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The Princess Contessa of Constenopolie has just learned of her true identity - that of an orphan adopted and raised as a decoy to protect the real princess. But that doesn't make Contessa less of a royal target.

Lord Yamada is called away - one last time - from his newly restored estates in Kamakura to help Prince Kanemore ensure that Princess Teiko's son, Takahito, inherits the Chrysanthemum Throne. Unfortunately, assuming the throne proves to be the easy part. Yamada must then help Takahito renounce that throne in such a way as to hobble the power of the Fujiwara clan forever!

In the second book of the Ancient Guardians supernatural romance series, listeners continue to follow Reece Bryant as she takes up residence in the enchanting dimension of Pemdas. After she accepts the proposal of marriage from Levi Oxley, the emperor of Pemdas' son, their romance heats up in preparation to begin their new lives together. Their love is stronger than before, and it appears that nothing can come between them. Or can it?

Eighteenth-century London - the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far away. Camden, London, 2015, December 17th - the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, are consumed by the wait for this boy, who may or may not be dead. There is no way of knowing. Deep within the savage beauty of Iceland, a hidden pool grants those who drink from it endless life.

Alfred of St. Ruan's has lived his life in the seclusion of the monastery. But a badly wounded knight on a mission from the Elvenking, a beautiful and mysterious stranger who walks as both woman and beast, and a warrior king call him out of the cloister's walls into the wars and storms of the world. For he is neither mortal nor human, though he has long tried to live as both; and he can deny neither his nature nor his powerful magic.

Boston, 1765: In D.B. Jackson's Thieftaker, revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. But for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker who makes his living by conjuring spells that help him solve crimes, politics is for others…until he is asked to recover a necklace worn by the murdered daughter of a prominent family.

As he struggles to fight the gangsters at large, he is also trying to sustain an ordinary life. At least, as ordinary as it can get when you're a vampire... Death hasn't ended Jack Fleming's problems. His girlfriend, Bobbi, has caught the attention of a famous radio star, who promises to open doors for the lovely singer - including the one to his bedroom.

After Halley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very different place, where magic works and history has been changed forever.

La suite attendue du "Pas de Merlin", deuxième volet d'une épopée enchanteresse, inspirée des légendes de Bretagne. Un monde de mystère, de magie et de violence guerrière. Épopée enchanteresse, fresque historique, "Brocéliande" nous entraîne à l'aube du Moyen Âge, où cohabitent le merveilleux et la cruauté des âges sombres. De Merlin, on connaissait le mythe, Jean-Louis Fetjaine lui rend ici toute sa dimension authentique et humaine.

Conte troublant, épopée enchanteresse, "Le pas de Merlin" nous entraîne dans un monde envoûtant et magique, à l'aube de notre histoire. De Merlin, on connaissait le mythe : Jean-Louis Fetjaine lui rend ici sa dimension historique et humaine. Au VIe siècle, l'île de Bretagne est assaillie par les Saxons, les Gaëls et les Pictes. Après la mort du roi Guendoleu, tué lors d'une terrible bataille, son jeune barde Merlin se trouve plongé malgré lui dans un complot aux conséquences effroyables.

In the aftermath of the Battle of the Crossroads, Bran convinces the few warriors who remain to gather their families and live as one clan under his leadership. Together they abandon their villages and unite under a new sigil - the Sacred Oak of the Crossroads - no longer referring to themselves as Easterners, Northerners, or Southerners but simply as "Oaks."

The Abe clan and its allies are in full rebellion. When the Emperor's greatest military leader, Yoshii, is targeted for assassination by magic, it is up to the newly sober Lord Yamada and his exorcist associate Kenji to keep the young man alive long enough to put down the uprising before the entire country is consumed by war. Yamada knows how to deal with demons, monsters, and angry ghosts, but the greatest threat of all is one final assassin, hidden most secretly of all.

Set during the 1920s, Elvira De Poulain, a Spanish painter based in Paris, receives news that her estranged husband, now running the family textile business in China, has died in his house in Shanghai under strange circumstances and that she must make appropriate funeral arrangements.

Die Unsterblichen Andrej und Abu Dun haben nach vielen Jahren der Ruhelosigkeit und Verfolgung endlich ein Zuhause gefunden. Malta ist für sie zur neuen Heimat geworden, in der Abu Dun sogar eine Familie gründet. Doch ihr Kampf geht weiter. Als die türkische Flotte einen vernichtenden Angriff auf die kleine Insel plant, scheint die Verteidigung aussichtslos.

Die Kräuterkundige Liadan besitzt eine besondere Gabe: Sie kann nicht nur den Körper heilen, sondern auch den Geist und die Seele...

Abgeschieden von den Menschen ist die junge Fainne von ihrem Vater aufgezogen worden - und zu einer machtvollen Zauberin herangewachsen...

Irland im 9. Jahrhundert nach Christi: Keltische Stammesfürsten verteidigen ihr Land gegen den Ansturm der Briten...

Mitten in der libyschen Wüste werden Andrej und Abu Dun von Sklavenhändlern überfallen, denen sie eine vernichtende Niederlage bereiten. Um sich Zugang zu deren Festung zu verschaffen, beschließen sie, sich zum Schein gefangen nehmen zu lassen. Doch als sie dem Anführer Ali Jhin und seinen dreihundert Räubern waffenlos gegenüberstehen, müssen sie erkennen, dass sie die Gefangenschaft der Flucht durch die lebensfeindliche Wüste etwas vorschnell vorgezogen haben.

Revelation "Reve" Dyer grew up with her grandmother’s family stories, stretching back centuries to Reve’s ancestors, who founded the town of Hawley Five Corners, Massachusetts. Their history is steeped in secrets, for few outsiders know that an ancient magic runs in the Dyer women’s blood, and that Reve is a magician whose powers are all too real. Reve and her husband are world-famous Las Vegas illusionists. They have three lovely young daughters, a beautiful home, and what seems like a charmed life. But Reve’s world is shattered....

Before his victory at the Nile. Before his scandalous personal life made headlines. Before he crushed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar. Before he died a martyr. Horatio Nelson, England's greatest naval hero, assumed his first command, the 12-gun brig HMS Badger, at the tender age of 20. History tells us his first voyages as captain were unremarkable. Yet in the Known Worlds, where sailing ships ply the Void and the mystic science of alchemy works wonders, Nelson's first command goes quite differently.