Dystopian Magic

As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, 17-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth - meaning, she shouldn’t even exist. Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her 15th sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war or be killed.

Samara doesn't forget. And she isn't the only one. Safe underground in the city of New Canaan, she lives in a privileged world free from the Forgetting. Yet she wonders if she really is free, with the memories that plague her and secrets that surround her. Samara is determined to unearth the answers, even if she must escape to the old, cursed city of Canaan to find them. Someone else is on their way to Canaan, too.... A spaceship from Earth is heading toward the planet, like a figment of the city's forgotten past.

At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity—until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans’ saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used.

An einem fremden Ort erwachen Menschen, ohne zu wissen, wer oder wo sie sind. Nur eine bizarre Botschaft wurde in einen metallenen Obelisken geritzt, und ihnen wird allmählich bewusst, dass jedes einzelne Lebewesen in dieser neuen Welt eine tödliche Bedrohung darstellt. Selbst den vermeintlich niedlichen und flauschigen Häschen gelüstet es nach Menschenfleisch.

Rachel Adams has been kidnapped by enemy forces and is being taken to Rowansmark while her love, Logan McEntire, is imprisoned and awaiting trial, unable to leave Lankenshire. As uneasy alliances are tested and their enemies plot against them, will the two manage to find a way to rid their world of the tyrannical Commander and destroy the tech that controls the deadly Cursed One once and for all?

The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and save his life. But only one can succeed. The mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back.

Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back - but that's assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.

Emmeline knows she’s not supposed to explore the woods outside her settlement. The enemy that wiped out half her people lurks there. Living with the shame of her grandmother’s insubordination, Emmeline has learned to keep her head down and her quick tongue silent. When the settlement leader asks for her hand in marriage, it’s an opportunity for Emmeline to wash the family slate clean - even if she has eyes for another. But before she’s forced into an impossible decision, her dreams urge her into the woods, where she uncovers a path she can’t help but follow.

Alex Sheppard fliegt zu den Dämonischen Spielen, in der Hoffnung, dass er und seine Freunde Malik und Tissa das Unmögliche schaffen und siegen können. Fast 400 Spieler, die Besten der Besten aus ganz Disgardium, sind zu den Spielen eingeladen worden: Champions der Arena, der Battlefields, der Greifenrennen und der Tiergefährten-Kämpfe sowie die allerbesten Handwerker und Großmeister ihrer Berufe. Alle warten auf die Ankunft von Scyth, der Klasse-A-Gefahr, der nun beweisen muss, was er ohne seine göttlichen Fähigkeiten leisten kann.

Skylar is a girl with extraordinary power - a girl with a mission to use her Greater-Than gifts to stop the makers of Destiny from getting people hooked on their deadly drug. But Sky is still mastering her new abilities, and her first mission to destroy a Destiny lab leaves her best friend addicted to the drug. For a few days Cal will be able to walk again - until it kills him. Time is running out for Sky to save the world without sacrificing her friends - to become truly Greater-Than.

Skylar Reid is shaken when Sasha, the little girl she babysits, is kidnapped. She's scared that the weird dreams she's been having about Sasha are real - and even more afraid that Sasha is already dead. When a mysterious girl with extreme butt-kicking abilities roars into town on a motorcycle and starts stalking Skylar, things get even weirder. Supergirl Dana tells Sky that she also has abilities, that a hormone in their blood makes them stronger, faster, smarter...

Scyth und die Anhänger der Schlafenden Götter mussten sich im Krieg um Tiamats Tempel geschlagen geben. Die neuen Götter, die sich die Wahren Götter nennen, feiern ihren Sieg, ohne sich jedoch bewusst zu sein, dass die Schläfer noch einen Tempel haben. Doch wie lange wird es den Erwachten gelingen, ihn vor ihren Feinden zu verheimlichen? Schließlich weiß Skyths Erzfeind Mogwai von Kharinza, und der neu ernannte Oberste Botschafter der Vernichtenden Seuche brennt darauf, sich zu rächen und seine früheren Positionen zurückgewinnen.

When Jamie and Gabrielle ran away in the middle of the night, they thought they'd be leaving their troubles behind them. Now, they're starting to realize those troubles have just begun. With no money, no plan, and no destination, they find themselves the world's most wanted fugitives - trying to stay one step ahead of an international intelligence organization tasked with hunting them down. An intelligence organization run by Jamie's own father.

Jamie Hunt's the high school quarterback in his senior year. He's popular, smart, and got the prettiest girl in the school chasing him. Everything couldn't be more perfect. But a single mistake changes everything. His new "ability" puts him in the middle of a war he doesn't want to be a part of, protecting a girl he barely knows and running from the one thing he loves - his family.

Die Armeen der Allianz, des Imperiums und der Neutralen sowie alle Spitzenspieler und Verhinderer-Clans sind von Nergal dem Leuchtenden aufgerufen worden, in der Lakharianischen Wüste unter seinem Banner gegen den schrecklichsten Feind allen Lebens in den Krieg zu ziehen: Scyth. Doch Scyth muss sich dem Kampf nicht allein stellen. Er hat die Unterstützung einer Legion von hirnlosen, wilden Völkern und grauenhaften Monstern wie dem Zombie-Gitarrenspieler Infect, dem Todesmagier Crawler und dem untoten Krieger Bomber.

Bells is a poor fae who works on a farm outside the protections of the dragon city. When her family is attacked by trolls, she goes to the one person she knows can help her. But will he? The dragons brought peace to the city and the surrounding area when they rose. Jaekob believes there is no reason for further dragon involvement. They’ve’ lost enough lives to this cause. They’ve done their fair share and owe the world nothing more. But when the dark elves infect his city with a virus unlike anything he’s ever seen, he knows they need a solution.

Unter dem Schutz von Nergal dem Leuchtenden marschieren die Armeen des Bündnisses auf Tiamats Tempel zu. Scyths alte Tricks funktionieren nicht länger. Der Botschafter der Vernichtenden Seuche und seine Freunde stehen vor einer schwerwiegenden Entscheidung: Sollen sie sich dem Wunsch von Snowstorm, Inc. beugen und die Quest des Nukleus abschließen, sich den Verhinderern ergeben oder sich aus dem Kampf um Tiamats Tempel zurückziehen, um den Krieg zu gewinnen? Eines steht fest: Sie werden in jedem Fall Verbündete brauchen, und manchmal können ehemalige Feinde zu besten Freunden werden.

Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the pattern on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. But she’s a hardened survivor, a protector of the lowest class … and the most powerful witch in Somanchi. With a single song, she can ask the spirits to grant her unimaginable powers. Dekala’s Mark is strong, a Mark fit for the future queen of Somanchi, but it’s also unstable. She knows the only solution is to be bonded with another, but that would mean relinquishing control over her throne and kingdom.

A dangerous secret. A deadly skill. Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker - with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body. But unlike her sister, Tali, and the other Takers who become Healers, Nya's skill is flawed: she can't push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do is shift it into another person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden. If discovered, she could be used as a human weapon.

The sword has claimed Bells as its wielder, and together, they are bringing peace to the lands. The peace it brings bears a cost - free will of the conquered. They are loyal only to her, and she is loyal only to the sword. Jaekob misses Bells' hopeful spirit and talks of true peace. He longs for the woman he's grown to admire and cherish. With a growing army loyal only to her and with the rise of forced peace, his concerns grow.