When eighteen-year-old Keller Hartman is recruited into the Legion’s most prestigious galactic unit, it’s a dream come true. He's worked hard for this. He’s ready to prove himself. The problem? His new partner—the beautiful, no-nonsense pilot Lament Bringer—wants nothing to do with him. Forced to work together under Legion orders, Keller and Lament team up with a motley crew of specialists to investigate a mysterious visionary who can predict catastrophes. As they begin to peel back layers, however, they realize there's more to the story than meets the eye. With threats mounting and secrets unfolding, Keller and Lament will need to trust one another in order to stop the dangers at play. But with trust comes other feelings—ones neither of them is prepared for. With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, the only thing worse than failing their mission might just be losing each other.

Love is real. Demons are real. Kill the demons. Camp Damascus is the world's most effective gay conversion camp. Nestled in the Montana wilderness, parents send their children from around the world to experience the program's 100% success rate. But, this story isn't about that. This story is about Rose Darling, a God-fearing young lady who can't stop puking up flies. It's about her parents who ignore her visions of an eerie woman with sagging, pale skin who watches from the woods. It's about the desires deep inside Rose that don't seem to make any sense, and her waking nightmares that are beginning to feel more like memories. And maybe, just maybe, it's a little bit about Camp Damascus after all. A chilling and heartfelt supernatural horror about a young woman searching for love and the secrets of a demonic gay conversion camp, perfect for readers of Stephen Graham Jones, Hailey Piper and Lucy A. Snyder.

Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?

Zora del Buono war acht Monate alt, als ihr Vater 1963 bei einem Autounfall starb. Der tote Vater war die große Leerstelle der Familie. Mutter und Tochter sprachen kaum über ihn. Wenn die Mutter ihn erwähnte, brach die Tochter mit klopfendem Herzen das Gespräch ab. Sie konnte den Schmerz der Mutter nicht ertragen. Jetzt, inzwischen sechzig geworden, fragt sie Was ist aus dem damals erst 28-jährigen E.T. geworden, der den Unfall verursacht hat? Wie hat er die letzten sechzig Jahre gelebt mit dieser Schuld?„Seinetwegen“ ist der Roman einer Die Erzählerin macht sich auf die Suche nach E.T., um ihn mit der Geschichte ihrer Familie zu konfrontieren. Ihre Suche führt sie in dunkle, abgründige Gegenden, in denen sie Antworten findet, die neue Fragen aufwerfen. Was macht es mit ihr, dass sie plötzlich mehr weiß über ihn, den Mann, der ihren Vater totgefahren hat, als über den Vater selbst? Und wie kann man heil werden, wenn eine Leerstelle doch immer bleiben wird?

Kinder im Nationalsozialismus Kinder stellen schon früh Fragen zum Nationalsozialismus. Wie können wir ihnen das Grauen jener Zeit vermitteln? Stellvertretend stellen sich hier zehn Kinder vor, die das Dritte Reich und den Zweiten Weltkrieg ganz unterschiedlich erlebt haben. Flankiert werden diese Geschichten von Illustrationen, Fotos und Sachtexten, die die historischen Hintergründe auf behutsame Art und Weise erklären. Dieses Buch zeigt ganz konkret, wie Kinder damals mit Verfolgung und Ausgrenzung, mit Krieg und Flucht, aber auch mit Propaganda innerhalb der Familie umgingen. Heutige Kinder lernen daraus viel über Zivilcourage, Mut und Verzweiflung, Angst und Hoffnung.

In the tradition of The Alienist and A Love Story, a decadently macabre, dark and twisty gothic debut set in 19th century Scotland – when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh – as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching. Historical fiction, true crime, and dark academia intertwine in a harrowing tale of murder, greed, and the grisly origins of modern medicine for readers of Lydia Kang, ML Rio, Sarah Perry, and C.E. McGill. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. A shining beacon of medical discovery in the age of New Enlightenment, the city’s university offers everything James desires—except the chance to work on a human cadaver. For that, he needs to join one of the private schools in Surgeon’s Square, at a cost he cannot afford. In desperation, he strikes a deal with Aneurin “Nye” MacKinnon, a dashing young dissectionist with an artist’s eye for anatomy and a reckless passion for knowledge. Nye promises to help him gain the surgical experience he craves—but it doesn’t take long for James to realize he’s made a devil’s bargain . . .   Nye is a body snatcher. And James has unwittingly become his accomplice. Intoxicated by Nye and his noble mission, James rapidly descends into the underground ranks of the Resurrectionists—the body snatchers infamous for stealing fresh corpses from churchyards to be used as anatomical specimens. Before he knows it, James is caught up in a life-or-death scheme as rival gangs of snatchers compete in a morbid race for power and prestige. James and Nye soon find themselves in the crosshairs of a shady pair of unscrupulous opportunists known as Burke and Hare, who are dead set on cornering the market, no matter the cost. These unsavory characters will do anything to beat the competition for bodies. Even if it’s cold-blooded murder . . . Exquisitely macabre and delightfully entertaining, The Resurrectionist combines fact and fiction in a rollicking tale of the risks and rewards of scientific pursuit, the passions of its boldest pioneers, and the anatomy of human desire.  

Patience is a kindhearted country girl, eking out a living in Edwardian England as tremors of social change rock the world around her. When she starts her employment in formal service on the grounds of an opulent country manor, she has no idea that her own personal revolution is about to begin. Selfless, dutiful, and just a touch naive, she takes to both her place as a parlor maid and to her new roommate, the bookish and progressive lady’s maid, Esther. In another time, the two women would have kept one another’s company forever in their little attic bedroom, living out their days in the employ of a Lord. But it’s now the dawn of a new age. The expanding empire has brought with it not only plundered wealth, but worldliness and new ideas. Suffragists agitate in the street, idle-rich bohemians challenge sexual mores, and Patience and Esther slowly come to realize the world is wider and full of more adventure and opportunity than they ever imagined . . . so long as they find the will to seize it. Sensual, sweet, and beautifully illustrated, PATIENCE & ESTHER is a steamy period romance and an inspirational erotic journey across the epic sweep of history, from the end of a gilded age to the start of an uncharted future.

A gripping 1920s-set whodunnit, this debut features a queer sleuth who must solve a murder in a mansion on London’s Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested as a criminal. The Selby Bigge mysteries series debut, it will leave readers eager for the next installment. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey novels.London, 1929.Selby Bigge is a bank clerk by day and a denizen of the capital’s queer underworld by night, but he yearns for a life that will take him away from his ledgers, loveless trysts and dreary bedsit in in which his every move is scrutinised by a nosy landlady. So when he meets Patrick, son of knight of the realm and banking millionaire Sir Lionel Duker, he is delighted to find himself catapulted into a world of dinners at The Ritz and birthday parties at his new friend’s family mansion on Hampstead Heath.But money, it seems, can’t buy happiness. Sir Lionel is being slandered in the press, his new young wife Lucinda is being harassed by an embittered journalist and Patrick is worried he’ll lose his inheritance to his gold-digging stepmother. And when someone is found strangled on the billiards room floor after a party it doesn’t take long for Selby to realise everyone has a motive for murder.Can Selby uncover the truth while keeping his own secrets buried?

In der Familie Katrin Himmlers wurde über die Verbrechen Heinrich Himmlers offen gesprochen. Den Erzählungen nach galt ihr Großonkel als der "ungeratene" Außenseiter eines humanistisch gebildeten Elternhauses, seine Brüder Gebhard und Ernst hingegen hätten mit der Politik des NS-Regimes nicht viel zu tun gehabt. Als sie den Spuren ihres seit 1945 vermissten Großvaters Ernst nachgeht, stößt Katrin Himmler auf eine viel tiefere Verstrickung von Heinrichs Brüdern. Als frühe Anhänger der Partei profitierten die beiden nicht nur von den neuen Verhältnissen nach 1933, sondern unterstützen mit ihrer Tätigkeit im Reichserziehungsministerium und im Reichsrundfunk engagiert das NS-Regime. Noch inmitten zerbombter Städte wollten die Brüder gemeinsam mit Heinrich Zukunftspläne "für die nächsten zwanzig Jahre" schmieden. Katrin Himmler erzählt die Geschichte einer Familie, in der es kein Mitleid mit den Verfolgten, sondern Einverständnis mit den politischen Verhältnissen gab – bei den Ehefrauen, den Freunden, dem Schwager und bei Heinrichs Geliebter Hedwig Potthast. In ihrer ungewöhnlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der Vergangenheit kann die Autorein auf zahlreiche unveröffentlichte Briefe und persönliche Dokumente aus den Familiennachlässen zurückgreifen und schließt damit auch Lücken in der bisherigen historischen Forschung.

A standalone dark MM mafia rivals romance set in the world of Legacy of Gods. I’m hunting a monster The first time I met Yulian Dimitriev, it was hate at first sight. He’s brass, chaotic, and a violence-junkie. In short, everything I disregard. As heirs to two notorious mafia organizations, we were shoved together in an unorthodox setting. The more I learn about Yulian, the deeper my loathing seeps. Until I truly see the person within, and something forbidden sparks between us. But our coexistence is cut short when tragedy strikes. Yulian and I go back to our respective, parallel worlds that shouldn’t cross. But they do. And once again, I’m dragged into the orbit of a man I shouldn’t want. Two men can’t be together in our world. But Yulian blurs every limit I thought existed until everything is in jeopardy. Our hearts included. Hunt the Villain is a male x male dark college romance. This book can be read as a standalone, but for a better understanding of the world, it's recommended to read Kiss the Villain first.