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In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small Southern town.

Zander is in an auction house for the sole purpose of getting someone to sign a contract. He doesn't have any interest in owning a blood slave—until he lays eyes on Max. That, he must have. Max is there for reasons of his own, mostly desperate reasons, and he's braced himself for a year of hell, which doesn't seem to be forthcoming. Someone needs to explain to this vampire that he's supposed to use Max, not spoil him. Zander doesn't seem to get it.

But when your enemies try to reveal your big secret, that you were a mundane man from the mundane world, do you think you could not only stop them, but win the day and come out of it all stronger and smarter? You could...if you were the King of Alchemy.

Artémis, le vampire légendaire, a des ennuis. Mais Kyle, le loup-garou sexy qui a fait de moi sa compagne, refuse que je me lance sur la piste du suceur de sang. Son argument ? Ça pue les ennuis à plein nez. Bien sûr, je ne l'écoute pas. Je ne suis pas du genre à laisser mes amis dans le caca.

Als Vivienne Jones von Rhys Penhallow verlassen wird, tut sie, was jede junge Hexe an ihrer Stelle getan hätte: Sie lässt sich ein Bad ein, mixt sich einen ordentlichen Drink und verflucht den Mistkerl, der ihr das Herz gebrochen hat. Neun Jahre später ist Vivi immer noch nicht über Rhys hinweg, und als dieser zum jährlichen Herbstfest nach Graves Glen zurückkehrt, beschließt sie, ihn zu ignorieren. Leichter gesagt, als getan, denn Vivis alter Fluch entfaltet mit Rhys Besuch erst seine volle Wirkung, und plötzlich ist das ganze Städtchen in Gefahr.

Pissing off God comes with consequences, which should have been obvious in hindsight. For Loki and Lucifer, it’s a victory—and the least of their problems. Building an infernal army is a lot harder when trying to fit it around eight daily hours of mind-numbing labor, uncooperative fugitive deities, and competing layers of escalating sabotage. Even worse, behind its bland corporate veneer, Providence is anything but that: its deities brim with magic, secrets, and ancient scars. The career path is soul-destroying.

A young musician escapes from the kingdom on the night before a great battle is to occur. In his attempt to sneak away in the darkness, he is met by others who soon become traveling companions as his journey to discover his role in a war that will sweep the entire world begins.

Penelope has embraced her destiny as the new Archivist for the magicians, but with an impending war against the formidable priests of Thevetat looming, and the tides of magic intensifying, she must swiftly navigate her perilous new world if she's going to outwit their adversaries. To vanquish them, Penelope and Alexis must unearth a weapon capable of obliterating him forever.

Eine magische Welt und das Verbot, seine Gaben zu nutzen. Trotz gesetzlicher Verbote nutzt Runa seit Jahren heimlich die Gabe ihrer Familie, in Bücher zu reisen. Dabei begibt sie sich jedes Mal wieder in Gefahr. Als sie ein Treffen mit dem geheimnisvollen Kirian prophezeit, muss sie sich mit dem Gedanken anfreunden, dass sie mehr als nur die Lesergabe innehat. Ihre Suche nach Antworten stößt etwas Unaufhaltsames an, das nicht nur ihr Leben verändert.

Folge 3: Der Feind zeigt endlich sein wahres Gesicht! Der skrupellose Bauunternehmer Alexander von Hohenfels hält Mercurius mithilfe von gefährlichen Nebelwesen gefangen. Und obwohl Merc sich nach Kräften wehrt, schafft er es nicht, sich zu befreien. Hohenfels befragt ihn zu seiner Verbindung zum Wasserschemen und verrät dabei viel über Mercs eigene Vergangenheit. Mehr als die Hexen diesem jemals verraten haben.

Folge 3: Im Wald von Spellbound wird ein gläserner Sarg gefunden - mit einem schlafenden Zwerg darin! Und Emmas Hexenfreundin Sophie wird beschuldigt, den dazugehörigen Fluch ausgesprochen zu haben. Doch Emma weiß, dass ihre Freundin keiner Fliege etwas zuleide tun kann geschweige denn Zwerge verzaubert. Durch die Ermittlungen gerät sie mitten in die Dating-Szene von Spellbound, wo viele Bewohner der Stadt darauf brennen, ihre Bekanntschaft zu machen.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheque, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions reside.

Until an oracle predicted my regal future, I'd never imagined myself rising above the curve of my round ears. After all, I was the magicless halfling loved by beasts but loathed by every pure-blooded faerie at court. Well...by all but one.

Jane Wilson disappeared when she was a child. When she learned to make herself invisible, her teachers made her disappear from Neighborlee Children's Home. And just in time, right before some nasty folks known only as the Rivals tried to take her away to turn her into a weapon.

A dark wind gathers on Chaco Navajo reservation, deep in the heart of New Mexico. Grant Romer, the Keeper of the secret bell, can feel it pulling at his soul. Caroline and Owen work as hard as they can to treat the Navajo, but the dark wind brings a desperation to their clinic that is beyond western medicine.

August Porter is a lucrative investor, admired for his ethics and respected for his success. Engaged to a beautiful businesswoman, his life looks like the American dream. But August has a secret. His nights are spent fighting for his life—trying to escape talons that drag him into darkness, fleeing monsters promising an end to his future.

When a strange man with unexplainable strength and reflexes attacks Cam's client in the streets of Berlin, Cam is thrown headfirst into the veiled world—a magical world hidden from humans.

After 30 years, Matti has learned that the dwarven mother she believed dead might only be missing—kidnapped by those who want to control her ability to enchant powerful world-changing artifacts. But where is she now? And why is the elf assassin Sarrlevi so invested in helping find her?

Desperate inhabitants kneel before Baelor, imprisoning themselves within a system of magic and sorcery. A remnant who choose Aleph find themselves scattered across the entire world, following the narrow path set before them.

With the Summoning Gate under threadbare control and the Stranger defeated, Tira’s sights turn now to the war with Amedia. Their raiding party is en route with the sole intention of crushing what they think is the last surviving Kholvenic Dungeon—her.