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Elizabeth Bankroft is a thoroughly modern teenager in the Edwardian age. She spends part of the year with her parents in British India and part of the year with her grandparents in England. When her parents decide to send her to a college, Elizabeth resents the idea of what she calls a “finishing school” in India. At the Viceroy’s College in the foothills of the Himalayas, “finishing” will take on a whole new meaning. The college is, in fact, the British India's school for spies.

Amethyst Forester is a scientist, not a lady. Benjamin Maker is a lord, trapped in a loveless marriage. The only thing they have in common is Professor Richards - a genius Aetheric scientist. When Richards is found dead, Amethyst and Benjamin are put in an impossible situation. They jointly inherit his house, its contents, and the mystery of his murder. Could the Professor have been killed for one of his experiments? And if so, what if someone’s still looking for it?

Alle drei Hörbücher von Dalans Prophezeiung jetzt als Gesamtausgabe - über 26 Stunden epische Fantasy! Fünfhundert Jahre sind seit dem Weltenbrand vergangen, dem schrecklichsten Krieg in der Geschichte der Freien Königreiche. Ein Krieg, ausgetragen mit furchterregenden, magischen Waffen. Allein dem Erlöser Dalan war es zu verdanken, dass die Völker der Menschen, Elfen und Orks der völligen Vernichtung entgehen konnten. Doch vor seinem Tode hatte Dalan einen zweiten Weltenbrand prophezeit, der wie ein schwarzes Feuer über die die Freien Königreiche hinwegfegen wird.

Detective Sergeant Ignatius Brown was on holiday. His leg not yet recovered from his last brush with death. Still plagued by "night terrors", he was glad of the opportunity to get out of London and join his two cousins on the airship for a quiet cruise. All is not as it seems when a notorious gunrunner is murdered.

Der Maskenball des Dukes wird zum Schauplatz einer brutalen Geiselnahme. Die Terroristen verbreiten Angst und Schrecken unter den Gästen. Sie haben nur ein Ziel: Duke Alfred soll zwei Männer aus dem Gefängnis holen und ebenso begnadigen, wie er kurz zuvor Frost und Payne begnadigt hat. David, grün und blau geprügelt nach einem Fluchtversuch, will nicht aufgeben. Entweder schafft er es, den Keller seines Peinigers zu verlassen, oder er nimmt sich das Leben. Doch er findet etwas, womit ihm die Flucht diesmal endlich gelingen könnte.

England, 1876. Twenty-year-old Maraina Blackwood has always struggled to adhere to the restrictive standards of Victorian society, denying the courage and desire that burn within her soul. But after a terrifying supernatural encounter, Maraina's instincts compel her to action. Maraina soon discovers a plot to unleash a new world - one of demonic aristocrats, bloody rituals, and nightmarish monsters. Putting her upbringing aside, Maraina vows to fight the dark forces assuming control of England. But as her world transforms, Maraina finds that she too must transform...

Urban anarchist Harry Lampeter is employed by MI6 on a casual basis. Modern technology has collapsed, returning the world to the steam age. The war between Scotland and England, is on hold while the United States army of occupation keeps the peace. The Americans are in no hurry to leave, they plan to make Great Britain the 54th State of their Union. Scotland and England eye one another with mistrust and an arms race seems inevitable as the English plan building a fleet of Ironclad warships.

Ein vernunftbegabter Detektiv begegnet dem Unglaublichen und wird zum Ermittler für übernatürliche Fälle. Vernia im Jahr 1917 - Robert Fuchs und sein junger Gehilfe Emil leben in der Industriestadt Brasston. Der Winter ist hart, das Geld knapp. Da kommt ihnen der Fall des verschwundenen Blackwell-Sohns gerade recht. Auf dem Landgut des Schreibgeräte-Moguls sind die Ermittlungen ins Stocken geraten. Fuchs ahnt nicht, dass dieser Fall zum Wendepunkt seines Lebens werden wird.

Every victory is its own defeat. General Rommond's efforts to amass technological superiority over the enemy has resulted in the creation of a weapon that could destroy everything, and a faction just mad enough to use it. The Armageddon Brigade has awoken from its deep slumber, and it seeks to wake the world with it. Attracting the brightest and most unstable of minds, this splinter group of the Resistance has become the greatest thorn in Rommond's side.

"Welcome to hell, ladies and gents, where the demons are monsters and so are the angels." In a city filled with angels and demons, the real monsters are harder to find. When Arija jumps through a portal, she finds herself in the most beautiful city she's ever seen. But looks can be deceiving. Has she found a paradise, or is it hell? Adal can't believe he let Arija go into the portal alone. When he goes in looking for her, he finds himself in a hellscape. With a demon around every corner, Adal must find his girlfriend before it's too late. But someone watches from the shadows.

Baby Harker next. That’s the warning that was left for me from a grisly murder scene. A promise of what would happen if I fail to stop more abominations from terrorizing London. I thought I knew horror. I thought I knew what to expect from the vampires my family has hunted for generations. But now, it’s no longer about my own safety. My unborn child is marked as the next victim.

Bei der Observation eines Offiziers aus "The Sticks" Privatarmee gelangt Rack an erste Informationen zu den Plänen seines bisher noch unbekannten Gegners. Rack und seine Bande wollen verhindern, dass ein Wissenschaftler für "The Stick" arbeitet. Doch um das zu verhindern, müssen sie ihr bisheriges Versteck verlassen und sich offen gegen "The Stick" stellen. Band 3 des Steampunk-Thrillers schweißt die Außenseiter noch näher zusammen. Doch kann es gutgehen, wenn fünf Einzelgänger zusammenarbeiten?

Fall in love with a star.... Heart, a girl of fifteen, lives in a world of madness and grace, where test-tube babies are propagated to discover the secrets of Eternal Life. Left as a foundling on the doorstep of a Darling Undesirables facility, alive, and healthy - without a heart - she has always loved stars. Her first love is Caffau's star, 13 billion years old, in the Heart of Leo, one of the oldest and most mysterious stars in the Universe.

Bounty hunter Duke LaGrange has seemingly retired on the primitive world of Neprius. His former sidekick, Ishiro’shea, has hung up his katana and is now the proud owner of the galaxy’s loudest bar, Cyborg Joe’s Grill N’ Go and The Why Not Saloon on the planet Kelt. But when a mysterious entity visits Duke and warns him of a great danger set to destroy Earth, he must decide if he will get the gang back together for one last mission.

Hannah returns to Cthulhu in a week, and there's nothing Cain can do to stop it. Though he still has Soultaker, Hannah won't let him trade it for her freedom. The sword can summon an army of the dead, and Cthulhu wouldn't hesitate to use it. It turns out Soultaker wasn't the only thing from the armory to survive. A mysterious cube was stolen by the mechanists.

The Resistance takes to the clouds aboard the Skyshaker, the newly completed airship aimed at dominating the heavens, when the land far below has become a hellish place ruled by demons. General Rommond fixes his attention on the city of Blackout, the old capital of the world, controlled by the Treasury, who are themselves controlled by the ruthless Regime. That center of the old civilized world will either shift allegiance to the Resistance, or it'll burn to the ground.

Aubrey Hartmann left the Imperial battlefields with a pocketful of medals, a fearsome reputation, and a clockwork leg. The Imperium diverts her trip home to investigate the murder of a young druwyd in a strange town. She is ordered to not only find the killer, but prevent a full-scale war with the dreaded Fae.

Georgie and Armand, the master mage, shape shifting, gay dragons who run Georgie and Armand's place, are out for another vacation. This time they are visiting a world where the power of steam dominates and the competition to be the best master craftsman can get aggressive and dangerous.

The Regime is on the hunt, forcing the Resistance to take refuge aboard the Lifemaker, an advanced submarine that houses a special cargo: a handful of women who can still give birth to human children. Locked inside his tin can prison, Jacob can no longer escape his role in the Great Iron War. He's forced to face life as a father, life as a soldier, and life beneath the deep blue sea. More than anything, he's forced to face himself.

Breaking a bargain with a god is impossible, or so they say. Which means Hannah is Cthulhu's forever. But she still hasn't learned to use her powers at will and old Tentacle Face isn't happy about it. His minions drop Hannah at Cain's doorstep with orders — make her useful in a month, or she dies. Cain isn't sure what's worse — damning her to an eternity serving Cthulhu, or letting her die. No matter what he does, he'll lose her.

Out of the fire and into far worse. Kane and Tabitha barely escape New Chicago, retreating to the marshlands of the Confederate States of America. Along with the terse General Regina Anderson and her team of rebels, they arrive in Charleston, South Carolina, only to find a city in ruin, the settlers toiling away to organize a revolution against the Northern Oligarchy to save the torn country from war and greed.

19. Jahrhundert. Victoria in Großbritannien. Nach und nach schalten Rack und seine Bande Operationen von "The Stick" aus. Anscheinend können sie tatsächlich so etwas wie Erfolg gegen ihn verzeichnen. Doch Racks geheime Sucht macht ihnen bei einem wichtigen Einsatz einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Als obendrein Lady Cunningham bedroht wird, scheint der Zusammenhalt der Bande vollends auseinanderzubrechen. Episode 4 der alternativen Geschichtenthriller-Reihe Rack von Ann-Kathrin Karschnick.

Das Gefängnis scheint ihnen diesmal sicher zu sein. Zu viele Beweise sprechen gegen ihre Unschuld - sind sie tatsächlich verantwortlich für Inspektor Flannagans Tod? Frost erleidet einen Zusammenbruch. Hat sie wirklich versagt? Wird Payne die Zusammenarbeit mit ihr beenden? Cecilia trifft eine folgenschwere Entscheidung, während Michael Cho eine Verschwörung aufdeckt, die offenen Krieg innerhalb der Dragons bedeuten könnte. Sein Leben ist in höchster Gefahr - und er hat niemanden, dem er noch vertrauen kann.

19. Jahrhundert, Victoria in Großbritannien. Als Rack, Theo und Lady Cunningham in Racks Büro zurückkehren, erkennen sie gerade noch, wie Marcus und Jean von den Bobbys verhaftet werden. Mit ihnen verlieren sie auch potenzielle Informationen, die sie sich zur Aufklärung des Anschlags auf Lady Cunningham erhofften. Im Gefängnis, wo Jean und Marcus hingebracht werden, sind diese Informationen offenbar unerreichbar, da sogar das Gesetz gegen sie arbeitet. Oder gibt es doch eine Lösung?

The Weller is back! Still healing from his battle with the distillers in Iowa City, legendary weller Matt Freeborn crosses into Missouri, where foes both old and new await him. Finding himself dangerously low on precious ammunition for the Well Digger, the desperate weller accepts a perilous job on the mighty Mississippi. Armed with only his wits and experience, Freeborn must descend into places no man dares go and face unknown terrors that hunger and hunt in absolute darkness.

London, 1891. Strange murder appears on the seamy streets. Someone is killing women and gutting them for their body parts. Is it Jack the Ripper returned, or a far more sinister plot afoot than murder? Magician Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, ashamed of his Jewish-Gypsy blood, has fashioned himself into a proper English gentleman, though he harbors a carefully guarded secret; he has learned the dangerous art of summoning daemons and through it, performs real magic. Leopold must discover what is behind the revolting murders.

Our story begins in complete darkness with a death and a vanishing. A man mysteriously drowns in the River Seine and two children enter a dingy sideshow but never come out. In the shadowed world of the Obscura, everything that was once light is now dark and nothing is as it seems. The Gaslampers enforce brutal laws and terrorize the city with their wolves. The Calibrators attempt to resist the evil while they await the return of their hero, the Aigle. And the children desperately search for a way home.

When a group of miners on the sky city of Port Jericho accidentally release an ancient magick, a force they have never dealt with before assaults the Jerachi. As the killings continue, the city of mercenaries and hunters begins to fall prey to the fear. Collapse and utter destruction threaten the city, until unlikely allies set things right and put Port Jericho on a new path. But what if they are faced with a killer they cannot see?

1881 - Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He’s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who’s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau’s history, so this assignment shouldn’t be a problem. But even he’s taken aback by a run-in with the country’s most infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly.

A strange message summons Langdon St. Ives and his companions to the Half Toad Inn in Smithfield, London, and along with the eccentric but fabulously wealthy Gilbert Frobisher, they set out for an uncharted island in the Caribbean, carrying a map that promises a treasure that beggars description. What they find – a terrible, pagan god from the depths of the ocean – leads them back to London, carrying within the hold of Frobisher’s steam yacht a fearsome, tentacled menace that threatens to devastate London.