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Kingston James Parks' day starts off badly enough when he arrives at work to find the FBI has raided his place of employment. It gets worse when the Green Zombie Soldiers (really) start shooting at him, and becomes downright surreal when getting shot at triggers his breakthrough, and he teleports to safety. He's become a superhuman, a "jumper."

Breena has known Giles all her life—and has loved him for nearly as long. Linked by the ties of family and coven, Breena has had a lifetime to discover everything there is to know about him. His intelligence and specialization in crystals and gems are truly things to admire, but it’s how he smiles at her that really makes her cauldron bubble. Too bad he’s completely oblivious. Giles isn’t as oblivious as Breena thinks he is. A powerful witch, he’s spent most of his life hiding his true feelings from her, but he can’t ignore the fact that she’s hurting.

He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But "he" is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, seventy-three, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years.

She only wants to save her world, but in doing so, she may lose it all.... Hi. I’m Ash, the most fearless and ambitious fae you’ll meet. Well, only sometimes. Today, I decided to kill a dragon. No one’s ever done that before, but I figured it would be a way to get in with the high queen. I want to be a crown guardian, you see. There’s a war going on between the Seelie and Unseelie fae, and if it continues, I’m pretty sure the world is going to end. But let’s not get into that. Today, I killed a dragon. That’s all you need to know about me.

In Dragon’s Mist, we saw Connor establish his castle. In Dragon’s Born, he secured his land. In Dragon’s Realm, he exterminated a mortal enemy, and in Dragon’s Knight, he took his continent. Now three continents gather to wipe Connor and his knights from the Circle Sea. Can our hero survive their combined might?

With a simple phone call, 2000-year-old werebear Kristos finds himself inexorably pulled back toward the purpose he was built for. A purpose he's been trying to ignore for easily half his life. A purpose he thought had died long ago. But this purgatum is the first he's known of in centuries. The church killed the last one. Racing to her side from halfway across the country, Kristos learns that the day-walking vampire from his past is still alive.

Ryanne Kelly sueña con una vida amorosa normal. Imposible tenerla con su fastidioso don de videncia feérico que le muestra lo mal que terminará cada intento de romance. Aunque todo puede cambiar cuando aparece un misterioso y atractivo desconocido que no activa sus dones. Titus Doyle, un bradaí inmortal, anhela los viejos tiempos de saquear y navegar por los mares. Ahora, él y su banda de mercenarios navegan en el ciberespacio buscando oro. Pero él tiene una sed aún más difícil de satisfacer: matar faes...

Over the course of six months, Cassie has gotten divorced, inherited a magical bakery, discovered she’s a witch, gotten stuck in a secret passage, gotten kidnapped, rescued her daughter from the worst of all horrors (a stuffy all girl’s boarding school), and has made the best friends anyone could ever ask to have. She’s well overdue for a break. It’s too bad that the oldest witch in town is determined to make her life as challenging as possible, in the most annoying ways imaginable. Or that a fortune teller has foretold someone from her past is coming to shake everything up.

Après avoir sauvé de justesse sa meute, Kayla est en fuite pour en apprendre plus sur ses origines et échapper à ceux qui convoitent son pouvoir. Elle intègre la société des polymorphes, qui survivent dans le plus grand secret. Là, elle y apprend leurs capacités, leurs coutumes, leur organisation, leur scission... Dans un monde où tout le monde pense la connaître, où tout le monde en sait plus qu'elle-même sur son destin, Kayla semble avoir du mal à se projeter.

Trixie D’Vita didn’t scythe. That was Mom’s gig. Then the Angel Investigative Bureau (AIB) turned up at Aunt Harry’s bar. Seemed the hottest afterlife gameshow in the Mystical Realms was misappropriating newly-departed souls. And Death was a person of interest. When the AIB can’t find Death, they come looking for Trixie, Death’s estranged daughter. Soon Trixie's best friend is in dire peril. An AIB trainee is traipsing towards trouble. And Trixie, armed with nothing but a pocket-scythe, is plunging headfirst into the gaping maw of a trans-dimensional vortex. So not the evening she’d planned.

The hotly anticipated sequel to HELL FOR HIRE! One month ago, Bex, the demon Queen of Wrath, and Adrian, witch of the Blackwood, pulled off the upset victory of the century. Now, they find themselves facing the question all unexpected champions must answer: what next? They’ve declared war on Heaven, but how do you actually bring down a divinely powerful tyrant when your army’s still in the single digits and your magical fortress is an illegally modified Winnebago? It seems like a hopeless situation. As always, though, Adrian Blackwood has a plan, and this time, he’s going big.

Sidhe sorcerer Riann Donovan has fled a tragic past in the U.S. and established herself in Sydney, Australia, as a photojournalist. Called to work a murder scene, she learns the victim is Sidhe and finds herself on the run from a swarm of demons and Fomhoire conjurers. She turns for help to Carrie Pelsher—new in the city, not Sidhe but possessed of a mysterious affinity for magic.

Découvre la suite de cette saga d’Urban fantasy pleine de mystères et de rebondissements ! Au programme : mythologie égyptienne, prophétie ancienne et démons ! Keira a tout perdu après le drame qui a frappé Londres et elle ne pense plus qu’à la vengeance. Prisonnière des vampires, elle doit son salut à un autre humain : Joshua. Une fois libre, elle découvre les ravages occasionnés par le gouvernement britannique pour éradiquer l’invasion zombie qui a dévasté la cité. La population semble s’être évaporée, et le seul moyen pour eux de fuir la ville est d’emprunter un vortex qui les mènera en lieu sûr.

Ioanna hat ihr Ziel erreicht und ist der dämonischen Welt der Kalikanzari entkommen – doch der Preis dafür ist hoch. In der letzten der zwölf Raunächte hat Ioannas große Liebe Daphne ein folgenschweres Opfer erbracht und scheint nun für Ioanna verloren. Während sie mithilfe überraschender Verbündeter schockierende Wahrheiten über die Kalikanzari aufdeckt, ist Ioanna entschlossen, für ihre Liebe zu kämpfen. Ihre Erleichterung ist groß, als sie schließlich eine Möglichkeit findet, mit Daphne zu sprechen. Doch das Gefühl hält nicht lange an, denn Daphne liebt Ioanna nicht mehr.

Robin Wildwood is settling into her new role as Head Witch… kind of. At least her squirrel familiar, Tansy, is enjoying their return to her childhood home of Wildwood Heath—when she isn't getting into fights with Robin's aunt's scheming magpie familiar, that is.

Vor drei Monaten habe ich einen Job als Barkeeperin angenommen. Aber nicht in einer normalen Bar – in einer magischen Gilde. Ich bin kein mächtiger Magier wie meine drei heißen besten Freunde. Keine Zauberin, keine Alchemistin, nicht einmal eine Hexe. Nur ein Mensch, der Drinks mixt wie ein Profi und ansonsten seine nichtmagische Nase aus Mythiker-Angelegenheiten raushält. Ich kenne meine Grenzen. Warum stehe ich also gerade in einem Schwarzmagiekreis einem Feenlord gegenüber? Hinter mir kämpfen meine drei Freunde um ihr Leben.

After incorporating some ingenious strategies, Operation Decapitate the Divine Nation of Lenea ended in a resounding success for Mynoghra. Takuto succeeded in defeating the Player controlling the TRPG forces from behind the scenes and rescuing Sludge Atou from his clutches, but at a great cost. With Takuto left unconscious and Mynoghra without a proper Commander, Atou steels herself to summon Gleeful Spin Doctor Vittorio—the most notorious Hero unit in Mynoghra.

Telium is playing a deadly game, risking everything she knows and holds dear. The cities, the temples, even the Goddess's hang in the balance. She is running out of hands to play, Alkoria the losing bet. She has fought rebellions, killed kings and broken queens, but nothing will prepare her for her final battle. With her newfound family by her side, and the threat to her people, Telium suddenly has everything to lose. And as the game becomes far more perilous, inconceivable players come forth from the shadows.

Laura grew up too quickly, burdened by her ability to see the hidden damage inflicted upon others. Her father, classmates, and strangers were both victims and perpetrators, filling her with hatred and sorrow. Years later, uncertain if she could help those in need, Laura embarked on a journey of discovery, seeking love, hope, and encountering more tragedy. The world connected to her "gift" was larger and more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Sibyl’s family are descended from the same bloodlines that provided the oracles in Greece. She’s even inherited the name to go with the talent. But she's just failed her prophecy exams. Worse than that, her dog has disappeared and none of her far-seeing family can find him. When her aunt prophecies that her dog has gone where he's needed most, Sibyl decides she's had enough of the seer lifestyle.