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Als gewissenhafte Finanzbeamtin lebt Amanda Eleonore Atkins ein Leben, das von Regeln und Routinen bestimmt wird – ein Bollwerk gegen das Chaos, das einst über sie hereinbrach. Doch eines Tages führt sie der junge Aushilfsbibliothekar Henry Brown in einen verborgenen Leseraum der öffentlichen Bibliothek. An diesem geheimen Ort entdeckt Amanda weitaus mehr als nur Bücher. Hier trifft sie auf den mysteriösen Robert Joy und die kratzbürstige Xiao Mei Smith.

Chase is crazy busy behind the scenes at the fraternity get-together, so when an alumnus comes in, he just notes a hot man in his vicinity and goes right back to work. When Ronan gets hurt and Chase feeds him, Chase's reaction opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Ones that Ronan wants to explore. Is Chase compatible with vampires? Or could he possibly be something more?

A struggling artist in 1990s New York City finds her life turned upside down when she stumbles across a lost angel that has crash-landed on the roof of her apartment building. Her first impulse is to profit off her discovery--only to quickly learn she's the only human who can see it for what it truly is. And as if that was difficult enough, the minions of the "other side" are eager to track the angel down and turn it into one of their own. And then things get weird.

Magic smells of Earl Grey and possibility... Meg MacIntosh descends from a long line of kitchen witches—women capable of working miracles with a pinch of flour and a ray of moonlight. But there's nothing magical about Meg, or the beautiful hand-decorated sugar cookies she pours her heart into...

In NIGHT FALL, New York Times-bestselling author Simon R. Green brings the Secret Histories series to a stunning conclusion. The Nightside is London’s hidden heart and secret soul, packed full of sin and shadows. It’s a place where it’s always three o’clock in the morning and dawn never...

Ride shotgun with a “James Bond–of-the-supernatural”* as the Secret Histories Novels take you careening through an alternate London where around every corner a new kind of danger awaits.... My name is Eddie Drood, aka Shaman Bond, the very secret agent. And I am a dead man walking. I’ve...

Living corpses have taken over Mart Club the night before Black Friday, but if Bob forgets to bring home milk, he'll be dead meat. For Bob, working on Thanksgiving is a necessary evil. After getting laid off from his corporate job, he's lucky to have an income at all. But that's just the kind of...

A small California town—and three people within it—become the targets of an ancient evil. Tess Bellamy's return home is anything but triumphant. She's decided Hollywood isn't for her, resigned to a normal life of caring for her ailing mother. Linna Severand would be a powerful sorceress...

My name is Jane, and I can make you do whatever I want. If you think I'm going to say "just kidding!" think again. My wish is also my command. Being chronically ill means you have the best seat on the perpetual struggle bus. Thanks to the very sexy diagnosis of end-stage kidney disease I was...

“A beautiful girl drops into your life, gives you magical powers of kinkiness, and you didn't think there would be at least one little problem to deal with?” Annie’s words echo in Jake Emmerson’s mind. That woman’s name is Evri and it is her first day on earth. She is lovely but clueless. To keep her, Jake must accept the ownership of the Essence–a magical power that enchants and transforms ordinary objects into the extraordinary.

A fairy tale festival and a meowerzs of a murder. Our amateur sleuth must prowl her way through the clues before the whole town winds up doomed to a thousand years of sleep. In Broomstick Bay, the annual Fairytale Con is happening and Ruby's family bakery is making the funnel cakes. Everyone is dressing as their favorite fairy tale character. Ruby and Lance are going as Aurora and the Prince. But when a fairy is murdered, Maleficent gives the town an ultimatum. It doesn't even matter that there was a proposal or that Ruby should be the happiest she's ever been.

Heroes invites escalation. Escalation provokes war. War breeds disaster. Aegis and the Paragons are cleaning up the wreckage of a terrorist attack in San Miguel that leaves several dead and dozens transformed into super-humans. The team must root out the culprits before these extremists and...

A small California town—and three people within it—become the targets of an ancient evil. Tess Bellamy's return home is anything but triumphant. She's decided Hollywood isn't for her, resigned to a normal life of caring for her ailing mother. Linna Severand would be a powerful sorceress...

Sunstruck, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

In het bloedstollende slot van deze serie barst de ultieme strijd los. Mare zit gevangen, haar bliksemkracht verdwenen, en leeft in de greep van Maven Calore – de jongen van wie ze ooit hield. Maven heeft de troon overgenomen en blijft zijn web spinnen om zowel zijn land als Mare in zijn macht te houden. Maar de rebellie groeit.

Das System hat von einem Augenblick auf den anderen die Weltherrschaft an sich gerissen und den Menschen alle Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten genommen. Aber nicht nur die Untoten lernen, das Beste aus ihrer Situation zu machen. Auch die Menschen entdecken Möglichkeiten, wieder miteinander in Kontakt zu kommen, und dank des Systems treiben sie bald wieder Handel, verständigen sich und helfen einander.

Eine unheilvolle Stille legte sich über die Hauptstadt. Auf den Straßen erwachten die uralten Legenden zum Leben. Der Nekromanten-Clan wollte sich nicht länger im Verborgenen halten. Es war an der Zeit, die eigene Macht zu offenbaren. Die Verräter würden nun ihre gerechte Strafe erhalten und der Rest musste eine schwierige Wahl treffen.

When I left my old life behind, I thought I’d seen the worst of it. Turns out, I was wrong. Six months after discovering I’m a Warlock, surviving my first semester at a magic college filled with witches, and forming a coven with my roommate, things are getting complicated. Just as I’m starting to make sense of Willowmere and the Witch Families that want me bound to them—or dead—Morgan, the closest thing I had to family in foster care, shows up. Only she’s got magic of her own.

The night the Prince of the East razed her village, Raina Bloodgood's life changed forever. Forced into someone else's war—and into the arms of the Witch Collector, Alexus Thibault—Raina discovered that everything she believed was wrong, and that she was capable of far more than anyone...

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.