Young Adult Urban Fantasy

Aurora Keys is heartbroken, struggling to forget the beautiful and enigmatic Jessie Vanderlind, who has told her it is too dangerous for them to be together. And he may be right. Jessie is, after all, a vampire. But that doesn't make forgetting him any easier. Just as Aurora is starting to pull her shattered life back together, Jessie reappears at her window with a warning: There are many vampires who want to see her dead and him locked in a coffin for a hundred years.

Ember must stop the apocalypse from happening, but at what cost? The Angels of destruction have arrived, and only Ember stands in the way of their mission to carry out God's wrath and annihilate his enemies. When the barrier between celestial creatures and humans beings is broken and Angels descend to Earth, Ember soon learns there's a fine line between good and evil. As she faces a world full of monsters and magic, a terrifying darkness rises and threatens to destroy everything she's fighting for.

Life on the run is no winter picnic, especially when Aurora's partner sees himself as the sheriff, not the outlaw. It's a cat-and-mouse game across the Last Frontier, with agents and vampires out for blood while Fane searches desperately to find Aurora before rogue vampires do. The hunters have become the hunted. And the road to freedom has never felt more uncertain.

Thanks to Dante's recklessness, Aurora is now partners with Valerie: the redheaded, backstabbing vixen. Dante is in full flirt mode. Fane's tactics are more ruthless. Something carnal has awakened in Aurora and neither boy is helping tame her cravings. When a member of the unit's team is found dead, Aurora and Valerie are sent after a vampire in Sitka, but Aurora suspects the killer's much closer to home.

A Sudden Outbreak of Magic stars Kelley and Jeroan Strickland, twin teenagers whose family just moved to Dubuque, Iowa. One cold morning in November, Kelley gets "infected" by magic after reading aloud from a small leather bound book she finds. She also blows up the family home in the process. Soon Kelley and Jeroan must face up to a power-hungry, centuries-old Sorcerer who wants to rid the world of what he calls "renegade" magic-users. Only Kelley's new way of using magic will save their new city and their magically infected friends, though she may lose her brother in the process.

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.

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.

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.

Julia has been chosen. While at the Stained compound, she was tapped as The One to win the war against the Nephilim and leashed with an illness that worsens each day she is away from The Three - and her destiny. Determined not to return to the frightening Chosen leaders and desperate to escape her fate, Julia and her friends journey to the Swiss Alps, home of a rogue Chosen clan. In this snowy haven, all hell breaks loose. Someone is traitor. Someone changes sides.

Natalie Johnson has always dreamed she's someone else - calm, beautiful, in control. A chosen warrior with a maniacal arch nemesis and a dreamy boyfriend, the type that can make your knees melt and your heart quiver. Real life is much different. She's tormented by a bully and endures the sharp tongue of her father, but finds solace in her dreams.

Essenslieferantin in Neo-Hongkong zu sein, ist kein leichter Job. Das merkt Maddie spätestens, als sie nach einer Lieferung von vier Jugendlichen angegriffen und aus einem Hochhausfenster gestoßen wird. In ihrer Todesangst meldet sich eine Stimme in ihrem Kopf. Sie nennt sich „Zefira“ und übernimmt die Kontrolle über Maddies Körper. Mit übernatürlichen Kräften rettet Zefira Maddie das Leben. Nur, wer ist Zefira und was hat sie vor? Und warum wird plötzlich Jagd auf Maddie gemacht? Ein geheimnisvoller Hinweis führt Maddie auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit in Neo-Hongkongs gefährliche Unterwelt.

This part-demon teen vampire fighter and her faithful terrier hellhound are once again patrolling the dark city streets of San Antonio, Texas. Val's hunky human partner, Detective Dan Sullivan, is giving her the cold shoulder since she beheaded his vampire ex-fiancée. Vamp leader Alejandro is struggling to keep the peace between vamps, demons, and humans. The mucho powerful Encyclopedia Magicka has been stolen; someone in the Demon Underground is poisoning vamps; and Val's inner lust demon, Lola, is getting very restless.

It has been mere days in the world of Eon, where Rune Jenkins, her twin brother Ryker, and their friend Grey have been trapped, fighting for their lives. After discovering the truth of their ancestry, the three are far from home, and far from anything resembling their mundane lives of the past. While Ryker is still held captive by the eerily beautiful Zio and her goblins, Grey falls into the clutches of Feena, the Fae queen. She begins to drain his soul bit by bit to feed her dark underground garden, and Grey has no hope of escaping on his own.

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.

If knowledge is power, then what's a secret? A year after thwarting the Kabbahl's attempt to restore shadow magic, the impetuous Marcus Fith, denied the opportunity to help his family search for his sister, decides to take matters into his own hands. When the only meaningful clue his family has seen mysteriously shows up - a letter addressed to him... written in his own blood - Marcus escapes in order to work out the set of expiring instructions that promise to lead him to his sister. Promises are slippery things, however.

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...

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.

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.

They are the Awakened, a unique breed of people in a remote corner of the world. Faith is one of these gifted carriers of the Seraphim; and in return of her unconditional love, her Seraphim grants her powers of incredible potential. But not all carriers embrace their blessing. Jack loathes being an Awakened. He never asked for it, his Seraphim keeping him alive even in spite of his desire to die. Not even a great war could rid him of this curse.