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Ceridwen Parry has run away with the fairies. But this is not her story. For Sabrina Parry, the world is tough, cruel and practical. With her father in prison, her aims in life are: 1. hold onto her job, 2. hold her tongue and 3. set up her sister Ceridwen with a man rich enough to look after her. Ceridwen is lovely, romantic, timid – everything that Sabrina isn’t. But then Ceridwen vanishes into the eerie woods leaving only an iron ring behind and Sabrina is drawn into a beautiful but decaying world of fairies and monsters of old.

Was dich liebt, vernichtet dich. In jedem deiner Leben. Evelyn kann sich an jedes ihrer früheren Leben erinnern. Auch daran, dass sie in jedem einzelnen davon ihren 18. Geburtstag nicht erlebt hat – und schuld daran ist jedes Mal ihre große Liebe, der sie unerklärlicherweise nicht entrinnen kann. Nur dass sie ihr aktuelles Leben gerade sehr mag und, noch wichtiger, dass ihre Schwester sie für eine Knochenmarktransplantation braucht. Wenn sie ihre Schwester retten und den tragischen Verlauf ihrer Zeit und Raum überdauernden Liebesgeschichte aufhalten will, muss Evelyn: 1.

Um den zu retten, den sie liebt, muss Emilia alles riskieren! Emilia hört auf ihr Herz und folgt Nathan durch den Spiegel in das mysteriöse Anwesen Morgue Manor. Um ihn zu retten, muss sie den Hausherren in einem Duell besiegen. Nur ist Charles Lafontaine-Boutary niemand, der sich an die Regeln hält. Und wenn Emilia verliert, dann verliert sie nicht nur ihre magischen Kräfte. Als sie dann auch noch erfahren, was sich hinter dem Angriff auf die Silvercliff Hall verbirgt, setzen Emilia und Nathan alles auf eine Karte. Denn nur gemeinsam haben sie eine Chance, die magische Welt zu retten.

When the Gods make the first human woman, Pandora, they impress on her just one certainty: that she has been made to love and be loved by her husband, the titan Epimatheos. But certain that the gods who torture his brother Prometheus do not bring Pandora as the gift they claim, Epimatheos wants nothing to do with her. Hurt and confused, Pandora struggles to find purpose and meaning in her new life.

The immortal Count Washur has been waiting for Clara to grow more powerful to collect her soul. Now he's after her. Washur Castle comes alive with dark magic while it carries out the Count's attack. Clara knows it's a trap, but she goes anyway because he has something—someone—she can't bear to lose. Clara and her friends are strong, and their magic is stronger. But with their forces divided, can they overcome monsters and deadly illusions?

Der atemberaubende Trilogieabschluss des Bestsellerautors von Lockwood & Co. Albert und Scarlett ziehen schon eine ganze Zeit lang als Outlaws durch die Sieben Königreiche des geplagten Englands, ohne geschnappt zu werden. Auf ihrem Weg gewinnen sie nach und nach Verbündete, die ihnen helfen wollen, die Schreckensherrschaft der Glaubenshäuser zu beenden. Doch das ist nicht die einzige gewaltige Aufgabe, die sie sich vorgenommen haben. Sie wollen außerdem versuchen, Scarletts verschollenen Bruder zu finden.

While out in the forest to fetch water from the river one fateful evening, young village girl, Hazel Spree, happens across a wounded man in the water. When she pulls him out, he transforms into a terrifying beast and chases her down! Hazel fears her end, only to wake up with a curse brand on her chest!

When seventeen-year-old Dilly Rothbart finds her recently deceased father's hidden journal, her entire world is upended—for what she finds within are the steps to bring a dead soul back to life. Intent on finishing her father's work and establishing herself as the greatest scientist in history, Dilly plunges into a medical underworld of corpse-stealing, grave-robbing, and even murder. And when her twin sister steps in the way of her studies, she'll do whatever is necessary to secure the recognition she deserves.

Return to the immersive, lush, and dreamlike world of the instantly bestselling dark academia fantasy A Study in Drowning as the aftermath of their first discovery pulls Effy and Preston on a final adventure and brings their haunting love story to its end in this stunning sequel and final book in the duology. All stories come to an end. Effy learned that when she defeated the Fairy King. Even though she may never know exactly what happened at Hiraeth, she is free of her nightmares and is able to pen a thesis with Preston on the beloved national fairy tale Angharad.

Gerade als Euryale sich für ihre Liebe zu Deacon und gegen die Ewigkeit als Furie entschieden hatte, wurde er ihr entrissen und in die Unterwelt entführt. Verbunden mit einem seltsamen roten Lebensfaden, bricht sie mit Callisto und Cecilia auf, um ihren Geliebten zurückzuholen. Dazu muss sie sich nicht nur ihren Tanten, sondern auch ihrer Herrin – der dunkelsten Göttin der Unterwelt – stellen. Doch Euryale ist fest entschlossen, Deacon zu retten. Und die Hölle hat noch nie eine Furie aus Liebe wüten sehen ... Urban Fantasy im viktorianischen London.

In a colonized land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens—Lee Seung, a servant yearning for freedom, and Choi Eunji, a noble girl defying tradition—join forces to try and reshape their respective fates. But their relationship evolves from begrudging accomplices to bitter adversaries as they soon find themselves on opposite sides of a battle over the last tiger, a symbol of their people’s lost freedom and key to the liberation of their country.

En la isla de Charmant, la magia fluye como el champán de contrabando y las fantasías se pueden comprar con una piedra preciosa. Pero es la Era de la Prohibición, y la amenaza se cierne sobre el circo de los Revelle, que se ganan la vida diluyendo el champán y reparando agujeros en sus trajes de lentejuelas. En ese momento aparece el hijo de la familia más rica de Charmant para hacer un trato: ofrecerá todo lo que los Revelle necesitan para mantener su negocio, a cambio de que Luxe, la estrella del circo, se haga pasar por su novia para ayudarlo a convertirse en alcalde.

The ship was built for one thing: to carry the delegations of two warring nations into neutral waters, where the heads of state would sign a peace treaty and end the war that has been raging for a generation. When it goes down, a pair of survivors—Cora, daughter of a Duran newspaper reporter, and Vivienne, lady’s maid to an Ariminthian princess—wash up on a remote island. At first, it seems like they have nothing in common—not even whether or not they want to be rescued. But the arrival of a pirate ship brings them to the realization that they do have a shared purpose: peace.

Wielding a magic that allows him to pop off limbs, con artist Phyllis steals body parts and his partner Lucent ransoms them. Everyone who knows about Phyllis’s magic is afraid of him―except for Lucent. But his partner’s love comes with one condition: Phyllis must keep stealing. But when a mark can’t afford ransom for his missing nose, Phyllis loses his resolve. The man claims his sister, Adeline, was taken, and without her money he can’t pay until she’s found. Intrigued, Phyllis investigates Adeline’s disappearance, but she is not the only missing girl in their seedy city.

Clara barely survived the dark force that attacked Irele Castle. One of her teachers didn't. But the number of dark magicians hunting her and her friends has only increased. She still doesn't understand the extent of her powers, and her foes are cutting off every opportunity for her to discover it. As if the immortal count weren't terrifying enough, now Clara's former fiance and a magician she believed dead have combined their efforts to kill her. And it gets worse. The Merqueen's already stolen three years of Clara's life. But she wants more, and she's as powerful as the count.

In the aftermath of a rebellion against William the Conqueror, northern England lies in ruins, its people scattered and starved. Aelfric, a 14-year-old thrall, flees from his master and stumbles upon a cache of stolen laundry. The thief? Aliwyn, a girl around his age, ostracized for being “cursed.” In her care is a lost toddler she has rescued from the clutches of greedy thrall traders.

The immortal Count and the dark Merqueen haven't managed to claim Clara or her powers—yet. Even with their personal magic bound, they're hunting Clara with more force than she knows how to handle. They contain the magic of the hundreds of souls they've drained. Clara has her own power, one they haven't been able to touch, a secret binding element that gives life to all magic. She's stronger than ever, with a love great enough to dismantle the Count and Merqueen's devastating illusions. But when you love as fiercely as Clara, you have too much to lose.

The night Fei was born, a prophecy was made: she would one day become the Empress of All Empresses. Torn from her family as a child and raised in the palace to one day marry the Crown Prince of the most powerful empire in the land, Fei has only ever known loneliness. When the opportunity arises to seize her own destiny for the first time in her life, Fei sets out to hunt a legendary tiger, knowing it might cost her everything. What she doesn't expect is to fall under the mercy of Yexue, the beautiful runaway prince from a rival kingdom.

Londres, 1923. Les dragons remplissent le ciel et dans les rues, le peuple se révolte. Mais Vivien se concentre sur ses objectifs : ne pas faire de vague, décrocher son apprentissage en langues draconiques et surtout, s'assurer que sa petite soeur n'aura jamais à vivre dans la misère de la Troisième classe.

An exploration of ambition and class, autonomy and religion, survival and love, Vesuvius combines the romantic angst of They Both Die at the End and the blended magic and history of The Song of Achilles to show listeners that it is never too late to change your fate—or change the world.