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Dying was the easy part. Zander Chung has been sentenced to death by video call. Now, he’s being hunted by homicidal household appliances, having what experts would call a very bad day. His (possibly) immortal grandmother has a solution: put him on the next flight to the Egyptian Duat in search of an inscription. Armed with a sarcastic scarab, an angel in heels, and few useful life skills beyond script-writing, Zander must hoodwink Anubis, survive judgment, and survive an Afterlife that treats the living as a clerical mistake.

Es ist soweit: Meine erste Vollmondnacht steht an – die Nacht, in der sich mein Schicksal für immer entscheidet. Doch mein zukünftiger Alpha hat für diesen letzten Tag, ehe er mich vollständig für sein Rudel beansprucht, etwas Besonderes geplant. Für mich, seine Omega, der er mit Haut und Haaren verfallen ist, wie er mir mit jeder Geste und jedem Wort zu verstehen gibt.

Meine Entscheidung ist gefallen, aber noch ist es nicht soweit, dass ich zu einem Rudel gehöre. Das wird erst in der nächsten Vollmondnacht der Fall sein – also übermorgen. Und dazwischen liegen zwei ganze Tage, in denen sich das Blatt noch ein paar Mal wenden könnte. Nicht zuletzt, da ich mich endlich mit meiner Schwester aussprechen möchte.

The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms. Clearly, he didn't solve the Dragon Problem, and must hand over his fee: eighteen dray-weights of gold. But the Mighty Shandar doesn't do refunds, and vows to eliminate the dragons once and...

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family...

A neurodiverse woman working at a cereal bar discovers that sipping her customers’ leftover cereal milk allows her to enter alternate worlds in which she is finally happy in this amazing new work of "healing fiction." Twenty-seven year-old cereal bar worker Beverly “Bev” Kitsuragi...

Demonofil to opowieść grozy o młodym chłopaku, który odkrywa u siebie niecodzienny talent - potrafi zrozumieć pragnienia i problemy upiorów, demonów i duchów. Nie stara się ich przepędzić jak egzorcysta, ale pomóc im je rozwiązać za co często jest wynagradzany. Kim jest demonofil?...

Ein Klang, der die Welt für immer verändert. Eines Morgens erklingt in ganz London ein sekundenlanger, donnernder Ton, der an ein Nebelhorn erinnert. Anfänglicher Verwirrung folgt Panik, als sich scheinbar willkürlich Menschen in Monster verwandeln und jeden Nicht-Verwandelten auf brutalste Weise angreifen. Vor Ort sind die Krieger des Templerordens ob der Masse der rasenden Otherkin absolut überfordert.

Aaron Conner lives a quiet life. He waits tables at a local restaurant, helps keep the apartment building he lives in maintained, and is slowly beginning to realize the cute lawyer upstairs might see more in him than his handyman skills. But he once walked a very different path. Strangeness at...

The Light Between Wounds is a dazzling urban romantasy that is perfect for fans of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, City of Gods and Monsters, Crescent City and From Blood and Ash. When a young chronically ill woman’s father is killed, she discovers her true heritage and the powers that...

Have you ever passed a shop that wasn't there the day before? When Gip and his father step off the mundane pavement of Regent Street and into the "Genuine Magic Shop," they expect nothing more than card tricks and glass balls. But inside, the mirrors distort more than just reflections, and the...

Nach Jasons Evolution zum Hüter findet er seine aufstrebende Stadt erneut in Aufruhr vor. Ein neuer, tödlicher Feind bedroht den Zwielichtthron – einer, der es mühelos mit Jason und den Mitgliedern von Erbsünde aufnehmen kann. Jason muss sich beeilen, die Kräfte seiner Stadt zu vereinigen. Dazu muss er die Dörfer im Einflussbereich des Zwielichtthrons sichern, eine stetige Einkommensquelle finden und die militärische Stärke der Stadt ausbauen.

Anyone who knows her wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Jilly sees the world through a prism of faerie tales. It was years before I came to understand that she wasn’t just being whimsical when she talked so easily about hobs and brownies and various kinds of faerie creatures. They were real. Faerieland, otherworlds, and all the denizens and creatures you might imagine to live there. It was all real. And so were ghosts. I remember when I first realized this. I felt like my head was going to explodeJuniper left her life as a Hollywood actor to live quietly back home in Newford.

Meet Jenella, a reluctant, flawed incoming queen. In book one, The Dragon Problem, she experiences freedom for the first time and discovers a coup. In book two, Bug Magic, Jenella and her friend discover a strange magic, and she makes a tough decision. In book three, Crowns and Curses, things are looking up. Until everyone she cares about starts acting strange.

A hidden enemy. A bitter price for victory. My name is Nadia. I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves, and I've lived through some terrifying things. Including the Mage Fall. And now, to my enormous annoyance, they're making a movie about it. The High Queen wants it to happen, so it's going to happen. Except someone has been sabotaging the production, and the sabotage has escalated to murder. A new enemy is in the shadows, and if I don't solve the murder, a lot of bad things are going to happen...

The human government knows about us. We understood the risk we took when we took the battle to the city. But we didn’t plan for their government to flood the area, harass the hybrids, and cause a media frenzy. Nor did we understand the sheer amount of information they had about us.

2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, Fantasy Only Ludwig can save the fairies—if he can be bothered to. Long before sirens and subways, New York’s first residents—noise-loathing fairies—fled underground to escape the city’s ever-increasing roar. Now, after centuries of...

When Jack Solomon, a struggling American musician who works in London's West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history. Jack soon discovers that many of those who reside in the stratums of London's past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channelled by a powerful society of magic wielders who can cross the realms between life and death, between the present and the past.

Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor...

Xavier's life is changing, again, but this time, things are different. He's developing new powers, more abilities, and control over spells. As his bonds grow with Hayley, Nicki, Brooke, and Amora, he can't help but wonder where the future will take him. That, and how to eradicate the corruption. Meadow Song needs saving, and Xavier has a plan, but he needs time to prepare, to finalize. But that's not all. Amora is Ironshire's newest resident! And she wants a lot more than just a room.