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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.

A devastating plague, the missing cure, and a healer who didn’t plan for love… I’m Faelynn, a healer and servant of the fae God. I’d sworn off every fae male who set his sights on me … until him. Dreythis was … unexpected. He has the answers to the questions I face, and resisting his pull on our journey will be no easy feat. The fae in my city are sick with a mysterious plague, and my healer magic has done little to help. With so many dying, I never expected that crossing paths with this fae warrior would lead me to the cure. But will solving one problem only bring me to another?

For Maddy Madrigal, preserving the peace in her exclusive neighborhood feels like walking a razor’s edge. Her grasp on her newfound magic is tenuous at best. And now, there are disturbing signs the spell she cast to keep supernatural entities at bay may be beginning to falter.

I'm Eddie Drood, aka Shaman Bond and my family holds back the forces of darkness. It's a full-time job - and we're good at it . . . But now, the Droods have hit a bad patch, what with the death of their Matriarch and the discovery that she was killed by one of their own. It's left the family in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Murder is money, and business is booming. The Mortons are a modern day, old money dynasty with impeccable taste, from exquisite cocktails and expertly tailored vintage garments to stone cold murder. Jessica is their golden child, a perfectly crafted apprentice to the...

Now living in a new world, Ava has the answers about her family she so desperately sought. But answers come at a cost. As she tries to face the trauma she endured upon her arrival in the realm of Eorhan, she must find her inner strength and courage to take her rightful place, or risk falling apart. With the threat of war looming after their enemies have returned, Ava is the only one with the ability to send the daemon queen back to her realm. And to do so, she must train with Casimir, the broody general of the Earth Kingdom, to complete a harrowing journey to the revered tree of her people.

Broke and rejected by both the Adventurer and Courier Guilds, Alex doesn't slay monsters, but he does need a job before he hits rock bottom―and he'll take whatever he can get. That's when he stumbles into Nino's: a hole-in-the-wall slice shop run by an eccentric pizzaiolo . . . who happens to be a lich. Alex is hired to deliver delicious pizza to dungeon bosses in sixty minutes or less―or else. Armed with a seemingly useless skillset, he'll need to dodge adventurers, deal with scorned exes, and hope for loot in place of tips.

Now that Missy has finally graduated from West Point, she can marry her soulmate Mike. Of course, she also has joined her Special Forces team as their executive officer and there are lots of added responsibilities which go along with that role. Can she carry those out and still handle her role as Alpha for her werewolf pack? Then, too, she has that other role she plays in Russia, being a spy while also being a celebrity. One thing leads to another while doing that and soon she finds someone has targeted her for death.