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Summer, 1986. Five friends gathered in a basement for a game of Dungeons & Dragons. The plan was simple: roll the dice, fight some monsters, and kill a few hours before curfew. But when lightning strikes and the old arcade cabinet in the corner shorts out, the game comes alive. Steel meets bone. Magic burns the sky. Every roll matters, every wound bleeds, and the dungeon they built starts to build itself. Now the friends who dreamed of adventure are trapped inside it.

In the centuries-long battle between humans and changelings, those who are taken by the changelings do not live. They do not return. They are simply gone. And for the humans left behind, there is only the brutal reign of the Irskan king. Having spent her life in the castle, Fionna has protected herself and her younger sister by securing a position as a servant. But when the rebels mistake Fionna for the Irskan princess, she becomes a hostage of Helio, the cruel changeling leader whose mismatched eyes haunt her dreams.

Chrome Freyr, the greatest Kinetic Warrior in living memory, is only sixteen years old. The only mission on his mind is to protect her, the princess. For reasons he can't explain, he feels an intense compulsion to save and nurture her, having been drawn to her energy since that fateful day on the playground when he was ten years old. However, King Forest does everything in his power to keep the two apart.

The Offering of Broken Things, the second audiobook in The Agency of Dust and Power series, plunges the survivors deeper into a fractured world where safety is fleeting and power comes at a cost. After the collapse of the manor sanctuary, Bip, Sam, and their found family take refuge in spaces that flicker between memory and magic. The Agency’s pursuit grows more ruthless, unveiling new technologies and ancient rituals designed to crush resistance.

Elayne is a thief. Quick with a blade and quicker with a lie, she survives the crumbling city of Renshall under the protection of the Silver Talons—until a debt owed to a crime lord forces her underground. His price? Retrieve an artifact no mortal has ever laid eyes on: the Veiled Mirror. Said to be hidden beyond the Shadow Road—where the fae rule and humans vanish—it’s a death sentence in disguise. But Elayne finds it. And when she touches it, something touches back.

Well, hello there! I see you are interested in learning about our young lad Luke. Oh? You’d like to know who is speaking to you first? It is I, the grand Apollo! You know, the god of music, prophecies, sometimes the sun, etcetera, etcetera! Glad to make your acquaintance! I am… currently trapped in Hell’s prison. Can you believe it!? This really annoying demon named Shax tricked me. He had poor Hephaestus lure me out into the open. I still practically scorched half his body, but the blasted demon managed to knock me out!

Prisca wurde gefangen genommen und wird gefoltert, in der Hoffnung, dass sie bricht und verrät, was mit der Sanduhr passiert ist und welche Pläne sie mit ihrem inneren Kreis geschmiedet hat. Inmitten eines Verrats, den niemand hatte vorhersehen können, schwört sich Prisca, einen Weg zurück zu Lorian zu finden, bevor seine Wut den gesamten Kontinent verwüstet. Gleichzeitig ist ihr bewusst: Prisca und ihre Truppe haben nur eine Chance, um Regner daran zu hindern, gottgleiche Kräfte zu erlangen und alle Menschen, Fae und Hybriden in den vier Königreichen zu versklaven.

Von Rachsucht getrieben, jagt der Vampir Festus den Spinnenkönig kreuz und quer durch den Ghulwald. Um sein Ziel zu erreichen, lässt er sich sogar auf den Plan ein, seinen Platz als König des Ghulwaldes einzunehmen. Doch obwohl die Blutsauger Conor und Famine, sowie der junge Wolf ihm zur Seite stehen, ist ihm sein Erzfeind immer einen Schritt voraus. Allmählich muss Festus sich fragen, ob er seinen Freunden vertrauen kann oder ob sie ihm hinterrücks einen Dolch in den Rücken rammen werden. Denn die Frage, wer Beute ist und wer Jäger, scheint nicht so klar wie angenommen.

From critically acclaimed, bestselling author MK Lobb comes a noir romantic fantasy set in a world in which sin is a fatal disease, and the rich hire the poor to carry out their basest instincts—until the forbidden romance between a sinner and a mysterious figure threatens to destroy...

Deep in the forest lives Mehrab the witch, coping with loneliness in her own strange ways and quietly battling her demons. One evening, a young woman appears on her doorstep seeking shelter, pursued by godhounds who wish to destroy all those practising magic, and Mehrab’s solitary existence is disrupted as she teaches the girl how to control her powers. Together they forge a cure for their isolation with heartbreaking consequences...

Caster and New Dark Lord Silenos Shaiagrazni has vanished, and chaos reigns in his absence. Coalitions collapse into infighting and paranoia, the ambitious seek to exert influence wherever they can, and tyrants see opportunity in the crisis. As the ancient Archimage Mafari embarks on a merciless campaign of vengeance against Silenos's former allies, the New Dark Lord remains trapped in a mind-twisting alternate dimension. Only by transforming into a radically different and breathtakingly powerful being can Silenos hope to make an escape.

Rentt Faina, a twenty-five-year-old adventurer, has been hacking away at monsters for a decade. However, without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting slimes and goblins for meager amounts of coin every day. Little does he know, all this is about to change when he comes across a seemingly undiscovered path in the Water Moon Dungeon.

Soll Casey stole his brother’s future the night he caused the accident that left him maimed. Yearning for redemption, Soll steals again. This time, he sets his sights on his brother’s discarded screenplay, Banebirth, a brilliant allegory of the conflicts plaguing their gentrified town. If he can convince the power players transforming Sandhaven to endorse it, a golden opportunity awaits: a chance for hometown glory, and to become the champion of his brother's talent. But something else has arrived with the new neighbors. A specter roams the woods. It stalks locals. It torments transplants.

Was tot ist, soll tot bleiben. David Grau will Rache. Ein letztes Mal müssen sich Stefan und seine Freunde dieser menschenähnlichen Kreatur stellen. Ein Riss im Kosmos, pilzartige Wucherungen mit Bewusstsein und Willen. Und eine Macht, die von außen in unsere Welt eindringen will.

Im Kampf gegen den Wahnsinn ist das Leben nicht das teuerste, was für Stefan auf dem Spiel steht.

Phillipsdorf - Bezirk des Wahnsinns 5.

Die Stefan-Hanns-Pentalogie ist abgeschlossen, aber die Geschichten rund um Phillipsdorf und seine Helden werden weitergehen.

Safe Haven has abandoned their cursed mountain in search of a boat to take them to Pitcairn Island. Population cut in half, they have a long month of travel ahead and not enough fuel, water, food, or manpower to make the journey. Forced to resume scavenging for their needs as they roll, the refugee camp is a target for other survivors who are still determined to be a part of that light. Angela needs to get her people south without being discovered. It is an impossible goal in a harsh, unforgiving environment where the only truth is survival. Who will go and who will stay?

Boris wird im Auftrag der Todeswache in die freien Baronien entsandt, um einen Mörder aufzuspüren, der den Ghulwald in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Nur mithilfe des mysteriösen Vampirkriegers Festus und eines jungen Werwolfs gelingt es Boris, tief in die freien Baronien vorzustoßen. Dabei gerät er in eine Intrige, welche die bestialischen Morde in einem völlig anderen Licht erscheinen lassen.

Rebellion flies on silent wing… One land, three curses. One quest for freedom… Cambria is a nation bound by three plagues. The first, the Coraniaid, the deadly wraith women of the mountains, hear everything the breeze touches. Their presence means the Cambrians must live only where the wind...

When a global pandemic begins upon the earth, the Guardian Angel Ariel informs Jerusalem “Salem” Kane that it is because the Horsemen of the Apocalypse have entered the mortal plane. The presence of The Fourth Horseman is evidence that the end of days has begun. It is up to the Wanderer and his small team to figure out how to stop the Horsemen before the Beast is set free from it’s cage. Can they stop the Horsemen or will Armageddon begin?

In the city of Naemralda, a glorious capital of untold wealth and glamor, the people of Ceremai live in exile—content but loathed, and ever dreaming of the homeland they left behind. Only a scorned arbiter and failed priest, Braddock Tuzzein, knows the truth. That the lands they seek, the lands their ancestors escaped at great cost, are home to a fallen god. A tale of grisly murders, monsters, and madness, The Father of Shadow and Death follows one man’s doomed quest to save his people—from the wrath of a vengeful god, and the traitors who hound his every step.

Rue Umberwick is a curious woman with a seemingly insatiable thirst for knowledge. When she lands her dream job as a personal librarian for the handsome yet aloof Duke of Penrith, she doesn’t think her life can get much better. But the Duke's private library and gallery are more than she expected. A collector of mostly ill gotten and supposedly cursed objects, the Duke has entrusted Rue to keep his secrets.