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Winner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared. It is 1831 when...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SLATE For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford...

A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron’s poetry. Read by Linus Roache, star of the critically acclaimed film Wings of the Dove, this collection includes She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib, The Vision of Judgment and selections from Childe Harold, The...

Heathcliff, an orphan boy, and Catherine are raised together at Wuthering Heights. Despite the difference in their social position, they eventually fall in love. Though she loves Heathcliff, Catherine chooses to marry Edgar Linton, a wealthy neighbour. Bitter over her rejection, Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights. Years later, he returns and marries Edgar's sister for her money. Catherine dies after giving birth to a daughter. Devastated by Catherine's death, Heathcliff is determined to enact his revenge on Edgar and the next generation.

Darby Jones thought she was only returning to her grandparents’ home in Stonington, Maine, for quiet nights and a life spent editing other people’s stories. But when her recurring nightmares spill into waking life, the tide begins to shift. A phantom ship drifts through the fog. A raven delivers a relic that shouldn’t exist. And soon Darby is pulled into the spiral of a sea where cursed men wander and sirens sing for lost souls.

When nineteen-year-old Elara returns to her grandmother’s ridge house in the Appalachian hollow, she finds more than heirlooms waiting. A sycamore tree as pale as bone stands watch, a cracked pocket watch stops at 10:17 each day, and a ledger filled with rules whispers what it costs to live here: Kin before names. Bread before bargains. Never pay in leaving. The hollow keeps storms, secrets, and sometimes people. If you feed it heels of bread and speak plain, it will mind its side of the fence.

Arden Rivers has rebuilt her life brick by fragile brick, determined not to be defined by the shadows of her past. But when roses begin to appear at her door—perfect, blood-red, deliberate—so do the notes. Intimate. Intrusive. Written by someone who knows her too well. Each gift is beautiful. Each gift is a threat.

Beim Hüten ihrer Schafe folgt Nel einer magischen Melodie und lernt den Moorgeist Agil kennen. Er schwärmt für ihr Flötenspiel, krönt sie mit einem Blätterkranz und lädt sie zu einer opulenten Gesellschaft ins nahegelegene Moor ein. Doch was wie ein neckisches Spiel anmutet, entwickelt sich bald zu einem grotesken Gelage. Denn dieser geisterhafte Witzbold plant für das Fest ein aufwendiges Bankett – bei dem Nel als Hauptgericht auf der Speisekarte steht ...

An ancient evil. A plague of horrible deaths. A monster in the making… The city of New Orleans has never been kind. And no one knows this better than Del who only wants a normal life, to be a newspaper reporter. But being blessed, or cursed, with unwieldy supernatural power, dark things are drawn to her. And her life will never be normal.

Mord, Sabotage, eine sprechende Maus und ein Highschool-Treffen: Für die Teilzeit-Journalistin und Vollzeit-Switch-Hexe Harlow Torrent wird das Leben immer stressiger. Als die Familienunternehmen angegriffen werden, bereiten sich die Torrent-Hexen auf einen Krieg vor ... bis ein kleines Problem mit der Switch-Magie außer Kontrolle gerät. Ist es das Werk der teuflischen Familie Coldwell oder eine dunkle Macht, die ein Chaos anzettelt?

Princess Morena wakes at the threshold of an ever-shifting maze. Inside awaits Lorcan Fieri, the enigmatic Lord of the Fae, whose sharp wit is as dangerous as his secrets. He holds the key to an artifact of unimaginable power—the Eye of the Fates, said to reveal the true threads of destiny. The path to the Eye is treacherous, riddled with deceptive allies, monstrous foes, and her estranged mate, Elijah, the mercurial Prince of Time. Bound by her resolve to save her kingdom and her friends, Morena must untangle the web of lies spun by those closest to her.

Devastated by a tragedy that struck the small island, the Egyptian bloodline sets out on a dangerous quest to defeat the Demon bloodline once and for all. There are many unexpected twists and turns, making their already daunting task seem even more impossible.

Dark winds howl over the cornfields, but even three years after the pyres have burnt out, the cries of innocents still haunt the air. Tonight, the magic conjured by my blood will breathe life into a scarecrow carved of pumpkin and bone, binding a damned soul to return and avenge those burned by pious men, drunk on their own corruption.

Intimidating. Fearless. Destructive. They’re everything a girl shouldn’t want. Too bad this foster girl never had a daddy to chase away the monsters because I’m a sucker for a bad boy … or four. Carver, King, Cruz, and Grayson—the Kings of Ravenwood Heights. When I was forced to come here, I was expecting just another run-down town to add to the ever-growing list of unwanted homes. What I wasn’t expecting was them. They’re dangerous and they're keeping one hell of a secret—a secret that's going to change it all.

Parents should pass down stories, not spirits… Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural. But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines...

Harlow Torrent, die Switch-Hexe, versucht alles zusammenzuhalten. Sie möchte einfach nur das Geschäft ihrer vermissten, unheimlichen Tante Cass am Laufen halten, den Müttern in ihrer neuen Bäckerei helfen und vielleicht ein oder zwei Minuten mit ihrem Freund Jack verbringen. Sie versucht, nicht an die Möglichkeit zu denken, dass sie mit einem Zauber belegt wurde, der mächtiger sein könnte, als sie alle ahnen.

Eigentlich sollte es ein einfacher Job für Harlow Torrent, der Switch-Hexe, sein: persönliche Assistentin von Red Forrest, der Bestsellerautorin für cozy Krimis, die wegen der Autorenmesse Writerpalooza in der Stadt ist. Aber als ein Mann aus einer Seitenstraße torkelt und behauptet, er sei von einem Monster angegriffen worden, wird Harlow in ein gefährliches Geheimnis hineingezogen, das seit Jahrzehnten besteht.

The gods chose two unsuspecting players as their pawns in what was suppose to be a simple game of Dark Creatures. A game of dark things from a world gone mad and forgotten gods that play with life and death for their own amusement. The human beings caught up in a contest of good versus evil find themselves not only controlled by forgotten gods, but controlling other lives in a darker more hostile fantasy world.

Boris wird im Auftrag der Todeswache in die freien Baronien entsandt, um einen Mörder aufzuspüren, der den Ghulwald in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Nur mithilfe des mysteriösen Vampirkriegers Festus und eines jungen Werwolfs gelingt es Boris, tief in die freien Baronien vorzustoßen. Dabei gerät er in eine Intrige, welche die bestialischen Morde in einem völlig anderen Licht erscheinen lassen.

Claudia Castañeda, joven mexicana en Estados Unidos, contrae matrimonio por impulso con James Blaisdel, un hombre encantador que al conocerla le cuenta que fue sospechoso de la misteriosa muerte de una mujer en Texas. Año y medio después, Claudia enfrenta con estupor la inexplicable pérdida de su marido y la creciente hostilidad de la elegante Nina Blaisdel, su suegra, que se niega a aceptar la desaparición de su hijo. Una ausencia que entreverá una hilera de siniestros secretos del pasado que terminarán saliendo a la luz para quedar, sin remedio, trágicamente expuestos a pleno sol.