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Penelope Weaver hat sich ihr ganzes Leben lang darauf vorbereitet, die Anaximander-Akademie zu besuchen, wo die griechische Mythologie zum Leben erweckt wird. Penelope weiß, dass sie eine Athena ist – wie alle klugen, praktischen und regeltreuen Mädchen, die an bedeutenden Mythen beteiligt sind. Aber als Penelope und ihr Zwillingsbruder Paris an der Akademie ankommen, geht schief, was nur schiefgehen kann. Penelope wird nicht bei Athena untergebracht, sondern bei Aphrodite, die alles andere als praktisch veranlagt ist.

Rick is just a normal guy, wanting to do normal things. He wants to go to school and tell his crush that he likes her. Granted, that seems to be harder than he was anticipating. It also doesn't help that he finds himself caught between new friends and a mafia run by the infamous "Skeleton Man," Meanwhile, Maralyn Rayne is working hard to earn her place in the Explorer's Guild. She has a lot to prove, and the Oasis Spark is still out there. She has to find it, because it may be the spark that sets the broken world ablaze.

I'm Em, your not-so-typical Dream Traveler. Power? What power? The universe played a cruel joke on me, leaving me as a Dream Traveler with none of the perks. But don't think for a second that I'm sitting around feeling sorry for myself. No way. I'm on a quest, and it's not for the faint-hearted. A world that's pristine on the surface but rotten underneath. That's my reality. Or at least, it was until the whole façade started crumbling.

When Dreams are Real, the Possibilities are Deadly. So, remember how I said my story was just getting started? Yeah, well, plot twist—I'm now stuck underground with the Lucidites, my brother is mysteriously wasting away, and every person I trusted has decided to stab me in the back. Just when I think I've finally found a way out of this underground nightmare, a secret society of Dream Travelers declares war by kidnapping a Lucidite official. Guess who gets to play detective and save everyone she cares about? That's right—yours truly.

Nineteen-year-old Alice Brickstone has survived hunters, secrets, and betrayal, but nothing prepared her for this kind of grief. One friend is slipping away, another is barely holding on, and the fractures in siddha society are widening faster than she can keep up. Someone is exploiting the chaos left behind by the university’s closure — someone who knows Alice’s history, her training, and every vulnerability she’s tried to bury.

Bree Waters has escaped the town that took her magic, but claiming her power was only the beginning. Merfolk exist at sea, and Bree has found them. Approaching the Luna pod for help defeating corruption back home was supposed to be a simple task, but their people are fighting a battle of their own. To obtain the help she needs, Bree must assist the seafolk in return. Bree should be able to access the full range of her magic, but when her mermaid tail and siren call fail to appear, the merfolk prince is tasked with training her to wield the incredible power of her ancestors.

Life was pretty great. I had two amazing parents, a super cool best friend, and things were pretty simple in general. Then, I got attacked by a troll, found out my best friend was a sort of magical sheriff, and that monsters and magic were all real. Why couldn't this have happened after midterms? Wizardry and Myths follows the misadventures of Ashleigh and her friends as she learns to navigate a world a lot larger than she ever thought before.. Volume one sets the stage of her coming to accept it, learn the truth about her fellow students and adopted parents, and maybe even herself.

Deirdre always thought she was a human—until her destructive faerie magic was unlocked. Seventeen-year-old Deirdre leaves the orphanage behind to study in Neo-London, a city teeming with conflict between humans and Fae. She crosses paths with two brothers, Iain and James Callaghan. Iain is a soldier in the Iron Guard trying to keep his broken family together. Fourteen-year-old James is fascinated by faeries and plans to run away to find his disappeared mother.

Worlds collide, secrets are laid bare, and nothing is sacred in this highly anticipated finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Immortal Dark! Beware the monster, beware the girl. They feed on wild devotion. Kidan Adane stands at the edge of a world on the brink—where ancient rules...

James Patterson brings the fifth and final book in the bestselling Witch & Wizard saga to a head by exposing the nature of power – and what it means for the heroes that have it. Whit and Wisty Allgood have fought and defeated their world's greatest threats: the evil dictator, The One Who Is...

Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the Resistance against the evil regime that governs their world. And now its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has executed the only family they had left. Wisty knows that the time has finally come for her to face The One. But her...

PASSION HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DANGEROUS. Whit and Wisty Allgood, a witch and wizard with extraordinary abilities, have defeated the ruthless dictator who long overshadowed their world. But for the first time in their lives, the powerful brother and sister find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn...

Seventeen-year-old Maggie Sawyer can attest to that. After losing her parents during the last red moon, Maggie's life is finally somewhat normal. Living with her uncle has been great, and her friends are amazing. The last thing she wants to deal with is local vampire legends. But when her best friend Rae goes missing during a party, she's thrown into a life that her family has kept hidden. Her uncle is part of the Coffin Society, a secret vampire hunting organization that operates during the blood moon—the same group her parents belonged to before their deaths.

Author Rochelle Hassan delivers a pulse-pounding conclusion to her dangerous and alluring trilogy, The Buried and the Bound, inviting listeners into the realm of witches that churns beneath the surface of the mundane—just as it threatens to boil over....

Prinzessin Elisa, die einstige Gänsemagd-Königin, wird von ihrer Lüge eingeholt. Ihre Magd Agnes, die vor Jahren mit Elisas Hilfe an ihrer Stelle Königin wurde, ist tot und der Bastardbruder des Königs erhebt Anspruch auf den Thron. Die einzige Lösung, bevor ein Bürgerkrieg ausbricht: Elisa soll den König heiraten und ihm einen Nachkommen schenken, um den Thron zu sichern. Bloß, was wenn Agnes ihren Tod nur vorgetäuscht hat?

Die vierzehnjährige Mona hält sich für eine untalentierte Zauberin. Ihr Begleiter ist ein Sauerteigstarter, denn ihre Magie funktioniert nur bei Brot. Doch Monas Leben wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als sie eine Leiche in der Backstube findet. In den Straßen der Stadt treibt ein Mörder sein Unwesen, der es auf die Magier abgesehen hat, und ausgerechnet Mona scheint sein nächstes Ziel zu sein. Doch in einer umkämpften Stadt, in der es mit einem Mal keine Zauberer mehr gibt, ist der Attentäter plötzlich Monas geringste Sorge.

The thrilling sequel to Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore in which every mystery Ellen solves uncovers another buried secret about her family and the infamous poet, Edgar Allan Poe. Ellen Poe is no longer plagued by nightmares of scary restless spirits, and she’s even come to a truce with the...

Hidden high above the mortal world, Domus Academy is a secret sanctuary for cambions—the half-human, half-demon children despised by every realm. For Cassia, the academy has always been her home…and her prison. Born with wings and a past shrouded in secrecy, Cassia has spent her life under the protection of the Elders, isolated from other students and haunted by dreams she can’t explain. When she’s finally thrust into her final year among her peers, she’s determined to prove she belongs—even if that means facing the academy’s fiercest students and their dangerous magic.

A teen who is The Chosen One in a fantasy realms finds himself a nobody back home—that is, until magic appears in the real world and he must re-enter the portal to save a doomed realm. Months after entering a portal, becoming a powerful mage, and saving a distant realm, disgruntled Asian...

What if you had powers beyond human comprehension, but the one thing you wanted was always just out of reach? For four years, Sarah hasn’t stopped searching for her beloved sister even amidst being hunted by the Darkness and their desperate attempts to turn her. Sarah recruits more Light Bearers, training them to wield the Light against the Terrobah lurking at every turn, but the clock never stops ticking. When she finally finds Amelia, will she already be too far gone to save?