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I should be celebrating. Hell, I should be the happiest elf in the world. Unfortunately, I can’t revel in my successes when there’s a foul fiend who is relentlessly trying to lure me to his side. He won’t leave me in peace and he seems determined to plunge the country into chaos to get what he wants, using bloodshed, fear and malevolent magic. Still, I’m no stranger to stubbornness. If I can turn the tables and become the hunter instead of the hunted, I might have a chance.

Jemma Avalon is the daughter of a gentle part elf-fae mother and a father with fiery dragon blood, an unusual combination even in the magical world. Ten years after her mother's sudden death, Jemma is working at a major museum in DC, where magic is all but outlawed. Her father wants her to assimilate and live without magic, but Jemma is determined to fully embrace her heritage. She longs to return to Everland Bay, the enchanting world where her Grandmother Annalyn lives, and find a way to join the renowned magical research institute there, like the women in her family before her.

This collection contains all-new stories of coulrophobia (fear of clowns) from some of the most talented horror writers alive!

Since the day they unwittingly found themselves in the horror show of Carousel, Riley (the Film Buff), Antoine (the Athlete), Kimberly (the Eye Candy), Camden (the Scholar), and Anna (the Final Girl) have learned the rules of their horror-movie world. They've fought through story after story and come out alive—or at least preserved the storyline enough to come back to life. But their biggest challenge yet lies ahead.

One moment, Susan Moore had a perfect life—a handsome husband, a fabulous career, wonderful friends, and a gorgeous home in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. The next minute, it was all gone. And Susan found herself in a straitjacket, locked in a padded room.

Aurora and Leela have succeeded in their quest to balance work and family. Aurora has risen in the ranks at her company and has become a well-known environmental advocate. Leela’s business has grown and is the president of the farmers’ market. They have done this all while raising their conceived-by-magic eleven-year-old daughter, Kari. However, the time has come for them to tell Kari about her mystical origins, as Kari’s mind and body start to evolve in powerful ways.

With nothing left, Lucas arrives in Ember, Colorado—a town that holds the only clue to his past and the parents he lost at a young age. Taken in by Rocko, the compassionate local bar owner, Lucas dedicates himself to saving money for top surgery and building a new life. Everything changes when Veronica walks into the bar. Unbeknownst to Lucas, she is a vampire sanctioned by the council to take his blood. Neither of them realizes that Lucas carries a hidden legacy—his parents were vampire kin, genetically predisposed to being turned.

Con una prosa deslumbrante de tan clara y precisa, Galindo visita los territorios de la magia y lo hace con tal habilidad y naturalidad que no tenemos otra alternativa que aceptarla como parte de una realidad objetiva. Galindo profundiza en la psicología de los personajes ligándola a los grandes problemas de la humanidad: el amor, la muerte, el tiempo, el espacio.

Kampf um Baile Beag an Ghrá. Um den Magierrat endgültig aus dem Druidenwald zu vertreiben, brauchen wir einen Zirkel, wo wir bloß zwei zerstrittene Druiden haben. Wie soll das nur klappen? Im siebzehnten Buch enthüllt sich die Vergangenheit. Ein dunkles Geheimnis lastet auf Kanes Seele. Vor Jahren hat er einen Fehler begangen und so sehr er sich auch bemüht, kann er ihn doch nicht wieder gutmachen. In der Neujahrsnacht folgt er einem Feenlicht durch den düsteren Wald und lernt die Erdmagierin Freya kennen. Sie ist ein warmer Sonnenstrahl in seinem eisigen Winter.

Claire Hansen was a Keeper, gifted - or cursed - with the job of being one of Earth's Guardians, "summoned" to areas where anomalies existed, where rifts had opened - or had been opened. Such places were the world's danger spots where, if they weren't sealed in time, all the minions of hell might break through. After she'd closed the portal into hell at the Elysian Fields Guest House, Claire and her talking cat, Austin, found they'd acquired a new companion - Dean.

When an old friend reaches out to Ellie, asking for help locating her missing coven members, she's ready for her big comeback. Witchlight is financing the op, and it feels damn good to be official again. But when her friend's lies begin to unravel, Ellie realizes she's let her ego lead her into a trap. And she's brought her coven down with her. With the girls' lives on the line, Ellie has to decide what's more important-reliving her glory days or saving her best friends from a permanent retirement.

Not everything is down to Fate but, when it comes to love, the right people must collide to keep the world running to plan. Immortal cupids, known as Apollo agents, spend their afterlife matching up pre-destined couples to sign off their daily quota. Love cynic, Erron Grover, and hopeless romantic, Casey Hart, are two such agents based in London. They live an afterlife of luxury until several of their assignments result in a bizarre series of deaths.

As one of Earth's Guardians, one girl finds herself in a bond that might be the death of her. Elementals don't mix. They fight over territories constantly and news of their battles is everywhere. Vela, an Earth Elemental, wants two things: to one day run her very own flower shop and get over a devastating fire she experienced as a child. When Linc, a Fire Elemental, strolls into her life, she is immediately thrown into chaos when a bond flares up, connecting them forever. Linc pursues her relentlessly, for connections like this are rare, but Vela wants nothing to do with it or him.

Reeling from the events that revealed other witches were behind the attack on Reuben and Caspian, the White Haven witches don’t know who to trust. The search for those who betrayed them tests their resources and their abilities, and as the fallout shatters alliances, they draw on their friends for support. But it’s not easy. The path they follow is dark and twisted and leads them in directions they can’t predict.

Alice Henderson was a legend at Wicklow College long before she took a header three and a half stories from her apartment window to the sidewalk below. Savanna Robinson has only been teaching at Wicklow College of the Arcane Arts for two months, and the body count is already alarming. Her friend, Kelly Grace, is ghost writing Alice's memoir-filled with illicit affairs and covert espionage while working for the CIA.

Was bist du bereit zu tun, um die zu beschützen, die du liebst? Die junge Hexe und Gerichtsmedizinerin Daphne ist erschüttert: Ihr Chicagoer Hexenzirkel wird von einem Mörder heimgesucht, der eine moderne Hexenjagd veranstaltet und ihre Freundinnen bei lebendigem Leib verbrennt. Um den Unbekannten aufzuhalten, muss sie wohl oder übel mit dem charmanten FBI-Agent Steven Rhys zusammenarbeiten, auch wenn sie sich der seltsamen Anziehungskraft, die sie in seiner Nähe spürt, lieber entziehen würde.

She's back online! Harriet-Jacqui Furl with her twenty-eight original dystopian sci-fi, dark fantasy, and bitter-sweet romance stories. HJ Furl subjects disarmingly vulnerable characters to distressing conflict in a world of isolation and controversy. Is It Today? They meet their fate? What will you do when the harsh realities of modern life become too much for you to bear? Will fantasy be your only salvation? Is It Today?

Kit Melbourne is looking forward to motherhood. So when her cousin-in-law’s bear-shifter children are kidnapped by werewolves, her awakening maternal instincts insist she bring them home. But with a price on their young heads, Kit finds herself in a race against time to recover them before they’re lost forever. Extracting vital information from a pack of vicious selkies, Kit pieces together a trail she hopes leads to the abductees. But with a brutal bounty hunter dogging her every step, it’s not just the lives of the kids in mortal danger …

No demons. No angels. No fairies or mythical beasts of the forest. The only fantastical element in The Wizard Within is Magic itself, a sentient being that lives within all of creation. This truth has been hidden from Eli Stone his whole life, leaving him unprepared to transition from homeless addict to becoming The Red, a leader intended to Pair with his counterpart Thorne Rios and Awaken the magic that has been suppressed in Seattle for over twenty years. Learning to believe in himself and trust others is key.

Eric Carter has a lot on his plate. He's hunting the Oracle of Las Vegas, a literal talking head that manipulates the future to make its prophecies come true. But it has a new trick. It can change the past, too. Now Jazz Age Los Angeles is invading the present. Long gone buildings suddenly restored, decommissioned Red Car trains appearing on paved over tracks, miles of the city changing back to orange groves. Throw in a hundred-year-old doomsday cult, time magic, and a terrifyingly powerful spell to raise the dead and it makes for a busy week.