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Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music, the eager young man is delighted to find a patron who believes in him. But he’s mortified when his new friend turns him into a vampire… and Abraham earns the fury of an ancient antisemite who vows to see him permanently dead. Fleeing the hate-mongering fiend across the decades, the sensitive violinist at last settles in twenty-first-century New Jersey with a mortal woman.

Der Monsterjäger Sebastian Grave ist ein Mann vieler Talente und Geheimnisse und war in mehr als einem Jahrhundert zuhause. Nun reist er in die abgelegene französische Provinz Gévaudan. Der Baron hat Freiwillige zur Jagd auf die Bestie aufgerufen, die für das Abschlachten von Vieh und Menschen verantwortlich sein soll. Zusammen mit dem Dämon Sarmodel und dem jungen Adligen Antoine d'Ocerne macht sich Sebastian auf die Jagd.

In Sparta: The Warrior Experiment, Earth has been reshaped into a single arena of empires. Caesar commands Rome’s iron legions. Alexander dreams of uniting the world. Charlemagne rallies his knights, whilst Saladin works on unifying the Arabian Peninsula. Greece lies shattered—its proud city-states reduced to Roman provinces beneath Governor Flamininus’ rule. The once-mighty Spartans now fight as Rome’s enslaved warriors against the northern Germanic tribes and the rising Ottoman power.

Torn between faith and forbidden romance, a beautiful descendant of Adam and Eve must overcome her troubled past to gain the respect she deserves. Winner of the 2019 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal for Christian Fantasy, Ashes Like Bread is the intense first book in the Chronicles of Genesis Christian fantasy series.

Marcel, a Parisian coachman, lives with one foot in each world—the Magical and the mundane. Forced to use his elemental Ice Powers for lethal means, he seeks to escape the tyranny of the Mage authorities. His three passengers, Luc, Emilie, and Adelaide, board his coach for a journey to a prince's castle. The destination will unveil Luc's dark past, for the man's true identity is Prince Renaud, a nobleman believed to be dead.

Wohin ist der Kaiser verschwunden? Wer zieht die Fäden der finsteren Verschwörung im Kaiserreich? Nutzen Feinde aus dem Ausland das Chaos für ihre eigenen Zwecke? Und vor allem: Ist Alexanderrr bereit, alles zu riskieren, um sich durch dieses gefährliche Netz aus Intrigen und Verrat zu kämpfen? Die Antworten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen erwarten euch in diesem Buch–vielleicht. Oder vielleicht auch nicht…

When sixteen-year-old shepherd Perceval encounters a silver-marked wolf in the Cambrian mountains, he thinks he's simply defending his sheep from another predator. But when the wolf leads him into a dark and enchanted forest, his simple life shatters. Armed only with his father's spear and cryptic guidance from the wizard Merlin, Perceval is thrust into a dangerous world he never knew existed—a world of knights and quests, mystical grails and wounded kings, dark sorcery and the ancient light that opposes it.

Eighteen-year-old Dorothy St. James can't control her magic. To avoid arrest, she locks herself at home and buries her nose in her experiments. But a kidnapper called the Rook is on the loose, and his victims keep turning up insane. When Dorothy's father is taken, she must exchange her beakers for bravery and find the Rook's trail—the problem is, only one person ever has: a masked hero. Ashley Gardner unabashedly casts illusions, using his charm to flit between the upper ton and the magical underbelly below. When Dorothy accuses him of knowing the masked hero's identity, he flatly denies it.

For centuries, the Kingdoms of Tintagel and Garstang have been rivals, battling endlessly over the borderlands with neither kingdom able to win a decisive victory, let alone knock the other out once and for all. But now, Garstang has unlocked the secret of recreating ancient war machines and unleashed an army out of nightmares, a magical-mechanical force grinding its way through once-impregnable defences and advancing on Shallot. Giant metal monsters stalk the land, crawling metal locusts tear through walls and defences, flying machines hover overhead or roam far behind the lines.

Als die junge Kunstgutachterin Eve Shaw in ihrem Büro einem silberhaarigen Herrn die Hand schüttelt, wird sie das Gefühl nicht los, diese schon einmal gehalten zu haben. Sie erfährt von einem rätselhaften Ort, dem White Octopus Hotel. Mythen von Zeitreisezimmern und magischen Gegenständen ranken sich darum. Eve beschließt, in dem verlassenen Anwesen, hoch oben in den Schweizer Alpen, nach Antworten zu suchen und findet sich plötzlich in dem prachtvollen Belle-Époque-Hotel zu seiner Glanzzeit wieder.

Tallis and Finn, simple farmers, find their quiet village overrun by shriekers, a horde of undead revenants. After a devastating attack and heartbreaking losses, they must flee the only land they've known for the capital of the kingdom of Okaesa. Along the way, Tallis and Finn are separated from the other refugees, with their only escape across the Nightmare Bridge, a thing of horrific legends, which leaves them both scarred from the experience.

A new ruler is ascending to the throne of Vintervald, and his army is heading to the North to give battle to the Frost Knights. And meanwhile, Princess Astrid is desperate to find new allies. The King of Astland dreams of an Imperial Crown, and he's waiting for the right moment to hurl his legions into Vestonia. In Atalia, a shift in the balance of power is already well underway, and the Golden Lion is hungry for revenge. The King of Claron, Olgerd III the Proud, has fixed his eyes on Bergonia and the Margraviate de Valier.

A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption. "...narrator Rory Bennet voices Sarmodel like a French Peter Lorre, and it’s *chef’s kiss*" — Book Riot In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the...

Han pasado seis años tranquilos, pero una guerra inminente empujó al rey Karek y a sus amigos a una nueva misión. ¿Y Nika? A ella le tocó lidiar con sus propios problemas. A su manera. Y, precisamente, la cuadrilla de Karek se cruzó en su camino. Le daba igual quién se sentara en el trono: solo podía haber un ganador.

Eine Familiengeschichte über mehrere Jahrhunderte. Priya Kobold ist die Nachfahrin einer mächtigen Hexe, die die Aufgabe hatte, ein Relikt zu bewachen. Im Laufe der Zeit ging allerdings das Relikt und das alte Wissen über Magie verloren. Als ihr eröffnet wird, dass sie die Auserwählte ist, die das Erbe der Hexe antreten soll, ist sie zunächst verwirrt. Doch das Böse nimmt darauf keine Rücksicht. Es ist ebenfalls am Relikt interessiert und ihr auf den Fersen. Ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt, der über das Schicksal der gesamten Welt entscheiden wird.

Thousands of years before the common era, the greater gods evacuated humans to the immortal asura realm as rapidly shifting continents reshaped the mortal realm. One hundred years later, the asura, led by a tyrannical king, want the human inhabitants gone from their realm.

Sie waren nur eine Gruppe gewöhnlicher Dämonologen, die versuchten, einen gewöhnlichen Dämon zu beschwören…doch im Moment der Beschwörung ging etwas schief. Aber hey, ob Dämon oder Dämonologe, welchen Unterschied macht das schon? Mir war klar, dass ich so oder so meinen Spaß haben würde.

'A twisty and beguiling gothic fantasy, lyrically written and tightly plotted . . . with one of my favourite villain-slash-anti-heroes of all time. You will be entranced by Baumer's darkly magical tale' AVA REID, #1 NYT bestselling author of A Study in Drowning This is the city of miracles, but...

Sono passati sei anni di calma, ma una guerra incombente spinge la mano di spada in una nuova e avventurosa missione. Deve occuparsi dei suoi problemi. A modo suo. E proprio allora la banda di Karek le si mette di traverso. A lei non importa chi si proclami re al di sopra della sua testa. Alla fine ci sarà un solo vincitore. Logico.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A woman who runs a cat rescue in 1920s Montréal turns to a grouchy but charming magician to help save her shelter in this heartwarming cozy fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series. “Absolutely magnificent! Full of cats and...