Historical

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school....

Rising in the shadows, Rezkin is free from the shackles of power. But the darkness is his home, and there he stalks his foes. His friends, alone and scattered, face the war with an empty throne.

When Elise agreed to break a vicious curse over the man she loved, she never imagined he was a lost fae prince. But Valen left her to carry out vengeance for his slaughtered family....

Best-selling author Michael J. Sullivan’s mesmerizing Riyria Revelations series has found a welcome home with fans of magic, clashing swords, and daring heroes....

Every kingdom Rezkin touches has shattered, and the turbulence in his homeland is spreading across the Souelian. From the shards of kingdoms past, he begins to forge a new empire. But there is a price to pay for power, and the balance has come due....

Taita is a humble slave, an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering as well as keeping important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter, Lostris, is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her....

An ancient family diary. A timely prophecy. An epic conclusion. As Sylvia prepares to meet Gabe’s parents for the first time, the last thing she needs is for her long-lost father to cause trouble. While his answers to her questions finally bring clarity, they also usher in danger.

The remnants of Duke de Clairmont's army are surrounded by enemy legions under the command of Ricardo di Lorenzo, otherwise known as the Golden Lion. Marshal de Clairmont himself is badly wounded, and already at death's door.

On the holiday of Wintertide, the New Empire plans to burn the Witch of Melengar and force the Empress into a marriage of their own design. But they didn’t account for Royce and Hadrian locating the Heir of Novron....

When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work....

HE PLANNED TO OBLITERATE AN ENTIRE CITY. HE THOUGHT NO ONE COULD STAND IN HIS WAY. BUT HE HADN'T HEARD OF RIYRIA.

Behind the towering walls of Belduar, Calen Bryer and his companions stand in defense of the city and its new king. In over a thousand years, Belduar has never fallen. It has stood as a bastion of hope. But the Lorian empire are at its walls once more, and the Dragonguard are coming....

Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia’s. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family....

Even before he could move, the full realisation of what confronted him blazed in the Pharaoh's mind. This was the foul and loathsome thing that Taita, with his clairvoyant powers, had smelt in the air....

With darkness spreading across the fae isles, the reluctant raven queen seeks the aid of Calista, the storyteller, and unwittingly falls into a dark tale of twisted fates. To save Ari from being lost in a fae sleep, Saga will reach into the past....

Believed to have vanished generations ago, a fae kingdom dreaded by mortals is ascending once more, bound to reclaim what was lost by violence and bloodshed.

Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable, is central to the enmity of two of the greatest powers in the world....

Dispatched to Victorian London to seek out Jack the Ripper, things go badly wrong when he finds the St Mary's historians first. Stalked through the fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel, Max is soon running for her life. Again....

India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her....

Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical....

When a set of bound manuscripts written on magician-made paper is brought to the Glass Library, Sylvia and the professor send the owner away. After all, the library collects books about magic, not containing it....

Here is today's lesson; heroes die. It’s been 15 years since the Orcs were defeated. Fifteen years since a new king rose from the battlefield. Fifteen years since Illian knew the horror of war. Fifteen years of peace are about to end. Something is coming. Shadows gather....

With her sharpened magical senses, Sylvia recognizes invisible writing while cataloging an obscure book for the library. She’s shocked to discover the message, written many years earlier, pleaded for help. She’s even more shocked to discover the author of the message was married to a paper magician.

Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own....

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift....

Irina is about to be married to a dead man. She is the willing village sacrifice for the Wedding of the Dead: a desperate ritual designed to lay the hungry vampire that has been terrorising her Transylvanian village to rest. Irina’s beloved sister’s soul is trapped in the land of the dead. If Irina can retrieve it, she could bring her back – but Irina would need a guide, one who can walk between the living and the dead.

Benigno “Benny” Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can’t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric side-show proprietor who commissioned it. Benny’s work earns him an invitation to join the show’s eclectic crew of performers—his first welcome in the city—and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon.

In my past life, I heeded the Blood Code: I rescued people, slaying monsters from the inner plane. For my trouble the Inquisition condemned me for blood lust and burned me at the stake. And in my current life my family is dishonored in the eyes of the emperor, there's a bounty on my head, and I'm the subject of a divine dispute. Well then, no better time than now to surprise them all. Give me but a drop of blood—and the hunter will become the prey.

Los efectos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se dejan ver ya en territorio mexicano: el gobierno de la República ha recluido a buena parte de la población migrante alemana en un campo de concentración en la antigua fortaleza militar de Perote, Veracruz. Mientras el terror de la amenaza nazi se extiende por el mundo, un horror primigenio ronda el umbral a nuestro planeta a pocos kilómetros de Perote, donde una excavación arqueológica ha revelado un templo consagrado a Xipe Tótec, "Nuestro Señor el Desollado", antiguo y sanguinario dios prehispánico de los ancestros mexicas.

When Fitzwilliam Darcy's sister lies dying from a magical ailment, the only person who can help is Elizabeth Bennet, the powerful Librarian of the Great Library – the same woman he abandoned five years earlier. Elizabeth can't forget Darcy's refusal to believe in her magical ability, even now that she has a griffin familiar. However, as the Librarian, duty compels her to help him. Together, they undertake a quest to the Faerie Realm to find a cure, encountering dangerous magical creatures along the way. An even greater danger lurks in their own hearts.

Feldherr gegen Feldherr. Magus gegen Magus. Kaiser gegen General. Die Reiche der Welt taumeln der einen, alles entscheidenden Schlacht entgegen. Der größte Krieg aller Zeiten ruft nach dem mächtigsten Kriegsmagus aller Zeiten. Und Lysander Hartherz folgt diesem Ruf. Ist er der Flammenbringer, der im Auftrag des Schöpfers das Gleichgewicht der Welt wiederherstellen wird?

Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic.

African literary scholars struggle to reconcile African mysticism with literary labels. Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology encapsulates the essence of African mysticism and dystopia through original stories. Afropantheology explores various aspects of African mysticism and dystopia. "Mother's Love, Father's Place" and "02 Arena" are examples. It acknowledges Africa's journey from its origins to the future.

Врата в Дуат открыты. Древние боги вырвались из заточения и требуют расплаты. Маат, не помнящая своего прошлого, не ведающая правды, вынуждена выбрать сторону, чтобы найти истину и спастись. Но что, если каждое слово — ложь, каждый благодетель — враг и даже самой себе она не может доверять

CUANDO EL DESTINO JUEGA SUS CARTAS, NI SIQUIERA LA ETERNIDAD ESTÁ A SALVO. En Frenesí, Margotte Channing nos lleva a la Irlanda de 1884, donde Brianna Harford está dispuesta a todo para salvar a su hermana, incluso vender su sangre a Gale Strongbow, un vampiro que ha perdido el deseo de vivir. Pero cuando sus mundos colisionan, la desesperación da paso a un vínculo peligroso y apasionado, capaz de desafiar el tiempo y la muerte.Mientras tanto, en el presente, Alexis enfrenta una revelación que sacude su vida.

In 1871, Elise Knight made a deal with the devil: craft a powerful violin in exchange for her fiancé’s resurrection. When Elise’s fiancé dies, she would do anything to get him back—even if that means striking a sinister bargain with Cassius, an exotic collector whose oddity exhibit is downright astonishing.

In den eiskalten Raunächten 1929 bangen die Einwohner von Eisenhütt um ihr Überleben. Ein Wesen aus uralter Mythologie wird daher um Hilfe gebeten. Doch die sogenannte "Gehörnte" fordert dafür eine menschliche Seele. Niemand ahnt, dass das ausgewählte Mädchen damit eine große Bürde übernehmen wird. Theresia Bauer ist ein ganz besonderer Mensch. Sie ist vom "dunklen Engel" dazu auserwählt, die Waagschalen der Ewigkeit wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen. Im Laufe ihres Lebens verblasst die Erinnerung an diese essenzielle Aufgabe aber immer mehr.

Auch falsche Wege führen an ein Ziel... Taler steht vor den Trümmern seiner eigenen Taten. Während er herausfinden muss, wie es um seine Schwester steht, verfolgt Finja ganz andere Pläne: Sie will eine alte Schuld begleichen und Jasper aus Sonnström befreien. Trotzdem können die beiden sich aus irgendeinem Grund nicht voneinander trennen... Unterdessen schlägt Mayree sich mit pubertierenden Teenagern und einer stolzen Herzogin herum. Und dann war da ja noch das Problem mit den Rebellen: Niemand ahnt, wie nah die Gefahr ihnen allen ist und wer wirklich die Strippen zieht...

In late September of 1866 a former confederate soldier returned home. But his dreams of putting the battlefield and bloodshed behind him were cut short. Deep in the night he learns of an awful and terrible truth. A pair of strange men arrive and dig up the body of his recently deceased father. He quickly learns that they are not simply grave robbers. But they are in fact part of a secret organization. One dedicated to the defense of mankind.

Die Hyänen richteten sich auf, entwickelten Sprache, erlernten den Kampf und erwuchsen zu dem, was sie sind: Die Gnolle! Gnaar liebte es, seine Tage im Schatten zu verschlafen, doch die bevorstehende Prüfung, nach deren Abschluss er als vollwertiges Mitglied in die Gesellschaft der Gnolle aufgenommen zu werden hoffte, wartet mit einer schicksalhaften Überraschung auf. Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden wird er ausgesandt, eine schier unlösbare Aufgabe zu meistern, die womöglich mehr von ihm abverlangt, als er zu leisten im Stande ist.