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In Charm Cove, Maine, spring means blooming flowers, thawed snow, and just a hint of everyday magic. Moira Wicked is embracing it all—her powers, her future, and her recent engagement to Liam. Life is finally settling down. Until it starts raining daisies. One minute, the town looks like a picture-perfect coastal getaway. The next, it's drowning in daisies—falling from the sky, sprouting from rooftops, carpeting lawns, and turning every surface into a floral explosion. Pretty? Sure. Magical menace? Definitely.

Rahil Zaman has good reason to keep his distance from the world—and his fangs are only part of that. He hides in his home, acquiring blood through the risky one-night stands he finds on hunter-infested hookup apps. After one such fling turns sour, Rahil ends up trapped in the work shed of the one match he wishes would respond to his flirtations. Finding the hot twink he'd been ghosting inside his work shed was not on Mercer Bloncourt's agenda. But Rahil is not the only intruding presence in Mercer's life.

Hokulani ist eine Außenseiterin an ihrem Riff. Einst die Hoffnung ihres Volkes, ist sie jetzt auf den kalten und dunklen Meeresboden verbannt. Als sie einen Taucher vor dem Ertrinken rettet, bricht sie eines der wichtigsten Gesetze des Ozeans und bringt damit die Meermenschen Hawaiis in Gefahr. Um Schlimmes abzuwenden, lässt sie sich auf einen fatalen Handel ein und bindet sich an den Geretteten. Seine Unbarmherzigkeit erschüttert sie tief. In ihrer dunkelsten Stunde trifft sie auf den idealistischen Kaleo, dessen Meervolk sich der längst verloren geglaubten Magie des Ozeans bedient.

Life is weird. One day, you're in the garden, tending your tulips and growing your flower farm business, and the next, your doctor is handing you a prescription for synthetic blood and signing you up for vampire support groups.

Lynx shifter Addison has come to the quaint Montana town of Nickel City to work at a new, shifters-only daycare. She doesn't expect to meet a breathtakingly gorgeous man on her first day wrangling owl toddlers and armadillo kids. But she's been dazzled by a handsome face before and barely got away from her last controlling boyfriend. Can she trust her lynx's instinct that this is where she's meant to be at last?

As a former sergeant in the Army, I’d like to think I’m very practical and level headed. But after I moved back to Louisiana and reconnected with my best friend and his wife, they somehow convinced me to join them in their new hobby: Ghost hunting. At first, I thought we would just have a little fun on the weekends, and I’d get to spend more time with my friends and the cute girls in the group, but then I witnessed things that have no logical explanation. People appearing and disappearing in the blink of an eye. Objects moving around in the old beach house I’m renting.

In the small town of Shadow Hills, Tennessee, paranormals and humans coexist on charming cobblestone streets. For tourists, it's the perfect place to visit and experience Halloween all year round. But for Raegan Baker, it's home. Living among werewolves, vampires, and other beings unlike herself is perfectly normal, and besides the small town drama, Raegan's life is peaceful. She's happy working at the local bookstore, Bound & Buried, and spending time with her two best friends, Jamie and Joanna.

Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the north-east of England with their 'sound.' Their songs tell the stories of the Solkats: fictional northern gods of small things, of mishap and mayhem. Absolutely no one knows what they're on about. But they believe in their music, and in each other. And they're happy. That is, until an act of violence at a pub gig goes viral, they catch the eye of a disillusioned influencer and suddenly go from having a cult following to having a cult, following.

This used to be about dungeons...but these days it's more about sharing a pot of tea, or teaching someone the proper way to make a sandwich, or deciding whether your mysterious egg needs more sunlight. Yes, you still venture into dungeons—two in one day, if you're feeling ambitious—and there are still monsters to fight and treasures to find. But when you come out, what matters isn't the treasures you've gathered, it's whether everyone's coming to temple day or if you can all find something fancy enough to wear to the opera.

Luna is worried about Duncan, the new roguishly charming werewolf in her life. He’s gone missing, and she’s sure their enemies are behind it. She’s determined to find and rescue Duncan, but her attention is split because her son is home for the holidays. Before long, her enemies are after him too. Why is all the trouble in her life spilling over onto those she cares about? To fix her problems and help her loved ones, Luna will need all the power, potions, and chocolate (especially chocolate) that she can scrounge up. But against foes who know werewolves well, even that may not be enough.

Auf dem gesamten Planeten erwachen die Epizentren zum Leben und die Erdspalten verhalten sich unberechenbar. Es scheint an der Zeit, dass sich die Menschheit angesichts dieser gemeinsamen Bedrohung zusammenschließt. Doch es gibt zu viele Menschen, die ihre eigenen Interessen über das Allgemeinwohl stellen. Für die adeligen Familien mag dies kein Problem sein, doch für einen Jäger, für den seit jeher das Wohl der Menschheit an erster Stelle stand, ist diese Geisteshaltung nicht vertretbar.

Der Goldene Löwe hat sich mit den Überresten seiner Armee nach Atalia zurückgezogen. Im vom Krieg zerrissenen Bergonia herrscht eine angsterfüllte Ruhe, die wahrscheinlich nicht lange anhalten wird. Max wurde endlich die Bürde des Oberbefehls von den Schultern genommen, und er bricht ins nördliche Bergonia auf. Sein Ziel: Die Ländereien der Markgrafschaft de Valier, die ihm der König Carl III. übergeben hat.

In Hell's Kitchen, where magic and mayhem are just part of the neighborhood, Vinny "The Charm" Caruso has carved out a reputation as a boxer with supernatural flair. His charm magic gives him an edge in and out of the ring, allowing him to navigate the underworld of magical fight clubs and supernatural politics.

Danica Grey, her fae dragon partner Jilly, and the Spellbound Security team have scored another big client. A whistleblower whose secret threatens to destroy several wealthy titans of industry along with their companies. It's a dramatic change from protecting celebrities, but the team is all-in. It doesn't matter that the ones hunting the whistleblower have endless resources.

When Vivian's kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys, and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire.

Vance Westlake, a.k.a. the disgraced hero, Sentinel Remarkable, has been shunned by the hero community as a whole. He's fed up with being everyone's figurative and literal punching bag and he's nearly lost his faith in heroism. Deciding that he needs a change of pace, Vance leave Los Angeles behind and embarks on a roadtrip to figure things out and hopefully, find a sign of what he's supposed to do. By chance or maybe destiny, Vance ends up Medford, Oregon and with a random encounter with sisters, Alice and Matt, it doesn't take long for him to run into trouble.

After a simple dinner with a god went very, very wrong, fae mage Chalmys was cursed to remain locked in his tiny realm. Until, that is, he could find someone to tell his story. All of his story. Easy enough, on the surface. However, revealing the truth of his origins will put his mother’s soul at risk, and he’s trapped in his realm alone. To share his story at all, Chalmys is forced to connect with bards through dreams, and after centuries of tangled tales gone wrong, he has nearly given up hope. Until the night he connects with her.

There’s a new fey in town. She’s the Knight of Joy and I want to harsh all over her good vibes in the worst way. Sure, Portland could use a bit more happiness, but Joy’s flavor is the all-consuming kind that renders folks content to hand their souls to the fey. Not on my turf. The trouble is I can’t touch her. The Queen of Summer has threatened to shatter Secret’s mother and send me the pieces if I lay a single claw on her knight.

A wizard's mansion. A menagerie of magical creatures. One grimoire bonded to a seemingly ordinary young man from London. When Joe Ramsey took a job in a quaint yet otherwise ordinary part of London, the last thing he expected to find was a house filled to the brim with magic. The peculiar man who called himself a wizard has now offered Joe a job. He's to be caretaker to the magical creatures who live in the wizard's house. It's not long, however, before Joe finds himself bonded with one such creature: a grimoire.

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality.