Urban Historical

Manchmal werden bestialische Morde von echten Ungeheuern verübt. Der zweite dunkle Fall des Harry Dresden. Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und ich bin ein Magier. Tatsächlich bin ich der einzige offen praktizierende Magier Chicagos. Ich trete nicht auf Kindergeburtstagen oder Firmenfeiern auf. Aber wenn die Polizei mal nicht weiter weiß, dann stehe ich ihr zur Verfügung. Der brutale Mord, zu dem mich Lieutenant Murphy in diesem Fall rief, war schon schlimm genug.

She's out of retirement – and out for revenge! When Georgina Garrett wakes in the night to find intruders in her house, she knows she must do everything she can to keep her children safe. But just when she thinks the ordeal is over, she realises something is terribly wrong. She arrives at her crime-lord husband David Maynard's London house to find a bloodbath. Six of David's best men lie dead and he is nowhere to be found. Georgina may have walked away from the game but she's still the best player on the street.

It only takes one defeat to topple an empire. With Britain still in the grips of World War Two, Georgina Garrett has her own battles to fight. She has made many enemies over the years, and with every victory she's only grown stronger. But following a bitter betrayal, Georgina must find a way to claw herself out of the depths of despair and back to the top position within London's criminal underworld. She'll do whatever it takes to secure her freedom and defeat those who'd rather to see her dead.

It is the year 1967 in the magnificent and dreamy St. Petersburg. The world is ruled by the magic of aristocrats, the sounds of rock and roll are blasting even in the palace of Her Imperial Majesty, and Russian Volgas are successfully going up against American Pontiacs on the wide avenues at night. Another frantic unauthorized race under the stars ends in tragedy. Doctors and healers, who have already announced the death of the sixteen-year-old Prince Alexander Gorchakov Jr., attribute his miraculous salvation to his suddenly awakened gift.

For 1600 years, Nick Medea has guarded the gate between our world and Feirie, preventing the Wyld - the darkest Feirie of all - from coming into Chicago to find human prey. But since he defeated Oberon, more and more Wyld have been slipping through. Nick and his Feirie companion, the shapeshifter, Fetch, have been busy hunting them down. Nick keeps coming across the Dacian Draco, the sign of his ancient enemy Galerius, including a tattoo worn by a human thug. Unfortunately, every trail ends as if years old.

Die prächtige Stadt Vhindona blickt voller Stolz auf technische Errungenschaften und reiche Händler - alles Magische wird dagegen misstrauisch beäugt. Deshalb versucht Aurelia, ihre Begabung geheim zu halten. Doch als sie Zeugin eines Mordes wird, kommt dabei auch ihr Geheimnis ans Licht, und Aurelia wird dem mächtigen Nekromanten Marius Cinna als Schülerin zugeteilt. Als die wissbegierige junge Frau herausfindet, was wirklich hinter einer unheimlichen Serie von Ritualmorden steckt, und welche Rolle Marius dabei spielt, muss sie sich entscheiden: für ihren neuen Meister oder für ihre Heimatstadt.

It is 1925. The First World War has ended, and a second one looms on the horizon. Even as an orphan, Stephen always knew he was different, the voice in his head told him so. When Stephen is adopted by the mysterious Bethany Andrews, he is thrust into a magical world that coexists alongside the mundane world. After his adoption ritual, he utters a prophecy. The lowborn children shall come, winter will guide them. The children of space and time will hide them. The queen of summer will find them, and the golden kingdom will bind them.

Evolution Device is an entertaining mix of backstage drama and spiritual fantasy, imagining a quintessential 1970s rock 'n' roll success story from the not-quite-real perspective of an artistic muse who makes the music possible. Taking off from a fictionalized amalgam of Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, and Heart, mixed with a bit of Janis Joplin and a dash of the Jefferson Airplane, Lif Strand introduces an unusual (but refreshingly original) angle of Native American mythology into the more familiar behind-the-music elements.

In 19th century Scotland, surgeon Edgar Price has only days to live. He has become host to a revenant that will corrode both his body and soul. Edgar’s fatal mistake has not only doomed him, but also released six more of these malignant wraiths onto the world. In his remaining time, he has vowed to stop the revenants from claiming other victims. His perilous travels lead him to the Witches’ Wood, a haven for a sisterhood of powerful enchantresses. There he meets Ainsley, a witch with a fiery spirit and strong distrust of outsiders.

Thousands of years ago, something came out of the sky that changed the course of human history. Testimonies abound of these 'angels' and their hybrid offspring, the 'Nephilim' giants. These mighty 'gods' quickly rose to power, and the ancient world came alive with industry and culture. Many consider this period in history to be the 'dawn' of our civilization. People who lived as hunters and gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years suddenly began settling in one place, cultivating the land and even governing themselves.

Magician Leopold Kazsmer, the great enchanter, and his cadre of unusual friends, make the deadly journey to the Library of the Damned, a structure fluctuating between the worlds, filled with the archives of the centuries, to find a way to rescue Leopold’s father who is trapped in the darkest depths of Gehenna and to break the covenant Leo has made with the dread Unholy Hosts. They have suddenly called upon him to fulfill their agreement, and because he is bound to them, he has no hope but to obey. It seems that what they most desire is to destroy Leopold’s world.

Un thriller tra le macerie della Seconda guerra mondiale in cui nulla è dato per scontato; un gioco di specchi orchestrato come nelle migliori spy storySarajevo, 1943. Mentre la Jugoslavia è dilaniata dalla guerra, una giovane e bellissima fotografa - vera e propria eroina per il suo popolo - e un ufficiale tedesco vengono rinvenuti brutalmente assassinati. Assegnato al caso è il capitano dell'intelligence militare Gregor Reinhardt, già detective della polizia di Berlino, poi allontanato dai nazisti.

Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan's elite Narcotics unit - and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he'll lift the bounty only if she retrieves an ancient iron demon mask that was stolen from him in a daring raid. However, Mariko has no idea of the tumultuous past carried within the mask - or of its deadly link with the famed Inazuma blade she wields.

Magical illnesses require magical cures, and time is running out. It's been months since I left my hometown. I'd never traveled outside its wall before. It seems like only yesterday that my biggest concern was writing my next hit article. Now, I'm running from the police and desperately searching for the only man who may know how to cure me of a magical ailment. I'm not alone, but I can feel the patience and energy of the man by my side diminish day by day. It's hard to persuade him that I'm spending all my time looking for another man so I can be whole for him.

Jennifer Knight, aspiring magic-wielder and recovering kleptomaniac, has been living large ever since accepting her invitation to attend a prestigious wizard college in northern Pennsylvania. But when her goblin boss disappears, the magical portal in her backyard stops working, and her enigmatic shape-shifting protector warns her to avoid wizards at all costs, she begins to worry she’ll never make it to orientation.

Der Greif hat sie gefunden! Lange hatten sich Arthur und seine Frau Martha nach dem Krieg in ihrem beschaulichen Kleinstadtidyll in Sicherheit gewähnt. Doch als sie ihrem Sohn Karl zum 16. Geburtstag die geheimnisvolle Chronik schenken, tauchen die Kreaturen des grausamen Herrschers auf und entführen Martha in den Schwarzen Turm. Verzweifelt folgt Arthur ihnen in die Parallelwelt und erreicht erneut Martens Hof. Aus dem Gehöft ist inzwischen eine befestigte Stadt geworden, in der sich rasend schnell die Kunde verbreitet.

Ein Bombenangriff legt Bingen in Schutt und Asche. Im letzten Augenblick können Arthur und Martha, die sich seit einem halben Jahr auf dem Dachboden in Arthurs Elternhaus verstecken, vor der SS fliehen. Zusammen mit der jüdischen Familie Diestelzweig tauchen sie in der Parallelwelt des Schwarzen Turms unter. Hier sind seit Arthurs letztem Besuch unglaublicherweise achtzig Jahre vergangen. Längst bewohnt nicht mehr Marthas Familie Martens Hof, und man gewährt ihnen nur widerwillig Unterschlupf.

Paul is a reincarnated Knight Hospitaller from the 12th century. He is also a nurse, or the historical equivalent, in all of his incarnations. After so many lives, he just wants to die and get off the rebirth wheel. Then he becomes a father, and everything changes. Paul must train his adopted daughter to be the first new K-Nurse since the Crusades, but in teaching her to use her magic and in training her to fight, he must bring her into his own deadly world.

Can Jaxon Hampton love the Moon Queen enough? If Zeth, the servant of her enemies the Shadow Giants, defeats Jaxon in battle, the Shadow Giants unleash chaos on Earth and destroy humanity. Every night Jaxon experiences vivid recurring dreams in which, 10,000 years ago, he escorts a beautiful woman through many dangers to the top of a cliff overlooking the Nile River. How come his boss's daughter dreams the same story? And why does a strange man hypnotize Jaxon to take the young woman to a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River during the next full moon?

Most writers choose the endings to their stories...most writers are not Weavers. Laney Holden is a freshman at Madison College whose life goes from normal to paranormal in a matter of seconds. When the antagonist in the book she’s writing shoves her down the stairs at the subway station, she learns she is a Weaver. Weavers bridge the narrow gap between fantasy and reality, bringing their words to life. Laney soon meets William whom she also suspects is a character from her book - one she’s had a mad crush on since her pen hit the paper.