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The Winter Queen of Faerie has manipulated Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between the courts of Summer and Winter that could have literally earth shattering consequences. His own soul is up for grabs. Dresden must dig deep to discover that at time a willingness to accept a little help from your friends, be they a cub pack of werewolves, old loves in sheep's clothing, or a battalion of pizza loving dewdrop fairies, is a very good thing.

Vampires don't exist, do they? That is a question Private Detective Tony Mandolin finds himself pondering as the evidence piles up in a case involving a string of dead redheads and the usual dose of weirdness San Francisco has to offer. To complicate things, Mandolin has to deal with the perception that he has become the latest golden boy of the fog city's crime boss. Then there's his cross-dressing friend Frankie.... Just another day in San Francisco.

A mercenary in magic-torn Atlanta who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen it all - and some things she couldn't even have imagined. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow like an ocean current. But once every seven years, a paranormal flare comes and brings magic like a tidal wave. Now Kate faces problems on a much bigger scale: a divine one.

'A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth . . . an unmissable read' Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne 'Fans of Naomi Novik's Scholomance series won't want to miss this' Publishers Weekly Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most...

It's good to be the king......but being sovereign of the first hunger in the wake of a world ending civil war is another matter entirely.Now leader of the First Hunger, Drake, the patchwork sorcerer, is sent an ultimatum by an emmisary of an old enemy.The Crimson King is back it seems, and...

USA Today Bestselling Author Alicia Rades presents a four-book contemporary fantasy starter collection into her bewitching paranormal worlds. Solve mysteries with psychics, dive into ocean depths with mermaids, and hunt vampires alongside shifters in these four series starters set in modern...

Ein untot Fox, eine rachsüchtige Silver. Das riecht nach verdammt viel Ärger! Lydia Crow hatte schon lange vermutet, dass es im Londoner Untergrund mehr als nur Gleise und Züge gab, aber bislang hatte sie nicht das Bedürfnis verspürt, selbst dort nachzusehen. Doch Paul Fox, mächtiges Mitglied seiner Familie, nötigt sie, für ihn zu ermitteln, und so bleibt ihr schließlich keine Wahl.

Luke Taylor war auf der Suche nach seinem verschwundenen Zwillingsbruder, als er auf einer magischen Gezeiteninsel eine neue Bestimmung fand. Das Leben in einer schrulligen Buchhandlung ist für ihn ein wahr gewordener Traum – er hatte nur nicht erwartet, dass es so verdammt gefährlich sein würde. Ein Geschäft auf einer winzigen Insel zu führen, war zwangsläufig mit Herausforderungen verbunden, aber Luke hat nicht mit merkwürdigen Kunden, verhexten Büchern oder einem empfindungsfähigen Laden gerechnet, der seine eigenen Vorstellungen davon zu haben scheint, wie die Dinge zu erledigen sind.

IM NOT READY TO FALL IN LOVE BUT LUCAS DOESNT GIVE ME A CHOICE. JuliaI literally ran into the man at a bar. He threw his drink on me and was completely unapologetic about it. That obnoxious, yet incredibly hot rock star awoke something in me. It terrifies me. But I stand firm in my motto; you...

After his father is murdered, Jaze and his mother are forced to flee and start new life. On top of adjusting to a new school and trying to make new friends, he must try to stop a killer from striking again.

The cosmos is vast, infinite, and incomprehensible. Trillions of galaxies, sextillions of stars, and countless planets, moons, and asteroids all spiral in space, not caring about or noticing what is happening on Earth. But for those living on the planet, a momentous battle prophesied more than 15 centuries ago by the wizard Merlin is about to begin.

Jim Butcher’s breakthrough #1 New York Times bestseller starring Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden. When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry is thought of as either a black sheep or a sacrificial lamb. And none hold him in more disdain than...

But the most important situations we face as adults were never discussed with us when we were students. We weren't taught these skills in school, and this makes all the success stories we hear about seem out of reach; it makes us feel dumb. We aren't dumb, we just don't know how to work the...

Magic smells of Earl Grey and possibility... Meg MacIntosh descends from a long line of kitchen witches—women capable of working miracles with a pinch of flour and a ray of moonlight. But there's nothing magical about Meg, or the beautiful hand-decorated sugar cookies she pours her heart into...

Dark and twisted family roots threaten to strangle their home's foundations in this chilling haunted house novel from the award-winning master of modern horror, T. Kingfisher. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway...

Hidden among us is a secret coven of witches. They are Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. They protect crown and country from magical forces and otherworldly evil. But their greatest enemy will come from within. There are whisperings of a prophecy that will bring the coven to its knees, and five best friends are about to be caught at the centre. Life as a modern witch was never simple…but now it’s about to get apocalyptic.

In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. 

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us.... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly 80 years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge.

They say opposites attract, and for werewolves Anna and Charles, this is certainly true. Charles, the pack enforcer, is a dominant alpha - whereas Anna has the power to calm others of her kind. Now that werewolves have dared to reveal themselves to humans, it's their job to keep the pack in line. The pressure mounts when the FBI requires Charles's assistance. He's sent on a mission to Boston with Anna, and they quickly realise that a serial killer is targeting werewolves. And that they're next on the killer's list.

Violet has one job: protect humans from dangerous magical creatures. It's a job she's good at - until the cute human guy whose life she just saved follows her into the fae world. Now she's broken faerie law, risking her future at the Guild of Guardians. She needs to get Nate home and make him forget everything he's discovered. If only someone wasn't intent on hunting him down.