Get ready for the unmissable new thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ******In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm.Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new her family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend.She only has seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish Jet is going to solve her own murder.

Joan Messi has spent thirteen lonely years hiding her supernatural abilities from her parents, her classmates, and everyone in her white bread suburban community. However, her little world of secrets is shattered when a pair of strangers arrive from a parallel dimension on the hunt for a nameless criminal. Now, after a lifetime of wondering how she got her powers, Joan might have found the beginnings of an answer. For Daniel Thundyil and his father, elemental powers and ego-maniacal supervillains are nothing new — although this is the first time a mission has brought them to a parallel dimension. Daniel's main concern in this new world isn't the looming threat of a godlike killer; it's fitting in at a school where the food is flavorless, everyone writes backwards in an ancient alphabet, and all the racial hierarchies seem to be reversed.

A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’ Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

Ist das normal? Zwischen Hunderten von körperlich und geistig Behinderten als jüngster Sohn des Direktors einer Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie aufzuwachsen? Der junge Held in Joachim Meyerhoffs zweitem Roman kennt es nicht anders – und mag es sogar sehr. Sein Vater leitet eine Anstalt mit über 1.200 Patienten, verschwindet zu Hause aber in seinem Lesesessel. Seine Mutter organisiert den Alltag, hadert aber mit ihrer Rolle. Seine Brüder widmen sich hingebungsvoll ihren Hobbys, haben für ihn aber nur Häme übrig. Und er selbst tut sich schwer mit den Buchstaben und wird immer wieder von diesem großen Zorn gepackt. Glücklich ist er, wenn er auf den Schultern eines glockenschwingenden, riesenhaften Insas­sen übers Anstalts­gelände reitet. Joachim Meyerhoff erzählt liebevoll und komisch von einer außergewöhnlichen Familie an einem außergewöhnlichen Ort, die aneinander hängt, aber auseinander-gerissen wird. Und von einem Vater, der in der Theorie glänzt, in der Praxis aber stets versagt. Wer schafft es sonst, den Vorsatz zum 40. Geburtstag, sich mehr zu bewegen, gleich mit einer Bänderdehnung zu bezahlen und die teuren Laufschuhe nie wieder anzuziehen? Oder bei Flaute mit dem Segelboot in Seenot zu geraten und vorher noch den Sohn über Bord zu werfen? Am Ende ist es aber wieder der Tod, der den Glutkern dieses Romans bildet, der Verlust, der nicht wieder gutzumachen ist, die Sehnsucht, die bleibt – und die Erin­nerung, die zum Glück unfassbar pralle, lebendige und komische Geschich­ten produziert.