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Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis
This is an absorbing slow burner, but once it gets going, thrilling and compelling. Cora Sabino has
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Discontinue If Death Ensues edited by Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska
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Achtung! Cthulhu: Operation Oberon
Agents must go through Axis-occupied China, collect intel, and get out. It would be easy if it
Call of Cthulhu: The Order of the Stone
Vile creatures, frighteningly devoted cultists, eldritch horrors ready to be set loose upon the