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He is known as The Prince of Lies. The Father of Demons. He is Alagai Ka, the Demon King. Though humanity won a hard-fought victory in its war against demonkind, the Demon King has escaped in search of a new queen to restart his dark hive, and has found signs of one on a distant shore. But pursuing him are humanity's best hopes: Olive Paper and Darin Bales, whose legendary parents brought demonkind low once before. Olive and Darin will not rest until the demons are defeated, and so relentless is their hunt that they have followed Alagai Ka across the sea to a strange new land.

Branded a traitor and hunted by the kingdom he once served, Karn must return home, where the past he abandoned and the future he fears collide. His adopted father, Banar, remains a prisoner of the Witch Queen's forces, and Serah—bewitched and bound by dark magic—stands in his way. To save them, Karn must gather his remaining allies, forge new bonds, and face creatures born from the queen's most twisted experiments.

Critically acclaimed author Kritika H. Rao weaves a stunning tale of love, seduction, and betrayal in this enchanting and romantic conclusion to the Divine Dancers duology inspired by Hindu mythology.

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren. It's a city she knows intimately from the pages of a famously unfinished dark fantasy series – one she's been obsessively listening to and re-listening to, while waiting years for the final novel. Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!

Turek was raised as an orphan nomad, until one grim night when he learns of his heritage. He discovers he is the son of the last woman of a superior race long thought dead—a woman who once dishonored his warrior king father. Intent on revenge, Turek takes his father's name, Vazkor, and embarks on a journey to find his mother—and murder her. Rediscover this realm of brilliant cruel beauty and seductive immortal ruins, of savage war and grand conquest, of falling stars and silver gods.

Taly is back. Finally free of the Queen and out of the loop. But freedom doesn't mean safety. Tempris has changed while she was gone—and so has she. With enemies closing in from all sides, Taly must navigate a world that keeps rewriting itself beneath her feet. Skye got her home. That should've been the hard part. But now he's just a boy in love with a girl everyone wants to kill—and keeping her alive might cost him everything. The Aion Gate is stirring. The island is under siege. And the enemy is circling ever closer. The war for Tempris is coming. And it's coming for her.

The true horror of the Great Silence has been revealed. As nation after nation succumbs to the mind-plague and Sova scrambles to enlist help from across the globe, Ambassador Renata Rainer has been given a simple task: save the world. While she travels to the Principality of Casimir to enlist the help of the Empire’s oldest enemy, Lieutenant Peter Kleist returns to the haunted forests of the New East to search for ancient answers—and finally confront the terrible fate that awaits him.

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel. Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates.

Wem kann sie ihr Herz anvertrauen, wenn ihr Leben den Tod bedeutet? Kaythara wurde entführt. Sie soll für das Reich Dywan an tödlichen Wettkämpfen teilnehmen. Dabei schlägt ihr Herz für den Prinzen von Moyderas: Mordan, dessen Leben in Gefahr ist. Nur, wenn sie ihn zuvor heiratet, darf sie für ihn antreten. Doch kann sie das, wenn sie noch für einen anderen Mann Gefühle hat? Die Zeit drängt, denn auch die einflussreichen Vampire werden alles in ihrer Macht Stehende tun, um eine Verbindung zwischen Kaythara und ihrem Thronfolger Mordan zu vermeiden.

Das spektakuläre Finale von Jay Kristoffs epischer Fantasy-Bestsellertrilogie um Das Reich der Vampire. Gabriel de León hat seine Familie, seinen Glauben und seine letzte Hoffnung auf ein Ende der endlosen Nacht verloren – den Heiligen Gral, Dior. Einzig der Gedanke an Rache hält ihn aufrecht. Also begibt er sich mit einer Gruppe treuer Freunde in das vom Krieg zerrüttete Herz des Reiches, um den Ewigen König zu töten. Doch Gabriel irrt. Dior hat seinen eigenen Tod überlebt – und eilt in der schwachen Hoffnung, den Tagestod für immer zu beenden, ebenfalls auf die belagerte Hauptstadt zu.

The Empire of Tiraas has spent ages casting off its sword-and-sorcery shackles in favor of high finance, practical magic, and keeping those with power in power. Everything is malleable in the name of progress. And those that cannot be bent can easily be broken—quite painfully if necessary. But far away on the frontier, anything goes. And the University has not ceased instructing would-be adventurers on the finer points of unlocking their potential as elves, warriors, paladins, pirates, half-demons, and anything else the empire considers a threat.

Coa Rangecroft, survivor of the deadly Great Hunt, has been taken into custody by the American Armed forces. Now she is to be sold at auction to the highest corporate bidder. In return, America promises to keep her family safe and free from the genocidal Allied Force and to give Coa the opportunity to become an enhanced soldier. Servitude, of course, requires swearing allegiance to the newly reborn nation. Coa must take a solemn oath to preserve America’s social order and to eliminate its enemies.

Searching for her sister’s soul, Danae journeys to the Underworld. In the dark caverns below the earth, she must brave her worst fears and face Hades, the terrifying God of the Dead. Hermes, Messenger of the Gods, is sent on a secret mission by his father, Zeus. Seizing the chance to finally win his family’s respect and the heart of the woman he loves, Hermes must risk everything to succeed. Meanwhile, on Mount Olympus, Hera, the Queen of Heaven, watches from the shadows, her once bright faith in her husband extinguished. And decides to take matters into her own hands . . .

In this vast multiverse in which people can travel between universes—entering new bodies with entire in-universe identities gifted to them by a mysterious entity known as the Simulacrum—universe-spanning societies of interdimensional travelers have arisen over thousands of years. Some travel to make the universe a better place for all, some seek power and glory, some covet knowledge, some simply want to create wonderful stories.

Sen Hoshiakari, the exiled son of a traitor, is determined to restore his decimated clan to their former power at any cost. But when his path collides with that of Rui, a lowborn woman who once saved his life, he discovers his family ambitions may have paid a darker price than he ever knew. And as Onryō—vengeful demons—rise throughout the land again, demanding retribution for their slaughtered souls, he’s torn between loyalty to the family he’s searched for his entire life and the love of his closest friend.

Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living members: beautiful Marozia, the heiress to the House, and her cousin, the uncanny Lady Agnes.

When The Sinker was a child, her home was destroyed by The Construct, a floating machine that consumes all in its path. For half a lifetime, The Sinker has wandered the void on a quest for knowledge, for understanding and for peace. With the help of Crooked Arm – the heir to a shattered throne, who happens to possess the most powerful anomaly of all – the two of them set out on a mission to end the tyranny of The Construct forever.

Prince Ashoka’s sister, Aarya, has named herself empress and is determined to reverse her brother’s mercy for the mayakari. Shakti is being held by shadowy figures, drugged and forced to commit an unspeakable crime. When she wakes, she finds herself prisoner, but gaps in her memory around the curse she has cast trap her more thoroughly than any cage.

As Raul fights battle after battle using his newly acquired abilities, he comes to a decision about whether or not to take the throne of Estis for himself or put his fake destiny aside and let another become king.

Ottilie Rushforth hides from the mighty Sorcerer's Guild as secretary to a has-been detective. She is Entwined—threads of magic run beneath her skin, and the Guild would trap her in service. But Ottilie has a plan to escape the Guild forever with her estranged fiancé, the enigmatic poet, soldier and smuggler Lewis Illing. All she must do is track down a mysterious artefact, claim the bounty, and leave the city forever. But Ottilie's sisters—Pretoria, a quick-witted sorceress and thief recently emerged from exile, and Madge, a guild mage to the core, appear to make equally unwelcome offers.