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New York. 2120. America has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to fight to the death, in the most barbaric of ways. There is only one rule to the arena: no one survives. Ever.

When Sarah is attacked by a wild animal, it’s Natasha who saves her. So when Sarah gets an opportunity to make a switch so that it isn't Natasha who gets handed into The City of Hope, she’s willing to do it. But when Natasha refuses, Sarah finds herself in a difficult position. Nathan knows that it’s his fault that Natasha has been taken, and he’s willing to do everything he can to save her, but does that include betraying her? 

Sarah finds herself making some difficult choices and having to pick between old friends and new. Will she take the side of the person who had always had hers or will she defend the one who can't defend himself? Nathan has had his opinion of Sarah turned on its head. He thought that she was a cold and heartless bounty hunter, but he’s started to realize that there’s a lot more to her than that. When he realizes that her mysteries are only making him fall for her harder, he knows he has an important choice to make.

Ein Märchen aus Asche & Blut. Mit dem todbringenden Virus Purple Rain hat sich die Welt der Menschen für immer verändert. Kreaturen treten aus dem Schatten der Nacht hervor, die River bis dahin für einen Mythos hielt. Die Vampire retten die wenigen überlebenden Menschen mit ihrem Blut vor der Pandemie und versklaven sie anschließend. Um nicht im Zuchtprogramm zur Sicherung der Nahrungsquelle zu landen, schlüpft die Sechzehnjährige seit Jahren in die Rolle eines Jungen und träumt von einem freien Leben.

Monster, Monster, klein und groß, werden dich packen und lassen nicht los. Der Gesang der Kinder in den Straßen ist verklungen. Verity City ist zerstört. Jede Nacht werden weitere Monster geboren. Aber Kate und August kämpfen unerbittlich. Sie haben beschlossen, keine Angst mehr zu haben. Da erhebt sich eine mächtige Kreatur: Sie ernährt sich von den verdunkelten Herzen der Menschen. Und sie wächst und wächst.

New Earth, 2296. Two years after the destruction of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth struggles to keep crime under control. The citizens are free but not protected.

Even though Tasceron and its Emperor have fallen, there is a rumor that the heiress to the throne still lives. If so, her life is in grave danger, especially from the Watch. Galen and Raffi must race to find and protect her.

Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch yet revered by the people, and the great energy that connects all seems to also be destroying all. The only hope for the world lies in Galen, a man of the old Order and a Keeper of relics, and his 16-year-old apprentice, Raffi.

They call it the Scion School.... Jacey calls it prison. What happens after graduation? The last class walked into the medical ward and was never seen again. They've all been told lies. Lies and more lies! Jacey hates herself for believing them for so long. They've trained her body and mind to peak condition...for some purpose. But what? Do they expect her to walk meekly into...whatever happens in the medical ward? No. She will take it by storm. Full of fury. And she will rip the the Scion School apart to save herself and her friends. To discover who she is. And what she is.

In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the 16-year-old daughter of New Earth’s Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation that will lead her to question everything she's ever known about Danny, her father, and the power of the Intercept.

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...

Dans une galaxie dominée par une fédération de neuf planètes, certains êtres possèdent un "don", un pouvoir unique. Akos, de la pacifique nation de Thuvhé, et Cyra, sœur du tyran qui gouverne les Shotet, sont de ceux-là. Mais leurs dons les rendent, eux plus que tout autre, à la fois puissants et vulnérables. Tout dans leurs origines les oppose. Les obstacles entre leurs peuples, entre leurs familles, sont dangereux et insurmontables. Pourtant, pour survivre, ils doivent s'aider... ou décider de se détruire.

Londres es una ciudad sobre ruedas: una ciudad como nunca habías visto. Tras la terrible Guerra de los Sesenta Minutos, las ciudades que sobrevivieron al apocalipsis se convirtieron en depredadoras, persiguiendo a ciudades menores y alimentándose de ellas. Londres es una de ellas y se encuentra a la caza de una pequeña urbe, cuando Tom se topa con una joven asesina. Ambos acabarán en la Región Exterior, un páramo desolador marcado por las huellas de las ciudades ambulantes.

Fin has never stepped foot on the surface of the Earth. Working the mines, deep below, has been the only life she's ever known. Two hundred years after the planet's magnetic poles began to flip, Earth's surface has become irradiated and unsustainable. As the land, water, and even the air grew toxic, the underprivileged were doomed to a life of hard labor underground, while the Enhanced Human Coalition on the surface enjoy their spoils. But now, Fin and her friends discover a stolen piece of EHC tech that modifies genetics.

The Yellowstone super-volcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government survived the eruption has collapsed completely. The ham radio has gone silent. Sickness, cold, and starvation are the survivors' constant companions. When it becomes apparent that their home is no longer safe and adults are not facing the stark realities, Alex and Darla must create a community that can survive the ongoing disaster....

"Dieses wilde, wilde Lied: Monsters of Verity" ist der Auftakt einer neuen Urban Fantasy-Reihe, in der die Grenzen zwischen Moral und Sünde verschwimmen. Auf mitreißende Weise erzählt New York Times-Bestsellerautorin Victoria Schwab von einer düsteren Zukunft, in der Monster aus uns Menschen entstehen und uns die eigenen Abgründe aufzeigen. Die perfekte Lektüre für Fans von Cassandra Clare und Maggie Stiefvater! In der geteilten Metropole Verity City herrscht ein erbitterter Kampf ums Überleben. Denn jede neue Gewalttat der Menschen bringt leibhaftige Monster hervor, welche nachts den Bewohnern der Stadt auflauern.

When Cricket Black is purposely exposed to Bad Sam, she must choose: fight New Caelum's stranglehold on its citizens' freedom or succumb to the hopelessness of the lethal virus. A dear friend's death at the hands of New Caelum forces Cricket on a path to confront her past, which holds the secret to a permanent cure but also opens old wounds over the loss of her parents.

Dahlia 16 sees her face in every crowd. She's nothing special - just one of 5,000 girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city. Meeting Trigger 17 changes everything. He thinks she's interesting. Beautiful. Unique. Which means he must be flawed. When Dahlia can't stop thinking about him - when she can't resist looking for him, even though that means breaking the rules - she realizes she's flawed, too. But if she's flawed, then so are all her identicals. And any genome found to be flawed will be recalled.

Piper’s world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles which threaten to destroy the Earth. Amid this Global Heating Crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom. Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed—a sphere of gods and monsters—and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis.

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake - whether set in the years soon after the change, or in decades far in the future.