Winter Urban Fantasy

Ferris wakes on the Sea Queen, an enchanted cruise ship sailing on a chocolate sea. He has no idea how he got here, but he desperately wants to go home to his boyfriend. The alchemist is the only person who can help Ferris, but he’s been kidnapped. The ransom is high tea, with scones, and jam. Meanwhile, the passengers are gearing up for the Winter Masquerade, a ball where love and magic reign. With a murderous musician, an absent boyfriend, and a mystical party, Ferris soon learns that Wednesday is not the day to fall in love.

Keira Gully has always felt different. But when her family dies in a tragic accident, she discovers the terrifying truth. To put her life together, she holds a memorial for her family, except distant relatives send her cryptic warnings to not touch the dead. She ignores their insanity and helps a dying man at the grave site. But when she senses his spirit return to his body, she remembers the warning.

Separated from the pack, will Aika and Thomas survive? He’s a beautiful threat, but Aika’s convinced she can trust him. But the mysterious, scarred alpha has startling secrets that change everything. While winter rages around them, they’ll have to work together to steal back what belongs to them. No matter what, even if it means painting the Crimson Forest with their enemies’ blood.

Irene Winters hat die unsichtbare Bibliothek gerettet. Dummerweise hat sie dabei auch eine Reihe unersetzlicher Bücher verbrannt, weswegen ihre Bibliothekarskollegen und ihre Vorgesetzten sie nun mit Misstrauen beäugen. Daher zögert Irene nicht lange, als sie von einem Drachen gebeten wird, ein äußerst seltenes Buch zu suchen. Mit einem solchen Fund könnte sie ihren Ruf wiederherstellen. Nur leider nützt ihr das nichts, wenn sie tot ist. Und das verborgene Buch birgt ein tödliches Geheimnis.

Marion Garin is the teenage daughter of Metaraon, the former Voice of God. Now she's also the steward of the Winter Court, which has been in anarchy since a revolution five years earlier. The problem: Marion still doesn't remember anything that happened before two weeks ago. Seth Wilder has a lead on her memories - whoever stole them and sold Marion's essence to a demon lord in Sheol. Marion wants to help steal them back, even though that means abandoning the Winter Court to war. And Seth can't seem to tell Marion no.

Throughout their married lives, baseball star Gaspar Bethlen's wife gave him a lovingly crafted mystery every year for Christmas. Solving the clues led him to his present, but the mysteries themselves were the true gift. Now, Beth has died, leaving Gasper a wreck of a man. But Beth left behind a clue, the beginning of one final Christmas mystery, and it's much more than either of them expected.

Be prepared. There are werewolves in this story, and they are not friendly. Peace has always come at a price...A line has been drawn. When Rebekah and Jamie choose friends over their family, they know things will never be the same. But what they don’t know, is that they’ll be taking their very lives into their own hands. A dark secret leads to an even greater betrayal, one that could threaten to destroy them once and for all. The hunters become the hunted, and the twins find themselves running from not one, but both sides of the law.

She never wanted to be a faerie princess. Deor Smithfield just wanted to find her dad, get him to acknowledge her so the magic in her blood wouldn’t run wild and kill her, then go home to her career and forget about her faerie side forever. Well, two out of three might not be so bad, right? But when your father is the King of the Winter Court, and you’re the real heir to the throne, things go from strange to complicated really fast.

Sie ist eine ausgebildete Kämpferin. Beinahe jedenfalls. Er war zu Lebzeiten ein mächtiger Zauberer. Behauptet er. Daena und ihr knochiger Gefährte schlagen sich mit schlecht bezahlten Aufträgen durchs Leben, als sie in etwas verwickelt werden, das alles bisher Dagewesene übertrifft und sie mit den Schrecken der eigenen Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Ihr neuer Auftrag lautet Krieg – und der Sold ist das Überleben der menschlichen Rasse.

Bastien Argeneau ist ein Workaholic und ewiger Junggeselle. Als sein Bruder Lucern und dessen Verlobte Kate Leever heiraten wollen, bittet Kate ihn, für die Dauer der Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten ihre Cousine Terri zu beherbergen. Doch damit bringt sie den Eigenbrötler Bastien in arge Bedrängnis. Denn wie soll er vor Kates Cousine verbergen, dass er in Wahrheit ein Vampir ist?

Wyn thought everything would be unicorns and rainbows once she reached her mother's palace. The last things she expected were assassination attempts, the Summer King readying for war, and, worst of all, frilly dresses. But all of that is pushed to the side when one of her Guardians needs her help. They're hers. And she'll protect them while keeping her vow to protect the Realm. No matter the cost.

Every passing night brings her closer to a terrible destiny, and even the help of her supernatural friends may not be enough to save her. The worst part is her sealed fate finally brings Rowan, the leshy she loves, back into her life. But there’s another danger lurking in the trees, something unnatural. It is a magic beyond Amy’s understanding or even Rowan’s power to control. As time runs out and danger mounts, Amy must test her strength and her courage if she has any hope of saving her friends—or herself.

A storm is coming.... Natia has to hide, be swept away, or become an immovable force. Reality is wrapped in myth and legend. Gods pull her in different directions, each harbouring a conflicting agenda. Unlikely allies challenge her beliefs, identities are revealed, and evil wears many faces. Faced with a choice to save the man she loves or the human race, what will she choose? Logic dictates that one life is not worth millions, but love is never logical.

I might be Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the assassin the Spider, but even I need a break from the bad guys every now and then. So when Owen Grayson, my significant other, suggests a trip to the Winter’s Web Renaissance Faire, it sounds like a perfect distraction from all my problems. The faire starts off innocently enough, but something seems slightly off about the cheery atmosphere and costumed characters. Maybe I’m being paranoid, but I can’t help but feel like I’m trapped in someone else’s icy web - and that they don’t want me to leave the faire alive....

Middle aged sea witch Ruby Diamond returns for another magical mystery adventure. While looking for the missing father of her teenaged apprentice Allegra, Ruby and Chief of Police Jon "Merman" Miller stumble across a dead body. You'd think people would learn not to leave those things lying around! As always, Ruby is aided by the perpetually snarky and habitually mouthy feline familiar Rumpus as she searches for clues to unravel the mystery. This time, she'll need all the help she can get, because forces both mundane and magical are mustering to take her down before she can uncover the truth.

Celia Bones is a girl existing in two different moments in time. In 1983, she is enjoying summertime and the meeting of a new friend. In 2001, Celia has been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a form of cancer, and is haunted by dreams of a future that she may not live to see. Fireflies in Winter is the story of how there is nothing more tragic than the passage of time, and how time can change the way we look at the world around us.

Trouble always finds Mateo, and he’s succumbed to it several times with or without help. However, after running with the wrong kinds of people, he’s decided to turn a new leaf. His attention to detail lands him a job as a tattoo artist, making people’s dreams come true through body art. Father Lance has always suppressed his needs to care for others. The older alpha is Vale’s most handsome and available bachelor, but Lance has no interest in hooking up. Instead, he puts all his energies into his church.

Following his family’s advice, Grayson goes off to college to expand his horizons beyond his small hometown. Years later, Grayson is ready to head back home after accomplishing his goals, both socially and academically. The holidays are the perfect time to return home with a mission in mind. Grayson is ready to start the next stage of his life, a new business and the man he’s been lusting at from afar for years, the sexy as hell Chance Knight.

Prinz Oslic ist ein Genie - in der mittelalterlichen Welt Syriatis kommt er einem DaVinci gleich -, und seine Forschungen gehen ihm über alles. Da ermorden drei Hexer seinen Vater und reißen die Macht an sich. Oslic ist überzeugt, dass Zauberei ins Reich der Legenden gehört. Doch dann sieht er Dinge, die er niemals für möglich gehalten hätte. Nun muss er all sein Genie einsetzen, um seine Heimat zurückzuerobern. Doch kann seine Wissenschaft gegen Wunder bestehen, die den Gesetzen der Natur trotzen?

In Port City, Alec's traveling sales job takes him to Mobile, Alabama, where he finds the same type of criminals he has found in New Orleans. He can't stand idly by while women and children are mistreated and sold as sex slaves; he has to do something. While he is away on business, something terrible happens at home, and when he gets back, he will tear the city apart to find and punish those who are responsible.