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When a dragon crashes through a portal near her Texas high school, Ophelia can hardly believe her eyes. Dragons and magic just exist in fairy tales, right? But the moment she bonds with the dying monarch dragon named Sun in the Black Sky, Ophelia discovers they are very real…and very deadly. Before she can make sense of what’s happening, Ophelia is dragged into the magical and treacherous realm of Charassi. A world where her dragon bond marks her as Queen of the Fae.

For nearly four-hundred years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin to survival and virtue under the guidance of the New Gods. I’ve spent my entire life tending to the gardens next to the boundary between our worlds, drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame. All of that changes the day the Veil shatters, unleashing the fae upon our world once again.

With Cassius Black's secret operations to save the world in the last 500 years finally revealed by the agencies that govern the otherworldly, his status as the most vilified Fallen on Earth changes almost overnight. Unused to his newfound fame, Cassius tries to keep a low profile, but Morgan King's reckless actions soon have them in the news again.

In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut— inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed...

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the domination of her abusive wizard father, perfect...

Wir sind Hexen. Und wir beugen uns niemandem. Nie wollte Sasha nach Amsterdam zurückkehren. Sie schätzt ihr Leben fernab von uralten Verschwörungen und dem hiesigen Hexenrat. Doch als sie eine erschütternde Nachricht erhält, bleibt ihr keine Wahl. Widerwillig schließt sie einen Deal: Ein Jahr lang hilft sie bei der fieberhaften Suche nach Pandoras Büchse – dafür erhält sie die Freiheit, ein unabhängiges Leben zu führen. Das mächtige Artefakt, das seit Jahrtausenden verschollen ist, birgt die Macht, das entfesselte Unheil der Welt zu bannen.

From New York Times bestselling author Harper L. Woods comes The Heir and the Spare, a never-before-published novella in the Of Flesh & Bone series! Once, I’d spent my life in the tunnels beneath the mountains. As one of the infants taken from Alfheimr, I spent twelve lifetimes hidden away in...

Ein neuer Gegner erwacht... Der Frieden in den Vereinigten Traumreichen bröckelt, denn Talishas und Krians Gegner wollen das Weltenbündnis um jeden Preis zerstören. Sie versuchen mit allen Mitteln, ihre Unabhängigkeit wieder zu erlangen, und kennen dabei keine Rücksicht. Obwohl diese Intrigen unabhängig voneinander gesponnen werden, entfesseln sie gemeinsam eine verheerende Wirkung. Gleichzeitig erwacht im Verborgenen ein abgrundtief böses Wesen, das nur ein Ziel kennt: Die ganze Welt in einen Sog aus Hass und Zerstörung zu stürzen.

Eine Liebe - zwei Welten - unzählige Feinde. Eigentlich sollte Talisha rundum glücklich sein - sie hat ihre Heimat Remavo gerettet, die Gegner von einst zu Verbündeten gemacht und sie darf bald ihre große Liebe Krian heiraten. Aber anstatt sich auf die Hochzeitsplanung konzentrieren zu können, hat sie alle Hände voll damit zu tun, die ehemals verfeindeten Welten zu einem friedlichen Reich zu verschmelzen. Das gestaltet sich allerdings deutlich schwerer als geahnt, denn Missgunst, Machtgier, Hass und Furcht führen zu allerlei Konflikten zwischen Remavonern und Daraniern.

Zwei Welten – die eine licht, die andere dunkel. Ein bevorstehender Krieg. Eine Spionin, die zur Kriegerin wird. Um den drohenden Krieg zwischen den Welten zu verhindern, schleicht sich Talisha ins feindliche Heerlager. Als Dienerin des Heerführers Krian kann sie nicht nur seine Pläne ausspionieren, sondern auch gegen ihn intrigieren. Doch dabei stellt sie fest, dass nicht alles böse ist und selbst ihr Feind unerwartet gute Seiten hat. So muss Talisha sich bald fragen, was gefährlicher ist: ihre Mission oder ihre Gefühle für Krian.

When an unknown plague starts to decimate the Earth, Cassius Black and Morgan King soon realize they're dealing with something not of the human world. As their allies gather in San Francisco to try and determine the cause of the contagion, unwelcome news reaches Morgan's ears. The Dryad kingdom has come under attack by an unknown enemy.

When a man in my village makes demands I'm not willing to give into, my younger brother and I flee into the forest. It's the night of the Monster Mate Hunt, but the orcs who are gifted with brides in exchange for protecting the village will be too busy with the other woman to notice me. Until Turren claims me as his mate. I'm not interested in marrying, and orcs scare me. But there's something sweet and endearing about this one. My brother and I planned to make a new life far from our village. Could that new life be with Turren?

The building I'm renovating to turn into a B&B in the cozy coastal town of Mystic Harbor, where humans and monsters live in harmony, is either haunted or someone's trying to sabotage me. After someone rips up my flower beds for the third time, and the local law enforcement can't find any clues, I head to Monsters, PI, where I hire a much-too-gorgeous dragon shifter to determine if I'm a victim of crime or paranormal activity. After someone creeps through my building late at night, Reylor moves in with me to further his investigation.

I spend my days healing those forced to battle in my stepbrother's arena and my nights hiding. I've resigned myself to the fact that with my burn scars, I'll never find love. Until my stepbrother commands me to heal his latest acquisition—an orc who was severely injured during capture. I've only heard of orcs, but I do my best to heal him and prepare him for the battles he'll soon face. As I care for Dakur's wounds, we exchange glances that slowly grow heated. It's not long before I'm falling in love for this gruff, stoic warrior who's as trapped here as me.

Nix Zaldanna was never meant to fall in love. As the infamous Nightshade of Rojas, she was trained to kill, to obey, to serve. But when she is captured and left to rot in the dungeons of the enemy king, she waits for the Empress to come for her.

Elizabeth prepares to win her dragons. Finally. She vows to wrest her men from Sophia's clutches, even if it means battling one of the strongest dragons of the race. Even if she must fight as a human. Sophia has left her no choice. The battle lines are drawn. During her preparations, her protective shifters desperately search for any weaknesses to shift the balance of power in Elizabeth's favor. What they discover may be the darkest secret of them all.

A year ago, one of the males in my village hurt me. When he tried to do it a second time, I took care of that problem—permanently. Then I'm selected for the annual Monster Mate Hunt where two village women must enter the forest to be claimed as an orc's bride. If an orc tries to take me, I'll handle him just as I did the man in my village. To my dismay, I'm captured by a band of treacherous thieves. I'm planning my escape when an enormous, snarly orc attacks the camp. He slays the thieves and announces I'm his fated mate.

The Oracle foretold that Princess Valda Aither of the Sky Kingdom would discover her mate on her twenty-fifth birthday. They would lock eyes and find each other, as has happened since the dawn of time. Valda desperately wanted to believe the Oracle, but her hopes of finding her soulmate were shattered when she inexplicably lost her vision during her birthday celebration. Needing time to heal and adapt to her new reality, she was assigned an assistant, a young woman named Maris Era, who set her body and mind ablaze.

Cassius Black and Morgan King's trip to Ivory Peaks to uncover clues about their past takes an unexpected turn when a rift materializes and war demons attack the capital. Having saved one world, they return to Earth, only to find it has been rocked by ominous quakes bearing a close resemblance to the phenomenon that nearly destroyed the Dryad kingdom. After defeating demons that emerge from a crevasse in San Francisco, Cassius and Morgan rescue the Wild God Pan with the help of Victor Sloan and the city's otherwordly. But instead of thanking them, Pan makes a startling demand.

A stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing.