Serendipia antémica

Alex and Olga suspect that an intruder is controlling their neighbor's lives. As they investigate, all clues seem to lead to the building's machine room. What waits for them on the other side of the door is not human; it's something much more powerful. The neighbors' dreams come true in the most sinister way. Some wells do not grant wishes without expecting something in return.

Icaria de Uwe Timm, afamado escritor alemán, no es la típica novela ambientada en Alemania tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino un interesantísimo relato de cómo los ideales utópicos de unos pocos llevaron al Holocausto. Icaria es la historia del joven Michael Hansen, oficial estadounidense de origen alemán que es enviado por el servicio secreto para descubrir el papel que tuvo Albert Ploetz, científico nazi real, en el régimen de Hitler. Hansen acaba dando con Wagner, antiguo amigo de Ploetz, quien le contará cómo se forjó su amistad y el camino que emprendieron juntos hasta que...

Harley is over the moon when she is given a trip to Paris where her beloved cousin Gretchen lives. The girls have changed since the last time they have seen one another. In an attempt to win back her cousin's friendship, Harley accompanies a group of friends to a forbidden part of the Paris catacombs. When a cave-in kills a guide and leaves the group wounded, terrified, and lost, they must desperately try to find a way out of a place where death rules.

In a tourist trap of an Irish seaside town famed for involvement with selkies in the past, three sisters are faced with the sudden disappearance of their mother. To make matters worse, there are rumors in the village that their mother herself is a selkie who has now shed her human form and gone back to sea.