Urban Young Adult

As Kalina prepares for the next stage in her life with a visit to Yale University, a surprise meeting with someone from her past leads to a discovery that would change the vampire world forever.You thought you knew all about Life's Blood and what it can do. You thought you knew what Kalina was. Now in Blue Blood, all that will change as Kalina meets her maker. One of her vampire loves will die, another will be turned, and another will break her heart forever.

Tessa Dark and her friends make it to the island, but her feelings are still torn between Joe and Richard. Tessa faces greater challenges when she is welcomed by the mysterious Duncan Grey. Finding themselves in a desperate game of survival, Tessa and her group are left hanging on for their very lives.

While 18-year-old Tessa Dark was serving her prison sentence for murder, the world beyond her cell walls changed forever. The thunder came and destroyed the world she had once known. Trapped inside the prison and faced with no future, Tessa's only glimmer of hope is her friendship with fellow inmate Joe McBride. Despite Tessa's fears, Joe decides to go beyond the prison walls to seek help. But when he fails to return, Tessa is determined to go and search for him.

With the evil entity Maladias preparing to invade New York, Aspen Rivest - one of the last surviving Mages of the Council - is running out of options to stop him. She needs allies. Fast. But gathering enough strength to oppose Maladias means calling on help from the remaining Supernaturals of New York - Supes that have become enemies of the Mages. Supes who hate each other almost as much as they hate Aspen....

Andy Knight is working a dead-end job in a convenience store when he's transported to a fantasy world. He is taken in by a master shinobi and soon discovers his magical abilities: He can communicate and harness the strengths of beasts. This power is forbidden in the world of Nobu-Teng, and to make matters worse, Andy is an outsider. Using this power will make for him no end of enemies, but it might be the one thing that helps him become something he's always dreamt of: a shinobi.

"Ihr müsst mir eure Namen nicht nennen. Denn ich bezweifle, dass ihr die erste Woche überleben werdet." Seit Magie die Welt übernommen hat, schicken die Menschen ihre Erstgeborenen durch das Runentor an die Firstborn Academy. Dort müssen sie sich einer Reihe von magischen und in der Regel tödlichen Prüfungen unterziehen. Niemand weiß welchem Zweck diese Prüfungen dienen. Die Menschen wissen nur, dass keines ihrer Kinder jemals zurückkehrt. Jedenfalls bis jetzt.

When Ember learns of a stone that will help them better blend in at school, a journey to the legendary Phoenix Forest is the only solution to their problem. Though the trip starts off exciting, Ember and their companions swifty discover their path isn’t as easy as they thought it would be. Will the prize be worth the cost they may need to pay? Those fighting to show witches are superior to non-magic users find it easy to manipulate the masses.

Tragedy has swept Charlotte Duncan's feet from under her again. This time, she knows she is to blame. Reeling from loss, Charlotte must find a way to move forward and continue the war against Archangelo and the Vampire Council. As their reign of terror continues, Charlotte tries to protect those who seek asylum at Zaen. Along the way, she receives assistance from unexpected quarters, and discovers that while everything important has been stolen from her, she's been left with a precious gift. But in the end, only one of Nememiah's Children will survive.

In the magical boroughs of New York City - filled with supernatural races like the Vamps, shifters, Fae, and witches - evil lurks, waiting for its chance to kill again. Things are bad for Aspen Rivest, the newest - unwanted - Mage of New York. The Council of Mages is in shambles, Lucien's confession has left her wondering if she can trust anyone, and Isak, the boy she cares about, is nowhere to be found. Now she's running out of time.

Aspen is a Norm. A non-magic. A human. And in the magically hidden boroughs of New York City, that's a quick way to wind up dead. Or worse. So instead of magic, Aspen relies on her skills as a thief to stay alive. She didn't plan to get caught stealing from Lucien Dunadine, one of the strongest members on the Council of Mages. She really didn't plan on him blackmailing her into being his apprentice. But with the Council demanding Lucien present a candidate for a competition to become their newest Mage, neither one of them has much choice.

Every tree in the sacred Forest of Laida houses a soul. And each of those souls will return to the mortal world for many future lives. But not all of them deserve to. Seycia’s father told her this story as a child - a story of the most holy place in the Underworld, the Forest of Laida, where all souls go to rest before embarking on a new life. But Seycia’s father is dead now, and his killer has put a target on her back.

Ora has returned to Conjuragic, along with the Gayden army, determined to thwart the overwhelming prejudice in the magical realm and stop the sinister Master who wishes to rule them all.

Conrad Edison is cursed. His foster parents die in horrible ways around his birthday, and he ends up back at the orphanage where he and the other children are treated like indentured servants. When a man with the ability to mind control animals inexplicably tries to kill Conrad, the harrowing scrape with death gives him a new perspective on life. Determined to elude his cursed fate, Conrad decides to escape the orphanage once and for all. The phone leads him to a magical place called Queens Gate, and for the first time in his life, he dares to hope for a better life.

Gefährliches Spiel mit dem Feuer! Obwohl Malias Feuerelement immer deutlichere Formen annimmt, ist die 17-jährige Elite-Soldatin immer noch nicht von ihren Fähigkeiten überzeugt. Doch die Lage in den obersten politischen Rängen spitzt sich zu und als sich die Situation plötzlich gegen sie wendet, kann nur noch ihr Mentor Chris sie vor dem sicheren Tod bewahren. Dabei kommen sich die beiden wieder einmal näher und Malia erfährt etwas über Chris, das alles, was sie je über den attraktiven High-Society-Boy erfahren hat, in ein anderes Licht rückt...

Galanta is only one step away from successfully releasing Santanas. The faeries must either stop her or hope that their allies stand strong in the coming storm. While they seek her out, they are forced to cement old allegiances and create new ones. With this in mind, Orion offers himself as a groom to the treacherous night faeries, asking only that Aethan go in his stead to choose his bride. Meanwhile, Galanta's spell means that while Izzy now remembers Aethan, he has no memory of her.

Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger has put her dreams aside to look after her eccentric mother. Case in point: saving her from a mysterious stranger who’s just stormed the terrified woman’s antique store wearing a rattlesnake tattoo, leveling threats, and brandishing the weirdest deck of cards Ernie’s ever seen. When Ernie grabs some of the cards and runs, she’s launched into a world she never knew existed - one her mother may know more about than she’s revealing. With a handful of stolen cards, Ernie has just been made an unwilling player in a game of good versus evil.

È passato quasi un anno dalla mattina in cui la madre di Veronica è stata uccisa per mano di un folle. La vita della ragazza è finita quel giorno e le sue notti da quel momento sono tormentate da una frase incomprensibile che la madre ha cercato di dirle prima di morire. Ora vive sola in un monolocale e le sue giornate si susseguono monotone e uguali, grigie come la periferia in cui vive. Finché, una notte, Veronica si trova nel mezzo di un incendio che distrugge una pompa di benzina.

After hearing voices among an eerie copse of trees in the woods, 17-year-old Curtis must confront his worst fear: that he has inherited his father's mental illness. A desperate search for answers leads him to discover Gravenhearst, a labyrinth mansion that burned down in 1894. When he locks eyes with a steely Victorian girl in a forgotten mirror, he's sure she's one of the fire's victims. If he can unravel the mystery, he can save his sanity...and possibly the girl who haunts his dreams.

He's not crazy. Honest, he's not. He's just Wyatt. Wyatt the Mighty. Fifteen-year-old Wyatt has been sent to a treatment center for "disturbed youth". No one understands him. He wants nothing more than to escape from it all. And he does. Through a magic he doesn't understand, he finds himself in Hagion, a realm of fantastical creatures and immense wonder.

Everyone has a soul. Some are just worth more than others. Farley Hope has no idea who she really is. Not until she meets Daniel, anyway. He has answers to the painful questions that plague her life, and once she learns the truth, there is no going back. She is thrust into a world of darkness, where she must learn to fight to survive; where your soul is your only true currency; where the promise of love is marred by the promise of death. Farley Hope is prophesied. Her coming has been awaited for hundreds of years. She is destined to end the tyranny of the Soul Reavers forever.