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Veranix Calbert leads a double life. By day, he’s a struggling magic student at the University of Maradaine. At night, he spoils the drug trade of Willem Fenmere, crime boss of Dentonhill and murderer of Veranix’s father. He’s determined to shut Fenmere down. With that goal in mind, Veranix disrupts the delivery of two magical artifacts meant for Fenmere's clients, the mages of the Blue Hand Circle. Using these power-filled objects in his fight, he quickly becomes a real thorn in Fenmere's side.

In a world devastated by a series of cataclysms over millennia, where the followers of different gods vie for ascendancy, mankind carves out a precarious existence among the remnants of a desolated past. Cities and civilizations are built atop mysterious and ofttimes menacing ruins, and the unforgiving wilderness beyond is filled with inhuman creatures and races from before the dawn of history. Sorcery is seen by some as a gift of the gods and by others as their curse. And the demon-ravaged past has all but been forgotten.

Yamada no Goji is a minor nobleman of ancient Japan who has lost everything - except a single purpose: keep a promise to the woman he loved. In order to fulfill his vow, all he has to do is fight a horde of demons and monsters, bargain with a few ghosts, outwit the sinister schemers of the emperor's court, find a way to defeat an assassin who cannot be seen, heard, or touched - and change the course of history.

Lady Iskra and her followers have survived the onslaught of demons, forged powerful alliances, and are finally ready to wreck righteous vengeance on the Ascendant Empire. Yet even as they begin their endgame, a new danger arises that threatens to annihilate everything in its path, heretic or no: Tharok, the greatest peril to humanity since Ogri the Destroyer.

The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what society - and his family - have ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he will meet his doom in water, blood, and ice. Her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen in a rainy wilderness half-dead, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure, and possessing only a stolen book of maps.

Als Andrej mit einem Zug Verzweifelter die Ewige Stadt erreicht, steht Rom vor einer Zeitenwende. In den Wirren einer hastig anberaumten Papstwahl braut sich unter dem Petersdom eine dunkle Kraft zusammen, die die ganze Stadt zu verschlingen droht. Andrej und Abu Dun bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als ihr eigenes Leben in die Waagschale zu werfen, um die Menschen zu retten, die ihnen wichtig sind.

Der Schwertkämpfer Andrej Delany weiß nun, dass er unsterblich ist, denn er ist ein Vampir. Jetzt will er mit seinem Zögling Frederic seine Angehörigen befreien, die die Ritter der Inquisition entführt haben. Doch Pater Domenicus hat mittlerweile die Frauen und Kinder an den muselmanischen Sklavenhändler Abu Dan verschachert. Bald schon hat Abu Dan sie in seiner Gewalt.

What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power - our modern world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks”, and contend among themselves to affiliate with the powers-that-be, in order to avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires.

Skadi's world is shattered when an empire razes her home. Fleeing to her uncle's remote stronghold on the dreaded Draugr Coast, she vows to become a shieldmaiden and avenge her kin. But there's a truth she keeps hidden: she has already died once, only to be resurrected by a cruel goddess, and gifted with the power to weave fate itself.

Der Schwertkämpfer Andrej ist auf der Suche nach der Puuri Dan, einer weisen Zigeunerin. Sie, so hofft Andrej, kann ihm das Geheimnis seiner Herkunft...

A mysterious package lies unclaimed somewhere in the great port of Brundisium, and it is rumored that its contents could determine the fate of a world. Whether or not that is true, one thing is certain: Men and beasts will kill to claim it. Meanwhile, a young woman, now merchandise, has been brought to the slave markets of Gor after displeasing a stranger in her secretarial job back on Earth. Unbeknownst to her, she holds the key to finding the elusive package—and changing the course of history forever.

Seized and shipped with others as cargo, as human cattle, to the beautiful, green, fresh, perilous world of Gor, she finds she is now only an object and beast, a slave. She is collared and branded. Her clothing, if any, and her food, as it might be, are now at the whim of others. She learns to kneel, to address the free as “Master” or “Mistress”, to strive to be pleasing, to obey immediately, beautifully, and without demur, in all things and in any respect, and to kiss a whip and hope that it will not be used on her.

À 17 ans, Seïs Amorgen est nommé pour intégrer la plus grande confrérie du royaume d'Asclépion. S'il accepte, il deviendra l'un des guerriers les plus éminents de la monarchie. S'il refuse, il restera le gamin frivole et arrogant qui fraye avec les bandits de sa ville natale. Alors que l'ombre du Renégat s'étend sur sa terre d'origine, Seïs va devoir prendre la décision qui bouleversera sa vie et, bientôt, il devra faire face à ses propres démons.

Im London des Jahres 1666 wird ein unheimliches Schattenwesen für eine fürchterliche Mordserie verantwortlich gemacht. Als die beiden Unsterblichen Andrej Delãny und Abu Dun dem Feind auf die Spur kommen, verstricken sie sich selbst immer tiefer in den Netzen des Bösen. Da bricht ein Feuer aus, das ganz London zu verschlingen droht...

Die beiden Unsterblichen Andrej und Abu Dun hat es nach Konstantinopel verschlagen. Dort treibt ein rätselhafter Prophet sein Unwesen, der von seinen Anhängern als der Machdi bezeichnet wird. Es heißt, er könne jeden in seinen Bann ziehen und es sei unmöglich, ihn zu töten. Ist der Unbekannte etwa selbst ein Unsterblicher? In höchster Not bittet Sultan Süleyman Andrej und Abu Dun um Hilfe. Sie sollen den Machdi aufspüren und ihm das Handwerk legen.

Puzzling, disturbing rumors have reached Port Kar. Tarl Cabot, warrior and merchant, pirate and slaver, once of Earth, now of Gor, learns that the Farther Islands, Thera, Daphna, and Chios, west of the Island Ubarates of Cos and Tyros, are being bloodily and systematically ravaged by corsairs supposedly led by himself, by Bosk of Port Kar, as he is commonly known. How could this be? What is one to make of it? Why would so cruel and outrageous a hoax, apparently pointless, be perpetrated? Who would dare to do so?

Earl Harbinger ist jahrhundertealt doch man sieht es ihm nicht an. Harbinger ist ein Werwolf und, wie die Ironie es will, Anführer und bester Jäger der Geheimorganisation Monster Hunter International. Er hat es geschafft, seinen Fluch in eine Tugend zu verwandeln, und kämpft auf der Seite der Guten. Das kann man aber leider nicht von jedem Übernatürlichen behaupten, und so steht Harbinger bald einem Werwolf gegenüber, der nur eins im Sinn hat: möglichst viele Anhänger um sich zu scharen und die Menschheit auszulöschen.

The homicide beat in Louisiana isn't just terrifying, it's demonic. Detective Kara Gilligan of the supernatural task force has the ability to summon demons to her aid, but she herself is pledged to serve a demonic lord. And now, people who've hurt Kara in the past are dropping dead for no apparent reason. To clear her name and save both the demon and human worlds, she's in a race against the clock and in a battle for her life that just may take her to hell and back.

What happens when exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all the roles in Hollywood? Human actors sue, that's what. In a desperate attempt to keep the squabbling inside the Screen Actors Guild from going public, the president of SAG forces the two sides into arbitration. Enter Linnet Ellery, a human lawyer working for a vampire law firm, to serve as arbitrator. Linnet discovers that there are sinister forces at work in Tinsel Town, determined to shatter the fragile peace between elves, vampires, werewolves, and humans.

L'ho incontrata a sedici anni, quando la mia vita era in pericolo. Lei mi ha salvato, ma allo stesso tempo ha cambiato tutto. La sua famiglia mi ha accolto e protetto, ma con una regola: "Non toccare mia figlia". Per quattro anni ho rispettato quella promessa, tenendo a freno i miei sentimenti, fino a quando una notte tutto è cambiato. Il nostro amore è pericoloso, non solo per il mio cuore, ma per la mia stessa vita. I segreti che porto con me potrebbero distruggere tutto ciò che lei ama. Mentre il tempo scorre e la minaccia si avvicina, so che il nostro legame proibito potrebbe costarci tutto.