Showing results for "Soul" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she's intent on becoming something. After years of training to become the queen's next royal spy, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend, Saengo. And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life. Unveiled as the first soulguide in living memory, Sirscha is summoned to the domain of the Spider King. For centuries, he has used his influence over the Dead Wood - an ancient forest possessed by souls - to enforce peace between the kingdoms.

The Quarrel of Sword and Bone was a death sentence for anyone who stepped into the arena with the deranged Queen, whose soul had crisped to frost in an age long since past. Sixteen-year-old Helen Bell understood tragedy better than most kids growing up—she knew what it was like to wear clothes from donation bins and be mocked by the beautiful girls in school. She thought these brutal experiences made her ready for anything.

The New York Times #1 best-selling series To find their friends, Jacob, Emma, and Addison go to Devil’s Acre, a crime-ridden Victorian underworld, but they uncover an operation far more sinister than they imagined . . . “Oh, my birds, I love this book! I’m obsessed with Ransom Riggs’s...

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts. To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys. Charlie is determined to stay out of it, but Sam, the irritating new seer in town, expects him to track down who -- or what -- is responsible and uncover the dark purpose behind these disappearances.

Packed with shocking plot twists, You Pierce My Soul is a romantic and thrilling queer dystopian YA novel from a writer to watch. “Snappy banter and heartfelt sapphic romance, wrapped in the sleek mystery of a Black Mirror episode.”—Natalie Naudus, award-winning audiobook narrator and...

"The keenly romantic enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, magic-school romance you've been looking for!" –Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles From New York Times-bestselling author Adriana Mather, comes the next big YA fantasy romance Alchemy of Souls...

What price is too high to pay, even for love? Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

Ellaria weigert sich aufzugeben, obwohl die Bedrohungen größer sind als je zuvor. In sich gefangen zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit kämpft sie gegen die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit und die Ängste, die sie zu zerreißen drohen. Je näher sie ihrer inneren Finsternis kommt, desto stärker wird deren Sog, und Ellaria fürchtet, diesem zu erliegen. Nur Arvans Liebe schenkt ihr die Kraft, weiterzugehen und nicht aufzugeben.

Eighteen-year-old Cora Jemison knows what it's like to date a soul reaper. There are no Friday night movies, no school dances, and no stolen kisses between classes. It totally sucks! What makes it even worse, souls pop up when she least expects it. The last one is not her fault, but it all adds up to zero quality time with her super-hot, scythe-carrying boyfriend, Echo. Since Cora was etched with special runes by an evil Immortal, she understands why souls are drawn to her.

Only the worthy will rise. In the underground city of the Burrows, every eighteen-year-old faces the Convergence—a sacred ceremony where ancient, magical animals called Auryths choose who is worthy of power and a lifebond with them… and who is not. Only the worthy will rise. In the underground city of the Burrows, every eighteen-year-old partakes in the Convergence—an ancient rite upheld for over a hundred years where magic beings called Auryths decide who is worthy of power.

For 16 years, Selestra has been trapped in her tower on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother's place as the King's Witch, who foretells deaths in the Festival of Predictions. Outrunning your fate earns a wish and the chance to steal the King's immortality. But die and your soul is forfeit. And though thousands have tried, nobody has ever beaten death. A soldier in the King's army, Nox is an unlikely candidate for the Festival, but, driven by revenge, he is determined to steal the King's immortality and kill the entirety of his court, starting with Selestra.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES This audiobook collection includes the first three books in Serena Valentino’s Villains series. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen Why exactly is the Evil Queen so nasty, particularly to Snow White? Perhaps it has something to do with the...

The stunning finale of the epic fantasy duology from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. Alchemy student turned necromancer Nedra Brysstain has made a life-changing decision to embrace the darkness--but can the boy who loves her bring her back to the light before she pays the ultimate...

The future of Blackwood Academy—and the entire afterlife—is at stake in the must-read sequel to the viral dark fantasy sensation Immortal Consequences. The Decennial is over, but for the students of Blackwood Academy, the fight for the afterlife has just begun. The infamous school was hiding...

After coming to grips with what I have become, I now have to step up and be what everyone needs me to be. A wife. A savior. A queen. It will take all of my newfound powers in order to take Maz and the dark fey down, but I will stop at nothing to get my revenge. I'll risk it all just to watch the entire society burn...

Yumeko the shape-shifter had one task: take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple and prevent the summoning of the great Kami Dragon. But she has a new enemy now. The demon Hakaimono has escaped and possessed the samurai she thought would protect her, Kage Tatsumi of the Shadow Clan. Hakaimono has done the unthinkable and joined forces with Genno, the Master of Demons, to break his curse and set himself free. But Genno wishes to overthrow the empire and cover the land in darkness. To do that he needs only one thing, the scroll Yumeko is hiding.

Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this is the breathtaking follow-up to SKIN OF THE SEA - an epic love story infused with West African mythology and a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a...

Have you ever met an animal who seemed different, who knew how to do things that it shouldn’t? What about the news reports about wild animals saving people or entering city buildings for no apparent reason? What if you learned that these animals, these Old Souls, were waging battles against the powers of darkness? A war that’s been ongoing since the beginning of time....

Clary, Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Izzy race against time to save Jace from Sebastian and Lilith in the “goth-and-glitter pleasure” (Kirkus Reviews) that’s the fifth book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. City of Lost Souls is a Shadowhunters...

Helen Bell has changed since facing off with Mara Rouge in the Quarrel of Sword and Bone. But so has Winter. When a Timepiece crosses the intersect to give Helen a set of three warnings in the form of a puzzle, she's forced to re-enter the world she thought she might never see again to solve it before she meets a deadly end.