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Sixteen-year-old Jesse Brooks joins his town’s junior fire program hoping to earn respect—and maybe outrun the shadow of his father’s legacy. But when a sudden wind shift sends the fire jumping the line during a supervised training operation, Jesse is separated from his crew and lost in the mountains with nothing but his instincts and what little gear he carried in. As the days stretch and the fire closes in behind him, Jesse must rely on more than survival skills. Out here, the hardest battle isn’t against the fire—it’s staying whole when everything else burns.

Her entire life, Emberly has been told she’s one of two things: a liar or insane. Some days she wishes that were true. It takes being dragged to a secret training academy for the supernatural to unravel the mystery of why she sees monsters no one else does. Surprisingly, she's no more human than her captors—an elite race of angel-born warriors called Nephilim. The deadliest of them all is an arrogant shape shifter, Steel. He’s gorgeous, lethal, hot-headed . . . and convinced she’ll be the death of them all.

Adam Salton wird in Australien am Sterbebett seiner Mutter immer wieder in die Vergangenheit des Lebens im Outback gezogen. Auf dem Weg durch die Wüste trifft er im Niemandsland auf einen Fremden, der sich Bartholomäus nennt. Hat dieser Mann etwas zu verbergen? Auch Nathaniel und Jules Verne haben sich etwa 20 Jahre früher auf den Weg gemacht. Ihr nächster Halt ist die berühmte Gefängnisinsel in Französisch-Guayana. Wen oder was sie an diesem teuflischen und gefährlichen Ort finden werden, weiß nur Nathaniel.

"The truth was, I wasn’t on anyone’s side except Claire’s. With every fiber of my evil being, I kept holding on to the delusion of being good enough for her. It would have been best if I had simply left after I had delivered her home safely. Now, that Volpert was dead…I was still hoping he was…I was the biggest danger to Claire’s life." With his memories back, but his demonic urges still craving Claire’s soul, Adam is fighting day to day through temptation. For his love for Claire will not fade, no matter how much he wishes to set her free in order to save her.

When Madge receives a moonstone necklace on her sixteenth birthday, she discovers she is not only a mermaid, but also a witch. Problem is, she never knew either existed in the first place. As if wrapping her head around the fact that she's a mermaid-witch isn't enough, it also turns out her parents were royalty to her kind and didn't die as she's been told her entire life. Instead, they were murdered by her estranged aunt Viviane, who is now after her. If Madge is to prove herself fit to lead her kind, she'll have to hone her newfound Vala and unravel clues from her mother's tome.

They arrived without warning... There was no time to fight back. Many lives were lost. Many loved ones turned. On her deathbed, Julia has one last thought. Blood. With an insatiable hunger. An unnatural strength. Can she deny the creature inside of her? With a vampire army ravaging the streets of London, no place is safe anymore. Turning to strangers, they must trust that they can band together and defeat the army before it leaves London.