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New Orleans, die multikulturelle Stadt am Mississippi, empfängt niemanden mit offenen Armen - das müssen auch Lydia Frost und Jackson Payne feststellen. Der Aufbau ihrer neuen Agentur gestaltet sich als schwierig, denn erst müssen ein Haus und Klienten gefunden werden. Frost und Payne wollen sich beweisen und Geld verdienen - ein Fall muss also her. Bei einem Ausflug in die Sümpfe nördlich der Stadt stolpern sie gleich selbst über die Leiche eines Mannes. Nicht jeder ist jedoch an der Aufklärung dieses Mordes interessiert und ein unliebsames Wiedersehen mit den Luftpiraten machen die Sache nicht einfacher.

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life.

In Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, readers met the optimistic young hero Owen Hardy, as well as the more reluctant adventurer Marinda Peake, in an amazing world of airships and alchemy, fantastic carnivals and lost cities. Now Owen Hardy, retired and content in his quiet, perfect life with the beautiful Francesca, is pulled into one last adventure with his eager grandson Alain. This final mission for the Watchmaker will take them up to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule and the ends of the Earth.

This instant New York Times bestselling page-turner features a cast of real and imagined literary characters, cunning intertwined plots, and stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator in Victorian London. Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical...

Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep...

Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy's shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels.

Isolated and alone, Sin Evernight is one of the most powerful supernatural creatures in heaven and on earth. As an angel of vengeance, he hunts down the darkest evil, but when his long-lost friend, Layla Starling, needs him, he vows to become her protector. Even though she will be horrified by...

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Prudence. Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and...

Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything...

Losing a trusty weapon is like losing a close friend, and Pix’s beloved capacitor blade is on its last legs. Fortunately, she has a plan to craft a new and even better weapon. Unfortunately, her plan involves hunting down a vicious migrating monster that has more teeth than some hunters have brain cells. Even worse, this new creature has riled up the apex monster of Skull Harbor, and both of them are spoiling for a fight.

What if War of the Worlds wasn't the whole story? What if the Martians had help...human help? In an alternate 1887 England, mysterious little cylinders have been landing in the countryside for a generation, hidden in meteor showers. During that same time, incredible advances have occurred in aeronautics, weaponry, robotics, and genetics. Coincidence? Or are shadowy groups preparing Earth for a terrible fate?

Fired from his dream job and exiled among the misfits and mutants of the Undercity, Tak has gone from wunderkind to washed-out failure in record time. His last hope of reclaiming his life in the shining city above is to somehow prove his wild theories correct. In order to continue his research, Tak accepts a job at a shady underground laboratory, where he struggles to reconcile what he believes to be right with the things he must do to survive. But when a strange plague rips through the people of the Undercity, Tak’s knowledge becomes their only hope of survival.

The only place to hide could be behind the truth. No one can lie to Louisa Cobb. It's her gift. Her curse. Unfortunately, her stepfather forces her to use it to help him gain the upper hand in business. Comfortable in her luxurious lifestyle and high society position, she hasn't minded. Until now. Louisa wants nothing to do with her newest assignment, Patrick O'Connell, the Irish tinkerer and scoundrel who stole a kiss - and her heart - years ago . Problem is, if she betrays her stepfather and sets Patrick free, she'll be cut off without a penny to her name.

Murder isn’t uncommon in a big city, but when young women start turning up dead next to mysterious symbols painted in their blood, the police turn to Alex Lockerby to find the killer. Unfortunately, the bloody symbols aren’t any form of magic Alex knows, leaving him precious little to work with and a nagging feeling that he’d better stop this madman before he finishes whatever spell he’s attempting.

Tavara and Johnathan must pursue a faceless enemy across an ocean, in order to stop the owners of the Black Airship, and before they ignite a war that will engulf the world. Johnathan is forced to confront his unpleasant past, while Tavara is faced with the threat of losing someone she holds dear. The third story in the Chronicles of Tavara Tinker series, The New World follows our heroes through an alternate, historical, steampunk reality, thrusting them into a world of shadowy intrigue and pitting them against a dangerous foe bent on destruction.

In den Koloniestädten von Fatrasta hatte es der Frieden immer schon schwer. Immigranten bekämpfen sich untereinander oder kämpfen gegen die Einheimischen, während die herrschende Kez-Armee nur eingreift, um den Willen von apathischen Gouverneuren durchzusetzen, die von der weit entfernten Krone ernannt wurden.

Erika ja Leora ist eine Pulvermagierin im Norden von Kez – einem Ort, wo diese Art von Magie unter Todesstrafe steht. Ihr einziger Schutz sind ihr Familienname und ihre Stellung als Erbin eines Herzogtums.

Captain Tamas ist ein junger, ambitionierter Offizier in der adronischen Armee. Als Bürgerlicher ist er einer von wenigen, die trotz niederer Geburt einen Offiziersrang innehaben. Als er den Sohn eines Herzogs wegen einer Beleidigung zum Duell herausfordert, handelt er sich Ärger mit dem Adel und dem königlichen Kabal der Privilegierten-Magier ein.

Taniel Zwei-Schuss ist ein Pulvermagier und Teil der Geisterpartisanen von Tristan, einer Bande von Freiwilligen, die sich in der Fatrastanischen Revolution einen Namen gemacht haben. Sie ziehen durch die Sümpfe im Grenzland, schneiden feindliche Versorgungslinien ab und überfallen Städte während Taniel die Privilegierten-Magier jagt, die die Kez-Armeen so mächtig machen.

Sonderermittler Adamat ist vielleicht der fähigste junge Ermittler in ganz Adopest. Er ist schlau, aufmerksam, und seine besondere magische Fähigkeit verleiht ihm ein perfektes Gedächtnis. Seine Versetzung ins Erste Revier scheint die perfekte Gelegenheit zu sein, sein Können unter Beweis zu stellen und seine Karriere voranzutreiben.