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by Julia Watson & Angie Baggett
A group of college students embark on a daring mission, but their quest
takes a perilous turn when an experiment goes awry, unleashing
unforeseen consequences that threaten not only their lives but the
safety of the entire town.
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by Pierfranco Allegri
Early 2000s. Italy. Father Romath is a priest that barely survived the
Rwandan Genocide, and escaped to Italy to study psychology: the man, in
the middle of a crisis of faith, now believes that God and the Devil are
merely concepts, that the human mind is capable of harboring both
heaven and hell.
Romath arrives at San Francisco Borgia's, a church hospital
spcialized in the cure of the "possessed", managed by the jovial but
experienced Father Monsignor Graffi. Coming for a job interview, to get
the job Romath must prove his "metal" on the field, by having a trial
session with one of the most challenging patients in the hospital. But
doctor and patient both hide more than one secret...
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CROSS OF CONSPIRACY
by Timothy ONeill
When his colleague is slain and his daughter goes missing, a gut-driven
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religious revenge conspiracy conducted by gruesome supernatural
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by Sebastian Alejandro Fernandez - Moris Rodriguez
In the remote Amazon jungle of Peru, police officer Monica Vargas
investigates a series of brutal murders attributed to demonic sirens.
Confronted by local superstition and pressure to accept ritual
practices, Monica must unravel the truth behind the crimes before the
community is plunged into the dark maelstrom of extreme violence
provoked by irrational beliefs.