Fantasy

Wren Embervale, alchemist-turned-assassin, finds solace in only one thing: seeking vengeance for the death of her friends. The wars of the past may be over, but her thirst for revenge is far from quenched. For years, she has been content with her poisons and potions for company, but when an unknown form of alchemy is used to attack a king of the midrealms, Wren’s time in the shadows comes to an end. She’s offered a place at the ancient alchemy academy of Drevenor to find a cure to the dark magic threatening the kingdoms. To win her spot, she must conquer the Gauntlet.

Walking home late one night, burned-out barista Nell accidentally incinerates someone. Whoopsie! Now, if this tale began in a fantastic far-away land, or Nell was, perhaps, a wizard, such a mishap might make some kind of sense. But this is not a wondrous fantasy world. This is real life, and Nell just wanted to go home and eat macaroni. As Nell stares at the smoldering corpse, she realizes something with horrifying certainty: She's magic. And not the cute pulling-a-rabbit-from-a-hat kind of magic.

Una Hartstone, Princess of Issos, learns the price the Wraith King demands to end the war once and for all—Her. In exchange for the safety of her people, she agrees to give her life—and her body—to her greatest enemy. Gollaya Verbane is determined to fulfill his destiny and his god's prophecy. When his seer points to the Princess of Issos as the key to the rise of the dark fae, he demands her submission. But when she finally yields, he realizes Una is much more to him than a priceless weapon.

In a world ruled by the cruel and merciless Stars, Elara has been cursed by fate. A prophecy promises she will fall for a Star, but that it will kill them both. So when Ariete, Star of Wrath, War and Chaos, descends to wreak havoc on Elara’s kingdom, she flees her home—the Kingdom of Night—for the neighbouring Helios, Kingdom of Light. And strides straight into the arms of an enemy prince.

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.

Intrigue and danger enter Brydie MacKay's life when Gage walks into her carefully controlled world. He brings news that her grandmother has died, and as her last living relative, Brydie has inherited her estate and must travel to Scotland to accept her legacy and all it entails. Brydie doesn't want the inheritance, not after the way she was treated, and when a series of actions unfold that illustrate her "legacy" is not just a physical entity but a turbulent birthright proclaiming she is the descendant of the Celtic winter goddess, Cailleach Bheur, she tries to run.

Recently graduated at twenty-six, and two months behind on rent, Oliver Barnes is desperate. So desperate, in fact, that he applies for a job in the Greed district of Hell's Pentagram. But when he misses his train and, subsequently, his job interview, he stumbles, instead, upon a strange little coffee shop in the middle of Purgatory's barren desert—and into an unexpected opportunity. It isn't the job he came to Hell for, but maybe it's exactly the job he needs.

À quoi seriez-vous prêt pour garder le pouvoir ? Les Serreciel, famille royale d'Éméryte, ont été sauvagement assassinés. Seule survivante, Vassilia doit monter sur un trône qui ne lui a jamais été destiné. Elle est prête à tout pour retrouver les coupables et se venger, mais devenir reine implique de se marier…. Ne sachant en qui avoir confiance, elle jette son dévolu sur Adrien Cendrecœur, un noble érudit qu'elle pense faible et manipulable. Obligé d'abandonner ses rêves pour une couronne dont il ne veut pas, il l'épouse la haine au cœur.

Amira has never been more than a pawn in her powerful father's games, but a chance to escape her life of lonely monotony arises when the king invites all nobles of marrying age to find their perfect match. Now, she must play a new kind of game. Forced into the political machinations of the ruling class, Amira learns that darkness lurks behind gowns and lavish parties.

Découvrez la ville de Québec et ses créatures surnaturelles ! Je m’appelle Ellie, et même si je vis avec la meute des Faoladh qui m'a élevée et protégée comme l’une des leurs depuis l’assassinat de mes parents par des loups-garous bestiaux dans mon enfance, je me tiens en marge des affaires surnaturelles. Après tout, je ne suis qu’une humaine ! Mais le Windigo me cherche. Il me veut car je porte sa marque. J’ai beau m’enfuir, je suis sa proie. L’attirance entre nous est difficile à ignorer.

On the day of my twentieth birthday, a brutally handsome Shadow Fae darkens my doorway and whisks me away to an elite Fae academy. The problem is I'm not Fae, and I certainly don't have any magical powers. Despite this, I'm thrust into a realm where magic is as vital as breath and far more dangerous. Thrown into an academy teeming with powerful Fae, I must navigate the treacherous waters of magical education, summon my dormant powers, and battle merciless fellow students to prepare to face the rival Arcanum Citadel across the river.

In Roman-occupied Britain, the Iceni tribe crowns an extraordinary new queen. Tall and flame-haired, Boudicca is devoted to Andraste, the Iceni’s patron goddess, known for her raven familiar, her fierceness and her swirling blue tattoos. Boudicca and her two young daughters will carry the tribe forward in dangerous times. Roman tax collector Catus Decianus, expecting weakness in a female ruler, launches a devastating attack on the tribe’s stronghold. Boudicca and her family barely survive—but they refuse to bend the knee.

With weather magic on her side, Vice is the bane of the high seas, but she isn't the captain of her own ship. Yet. If she can prove herself and get a command, she'll be in charge of her own fate at last. To pay off his family's debts, Knigh Blackwood hunts pirates for the Royal Navy. When the bounty on Lady Vice grows, he's determined to make her face justice, even if that means beating her at her own game. Forced to work closely, neither can deny the tension that crackles every time they're together.

Fight, win, advance my alpha's agenda, and keep my family safe. Simple. Until my little sister is taken, and everything around me comes crashing down. Betrayed by the pack I swore fealty to, I cut ties and started hunting for Harlow on my own. Little did I know that my search would put me on a collision course with everything I'd been running from. I've been hiding for years, protecting my secrets and my family at all costs while lurking in the shadows where it's safe. Now, I'm stuck with a group of shifter knights in shining armor who think they can help me.

Ara, a high fae in the Marsh Court, was trained since birth to kill. When it comes down to it, can she sever the tendrils of her morality and do it? After being taken prisoner, she manages an escape riddled with questions, only to arrive home to absolute heartbreak. Discovering everything she knew to be a lie, she sets out on a dangerous journey to learn the truth of her upbringing. But when the hunters begin to come for her, she realizes she isn't the only one who will need her lethal skills.

When the gold-dusted court invitation arrives at Suraya Saab’s forge, she believes it’s a joke. Nobles might seek her skills as a bladesmith—one of few who can imbue her work with precious jadu, the last source of magic in the realm—but she has no qualifications as a potential bride for the crown prince. Still, the invitation is the chance at adventure, and the means to finally visit the capital city her late mother loved. But what awaits her in Kaldari is nothing she could have imagined—and fraught with danger.

Paris's path is clear, his future settled. He's trained his whole life in politics and the running of a kingdom. He's going to be an adviser to the future king, his beloved prince. But when his father dies unexpectedly, the current king takes the opportunity to get rid of him, sending him to the barbaric southern tribe lands of Nemeda as a diplomat. No one has ever returned from the tribes alive.

Aria Rialta is a girl of two realities. One she was born to. The other she was chosen for. Both are a threat. Every night when Aria falls asleep, she enters the nightmare world of Faydor to fight a war. It’s her calling to help destroy the Kruen, who feed sin and chaos to our everyday world of vulnerable humans. It would be a lonely realm in which to do battle if not for Pax, Aria’s dangerously irresistible soulmate whose mere touch can kill. It’s also a realm that’s getting harder to escape.

As the second-born princess of a kingdom conquered by a brutal empire, I'm nothing but a pawn. Little do I expect my parents to arrange my marriage to the most powerful bachelor of all: the son of the emperor himself. But when I arrive at the imperial palace, I discover I must compete for my betrothed—vying with the court noblewomen in a series of humiliating trials to prove our devotion.

My name's Lyra Ridley, and I run headlong into supernatural danger for a living. When a criminal has magic too dangerous to merely lock up, we send them to a blackout prison. Hell would've been a better destination for this guy. As a lowly cop in the LVMPD's Rapid Response unit, I'm used to dealing with all kinds of dumpster-fire scenarios, from drunk salamanders on a building-melting bender and angry manticore landlords threatening to eat tenants' gallbladders in lieu of payment to human summoners calling up monsters from the deep to impress their girlfriends to name a few.

Bryce Quinlan e Hunt Athalar fizeram um pacto. Enquanto processam os eventos da última primavera, eles irão manter as coisas... platônicas... até o solstício. Eles salvaram a Cidade da Lua Crescente, mas com tanto frenesi acontecendo ultimamente, eles desejam, mais do que qualquer coisa, uma oportunidade de relaxar. Desacelerar. E descobrir o que o futuro lhes reserva. Mas quando a tensão suspensa entre os dois alcançar um nível insustentável, prestes a incendiar a Cidade da Lua Crescente, eles serão capazes de resistir?

Gefangen zwischen einer Rebellion und der Herrschaft eines Tyrannen. Nyra ist auf der Flucht vor dem grausamen König von Marmoris – ihrem Vater! Dass sie dabei in ständiger Gefahr schwebt, nimmt sie in Kauf. Allerdings darf niemand erfahren, wer sie in Wahrheit ist. Vor allem nicht die Rebellen, die sie unterwegs aufgreifen und zwingen, sich ihrer Sache anzuschließen.

Wir haben schreckliche Verluste zu betrauern, die uns bis ins Mark erschüttert haben und alles verändern werden. Die Entscheidung, wer mich zur Frau bekommt, ist durch diese Tragödie gefallen. Und gerade jetzt sollte ich eigentlich meinen Fokus nicht verlieren und meine Konzentration auf meinen zukünftigen Gatten lenken. Doch die schwarze Seele meines Stiefbruders zieht mich an wie die Motte das Licht und lässt mich für ihn in seiner Hölle verbrennen.

Eine romantische Spurensuche nach den Geheimnissen des Nil. Inez Olivera wünscht sich nichts mehr, als ihre Eltern auf ihren Abenteuern zu begleiten – bis ...

Düster-romantische Fantasy in einer viktorianischen Welt - für Hörer*innen von Leigh Bardugo und Erin Morgensterns "Der Nachtzirkus": "Manchmal, wenn ich durch die Gitterstäbe in ihre Gesichter blicke, stelle ich mir vor, dass in Wirklichkeit sie diejenigen sind, die in einem Käfig sitzen. Dass ich mich an einem sehr kleinen Ort der Freiheit befinde und die Welt um mich herum ein sehr großer Käfig ist, in dem sie alle gefangen sind." Schattenmädchen. Dämonin. Scheusal ... Louise hat viele Namen. Eingesperrt in einen Käfig wird sie im Zirkus Ora als Monster ausgestellt.

Welcome to Rydding, the hidden village you might stumble across if you need a home and a fresh start. For Elwyn Howell, the village is a lifesaver when she finds it just as she’s run out of strength and hope while running for her life. The abandoned healer’s cottage welcomes her, even though she’s given up on that calling. She opens a tea shop instead, using her knowledge of herbs and her empathic gift that allows her to select the perfect tea for each customer. Soon, she’s feeling at home in the village community.

"You will go to Rathe University, live among the giftless and those of light magic. You, Knight Deveraux, will learn to coexist." I've never heard more wasted words in my life. Then again, the gifted counsel never did have much to say that wasn't. The only members amongst them who speak a thing worth listening to are my parents, the king and queen of the Stygians, the people of Dark magic. Unfortunately for me and my brothers, they've chosen to play nice instead of sinking their talons into anyone who dares demand a thing from their heirs. In this instance at least.

After a treacherous journey, Lucina found safety in the bakery of Rydding Village. Her peace is threatened when she learns that Nico, the new apprentice smith, is from the homeland she was forced to flee. Could he be an enemy agent who caught up with her? Even if he isn’t, the newcomer is the chief suspect in a string of burglaries, and Lucina worries the suspicion will spread to her because of their shared nationality. Her nightmares of being driven from the village may come true if she can’t clear his name.

Deh ke jwarbhate ke bich prem ka chand atma ke gagan par khilta aur doobta hai. Purnima aur amawasya ke bich hi kahin prem aakar leta hai aur prakash aur andhere ki sandhirekha par hi ansu aur aag ki patkatha rachi jati hai. Upanyas ‘Bujhaye na bujhe’ isi prem ki kahani kahta hai.

Elena Deveraux ist einzigartig. Der erste Mensch, der zu einem Engel wird. Als Gefährtin des Erzengels Raphael, dem Herrscher von New York, kann die Jägerin es gar nicht abwarten, endlich die Unsterblichkeit zu erlangen. Doch da geschieht das Unfassbare: Der Prozess stoppt, kehrt sich gar um. Sie wird von Tag zu Tag wieder menschlicher - leichter zu verletzen, leichter zu töten. Elena und Raphael setzen alles daran, diese Entwicklung aufzuhalten und sie gleichzeitig vor den anderen Erzengeln zu verheimlichen. Denn nie zuvor war es gefährlicher, Schwäche zu zeigen.

Als geborener Krieger hat der mächtige und gnadenlose Elijah bisher noch jede Schlacht gewonnen. Doch da wird er von Nekromanten in einen Hinterhalt gelockt und schwer verletzt. Gerettet wird er ausgerechnet von der Königin der Lykanthropen, der verführerischen Siena.

Zwischen der Harpyie Aryal und dem Kämpfer Quentin Caeravorn herrschen alles andere als freundschaftliche Gefühle. Doch dann werden die beiden von dem Anführer der Wyr, Dragos, zu einer Aufklärungsmission ins Elfenland Numenlaur geschickt und geraten dort schon bald in große Gefahr. Sie müssen zusammenarbeiten, wenn sie überleben wollen, und kommen sich dabei unvermutet näher.

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