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Da saß ich nun, mutterseelenallein auf meinem Floß, um mich herum die Weite des Ozeans. Hinter mir loderten die Flammen noch immer über der Insel der Freiheit. Vor mir erstreckte das Wasser sich bis zum Horizont. Ich wusste nicht, ob jemand von den anderen Insassen überlebt hatte. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, ob man mich suchen würde – und wenn ja, wer. Meine einzige Option lag darin, weiterzumachen und mich einem unbekannten Schicksal anzuvertrauen.

Rimasta orfana, Opal ha lasciato la scuola e ora lavora come commessa part time, sperando di guadagnare abbastanza per garantire al fratello Jasper una vita migliore. Una vita lontano da Eden, nel Kentucky, un luogo celebre solo per due cose: la sua sfortuna e la scrittrice E. Starling, autrice del romanzo Il Sottomondo, misteriosamente scomparsa cent'anni prima lasciando dietro di sé solo chiacchiere e un'antica dimora nascosta tra gli alberi. Tutti concordano su un fatto: meglio ignorare quella casa e il suo bizzarro, misantropo proprietario, Arthur Starling. Quasi tutti, a dire il vero.

Once upon a time, Mia Thorne loved birthdays. Then she turned 40 and the urge to celebrate ceased. Now that she’s reinvented herself in Newberry, she thinks it might be time to dust off the candles again. Unfortunately, a dead body and a stolen coin disrupt her festive plans.

Olivia Dawson can’t seem to catch a break. Her boss is retiring and her immediate supervisor, an awful woman with a personal vendetta against her, looks to be getting his job. Her love life is in shambles, her best friend won’t shut the hell up about Star Trek, and her elderly neighbor won’t stop hitting her car with his pickup.

When Bridget indulges her urge to break free from her monotonous existence for an afternoon, she unleashes the tragic memories that she had successfully numbed out. As she relives her past, Bridget awakens to her family’s Celtic ancestry and a bloodline of empowered Matriarchs. She must choose whether or not to embrace her prophesied potential to master the Craft of The Tinaru, an ancient skill to wield the elements of earth, water, air, fire, and spirit.

Dieser Sammelband enthält drei wunderschöne magische Geschichten, über das Leben von Viola. Die zauberhafte erste Begegnung mit einem ganz besonderen kleinen Vogel. Er erhielt den Namen Life und veränderte von da an Violas Leben. Sie hilft und unterstützt andere Menschen. So kam es dazu, dass sie auf ein kleines Mädchen namens Mia traf, die es nicht leicht hatte in ihrem Leben. Viola bekam die Chance, dieses wundervolle Mädchen bei sich aufzunehmen. Mia hatte ein Handicap, mit dem nicht jeder umgehen konnte. Auch die Mitmenschen waren nicht immer gut zu ihr.

Unwiderruflich hat der Würfel Talus die Gesetze der magischen Welt unter Edinburgh verändert. Die alten Regeln, die jahrhundertelang galten, sind außer Kraft gesetzt, und das Gleichgewicht der Mächte zwischen den Hexen-Zirkeln existiert nicht mehr. Während das Artefakt den Tarot-Legern ungeahnte Kräfte verliehen hat, deren Ausmaße noch niemand wirklich kennt, haben die Element-Zirkel einen Teil ihrer Macht verloren. Um ihre Welt vor Chaos und Vernichtung zu retten, ist die Hexe Jessica auf der Suche nach uralten Runen.

In modern-day Manhattan where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal empires. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters—each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless—and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants, known only as Baba Yaga.

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.

Matti Puletasi finally has the name of one of the people responsible for her parents’ kidnapping. He’s a powerful billionaire with magical security strong enough to keep out dragons, but she’s determined to get in to question him. Make that interrogate him.

After The Gatherings cult leader, Matthew, fails to rally the public against the gryphons, he attracts unwanted attention. Desperate to avoid public scrutiny, he searches for ways to make Thyra’s and Johnathen’s life miserable. While Thyra excels in her new Gryphball team, Matthew puts plans into action to resurrect a ghost from her past to haunt her, but his rashness may spell his downfall. He's determined to rid the city of these "Gryphon abominations" and burn all in his path to accomplish his objective.

Tasked with investigating a series of gruesome killings, the Rhapta hunters Haris and Mitra are on the trail of the Ubir Basma, who’s rumored to be lurking somewhere in the south-eastern US. But when they stumble upon a horde of rogue Ubir hiding deep in the bayou, they quickly realize that something is terribly wrong.

Le destin de Cérès, étudiante à l'université de Rome, bascule lorsqu'elle apprend que toute son existence repose sur un mensonge. Lesath, messager du royaume d'Herulya dont elle est originaire, débarque dans sa vie pour lui annoncer qu'elle est la future princesse de ce pays empreint de mystère et de magie. Doté d'une aura aussi intimidante que magnétique, l'ambassadeur sulfureux réveille en elle une sensualité exacerbée qui va à l'encontre de son destin : épouser le prince héritier d'Herulya.

« Tombe cent fois. Relève-toi cent fois. N'abandonne jamais. » Beladyn et Aube sont en danger entre les griffes du Seigneur des Ombres. Panama est prête à tout pour les sauver, quitte à se constituer prisonnière avec ses Reliques Célestes et à affronter la fureur glaciale de son plus proche ennemi. De son côté, plus perdue que jamais, l’Enfant des Dix Prophéties est déchirée entre ses parents.

Agentin Kimberley Reynolds ist beim FBI zuständig für seltsame, übernatürliche und schlichtweg okkulte Dinge. Leider gibt es in den Keller-Akten beklagenswerte Lücken, so dass sie nach dem rätselhaften Anruf eines Ex-Kollegen ziemlich blindlings nach Wisconsin reisen muss. Ungünstigerweise hat dort ein Eistornado Stadtverwaltung und Polizeirevier in einen Trümmerhaufen verwandelt und Patrick Henderson ist spurlos verschwunden. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass er gewaltsam entführt wurde - von etwas, das kein Mensch war.

Luanne and Shawna Gawama head out of Gales Haven for a spontaneous day of adventurous fun. They expect to drink a little too much and dance the night away. Definitely to forget about all the trouble that’s befallen their hometown since their niece Marla’s return.

Maurice used his Fae magic to help the downtrodden and abused. But when he went too far, the Powers-That-Be decided he needed to learn humility, self-restraint, and mercy. They took away most of his magic, shrunk him down to five inches, and slapped wings on his back that no self-respecting Fae would be caught dead in. Then they exiled him to the Human realms, to work out his sentence helping Humans.

Maine cast a good luck spell to save the love of her life from prison, but at what cost? Magic is controlled by chaos, and with every instance of magically enhanced good luck comes some corresponding bad luck. Sage is free, but so is the Demon who created the Mantle. The Demon has escaped from his celestial prison. He is gathering his minions and is gunning for the Mantle. But the Mantle isn't the only weapon the Demon wants. There are other, more powerful items around . . . and none more so than Father Time's Clock.

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.

La survie est essentielle, encore plus quand elle est guidée par la vengeance. Pour les passionnés d’Urban Fantasy, voici une saga sombre et captivante, portée par une femme avide de revanche, prête à tout braver au cœur d’une apocalypse surnaturelle. Keira semblait avoir une vie parfaite, jusqu’à ce que tout s’effondre sous le joug de créatures surnaturelles asservissant l’humanité.