A terrible secret haunts Dr. Jama Keith. But she must return to her past – her hometown of River Dance, Missouri – and risk exposure. She owes a debt to the town for financing her dreams. If only she can avoid ex-fiancé Terell Mercer – but River Dance is too small for that.

When Terell's niece is abducted by two of the FBI's most wanted, Jama can't refuse to help – Terell's family were like kin to her for many years. The search for young Doriann could cost Terell and Jama their lives. But revealing her secret shame to the man she loves scares Jama more than the approaching danger…

A faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable, the title heroine is Princess Meredith NicEssus, also known as Merry Gentry. As niece to Andais, The Queen of Air and Darkness, she is a royal of the Unseelie Court. While her aunt tried to kill her as a child, she has since offered her the title as crown princess as the Court needs more heirs.Введите сюда краткую аннотацию

Soy Meredith Gentry, princesa y heredera forzosa al trono de un reino feérico, antes detective privado en el mundo humano.

Para ser coronada reina, y así continuar con la línea de sangre real, primero debo dar a luz a mi heredero. Si fallo, mi tía, la Reina Andais, será libre de cumplir el mayor de sus deseos: nombrar a su malévolo hijo, Cel, como monarca… y matarme.

Mis guardaespaldas reales me rodean, y mis amados Oscuridad y Asesino Frost están siempre a mi lado, jurando protegerme y amarme. Pero de todos modos la amenaza se cierne sobre nosotros, puesto que a pesar de todos nuestros esfuerzos no me quedo embarazada. Y mientras, las maquinaciones de mi siniestra y sádica Reina y sus cómplices parecen inagotables. Así que mis guardaespaldas y yo hemos regresado a Los Ángeles, con la esperanza de superar o al menos minimizar las crecientes intrigas de la Corte. Pero incluso el exilio no es suficiente para escapar de las garras de sus más oscuros designios.

Ahora el Rey Taranis, el poderoso soberano de la Corte de la Luz, ha acusado a mis guardaespaldas reales de un delito atroz y ha llegado al extremo de interponer una acción judicial ante las autoridades humanas para que impartan castigo. Si tiene éxito, mis hombres afrontarán la extradición al mundo feérico y las penas más horribles que les puedan esperar allí. Pero sé que los cargos de Taranis son infundados, y presiento que su objetivo tras todas estas atrocidades soy yo. Él ya trató de matarme cuando yo era una niña. Ahora temo que sus intenciones sean mucho más aterradoras.

"Logan Quinn was trying to kill me.My Spartan classmate relentlessly pursued me, swinging his sword at me over and over again, the shining silver blade inching closer to my throat every time. A smile tugged up his lips, and his ice-blue eyes practially glowed with the thrill of battle…"

I'm Gwen Frost, a second-year warrior-in-training at Mythos Academy, and I have no idea how I'm going to survive the rest of the semester. One day, I'm getting schooled in swordplay by the guy who broke my heart-the drop-dead gorgeous Logan who slays me every time. Then, an invisible archer in the Library of Antiquities decides to use me for target practice. And now, I find out that someone at the academy is really a Reaper bad guy who wants me dead. I'm afraid if I don't learn how to live by the sword-with Logan's help-I just might die by the sword…

Odd’s luck has been bad so far. He lost his father on a Viking expedition, his foot was crushed beneath a tree, and the winter seems to be going on forever. But when Odd flees to the woods and releases a trapped bear, his luck begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox he encounters reveal they’re actually Nordic gods, trapped in animal form by the evil Frost Giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods. Can a twelve-year-old boy reclaim Thor’s hammer, outwit the Frost Giants and release the gods?

From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way — you have no business here!'

'Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.

As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.

"Let her prove herself worthy as a man."

Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death — either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie ahead. As her mythic fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the tribe's first female shaman — despite the desert dwellers' grave fear of the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient tribal customs of the desert tribes — for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall.

Alanna's journey continues...

Первым в сборнике — роман Хораса Маккоя, в котором наряду с криминальной интригой, автор развенчивает идеи своекорыстного насилия и имморализма. Романы Джорджа Кокса и Роберта Пайка построены по трем классическим принципам детективного жанра: остросюжетность, психологизм, отточенность мышления следователя-аналитика.