Dystopian Magic

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.

Being an Enforcer is tough. Being an undercover spy for the resistance group, Axiom, is even harder. Not having the people you love know the truth is killer. When fellow Enforcer, Marissa, pursues Finn, he discovers she has the information he's looking for. This leaves him with an impossible choice: stay true to Piper and ruin the mission or betray the girl he loves and save the city.

When Finn, a 16-year-old Enforcer-In-Training, learns that The Wall built to keep citizens safe from The Wild is really a cage, he starts questioning all he's been taught. Maybe animals aren't as dangerous as he's been conditioned to believe. Maybe his rebel parents aren't the bad guys. Maybe he's playing for the wrong team. Finn must choose a side; either way it will cost him. His family, or his future...but neither are as terrifying as what may lurk beyond The Wall.

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.

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.

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.

When Eva's twin brother, Eamon, falls to his death just a few months before he is due to participate in the Testing, no one expects Eva to take his place. She's a Maiden, slated for embroidery classes, curtseys, and soon, a prestigious marriage befitting the daughter of an Aerie ruler. But Eva insists on honoring her brother by becoming a Testor. After all, she wouldn't be the first Maiden to Test - just the first in 150 years.

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.

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.

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.

In a city overrun by war, Luka doesn’t have time for games. So when his little sister asks him to care for her faeries as she’s sent away to escape the air raids, he dismisses her childishness. But it’s already more than he can bear to see her go, so he promises to do as she asks. A promise that Luka quickly breaks. Instead of leaving an offering for the faeries, he flings their saucer of milk as far out the window as he can. Big mistake. The faeries are not only very real, but they’re more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Deine Eltern lassen sich scheiden, darum bist du nach deinem 16. Geburtstag zu einer erbärmlichen Existenz als Angehöriger der untersten sozialen Schicht verdammt. Deine Freundin aus der Nachbarschaft verbessert durch eine Schönheitsoperation ihr Aussehen und levelt schnell, um dich zu beeindrucken. Ein Schlafender Gott hat dir etwas Macht gegeben, doch dafür verlangt er absoluten Gehorsam und Loyalität. Obendrein will die Vernichtende Seuche, dass ihr Abgesandter alle Lebewesen infizieren soll. Zu dumm, dass du ihr Abgesandter bist.

As Ellie comes to grips with her destiny as the Elect One, her relationship with Michael grows tense. When she meets a mysterious boy named Rafe, things get even more complicated.Yet the time has come for the Elect One to stand against the group of evil fallen angels who are bent on destroying the world. In order to face the immeasurable malevolence heading her way, Ellie tries to put her personal life aside. But she soon learns that whoever holds her heart also holds the key to mankind’s salvation - or destruction. As the end days approach, Ellie is faced with an epic decision. Who does her heart really belong to?

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.

War is hell. A war built from reckless fae magic is total annihilation. Even the gods are turning their backs on the dwindling race of mortals. But Kara and her friends refuse to let the world crumble without a fight. An unlikely friend offers them one thing. The mysterious gift might be their last hope. There will be destruction. There will be bloodshed. There will be death. Kara must decide what she's willing to lose to save the ones she loves.

Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die. For Lucian "Lucky" Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an "Incentive" - a family member - to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he'll have to choose death for his only living relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother.

Desperate to escape an arranged marriage and the life her high-ranking government official father planned for her, Cat Hunter does the unthinkable. She runs away from her homeland, Tellus, disguises herself as a boy, and stows away on an air ship. She’s ready for life in a new land where the general population isn’t poverty stricken and at the mercy of the cruel officials. What she isn’t quite ready for is meeting Fox, a crew member aboard the Stormdancer - which turns out to be a smugglers’ ship.

The final installment in Ellie Scott's Evolution dystopian trilogy continues as Sasha and Jeremy have been taken by the Demons. For the past hundred years, humans mutated at age 18 into one of the four realms - Demon, Vampire, Werewolf, or Witch. Only Sasha never mutated. She is one of the Pure, a rare human who does not mutate and the Demons have finally captured her to find out what has caused her mutation and try to eliminate it.

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.