Science Fiction City

In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing and recording the decay around him, attempting to bury memories of what he has lost.

Kal is a young scientist who fits well in the chip-regulated society. But when he accidentally discovers how the chip is playing with his mind, his life is in danger.

Having returned Mother Death to Bastion, Nuru flees to the inner rings. The Loa heretics seek to turn her to their own ends and topple the nahual from power. As Bastion crumbles, Nuru contemplates the ultimate blasphemy: a world without gods. Broken by his battle with Mother Death, Akachi awakens with renewed purpose. He must hunt the blasphemers who would destroy his beloved city.

Vampires have become weak, and I'm one of the only people who sees it. Now, I just have to prove it. I'll rule with an iron fist and sharpened fangs. I will usher in a new era. Welcome to the City of Blood, where I'm going to make every vampire's paradise.

The City of Blood should be a safe haven for vampire kind, but it doesn't look that way from where I'm standing. Strict curfews, mandatory check-ins, and the constant threat of being executed, it's almost as dangerous for vampires to live here as it is to be human. And I want to bring the regime down. One wrong step, and lives will be lost...including my own. Drop of Blood is book one of the City of Blood series, a gritty vampire urban fantasy with a slow burn romantic sub-plot.

Cinderella retold: fae, vampires, shifters, and a godmother who’ll grant you any wish - if you pay the price. In a world of fae, vampires, and shifters where wishes can be bought and bargained for, Elle is human, bound to her stepmother by a slave charm. Her only hope at freedom is to wish for it. But the godmother rules the illegal wish trade, and the price she demands is steep. Is Elle willing to pay it?

Cinderella retold: Fae, vampires, shifters, and a Godmother who’ll grant you any wish - if you pay the price. Armed with knowledge that could change everything for humankind, Elle must confront the king. But it's the Godmother who now poses the greatest threat. Can Elle and Dex stop her from taking control of the kingdom? This is episode six of six of a serialized Cinderella retelling.

Elle and Dex concoct a plan to lure in the Allegiant vampires responsible for the recent spate of human abductions, but a surprising revelation threatens to change everything. While Elle works hard to keep the ugly truth of who she really is from Dex, it turns out Dex is keeping a secret of his own.

A series of ritualistic murders are discovered six months after Max Elliot turned in his badge. Victims of the media-dubbed “Chinatown Surgeon” are little more than piles of flayed skin. The bones of each body were stolen. This torturous method of execution had only been seen once before and that case remained unsolved.

After finally receiving the one thing she's wanted for so many years, Elle sets out to pay the price demanded by the Godmother: She will travel through the Never Woods and complete a quest that will - if the Godmother's shocking story is to be believed - change her life.

Seit Cassidy Blake fast ertrunken wäre, kann sie Geister sehen und die Welt der Toten betreten. Sogar ihr bester Freund ist ein Geist! Und als ob das nicht schon merkwürdig genug wäre, werden ausgerechnet ihre Eltern die neuen Stars einer Geisterjäger-Fernsehshow. Der erste Drehort: Edinburgh. Die Friedhöfe, Burgen und Geheimgänge der alten Stadt wimmeln nur so vor Geistern - und nicht alle sind freundlich. An diesem unheimlichen Ort wird Cassidy langsam klar, wie viel sie noch über ihre Verbindung zum Reich der Toten zu lernen hat.

Introducing a rebellious teen, Connie, whose struggle against her “tyrant” father, the local sheriff, is interrupted when he is kidnapped by rogue vampires and she must enlist the aid of Dawn and Ava to rescue him.

Meet Ash Mistry: eighth grader, pretty good video gamer, guy with a massive crush on the beautiful Gemma... Oh, and the Eternal Warrior of the death goddess Kali. Just when Ash has settled back into his everyday London life, his friend Parvati arrives with a mission: The evil Lord Alexander Savage is plotting to steal the Koh-I-Noor diamond from England's crown jewels. Ash and Parvati manage to intercept it, but at a terrible price - Gemma's death.

Trees are storehouses of the complex origins and histories of city growth, coming as they do from different parts of the world, brought in by various local and colonial rulers. From the tree planted by Sarojini Naidu at Dehradun's clock tower to those planted by Sher Shah Suri and Jahangir on Grand Trunk Road, trees in India have served, above all, as memory keepers. They are our roots: Their trunks our pillars, their bark our texture, and their branches our shade. Trees are nature's own museums.

Elle is desperate enough to do the one thing she promised herself she’d never do: bargain with the Godmother for a wish. But if she pays the price, it will leave her forever changed. So, she makes the daring decision to lie to the Godmother. She’ll pretend to pay the price. Can she get away with her freedom before the Godmother finds out? This is episode three of six of a serialized Cinderella retelling.

For human slave Elle, it’s just another night of breaking her stepmother’s rules and sneaking out. Another night of using her unique skills for clients who want to...forget. Get the job done. Get paid. Move one step closer to legitimately buying a wish. But when Elle runs face-first into a charming and handsome faerie and then ends up in the clutches of a vampire, her usual fly-under-the-radar plans are knocked off course.

Nicolas is prophesied to become one of the greatest of all Dragon Nightfalls - but only if he can kill the recently awakened overlord dragon, Arnyek Tolvaj. Known as the Shadow Thief, Arnyek Tolvaj is the doom of Telluric Grand and a looming threat to Relic, the City with Seven Gates. Joined by three new friends, Nicolas sets out on a dangerous journey, determined to accomplish the impossible. When he finally comes face-to-face with the Shadow Thief, Nicolas truly understands the private agony of what it means to be a savior.

Two years ago, Cal Kinsey was an up-and-coming cop in the Aurora Police Department. But during a fateful nighttime stakeout in search of a prolific killer, Cal witnessed the darkest corner of his dreams come to life. A rogue vampire slaughtered his partner - to put it nicely - and introduced Cal to the supernatural world he never knew existed in the shadows.

Author Clarissa Katsef is struggling to write her next book. She’s just snagged a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris, a dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But since moving in, she has had the feeling of being watched. Is there reason to be paranoid? Or is her distraction and discomfort the result of her husband’s recent shocking betrayal? Or is that her beloved Paris lies altered outside her windows? A city that will never be quite the same, a city with a scar at its center?

After the attack on Zynon, our beloved group is on the run. They all know that Byron will kill them the moment he finds them. With nowhere to hide, as Byron has spies everywhere, Gabe has decided to come out and tell everyone the truth of who he is—the son of the Silurian monarch.