Dragon Mysteries

The Industrialist: Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger Corporation, is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder. The Journalist: Mikael Blomkvist delves deep into the Vangers' history to uncover the truth. But someone else wants the past to remain a secret and will go to any lengths to keep it that way.

Three years ago, high school student Veronica Fortune witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. Now armed and dangerous, she sets out to hunt down the very thing that destroyed her life. That is, until she disappears. Spinoza is a private investigator who specializes in finding the missing. He's good at what he does. Damn good. But he's also a recovering alcoholic and a royal mess. Hired to find Veronica, Spinoza won't let his personal demons - or demons of any kind - get in the way of finding the truth about the missing girl.

When his wife and the mother of his children goes missing, Jack Gamble doesn’t know what to think. Could Maddy really have fallen for one of her students and run off? That’s what the police think. Is she in trouble? Injured somewhere? Being held against her will? At first, there are no clues. She has simply vanished.

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop two palaeontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur fossils while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense.

I've always known violence was part of me, but the beast within is something else entirely. Since arriving at Dominic's castle, my nightmares are real, and the threat of the Triple Moon Coven looms over us. Every day is a battle against the shift, against the bloodlust that took Nate's life, and against the fear of losing myself to the monster I might become. Dominic stands by me, his magic a beacon in the darkness. But as we face this threat together, I wonder if the power I fight to control might be the only thing that can save us—or if it will be my undoing. “Conquer the Magic ...

The spider queen covets Princess Aithlin’s magic, and she will go to any length to possess it. Aithlin, the last guardian, should avoid the realm of the spider queen at all costs, but after her friend is kidnapped, she has no choice but to risk everything to save him. For the sake of her friend, her family, her kingdom, and the entire world, she must journey into the heart of the enemy’s lair—and do it all without using her magic. And she needs to get it all done in three days so she can get back in time for her brother’s coronation. This may be a rescue mission, but Aithlin has an ...

To save the realm, the king must die. Sent away as a child for her own safety, Princess Aithlin was raised in a temple of warrior priests, far from the king's reach. Within its grim walls, she was trained in the art of war, the use of magic, and how to deliver justice upon the wicked. Preparing to deal death from the shadows, the princess finds herself out of her element. Backstabbing companions and unlikely allies make it difficult to tell friend from foe. Her survival will depend on figuring out who she can trust. With the fate of her younger brother and the future of the kingdom at stake...

There's power in dragon blood.... It's also delicious! No one really knows what to do when a dragon shows up in town. I called the exterminator. He hung up on me. I guess it's up to me to take these monsters on.... I have to use their magic against them. It's the only way I can stop them. Only now that I've had a taste of dragon blood, I can't get enough. Tapping into such a force comes with a cost. It's changing my heart. So many urges. So many desires. I still can't believe what I've done. I'm not only losing myself. I'm losing him.

The last of her clan of assassins, the Violet Dragon burns with rage, and she'll stop at nothing until her sisters' deaths are avenged. A reckoning is coming to those responsible for the heinous act against her family. And with the help of an American CIA operative, she’ll get her chance. Together, the unlikely duo will not only solve who murdered the people she cared about, but they’ll also discover who's been buying and selling women for profit throughout Southeast Asia.

The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in South Wales, with its crumbling castles and ancient myths, seems the perfect distraction from the nightmares that have plagued literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw since the loss of her baby five years ago. Instead she meets an emotionally fragile young widow who's convinced that Lyn's recurring dreams have drawn her to Castle Farm for an important purpose - and she's running out of time.

Things aren’t going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she’s awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out if she doesn’t stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing she’s good at...very good at. When she wins a prestigious science contest, she draws the attention of the celebrated Professor Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsome assistant), leading to a part-time job in a top-secret laboratory.

Закон будды Амиды превратил Страну Восходящего Солнца в Чистую Землю. Отныне убийца жертвует свое тело убитому, а сам спускается в ад. Торюмон Рэйден – самурай из Акаямы, дознаватель службы Карпа-и-Дракона - расследует случаи насильственных смертей и чудесных воскрешений, уже известных читателю по роману "Карп и дракон".

Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past are fixed - the only remaining signs a scar on her side and a fragment of bone taken home from the hospital, which her uncle Ben helps her to carve into a dragon as a sign of her strength.

Un policía sin reglas. Una inspectora meticulosa. Un enemigo poderoso. Cuando despierten la ira del dragón negro, no habrá vuelta atrás. En la cultura china, los dragones se asocian con la buena fortuna. Excepto el dragón negro, que simboliza la maldad. Cuando a la inspectora Estela Domínguez le asignan el caso de cinco hombres que han sido ejecutados en lo que parece ser un vulgar ajuste de cuentas entre bandas locales, no imagina que acabará despertando la ira de un criminal cruel como un moderno dragón negro.

America stumbles into an election ...brainwashed by China. During an American presidential campaign, a spooky candidate uses mind control to destroy the American economy. Meanwhile in China, a hapless American grad student has just been ditched by his Chinese flame, who takes off for the American West. When the CIA asks our unlucky but intrepid hero to hotfoot it home to investigate the financial collapse, he must overcome feelings of rejection, snide remarks from friends, and assailants who want him dead. He must come home to wake up a nation and bring the malicious malefactors to justice....

Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her tail and a dwindling number of Percocets to get her through her bad days.

In a world where dreams weave reality and dragons present unyielding demands, Maribelle finds herself entangled in an extraordinary quest that could unravel her very sanity. Dragons can be so demanding at times, even those stuck in stone. Yet Maribelle's already overflowing life has no room for such extraordinary burdens. Her hands are full managing the family store and warding off the nosy townsfolk, leaving no time for a man in her life, let alone a dragon seeking liberation from its stony prison. The last thing she needs is to add searching for dragon parts to her to-do list, risking her...

After the end of a difficult marriage, Caitlyn was looking forward to returning to her hometown and getting a fresh start. She wanted to heal and put her past behind her, but her past was about to catch up with her in a way that would change her forever, that would make her question everything she thought she once knew. She receives a mysterious letter from someone who was once very close to her. “Please, I need your help. You’re the only one that can save me, the only one that can help me…. You have to come see me. Help me prove I didn’t do this.“ Her closest friend from ...

Maggie Riley has settled into her new life in Thailand, working aboard her sailboat and doing her best to leave the past behind. When she receives a letter from a World War II vet claiming to have served with her grandfather who went missing in action, Riley is once again pulled into the intrigue that tore her family apart and led to the disappearance of her former search partner - and the love of her life.

The hunt for the three precious moonstones begins. For Allegria, Fireborn lightweaver, and her Starborn lover Hallow, it means saving more than worlds. It means rescuing their friend Deo, prisoner in the shadowlands of Eris, where the secrets of the moonstones are buried. Steering Allegria and Hallow in their ocean quest is a mysterious lifebound captain. And he's setting sail with a warning: no mere mortal has ever survived the journey to Eris, let alone come back alive...