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Archaeologist Gideon Chase receives a cryptic letter after his estranged father's suicide. Now Gideon must team up with an intrepid policewoman to expose a secret international society of Stonehenge cultists, whose ruthless new leader performs human sacrifices to unlock the secret of the stones.
2) Blood vines
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Following her mother's suicide, Alexandra Owens decided to visit the last person known to have talked to her mother, Detective Daniel Reed. She's shocked to learn that her mother had once been married to a wealthy vintner and an infant son had disappeared. When the marriage ended, Alex's mother left with Alex and moved to San Francisco. Now the bones of an infant has been unearthed in a Sonoma vineyard. Could her mother have killed her baby brother?...
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Given duet (Mindy McGinnis) volume 1
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Khosa was born to be fed to the sea, to prevent the kind of wave that once destroyed the Kingdom of Stille. She can't be sacrificed until she produces an heir, but human touch repulses her-- except for the touch of the Indiri. Dara and Donil are the last of the Indiri, a native race with magic that's a force of nature. Witt is leader of the Pietra, the fierce warriors who are now marching on the Kingdom of Stille; to ensure the survival of his people,...
4) The Cerulean
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Cerulean duology volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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Chosen as the sacrifice needed to break the tether that holds her city in the sky to the planet below, Sera feels betrayed, and as things don't go as planned, she finds herself not only fighting for her own life, but the lives of her people as well.
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Jess Galvan novels volume 1
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"[A]n edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border. On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. It's a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges a small-town police chief into a monster of an investigation he's not equipped to handle. An ancient evil has returned, and now everyone-- the innocent and the guilty-- must face their deepest terrors" -- from publisher's web site.
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Ben Hope thrillers volume 2
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Enlisted by beautiful opera star Leigh Llewell to investigate her brother Oliver's mysterious death, SAS operative Ben Hope finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. The official line states that Oliver died while investigating Mozart's death, but the facts don't add up.
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Obsidian and blood volume 2
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Acatl, high priest of the dead in the Mexica empire, becomes caught up in a web of political intrigue when the emperor, the living link between the world of mortals and the protector god Huitzilpochtli, dies, and a star-demon invades the palace, killing one of the council members and complicating the issue of who will be the emperor's successor.
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Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark...
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Obsidian and blood volume 1
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2012.
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Fantasy fiction. This is a massive fantasy omnibus containing all three novels in the "Obsidian and Blood" series: "Servant of the Underworld"; "Harbinger of the Storm"; and, "Master of the House of Darts".
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Kinder poison novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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In the magical kingdom of Orkena, a teenaged girl is chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between three heirs who will do anything for the crown.
11) Rose Coffin
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Teased, bullied, and finally humiliated by the girls at school, twelve-year-old Rose Coffin escapes into the mysterious forest where she is immediately captured and taken to the magical world of Eppersett, where she is told that she is special, the one who will save Eppersett from the Abomination with the power of her voice; Rose is thrilled to be wanted--until she finds out that she is wanted not as a singer but as a human sacrifice.
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When New York cop Frank Wojinski is found murdered, death gets very personal for homicide detective Eve Dallas - and she'll stop at nothing to find Frank's killer. But then another victim is claimed: Franks own granddaughter. As Eve delves deeper into the case, more mutilated corpses are discovered. Then a dead body is placed outside Eve's home. Drawn into the sinister world of sexual satanic cult, Eve must put her life on the line to uncover a sadistic...
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2024.
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Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces inthe nearby forest at bay.
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