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From a bestselling author, a "warm, witchy, and full of heart" family story that is the queer love-child of Practical Magic and The Parent Trap (Sarah Beth Durst). Beatrice Barnard doesn't believe in magic. She definitely doesn't believe the predictions of the celebrity psychic who claims that...

Eigentlich wollte die Hexe Essie Winterscale nur ein ganz normales Leben. In Beldam House lebt sie zusammen mit drei anderen Hexen – Eine, die versehentlich Fruchtbarkeitszauber verteilt, eine, die die Zukunft strickt und eine, die immer noch schlechte Laune hat, seitdem sie im 18. Jahrhundert gehängt wurde. Als Josh Henderson auftaucht – gutaussehend, amerikanisch und völlig ahnungslos – hat er nur eine Frage: Warum hat in diesem Haus seit dem 18. Jahrhundert niemand Miete gezahlt? Als eine uralte Prophezeiung eintritt, verändert dies alles – und auch Essies Herz steht auf dem Spiel.

Anna’s aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences. Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever. Until she meets Effie and Attis. They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells. But as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her aunt was right all along.

Fascynujaca podróz do czasów pierwszych Piastów. Osia fabularna powiesci Rafala Debskiego jest okres walki o wladze w Polsce, która toczyla sie pomiedzy panowaniem Mieszka II Lamberta a Kazimierza Odnowiciela. Kraj staje sie wtedy polem podwójnej bitwy. Poganstwo rosnie w sile, uzyskawszy poparcie chlopstwa. Do Polski wkraczaja Czesi. W tym momencie na arene wkracza ukochany syn Mieszka II - Boleslaw.

David Vandergraff wants to be a good man. He goes to church every Sunday, keeps his lawn trim and green, and loves his wife and kids more than anything. Unfortunately, being a dark wizard isn't a choice. Eleven years ago, David's secret second family went missing. When his two lost children are finally found, he learns they suffered years of unthinkable abuse. Ready to make things right, David brings the kids home even though it could mean losing the wife he can't imagine living without.

David Vandergraff lost his home, his job, and contact with his oldest son, but remains determined to be a good husband and father despite being a dark winter wizard. His resolve is tested when a flyer for a missing girl - who happens to be a summer witch - begins to haunt him. David believes a spell needs to use him to save her, so he follows the magic's command and looks into her disappearance. His teenage daughter Emmy resents him for caring so much about a random stranger.