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On the island of Galveston, off the coast of Southeast Texas, lies a hotel called the Jacaranda. In its single year of operation, two dozen people have died there. The locals say it's cursed. The Rangers say that's nonsense, but they know a man who might be willing to investigate. Horatio Korman crosses the water from the mainland and hopes for the best.

In 1899, Genevieve Dieudonne is working as a doctor on a ship of vampire refugees from Dracula's Britain, as Christina Light, a vampire who can literally turn into light, persuades the Emperor to cede a section of Tokyo to her as the Vampire Bund, a Shanghai-like international settlement of the undead and her own power base. New Year's Eve 1999 in the Vampire Bund in Tokyo, and Christina is on the cusp of completing her 100-year plan to become an ascendant power in the world.

A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat in 720 CE. They carry 18,000 frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran’s Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting Sanskrit-like prayers, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, leading them to a new home and hope. He uses a mysterious substance to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous properties or provenance.

La saga del successo continua. Nella confusione si sono fermate... e nella confusione proseguono le avventure dell'alchimista Kronarius. Il Patto dei Quattro è di nuovo attratto nella misteriosa caverna nella foresta di confine. Con dolore, apprendono che sono tutt'altro che i benvenuti in quel luogo. Il mistero del domo dei Droguri supera perfino l'immaginazione del Maestro delle Essenze. Il viaggio alla corte del re dovrebbe offrire ristoro. Ma già nella prima notte il governatore della città viene assassinato.

Seit vielen Monden schon liefern sich die beiden Kapitäne Asleif Phileasson und Beorn der Blender eine erbitterte Wettfahrt rund um den Kontinent Aventurien. Sie haben die höchsten Türme erklommen, gewaltigen Seeungeheuern getrotzt und sengende Wüsten durchquert – und doch kann nur einer von ihnen den Ehrentitel "König der Meere" erringen. Ihr neuntes Abenteuer führt die wackeren Helden in ein abgeschiedenes Tal. Dort leben Wesen, die einst über ganz Aventurien herrschten. Doch nicht alle von ihnen träumen nur von der vergangenen Glorie, manche hoffen auch auf wiederkehrende Größe.

Die Macht der Liebe und der Rache. Siegfried von Xanten hat nur ein Ziel: Er möchte der mächtigste Krieger in seinen Landen sein. Deshalb kämpft er gegen einen Drachen und erbeutet dabei einen fluchbeladenen Goldschatz. Dann zieht er in den Suavawald, um sich bei einem sagenumwobenen Schmied ein Schwert anfertigen zu lassen. Doch zu seiner Überraschung ist der Schmied eine schöne Frau - die Königin Brunhild selbst. Die beiden verlieben sich. Brunhilds Seherin aber prophezeit, dass Siegfried die Königin einst verraten wird.

Der Abschluss der Bestseller-Saga! Der Kampf gegen die Nekorer führen Farin und Ritter Emicho in die Hauptstadt Nabenstein. Dank Ekels dämonischer Zutaten steigt der Totengräbersohn zu der Attraktion am königlichen Hof auf. Allzu schnell muss er sich zwischen Machenschaften und Intrigen beweisen. Der andere Kontinent verlangt Aross mehr ab, als sie zu geben bereit ist. Ihr Weg führt sie zu einer geheimnisvollen Gilde in einem alten Kloster. Je mehr sie über ihre Magie lernt, desto weniger möchte sie wissen.

In this extraordinary third and final work in the Second DemonWars Saga, R. A. Salvatore weaves a diverse tapestry of characters and events from all the novels of the DemonWars Saga into an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Casting his inimitable spell of the human and supernatural, love and war, faith and faithlessness, Salvatore's crowning work is centered on a dark young king driven by a quest to remake humankind.

Latona of the Vitelliae, mage of Spirit and Fire, is eager to wield her newfound empowerment on behalf of the citizens of Aven - but societal forces conspire to keep her from exercising her gifts, even when the resurgence of a banished cult plots the city's ruin. To combat this threat, Latona must ally with Fracture mage Vibia, the distrustful sister of Sempronius Tarren.

Debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, casting Miranda into a Milanese pit of vipers and building a queer love story that lifts off the page in whirlwinds of feeling.

The last of the Romans have left Britannia, leaving greedy and ruthless men to seize power and rip the land asunder. Without the discipline of Rome to stop them, relentless Picts come down from the North to raid her settlements while boatloads of Saxons sail west from Germania to pillage her shores. Grown soft with nearly five generations of Roman order, most men in Brython are unable to defend their homes against the ever-growing threats from all sides. But there is hope.

Magically transported to fourteenth-century Scotland, Alex and Lindsay MacNeil find their loyalty and love to each other tested when they are separated in battle.

These stories present electric messiahs, identity constructs, the Beatles, and even a nuclear Armageddon, which serve as comic foils for Lain's everyman characters. Here is an America where packets of Sea Monkeys arrive in the mail containing secret messages, and the girl next door can breathe underwater. With Last Week's Apocalypse, Douglas Lain arrives with a punch line and a warning.

When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: She has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she is increasingly aware of the difficulty of landing leading roles. One day, as she wanders through an old Jewish ghetto, Jessica is magically transported to 16th-century Venice where she finds herself the heroine of "Will" Shakespeare's play. Immediately attracted to the younger playwright, Jessica enters into an intensely passionate love affair that defies time and place.

After a treacherous journey, Lucina found safety in the bakery of Rydding Village. Her peace is threatened when she learns that Nico, the new apprentice smith, is from the homeland she was forced to flee. Could he be an enemy agent who caught up with her? Even if he isn’t, the newcomer is the chief suspect in a string of burglaries, and Lucina worries the suspicion will spread to her because of their shared nationality. Her nightmares of being driven from the village may come true if she can’t clear his name.

Lorhen, oldest and most ruthless of the immortal Timeless, put aside the sword long ago for a quiet life. But peace doesn't last forever, especially for a man whose age can be counted in epochs, and the mortal life he's built unravels as the Keepers, a society of historians who record Timeless lives, learn that he's been hiding in their midst.

What happens when the water vampire you’ve promised yourself to actually wants you to go through with the wedding? For Gemma Melcombe, her engagement to Terrance Ramsay was a political maneuver. For Terry, it’s something entirely more. Rough waters may be ahead for these two headstrong lovers, but until they come to an agreement, Gemma will be waterlocked.

Düstere Mächte, tödliche Intrigen – Die epische Fortsetzung der historischen Fantasy-Saga! Ein Krieg, der alles zerstört. Eine Akademie voller Wissen und Verrat. Ein Novize, der um sein Überleben kämpft. Wir schreiben das Jahr 1620. Im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation tobt seit zwei Jahren ein mörderischer Krieg, doch der wahre Schrecken scheint erst zu beginnen. Lukas hat das erste Examen an der Akademie der schwarzen Feldschere bestanden – doch das befreit ihn nicht von seiner dunklen Vergangenheit als Fahnenflüchtiger.

Familie ist Pflicht – Magie ist Macht – Ehre ist alles! Seit Jahrhunderten ist die magische Jade das Lebenselixier der Insel Kekon. Ihretwegen wird gekämpft, gestohlen und gemordet, denn sie verleiht den ehrenhaften Kriegern der Green Bones ihre außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten. Doch nun ist eine mächtige Droge aufgetaucht, die es auch Fremden ermöglicht, die Jade zu nutzen. Diese neue Bedrohung für Kekon lässt die alte Blutfehde zwischen den rivalisierenden Familien Kaul und Ayt eskalieren.

The Hunter from the Woods marks the much-anticipated return of Michael Gallatin, the lycanthropic hero of Robert McCammon’s 1989 classic, The Wolf’s Hour. These all-new, interlinked stories offer a full measure of McCammon’s trademark narrative excitement, and comprise a fascinating composite portrait of a unique fictional creation.