overnight. Children learn to whisper before they learn to read. And the Heir-the nation's smiling, synthetic leader-does not dream. The Heir does not bleed.Artyom Voronov has never questioned the system. Not until a four-year-old boy asks if real apples exist. Not until a dying ruler's mask slips for one terrifying second. Not until an old man in an abandoned subway tunnel hands him a paperclip and says: 'You kept something they cannot see.'That paperclip becomes a seed.Artyom uncovers the Zero Protocol-a decades-old plan to reduce the Slavic population by 60-70% through digital starvation and psychological manipulation. He joins the Keepers: librarians, coders, grandmothers, and a fierce woman named Elena, whose mother was turned into a cyborg. Together, they prepare to hijack the national broadcast and show the truth to a city that has forgotten how to look up.But the Continuum has its own tools. Execution Nodes patrol the streets. The Heir watches everything. And Korolev-the faceless mastermind-has never lost.Until now.For fans of 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, and We. A dystopia that feels chillingly real-vaccines engineered to suppress rebellion, news cycles designed to exhaust, and a resistance that fights with the only weapon the algorithm cannot predict: memory.The algorithm does not dream. But it watches those who do.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She came for the truth. He came for her. Mara Foks arrived at Northfield University with one goal: find out what really happened to her best friend Lev, who died eighteen months ago in a "tragic accident." She has a scholarship, a blog, and a burning need for justice. She doesn't need anything else.Especially not Cole Ashford.Cole is everything Mara despises-Northfield royalty, hockey captain, heir to the family that built the university. He's cold, controlled, and watching her with an intensity she can't explain. He knows things about Lev's death that he shouldn't. He knows things about Mara that she never told anyone.He was tracking her before she arrived.He's been reading her blog for months.He says he wants to help. He says they want the same thing.But Cole Ashford doesn't do anything without a price. And the deal he offers Mara is simple: he'll give her access to the truth-if she gives him access to her.One dinner a week. A conversation that has nothing to do with the investigation. The kind of intimacy that feels less like a bargain and more like a trap.Because the truth about Lev's death is darker than Mara imagined. And the Order of the Northern Gate-the secret society that operates in the shadows of Northfield-will do anything to keep its secrets buried.Even if that means burying Mara along with them. Cold Rink is a dark romance that asks: How far would you go for the truth? And how much would you risk for someone who's been watching you from the shadows? This is not a safe romance. The hero in this book does things that are controlling. He withholds information. He makes decisions that are not his to make. The narrative does not present these behaviors as ideal-it presents them as real. If you want a love story about two broken people learning to trust-and the cost of choosing each other anyway-this book is for you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - MAFIA BOSS SPRING - A Dark Mafia Romance He was forged in winter. She was the spring he never expected. Viktor Spring inherited an empire of blood and silence. The Pakhan of Moscow's most powerful Bratva family, he has spent his life carving out every part of himself that could be hurt. Love is a weapon turned inward. Tenderness is a blade aimed at his own throat. Until he meets Elara Voss. A diplomat's daughter trapped in a gilded cage, Elara has learned to survive by making herself invisible. But Viktor sees her-not the bargaining chip her father has traded, not the decorative flower on the arm of powerful men. He sees the gardener who finds beauty in broken ground, who refuses to wither in the shadow of cruelty. When Viktor offers her a choice between two cages, Elara chooses the devil she doesn't know. But she refuses to be just another possession. She demands partnership over ownership, honesty over control, love over leverage. And she demands that Viktor become the man he was meant to be before his father taught him that feeling was weakness.'I am offering you a kingdom where you may grow however you choose, as long as you remain.mine.' As old enemies close in and new threats emerge, Viktor must decide: Will he destroy everything he's built to protect the woman who's become his heart Or will he finally learn that the strongest roots grow from the deepest frost-and that spring always comes, even for those who have forgotten how to bloom A dark mafia romance about inheritance, choice, and the terrifying courage of letting yourself feel again.For readers who love morally gray heroes, heroines who refuse to be victims, and love stories that survive only because both people refuse to let them die quietly.…