Urban Historical

It is the eve of the Great War, and English chemist Lucilla Osbourne finds herself trapped on hostile German soil. Panicked and alone, she turns to a young Frenchman for shelter. Together they spend a night of intense passion, but their dangerous circumstances won't allow more than a brief affair.

Rachel Lyndon yearns to escape her scandalous past, but her dreams for a better life seem ruined after she buries her fiancé on the Texas plains. Heath Renier has been evading the law by the skin of his teeth for years. Now he's found a new identity as Holden Renshaw, foreman of Dog Creek Ranch. But the arrival of his boss's mail-order bride, now a widow, upsets his fragile peace and threatens to expose his deadly secrets.

June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past.

In the heart of every man there is a history. In the heart of every monster there is a story. In this first installment of The Clandestine Exploits of a Werewolf, Ethan Garraint is on a vendetta that begins in the heart of the Pyrenees with the fall of Montségur and leads him to the streets of New Orleans nearly 500 years later. But the person he chases isn't really a man anymore and Ethan has been a werewolf for almost a millennium.

In a strange twist, a young man in love finds himself embroiled in a paranormal adventure that leads him to follow a pale ghostly woman who eventually leads to a discovery that will have a profound impact on his own love life forever.

In the pages of her journal, Mina Murray confesses the erotic devilment and nocturnal horrors of her time with Count Dracula. And what she writes says as much about her desires as it does about the Count’s - something no one, not even her fiancé Jonathan Harker, could ever understand. Readers everywhere will succumb to Essex’s sumptuous prose and thrill to celebrated reader Bianca Amato’s tantalizing delivery, the intoxicating effects of which will occupy listeners’ minds through the darkest of nights.

Dieser bizarre Doppelmord wurde eindeutig mit Magie durchgeführt! Der Auftakt der erfolgreichsten Urban-Fantasy-Serie der Welt! Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Nutzen Sie meinen Namen auf eigenes Risiko für Beschwörungen. Erst wenn Ihnen wirklich sonst niemand helfen kann, rufen Sie mich an. Das tat auch Lieutenant Karrin Murphy von der Chicagoer Polizei, als sie vor den Opfern eines bizarren Doppelmords stand. Die Tat war eindeutig durch etwas Übernatürliches verübt worden.

The Beetle tells the tale of an evil, ancient Egyptian spirit seeking revenge on an up-and-coming British politician, Paul Lessingham. The shape-shifting creature that pursues Lessingham is possessed of hypnotic powers and takes different forms, both male and female, as well as morphing into a beetle - a figure that induces terror in its victims.

On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan - a lively quadrangle of homes - begins to stir. Auntie Xue’s son Jiyue is getting married today, and she is determined to make the day a triumph. Despite Jiyue’s woeful ignorance in matters of the heart - and the body. Despite a chef in training tasked with the onerous responsibility of preparing the banquet.

Англия конца XVI века. Пылкий аристократ Орландо проводит свои дни в безудержном веселье и бесконечных празднествах, которыми наполнена жизнь двора королевы Елизаветы. Ее Величество настолько увлечена симпатичным шестнадцатилетним юношей, что, умирая, жалует ему большую сумму денег и благословляет на долгую жизнь без старения души и увядания плоти. Королевское слово – закон. И теперь Орландо навсегда останется юным и прекрасным. Но тут происходит необъяснимое. Отправившись в Константинополь Орландо, очнувшись после многодневного сна, обнаруживает, что находится в теле женщины.

When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England. But Emily's father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years ago—and it is taking possession of Emily's beloved but foolish and dissolute brother.

Band 2 der Daevabad-Trilogie. Jetzt da sich die Heimstätte aller Dschinns – Daevabad – in den Nachwehen einer verheerenden Schlacht befindet, steht die junge Heilerin Nahri vor der wichtigsten Entscheidung ihres Lebens. Doch wenn sie ihr Erbe – und damit gleichsam unermessliche Macht – annehmen sollte, wartet ein goldener Käfig auf sie – argwöhnisch beäugt von einem Herrscher, der auf dem Thron sitzt, der einst Nahris Familie gehörte. Epische Fantasy überbordend gefüllt mit schillernder Magie, mächtigen Intrigen, unvergesslichen Charakteren und großartigem World-Building.

Daevabad ist gefallen! Nachdem die Stadt durch eine brutale Eroberung ihrer Magie beraubt wurde, müssen die Anführerin der Nahid, Banu Manizheh, und ihr wiederauferstandener Heeresführer Dara versuchen, ihr zerrüttetes Bündnis zu kitten und ein zerstrittenes, kriegerisches Volk zu einen. Doch der Blutzoll des Angriffs auf die Stadt und der Verlust seiner geliebten Nahri haben die schlimmsten Geister aus Daras dunkler Vergangenheit entfesselt. Um sie auszulöschen, muss er sich unangenehmen Wahrheiten stellen und sich der Gnade derer ausliefern, die er einst als Feinde betrachtete.

Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired The New York Times to name him “one of America’s premier writers of fiction”. Damballah’s narratives examine the vexed history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, neighborhood whose origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the United States of America.

Der Nachtzirkus meets The Greatest Showman. J. R. Dawsons funkelndes Debüt um einen magischen Zirkus verzaubert die Hörer:innen weltweit. Wenige Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zieht eine Truppe von Zirkusartisten durch den Mittleren Westen der USA. Ihre Manege ist nicht groß, doch ihre Talente sind mehr als außergewöhnlich: Odette, eine Trapezkünstlerin, kann Krankheiten und Verletzungen heilen. Mauve sagt die Zukunft voraus. Und Rin vermag durch die Zeit zu reisen. Zu dritt versuchen sie mit dem Zirkus, anderen übernatürlich Begabten ein Zuhause zu bieten, Sicherheit und eine Familie.

Torn, bleeding and dying, from the battlefields of France, Calin Sheridan finds himself back in London. But while the city remains familiar, war has changed him in ways he couldn't imagine. This working class lad turned soldier, finds himself in the lap of luxury, but do the palatial trappings hide a more sinister and deadly world. Can he control his new primal urges and find a way back, or is his old life and love lost to him forever?

Prohibition is in full swing, and the glamorous life of upper-class Kansas City is everything Rose (Luna) Lane ever hoped it would be. Being married to her best friend isn’t so bad either, considering their agreement to keep their real love lives out of the public eye. However, try as she might to continue her life of anonymity, her popularity as a land developer’s wife—and as a successful club owner—draws even more attention to her personal endeavors. Soon, the balancing act between the life of Luna and Rose becomes a full-time job itself, making visiting home harder than ever before.

The year is 1645. A murderous war has been raging through Central Europe for 28 years, and there seems to be no end in sight. After the death of his master, Martin, Gustav is left with nothing. Only Anike is there to console him over the heavy loss. When she asks him to help her possessed father, Gustav realizes that the key to helping her—Martin's Codex Daemonum—makes no sense to him.

Why should Edmund be given the Talisman? Why should he have to give it away when the time comes? Edmund's story starts in the early '60s and tracks his life into the next century. Life-changing events occur to him that cannot be explained, except for the prophesy from that old woman! So many lives are changed when they contact Edmund, not all to the good!

Band 1 der Daevabad-Trilogie. Nahri hat nie an die Magie geglaubt. Sie besitzt zwar gewisse Kräfte und gilt auf den Straßen Kairos im 18. Jahrhundert als äußerst talentierte Frau, doch sie weiß es besser. Denn sie schlägt sich nur mit billigen Tricks und Handlesen durch. Als Nahri jedoch versehentlich Dara beschwört, einen ebenso gerissenen wie unheimlichen Dschinnkrieger, sieht sie sich gezwungen, ihre Ansichten zu ändern.