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Lucas isn’t having the best summer. While normally he’d be away at camp, this year he’s stuck home, watching over his younger neighbor Noah and mourning the death of his beloved cat. Even going outside is dangerous, thanks to mysterious fires making the air unsafe to breathe. Fires that Noah claims are caused by real life dragons. At first Lucas laughs it off—Noah’s dad has always been fond of conspiracy theories. But when the family suddenly flees town and strange rumors start spreading online, Lucas realizes he needs to find out for sure.

In this riveting sequel to New Dragon City, a perfect society soars into view, but all is not what it seems—perfect for fans of Wings of Fire  and How to Train Your Dragon. It’s been five long months since Noah has seen his dragon, Asha, and he can’t wait to be reunited with her when...

No one predicted the dragon apocalypse. The dragons came suddenly and decimated the world as we knew it, including New York City. Now, three years later, Noah, his hardcore survivalist father, and a ragtag group of survivors are barely scraping by in this new reality. Kids scavenge not only for materials in abandoned homes but also for leftover books at the library. Adults spend their time establishing a make-shift society and defending their shelter… with any means available. At least for the few months the dragons are hibernating, until it’s no longer safe aboveground.

After their parents' shocking revelation about their fae heritage and an attack on their lives, the McDonald twins are forced to hide out deep in the Swiss Alps at Riverdale Academy, a secret vampire slayer training facility. And with no way to contact their vampire boyfriends for rescue, they're going to have to play nice with the locals. But when Sunny starts acting strange, Rayne realizes that there's more to fear at Riverdale than getting staked by the student body - leading to a showdown in Fairyland that may cost the twins their lives.

Welcome to Dragon Ops, the world’s first augmented-reality video-game theme park. Set on a once-deserted island, our three beta players—classic gamer geek Ian; his adventure-seeking sister, Lily; and their too-cool-for-gaming cousin, Derek—have been lucky enough to score an invite to play before the fully immersive experience opens to the public. But once inside, they find themselves trapped in a game taken over by a rogue AI dragon called Atreus, and suddenly the stakes go beyond the virtual world.

Sisters. They'll swipe your clothes, your boyfriends, your destiny. But it wasn't exactly Rayne's twin Sunny's fault. Magnus, a vamp hottie and coven leader, mistook Sunny for Rayne last month and bit her instead. Now they're doing the inter-species dating thing. Turns out that for every generation, there's a Vampire Slayer - and this time around, it just happens to be Rayne MacDonald. Her first mission: infiltrate a seedy vamp bar downtown and expose its vampire owner for purposely spreading a blood disease he created himself - a task almost harder than passing trig. 

The Blood Coven is gearing up its toughest fight yet. They are going head-to-head with a splinter group of Slayer Inc. that's regrouping in Tokyo, Japan - still determined to take over the world. In dark blood bars and hidden temples, it'll be vampires versus slayers in a showdown that could not only cost Sunny her heart...but also her life.

Sunny McDonald is in the ultimate forbidden relationship. Her boyfriend Magnus is a vampire, and the leader of the Blood Coven. And when the Coven decides that Magnus needs a mate to be his co-ruler, Sunny's humanity puts her out of the running. The Coven's chosen candidate is Jane Johnson, a magna cum laude graduate of Oxford University who just happens to look like a vampiric supermodel. Sunny is suspicious of a Rhodes Scholar who can't answer the most basic political science questions, but Magnus brushes it off as petty jealousy.

Rayne McDonald thought getting into the Blood Coven was the hard part. But now there's a new breed of trouble in town, and the former slayer and her vampire boyfriend may be the only ones who can stop it. It seems that a member of her high school's football team has disappeared - and the powers-that-be think the cheerleaders had something to do with it. Now Rayne has to infiltrate the squad before the cheerleaders have a chance to sink their teeth into someone else.

Sunny McDonald and her vampire boyfriend, Magnus, are on the run - accused of treason and wanted alive...or undead. And her twin is the slayer sent to track them down.   

After making a deal with the devil, Rayne and her twin sister, Sunny, have been given the chance to go back in time - to prevent that fateful night when Sunny was bitten by Magnus from ever happening. But while Sunny has been offered a vampire-free existence, she finds she doesn't want to live without Magnus by her side. And although Rayne puts up a stoic front, she secretly wishes that the vampire Jareth was back in her arms.

Sunny MacDonald doesn't know what to expect when she's dragged to Club Fang by her twin sister Rayne. But the devastatingly handsome vampire Magnus mistakes her for her goth-loving twin and bites her on the neck, she realizes his fangs are all too real...and all too deadly. Now Sunny and Magnus find themselves in a race against time to find a way to reverse the bite before Sunny becomes a vampire forever. Something she definitely doesn't want-even if does mean spending eternity with a certain boy who bites....

Now safely back at home, Ian and Lilli are free to return to normal life. Except there’s a major problem: Ian keeps seeing the big bad boss dragon Atreus everywhere, and he can’t tell whether it’s real or in his imagination. So the internet is no longer an option. That’s right, Ian, king of online gaming, is out on the soccer court instead. When Atreus shows up … everywhere, Ian knows he needs his sister. But he’s legally obligated to never say Dra-er, the name of the game, so how is he supposed to ask for help?

Eigentlich hat Rayne alles, was sie sich wünscht: Sie ist endlich selbst ein Vampir und Jareth, ihr Gefährte für die Ewigkeit, liebt sie über alles. Alles bestens, oder? Aber irgendwie gefällt Rayne dieser gut gelaunte Jareth gar nicht. Und noch viel weniger gefällt ihr der neue Auftrag von Slayer Inc: Sie soll dem Cheerleader-Team beitreten, denn dort gehen merkwürdige Dinge vor sich.

Das kann nicht wahr sein: ausgerechnet Rayne, die sich nichts sehnlicher gewünscht hat, als selbst ein Vampir zu werden, wurde zu Vampirjägerin auserwählt! Immerhin muss sie nur gegen Vampire vorgehen, die die Regeln brechen. Wie Maverick. Im Kampf gegen ihn findet sie einen ungewöhnlichen Verbündeten, den unglaublich gut aussehenden Jareth - denn der ist selbst ein Vampir.

Der Vampir Magnus hat aus Versehen Sunshine gebissen - anstelle ihrer Gothic-Zwillingsschwester Rayne, die sich monatelang auf ihre lang ersehnte Verwandlung vorbereitet hat. Für Sunny gibt es nur eine Frage: Wie kann die Sache so schnell wie möglich rückgängig gemacht werden? Schließlich will sie mit dem Traumtyp ihrer Schule zum Abschlussball. Aber dann bietet Magnus seine Hilfe an? Und er ist wirklich zum Anbeißen.

Tauche ein in ein Abenteuer, so spannend, wild und wunderschön wie der Ritt auf dem Rücken eines Drachen. Seit vor fünf Jahren plötzlich Drachen die Menschen angegriffen haben, hat sich Noahs Welt komplett verändert: Statt in die Schule zu gehen oder sich mit Freunden zu treffen, streift der 12-Jährige nun auf der Suche nach Lebensmitteln durchs völlig zerstörte New York City. Und auch das geht nur in den Monaten, in denen die Drachen Winterschlaf halten, denn im Sommer jagen sie erbarmungslos jeden, der in den Straßenschluchten unterwegs ist.