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Camille Ellis is the Earthen Conclave's golden girl. Her peculiar talent solves cases with a touch. She isn't afraid of getting her hands dirty, but every bright star casts a shadow, and her deepest scars lurk just beneath the skin. A routine consultation goes sideways when a victim's brother gets involved in the investigation. Riding the edge of grief, the warg will go to any lengths to avenge his sister's death. Even if it means ensuring Cam's cooperation at the jaws of his wolf.

In a realm where coin outweighs loyalty and magic is the privilege of the powerful, survival belongs to those willing to bend their morals—or break them. Imium Uligino is a branded man, a disgraced mercenary scraping out a living in the shadows of a unified kingdom that has no use for his kind. When a high-paying bounty leads him inland to the quiet town of Rubicund Grove, he expects another routine capture, but his quarry is no ordinary fugitive. Behind noble blood and scholarly pursuits lies something far more dangerous than political betrayal.

The god they prayed would never return... has awoken. Once, Kaal was worshiped in blood and fire — the God of Destruction, breaker of kingdoms, executioner of gods. His coming meant cities burned, armies shattered, and entire realms crumbled beneath his shadow. His reign ended only when the world united to strike him down. Centuries passed. His name faded into legend. His cruelty became a cautionary tale whispered to frighten children. The world moved on. But his faithful never did.

In the peaceful decades since the Qalil War, Aakifah has gained a few pounds and taken a job as shairf of Basrah. Days from retirement, her plans for a quiet life are shattered when a local family is murdered, their daughters taken by pyumah, a race of ravenous predators. Aakifah sets out with a handful of volunteers, including her lover, in what she knows to be a doomed rescue attempt. Even if the monsters haven't already devoured their prey by the time she finds them, a handful of farmers will be no match for the terrifying creatures.

In a forest designed to kill you, it pays to be the one designing the predators. For years, Vrax has survived the fringes of the Nightmare Wood, a mana-rich hellscape where the trees have teeth and the grass sprouts from your pooling blood. While his peers settled for Common and Rare classes, he held out for something better. He found his destiny in the bones of a long forgotten savage god of nature.

À chaque saison des pluies, année après année, les léviathans attaquent la ligne de fortifications de l'Empire et leur sang répandu empoisonne les chairs et les esprits. Alors que la menace se rapproche, un meurtre est commis dans le plus grand manoir de Daretana : un arbre a jailli du corps d'un haut fonctionnaire et l'a déchiqueté. C'est à Ana Dolabra, une investigatrice aussi excentrique que géniale, qu'incombe la tâche de résoudre ce mystère.

After a massacre that shatters the Vorigan line—yes, including a heart ripped from a chest—Bowen and Loranna drag what’s left of their people to Tennessee and pick a fight with a would-be king. Human sectors seal shut, memory-wiped officials shrug, and the Royal Council plays politics while Radomir stacks the board with Duskrenders and cursed relics. (Skull of Ozith, anyone?)

What happens when a society decides that survival depends on narrowing the truth? In the towering prison-city of Eterra, order is maintained not through spectacle or open brutality, but through clean hands, quiet rooms, and the careful rationing of reality. Truth is never simply forbidden. It is measured, softened, corrected, and distributed only in forms the population can survive. Seran has been raised to believe in that system. A rising young doctrinal officer, Seran is disciplined, intelligent, and disturbingly good at his work.

Als ein alter Freund Solomon Kane um Hilfe bittet, führt ihn sein Weg gemeinsam mit der Alchemistin Rosalind de Winter in ein abgelegenes Tal Irlands. Dort erzählen sich die Menschen seit Generationen von einem unheimlichen König, der tief unter den Hügeln mit seinem Feenvolk hausen soll. Um seinen Zorn zu besänftigen, bringen sie ihm Opfergaben – doch nun erklingen des Nachts Kriegshörner von den alten Hügelgräbern.

Eine Gruppe von Gästen ist auf dem Jagdgut Orceval versammelt. Das Gut liegt in einem Park, der von einer undurchdringlichen Dornenhecke umgeben ist. Der einzige Weg hinein und hinaus ist ein Tor in der Hecke, bewacht von einem geheimnisvollen Torwächter. Draußen erstrecken sich große Wälder, in denen ein Biest umherstreift und unschuldige Hirten tötet. Alle auf Orceval hüten Geheimnisse, einige dunkler als andere.

When the body of a licentious college professor is found murdered, mutilated, and twisted in a nature preserve, Police Captain James Holzer and Chief Medical Examiner Robert Ketchum can find no answers to what is clearly a homicide of unknown origin. Surrounded by bizarre, occult-related circumstances, the quiet town of DeKalb County, Illinois, is thrown into a state of panic. But when FBI Special Agent Martin LeFadden, a shadowy character, enters the scene, the case takes on even darker overtones.

They call me mad, but I don’t see anything wrong with using science to create the perfect monster girl. They call me insane, but I just want to live my life with a harem of beautiful cat-girls, bear-girls, fox-girls, snake-girls, and...well, pretty much any type of monster girl. They call me a megalomaniac, but why wouldn’t any red blooded man want to make cute babies with all these beautiful monster girls? They call me evil, but they just don’t realize that I’d destroy anyone who tries to harm my monster girls.

In the port city of Kabrah, a desperate boy kills six with a sword that whispers promises of power, vengeance, and a throne. All it asks in return is blood. Shayne Fisher has spent months scraping together wages on the docks while his father rots in debtor’s prison. When thugs come to sell his sisters into slavery, the ancient weapon his father hid in the ceiling answers his prayer for help. But the sword’s voice grows louder with every kill, and Shayne’s ambitions are beginning to feel less like his own.

A prophecy. A world of witches. The Witches of Raechester. A Detective trying to save his city, his world. A mother, a witch, is she a savior or destroyer, hero or villain? Socially, we all fall into many categories. Some of us have hills we will die on and some of us hate confrontation. David is the latter. We also all have lines. Lines that we ourselves will cross and won’t cross, for ourselves and for others. But what about family? How far is too far for family? Especially when it comes down to your freedom, your livelihood or even your life. How far would you go?

Everything is unfolding exactly as I have planned it: I have created an entire legion of monster girls, conquered our duchy, and freed the enslaved men. Now all that remains is to defeat the queen, create more monster girls, and liberate the entire realm. It won’t be easy, though, since the queen has sent her most powerful generals and armies to garrison the towns on our route to the royal capital, and we’ll have to fight our way through the opposition.

Combined for the first time in one volume are books #10-#12 of the internationally best-selling CLOAK MAGE series: CLOAK OF EMBERS, CLOAK OF TITANS, and CLOAK OF ILLUSION. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my responsibility to broker a peace deal between the dwarves and the Elven commoners... and there are lots of Elven nobles who would like to see the deal fail. So when the Lord Inquisitor Arvalaeon arrives on my doorstep, critically wounded and missing the last week of his memory, things have just gotten even more complicated.

Fitch is an orphan, a servant to dogs, and the lowest of the low in Castle Blacking, but he is a boy in love and he'll face untold terrors to prove himself. Karyzu is a blaggart, a brawler and a drunk, but he's also a legendary sword fighter and the only man around who has journeyed through Hell and lived to tell about it. Pursuing them both is Clayton Dower, the mysterious grave digger who won't rest until he sees what belongs buried stay buried.

When the mutilated body of a young man is discovered crucified in a shadowy Portsmouth alley, Detective Nicholas Cain, an immortal vampire with centuries of bloodstained experience, is thrust into the most chilling case of his career. The killer leaves no evidence, no motive, just an unsettling display of ritualistic brutality that speaks of a mind consumed by obsession. As the murders escalate, each scene becomes more elaborate, every victim meticulously posed like a grotesque masterpiece. But for the first time, Cain must face the darkness alone.

Identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth are super excited about Halloween, again. This time, the new girl Piper leads them to a mysterious new store that has all the coolest costumes. As Elizabeth gets to know Piper, spooky things happen to her. She sees the moon turn blood red. Meanwhile, Jessica falls in love with a cute boy at the store, who has a terrible secret. Soon Jessica starts to act strangely and Elizabeth is worried that something awful is happening to her. Can Elizabeth stop her twin from turning into a vampire, or will that just make Jessica more interesting?

In Kaila Nike’s debut novel, Mystique, Octavia, a young and dedicated mother, has worked hard to create the life she has with her two little boys after their father abandoned them years ago. She’s given up hope on finding love until one night she meets Chad, a tall, handsome, and mysterious cowboy. Right away she knows she wants to get to know this man or forever wonder what if.