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Dämonische Horden haben die Truppen Tobriens überrannt. Auch die Isenborns, Reichsjunker mit einem Gut tief in den Bergen der Schwarzen Sichel, müssen sich entscheiden, ob sie weiterhin dem Kaiserhaus die Treue halten oder das Knie vor dem dunklen Herzog beugen, denn marodierende Goblinbanden bedrohen ihre Ländereien. Soll Olorande vom Isenhorn ihrer Tochter Fiana, einer jungen Ritterin voller Ideale und Schwärmerei für die Sache Herzog Bernfrieds, Gehör schenken? Oder ist es weiser, den Argumenten des Schwarzen Ritters Rorban zu folgen, der Unterwerfung fordert?

Gevatter Tod kriegt die Midlifecrisis. Als er von einem Tag auf den anderen spurlos verschwindet, muss seine Enkelin Susanne das Geschäft...

Es geht um eine neue Musik, die ein Barde, ein Zwerg und ein Troll erfunden haben. Die magischen Melodien stellen Tods Enkelins vor ungeahnte Probleme...

Der Auftakt einer spannenden Romantasy-Dilogie rund um mystische Höhlen, alte Indianerlegenden und die geheimnisvolle Macht der Steine. Steine und Höhlen haben die 21jährige Nell seit jeher fasziniert. Als sie die Möglichkeit bekommt, den Sommer als Betreuerin im Gemstone Caverns Camp in den Rocky Mountains zu verbringen, ist sie daher mit Begeisterung dabei. Doch bald nach ihrer Ankunft geschehen merkwürdige Dinge. Nell trifft auf Jeremy, der ihr von uralten Indianerlegenden erzählt, und auf Joseph, hinter dessen smaragdgrünen Augen sich mehr als nur ein Mysterium zu verbergen scheint.

Eine kleine Insel vor der Küste Schottlands und ein Selkie auf der Suche nach der eigenen Bestimmung. Studentin Maggie erforscht mit Vogelkundler Jonathan und Veterinär Gavin das mysteriöse Verhalten von Kegelrobben. Dabei kommen die drei sich nicht nur gegenseitig näher, sondern auch einem unberechenbaren magischen Wesen in die Quere …

This is the tale of two incredible people - one who knows he is incredible and the other who learns to be incredible. Set in 1960 in the UK south-coast resort of Brighton, self-styled guru and magus Hugo Rune rescues a young man from drowning and persuades him to become his assistant and partner in solving 12 mysteries. Rizla (for such is the young man’s assumed name) agrees to help as he has lost his memory and has nowhere else to go. There then follows 12 of the most baffling, surreal, exciting, head-scratching and downright far-fetched mysteries ever written....

Als ein namenloser Forscher in einem okkulten Buch von einem mysteriösen Artefakt liest – dem Schwarzen Stein nahe dem unheimlichen Dorf Stregoicavar in Ungarn – beginnt eine Reise ins Herz des Grauens. Vor Ort entdeckt er Spuren einer ausgestorbenen Rasse, die einst vor Jahrhunderten abscheuliche Kulte feierte. In der Mittsommernacht beobachtet er – gefangen zwischen Traum und Realität – eine grausame Opferzeremonie … und das Erwachen eines Wesens jenseits menschlicher Vorstellungskraft.

Während der Recherche über den Romantik-Dichter Falk von Tritzau suchen die Journalistin Bettina und ihr Freund Ralf Schutz vor einem Unwetter...

Darkness and unrest are growing. People disappear in the night, and there are rumors of foul forces at work. To this land caught in the grips of a nameless terror come Raistlin and Caramon Majere, two brothers - one a wizard, one a warrior - who are trying to eke out a living on the backroads of Ansalon. Desperate for money, they agree to take on a job in the backwater village of Mereklar. But they soon discover they may be in over their heads.

Inmitten des Steinschuttes der Burgruine Lichtenstein erheben sich hochragend zwei Felsenblöcke über dem Boden, und es geht die Sage, dass dieselben seit undenklichen Zeiten in dieser Stellung gestanden, nämlich einer dicht über dem anderen gelehnt und geneigt, ohne dass einer den anderen berührt, und so dem Licht zwischen sich freie Bahn lassend.

As a vampire, Anna Strong has an immortal life...but now she’s running out of time. Anna’s relationship with shape-shifter Daniel Frey has given her hope for a future with him and his son - especially when Frey proposes.… But just when Anna starts to think her life couldn’t be better, she must fly to France to be at the side of her dying mother. There she learns that not every vampire accepts her Chosen One status. And one such vamp is about to go rogue - by leading his followers in a fight to usurp humanity….

Anna’s shape-shifting friend Culebra finally opens up to her about his life before he owned Beso de la Muerte, a bar catering to supernatural clientele. As if summoned by the conversation, Culebra’s past stumbles into his bar in the form of an old buddy cashing in a favor. Soon Anna, Culebra and her ex, DEA agent Max, find themselves deep in Mexico, dealing with drug cartel infighting, old vendettas and missing girls. Mexico just may prove to be Anna’s best match yet…

The death of Anna's old vampire mentor is causing ripples in the mortal world. His forensic report has brought up some anomalies and people are asking questions - questions that no vampire wants to answer. Anna needs to lie low, but the sudden discovery of a slew of drained bodies near the Mexican border brings an old flame back into her life and with him, a new challenge. Then, some stunning news from an unexpected source sends Anna and her friend Daniel Frey on a journey that may change both their lives - forever.

With her partner out of town, her family abroad, and her mentor estranged, newly-turned vampire Anna Strong is keeping a low profile. But now young vampires are turning up dead, completely drained of their life force. And though Anna wants to say no when Williams, her former teacher and now leader of a supernatural enforcement squad, asks for her help, she can't. But soon, she'll wish she did.

Anna Strong was a tough-as-nails bounty hunter, until the night she was attacked-and changed forever. Now a vampire, Anna discovers that her long-dead brother may have had a daughter-and the girl's in serious trouble. There are some very dangerous people after her, but they're about to learn that to a bounty hunter with an unnatural thirst for blood, even the deadliest human predators are easy prey.

Newly made vampire Anna has become a Watcher - one of the supernatural world's enforcers - even as she fights to control her vampiric rage. When a series of very dangerous events threatens to draw out her unstable powers, her Watcher mentor sends her away for her own safety. But if there's one thing Anna has always been able to find, it's trouble.

Anna Strong's primitive vampire instincts are getting harder to control. And a new enemy wants to take advantage of that fact, for Anna has been chosen to shape the destiny of all vampires-and all humans.

Anna has struggled to adapt to her supernatural status while clinging to the vestiges of her humanity. Now she must deal with her legacy. The sinister vampire who transformed her is dead, and Anna is entitled to his vast fortune. But a predatory werewolf comes forward, claiming the inheritance as her own. And she'll kill to get what she wants most: blood and money.

Anna Strong is trained for anything-until she's attacked one night, only to awaken in a dark world that exists between the living and the dead. Here, Anna struggles with her love for the two men who inhabit the realms of each: Max, a human DEA agent, and Avery, a Night Watcher who joins Anna in pursuit of the vampire who changed her life. Now, as her two worlds collide, fate plunges Anna into the ultimate battle between good and evil - where survival is not just for the living.

Savez-vous où se trouve ce mystérieux château qu'Edith Stein a décidé d'explorer ? Nul besoin de parcourir le monde, il suffit de regarder les roses et le ciel du matin, toutes choses autour de soi, avec des yeux nouveaux…