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On the surface, Arlo is just your typical teenager who loves playing video games, struggles with popularity, and has parents who nag him. But deep inside, Arlo is hiding a secret—something evil has crept into his dreams, terrorizing his nights with horrific visions.

This is a captivating tale that follows the adventures of Lani, a young girl born of the bird-like deity Iyori, residing in the extraordinary realm of Nuria. This world, composed entirely of Iyori's crystalline essence, sets the stage for a breathtaking narrative filled with wonder, challenges, and self-discovery. She will travel across the different worlds, in order to find an unknown force of destruction that could end life as she knows it.

Six months have passed since Célie took her sacred vows and joined the ranks of the Chasseurs as their first huntswoman. With her fiancé, Jean Luc, as captain, she is determined to find her foothold in her new role and help protect Belterra. But whispers from her past still haunt her, and a new evil is rising—one that Célie herself must vanquish, unless she falls prey to the darkness.

Nineteen-year-old Ness used to be terrified of Nightmares - people who'd turned into their worst fears while they slept. Now, after two assassination attempts, an explosion, and a bargain with a demon, she's finally free of her terror. But Nightmares aren't the only dangerous thing in Newham. And Ness still has to reckon with her other fears - including her fear of mortality. It's easy to die in Newham, but hard to live. So when the monster responsible for creating Nightmares asks her for a favour, she agrees.

Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.

Nineteen-year-old Ness used to have a vehement terror of Nightmares—people who’d been turned into their worst fears while they slept. Through two assassination attempts, an explosion, and a faustian bargain with a dream demon, she’s finally working through those fears.

My elite prince is being held captive in the citadel, and in order to reach him, I’ll need to make a dark deal with a dangerous foreign vampire. If I don’t get home soon, all our effects will have been in vain. But there are more secrets to unlock, and more allies to gather, before we can attack the citadel and liberate the kingdom from Nigel’s terrible rule.

After decades of peace within the lands of Caldumn ruled by the Red Kingdom, the southern towns have come under attack. Their libraries burned and ancient texts stolen by an ominous force. An unlikely alliance between two magic kinds is formed when Wren, a 19-year-old Mage, finds herself in the middle of a conflict that will take her outside of the peaceful life she’s known. Along her journey, she meets Tyran, whose Necromancer magic is not widely trusted, and learns they share a deeper ancient magic that has long since disappeared.

Seventeen-year-old Fallon Bane was born with a curse: A single touch from another person will always cause her excruciating pain. Thus, she has accepted that she will die without ever being kissed, without even hugging her own father. But when her beloved father falls ill, she breaks into the magical Gilded City to find a healer fae who can save him. When handsome healer Ariyon Madden agrees to help, everything she knows about herself and her curse changes. Because during her father’s healing, Ariyon reaches out and touches her bare skin. She waits for the agony...but it never comes.

Fifteen-year-old Maleek Warden's high school life was normal...at least before three strange things changed his world forever. Strange thing #1: Finding a dying angelic being impaled to a tree. Strange thing #2: Said angelic being delivering to him a message from another realm. Strange thing #3: Discovering the reality of gifted human warriors, invisible divine beings, and a chaotic war hidden in plain sight.

Quand je regarde mes mains, tout ce que j'arrive à penser c'est : « ce sont elles qui ont enterré ma mère. » Ning a perdu sa mère. Et le plus douloureux de son histoire, ce que c'est elle la responsable de sa mort. C'est elle qui lui a administré le poison sans le savoir, par un thé venimeux qui lui a été fatal Et qui pourrait maintenant être également mortel pour sa soeur Shu. Un jour, Ning entend qu'une compétition s'organise pour trouver le plus grand maître du shennong-shi du royaume—une magie ancestrale de l'art de la préparation du thé.

The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the ever-present warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on a dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm to procure a magical book—Sortes Fortunae, the Book of Fortunes—with the power to reverse the curse on her village and save her mother.

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin’s family announces a contest to redesign the late author’s estate, Effy feels certain it’s her destiny. But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming.

Der Auftakt von Bestsellerautorin Alexandra Brackens neuem Fantasyepos, inspiriert von der Artuslegende und voller Action, Verrat und Liebe. Eine zynische Außenseiterin, ihr verfluchter Bruder, der arrogante Goldjunge der Schatzjägergilde und eine naive Zauberin – sie alle haben unterschiedliche Ziele. Doch nur gemeinsam können sie Avalon und ihre eigene Welt retten. Ohne die Fähigkeit, Magie zu sehen, gilt Tamsin als Außenseiterin unter den Hollowern. Das hindert sie jedoch nicht daran, wie die anderen Mitglieder der Gilde die ganze Welt nach legendären Artefakten zu durchkämmen.

When fifteen-year-old Nate Watson moves to Windsor to live with his mysterious Aunt Celia, the last things on his mind are witches and magick and ancient vendettas. While Nate focuses on building a new life for himself and his younger brother, making new friends and adjusting to a new high school, he can’t escape the feeling that something isn’t as it seems. Nate’s search for answers leads him to a forbidden locked door in Aunt Celia’s mansion. Inside, he finds a witch’s workshop full of mystical artifacts, some dating back to the time of the earliest Puritan settlers.

Malin's only crime is existing. After successfully avoiding arrest for centuries, a selfless act lands the tall immortal in prison, where inmates are fed poison and drained of blood. It’s the ultimate punishment for any monstrosity who refuses to abide by an existential expiry date.

he Monster Defense Agency demands loyalty, and once you become an agent, the only way out is in a body bag. When Sarah Stone and Robby Young train together at the agency’s academy, sparks fly. And when they are paired as partners, they must muzzle their attraction, or they will face a firing squad. All their pent-up frustration sharpens them into finely tuned monster hunters. Their ability to neutralize entire nests of vampires becomes the stuff of legends. But hunting vampires has its own risks.

While liberating a notorious thief from prison, Ferius Parfax encounters an inmate named Chedran, one of the last living members of her people, the Mahdek. Ferius agrees to help him and the Mahdek remnant reach a mystical island where they can live free from persecution. Chedran convinces the Mahdek elders that this refuge is their last chance to repopulate their civilisation so they can one day retake their homeland, and so the elders rule that all Mahdek must remain on the island to bear and raise children.

Zweihundert Jahre harrte Dorian aus, bis der süße Geschmack von Blut ihn in die Wirklichkeit zurückholte. Seine Venen waren erfüllt von dem Verlangen nach Rache. Die Zeit der Abrechnung war gekommen. Er sah das Gesicht des Mannes, der ihn bis in seine Albträume verfolgte und den er am meisten auf der Welt hasste. Das Monster, dem er sein Leben verdankte - sein Vater. "Schlaf gut, mein Sohn", raunte der Drache ihm zu, als er die spitze Klinge in sein Herz bohrte. "Wenn du erwachst, wird nichts mehr sein, wie es war."

Die Welt steht endgültig am Abgrund, einzig Flame ist dazu in der Lage, sie zu retten. Doch als sie das Unmögliche schafft und die Hitze besiegt, ersticken Adern aus Frost das Feuer und das gesamte Land erstarrt zu Eis. Die Zukunft ist trotz des erbrachten Opfers ungewiss. Und während Flames Freunde den Daimonen der Vergangenheit unterliegen, ist es ausgerechnet der Halbgott Cato, der nicht bereit ist, Flame und das Schicksal der Erde aufzugeben. Gemeinsam mit der Seherin von Delphi kommt er dem größten Geheimnis der Götter auf die Spur.