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Desperate times call for desperate measures. As the ex-military owner of Sterling Security Solutions, Tatiana Sterling excels at handling dangerous situations. Her problem? Landing clients in a male-dominated industry. The solution? Hiring mysterious heartthrob Jackson Dale Shade to play the role of her business partner. When Eleanor Kensington hires them to find her missing grandson, Tatiana and JD discover the case is far more sinister than a simple disappearance.

Princess Azhara was born cursed. Marked by ancient magic. Promised to an unholy bargain sealed in blood. When the Reaping begins, suitors will descend into the labyrinth beneath the palace—each one fighting to win her hand or die trying. She's never had a choice. Not in the Reaping. Not in her future. Not even in the power buried beneath her skin. Until now.

Kit McCafferty has never been fond of vampires but she can't refuse the opportunity to learn more about their kind. When she is invited into the clandestine underground world of the Understream to investigate the mysterious disappearance of some giant worms, she soon discovers there is far more to the fanged creatures than she'd ever realized. Danger, secrets, and mysteries abound in every dark, twisting tunnel. Is there anyone in the depths who Kit can trust? Or will she have to rely on her wits—and her cats—alone?

Major Leah Morgan has always put duty before her heart, especially when it comes to Jamie, the teammate who was once much more. But when an old enemy steals a seemingly harmless artifact from the Long-Term Storage Warehouse, Leah's tangled feelings are the least of her worries. The artifact's true danger emerges when an ancient map surfaces, pointing straight to a secret labyrinth beneath George Washington's Mount Vernon—a labyrinth that guards a crown powerful enough to control the nation.

»Der Tag, an dem ich gestorben bin, war der glücklichste meines Lebens. Denn an jenem Tag trat ich in eine neue Welt voller Magie. Ich wurde Teil eines uralten Geheimnisses und verschwand in euren Schatten. Ihr seht mich nicht. Aber ich sehe euch. Wir sind uns so nah. Tagein, tagaus. Und dennoch trennen uns Welten. Ich beschütze euch. Ich kämpfe für euch. Ich blute für euch. Aber manchmal genügt nicht mal das.

Two decades ago, Esme Weatherhead's archaeologist father wrote a bestselling book on the use of hallucinogens in ancient Mesoamerican shamanism—and then disappeared. Convinced he's still alive, Esme has never stopped searching for him. And when she stumbles upon notes about a hidden cave on their rural Vermont property, her quest gets a new focus. Esme hires geological consultant Lucas St. Pierre to help locate and explore the cave, and her hunch that it has something to do with her father's disappearance quickly pays off.

Everything Ana Sartori knows about herself, and her father, is a lie. Or so the Walsh clan would have her believe. Their claims are convincing, the details too vivid to dismiss outright, but she can't imagine her father as the villain of her story.

A military veteran is adopted by a werewolf and brought into his pack. Insanity ensues. Jason Forte's a military veteran the entire world seems to have forgotten about. Everyone except his good friend Crash, who rescues Jason, brings him home and tells him he's part of his pack. But what does that mean exactly? What is Crash's job that makes him have to go out at night every night? Can Jason survive this new world he finds himself in? About Life With A Werewolf Life With A Werewolf is an episodic story told in a blog format.

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.

Als die außergewöhnliche Hexe Amber DeLea ein paar Tage vor Weihnachten auf meiner Türschwelle steht, erwarte ich Ärger. Doch wie sich herausstellt, hat ihre Schutzbefohlene, das Waisenkind Jade, ihren Weihnachtssack verloren – und Amber möchte, dass ich ihn finde. Einfach, oder? Die kleine Jade kennenzulernen, berührt mich. Plötzlich bin ich bereit, alles zu tun, um sicherzustellen, dass sie noch ein weiteres Weihnachten erlebt, das sie an den Weihnachtsmann glauben lässt. Ich darf sie nicht enttäuschen.

When Maverick Hale, alpha of the Storm Moon Pack, is ambushed during a routine hunt, the impossible happens. His wolf is stolen. He's not the only victim. Shifters and witches across the territory are falling prey to a mysterious assailant who they suspect is amassing supernatural power for an unknown purpose.

Hallo–da bin ich wieder! Ich heiße immer noch Max, und ich bin immer noch einer der Auserwählten! Ich hoffe, ich konnte Ihnen inzwischen jede Illusion nehmen, was die Auserwählten betrifft. Bestimmt haben Sie anfangs geglaubt, es wäre eine Art Elite-Truppe einer intelligenten Zivilisation, dazu bestimmt, gegen das universelle Böse zu kämpfen.

After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate - former Beast Lord Curran Lennart - are adjusting to a very different pace. While they're thrilled to escape all the infighting, Curran misses the constant challenges of leading the shapeshifters.

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

For Franny, the end of everything is just the beginning of her adventure. The world as we know it is no more. Cities are mobile. Electricity is rare. Reading is a relic of the past. After an explosive encounter with a mysterious stranger, Franny, a 14-year-old orphan girl, embarks on an epic quest to find the mysterious pilots who steer the cities, hoping that if she finds them, she will get answers about her family's past - and the world's future.

La barrière qui séparait l'Ancien et le Nouveau Monde a été brisée. Des forces anciennes viennent assiéger les Contrées du Milieu. Des forces si terrifiantes que, la dernière fois qu'elles ont frappé, il y a 3000 ans, on n'a pu les repousser qu'en murant l'Ancien Monde à l'aide d'une barrière magique infranchissable. À présent celle-ci n'est plus, et Richard Rahl et Kahlan Amnell sont les seuls à pouvoir faire face aux puissances maléfiques qui vont déferler et empêcher une apocalypse d'une sauvagerie inimaginable.

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Une dictature religieuse et militaire règne sur la galaxie. L'armée sainte, fanatiquement dévouée à la cause de celui qui se fait appeler Dieu, élimine impitoyablement ceux qui refusent de suivre les préceptes de la religion. Pourtant, les hérétiques propagent les paroles d'une prophétie annonçant qu'un Espoir va se lever et libérer l'univers. Tourmentée par de terribles cauchemars prémonitoires, Nayla Kaertan arrivera-t-elle à échapper à l'inquisition qui traque sans relâche ceux qui, comme elle, ont des dons étranges.

MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

""Nobody writes fantasy funnier than Pratchett.” —Booklist Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the 37th novel in Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved fantasy series. Discword has succumbed to a powerful magic that could tear it apart. Soon colleague is pitted against colleague, brother...