Dystopian Magic

Creativity is a crime. Arts are atrocities. Disobedience means death. Dreams, creativity, and magic are all gone under a single order. Banned from the things that make you different, people must conform to a dull and practical lifestyle. The daughter of the Regime's head executioner is expected to follow in his footsteps, but 14-year-old Calista Knight is curious about creativity and dreams. When the new boy, Wes, encourages Calista to stop taking the medicine preventing dreams and introduces her to creativity, a new life opens up to her.

What is this fine black powder that leaks from Hugo’s eyes? Does it have anything to do with his stolen night with Kelsey? Did he somehow give it to her? Is he responsible for this entire outbreak? He was the only one outside in the middle of the night when he first saw the darkness cover the sky like clouds. Now, it's hit the whole town like a plague.

Eden Huntleigh and the Rebels have outplayed Cesar for now. However, the hostile dictator of Empyrean has a few cards left up his sleeve, and when Cecily, the mystifying witch that seems to know how to defeat him once and for all, disappears, Eden is left with a difficult choice - her own life, or the lives of everyone she loves. Can Eden survive the flames once she's cast into the fire?

Prince Lucas is falling to pieces. He couldn't save his mother, and now his father is hesitant to execute the man responsible for destroying his family. Lucas has only Jessa, the last shred of light left in his dark world. But she's conflicted. What if he loses her too?

Eden Huntleigh is the envy of every teenage girl in the palace. As the intended bride of Cesar, the sovereign leader of Empyrean, she has everything she could ever desire, and yet, she is unable to ignore the nagging perception that something isn't right. Her world is turned upside down when she meets a handsome stranger who insists that she isn't who she thinks she is. Try as he might, the only way to prove it is for her to leave with him and join up with the Rebel group to whom she belongs. At least that's what he says.

In the climax of The Antiarch Trilogy, nothing will stop the Advisor from launching his newest deadly weapon against Axiom. Still undercover as an Enforcer, Finn must lead the rebellion growing inside Antiarch if he has any chance of saving the city.

Livvy Foster has a new heart and home and a place in the powerful halls of House Windhook. The fall of Sliver was only the beginning of a civil war that sees angels from across the sky challenge each other to lead a world in which the past and the future are connected by a storm crafted from time, ambition, and power. When House Selinus attempts to bend the light of days in order to become the supreme power in an apocalyptic future, they confront a goddess who is older than time itself - and she'll stop at nothing to get the one soul who escaped her deadly grasp: Livvy.

With airplanes falling out of the sky and all things electric rendered useless after a mysterious flash, skills instilled by Jackson's marine father move front and center. With a fierce determination to keep his 13-year-old sister, McKenzie, and nine-year-old brother, Cooper, safe, the high school freshman is compelled to leave their Irving home in the shadow of the DFW airport. Thrust into a lawless, chaotic world, he's guided by an ever-changing cryptic note that leads his growing troupe along the King's Highway in search of their grandparents.

No one can escape the rising of the tides. Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam - but love has long ago been forgotten by her society. The only priority is survival.

After thousands of years, male after male, finally - a female COMPIS is chosen. The peace of a nation seems secure, yet beneath the facade turmoil boils among its leaders. The innocent children, raised in ignorance all their lives until the Initiation of their seventeenth year, have no idea of the true face behind their High Council. Why has a girl been chosen? Why is she special? Will she be able to do what no other Compis has done and bring the hypocrisy to an end?

From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann Goering, to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts, art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time, breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo.

Spying on the Luminon, Aoléon and Gilbert uncover his plot to steal Earth's milk cows. They make the disturbing discovery that the Martian leader plans to disrupt Mars' galact supply. Hoping to reach the galactworks before the Luminon's saboteur, the duo races to warn Aoléon's father, Deimos, manager at the galactworks, that he is in danger.

Jessica doesn't know how long it's been, only that it seems like forever since she's allowed her feelings to show. Ever since they attacked her city. Monsters which appear human but are void of any expression, and seem bent on destroying all signs of sentiment in others. Their lethal blades shred anyone who shows even the slightest emotion. After her only remaining friend is killed, Jessica flees the city hoping to find a place where emotions aren't fatal.

Dissension is brewing between the clans in Zomb Valley. The Dactylas, a once-peaceful herd of mystical herbivores, are willing to starve in order to break the curse. On the other hand the Polycerate clan is willing to kill in order to keep the curse alive.

With the Frontline looming, Scarlet, Henri, Jennie, and Tony must find a way to escape the Network. Their only refuge could be siding with the enemy they have been trained to despise. What will happen when these trained teenagers must learn to exist with their most dreaded foes? The biggest threat to their lives will ultimately change them forever.

By 2015 the streets of Los Angeles have transformed from a thriving metropolis into a hostile world ravaged by demons bent on assimilating the human race. Standing between this total apocalypse of humanity and their chance for survival is the last of the United States military. Hidden within a top secret bunker, and lead by Admiral Gary Martin and his three children, this remnant wages war against the demonic regime.

Welcome to Flood City, the last inhabitable place left above the waters that cover Earth. It's also the last battleground between the Chemical Barons, who once ruled the planet and now circle overhead in spaceships, desperate to return, and the Star Guard, who have controlled the city for decades. Born and raised in Flood City, Max doesn't care about being part of either group. All he wants is to play his music with the city band, keep his sister from joining the Star Guard, and be noticed by his crush, the awesome drummer Djinna.

Aber für eine Apokalypse war es furchtbar ruhig. Nachdem sie Kythov, den Augenlosen, gestoppt hatten, gelang es John und seiner Bande gerade noch, die Mana-Versorgung der Welt zu stabilisieren, und dabei wurde die Welt gewissermaßen vergiftet. Mit einer Farm, einem Tal und einer geheimnisvollen Tür zu einer anderen Dimension, die es zu erforschen gilt, wird John alle Hände voll zu tun haben.

There is no such thing as happily ever after. Everything Charlotte Winston thought she knew has been thrown out the window. From the moment she opens her eyes, the world she remembered ceases to exist, and in its place is a post-apocalyptic realm filled with unimaginable dangers. And one very smoking hot guy who has an uncanny ability to make her blood sing, then boil in a blink of an eye.

Wie fast alle Städte im Reich Lunis wurde Mias Heimat Nubis vom sagenumwobenen König der Finsternis in ewige Nacht gestürzt. Doch mithilfe der Umbras, gestaltwandelnden Fabelwesen, können die Bewohner die Dunkelheit unter Kontrolle halten und ihre Stadt schützen. Aber dann wird Nubis erneut von den Schergen des Königs angegriffen und Mia muss lernen, ihren eigenen Umbra zu zähmen. Nur so hat sie eine Chance, ihr Zuhause nicht für immer an die Dunkelheit zu verlieren.