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Krieg kündigt sich an. Ein Konvent der Zauberer soll klären, wie sie sich in dem bevorstehenden Konflikt verhalten werden. Am Vorabend der Besprechungen sieht sich Geralt einem Dickicht undurchsichtiger Intrigen und Bündnisse gegenüber. Der geheimnisvolle Rience, sein alter Gegenspieler, verfolgt Ciri, die Prinzessin von Cintra, die unter Geralts Schutz steht. Es kommt zu einer blutigen Konfrontation. Ciri gelingt es zu fliehen, doch dann findet sie sich in einer entsetzlichen Wüste wieder.

Kyra was preparing for her final wizard test before the Council. But suddenly, something was twisting her magic, weaving sinister portents of doom into even the simplest of her spells. Then she knew for certain that her young sister Alix was soon to marry--and soon to die. And so she journeyed back to the family who had disowned her.

The veil has been torn. The ancient dark has risen. Dark harmonies echo throughout the world. But the ancient Axioms of Light have been spoken once again. In the midst of the Dark’s swelling tide, Reign Kerr has emerged with the mythical power of the Ancients, a power she wielded to defeat the brutal Borathein invasion. Reign must now discover the keys to the Gates of Confluence if the world has any hope of salvation - a journey that will unearth heretical secrets and change her in ways she may not be strong enough to survive.

With 50,000 freed slaves at their back, Raz i'Syul Arro and Syrah Brahnt leave the savannahs of Perce behind. Karesh Syl is no more. Karesh Nan burns in their wake. Beyond the border before them the South looms, ready and waiting, and together Raz and Syrah pray they are prepared for the great offense they must now undertake against the fringe cities.

The villainous Drad Redstar has won the favor of king and country after leading a decisive victory over the rebels at Winde Port. Now with a seat on the royal council, he condemns Torsten to a lifetime in the dungeon and invites his militant people to take up residence in the capital. But not all light has been squelched. There is one disgraced King’s Shieldsman left who remains loyal to Torsten, and only he can help free the Glass Kingdom from Redstar and his dark desires to revive the Buried Goddess.

In the wake of their aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline's return to the childhood home they once shared.

The streets of New York are hungry tonight...Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York's ghostlier problems. This time it's a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn's Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals - and is bound to take more. The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked.

Five noble war heroes of Vagandrak get drunk one night and sign a contract - to journey to the Karamakkos in search of the Five Havens where, it is written, there lies untold abandoned wealth and, more importantly, the three Dragon Heads, legendary jewels claimed to give unspeakable power and everlasting life to those who wield them. But the Dragon Heads aren't what the adventurers think they are, and the world has not encountered their like in generations!

Beneath the streets of Averalaan, capital city of the Essalieyan Empire, lie the three Princes of the firstborn, doomed to sleep until the end of days. When gods walked the world, they feared the Sleepers. They fear them even now. If the Sleepers wake, the city will not survive - and the Sleepers are waking.

Welcome to Archers Beach in the Changing Land, the last and least of the Six Worlds, where magic works, sometimes, and the Guardian husbands the vitality of the land and everyone on it - earth spirit and plain human alike. Kate Archer, Guardian and carousel-keeper, has been busy making some changes of her own, notably beginning a romantic relationship with Borgan, the Guardian of the Gulf of Maine, Kate's opposite number, and, some would say, her natural mate.

Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead's most unusual agents - an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that’s missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind - until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death. One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He's summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they’re spreading through the city like a plague.

Lily Harper narrowly survived her first mission as a Soul Retriever in the first level of the Underground City. After that harrowing trip, she wants nothing more than some downtime, but as with most things involving the afterlife, nothing ever quite works out the way Lily wants it to. Her newest mission will see her traveling to the sewer aqueduct of the Underground City and later, the prison. But, luckily for Lily, she’s got the hunky yet antisocial bladesmith Tallis Black by her side. And quite possibly unluckily for her, she’s also got her guardian angel, Bill, who’s up to his old, foul-mouthed antics.

Scholar of Decay is the story of a man driven by love into the darkest corners of the world. When Aurek Nuiken's wife is attacked and made prisoner by an evil mage, he must search the Domains of Dread for the spell that will allow him to free her. But ultimately his wife's freedom - and his own - lies in the hands of a clan of wererats who are not inclined to assist him. Faced with both his own torment and the monsters of the Ravenloft world, Aurek is pushed to the edge of madness and to a choice that no man should ever have to make.

Nina è una giovane studentessa di medicina, dotata di un potere straordinario e doloroso: può comunicare con i fantasmi e aiutarli ad andare oltre, sebbene questo la consumi lentamente. Con l'arrivo di Ezra, un uomo enigmatico che Nina sembra riconoscere, tutte le carte sembrano andare al proprio posto per portare alla luce una tenebrosa verità.

Un incendie vient de ravager la ville de Moscou. Le grand prince est fou de rage et les habitants exigent des explications. Tous cherchent un bouc émissaire et Vassia, dotée d'étranges pouvoirs, fait une coupable idéale. Le père Konstantin aiguillonne la vindicte populaire pendant que Vassia cherche à réconcilier le monde des humains et celui des créatures magiques.

La cour du grand-prince, à Moscou, est gangrenée par les luttes de pouvoir. Pendant ce temps, dans les campagnes, d'invisibles bandits incendient les villages, tuent les paysans et kidnappent les fillettes. Le prince Dimitri Ivanovitch n'a donc d'autre choix que de partir à leur recherche s'il ne veut pas que son peuple finisse par se rebeller. En chemin, sa troupe croise un mystérieux jeune homme chevauchant un cheval digne d'un noble seigneur. Le seul à reconnaître le garçon est un prêtre, Sacha.

Au plus froid de l'hiver, Vassia adore par-dessus tout écouter, avec ses frères et sa sœur, les contes de Dounia, la vieille servante. Et plus particulièrement celui de Gel, ou Morozko, le démon aux yeux bleus, le roi de l'hiver. Mais, pour Vassia, ces histoires sont bien plus que cela. En effet, elle est la seule de la fratrie à voir les esprits protecteurs de la maison, à entendre l'appel insistant des sombres forces nichées au plus profond de la forêt.

Whitney, Lucindur and the others couldn't stop Nesilia from returning in a new form. Many died in their failed attempt, but not all hope was lost. Sora is free and more powerful than ever, ready for vengeance against the Buried Goddess. Together, they'll have one last shot at stopping her, but it may be too late. Nesilia's army tears across Pantego, killing everything in their path. The Drav Cra stand with her under Freydis, Babrak leads a Shesaitju fleet in her name. Demons and monsters from Elsewhere are slaves to her will.

Sir Torsten Unger must deal with the aftermath of the Drav Cra's failed occupation of Yarrington. But with so much power up for grabs, old enemies begin to show their faces from the darker corners of the city. Desperate to find Sora, Whitney Fierstown joins a traveling troupe of entertainers in order to secure safe passage to Yaolin, where he believes he can find her. What seems like a simple journey, however, grows complicated when Whitney finds himself growing too close to his new companions and must chose between saving them from certain death or continuing on his own.

Alors que tout le monde ne songe qu'aux prochaines élections du Parlement des Fées, Griffont doit aider un ami soupçonné de meurtre. De son côté, Isabel se trouve aux prises avec de dangereux anarchistes venus de l'OutreMonde et décidés à ensanglanter Paris pour se faire entendre. Mais ces deux affaires pourraient bien être liées, et nos deux héros ne tarderont pas à lever le voile sur un secret ancien susceptible d'ébranler le trône d'Ambremer. Un secret que convoite la Reine Noire, jumelle maléfique et ennemie acharnée de la reine des fées.