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Anton is beyond frustrating. He was so sweet when we first met, and I’d thought we had a real connection. But then he had to ruin everything with his big mouth and jerky face. Ugh. I can’t get him out of my head. Even when I’m beyond angry at him, I still feel a pull to be near him. A pull I can’t seem to ignore. And when my entire world gets turned upside-down, I can’t help but reach for the ancient vampire and hope that together, we can conquer anything that’s thrown at us… anything that’s coming for us.

After defeating and purifying the temple of Abaddon, Conryu is enjoying a well-deserved weekend of rest and recovery. But nothing good lasts forever and a new threat soon appears. A call from the North American Alliance president has Conryu rushing across the Pacific to investigate a battle between a Kraken and a flying Roman ship. Not exactly a situation he ever expected to find himself in.

Caleb was raised to hate vampires. As a young magician from the Oligarch Kind, his life was shaped by discipline, duty, and the belief that magicians and Vampires must never mix. But when he falls for Elizabeth, a vampire of the Gammon Coven, everything begins to unravel. Elizabeth is on the run, trying to protect her gifted daughter, Lilith, whose magic may hold the key to a lost and powerful Eolith stone—an artifact vampires would kill to control. As alliances fracture, prophecies emerge, and power shifts violently, Lilith’s visions begin to blur the line between salvation and ruin.

Traqueuse d'Abandon et traîtresse, Eden a su réunir trois des cinq Parchemins du Pouvoir… avant d'être capturée par un Vampire fou. La Magie se tapie dans l'ombre, prête à être délivrée de sa prison de papier, et dans son antre le Dragon patiente. La Reine tant attendue arrive, guidée par son armée, et le temps est venu de réaliser la Prophétie.

Nach dem Tod seiner Mutter kämpft der 17-jährige Leopold Berry damit, den hohen Ansprüchen seines Vaters gerecht zu werden. Immer wieder passieren ihm merkwürdige Dinge, und als ihm Visionen der TV-Serie »Sunderworld« erscheinen, weiht er schließlich seinen Freund Emmet ein. Gemeinsam finden sie heraus, dass Sunderworld viel mehr ist als eine alte Fantasyserie aus den Neunzigerjahren: Die magische Welt ist real und in großer Gefahr! Wurde Leopold auserwählt, Sunderworld zu retten? Nur zu gern würde er beweisen, dass mehr in ihm steckt, als sein Vater denkt.

Halfa Schoona knows how to survive. Raised in the Dock Ward of Grayspire with no name and no past, he's been many things: a bruiser, an errand boy, a weapon. But when he walks through fire to save a child and comes out unburned, everything changes. The rare magic that saved a life may now cost him his own. Even Gronk, the closest thing he has to family, begins to look at him differently. Seeking shelter in the Temple of Thessira, Halfa finds something he never expected: peace.

Marnie must awaken the far-sight ability born within all humans. She and George are now Earth’s representatives for the Council. Everything seems too easy until someone starts stealing human life force. With the help of their Council friends, including a pink dragon, an insect oracle, and a gingerbread sasquatch, Marnie and George use their Abomination Born abilities to solve this mystery. But first, Marnie must master what all humans should already know how to do—far-sight. If Marnie doesn’t stop the life force eater, Earth will become a new zombie horde.

For the first time in decades, the Martyrs have something to celebrate: Pride is gone. While the Underground revels in this victory, seeing hope through a darkness so thick they never thought they’d escape it, Darius Jones only has one thing on his mind: How can they do it again? The hunt to bring more Virtues into the Underground begins, but everything is thrown into chaos when bombs start lighting up New York City and Thorn Rose is nearly killed. The Martyrs are pulled between stopping the violence, protecting their own, and bringing in the only people who can eradicate the Sins for good.

Shards of Fate is the compelling story about the immortal Kamae Caineson. A man whose three-century-long slumber has recently come to an end one cold and rainy night in a Los Angeles museum. Kamae struggles with adjusting to life in the modern world with only his children and their friends to aid him. He must once again thrust himself into the very fight he tried to escape at the beginning of the 18th century, in order to rescue his beloved from the grasp his ancient enemy has mystically placed her in.

Lucy is trapped in a life that no longer fits. On the outside, she’s holding it together. On the inside, she’s unraveling. Then, one impulsive decision changes everything. Enter Gabe—her Vision Catcher—an enigmatic guide sent to help her rediscover the dreams she’s forgotten and the self she buried. Swept into a mysterious 40-day Vision Quest, Lucy must confront the voices of doubt, untangle her past, and fight for a future shaped by her own truth. But as she uncovers sabotage within the very system meant to protect her, the journey becomes bigger than just her healing.

A sequel, but also an excellent starting place, Festival Season takes us on a journey of neurodivergent self-discovery, deconstructing limiting beliefs, and fighting back against authoritarianism. Join Fiona as she explores ethical non-monogamy and her own queer identity, untangles a web of religious rhetoric and learns how to make her own magic using a method you can try yourself.

Detective Zane Vrexon and former professor of magic Alyssa Benedictus return to the ashy, smoggy streets of Alviun to investigate a doctor whose prosthetic limbs seem to move like magic. Possibly illegal magic. So when a friend's grandmother gets involved with the doctor, Zane and Alyssa must uncover the doctor's secret. But doing so will requie help from Zane's every-present Shadow, a troubled entity who knows more about what's powering the limbs than he lets on.

In a Southern town unravelling under a sinister force, Luther's blues hold a mystical power to bind the shadows. As the enigmatic Stranger feeds on fear and chaos, only Luther's music can save his people from destruction.

Benvenuti a Babylon, una tipica e sonnolenta cittadina del sud, dove anni prima la famiglia Larkin ha subito una terribile tragedia. Ora stanno per subirne un'altra: la quattordicenne Margaret Larkin verrà derubata della sua innocenza e della sua vita da un assassino al di là della legge. Ma a Babylon sta accadendo qualcosa di strano: i semafori lampeggiano di un blu inquietante, una mano spettrale scivola fuori dallo scarico di un lavello da cucina, le tombe eruttano dal cimitero locale... E sotto la superficie torbida del fiume, un'entità mutevole, quasi umana, prende lentamente forma.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

Le pouvoir des Parchemins a été libéré, amenant avec lui la présence des dieux. Plus avide que jamais, Trush resserre le collet de son pouvoir et, pour le contrer, Eden devra invoquer des forces anciennes.

Livs Welt steht Kopf. Flames tragisches Liebesgeständnis bringt sie beide in tödliche Gefahr – doch was Erato, die Muse der Liebe, vor den Augen der Jury enthüllt, erschüttert Liv noch tiefer. Seit sie Shellys Geheimnis kennt, steht sie selbst im Visier. Die einzige Chance, ihrem Schicksal zu entkommen: Liv muss alle Prüfungen überstehen und mit Flame das Finale des Autorenwettbewerbs erreichen. Doch Uranias grausame Prophezeiung droht, ihre Liebe für immer zu zerstören.

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author of Perdido Street Station, China Miéville. Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a...