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Lady Preshea Villentia has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. What society doesn't know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea's employer. And Preshea has one final assignment. It was supposed to be easy, a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn't anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven - massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible, and...working for the enemy. In a battle of wits, Preshea may risk her own heart - a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.

Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass continues following the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue.

La leggenda del golem, ben nota a tutti coloro che sono passati per Praga, ispira questo suggestivo romanzo di Meyrink, romanziere ed esoterista. Questo libro, suo primo romanzo, fu pubblicato nel 1915, ed ebbe un successo straordinario. La magia e la suggestione della città e del ghetto si mischiano alle tematiche occultiste che vennero poi riprese dall’autore nei suoi romanzi successivi, e che furono oggetto dei suoi studi per gran parte della sua vita.

Thrown back in time after the spells binding Whitehall School together nearly collapsed, Emily finds herself in the days of Lord Whitehall. But everything she knows about the past is a lie. The Whitehall Commune is in hiding from a great and terrible foe, while some of the legendary founders bicker like children and others call on deadly and untrustworthy entities with agendas of their own.

Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and...

Ihre Vergangenheit - ein einziger Albtraum. Ein Blick in ihre Zukunft zeigt: Es geht noch schlimmer. Sie setzt alles dran, um diese zu verändern. Der Prinz hat seinen Vater, seine Heimatburg, sein Land verloren. Reich ist er nur an Feinden. König Schohtars Übermacht stürmt die letzte Mauer. Dagegen helfen diesmal kein Artefakt und keine Magie. Bolkan Katerron findet sich dort wieder, von wo er einst geflohen ist: mitten im Spiel von Mord, Macht und Verrat.

Frieda is one of Emily’s closest friends, a young girl she saved from Mountaintop and brought back to Whitehall. But Frieda found herself the victim of a deadly soul-destroying plot - and the true target may well be Emily herself. Now, after Emily saved Frieda from a magician who was slowly driving her mad, Frieda stands accused of attempted murder - and worse. She must now stand trial for her crimes. Worse, Fulvia - Matriarch of House Ashworth - has returned. Humiliated by Emily years ago, Fulvia burns for revenge - and the chance to regain her lost power.

The war is over. But the scars remain. Emily's New Learning has been good for Beneficence. In the years since she arrived on the Nameless World, the city has been at the forefront of technological advancement and social development. Thousands of newcomers are moving to the city, railways span the gorge and drive into Zangaria, the first steamboats are plowing the ocean wave and a whole new banking system is reshaping national and international trade. A true golden age appears to be on hand. But all is not well.

Eighteenth-century London - the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far away. Camden, London, 2015, December 17th - the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, are consumed by the wait for this boy, who may or may not be dead. There is no way of knowing. Deep within the savage beauty of Iceland, a hidden pool grants those who drink from it endless life.

Die Auftragsmörderin sehnt sich zurück nach Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Doch die Schatten der Vergangenheit, die Begegnungen der Gegenwart und die Aufgaben der Zukunft sind tödlicher denn je. Nicht nur ein alter Feind, ein kleines Mädchen und ein ganzes Volk zehren an ihren Kräften.

Im mittelalterlichen Dorf Haufen lebt der 18-jährige Farin. Der Junge ist ein Außenseiter, denn als Sohn des Totengräbers wird er von den anderen Dorfbewohnern geächtet und geprügelt. Dennoch hat er keine andere Wahl, als den Beruf des Vaters zu übernehmen, der zunehmend dem Alkohol verfällt.

India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble. To fix Matt's magic watch, they must find an old diary that once belonged to a doctor magician murdered decades ago. The hunt drags them into a sordid mystery involving two of London's craft guilds. With old and new enemies determined to stop them, and long-held secrets unearthed, Matt and India must work together better than ever.

Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Fünf Milchbärte kleben ihr an den Hacken wie Pferdemist. Auf einem Schiff mit einem Kapitän, dem nicht zu trauen ist. Auf einer Reise mitten ins Feindesland, in dem es von Halsabschneidern nur so wimmelt. Auf der Suche nach einer verlorenen Legende, die sich jeden Augenblick in Luft auflösen kann, wie ein Kamelfurz.

Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final audiobook in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light...

When actress Elyse McKenna fell in love with Lord John Waldegrave, she was prepared to keep their liaison secret. What she wasn't ready for was how her newfound love would rock her relationship with her dearest friend, Doctor Kai Murray. With the 1814 London Frost Fair in full swing, Elyse and her troupe at the Ice House Theatre find themselves at the heart of the excitement on the frozen Thames. But when an exotic ship captain, whose vessel is trapped in the ice, turns her attention to Kai, everything Elyse thought she knew about her feelings for her old friend gets flipped upside down.

Sie ist von allen bösen Geistern verlassen. Anstatt dem Prinzen die Kehle durchzuschneiden, ließ sie ihn einfach laufen. Und nun soll sie auch noch im Thronsaal vor König Tedore das Knie beugen. Nicht mit ihr. Niemals. Lieber stehend töten, als kniend leben. Im Spätherbst seines Lebens, weit weg von der Heimat, geflohen vor seiner Schuld. Ein verstorbener Sohn, eine verlorene Tochter, ein verwirkter Titel.

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself...

Gay werewolves in Victorian London? Why yes, yes there are.

Biffy, newly minted Alpha of the London Pack, is not having a good Christmas. His Beta abandoned him, his werewolves object to his curtain choices, and someone keeps leaving babies on his doorstep.

Professor Randolph Lyall returns home to London after 20 years abroad, afraid of what he might find. With his pack in chaos and his Alpha in crisis, it will take all his Beta efficiency to set everything to rights. Perhaps, in the process, he may even determine how to mend his own heart.

Wie viel Hass passt in ein Leben? Sie ist ohne Namen, ohne Kindheit, ohne Skrupel. Während andere zaudern, noch überlegen, was gut, was schlecht oder was richtig, was falsch ist, handelt sie bereits. Meistens schlecht und falsch. Eine verlorene Herkunft, tief in ihr brodelnd, sucht sich seinen Weg an die Oberfläche.

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many ways...