"The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts are unknown. Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery,...

Investigating two burned bodies connected by a mysterious tattoo and a string of baffling miracle cures, medical examiner Laura Hanning follows leads to a cult that claims to possess a fabled healing substance and a violent brotherhood that believes that God intends for humanity to suffer.

This volume explores the themes underlying ancient mythology, philosophy, and religion. Hundreds of entries range from esoteric elements of Islamic and Christian history to arcane rituals practiced by Druids, Freemasons, alchemists, and other secret societies.

When her best friend's death is ruled a suicide, 17-year-old Cia must expose an underground society preying on those they think no one will miss, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer who is closer to home than she ever imagined.

Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.

An intellectual tour of the world's lesser-known histories offers a collection of alternate views that are drawn from a premise that history has been recorded from the corrupted perspectives of its victors.

Almost every social system throughout history has produced its secret societies. Here is a unique study of such societies from earliest recorded times to the present, along with an analysis of their forms, rituals, and beliefs. The author has traveled extensively to gather documentation. The Charcoal Burners of Italy, the Castrators of Russia, the Old Man of the Mountains, and the Gnostics are but a few of the many described.

"Twelve-year-old Jordan Grimsley discovers the existence of the Creature Keepers, a team of humans assigned to protect mythical beasts"--

Against all odds, Rye managed to find her father, Harmless, in the forest Beyond the Shale and rescue him from the treacherous Fork-Tongue Charmers. Now Harmless, High Chieftain of the Luck Uglies, wants to challenge the Charmers' leader for control of both groups to end their fighting for good. But when Rye travels back home to help put his plan in motion, she doesn't find the Drowning she once knew. Bog Noblins raid the streets at night. Villagers...

Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths. "Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best--until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves kills a group of her classmates and leaves her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should...