Thousand Acres – förlag

A ritual killing. A child bride. A courtroom that could fracture a nation.

When two young hunters stumble upon an unthinkable scene deep in the Indiana woods-a ten-year-old girl burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre in an apparent act of sati-a quiet community is thrust into a legal and moral firestorm.

Prosecutor Allen Southworth thought he understood justice. He was wrong.

What begins as a horrific murder case quickly spirals into something far more explosive: a collision of religious freedom, cultural identity, and the limits of tolerance in modern America. As national media descends and tensions ignite, the courtroom becomes a battleground where the law itself is put on trial.

But the crisis is not only public-it's deeply personal.

Southworth's marriage is unraveling. His judgment is clouded. And his growing attraction to his brilliant, enigmatic co-counsel threatens to compromise everything he claims to stand for.

Across the aisle stands Madison Fulbright-his former colleague, now a formidable legal adversary-ready to dismantle not just his case, but his certainty about right and wrong.

As the trial escalates, lines blur:

In a nation already divided, this case forces a question no one is prepared to answer: What happens when tolerance protects the intolerable?

Altar of Ashes is a gripping, high-stakes legal thriller that dares to go where few novels will-into the volatile intersection of law, culture, and conscience-building toward a shocking conclusion that will leave readers questioning everything they believe about justice.

Creepy thriller set in SW France. When holiday-makers Catherine and Tom Grayston disappear in Rousinac, two detectives David Frankel and James Harrison set off to find out what happened. There's friction from the get-go. David's methodical approach clashes with James's eccentric intuition, but their skills eventually combine as things get weirder. The duo dig into the town's hidden past, but a supernatural presence dogs their every move. Soon, a conspiracy emerges from Rousinac's underground tunnels dating back to WW2. A tight-lipped community stands in the way of truth. How far down the rabbit hole will the detectives have to go before they lose their sanity or even worse? The Custodians is a dark psychological thriller, a page-turner with twisting timelines. Rousinac's dark secret will keep you on the edge of your seat

Anulka Lorenzini runs the Wealth Management Division at Bankhaus Finsler, a discreet private bank in Zurich-where fortunes are protected, and secrets are buried. Many of her clients inhabit a shadow world of hidden, ill-gotten wealth, and Anulka has long harbored a quiet contempt for the system she serves.

Then she meets Giovanni Poggio.

Charismatic and dangerous, Giovanni recognizes the fault line beneath her polished exterior-and exploits it. He draws her into a scheme as simple as it is audacious: siphon millions from dormant accounts using a phantom client. The payoff is irresistible. The risk, unthinkable.

At first, it works. Millions disappear without a trace. But as the total climbs past €13 million, Anulka sees the truth: there is no clean way out. She shuts the operation down-only to discover that her partners have no intention of letting her walk away.

Desperate to break free, she makes a fatal choice. To repay what's owed and buy her freedom, she launches a second, even more dangerous fraud-this time pulling in Felix Hofmaier, a compromised consultant with everything to lose.

But the deeper Anulka goes, the tighter the trap becomes. Her partners escalate their demands, their threats turning lethal. Cornered and furious, she stops playing by anyone else's rules.

What began as quiet contempt ignites into something far darker-driving her into a ruthless game of deception, betrayal, and revenge where survival may come at the ultimate cost.

Ancient people spoke of sacred places where Earth and heaven intersect. We never know when or where these elusive passages might appear. Such a threshold was once revealed to Greta Beck, a young German Baptist Brethren wife, before she journeyed to America with her husband, Oscar.

This otherworldly experience is just the beginning for three generations of the Beck German immigrants. Follow Greta and her family as they toil through farm life, technological changes, a pandemic, racial discrimination, the Great Depression, two world wars, and other dramatic events during the first half of the twentieth century. Through all the hardships and loss, Greta maintains her stalwart dedication to family and God-along with just a touch of stubborn curiosity. Will her faith and her mysterious encounter from long ago be enough to protect her and her family in this rapidly changing, tumultuous new world?