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  • Here After by Sean Costello

    Here After by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LOVE. LOSS. OBSESSION. REDEMPTION.Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering, and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason...
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    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal  psychological
  • The Girls They Fear by J.H. Leigh

    The Girls They Fear by J.H. Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When fear turns to resolve, the hunted become the hunters.Pushed too far, Nicole and Dylan take to the streets with the taste of vengeance in their mouths. They have one goal: take down Madame Moirai’s perverted network before she destroys more innocent lives — or die trying.There’s a steep price on their heads and it’s open season on their lives...
  • Stranger Danger by Michaelbrent Collings

    Stranger Danger by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He will teach you the lesson...... he knows you’re dying to learn.Legion is a teacher. An avenging angel. A murderer.A madman.Raised in the underground hideout of an insane father, he searches for those who keep secrets and sins. Then he teaches them how to leave those mistakes behind. Even if it means killing them to do it.Because sometimes murder is the cost of a proper education...
  • Morsel by Audrey Rush

    Morsel by Audrey Rush

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My violent desires are harmless. My fantasy tends to scare most women away, but my daydreams never hurt anyone. When I find Mona, a mysterious artist with similar sensual needs, we indulge in roleplaying.It seems like I found my dream girl. But while we grow closer, Mona’s desires become more extreme, and my primal cravings become harder to control...
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    crime  splatterpunk  romance  horror  dark  steamy  cannibalism  abuse
  • Vanished by Victor Methos

    Vanished by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Cheyenne Police Department doesn't handle many murders. So when a woman is found mutilated and crucified, Detective Kyle Dixon catches a case where all the evidence has long since been destroyed...
  • Purgatory by Victor Methos

    Purgatory by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jon Stanton should have been living the good life: a beautiful fiancé, a successful career, a home in paradise. But his job in Homicide has served up a bad case of insomnia and hallucinations, and just as his body, mind, and spirit are about to break, he begins investigating an intriguing series of merciless murders...
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    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychological
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery  psychological
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain. In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call...
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    crime  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Une scène de pure folie dans un chalet. Une victime au visage réduit en bouillie à coups de tisonnier. Et une suspecte atteinte d’une étrange amnésie. Camille Nijinski, en charge de l’enquête, a besoin de comprendre cette subite perte de mémoire, mais le psychiatre avec lequel elle s’entretient à bien plus à lui apprendre. Car avant de tout oublier, sa patiente lui a confié son histoire...
  • Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six months ago, my husband tried to kill me.Now, my sons and I are living in an old Victorian house passed down to me by my uncle. The house may be big, but the town is small... it's safe, which is something I haven't felt in a very long time. And best of all, it's very far away from my ex.As soon as we move in, however, I discover that this house has an eerie reputation...
  • Dark Peak by Adam J. Wright

    Dark Peak by Adam J. Wright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thirty years ago, nine-year-old Mitch Walker was left for dead in the woods while his five-year-old sister Sarah was abducted. Now, circumstances pull him back to the place where Sarah vanished...
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    crime  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  horror  murder
  • Ungu Karmila by Ramlee Awang Murshid

    Ungu Karmila by Ramlee Awang Murshid

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ATAS nama cinta... mahligai impian itu dibina. Vila Sepi menjadi mahar kasih Arif terhadap isterinya, Karmila. Namun, tragedi dahsyat memusnahkan kegembiraan yang dikecapi.Beberapa tahun berlalu... vila yang ditinggalkan dikatakan berhantu. Jikon, seorang pemuda Orang Asli bagai digamit memasuki vila itu. Akhirnya, dia menjadi korban pertama.Setelah itu, mistik di vila itu tiba-tiba sepi...
  • Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PLAYTIME IS NOT OVER...In Autumn of 2008, the Lambert family headed to western Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway to the family cabin.They visited hell instead...The Fannelli brothers. Two psychopaths who believed themselves exceptional, put on this Earth for the soul purpose of tormenting others for their own amusement. To make people play their twisted games...
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    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery  psychological
  • Legacy by Nick Roberts

    Legacy by Nick Roberts

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Derrick Stockton is in his mid-twenties, approaching three years sober, and working a stable job in Ohio. After surviving seemingly random horrors of his childhood at the hands of a nightmarish neighbor, he believes he’s finally moved on. All that changes when a brutal murder occurs in his home state of West Virginia...
  • The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Serial Killers by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death...
  • 空の境界 上 by Kinoko Nasu, 奈須 きのこ

    空の境界 上 by Kinoko Nasu, 奈須 きのこ

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    The Mother Of All Things by Gabriel Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DARK BEGINNINGS, BRUTAL ENDINGSA traumatic event and the break-up of her marriage returns Elaine to her childhood home where she embarks on renovating the run-down farmhouse as she reconnects with her mother and entertains her two children over the summer holidays...
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    crime  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  psychological  suspense
  • The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings

    The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I've left clues for you, and clues for the police. They'll be searching for you. The evidence at the scene of Officer Knight's death is enough to send you both to jail." "Who am I searching for?" The Voice laughs. That strange, dangerous laugh. "Me, of course." *** It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol...
  • Captured by Lauren Biel

    Captured by Lauren Biel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love has never been enough within these wallsAlexzanderEvery day feels the same. Beaten down, conditioned to hurt others, and unable to feel anything resembling love. My existence is a hollow shell of what it could be, until I find her.The woman I capture turns my world upside down. She's unlike any victim I've taken before, and her will to survive leaves me intrigued...
  • White trash : Broken pieces of June 2 by Stuart Bray

    White trash : Broken pieces of June 2 by Stuart Bray

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Waking up with a massive hole in her gut June must find the men responsible for the atrocities she faced and take herself from star to director. Lines will be crossed, blood will be spilled, the camera will roll...
  • Slay All the Way by Nova Kane

    Slay All the Way by Nova Kane

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔞’𝔰 𝔤𝔬𝔱 𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔰𝔲𝔦𝔱, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔡.Killer clown, killer clown,Stalking through the snow,Ribbons tight, silent night,Nowhere left to go.Killer clown, killer clown,On his blood-red sleigh,You can't escape his twisted shape,You’re all his to slay...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
  • The List by Kiersten Modglin

    The List by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ten years ago, the small town of Bates, South Carolina was changed forever with the appearance of a slip of paper.Six names.Six people set to die.Six months later, they were gone. But the list maker was far from done with their town.Like clockwork, new lists come out every six months. To keep their names off of them, the citizens go to extraordinary lengths and keep terrifying secrets...
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    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery  psychological
  • The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper

    The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The devastating start to Dr. Harper's career.I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive.I mean, sure, I've always been a bit... high strung. But I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage.No, all of that started after the incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School.And I'm not talking about the school shooter...
  • You Are Mine by Miranda Rijks

    You Are Mine by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rupert has spent years searching for his perfect wife. Now he’s found her. Her name is Charlotte Aldridge and she’s wonderful. A talented artist, modest and beautiful, she’s everything he ever dreamed of. Her hair, her eyes, her mouth - every little detail is perfect.Rupert is confident that when they meet, she’ll fall in love with him just as he has with her...
  • The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When you’re a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it’s dark.You don’t expect them to look like everyday people or that they may be someone you already know…The summer in question started out with hot, fun-filled days and new friendships...
  • Don't Call Me Crazy by Octavia Grant

    Don't Call Me Crazy by Octavia Grant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Award winning Investigative Reporter Ivory Addison has been on the scene of every Local, National, and International event deemed newsworthy. Her work ethic has a certain je ne sais quoi, that has not gone unnoticed...
  • The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She never wanted to come home.After the death of her estranged father, Tracey returns to the remote cabin she grew up in. As a traumatized veteran of the Vietnam War, Tracey’s father subjected her to rigorous survival training under brutal conditions, believing it was for her own good. She escaped and never looked back...
  • The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies . It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake...
  • The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Framed for murder. Now she's free . . .A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family...
  • Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s a reason Southside Medical School has been nicknamed “Suicide Med.” For the last six years, every year one student has taken his own life.Except for last year. Last year was a murder-suicide.The press has pointed to the heavy workload as the culprit in the high suicide rate. Some students believe that the school is cursed...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical  murder  psychological
  • The Widow's Cabin by L.G. Davis, Chloe Dolandis

    The Widow's Cabin by L.G. Davis, Chloe Dolandis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He wanted to die. He needed her help.One year ago, Meghan Wilton's husband begged her to help him die. Two months after asking her to do the unthinkable, he was dead. Now Meghan is on the run with her five-year-old son. Her new name is Zoe Roberts, and her hiding place is a cabin in the woods of Willow Creek, Tennessee. Zoe has more than the law to fear...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  horror  killer
  • Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan

    Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What would you do to protect your family? Keith Klein, a beat cop in the small New Mexico town of Montaño, sets out to find his missing daughters after they vanish on their way home from school. He enlists the help of Gerald Greenwood, an old friend and a private investigator...
  • Wildlife by Jeff Menapace

    Wildlife by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the Everglades, there are sights that should never be seen… Deep in the Florida Everglades, a tragic accident has ignited a deadly feud between two families. Meanwhile, a young writer, his girlfriend and her family take a boat ride into the isolated wilds of the Everglades for research on a new book, only to become unwitting witnesses to a brutal crime...
  • Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

    Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of suicidal thoughts, she decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way the other girls do...
  • The Odds by Jeff Strand

    The Odds by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After a disastrous evening playing slot machines, Ethan Caustin wonders how he's going to explain his massive loss to his wife and kids. As he tries to find his way out of the casino, sick to his stomach and filled with self-loathing, he's approached by a stranger who offers a solution to his problem. It's a simple game. A 99% chance for him to win ten thousand dollars...
  • The Dying Place by Luca Veste

    The Dying Place by Luca Veste

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “No one believes you. Nothing you say is the truth.” DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture. As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing without a trace...
  • Invite the Wolf by Iain Rob Wright

    Invite the Wolf by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Do you dig Stephen King, Richard Laymon, and James Herbert? Well, then check out this unique and horrifying read from multi-time bestseller, Iain Rob Wright. But be warned, reading it may cause nightmares."IAIN ROB WRIGHT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME!" - JA KonrathAlfie Everett is living his best life as a successful online content creator, exposing 'wolves' online with his friends...
  • Painter's Obsession: Volume I by Luna K. Wicked

    Painter's Obsession: Volume I by Luna K. Wicked

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "MM EROTIC HORROR" DEPRAVED EROTIC HORROR Dual Pov I wasn’t supposed to feel this way about him... the man dating my sister. But no matter how much I try to focus on other women, my mind keeps circling back to him. It started as unease, an itch I couldn’t scratch, a feeling that there was something off about him. Then it grew... an obsession I couldn’t control...
    Categorized as:
    crime  splatterpunk  romance  horror  mlm  dark  serial-killers  abuse
  • A Dark Web of Monsters by J. Boote

    A Dark Web of Monsters by J. Boote

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a young girl, Angela, is kidnapped, everyone fears the worst; another serial killer stalks the streets of Bradwell. But they are wrong. Unfortunately for Angela, that would have been too easy. Because someone is using her to make sordid videos on the dark web and her suffering is what feeds their abhorrent minds. And she's not the only one...
  • Stranded by Stuart James

    Stranded by Stuart James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What could be more innocent than going on holiday?As a family drive along a quiet country lane on their way to the airport, they meet a stranger standing alone in the middle of the road.Steering them along another path, he tells the driver, Ben, that a tree has fallen and there's no way through.But as they make their way along the diverted route, they come across a coach blocking the road...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  kidnapping  murder  mystery
  • The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli

    The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Professional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels. In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  noir  psychological
  • The Meat Hunter by Megan Allen

    The Meat Hunter by Megan Allen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Molly Bishop grew up on a farm and was horrified by her father’s indifference toward the animals they raised, viewed only as slabs of flesh to be consumed by a ravenous society. Now a seductive and cunning young woman, she seeks out the cruelest members of the meat industry and offers up her own brand of redemption. Molly’s mission is clear...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  anti-hero  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychological
  • Sparks: An Inferno Prequel by Yolanda Olson

    Sparks: An Inferno Prequel by Yolanda Olson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My son is a good man. I know what you think about him, because I know what he's done, but you have to understand that it's not his fault. He was something of a misanthrope in his youth and that can be attributed to his father. Please understand that I will take the blame for my part in wrecking his soul, but it's so hard to resist a boy so sweet...
    Categorized as:
    crime  splatterpunk  abuse  adult  age-gap  book  dark  fiction
  • First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention...
    Categorized as:
    crime  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychological  suspense
  • sickEST B*stards by Matt Shaw

    sickEST B*stards by Matt Shaw

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SickEST B*stards continues from the end of SickER B*stards. To understand this short story, and wrap the events of Sick B*stards up, you need to have read the previous two titles. READERS TAKE NOTE: This is A SHORT STORY. It is intended for the members of Kindle Unlimited who have been requesting me for short, sick, bedtime stories...
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan

    The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Clayton Carter and Chastity Harrison embark on a gruesome killing spree across Southern California, always staying one step ahead of the authorities while slaughtering their victims. Homicide Detective Harvey Skinner, frustrated by his failure to catch them, decides to use an unconventional method to punish Clayton and Chastity...
  • Makeup by Robert McCammon

    Makeup by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Small-time thief Calvin Doss has bungled a job. He was supposed to steal Jean Harlow’s makeup case. But by accident, he made off with a case that belonged to a B-list horror actor from the 1940s. Little does Calvin know, the makeup case contains more than just the usual pastes and powders...
  • Tortured by Matt Shaw

    Tortured by Matt Shaw

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WARNING: This is an extreme horror novel. Some scenes may offend or cause upset. With that in mind, please be aware this story is intended for a mature audience only. When financial problems hit Ryan he is forced to move his family to a smaller, more cost-effective, home on the outskirts of the city...
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