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In Lissy Rabenstein's Bibliothek wird ein Mann ermordet. Und obwohl sie nun offizielle Ermittlerin des Rates ist, gestaltet sich die Spurensuche schwierig. Lissy freut sich über die Ausstellung magischer Artefakte in der Bibliothek. Übernatürliche von nah und fern sind angereist, um sie zu bestaunen. Die Freude währt allerdings nur so lange, bis ein Mord geschieht und sich alle Augen auf Lissy richten, die den Fall aufklären soll. Neben ihrer Einführung in den Hexenkoven und der Suche nach einer neuen Bleibe hat Lissy wenig Zeit für die Ermittlungen.

After a bad breakup with his ex-girlfriend, a vacation on a quiet Island is supposed to help Neil recover and relax. But without warning, he finds his whole life reset. It's either an apocalypse across the whole of planet earth, or some kind of new, evil system. And to complicate matters, now he's surrounded by hot, leggy girls. So to survive in this new virtual world, Neil will have to fight to level up. Make progression fast or die. All that, and keep a party of beautiful women happy. Not to mention, keep them alive.

With Emma hidden on Earth for her safety, Queen Lila holds the power to Emma’s throne, and she’s using it for genocide. She has the magical strength, she has the political power, and the only woman who could stop her is thousands of lightyears away.

The legendary Orion has been hunting monsters for millennia—he's very good at it. That's why they gave him a constellation in the night sky. But that prowess comes with a price. There are many who hold a grudge against him. So when someone starts killing Nephilim in Los Angeles with the style of an old foe, there's no doubt that it's personal.

Recovered from a near-fatal assault and rearmed with his embedded football scouting skills, former nobody Max Best has led his Chester men's team up in the rankings and ratings both on the pitch and in the front office. But there's no rest to be had with what's ahead: the FA Cup. Now, they're playing against big-money teams with big talent and even bigger attitudes. And the elite aren't about to let some smart-aleck, fast-talking upstart and his underdog lads make the powerhouse clubs look like fools. Unfortunately for them, that's precisely what Max lives for.

Elana Bishop always knew she was different. She never imagined how much. Thrust into a world of ancient vampire conspiracies, Elana discovers she's not just a newly-awakened vampire—she's royalty. Determined to use her privileged position for good, Elana hatches an ambitious plan to revolutionize construction using vampire technology. She envisions a future where humans and vampires live side-by-side, learning from each other.

It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing… She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located, and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced. But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of.

"Whispers of the Unseen" follows the journey of Sammy Whitfield, a high school outcast in the small town of Ashwood. Sammy discovers she has telekinetic abilities, which she struggles to control amidst relentless bullying and the oppressive influence of her fanatically religious mother, Mary. Sammy finds solace and support in her newfound friend Alex Carter, who helps her uncover the origins of her powers and teaches her techniques to manage them.

Summer has arrived in Wildwood Heath, and with it comes the town's annual carnival and its accompanying flower contest. Robin is confident that her mother's roses will once again take the top prize and is content to spend her free time reconnecting with her father after the years they've spent apart, but a distraction arrives in the form of a customer being poisoned to death at the local coffee shop. Unfortunately for Robin, the poisoning happens right in front of her and her dad… and her cousin, Rowan, whose job at the coffee shop soon lands her at the top of the suspect list.

Werewolves are on the prowl—or so says the evidence—and it's up to Asha to solve the problem before war spills across the veil. When the first missing girl turns up dead, DNA evidence points to a brutal werewolf attack, and the people of the Realm begin to turn against werewolves. As Dusty's parents sue for custody, the young girl demonstrates frightening new magical powers, further complicating an already tense standoff between Directress Copperfield and the neglectful mother and father.

The Elven Nation, a kingdom of elves in the Chattahoochee National Forest led by the Queen, and the Tortured Occult, a shifter motorcycle gang, forge an uneasy peace. For the first time in decades they begin to work together, but the truce doesn’t last. Tensions run high as a demon army led by an unknown commander wages war on the Elven Nation.

The Emperor's Trail is a fictional story that takes place in the cities of Kurashiki and Takahashi, where a monster called Gashadokuro has started to kill people. Detective Yamabushi is the only one with the skills to track down the murderer and follow the trail of clues.

Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic and disgraced ex-physician, has discovered a conspiracy. Someone is inflicting magical comas on the inhabitants of the massive city of Astrum, and no one knows how or why. Caught between a faction of scheming magical academics and an explosive schism in the ranks of Astrum's power-hungry military, Adrien is swallowed by the growing chaos. Alongside Gennady, an unruly, damaged young soldier, and Malise, a brilliant healer and Adrien's best friend, Adrien searches for a way to stop the spreading curse before the city implodes.

Two Chinese music students, Jay Lee and Xiao Mai, meet at the Welsh School of Music. He is soon obsessed by her, but her love is music. Xiao Mai needs a good instrument to play, otherwise she may be forced to drop out of university, so she sets out with Jay Lee to find one. One day they hear violin music pouring out from the Castle Arcade, Xiao Mai is overcome and starts to play an imaginary violin on the street. Jay Lee is shocked and forces her to stop.

Less than a year after turning her world upside down, Ryan Fortner reappears in Niki's life. Crypto Division isn't done with her, and neither is the supernatural. Their investigation of a stolen sword leads to a deadly discovery. A rift between worlds has unleashed Tugarin Zmei, a mythical warlord sworn to destroy Niki's bloodline. It's bad enough that her ancestral magic is barely under control—now Tugarin wants her head.

It's not just boba now. Together with his friends, Arthur is at the frontier of the Demon World, building a brand-new town, one stone at a time. After one particularly stubborn owl won an argument with the system, Arthur blazed a trail with the rest of his friends toward the frontiers of the demon world. All around him is a world untouched by demons. Now, he needs to tame the wilderness into the shape of a town. Luckily, he has help.

To be a client of Gwendolyn Montgomery—New York’s most powerful publicist, at Sublime Creative—is to be infused with a certain oomph, a mysterious glamour. She seems to have created the ideal life with her handsome new boyfriend, the perfect match. But Gwendolyn has a legion of long-buried secrets that could unravel everything. After a grisly, bizarre incident at the Brooklyn Museum, Gwendolyn begins to realize that something nefarious is happening tied directly to her past, right as Fonsi Harewood comes back into her world.

Sergej ist aus Paris entkommen, nur um zu erleben, dass sein Refugium von einer Invasion heimgesucht wird. Seine Streifzüge in Frankreich mögen anstrengend gewesen sein, aber sie waren entspannte Spaziergänge im Vergleich zu dem, was ihn in Mitteleuropa erwartet. Ein halsbrecherischer Ritt steht ihm bevor! Berlin scheint so nah und ist doch so fern.

When Kit rescues a wealthy witch from the treacherous, monster-filled waters of the River Tweed, she reckons she's completed her fair share of good deeds for the day. But when a second anonymous body is pulled from the same river, Kit is dragged into a mystery as murky as the water itself. The corpse has no identification, no personal possessions and no one who cares. Kit is determined to change that.

Sandya hat das Königsduell überlebt. Aber nichts ist mehr wie vorher. Das Königreich steht am Abgrund und nicht nur Mortem ist ihr auf der Spur. Solange Sandya das Sturmamulett besitzt, wird sie zur Zielscheibe. Doch Alaric sieht viel mehr in ihr. Er hat einen Plan, um das ganze Königreich zu retten und Sandya spielt darin eine entscheidende Rolle.