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Wenn der Mensch, den du liebst, dir den Tod bringen kann... Ein neues Leben und eine neue Identität. Das ist es, was Cataleya braucht, um ihre magischen Fähigkeiten zu verstecken, nachdem ihre Familie einem Verrat zum Opfer fiel. Was sie ganz und gar nicht gebrauchen kann, ist Alistair. Der junge Mann mit dem einnehmenden Lächeln und den grellgrünen Augen, hinter denen sich ebenfalls ein dunkles Geheimnis verbirgt. Denn Alistair ist ein Hexenjäger. Dazu geboren, um Wesen wie Cataleya zu töten.

Eine Hexe und ein ehemaliger Hexenjäger. Ob das gut geht? Merope hat die Gabe, mit verstorbenen Seelen zu kommunizieren. Kaum ist sie zu Besuch in Ashland, läuft alles aus dem Ruder. Schlag auf Schlag tauchen neue Probleme auf, die die Hexen vor schwierige Entscheidungen stellen. Ein Riss zwischen den Welten bietet ein Portal für die Seelen Ashlands, die in die Kleinstadt zurückkehren und für Chaos sorgen. Cataleyas Seele wird von Geistern entführt, und die Einzige, die bei diesem Schlamassel helfen kann, ist Merope.

Lily and Romeo are just one desert away from reaching the High Seat of the Black Heron Society, where they’ll finally learn the fate of Lily’s mom, Greta. But Lily is going to need some guidance before she shows up at the Black Heron’s door.

Being a demigod is confusing… Luckily there’s a way that Rose Beaufont can find answers. All she has to do is find the one person who can help her understand who she is. How hard is it to find one’s guardian angel? Rose is about to find out. If she finds her guardian angel, then they’ll tell her what being a demigod entails. Meanwhile, the Shadow Walker coven is up to something sinister. They’ve figured out how to pause time, but only for magicians. What they do when magicians are on pause, well, it’s everyone’s worst nightmare.

After a night of magic turns deadly, Iris Gray vows to never let another person learn she’s a witch. It doesn’t matter that the Witches’ Council found her innocent or that her magic was once viewed as a marvel—that night on the lake changed everything. Now settled in Washington, Iris hides who she really is and vents her frustrations by writing curses she never intends to cast. And while she loves working at the wildlife refuge she runs with her mother, she loathes Pike Alder, the witch-hating aspiring ornithologist who interns with them.

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future. Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She’s been...

Mourir jeune ? Déjà fait ! Se retrouver en enfer, devant un Satan casse-pied comme tout ? Ça va pas être possible, là. Erika n'avait pas prévu ça dans son emploi du temps post-mortem ! Mais Satan a apparemment besoin d'un coup de main, et il semblerait qu'Erika, sorcière-vampire à l’humour caustique, soit la seule candidate. Comme si elle n'avait pas déjà assez à faire avec sa non-vie ! Résultat des courses : voilà Erika embarquée dans une aventure infernale où les roulement d'yeux sont aussi nombreux que les répliques cinglantes.

Rose Beaufont has angered the wrong warlock and now he wants her dead. All because she killed his brother. But the guy wanted to die and asked her to do it. Still this madman can’t be reasoned with. Meanwhile, Rose must track down the spell keeping John locked in dreams, get back Diabolos, help London to acclimate in his new role, move a crazy lady in with her mother and find out how to bring down the Shadow Walker coven for good.

In the tradition of truly fantastic storytelling, Verdigris Deep is a darkly witty, utterly creepy and clever novel by Frances Hardinge, author of The Lie Tree. Verdigris n. a blue-green rust that tarnishes ageing and forgotten copper coins, altering them entirely . . . One evening, Ryan and his...

The best teen zombie werewolf witchy faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever heard, by debut author Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer 14-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner.

Ever since she discovered her affinity for magic, 17-year-old Anouk has been desperate to become a witch. It's the only way to save her friends who, like Anouk, are beasties: animals enchanted into humans. But unlike Anouk, the other beasties didn't make it out of the battle at Montelimar in one piece. With her friends now trapped in their animal forms, Anouk is forced into a sinister deal involving a political marriage with her sworn enemy, a wicked plot to overthrow London's fiercest coven of witches, and a deadly trial of fire to become a witch.

Seventeen-year-old Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. But Anouk can never have those things, because she is not really human. Enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond her familiar Parisian prison, Anouk is a Beastie: destined for a life surrounded by dust bunnies and cinders serving Mada Vittora, the evil witch who spelled her into existence. That is, until one day she finds her mistress murdered in a pool of blood - and Anouk is accused of the crime.