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Der Job klang leicht: Die Schwestern Ruby und Wren sollten einen Abend lang die Enkeltöchter der exzentrischen Mrs Blackgate spielen – während eines Dinners im legendären Hegemony Manor. Doch nun sind sie im Herrenhaus eingesperrt, ein Geist hat einen Wettkampf ausgerufen und außer ihnen sind alle Gäste Hexen. Um zu überleben, müssen sie innerhalb von drei Tagen eine Reihe von Rätseln lösen.

Genau das fragt sich Maren, nachdem sie die Wahrheit über ihre Träume erfahren hat. Kann sie Will trauen oder ist all das am Ende nur ein grausames Spiel für ihn, um ihr Herz zu brechen und den Thron der Unterwelt zu besteigen? Und welche Rolle spielt Lady Dorne in diesem Rätsel? Auf der Suche nach Antworten sehen sich Maren und Will bald weit größeren Gefahren als ihrer unklaren Vergangenheit gegenüber.

Finmere Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey. Under the guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the elderly gentlemen of Orrery House, Fin has grown up under a very strange set of rules. On his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. The Judge is killed, stabbed in the chest with a double-edged sword that's disturbingly familiar, and from that moment on, Fin is catapulted into an extraordinary adventure. The Knights of Nowhere have kidnapped the Storyholder, the keeper of the Five Eternal Stories which weave the worlds together.

The London Stone has been stolen and the Dark King rules the Nowhere. Only Mona and the new Seer dare to stand against him, leading an underground rebellion in the frozen wasteland. If they can recruit a banished race to their cause, maybe Fin and his friends can force a final battle against the Dark King. It will come down to three friends, standing together against all odds.

They're there for the Initiation of the new Knights of Nowhere. In the Nowhere, something is moving through the streets, attacking people - random victims - and leaving them mad and disfigured. The Prophecy is coming alive. The battle lines will be drawn between even the closest of friends, for the fight is on. The Dark King is rising.

Widerwillig kehrt Eden in die Heimat ihres verstorbenen Vaters zurück, um an der Testamentseröffnung teilzunehmen. Doch bereits in der ersten Nacht entdeckt sie die mit Motten bedeckte Leiche eines Mädchens im Wald – die spurlos verschwindet. Hat sie sich alles nur eingebildet? Wem kann Eden noch trauen? Als Eden erfährt, dass sie ein beträchtliches Vermögen erbt, scheint ihre Zukunft gesichert. Doch dafür muss sie ihr letztes Schuljahr an der rätselhaften Wyndhouse Academy verbringen.

Wenn der Tod ruft, muss sie gehorchen –Der #1-New-York-Times und #1-USA-Today-Bestseller endlich auf Deutsch! Hazel Trépas ist kein gewöhnliches Mädchen. Als dreizehntes Kind wurde sie einem Gott versprochen: dem Tod persönlich. Von ihm erhielt sie eine Gabe, die sie zu einer der größten Heilerinnen des Königreichs machen sollte: Hazel erkennt auf einen Blick, wie jede Krankheit geheilt werden kann. Doch jede Gabe hat ihren Preis. Hazel sieht auch, wenn das Schicksal eines Menschen besiegelt ist. Geplagt von den Geistern jener, deren Leiden sie beenden musste, sehnt Hazel sich nach Freiheit.

Six years ago, vicious creatures began to crawl out of the dark crevices of the world, and with it Sascia’s fascination with the darkness was born. Now eighteen, that fascination has become an obsession, and while exploring an area known for its connection to the Darkworld, Sascia sees a person climb out of the darkness. But Nugau is no ordinary person, they’re a genderfluid elf prince with one mission . . . to kill Sascia.

Seph n’a jamais fait confiance aux Soliens. Sournois et cruels, ces êtres immortels méritent, selon elle, la malédiction qui ravage leur monde depuis des décennies. Ainsi, lorsqu’un grand-seigneur solien frappe à sa porte, à la recherche d’une cape enchantée appartenant à sa famille, la jeune femme se méfie. Mais il n’est pas le seul à vouloir mettre la main sur cet objet magique. Le prince Alder, en exil depuis deux ans, a besoin de la cape pour regagner la confiance de la reine. Sauf que Seph est la seule capable de toucher la précieuse étoffe sans se faire tuer.

Abby dachte, endlich richtig an der Nightwood Academy angekommen zu sein. Doch zu früh gefreut, denn alle Fragen, denen sie nachgeht, werfen nur noch weitere auf. Die Beziehung zu Ryder entwickelt sich ebenfalls in eine ungeahnte Richtung. Abby weiß nicht mehr, wo ihr der Kopf steht und welche Entscheidungen sie lieber mit dem Herzen treffen sollte.

A supernatural thriller told in first person by three main characters over the course of eleven years, Eternal Beauty explores the lives of Bridget Higgins, a young girl grappling with grief, Claire Foster, a woman seeking physical perfection while battling her own inner demons, and Barbara O’Malley, a charismatic wellness influencer. Fueled by her trauma of mysteriously losing her loved ones, Bridget connects deeply with Barbara as she devours her online videos looking for her own place in the world.

Six months ago, Teia Carthan seized the throne against all odds. She sacrificed everything—her morals, her friends, even the spark of love—to hear the whisper of her new title: Highness. Now, Teia sets sail across the Dark Sea to warn her cousin, the Shaylani emperor, of a threat that could doom the Five Kingdoms: Cornelius Lehm lives, and he's planning to raise the Serkawr. But as she begins a furious journey across Shaylan, Teia knows she needs help to defeat Lehm—even if it means working with the very rebels she betrayed to claim her crown.

While their Jedi Masters clean up a political mess left behind by one of their own, Jedi Padawan Jecki and her least favorite fellow Padawan Yord are drawn into a planet-wide coming-of-age ritual as featured guests. But when things unexpectedly turn deadly, Jecki and Yord will have to use all of their abilities and work together to keep each other—and their new friends—safe.

Ana is far from royalty. She's a foster kid with a dead mom and a deadbeat dad. The only thing she wants is to escape—her hometown and her grief. Ana's plans are derailed when a dangerous family secret is revealed. She is the sole heir to a fallen dynasty on a world where seven families share the crown. Her family was murdered one by one, leaving six families to rule. Now, someone knows Ana's location. With assassins closing in, Ana's life and the crown are at stake.

After receiving a strange summons, eighteen-year-old nursing student Molly O’Rinn finds herself the private live-in nurse for a wealthy young man in his haunting Hudson Valley mansion. But after arriving at his secluded estate, Molly discovers that her handsome employer is not what he seems, and most surprising of all is what rests deep inside the mansion’s walls. Perhaps not what, but who…

In the cursed Kingdom of Aragoa, the punishment for magic is death. Even the students at Vandenberghe Academy aren't spared. When Viola Sinclair's deadly shadow magic is discovered, the queen gives her assassin a new assignment and a new cursed tattoo: seven-thorned rose on his arm for the seven days he has to hunt Viola down and kill her. If he doesn't, he will be the one to die.

Delaney Carmichael's final year of boarding school at Ivernia is not off to a great start. Losing her father has left her feeling completely unmoored—both emotionally and in terms of what she wants to do with her future. So when Delaney discovers that Ivernia—the one stable place in her life—is on the brink of shuttering its doors, it feels like the last straw. If life is measured in what she has to lose, then does anything matter?

Sascia has always loved the Dark. Six years ago, when the world she knew collided with the world of the Dark, she found it thrilling rather than terrifying. Now, she spends her days studying Darkcreatures or seeking them out in the shadows where they thrive. Then, one day, she—impossibly—pulls a person from the Dark. A person who shouldn’t exist. And they’re here to kill her. Nugau, the heir to the Darkworld, claims to be delivering a sentence for Sascia’s betrayal in a battle she’s never heard of, in a war that hasn’t happened.

When her sister returns from finishing school a total stranger, a teen seeks out the cause and discovers that the cost of becoming a perfect lady is much higher—and more sinister—than ever expected. A lush, gothic tale that will haunt listeners long after they finish listening.

Life in the Iron Mountains is harsh and unforgiving. After the death of her beloved uncle, Yining has survived by becoming a skilled thief and an even better liar. When she acquires an enchanted ring that holds the key to a brighter future, it is stolen by her step-aunt, and Yining must venture into the imperial heart of the kingdom to seize it back.