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In den sieben Königreichen, in denen Katsa lebt, kommen hin und wieder Kinder mit einer besonderen Fähigkeit zur Welt. Auch Katsa besitzt eine solche Gabe: Sie kann töten! Katsas Onkel Randa, König von Middlun, macht sich Katsas Können zunutze: Erhebt einer seiner Feinde sein Haupt, erledigt Katsa die Drecksarbeit. Katsa hasst ihr Leben als Randas Werkzeug. Ihr fehlt nur ein Anlass, um aus dem blutigen Geschäft auszusteigen. Sie findet ihn in Prinz Bo, der ebenso wie Katsa eine Gabe besitzt.

I just saved the boy I'm falling for from a gruesome death by a demon. And what does he have to say? I'm the key to opening the gates of Hell. I mean, a thank you would've been nice. Or another scorching-hot, forbidden kiss. Either way, destiny will have to find someone else to torment, because I'm so done.

I regretted many things in my existence, but never taking on the responsibility of guarding Claire Gabriel. Until that day guarding her became a never ending agony. Centuries-old guardian angel Jaden has taken care of many fosterlings, but never has an assignment been so agonizing. For Claire was about to walk right into a world he’d been trying to protect her from. Dive into Jaden's prequel of the bestselling Wings Trilogy.

Mi mundo cambió en el instante en el que pisé el instituto Katmere. Aquí todo resulta extraño: la escuela, los alumnos, las asignaturas; y yo no soy más que una simple mortal entre ellos, dioses... o monstruos. Todavía no sé a qué bando pertenezco, si es que pertenezco a alguno, sólo sé que lo que parece unirlos a todos es su odio hacia mí. Pero entre ellos está Jaxon Vega, un vampiro que esconde oscuros secretos y que no ha sentido nada durante un siglo.

Gatsby-era glamour, a swoon-worthy love story, and an indomitable heroine dazzle in this romp that captures the extravagance of the Roaring Twenties and the dangers of vigilante justice. A ravishing young mind reader stalks the streets at night in kitten heels, prowling for men to murder. A...

In Resurrected (Book 9 of the Vampire Journals), 16-year-old Scarlet Paine finds herself changing in mysterious ways. She is becoming sensitive to light, able to read peoples’ thoughts, and is faster and stronger than she’s ever been. She doesn’t understand what’s happening to her and tries to ignore it. But she can only dismiss it for so long. Caitlin Paine, her mom, knows too well what’s happening to her daughter. She underwent the same transformation to vampire once, centuries ago.

In Craved, 16-year-old Scarlet Paine struggles to find out exactly what she’s becoming. Her erratic behavior has alienated her new boyfriend, Blake, and she struggles to make amends, and to make him understand. But the problem is, she can barely understand herself what’s happening to her.

Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict "aunt", she's not even sure who she is. M's dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana, and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen.

I have lived my whole life in the shadow of a magical secret being none the wiser.... I am nobody. I am nothing. That is what has run through my head since I was a small child. Freak. Garbage. I have been called it all and from my own flesh and blood. Finally, at 17, I am free, as free as a homeless teenager can be. I constantly move around, doing every job I can to make sure I at least have food to eat, and I am thankfully alone. I like it that way, and if it is up to me, it won't change. No one will ever get close enough to hurt me again.

She will fight for what is hers. When Katerina unlocks her secret power and sets the entire royal army ablaze, the stakes to an already dangerous game soar even higher. As her brother gathers his banner men to destroy her once and for all, the princess must appeal to the people themselves. And not just the people. If she wants to take back the throne, she’ll need the entire supernatural community by her side.

Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don’t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping...

Once eighteen-year-old Connor Moore stumbles across an almost human species, he is faced with history's darkest secret, a daunting future, and a love life he can't even begin to explain. Concealed throughout the pages of time, there has been a powerful race of human-like creatures manipulating mankind. This Elite race is made up of five ruling families, who have obeyed The Law and remained content to keep their identities a mystery.

"I was told to beware the accursed spindle, but it was so enchanting, so hypnotic. I was looking for a little adventure the day I ditched my tour group. But finding a comatose town, with a hot-looking chick asleep in it, was so not what I had in mind. I awakened in the same place but in another time – to a stranger’s soft kiss."

Maggie is unaware of the terrifying fate that awaits her. It isn't until she lands in New Orleans for a full year at a private high school and her unknown enemies find her does she realize that her life is in danger. As a mystifying stranger repeatedly intervenes and blocks the attempts on her life, she begins to learn that there is more to him than his need to protect her and that he may be the key to understanding why her enemies have just now arrived.

Te quedas sin opciones cuando amas a tu potencial asesino. ¿Acaso es posible huir o luchar si eso debe causar un grave perjuicio a quien quieres? Si la vida es cuanto puedes darle y de verdad le amas por encima de todo, ¿por qué no entregarla? Ahora que Bella ha tomado una decisión, una inesperada cadena de acontecimientos está a punto de desatarse, con consecuencias inimaginables y potencialmente devastadoras.

Celaena hat tödliche Wettkämpfe überlebt, ihr wurde das Herz gebrochen, sie hat sich den Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit gestellt und es überstanden. Jetzt kehrt sie zurück nach Adarlan. Aber nicht mehr als Celaena Sardothien, sondern als Aelin Galathynius, Königin von Terrasen. Doch bevor sie ihren Thron besteigen kann, muss sie noch offene Rechnungen begleichen. Da ist zum einen ihr alter Meister, der sie verraten und dem Tod überlassen hat. Und der König von Adarlan, der in seinem grenzenlosen Machthunger die Magie verbannt, ihre Eltern getötet und den ganzen Kontinent unterworfen hat.

Queen bee Honey Williams and burnout Sadie Greer haven't spoken since middle school, when a huge fight ended their lifelong friendship and sent the girls down wildly different paths. All of this changes when Honey turns up at 3 am to ask Sadie to help her bury a body and kill the indie band that turned her into a vampire. It's the tail end of summer vacation. They've got the band's tour dates, a full tank of gas, and two weeks before senior year starts. But Honey's newfound hunger is insatiable, and the road trip gets even gorier than they anticipated.

The Hawthorn Group has a new leader, and he’s itching to send all supernaturals to the Alderwood Reformatory. One wrong move, and I’ll be sent off to that prison masquerading as a school, where I’m viewed as a traitor to my own kind. Staying out of trouble becomes a near impossibility when the boy I love starts growing wings and battling dark, demonic urges. A malevolent essence is growing within him, consuming him with its power. Turning to the supernaturals of Alderwood Reformatory, who I’ve been warned to fear, may be my only chance to bring Justin back from the edge.

The night before her interview, Cara has an epic night out with Theo, an impossibly handsome guy she just met. When she runs into him at her interview, he's cold and elusive. He makes it very clear that he doesn't want her working with him, which only makes their mutual attraction burn hotter. Soon she finds out her millionaire employers aren't normal guys who live and travel in luxury. They're immortals. Theo wasn't trying to ruin her job prospects. He was trying to save her life, because the girls they hire never make it out alive.

I crave him. I need him. I love him. And that is the reason, we will all die...