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The ability to see the ghosts of homicide victims has always been more burden than gift and, for 20-year-old Sullivan, it's never been heavier. As the storm of the century pummels the city, he finds himself sucked into a mystery, struggling to decipher clues from a ghost intent on saving a missing teenage girl. With time running out, Sullivan races to fulfill the ghost's desperate quest, a path that will take him into a world of witchcraft, dark secrets, and murder.

For nearly a century, Thornview Hall has played host to occultism, betrayal, and murder. It’s managed to hold onto its secrets. Until now. When Sully is forced to publicly reveal that he can see and communicate with the dead, he launches himself and his brother, Dez, into a disturbing murder investigation.

When 17-year-old Gabe disappears after a visit to the Edge Creek Light, brothers Sully and Dez are called upon to find him. As private investigators, they come with a unique skill: Sully can see the ghosts of homicide victims.

When Sully’s boss is fatally shot, he becomes the main suspect in the homicide. The woman's ghost is guarding a secret, one that will reveal the true killer - if Sully can convince her to show him. But he's got other problems. The terror-stricken ghost of a powerful clairvoyant has intentions of his own, and Sully finds himself an unwilling accomplice on the spirit’s violent journey. As Sully struggles to cope with two ghosts and his own internal demons, Dez and the rest of his family fear he’s losing himself to his gift. And he might just lose more than that.

More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall. But as Sully and Dez close in, Lowell makes one last desperate strike—one that threatens everything the brothers and their loved ones hold dear.

A mysterious entity decides to bestow certain individuals with a powerful tattoo. With it, anything becomes possible. The world is changing...and it has yet to be determined if it is for better or worse. Two friends who grew up together, Ace and Vincent, decide to use the tattoo to do what they always dreamed of.

When the Second Son rises, the Circle will fall. Uttered years earlier by a troubled seer, the prophesy provides a significant clue to the death of five-year-old Aiden Braddock. But gathering proof enough to catch a killer is easier said than done. Their relationship strained by the recent revelation of devastating secrets, Sully and Dez must figure out a way to work together as they continue to seek justice for their loved ones. As he closes in on a final confrontation with one of his most dangerous foes, Sully’s about to discover his darkest enemy might be himself.

An all powerful entity bestows individuals with a powerful brand in the form of a tattoo. Using the system that is controlled by the tattoo, you can learn supernatural abilities, acquire knowledge unknown to man, and acquire objects that would only be found in fiction. The world is changing...and it has yet to be determined if it is for better or worse. Two friends who grew up together, Ace and Vincent, have been chosen.

Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink — by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him. In a small cell, Sully finds himself alone, but for a disturbed man and the ghost of a teenager he has always known only as the Purple Girl. As his time runs out, he begins to piece together a past he’d rather have left in the shadows.

Four years ago, 17-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident. Sullivan Gray knows better. A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder. 

Ace and Vincent return to earth after training under Grom. They bring with them training techniques and new allies. Earth begins to undergo a transformation that changes everything. Ace and Vincent have learned that they aren't alone in the universe. In its current state, humanity is weak. They might be enslaved, or worse. How will humanity survive after entering the stage of the universe?

For years, the legend of Faceless Flo - a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s - has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost. Some were never seen again. Among the missing is a young banker who vanished 30 years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help. But not everything is as it seems. As Sully begins to unravel the truth, he finds himself on a collision course with an angry and dangerous spirit, and an enemy from his past who is guarding a dark secret.

Ace and Vincent spent day and night in the challenges, growing stronger at a breakneck speed. Through their crazy training and lucky encounters, they have grown so strong that they stand above all others. The world watches their every move, and their actions shake the world. Through Ace's desire to help others grow stronger so that they may protect themselves, Northrock city was born. 

As our head of security, it’s my job to secure the weyr from all incursions - but somehow, this slip of a man got through all our defenses and into the very heart of our land. He says he’s here to help. Sent by a god. A prophet to aid us in an impending apocalypse. And worse, he has some of our people already believing him. I don’t trust him. His past is shrouded in mystery, and his magical abilities make this old dragon snarl in my scales

The Wild Duck (Vilanden) is a tragedy with comic episodes. Ibsen himself characterized the play as a tragicomedy. It depicts ordinary life realistically instead of romantically and sentimentally, a revolutionary concept in Ibsen's time. The play is now generally acknowledged as one of Ibsen's supreme accomplishments.  

Former FBI psychological profiler Austin Drake has been dragged from his scotch-induced stupor to work with the young and tenacious Maria Castellanos in a new private investigation business. They’ve just hung out their shingle, when a disturbing case falls in their laps. Three young women have been kidnapped and are being brutally tortured live on webcams from somewhere in Miami Beach. While Austin initially shirks the idea of investigating, believing the police are in the best position to solve the case, it soon becomes apparent there is more going on than meets the eye.

This play is the sequel to "Earth Spirit", in which the adventurous and manipulative Lulu marries and rids herself of three husbands, only to be arrested for the murder of the third. In "Pandora’s Box", Lulu escapes from prison only to be forced in the life of a courtesan. Reduced to desperate poverty, she meets her end at the hands of murderous customer in London. In Wedekind’s sordid morality tale, all Lulu’s main associates suffer premature and unnatural deaths, except for the degenerate Schigolch, who is one of the most unpleasant characters in the European drama.

Austin Drake struggles with his newfound sobriety as his conscience keeps bothering him over his last major case. When a teenage boy arrives in the office asking for Austin and Maria’s help in tracking down the people who murdered his parents, all fingers point to the very woman who assisted the investigators in the past. But as Austin and Maria investigate, they find themselves at the middle of a war over the Miami drug trade. The team must navigate the Miami underworld and seek out the truth before they’re caught in the crossfire.

Austin Drake has settled into his new private investigation business with his partner Maria Castellanos. He’s ready to take on more cheating husbands and skip-trace cases - nothing as dramatic as the last few high-profile ones they’ve worked. But when a distraught father finds his daughter hanging from an apparent suicide, he begs the team to help him find the man who had been blackmailing her. They’ve barely begun working the case, when another victim dies in a similar fashion, and soon after, a third. 

Gabe Snow was a 30-something ex-convict who managed to survive every misfortune life could throw at him until a mysterious woman named Anya appeared in a vision, pleading for help. Now, running from the law, an innate feeling is all Gabe has to lead him to a magical conduit that will transport him trillions of light-years beyond the edge of our known universe, to a world where science and magic coexist and a dark sorcerer threatens a nation struggling against a cancerous corruption.