Shadow House always wins Poppy Dash Azumi & Dylan may have made it out of Shadow House--but the grounds are a whole new nightmare Someone they thought was a friend is hunting them & there's no place that's safe now that they've woken the shadow creature If they want to survive they'll have to figure out once & for all what the house wants from them & what-or who-they'll need to leave behind in order to escape or risk being trapped within Shadow House forever ...

Some houses are more than just haunted they're hungry Dash Dylan Poppy Marcus & Azumi don't know this at first They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House Something within its walls is wickedly wrong Nothing--and nobody--can be trusted Hallways move Doors vanish Ghosts appear Children disappear & the way out? That's disappeared too Enter Shadow House if you dare ...

Shadow Hunters is a survival board game set in a devil-filled forest in which three groups of characters – the Shadows creatures of the night; the Hunters humans who try to destroy supernatural creatures; & the Neutrals civilians caught in the middle of this ancient battle – struggle against each other to survive You belong to one of these groups & must conceal your identity from others since you don&t know who you can trust – at least not initially Over time though someone might decipher who you are through your actions or through Hermit cards or you might even reveal yourself to use your special ability The key to victory is to identify your allies & enemies early because once your identity is revealed your enemies will attack with impunity using their special abilities like Demolish Teleport & Suck Blood or equipment cards such as the Rusty Broad Ax or Fortune Brooch This ancient battle comes to a head & only one group will stand victorious – or a civilian in the right circumstances might claim victory 2nd edition Age range 10 & up Number of players 4 to 8 Play time 45 to 60 minutes Manufacturer Z-Man Games 1 board 16 wood cylinders 74 cards 10 character cards 6 area cards 16 Hermit cards 16 black cards 16 white cards 8 player cards 1 six-sided die 1 four-sided die rules ...

Held up by rebel forces in a brutal siege John Porter is tested to the limit in the African jungle Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald Where Porter plays it by the book Bald will always want to break the rules They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames a former CO of the Regiment & now right-hand man to the President But when Porter & Bald arrive the Englishman has disappeared leaving a trail of destruction in his wake Rebels are threatening to take over the country & its diamond mines
- & to massacre all foreigners Porter & Bald find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Regiment psychopath who is already embedded in the country But it soon becomes clear that the Firm has lied to them about the true nature of the mission What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone's diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil
- & with a trail that leads back to both Westminster & the Kremlin

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Held up by rebel forces in a brutal siege John Porter is tested to the limit in the African jungle Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald Where Porter plays it by the book Bald will always want to break the rules They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames a former CO of the Regiment & now right-hand man to the President But when Porter & Bald arrive the Englishman has disappeared leaving a trail of destruction in his wake Rebels are threatening to take over the country & its diamond mines
- & to massacre all foreigners Porter & Bald find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Regiment psychopath who is already embedded in the country But it soon becomes clear that the Firm has lied to them about the true nature of the mission What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone's diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil
- & with a trail that leads back to both Westminster & the Kremlin

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In a world ruled by six ancient Houses of Magic a girl & a boy begin an epic & dangerous journey of discovery After her parents' murder 13-year-old Lilith Lily Shadow rules Gehenna from Castle Gloom an immense & windowless citadel Once Lily's ancestors commanded spirits communed with the dead & raised armies from out of the grave But now her country is about to be conquered by the Shadows' ancient enemies
- the Solars the lords of light Thorn is a peasant boy wily & smart sold into slavery & desperate to escape So when he's bought by Tyburn executioner to House Shadow he'll agree to just about anything
- even to serving Castle Gloom for a year & day in order to earn his freedom When Lily is nearly poisoned by a ruthless & unknown assassin she & Thorn embark on a dangerous quest to save Gehenna a weird & wonderful land of haunted castles mysterious forests & an unforgettable giant bat Together they must unravel a twisted plot of betrayals pride & deadly ambition

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' Shadow Man is a harrowing & horrific game of consequences' Val Mc Dermid A gripping Scottish crime thriller from the winner of the Good Housekeeping Novel Writing competition 2016 Two sisters Just before her wedding day Morven Murray queen of daytime TV is found murdered All eyes are on her sister Anna who was heard arguing with her hours before she was killed Two murders On the other side of Inverness police informant Kevin Ramsay is killed in a gangl&-style execution But what exactly did he know? One killer? As ex-Met Detective Inspector Lukas Mahler digs deeper into both cases he discovers that Morven's life was closer to the Inverness underworld than anyone imagined Caught in a deadly game of cat & mouse is Lukas hunting one killer or two?'A new star of tartan noir is born Kirk has written a brilliantly tense atmospheric debut I can't wait to read more in this highland crime series' Cass Green Number 1 ebook bestselling author of THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR ...

A gripping Scottish crime thriller from the winner of the Good Housekeeping Novel Writing competition 2016 352 pages Kirk Margaret ...

The Shadow is dead a victim of a biological weapon but his soul survives! Believing that their father&s ultimate fate rests in the hidden city of Shambala the twins Chang & Hsu-Tei carry The Shadow&s body deep within the Tibetan mountains only to find themselves hunted by Chinese authorities & the outlaw denizens of a town called Malice Meanwhile without their master&s guidance the agents of The Shadow struggle to find their place in a violent corrupt world Intent on curing the disease of crime the unhinged agent Twitch assumes a fearsome identity of his own as The Inoculator but his brand of vigilante justice draws the attention of a deadly enemy Will the network of agents survive an assault by The Avenger a master of disguise as brutal & unrelenting as The Shadow himself? Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the complete ground-breaking " Body & Soul" storyline by Andrew Helfer & Kyle Baker plus two additional stories of The Shadow&s past revealing the secrets that bind his most loyal agents
- Margo Lane Harry Vincent Burbank & more
- to his never-ending war!

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The Shadow is dead a victim of a biological weapon but his soul survives! Believing that their father&s ultimate fate rests in the hidden city of Shambala the twins Chang & Hsu-Tei carry The Shadow&s body deep within the Tibetan mountains only to find themselves hunted by Chinese authorities & the outlaw denizens of a town called Malice Meanwhile without their master&s guidance the agents of The Shadow struggle to find their place in a violent corrupt world Intent on curing the disease of crime the unhinged agent Twitch assumes a fearsome identity of his own as The Inoculator but his brand of vigilante justice draws the attention of a deadly enemy Will the network of agents survive an assault by The Avenger a master of disguise as brutal & unrelenting as The Shadow himself? Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the complete ground-breaking " Body & Soul" storyline by Andrew Helfer & Kyle Baker plus two additional stories of The Shadow&s past revealing the secrets that bind his most loyal agents
- Margo Lane Harry Vincent Burbank & more
- to his never-ending war!

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