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John Aviemore, still mourning the death of his wife, fears he’s heading for another breakdown. In an abandoned cottage, he faces a mystery that grows more terrifying every night. And he’s trapped there. Trapped in the place where worlds overlap. Trapped in the Blurred Lands. A disappearing city, a curse that unravels minds and a caged, power-hungry god. John’s only chance of escape lies with an ancient family secret and a character straight out of a fairy tale.

Occupé à enquêter sur un trafic d'objets enchantés, Louis Denizart Hippolyte Griffont, mage du Cercle Cyan, se retrouve mêlé à une série de meurtres. Confronté à des gargouilles immortelles et à un puissant sorcier, Griffont n'a d'autre choix que de s'associer à Isabel de Saint-Gil, une fée renégate que le mage ne connaît que trop bien. Brillant hommage aux feuilletonistes du début du XXe siècle (Maurice Leblanc et son Arsène Lupin, Gaston Leroux et son Rouletabille, entre autres), "Les enchantements d'Ambremer" est le premier tome du "Paris des Merveilles", une trilogie steampunk aussi drôle qu'érudite.

When Nathaliey, a young wizard, is taken prisoner by marauders trying to break her will and force her to join the sorcerer's acolytes, the last help she expects is from the griffin riders who have harassed her and her companions through the mountains. But when their chief rescues Nathaliey from an enemy-held castle, the griffin riders join a temporary alliance of wizards and paladins to push back the sorcerer's invasion.

Born into the ruins of Rzolka's brutal civil unrest, Anna has never known peace. Here, in her remote village - a wasteland smoldering in the shadows of outlying foreign armies - being imbued with the magic of the scribes has made her future all the more uncertain. Through intricate carvings of the flesh, scribes can grant temporary invulnerability against enemies to those seeking protection. In an embattled world where child scribes are sold and traded to corrupt leaders, Anna is invaluable.

During a recent dwarf civil war deep under the Karamakkos Mountains, the magick-enslaved dragonlords broke free from centuries of imprisonment and slaughtered tens of thousands throughout the Five Havens before exploding from the mountain and heading in fire and vengeance for the lands of Vagandrak.

Every year when the deep cold of winter sets in, unbeknownst to humanity, dangerous visitors arrive from another world. Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move among us in secret, hungry for tastes of this existence. Their fickle, often-violent needs must be accommodated at all times, and the price of keeping them satisfied is paid most heavily by servs.

In a small village in the nation of Droevinka, orphaned sisters Cline and Amelie Fawe scrape out a living selling herbal medicines in their apothecary shop. Cline earns additional money by posing as a seer and pretending to read people's futures. But they exist in a land of great noble houses, all vying for power, and when the sisters refuse the orders of a warlord prince, they must flee and are forced to depend on the warlord prince's brother, Anton, for a temporary haven.

Ciri, Prinzessin von Cintra und Schützling des Hexers Geralt von Riva, ist auf geheimnisvolle Weise in eine fremde Welt versetzt worden. Dort trifft sie auf einen jungen Ritter namens Galahad, der sie für die Dame vom See hält und dem sie ihre Geschichte erzählt: Die Kriege und Machtkämpfe, die seit Langem tobten, haben ihren Höhepunkt erreicht. Vilgefortz mit seinen Helfershelfern stellt sich zur Schlacht, bei der viele von Geralts Gefährten ihr Leben lassen müssen.

These are stories that explore the scarred outposts of desperation and desire, sickness and death, sex and decay. Within this audiobook, you will also find the acclaimed novella Nearly People (nominated for awards by the International Horror Guild and the British Fantasy Society), in which a woman's search for food in a nightmarish city brings her attention from an enigmatic man known as The Dancer, and a host of terrible epiphanies.

Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the dead, refused to stay buried. Now Donskoy's marriage has invoked a dark curse, and Marguarite into a web of fear and passion.

Jamais la vie de Nova n'a autant été en danger. Aran sait désormais qu'elle est une hybride et le Kvar qui orne son front possède des pouvoirs qui semblent être capables du pire. Toujours à la merci de leur Pacte, Aran oscille entre le devoir de la tuer et la nécessité de la ramener vivante à Volna pour sauver son honneur. Forcés de continuer leur voyage pour fuir le royaume de Zanlthar et sa tyrannie, ils seront obligés de collaborer pour survivre.

Naked, knowing little more than her name, Amber Fallbrook does not recognize the stone tower she’s awoken in, or the vast, glittering ocean outside the window. Turning, she finds a very a different view: the beautiful, nearly naked man in the narrow bed is a stranger. So is the man who barges into the room unannounced, clearly expecting to find Amber alone. Who are they? Who is she? Why can’t she remember?

For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world.

Ho commesso il peggior errore della mia vita quando avevo ventidue anni: ho lasciato che l'amore e la paura distruggessero tutto ciò che ho sempre desiderato, e ora ho una scelta da fare. Ho sempre saputo che non mi era permesso amarla. Ho infranto ogni regola e soffocato ogni segreto per averla. L'unico problema è che quei segreti non mi stanno più solo dando la caccia… mi hanno trovato.

Gefährlich. Aufregend. Romantisch. Eines weiß die junge Vampir-Prinzessin Galiläa mit Gewissheit: Sie wird den Thronerben Skandinaviens Prinz Arvid nicht heiraten. Daher kommt nur eines infrage: Sie muss fliehen! Auf ihrer Reise mit ihrer Zofe begegnet sie einem geheimnisvollen Fremden mit betörend grünen Augen, der eine gefährliche Begabung beherrscht – die Magie der Dunkelheit. Gezeichnet von einem Fluch, ist ihm jede Täuschung recht, sie für sich zu gewinnen und in sein Reich zu locken. Zudem ist Prinz Arvid auf der Suche nach der geflohenen Prinzessin.

Nachdem Galiläa in Zagans magisches Dämonenreich entführt wurde, versucht sie mit geschickten Verhandlungen, dem Dunkelreich so schnell wie möglich den Rücken zuzukehren. Schließlich muss sie zurück in die Vampirwelt. Wenn es doch so leicht wäre. Zagan will sie unter keinen Umständen gehen lassen, da sie der Schlüssel ist, um den Fluch zu lösen. Gefangen im Dunkelreich lernt Galiläa Zagan und seine Gefährten mit der Zeit von einer anderen Seite kennen, kann aber Prinz Arvid nicht vergessen.

Latona of the Vitelliae, mage of Spirit and Fire, lies still as death. Her fate rests in the hands of her allies, who must redeem her soul from the churning void where Corinna, leader of a banished Discordian cult, has trapped it. Protected by a cabal of corrupt priests and politicians, Corinna plans her most daring assault yet: a ritual striking at the ancient heart of Aven, with the power to swallow the city in a maw of chaos and strife. Her success would be Aven's doom, and the greatest violence would fall upon the most vulnerable.

Hüte dich vor der Bestie im Moor – und vor der Nacht in den Herzen der Menschen Düster, geheimnisvoll und hoch atmosphärisch erzählt Boris Koch im Fantasy-Roman "Moorläufer. Im Reich des letzten Drachen" von Irrlichtern, Schuldgefühlen und dem Monster im Moor. Nur in den gewaltigen nebelverhangenen Schwarzmooren am Rand des Königreichs ist jener besondere Torf zu finden, der die magischen Feuer der Alchymisten nährt.

A Malfenn, piccolo paesino del Trentino, arriva un'estate la quindicenne Leonor insieme al padre. Tre mesi prima, nei boschi circostanti l'Overlake Hotel - di proprietà del nonno Joseph -, durante un'escursione è scomparsa sua madre, Sarah, ormai ritenuta morta in un incidente, anche se il corpo non è mai stato ritrovato. Mentre il padre non si è rassegnato e ogni notte torna nel bosco a cercare la moglie, Leonor si limita a lasciar trascorrere il tempo intrappolata nel dolore e nei ricordi.

« Tombe cent fois. Relève-toi cent fois. N’abandonne jamais. » Promue Étoile de Feu, Panama mène l'armée elfique sur Terreflamme. Bien que tourmentée par ses doutes, elle s'efforce d'assurer ses fonctions de général et de sceller des alliances militaires. Sur le plan personnel, ses relations avec Beladyn et Aube ne sont pas toujours simples à gérer. Dans la capitale, Jillia et Enkonan doivent composer avec les exigences de la Ligue Mercantile, qui ne coïncident pas avec leurs valeurs morales.