Urban Young Adult

Nick Merrick is stretched to the breaking point. Keep his grades sky-high, or he'll never escape his hometown. Keep his brother's business going, or the Merricks will be out on the street. Keep the secret of where he's going in the evenings from his own twin, or he'll lose his family. Keep his mind off the hot, self-assured dancer who's supposed to be his "girlfriend's" partner.

Zeus gave her one simple job: Kill every human. Atropos, daughter of Zeus and the third goddess of Fate from Greek mythology, spends her eternal life snipping human lifelines when their mortal lives are over. As if being a killer doesn't make life miserable enough, she and her Fate-wielding sisters must live amongst the humans on Earth thanks to a long-running feud between their mother and Zeus.

Roseline Enescue has always been a warrior, the fiercest of her kind, but when she is stripped of her strength and left teetering on the edge of insanity, she is forced to rely on the one person she trusts the least. As Fane and Nicolae fight to save Sadie's life, they find themselves pulled into a tremulous truce between hunter and immortal when a string of gruesome murders break out. The lines have been drawn, and the battle preparations have begun, but only Gabriel can save them all....

Eighteen-year-old Moira Mitchell grew up in the shadows of Vegas's stage lights while her father's career as a magician soared. More than anything, Moira wants to be a magician too, but her father is dead set against her pursuing magic. When an invitation to join the Cirque American mistakenly falls into Moira's possession, she takes action. Instead of giving the highly coveted invitation to its intended recipient, Raleigh, her father's handsome and worldly former apprentice, Moira takes off to join the Cirque.

When Wyatt first entered the magical world known as the Realms, it was a pleasant escape from an oppressive world. But the longer Wyatt stays, the more he begins to realize that the memories he locked away in the shadows of his mind cannot be silenced forever. Though no longer a Druid, Wyatt's newfound sister, Lucy, unveils untold power as she begins to open up memories as if they were worlds to walk upon, exposing secrets none should see.

Against the backdrop of an ancient battle between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness, Aidan struggles to control the newly awakened and enigmatic powers that seem to be his only hope for rescuing Ava, his little sister, trapped somewhere beyond the Veil. As he gravitates to Kara, the beguiling and dangerously unstable girl who helped him realize his abilities, a terrible mistake of fate is revealed that points him back toward Rebecca, whose role is becoming more critical to the battle.

Aurora has spent the past year fighting for survival, freedom, and justice. Now she's about to face the biggest battle of her life. Field agents are turning up dead and everyone is working to stop Jared before he starts a full-blown war between vampires and hunters.

Shelby Pardow never imagined she could kill someone. All she wants to do is hide from her troubled father... when she is teleported to awaiting soldiers on the planet Azimuth. Here she is not a child, but Kin to one of the six Aulic Assembly members whom Malefic Cacoethes has drugged and imprisoned. He seeks to become dictator of this world (and then Earth by proxy). His father, Biskara, is an evil celestial entity, tracked by the Assembly with an armillary device, The Silver Sphere.

Nach ihrem Sieg über den Leichenkönig scheint das Leben für Nicole und ihre Freunde endlich wiederhergestellt zu sein. Doch Nicole sieht immer wieder Visionen von Melanie. Sie kann sogar mit ihr sprechen. Immer stärker wächst in Nicole der Verdacht, dass Melanie noch am Leben sein könnte. Also begibt sich Nicole zusammen mit ihren Freunden auf die Suche nach Melanie. Nicole ist sich sicher, dass sie Recht hat. Auch wenn ihre Suche sie in die tiefen der Unterwelt führt.

Once, a shadow dragon ravaged the Island-World. Insatiable. Unstoppable. A dragon-killer. Now the shadow dragon has reappeared, on a collision course with Aranya and King Beran's campaign to liberate the islands from the scourge of Sylakian tyranny. He is dark, beautiful and deadly, a predator of untold power.

Better for the Urkuun to kill Ahiram than for him to open the Pit and destroy the world. So thinks Sharr, High Priest of Baal. By releasing the Urkuun from the Spell World, the High Priest also unleashes the creature's implacable wrath on the unsuspecting Kingdom of Tanniin. Ahiram discovered the sword of El-Windiir - the blade of legends - at the Games of the Mines. But freedom can sometimes be the harshest of masters and will soon demand that Ahiram confront his worst fears to win a battle he does not yet know how to fight.

Denise Higgins, a college student and lover of languages, is still reeling from the death of her fiancé, a chaplain in the army, when she is introduced to Ben Moreau, a French-Korean 19-year-old three years her junior. When Denise is hired to be Ben's sober companion, she has a few hurdles to overcome. Least of which are Ben's money, Ben's ability to manipulate her, and her own growing infatuation with him. When Denise realizes that an ancient curse hangs over Ben's family line, she begins to understand that her destiny is interwoven with Ben's.

Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs—interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers, at least until they graduate to axes and swords.

An dieser Akademie endet die erste große Liebe tödlich. Noch heute liegt auf den Familien von Romeo Montague und Julia Capulet ein Fluch: Alle siebzehn Jahre muss sich ein Liebespaar aus ihren beiden Häusern opfern. Joy ahnt von ihrem gefährlichen Erbe nichts, bis sie an eine Akademie entführt wird. Als Capulet darf sie sich auf keinen Fall in einen Montague verlieben, doch die Fürsten beider Häuser lassen ihr Herz höherschlagen. Auf dem Ball, auf dem das tragische Liebespaar ausgewählt wird, bringen Joys Gefühle nicht nur sie selbst in Gefahr.

Neo Beijing, 2201. Two years after the Battle of Neo Seoul, eighteen-year-old telepath Ama works in a cafe by day and moonlights as a lounge singer in a smoky bar at night. She’s anonymous, she’s safe from the seemingly never-ending war, and that’s how she’d like to stay. But then PHNX, a resistance group specializing in espionage, approaches her with an offer to expose a government experiment exactly like the one she fled. Soon, Ama is traveling with PHNX on a series of dangerous assignments, using her telepathic powers to bring down the authoritarian Alliance.

Amel hat ihre Freunde gerettet, aber zu einem hohen Preis. Sie hat alle Regeln der Drachenschule gebrochen und jetzt droht ihr der Ausschluss aus der Schule und sogar der Tod ihres Drachen. Als sich ihr ein Ausweg aus dieser misslichen Lage eröffnet, zögert sie darum nicht diesen Weg zu ergreifen. Amel soll die Schülerin des legendären Drachenreiters Hubric Wolkenwandler werden. Hubrik ist ein harter Lehrmeister, aber hinter seiner schroffen Art verbergen sich oft Güte und eine beinahe väterliche Zuneigung. Amel verspricht Hubrics Lektionen ernst zu nehmen. Und das muss sie auch.

Schon ihr ganzes Leben lang hat Jessica eine besondere Beziehung zu Pflanzen gehabt. Bäume gedeihen in ihrer Nähe. Ihr Obst wird größer und reifer als das ihrer Nachbarn, und die Blumen in ihrem Garten erblühen lange vor ihrer Zeit. Doch den Grund für all diese Wunder darf Jessica niemandem verraten. Denn ihre Mutter hat ihr von klein auf eingeschärft, bloß niemandem zu sagen, dass sie in Wahrheit eine halbe Fee ist. Jessica respektiert und achtet ihre Mutter, und würde sich nicht im Traum einfallen lassen sich der resoluten Marion jemals zu widersetzen.

Peter hat keine Ahnung, warum das fremde Mädchen ihn töten will. So, wie er nicht weiß, woher er kommt, warum er ein Händchen dafür hat, offen stehende Fenster zu finden, oder dass sein Nachname Pan lautet. Topsannah will niemanden töten. Doch Nimmerland liegt im Sterben, seit der alte Immerjunge nach London verbannt wurde. Ein neuer Immerjunge muss her, und dafür muss Peter Pan sterben. Während Topsannah verzweifelt versucht, Peter aufzuspüren, machen in Nimmerland fürchterliche Dämonen Jagd auf die letzten Kinder, die noch vor Ort sind. Topsannah läuft die Zeit davon.

Mina doesn't realize she is a changeling, switched at birth, until two warring near-immortal brothers crash her party and burn her nana's house to the ground. Stolen from her home, the two brothers fight for her attention. They tell her that she is their reincarnated faerie leader who fell and was reborn in the midst of a great battle. Now they expect her to lead. To destroy the other side. But she just wants to go home. As Mina seeks a way back to her human family, she finds herself becoming caught up in a war she cannot stop.

Nachdem sie gerettet wurde, weiß Gwyn nun, warum sie auf dem Rasen der Wickmore Academy gelandet ist und wer sie geschickt hat. Doch jetzt wird alles noch komplizierter, denn sie soll aus diesem seltsamen Gefängnis ausbrechen, nicht nur, um sich selbst zu retten, sondern auch, um alle Bösewichte zu befreien. Hinter jeder Ecke lauert ein Feind, der sie mit allen Mitteln aufhalten will. Aber der wahre Feind lauert in den Bösewichten selbst. Sie bekämpfen sich untereinander und sind unfähig, aktuelle und vergangene Streitigkeiten beizulegen. Es liegt an Gwyn, sie zu vereinen.