検索キーワード： 現代文学

Briar Pryce has the power to change the emotions of others by handing them a rose. It is a talent that has done surprisingly little for her, besides landing her a dead-end enchantment delivery job and killing any chance she had with her childhood-crush-turned-roommate. Worst of all, her ability might be responsible for getting her best friend transformed into a cat via a cursed muffin basket. Needless to say, Briar is nowhere near happily-ever-after.

While Pete worries about Christmas shopping for the first time since 1972, trouble-making vampire Christopher Greeley rolls back into Hollywood, looking for a taste of the greasy magic power that now courses through Pete’s bloodstream—a power Pete’s not even sure he wants. It might control his hunger for blood, but the side effects may vary, including accidentally summoning ravenous, building-destroying monsters.

As a small child, Terry Haynes is involved in a fatal car accident, losing everyone he loved. Amy Doorie is a small-town girl who wants nothing more than to escape her mundane life. After 10 years away, Terry returns, but not as the same person. With secrets that he cannot explain, can Terry be with Amy without risking her life? With a mysterious stalker determined to make his fears a reality, can Terry keep the life he has always wanted?

Hinweis: Aus Spoilergründen enthält jede Episode denselben Klappentext. Als Riley die Haushälterin tot in der Badewanne vorfindet, ändert sich sein Leben für immer. Er muss das Erbe als Hunter antreten, um die Risse zwischen den Dimensionen zu reparieren. Denn die Wesen, die sonst aus Shadowcross in die idyllische Kleinstadt Redwater gelangen, haben nur ein Ziel: Die Menschheit zu vernichten. Das Schicksal der Welt lastet plötzlich auf seinen Schultern, Freunde werden zu Feinden, doch können auch Feinde zu Freunden werden?

Hinweis: Aus Spoilergründen enthält jede Episode denselben Klappentext. Als Riley die Haushälterin tot in der Badewanne vorfindet, ändert sich sein Leben für immer. Er muss das Erbe als Hunter antreten, um die Risse zwischen den Dimensionen zu reparieren. Denn die Wesen, die sonst aus Shadowcross in die idyllische Kleinstadt Redwater gelangen, haben nur ein Ziel: Die Menschheit zu vernichten. Das Schicksal der Welt lastet plötzlich auf seinen Schultern, Freunde werden zu Feinden, doch können auch Feinde zu Freunden werden?

There's no magic in any realm that can fix this mess. I've just got to dig in and get to work. One day I'm fighting beside my best friends in the Fae realm, and the next, I can't light a candle without burning down my house. I always thought witches weren't supposed to have hot flashes unless we were cursed. But then the day came when I discovered that I'm cursed. How? Well, the pandering ex and the nearly-empty nest would be bad enough on their own. But did I mention the demonic assassin who's set his sights on me too? I told you, I'm cursed.

When a young couple, Allison and Nigel, break house arrest to visit a nudist colony, their lives become intertwined with a visionary lawn ornament artist and a pair of women, Annalise and Lakshmi, who compulsively steal Baby Jesuses from church nativities. While on their road trip, Nigel loses their baby daughter in a novelty shop and deserts Allison, who finds herself lost in a strange town and deep in a mushroom trip.

The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine is about a web of secrets, triggered by the stealing and copying of people’s imaginations and memories. It’s about the magic that can be conjured up by images of people, in imagination or on film; the split between beauty and happiness in the world; and the allure of various kinds of power.

Dès leur arrivée à New York, les sept loups-garous composant la Horde se font attaquer par un gang de sorciers. Qui peut avoir l'audace d'affronter l'élite guerrière des lycans ? La Horde va mener l'enquête, et elle n'est pas la seule puisque les humains sont aussi sur l'affaire. Silence, le lycan le plus expérimenté de la bande, devra se surpasser afin de protéger ses frères et, plus encore, le secret de l'existence des loups-garous. Une mission difficile à accomplir, surtout avec cette policière sur leurs traces.

Tristram Jones has an opal that is of deep significance to his teacher, Ivan MacAllister: a compelling and charismatic mentor haunted by a trauma caused by the witch doctor Dinewan. Named after the Great Emu Spirit of the Dreamtime, is Dinewan just a bitter, hateful misfit whose mind has been warped by an old family legend...or something far more dangerous?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Everything the pack has been fighting for, they finally achieved. But it wasn't the end. It was nothing like they expected. There are consequences for every action, good or bad, and Amber must now face down the inevitable fallout from her choices. She asked her allies to trust her. To follow her. And they did. Now they're all paying for it.

Hell hath no fury like a shifter scorned. Savannah has just been invaded by a pack of dangerous bikers - killer cats with greed and vengeance on their minds. Jackson Hunter’s past has finally caught up to him. So has the woman who refuses to let him go - a cat with some sharp claws. Katie Bishop is starting to wonder if she knows her boyfriend at all. He’s just given her two million reasons in cash to doubt that, and the shifters he used to ride with back in Atlanta want to get their hands on it. But they want more than just the money.

Ils sont sept guerriers loups-garous et forment la Horde, l'élite guerrière de leur race. Ils se nomment Domination, Abomination, Thunder, Silence, Ombre, Temptation et Ash. Leur rôle est de protéger les leurs contre les attaques de leurs plus farouches ennemis, les sorciers et sorcières. Depuis quatre cents ans, les lycans subissent leurs assauts aussi magiques que violents, et ce, sur tout le territoire nord-américain. De nos jours, sur la côte Est des USA, des morts suspectes de jeunes gens attirent l'attention.

Le sang est une arme. Celle des Ombres. Ces créatures sans visage qui détruisent les Hommes. Quel lien les unit à Kira ? Le seul et unique soldat capable de les anéantir afin de protéger l'espèce humaine, cloîtrée sous terre, régie par la terreur. Seulement voilà, tout pouvoir demande des sacrifices. Et Ellis, jeune recrue, est désignée pour devenir sa nouvelle Source, celle dans laquelle il plongera sans hésitation pour se nourrir de l'énergie nécessaire pour alimenter son pouvoir... même si pour cela, il doit lui voler sa vie.

Daegan is given an unconscionable task to execute before he’ll be told how to find the last grimoire volume. Casidhe jumps at learning the truth of her bloodline, only to discover a deadly surprise. While running solo, Reese angers the Imortik master who sends two possessed Beladors to drag her to him. Human military lock on Evalle and her Belador team racing to stop preternatural threats. With one last hope of surviving, Cathbad goes all-in and encounters a battle he never planned for. The Imortik master escalates his plans sooner than anyone expected.

Conrad and Mina take a time-out from trouble in Spain. It’s their own little Garden of Eden, until a Tarot reader tells him that his troubles have barely begun. Expelled from Paradise, Conrad and the team have to chase the trail of a new source of Alchemical Gold. A source that already has Dwarves, Gnomes, and human Mages at each other’s throats.

There is magic in the mundane, if only you look for it. This collection of four stories will have you taking a second glance at the world around you. 

Conrad’s 11x great grandfather has been haunting his house since 1622, keeping a secret and biding his time. A secret that spells trouble for the world of magick. The King’s Watch want to Summon him. The keepers of the secret don’t want that to happen. They unleash a fire Mage to stop the summoning and don’t care who dies on the way. And when Spectre Thomas finally makes an appearance, he passes the guilt of old sins on to Conrad’s shoulders.

Otherworldly and mundane collide when a young New York psychologist takes on a charismatic patient who may be delusional or may literally come from the Otherworld of her suppressed childhood nightmares. Driven to solve the intriguing case, Anna Reilly tries to unwind the thread of John Doe’s story, but instead becomes entangled in an uncertain relationship that challenges her sexuality, sanity, and her very sense of reality. 

Guy is about to finish writing his breakthrough online article. He overheard the story by chance in a pub and it’s guaranteed to go viral - all he needs to do is persuade the World’s Unluckiest Man to talk to him. His best friend Larry’s quest for killer clickbait material has led him to a recently appeared shanty town in Glasgow, where he finds some kind of urban voodoo cult. Ex-cop Sam has already come face-to-face with the terrifying force behind both these phenomena, but he’s been trying to put it out of his mind.