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The Battle Royale is over. The real war begins. For centuries, the Throne of Aaravath sat empty. Now 12 Houses rise, legends awaken, and Heaven and Hell collide. House Blue barely survived the Royale. Now they must survive what comes next. Because the Throne was never empty. It was waiting. Deep...

Enter the haunting world of Algernon Blackwood with Supernatural Horrors of the Wilderness, a chilling collection of three classic supernatural horror stories: The Willows, The Wendigo, and The Man Whom the Trees Loved. Explore eerie forests, mysterious wilderness encounters, and terrifying...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lucille Ardan died a century ago, poisoned by her Councilor, and has been bound to her deserted castle ever since. Kairen Dorn is a necromancer running from the Inquisition who needs a fortress and refuses to leave. His bargain is simple: while he stays...

"Die Straßen quollen über von Flüchtlingen. So viele verzweifelte Seelen auf einem Haufen, die alles hatten zurücklassen müssen. Kinder waren von ihren Familien getrennt worden und bettelten auf den Straßen. Nicht die organisierten Banden, wie man sie im Armenviertel findet, sondern...

NEW JOBS CAN SUCK . . . Liz Adams is about to discover just how true that is. On her first day as an agent for the Center for Specter Controla secret organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901Liz learns that the world is far stranger and more dangerous than she ever imagined. Before she...

The Marquette Institute and the Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) have been America's primary defense against the things that go bump in the night for more than a century and a half. It has been said that without the activities of this group and similar organizations, the human race...

Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins. THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FULLY UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL A lavishly reimagined tenth anniversary edition of the first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, by the Sunday Times and New York...

When Pyresouls released, it was a brutal new virtual reality game with a twist: The first to beat the game would win billions of dollars. But after the Burgon Beast couldn’t be defeated, Pyresouls turned very real and unleashed an apocalypse of undead, monsters, and a system of levels and stats onto the world. For many years since, Jacob Windsor has fought with sword and shield to survive Post-Collapse Earth where only ancient, guilt-soaked weaponry can harm the monsters from Pyresouls.

The Coldfire trilogy tells a story of discovery and battle against evil on a planet where a force of nature exists that is capable of reshaping the world in response to psychic stimulus. This terrifying force, much like magic, has the power to prey upon the human mind, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and indiscriminately giving them life. This is the story of two men. They are absolute enemies who must unite to conquer an evil greater than anything their world has ever known.

Nix Zaldanna was never meant to fall in love. As the infamous Nightshade of Rojas, she was trained to kill, to obey, to serve. But when she is captured and left to rot in the dungeons of the enemy king, she waits for the Empress to come for her.

With my gift coursing through my veins, the tables have turned on the Draven Campus. I’m no longer the Giftless reject, no longer the girl who’s fair game to the other students for daring to run away from my Bonds. But there are bigger problems heading my way. With destiny pushing me closer and closer to each of my Bonds, I’m fighting tooth and nail against nature to keep my distance. But they’re fighting harder to keep me in their grasp. Can I finally take control of my gift, or will it take control of me?

In the second novel of King's bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the...

Dark lord, demon spawn, prophesied realm destroyer. With a demon for a father, Damien Maleficus Bloodthornes destiny could be nothing but nefarious, and with the completion of his most vicious spell, Damien is on the cusp of fulfilling the evil inevitability all of his dark machinations have led...

Once upon a time there was a boy with a wicked tongue... Before Cardan was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. In this sumptuously illustrated tale, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king. This tale...

Sylina has sacrificed everything for her goddess—her soul, her freedom, her eyes. Life in service to the Arachessen, a cult of the Goddess of Fate, has turned Sylina from an orphaned street rat to a disciplined killer determined to overthrow Glaea's tyrannical king. When a brutal vampire conqueror arrives on their shores, Sylina faces an even deadlier adversary. She's tasked with a crucial mission: infiltrate his army, earn his trust… and kill him.

Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job goes awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards - a rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite Arcana Academy. Just when it seems...

John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge best seller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend. And a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty. Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door.

The epic conclusion to the ever-popular supernatural series, by the number one bestselling author of Alex Rider. Having escaped from Hong Kong, the five gatekeepers – Matt, Pedro, Scott, Jamie and Scarlett – are lost in a hostile and dangerous world. As they struggle to re-group and plan...

Armies have risen, the great machines of war are prepared, and the battle beasts are straining at their leashes. Despite Arcaena’s every attempt to prevent it, the full might of three kingdoms have gathered at her borders. From all outward appearances, Brin is finally on the stronger side.

A DIABOLICAL MYSTERY ONLY ONE MAN CAN SOLVE! Nash hoped his current freelance security job would provide him with some much needed time to relax, but that quickly changed when he woke up unable to remember most of the past month. Mysterious women, secret messages and a botched assassination...