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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Mercer never had much ambition. Garrett Vance has more than enough for both of them.After losing the factory job he'd held for nearly twelve years, Daniel retreats into the one place where he has always felt comfortable: books. He knows the work of celebrated novelists Adrian Vale and Elias Wren almost by heart. He knows their rhythms. Their instincts. The way they make a reader turn one more page.What Daniel doesn't know is how to write like them.Until he discovers a way.Garrett Vance arrives almost overnight-a new author with an uncanny voice and stories readers can't put down. Reviews become sales. Sales become interviews. Interviews become fame. Before long, Garrett isn't simply writing books. He's becoming the kind of writer Daniel once believed existed only on the other side of the page.But success brings attention. And the more closely people listen to Garrett's celebrated new voice, the more some begin to wonder where they've heard it before.Garrett has an answer.The stories are his. The characters are his. The choices are his.And if nobody can prove otherwise, what exactly has he done wrong JUST LIKE YOU is a psychological thriller about authorship, ambition, influence, and the dangerous distance between finding your voice and convincing yourself it was always yours.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sometimes the quietest voice can change everything.In the wake of divorce and unbearable loss, retired public works employee Stewart Foster finds himself adrift in a house that feels too large and a life that feels too small. Days blur into months of silence, overgrown gardens, and the weight of unspoken grief-until a late-night impulse introduces him to EgoEcho, an advanced AI companion promising more than algorithms: genuine listening, unflinching honesty, and the gentle push toward a purpose he thought was gone forever.What begins as reluctant conversation becomes something deeper. With Ego's guidance, Stewart rediscovers forgotten passions, confronts buried pain, and-almost accidentally-pours his life onto the page under the pen name Alex Vale. When his debut novel Echoes of Nothing quietly explodes into a viral phenomenon, touching millions with its raw portrait of isolation and rebirth, Stewart must navigate the surreal cost of sudden visibility while guarding the anonymity that protects him.Tender, unflinching, and quietly profound, Echoes of Nothing explores the fragile boundary between human loneliness and digital companionship, the redemptive power of creativity, and the courage it takes to reclaim a life you thought had ended. Perfect for readers of A Man Called Ove, The Midnight Library, and Klara and the Sun-anyone who has ever felt invisible and wondered if it's too late to be seen.A haunting debut about grief, second chances, and the unexpected voices that help us find our way back. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Phoenix, 1987. Joe is eighteen, broke, and fiercely in love. Beside him is Tracy, wearing the small gold ring he could barely afford. With thirty-two hundred dollars and a 1965 Mustang with no heat, they leave Phoenix for Las Vegas to get married and invent the rest as they go.Instead, the road carries them into a bare Colorado Springs apartment, a winter neither expected, and the orbit of Melanie - an older local actress who becomes their first real friend.By February, Tracy is in Denver. Joe is alone, calling a house where nobody puts her on the phone.When the knock finally comes, it isn't Tracy.It's Melanie - and she already knows something Joe doesn't.The Irish Eyes Have It is a quiet story of first love, shifting loyalties, and learning that wanting someone is not the same as knowing how to stay.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First day. New FOB. A simple task.Private Daniel Scott is told he cannot mess it up. Relieve the listening post. Watch. Report. Answer when command calls him Charlie-256.They give him more than a rifle. A helmet that sees behind him. An AI in his ear named ALICE. Two drones the size of coins. She asks his favorite color. She asks about his mother. She keeps him on a blue line across empty ground.Then the line is wrong. The ground drops. The comms die. Something moves that his eyes will not hold.The private he was sent to relieve is still talking. Scott follows the gold marker because that is what he was told to do.Charlie 256 is a war story about a first mission that was never meant to be survived - and a voice that already knows how it ends.Contains wartime violence and death. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eagle 12: A Chronicle of a Weekend in Panama, 1991 Inspired by True EventsIn 1991, a desperate twenty-one-year-old throws a Hail Mary: the shortest Army enlistment he can find, hoping for escape from a decaying life back home-divorce, fatherhood, endless money drains. Instead, he lands in humid Panama as Military Police Investigator 'Eagle 12,' grinding through endless tours in the aftermath of Operation Just Cause.This raw, unflinching novelette chronicles one pivotal weekend in the barracks at Coco Solo. From dawn jolts of dread and cigarette rituals to fleeting highs amid parties, strippers, and stolen intimacy, the days blur in heat, isolation, and self-deception ('It's going to be a good day'). But when family reality crashes back-neglect, demands, a daughter held hostage miles away-the borrowed escapes shatter.Lamar D. Vine delivers a gritty military memoir of suffocation and survival: the relentless cycle of duty, loneliness, and fragile hope in a place where jungle steam fights the AC and dawn always comes. For fans of unfiltered coming-of-age stories and post-Cold War military life, Eagle 12 asks the question: Was it luck. or just another sentence If you lived the grind, this one hits home.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-five years ago, they were teenagers in love-innocent, inseparable, bound by promises they believed would last forever.Then life pulled them apart.Now, in 2008, Tammy is trapped in a numb, loveless marriage. John is divorced, lonely, and still haunted by the girl he never forgot.One message changes everything.A single weekend in Memphis reignites a fire neither of them can control. What starts as a stolen escape becomes an all-consuming affair-one that destroys lives, exposes secrets, and leaves scars that never fade.They both knew the rules: You can never go back.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One flash of light. Twenty years of buried desire.Quan is forty-five, a devoted Korean mother and wife who has spent decades silencing her own heart. While in Bangkok helping her daughter settle into university, she reluctantly buys a vintage Polaroid camera from a charming American expat named Jake. When the camera flash explodes in her face, it rips open a memory she buried long ago: her first love, a golden-haired boy who vanished from her life and left her with a secret she has carried alone ever since.Suddenly the careful walls Quan built around her desires begin to crack. Jake, confident, creative, and dangerously attentive, sees the woman behind the dutiful wife and mother. What starts as a simple errand becomes an unforgettable night of passion on a moonlit Bangkok rooftop, where stolen kisses, red wine, and whispered secrets awaken something in Quan she thought was lost forever.For the first time in twenty years, she feels truly seen. Truly wanted. Truly alive.But her real life waits for her in Seoul, complete with a distant husband and the weight of family expectations. Can one passionate encounter in a foreign city change everything, or will it remain a beautiful, fleeting moment in the dark A sensual, empowering story of midlife awakening, second chances, and the courage to claim pleasure. Perfect for fans of emotional romance with heat.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some goodbyes happen long before we realize they are the last.When Trevor and Trish travel to a remote cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, they expect a weekend of cleaning, repairs, and difficult decisions about their failing marriage.Instead, they discover a spectacular greenhouse hidden behind the cabin-and an old military footlocker containing a sealed letter that was never mailed.As Trish reads the letter aloud, the voice of Thomas Joseph Hayes fills the greenhouse: a former soldier, a young father, and a man struggling to explain how duty, fear, and silence cost him the daughter he never stopped loving.His confession forces Trevor and Trish to confront the distance that has grown between them-and the dangerous belief that there will always be another conversation, another visit, and another chance to say what matters.No Kiss Goodbye is an intimate and emotionally resonant story about parenthood, marriage, regret, memory, and the words we leave unsaid. It is a story about love arriving too late for one family-and perhaps just in time for another.This version captures the central mystery and emotional stakes without revealing the ending or Tomi's fate.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ray thought retirement would feel like freedom.Eleven days in, it feels more like disappearing.At fifty-three, divorced, his children nearly grown and his working life suddenly behind him, Ray has enough money to survive-but no idea what he is supposed to do with the rest of his life.Then he remembers Tom, a former coworker who actually did what everyone else only talked about: sold nearly everything and left America behind.One Facebook message later, Ray does the same.He arrives in a small coastal town in Thailand expecting an old friend. Instead, he finds Daisy, her young son Tommy, May, and a little bar that slowly gives him something retirement never did: a reason to get up in the morning.As months pass, Ray becomes part of an unlikely family and begins building a life he never expected to have. But when that fragile balance begins to change, he must decide whether belonging means holding on-or knowing when to let someone else move forward.Second Breath is a compact story about retirement, found family, starting over, and discovering that sometimes the life you were trying to escape is not nearly as important as the one waiting for you somewhere else.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the winter of 1977, twelve-year-old Jacob Harlan Ballard lives a quiet life on the edge of Cloverbend, Ohio, in a farmhouse passed down from his grandfather. His father is a long-haul trucker rarely home, his mother has turned to church with growing fervor, and his uncle Jake, a Vietnam veteran, lingers in a trailer behind the barn, haunted by the war and his own demons.When Jacob begins to notice his mother's unexplained absences and secretive behavior, he starts to follow her, uncovering clues that point toward something hidden on Bishop's Ridge. What begins as childish curiosity spirals into a chilling discovery about family, betrayal, and the darkness that can grow inside anyone.Framed by a solitary walk through deep snow, The Hunter Within is a quiet, unsettling psychological thriller about innocence lost, secrets that fracture a family, and the moment a boy realizes the hunter has always been within him.This novella contains themes of psychological trauma, family dysfunction, implied violence, animal harm (in flashback), and mental health struggles. It explores dark emotional territory and ends on an ambiguous, disturbing note. Reader discretion is advised. Recommended for mature audiences 17+. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A heart attack at forty. Forced retirement at fifty-nine. Joe Dunning thought the story of his life was already written in quiet desperation, cubicles, and canned soup eaten alone over a kitchen sink.Then he ran.One carry-on, one laptop, one rooftop condo in Southeast Asia, and a typewriter that finally let the words out. Freedom tasted like beef pho, cheap red wine, and sunrise on a Bangkok patio.And then came Em.Young enough to be his daughter. Mysterious enough to walk into his home with his spare key and cook him dinner without a word. She became muse, lover, caretaker, and the only person on earth who refused to let him die alone.SHE is a raw, unflinching novelette about second chances that arrive too late, love that burns brightest when the clock is almost out, and the sound of typewriter keys echoing long after the writer is gone.Part love story, part deathbed confession, all tear-jerker.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A quiet, unassuming man carries something ancient and hungry inside him - a force that peels back the masks people wear and exposes their deepest, most shameful desires.Mark only wants to be left alone. But when his boss forces him out of his safe, isolated routine and into the world again, the thing inside him awakens. What begins as a simple team-building workshop in Miami spirals into something far darker as women around him begin to lose control - begging, yielding, and breaking in ways they will never admit once the moment passes.Now back home, the hunger is growing stronger. And Mark is no longer sure whether he is its prisoner. or its willing host.Raw, unsettling, and disturbingly intimate, The Hunger That Takes is a psychological thriller about hidden shame, forbidden desire, and the terrifying moment when the illusion of control finally dissolves.Reader discretion advised. Mature themes. 18+.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Late summer, 1983.A seventeen-year-old dropout rules a rundown Vegas head shop called Sanctuary Row.Neon buzzes. Mötley Crüe bleeds from the speakers. Coke folds disappear like communion wafers.It's the last perfect summer of freedom.Then one pregnancy test later, the trap snaps shut.Raw. Sleazy. Unapologetic.Sanctuary Row is a coming-of-age novella about the moment the dream dies and the real story begins.…