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Everything's bigger in Texas - including romance, magic, and danger! Katie Chandler has fled fast-paced Manhattan and returned home to a simpler life, working at her family's feed-and-seed store in Cobb, Texas. In a painfully selfless gesture, Katie had left the sexy wizard Owen Palmer to battle his demons in the magical realm–after all, Katie just seemed to attract evil, which only made Owen's job a lot harder.

Witches Angelina and Evan Everhart-Trueblood take a case that spirals out of control until the whole city is at risk in this exciting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter. Angelina Everhart-Trueblood and her brother Evan run Everhart Investigations, a PI firm in...

In einer Zukunft, die es gar nicht mehr geben dürfte, sitzt Conny Bligh für den Mord an sich selbst im Gefängnis. Wie konnte ein solches Durcheinander überhaupt entstehen?

Grimsby, a junior Auditor in the government-sanctioned, magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, must do all he can to fight for the innocent in this riveting urban fantasy. When a magical illness begins to afflict children in Boston, the Department of Unorthodox Affairs tasks junior Auditor...

Helen Harper presents Book 5 in the Cat Lady Chronicles...

In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own. 'NDiaye at her most dazzling' Katie Kitamura 'This is NDiaye at her disquieting best' New York Magazine Lucie...

From the bestselling author of the Japanese sensation The Full Moon Coffee Shop, this charming and heartfelt standalone novel brings more lost souls to the enchanted café—where they might find some help from the cats who run it. Under the energetic star of Neptune the doors to people’s...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Old gods, new rules. New York Times bestselling author Katharine McGee boldly reimagines the Greek gods as a family of billionaires—with all the messy drama that entails. “A modern twist on Greek mythology that blends the opulence of Crazy Rich Asians with the scandal...

“Cats, books, young love, and adventure: catnip for a variety of readers!” —Kirkus Reviews “Whimsical and wise.”—Shelf Awareness The long-awaited sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Cat Who Saved Books—an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl...

After being summoned to a new world and thrown down into the depths of hell, Hajime Nagumo met Yue and together they conquered the Great Orcus Labyrinth. The pair was planning on taking it easy on the surface for a little bit, but a meeting with the bunny girl Shea Haulia throws a wrench into those plans. She has the peculiar power to see the future, and according to her, Hajime's the one saving her family in her visions! Hajime was planning on refusing, but it appears she might be able to help him on his quest to return home. And so, the adventure continues in Reisen Gorge.

Uno studente senza nome sta per abbandonare gli studi in una prestigiosa università a Kyoto dopo due anni disastrosi: a causa di una serie di scelte sbagliate, prima fra tutte la compagnia del suo peggiore e unico amico, il teppista Ozu, si è rovinato la reputazione e la carriera accademica, al punto che la “rosea vita universitaria” che tanto sognava, ossia trovare una bella fanciulla dai capelli corvini, avere successo nello studio e avere tanti amici, sembra ormai impossibile da raggiungere. Ma il destino ha in mente per lui altri piani.

The last thing Jonathan "Tilly" Tillman remembers is the thunderous crack of a flame-engulfed building collapsing as he tried to save a little girl . . . Until a system administrator offers him a new life on Nephesh, the realm where ideals, myths, and legends clash endlessly for supremacy in the hearts of men. Carrying all the trauma and regrets of his decades-long career as a first responder, Tilly must start from scratch—without a tutorial—in a system-governed universe. To make matters worse, on day one he finds himself facing off against a cosmic force bent on corrupting the entire realm.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over... If more's the merrier...

Breakfast was supposed to be quiet, simple even. Dave just wanted eggs. Instead, he got a talking bird and a System that dragged Dave into another universe, and now he has a deadline. If he can't grow strong enough, fast enough, his home world won't survive. This new reality runs on rules Dave doesn't know, and the System keeps pushing him into dangerous experiments he's not sure he'll live through. But engineering is engineering, even when the math is magical. With new allies and a lot of iteration, Dave will map the mechanics, uncover the mysteries, and discover their answers.

You'd think that after battling a demon, Astrid Knightstorm would deserve a break. No such luck for Austin's premier wizard private detective. Her former master and mentor, Orpheus, has gone off grid. And with rising tensions at the Hellmouth—the literal gateway to the nine realms of hell—she's getting worried. What begins as a fact-finding mission to LA embroils Astrid in a battle to save the world from an invasion of monsters that even an army of vampires struggles to contain.

As a child, they tell you monsters aren’t real. That you shouldn’t be afraid of the dark. As a teenager, Marek Tomlinson learned it was bullshit—Monsters were real. And they loved the dark. Now a New York City detective, Marek thought his worst days were behind him—until a string of brutal murders leaves him questioning everything. The evidence defies logic. The bodies are unrecognizable. And the deeper he digs, the more something inside him begins to stir—something ancient, volatile, and not entirely human.

Recently divorced and struggling with her magic, water witch Juniper comes to town for a family reunion. After a night out, she stumbles upon a fur coat abandoned on the rocks near the beach and takes it home for safekeeping. The next morning, a gorgeous younger man appears on her doorstep, saying he is her new husband. Caspian never expected a witch to find and take his coat, but the moment he sees Juniper, he knows she’s the other half of his soul, his fated mate.

THE BROKEN PANTHEON: WAKEWhen the old gods wake up in a world of screens and feeds, some adapt. Some fight back. And some learn to build something entirely new. Lilith wakes up on the floor of an abandoned church with less power than she remembers and more work than she wants. The god of spectacle has weaponized attention itself, turning confession into currency and shame into fuel. But she's not fighting back with miracles —she's fighting back with chairs, consent, and the radical act of speaking in first person.

Max Best was a call center drone living in a rough area of Manchester, England, when he defused a potentially dangerous situation in order to help out an old man. The old man 'rewarded' Max by giving him the ability to see football like a top manager, just like in the computer game Soccer Supremo. This curse-as Max calls it-was perplexing. What was he supposed to do with these abilities? Max became a scout, an agent, an advisor, and after much trial and error, earned a job as a real-life football manager.

Neue Erkenntnisse bedrohen den Frieden der magischen Welt und bringen das Leben von Emilia und Merkur gehörig durcheinander. Die Sterne rufen nach den Herrschern und führen sie in eine fremde, absolut magische Welt voller unbekannter Gefahren. Doch was werden sie dort finden? Wird die Magie der Königskinder ausreichen, um dieses Abenteuer bestehen zu können? Gelingt es ihnen, den Frieden weiterhin zu wahren?