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Mick Oberon may look like just another 1930s private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he’s got pointy ears and he’s packing a wand.

There are very few days off when you're on an epic quest. Believe me, I know. I'm Hedi Peacock - one half Fae, the other were - and if being a half-breed with one foot in each world isn't tough enough to manage, there are the four chambers of my heart to consider. The one who holds the strings? Robson Trowbridge, the Alpha of Creemore. If I had my way, he and I would be locked in a bedroom, for eternity, but a pressing family matter needs my attention. It's true what they say: A woman's work is never done.

When Cassius Black moves to San Francisco for a fresh start, the angel's hopes of staying below the radar of the supernatural organizations that oversee the otherworldly and magic users in the city are dashed when he stumbles across a dead body in the sewers. Morgan King and his team of Argonaut agents have been on the hunt all summer for the culprits behind a series of gruesome killings that have rocked the city. When Fate puts Cassius in Morgan's path, he realizes the angel everyone likes to call The Devil may very well be the only person who can help them track down the murderers.

Sophia De Winter ist in ihrem Leben gefangen und sieht nur einen Ausweg: Sie muss an der magischen Elite-Akademie Killmarth aufgenommen werden. Dort warten nicht nur tödliche Gefahren auf sie, sondern auch Gefühle, die sie sich nie hätte träumen lassen. Sophia ist seit ihrer Kindheit an ihren grausamen Onkel, den Sammler, gebunden, nachdem er einen Blutsbund von ihr gefordert hat. Als sie von Killmarth erfährt, einer Elite-Akademie für Magiebegabte außerhalb der Kontrolle des Sammlers, sieht sie darin ihre Chance, sich von ihm zu befreien.

Rune Saint John, the last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court.

People are going missing in rural California. That might not make it onto August’s radar, but their sudden reappearance with tales of alien abduction sure does. It’s not just some wilderness bumpkins with too much moonshine in their bloodstream though, a US Airforce pilot had to ditch his plane in the wake of a close encounter and that’s much harder to ignore. Just what is going on in the desert? Can it really be something not of this world?

Prinzessin Aella, einst aus dem Palast verstoßen, wächst mit anderen Waisenkindern bei einem Orden auf. Doch die Schule, die sie dort besucht, bildet alle im Geheimen zu Spionen des Königreichs aus. Nach Abschluss ihrer Prüfungen wird Aella in das Elite-Team der Absolventen berufen, das ausgerechnet Raven anführt. Die erste Mission ihres Teams wird sie beide an ihre Grenzen führen.

Diffidence Obedience Atonement Smythe is a grad student who prefers to never use his full name. Ever. He's finishing a PhD in extemporaneous magic, and his research project for his dissertation is closing the Rift between worlds that he accidentally opened when he was thirteen. Obviously, caffeine is an important part of his life.

OUT ON THE STREETS… By 2053, the return of magic to the world has filled the streets of Chicago with beings and creatures from mythology. For those in the politically dominant mega-corporations, the underworld, and everywhere in between, it is a time of chaos and wonder—and incredible opportunities ripe for the taking. For fifteen-year-old Peter Clarris, transformed by his Awakened genes from a human into a troll, the forces of magic are a curse to be broken with science.

As the haunting echoes of a nightmare fade, Henry tries to shake them off. But nothing in Salem is ever that simple. A cryptic message emerges in his steamy bathroom mirror. When he shows Joanne the strange symbols, she feigns ignorance.

Everything Ana Sartori knows about herself, and her father, is a lie. Or so the Walsh clan would have her believe. Their claims are convincing, the details too vivid to dismiss outright, but she can't imagine her father as the villain of her story.

Mein Name ist Jinx und ich bin Privatermittlerin, Wahrheitsfinderin und Empathin. Und trotz all dieser magischen Fähigkeiten weiß ich nicht, ob ich meine beste Freundin retten kann. Doch sie ist nicht die Einzige, die krank ist. Auch magischen Kreaturen des Anders fallen einer Krankheit anheim – selbst diejenigen, die angeblich unsterblich sind. Die Krankheit trifft immer zwei Angehörige einer Spezies, wie eine Seuche aus Noahs Arche. Die Meermenschen baten zuerst um Hilfe, aber das war nur die Spitze des Eisberges.

You'd think that after battling a demon, Astrid Knightstorm would deserve a break. No such luck for Austin's premier wizard private detective. Her former master and mentor, Orpheus, has gone off grid. And with rising tensions at the Hellmouth—the literal gateway to the nine realms of hell—she's getting worried. What begins as a fact-finding mission to LA embroils Astrid in a battle to save the world from an invasion of monsters that even an army of vampires struggles to contain.

Als die außergewöhnliche Hexe Amber DeLea ein paar Tage vor Weihnachten auf meiner Türschwelle steht, erwarte ich Ärger. Doch wie sich herausstellt, hat ihre Schutzbefohlene, das Waisenkind Jade, ihren Weihnachtssack verloren – und Amber möchte, dass ich ihn finde. Einfach, oder? Die kleine Jade kennenzulernen, berührt mich. Plötzlich bin ich bereit, alles zu tun, um sicherzustellen, dass sie noch ein weiteres Weihnachten erlebt, das sie an den Weihnachtsmann glauben lässt. Ich darf sie nicht enttäuschen.

This short story explores the grey zone between waking and dreaming. A mysterious machine suddenly appears in Joe Smith’s bedsit. Joe is a simple man, disfigured by a botched hare lip operation, who works as a toilet cleaner. At first, the machine appears to offer Joe an opportunity to change his miserable life. But gradually the situation changes, and what the machine has to offer turns into a terrible nightmare …

When Maverick Hale, alpha of the Storm Moon Pack, is ambushed during a routine hunt, the impossible happens. His wolf is stolen. He's not the only victim. Shifters and witches across the territory are falling prey to a mysterious assailant who they suspect is amassing supernatural power for an unknown purpose.

Offenbar können auch Mädchen Alphawölfe werden ... Obwohl Raven ihren Wolf kaum kontrollieren kann, beneiden alle Frauen in ihrem Rudel sie. Denn Raven ist die Freundin von Greg, dem zukünftigen Alpha ihres Rudels. Was mehr könnte eine junge Werwölfin wollen? Raven weiß es nicht, aber sie will mehr. Als dann ein Scout der Bloodshed Academy auftaucht, scheint die Sache klar. Nur die stärksten und mächtigsten Alphas werden an die Akademie eingeladen. Greg ist einer von ihnen und Raven soll auf ihn warten.

All I wanted was a burrito. My name is Brandon Ferryman. I went out one night to get a burrito. Who knew that such a simple thing would change my life, or end it? I woke up on the side of the road with some pumpkin-headed monster saying he was the god of death, fate, and justice. I was chosen to run a very special establishment. A place that lay between worlds. A place called the Coffin Hotel. Now I have to fight monsters, free spirits, and run a mystical hotel. I'm clearly not qualified, but when has that ever stopped anyone from doing anything.

With Cassius Black's secret operations to save the world in the last 500 years finally revealed by the agencies that govern the otherworldly, his status as the most vilified Fallen on Earth changes almost overnight. Unused to his newfound fame, Cassius tries to keep a low profile, but Morgan King's reckless actions soon have them in the news again.

Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari.