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The Midnight Library meets The Ten Thousand Doors of January in this mesmerizing debut about a magical bookstore’s staff who must risk everything to stop the unraveling of the universe. Stick your nose in these books and they just might bite. Living at the center of the universe, Mr...

Can love survive an unbreakable curse? Kierse McKenna’s magic is bound to a man she hates—one who has spent lifetimes fighting the man she loves. To end this binding, Graves—her winter god, her monster—will stop at nothing. He discovers that the only hope of freeing Kierse is to locate a...

In this charmingly chaotic follow-up to A Magical Girl Retires, our favorite millennial-turned-magical girl begrudgingly returns to the workforce to fight crime and the forces of evil. Our protagonist from A Magical Girl Retires is done with the magical girl life . . . but the magical girl life...

Deep beneath the cellars of Castle Aurumice, a portal leads to a musty basement in suburban Pennsylvania. Jessica Ravenwolfe has been crossing that Gate for five years, adventuring with her eclectic friends and occasionally making poor choices. Now she is ready to leave the suburbs and the castle, accepting an invitation to the mage academy in resplendent Katanzarko City. Jessica’s choice has caused a ripple across Castle Aurumice. Nicoveren Verdian has fallen in love with the woman from earth, but he cannot join her and abandon his responsibilities to the castle.

Quando un incidente d'auto lascia Phoebe, di otto anni, in coma, i medici consigliano alla madre Ceres di trasferirla in una struttura di cura costruita nella proprietà di uno scrittore scomparso anni prima. Ceres trascorre il tempo al capezzale della bambina leggendole il suo libro di favole preferito. La vecchia casa dello scrittore, situata nello stesso terreno del centro, sembra richiamare Ceres che cede alla tentazione di esplorarla e viene condotta in un mondo che credeva potesse esistere solo nelle pagine di un libro.

My protective instincts irritate me sometimes. I blame my vampire side because I’ve never witnessed mages who would kill for those they love. I won’t hesitate, especially when my adopted family or one of my rescues is in danger. When an entire group of purebloods decides they want my brother for his mental magic, and my biological dad attacks us, those protective instincts kick into gear. On top of that, I discovered the purebloods are part of a secret organization that wants to enslave the hybrids.

Book club favorite and acclaimed author of No Better Time and The Secret Women makes her first foray into the mythical fantasy genre with this epic tale of legacy, power, sacrifice, and family bonds that is a call to action wrapped in elemental magic. Aeola St. James is no ordinary CEO. While...

When a magician (second class) chooses to do Christmas duty in the City of London, it's because he's hoping for a nice, quiet , seasonal time; not for ancient magic to break loose, and the enchanted city to be filled with ghosts, monsters, wonder and danger. Not on his watch. Not when he's going to have to deal with it all on his own. That would be an all too magical Christmas. An all too magical Christmas is a seasonal adventure story of magic, mayhem and mystery, told in 24 instalments. Written by Tobias Sturt and read aloud by Jon Millington.

When Tori's boss is murdered in front of her, she' s saved by part-time monster hunter, full-time bad boy Vince Lenoir, and their destinies entwine. In their hunt for the killer, they embark on an odyssey of epic proportions— literally. Legendary villains from Greek mythology have moved to America. They threaten to send humanity back to the classical era. To stop them, Tori and Vince must answer three questions: who they are, who do they want to be, and who lies at the heart of it all?

Merlin finds himself in a marvelous bar drinking with Luke, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. He can’t help but feel that perhaps this isn’t . . . Normal. When the Jabberwock appears Merlin’s head clears just enough to realize that he’s caught in Luke’s LSD-inspired hallucination. When a Fire Angel, one of the most powerful, magical killing beasts in existence, arrives to kill him he realizes that he has to do something quick or both he and Luke are finished.

From Dawn Blair, acclaimed author of The Loki Adventures, comes new stories about a true Asgardian hound. Little humans go to a place called “school.” Fenrir decides to check it out. Will he find the place where humans train their young to be warriors, or will he find something else? The puppy is out of the house.

When last we saw Merlin, Luke had imprisoned him in the blue crystal cave. After more than a month of durance Merlin manages an escape. But he’s not content with just gaining his freedom. Merlin journeys to the Keep of Four Worlds and does battle with the upstart wizard Mask. As the duel ends merlin kidnaps the paralyzed Jasra (Luke’s Mother) to give him leverage over Luke. Merlin’s adventures only get stranger from there.

Der Zeitenspiegel - Der Kreis der Jahrhunderte (Teil 1) - Auftakt einer fesselnden historischen Fantasy-Saga voller Mysterien und verbotener Liebe! Ihr Leben lang glaubte Johanna Berger, nur eine durchschnittliche Gymnasiastin zu sein. Ihre größte Sorge ist das Abitur, ihre größte Leidenschaft die Geschichte des mittelalterlichen Kölns. Doch als sie kurz vor ihrem 19. Geburtstag einen versiegelten Brief ihrer verstorbenen Großmutter öffnet, verändert sich alles. Denn Johanna ist eine "Spiegelseele", auserwählt, die Grenzen der Zeit zu durchbrechen.

Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears.

In a battle against gods and vampires, one wrong move could destroy everything. The forest whispers to Kyra—something dark is on the horizon. The creatures are restless. Ash rains down on their homestead. Refugees flood into the Montreal ward. But Kyra doesn’t need omens to know trouble is brewing. She has a direct connection to Terra, the god who once brought humanity to its knees—and is ready to do it again, unless Kyra can stop an ancient weapon from falling into the wrong hands.

The highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Hell is empty and all the devils are here... Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping...

A thousand years ago, the Knights of the Round Table made an oath to protect the realm forevermore. It's safe to say they didn't think it all the way through. Now Britain is embroiled in the Second World War, and the knights are still fighting the enemies of the realm. They're also fighting each...

Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music, the eager young man is delighted to find a patron who believes in him. But he’s mortified when his new friend turns him into a vampire… and Abraham earns the fury of an ancient antisemite who vows to see him permanently dead. Fleeing the hate-mongering fiend across the decades, the sensitive violinist at last settles in twenty-first-century New Jersey with a mortal woman.

Magic built their empire. Blood will decide who rules it next. When a CEO falls, one family’s battle for control becomes a brutal game of betrayal, desire, and power in this sharp, seductive debut for fans of Succession – with fangs. Power runs in the blood. A hundred years ago, magic ran...

Agnes Aubert führt ein akribisch organisiertes Leben, und das muss sie auch. Denn als Chefin einer dringend benötigten Katzenzuflucht ist sie oft die Einzige, die zwischen ihren geliebten Katzen und dem sicheren Tod steht. Als sie umziehen muss, erfährt Agnes, dass ihr neuer Vermieter der Dunkle Lord Havelock Renard ist, der das Heim nur als Fassade für seinen völlig illegalen Zauberladen benutzt. Dass Renard mit seiner verbotenen Magie einmal beinahe die Apokalypse herbeigeführt hat, macht ihn nicht sympathischer.

Olivia Beckett has lived through thousands of lifetimes, dispatching miscreant supernatural creatures alongside her sisters as the mythological trio of Furies. Memories of her past lives begin to appear and haunt her, and she starts questioning everything she thought she knew about her life and her duty. In the midst of a brewing war between the factions of Creatures, Olivia goes against all the rules and falls in love with a human, only to realize he may be connected to her mysterious past. Can she have it all, or will she have to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to stop the war?

Mike Spears is a drifter, a vigilante, an expert in taking down the evil in our world one monstrous incursion at a time. He’s anonymous and low profile because he needs to be. A man with a name only whispered in legend and only spoken aloud in desperate straits. Welcome to the dark places of the modern American west—a west where mythic worlds roam the landscape like so many weather fronts. And when those fronts collide, horror often spills out. Blood-soaked ground. Vanished neighbors. Towns gutted by monstrous horrors no one dares name.

Eine Familiengeschichte über mehrere Jahrhunderte. Priya Kobold ist die Nachfahrin einer mächtigen Hexe, die die Aufgabe hatte, ein Relikt zu bewachen. Im Laufe der Zeit ging allerdings das Relikt und das alte Wissen über Magie verloren. Als ihr eröffnet wird, dass sie die Auserwählte ist, die das Erbe der Hexe antreten soll, ist sie zunächst verwirrt. Doch das Böse nimmt darauf keine Rücksicht. Es ist ebenfalls am Relikt interessiert und ihr auf den Fersen. Ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt, der über das Schicksal der gesamten Welt entscheiden wird.

En esta astuta y deslumbrante fantasía contemporánea, una gumiho, el zorro de nueve colas más famoso de Corea, se alía con el dios del engaño, ahora detective, para frenar a un iracundo demonio... antes de que destruya el mundo de los mortales.

The time has come for Ana to conquer her doubts about her heritage and discover her inner dragon. Her lessons begin with summoning fire on the shore at Lendman Park, placing a buffer between her fledgling powers and town. Her flames prove eager to please, leaping to her fingertips, but a sudden...

Robin Wildwood might know the reason she was chosen as Head Witch, but is she ready to rise to the challenge? Her grandmother’s cranky ghost thinks not - and so do Robin’s *living* family members - but at least she has the support of her squirrel familiar Tansy, her friends, and her new boyfriend, Harvey. Demons aside, life is good.

Helen Harper presents Book 5 in the Cat Lady Chronicles.

Die junge Biologin Callie fällt bei einer Expedition aus Versehen durch ein Portal ins düstere Reich der Unseelie-Fae. Sie stürzt dabei in die Arme des dunklen Fae-Prinzen Mendax, der sie für eine Attentäterin hält. Doch anstatt sie sofort zu töten, nimmt er sie gefangen und zwingt sie zu drei tödlichen Prüfungen, die sie nicht bestehen kann. Denn auch wenn Mendax es sich nicht eingesteht: Etwas hält ihn davon ab, Callie selbst zu töten. Etwas Dunkles. Brennendes. Verzehrendes.

"The Chicago Druid and the Ugly Princess" is a story that moves from a time of Irish folklore to modern-day Chicago. It follows the adventures of Fionnuala, a beautiful princess transformed into the ugliest women imaginable by the druid Lochlain, before being sent into the future.

The Changing Land picks up shortly after the events chronicled in Dilvish, the Damned. Dilvish must gain entry to Castle Timeless if he is to destroy his nemeses Jelerak. Unbenounced to Dilvish, Jelerak is also seeking to gain entrance to his own castle as his apprentice has blocked him out while attempting to lean the castles secrets so that he may become lord of Castle Timeless. The castle is protected by a lethal, chaotic, ever-changing land. In a race against time and reality itself both Dilvish and Jelerak must survive the maze-like changing lands.