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Scholomance has been saved…for now. But the war with the elder gods is just beginning. Cole and his coven must meet with the High Wicca Court and then prepare their Academy for the next attack. But the elder gods have underestimated just how much Cole wants to see them all dead, and it is a mistake they will pay dearly for.

Upon a time. Remember the faery stories you were told as a child? Tales of tiny, magical, winged beings and elves, wicked witches and goblins. Demons... What if one day you found they were true? What if, when you became an adult, you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy and it was all so very real? That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him – but so were the horrors; for not far behind the Good, there always lurks the Bad.

The curse that made Lord Hugh of Stasiek the most dangerous man in the empire also destroyed his will to live. He now yearns for nothing more than dissolution, to lose himself in strong wine, reckless gambling, and in the arms of countless beautiful women. Yet when the call comes from the one man he cannot disobey - his elder brother, the duke - he puts aside his dreams of death and rides forth to secure the fate of a seemingly insignificant border town.

Wenn er dich berührt, bist du tot! Düstere, packende Urban Fantasy in Londons dunklen Ecken für Fans von Laura Kneidl und Sarah J. Maas. "Die Macht der Liebe kann Monster erschaffen oder das Einzige sein, was sie besiegt." Wenn die Schatten sich erheben, lauf! Die junge Willow hätte die Warnungen besser beherzigen sollen, als sie den Job in dem verstaubten Buchladen in der hintersten Ecke Londons annahm. Denn offensichtlich hat Mr. Hunt, der merkwürdige alte Ladenbesitzer, ein Geheimnis.

Andrew hunts monsters as a member of the Non-Human Investigative Corps, and he's very good at his job. Unfortunately, the skills he honed to keep the peace aren't much use in the cutthroat world of city politics, and a recent civil ruling is forcing the integration of the once exclusively human NHIC!

"Мир жизни и смерти" - фантастический роман Павла Пуничева, четвертая книга цикла "Земля жизни и смерти", жанр ЛитРПГ, юмористическое фэнтези, эротическое фэнтези.

Aliena is a nice person who turns out to be an alien in a human host. She just has things to learn about the human form and society. When her body starts immune-rejecting the alien brain, and the brain has to be replaced by another alien brain, maintaining the semblance of marriage and family becomes a challenge for both Aliena and the man who loves her.

Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world. Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change by turns tragic and monstrously transformative. Lose yourself amongst the haunted and those who can't let go, in relationships that might have been and never were. Witness in dreams and reflections, hungers and horrors, the shadows cast upon the wall, and linger in forests deep.

Dema and Meri’el are an unlikely coupling. In the final war against good and evil, they find themselves on opposing sides. Dema, the demon, and Meri’el, the son of the King of Angels. Drugging each other with their bodies, they unleash the primal fury of their true natures and rock the foundations of the earth and the heavens.

Alfio si è cacciato in un brutto guaio: è in crisi da astinenza da eroina e Jessica, la sua ex, insieme al fratello ritardato Maicol lo hanno trascinato in un brutto affare. Per ottenere i soldi per una dose, nella notte di Halloween, hanno deciso di entrare in una casa di campagna dove si dice che il vecchio che ci abita possegga una fortuna, lasciatagli dalla celebre cantante lirica Agnese Cipriani, ormai morta da anni. Quello che i tre balordi non sanno è che non ci sarà solo un povero vecchio a fare gli onori di casa. Quale oscuro segreto nasconde quell'isolata villetta di campagna?