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Persephone's final battle awaits in this last installment of the epic YA romantasy trilogy, The Fractured Kingdom. For fans of Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series. On the heels of a tragic discovery, Persephone was all but torn from Azriel’s waiting arms. She now finds herself desperately...

Everything is connected. We weave in and out of one another's lives, like circles within circles, and everything is for a purpose. Helen has always been the ""crazy"" one among the girls of Wyldcliffe, scarred by her bleak past and her troubled relationship with her mother, the former...

Dead if he loses - damned if he wins. The time has finally come for Darren to face his arch enemy, Steve Leopard, and fight for control of the night. One of them will die. The other will become the Lord of the Shadows …and destroy the world.

Jace survived his first trials in Terra Mythica, but the game is only getting deadlier. Trapped in a world where death isn't the end—just another move in the gods' grand design—he's forced to navigate ancient rivalries, shifting alliances, and whispers of a lost kingdom that could rewrite reality itself. The gods have their own plans, and Jace is at the heart of them. Whether he plays along or fights back, one thing is clear: the rules are changing, and not in his favor.

Elena and Quinn are still recovering from the paradigm-shifting revelations they discovered in the Great Hall at Harbor Ridge. Unfortunately, the turmio is still loose and threatening the lives of all magical creatures in Waverly. After escaping Harbor Ridge, the teens are on the run from Madame LaBelle and her quick-to-violence investigators. They’re in a race against time as they try to reverse engineer the ritual that was used to release the noxious entity hell-bent on killing any and all magical beings.

Fortsetzung der Zodiac-Chroniken von Spiegelbestsellerautorin Marah Woolf – Kehre zurück in Averies dystopisch fantastische Welt Wärst du bereit, dein Herz zu opfern für eine Schuld, die nicht gesühnt werden kann? Averie hat versagt, obwohl sie verhindert hat, dass Eternity stirbt. Aber nun beanspruchen die Aionen ihre Welt für sich. Sie werden sie verdunkeln und den Menschen die noch verbliebene Zeit stehlen. Um das zu verhindern, beschließt Averie, an den Zeitenspielen teilzunehmen, die einmal pro Dekade auf Destiny veranstaltet werden.

Die Götter verbieten eure Liebe. Doch dein Herz kennt keine Regeln. Als Nachfahrin einer römischen Göttin hat Nayla einige Probleme: Erstens hat die Rivalin ihrer Vorfahrin geschworen, sie umzubringen. Zweitens steht Nayla deshalb ständig unter Bewachung. Und drittens darf sie sich unter keinen Umständen verlieben, denn das hätte tödliche Folgen. Doch Naylas Gefühle für den geheimnisvollen Cyrian werden mit jedem Tag stärker. Und obwohl sie verzweifelt versucht, sich von Cyrian fernzuhalten, zieht sich die grausame Schlinge ihrer Erzfeindin immer fester zu.

With three of the goddess Durga's quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tiger's curse. But the trio's greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It's a race against time - and the evil sorcerer Lokesh - in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the best-selling Tiger's Curse series.

Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der Gray Wolf Academy genießen eine besondere Ausbildung: Sie werden in der Kunst des Zeitreisens unterrichtet und "befreien" für ihren Schulleiter wertvolle Artefakte aus der Vergangenheit. Natasha hat einen ganz besonderen Auftrag erhalten: Sie soll jene Artefakte finden, mit deren Hilfe man die totale Kontrolle über den Lauf der Zeit erhält. Doch das größte Mysterium ist ihre eigene Geschichte und um das zu lösen, wird Natasha die Unterstützung von Braxton, der weiterhin Geheimnisse vor ihr hat, und Killian, den sie aus der Vergangenheit rettete, benötigen.

The second I stepped through the doors of Gray Wolf Academy, my world disintegrated. Here, time is malleable. It can be manipulated, shifted. Changed. And for those of us who Trip—or travel through time—the possibilities are infinite and perilous. Now my life is caught in the secrets of everyone around me. Arthur, the eccentric billionaire who rules this school. Killian, who could be the only honest person here … or the biggest liar. And Braxton, magnetic, gorgeous, and unfathomable. The only thing I trust about him is our electric connection.

In the city of Eldra, people are ruled by ancient prophecies. For centuries, the high council has stayed in power by virtue of the prophecies of the elder seers. After the last infallible prophecy came to pass, growing unrest led to murders and an eventual rebellion that raged for more than a decade. In the present day, Cassa, the orphaned daughter of rebels, is determined to fight back against the high council, which governs Eldra from behind the walls of the citadel. Her only allies are no-nonsense Alys, easygoing Evander, and perpetually underestimated Newt.

Hiding in a remote village, Veron finds a belonging he never knew possible. Lured by the comfort of friends and peace, his destiny to save the land becomes an afterthought. When the threat to the kingdom hits home, everything he loves is put in danger. He must take up his sword and begin an epic journey to fulfill his calling, knowing the path may cost him his life. The future of Terrenor hangs in the balance, and Veron is the only one able to save it.

It's Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. Onstage, hemopaths - whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art - Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny's crowds, and by day they con Boston's elite. When a job goes wrong and Ada is imprisoned, she realizes how precarious their position is. After she escapes, two of the Cast Iron's hires are shot, and Johnny disappears.

Skylar Reid is the new girl at school. Her mom just moved them to Florida - a.k.a. the Land of the Living Dead, where the average age of her new neighbors is seventy-five - to start over. Skylar is not a fan of the change or her total lack of friends. Then she meets Calvin, a funny, sarcastic boy who doesn't let being in a wheelchair stop him from verbally shredding their preppy classmates.

Shalandra has fallen. Monsters of legend have risen from their graves to claim the City of the Dead. Kodyn and Evren have only one hope of stopping the evil Iron Warlord: break into the holiest, most secure stronghold in the city and steal ancient relics imbued with world-shattering magics. Issa joins the ranks of Shalandra's elite warriors in a desperate clash against the nightmare hordes flooding the streets and slaughtering every man, woman, and child.

Dionne Archer is a regular high school girl. For her sixteenth birthday, though, she was gifted a strange mirror and a family secret that would change her life. Faced with new magical powers, Dionne must now team up with others like her to fight the organization known as the Lords of Chaos and keep them from achieving their goals. All while dealing with homework. As if being a teenager wasn’t hard enough already.

Kodyn expected hardships along his journey to return a kidnapped girl to her father. Yet harsh deserts and cutthroat bandits prove far less lethal than the foes that await him in Shalandra, the City of the Dead. In the shadows of golden spires carved from mountain stone, currents of corruption and vice run deep. Priests of the god of death rule with an iron fist, imposing a rigid caste system that elevates some to a life of privilege and condemns others to miserable squalor.