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Rescued from prison by a conniving benefactor, she reluctantly accepts a world-shattering assignment: assassinate Emperor Bharata. This vicious ruler has built a vast empire in the east and now sets his sights on the United Kingdom.

Ich, das einfache Hooters Girl, bin mit zwei scharfen Kerlen unterwegs, die sich in riesige Wölfe – oder Canicore, wie sie sich nennen – verwandeln können. Sitze mit ihnen in einem Auto und fahre Richtung Manhattan zu ihrem luxuriösen Penthaus, wo noch vier weitere solche Typen wohnen. Entweder bin ich gerade auf einem Trip, der mich in ein heißes Paralleluniversum befördert hat, oder aber das hier ist der Start in ein äußerst aufregendes Leben.

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.

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.

Seanan McGuire’s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with the fifteenth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us. "Emily Bauer's narration of this contemporary ghost story is...

A Whitlow is missing, and the quest to find her takes Tula and her sisters to a dangerous and magical island off the coast of Savannah. She'll need to survive an unearthly hoard, a disappearing sun, spirits gone mad, alligators, and maybe the scariest of all, a group of drunken thespians. In the search for her cousin, Tula will begin to scratch the surface of a mystery that could destroy the thing she holds most dear—her own birthright as a Whitlow. What she's learned could open up access to a power she never believed was possible. 

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.

Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by the author of Perdido Street Station, China Miéville. Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes...

Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways—phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway—and Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade.

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?

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.

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.

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect 'monsters' are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, both US Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer. But some monsters are very real. The Harlequin have been the bogeymen of the vampire world for more than a thousand years. Now they are here in America, hunting both weretigers and human police. They serve the Mother of All Darkness, the first vampire – supposedly dead, but only her body was destroyed.

Veda Thorne is living on borrowed time. After exhausting every magical cure for the fatal curse trapped inside her, she’s accepted her fate. But Veda’s self-imposed isolation begins to crack when she’s asked to tutor Antaris, a child whose pain calls to her own. Hiram Ellis left his wealthy, prejudiced family years ago. Now unexpectedly thrust into single fatherhood, he returns to his hometown, determined to build a life far from the cold privilege that stifled his own childhood. The last thing he expects is to be drawn to the fiercely protective, sharp-tongued woman helping his son.

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.

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.

‘Even better than the Farseer books. I didn’t think that was possible’ GEORGE RR MARTIN The triumphant conclusion to the magnificent Liveship Traders series. The dragon, Tintaglia, released from her wizardwood coffin, flies high over the Rain Wild River. Below her, Reyn and Selden have...

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.