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Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy...

Chance Encounter has the pedigree and the kind of military clearance that makes problems disappear. He’s the man who always has a plan. So when dimensional invaders rip open the sky and he’s skipped by the universe as it selects its official heroes, it’s clear someone made a mistake. Then his pilot is whisked away, and Chance suddenly has more important things to worry about. The jet lurches, and he rides the spiraling wreck straight into a temporal barrier.

Aaron Hueber witnessed the rise of demons from below and the invasion of horrors from beyond. He saw monarchs slain, champions betrayed, and worlds fall until reality itself was unmade. And then he began again. For this was the curse of the Saint of Time. While other saints shattered mountains or led armies, Aaron’s gift was more subtle and far more cruel. When the end came, he didn’t die. He returned to the beginning, memories intact, condemned to rewrite the failures and fight anew.

A witch and her young ward discover a magical, walking house and learn the true meaning of home in this enchanting, cosy fantasy novel. 'Magical, whimsical, and full of heart!’ KESHE CHOW 'I loved every page! A new favourite!’ SARAH BETH DURST 'for those who love their fantasy sweet...

It’s been three and a half years since Sam went back in time, and a new historical tragedy approaches. A powerful telepathic Traveler has kidnapped the queen of Sam’s nation and is holding an entire desert capital under his mental control. Can Sam learn the secrets of the system in time to protect those he holds dear?

EVERY REVOLUTION NEEDS A DRUMMER. Roxy Darling, daughter of the meta who sacrificed himself to enforce world peace, just wants to play drums in a punk rock band.

Days before her marriage to the king of the neighboring Sunruta Kingdom, Princess Annabel of Najir is abruptly betrayed by her fiancé and thrown into prison with her magic knight under suspicion of being a spy. After being held captive for months and informed her kingdom is no more, Annabel passes out in a burst of destructive magic, only to awaken as her 12-year-old self, six years before her political marriage. Armed with knowledge of the dark future to come, she now has another chance to bring about a new fate.

What would you do to have another chance at magic? As children, three wayward sisters—wandering the grounds of the family’s mysterious seaside hotel in Northern California, on the day of an annual masquerade auction—discover (and steal) a highly desirable and expensive book….and...

Die Vergangenheit wird mit Blut neu geschrieben werden... Es sind nun zwei ganze Jahre vergangen, seit Sam in der Zeit zurückgeschickt wurde und seine Mission ist noch lange nicht vollendet. Ein mächtiger neuer Feind taucht auf und ist bestrebt, das gesamte Elfenvolk zu vernichten. Mit dem Wissen aus der Zukunft bewaffnet, kann nur Sam diese neue Bedrohung aufhalten. Wird Sam die Kraft haben, den Lauf der Geschichte erneut zu verändern?

The Tower of Trials awaits those who desire to challenge themselves...The Dungeon Core known as Clay had successfully trained up the local Heroes of Sunfall Island to repel the recent attack by a World Threat, but as he was beginning to prepare for the next Dungeon Adventure Season in his dungeon, something happened to bring his plans to a screeching halt. In short, his little part of the world was unexpectedly invaded by thousands of foreign Heroes.

In a world where magic is common, Breanna is among the rarest of her kind and highly sought after—by all the wrong men. With a roll of his dice, in steps the God of Chance, who sets her up on a quest to free the Realm from a powerful spell. There’s just one problem. Chance expects her to team up with a wizard—who is also a devilish rake. Her world is turned sideways when everything seems to happen at once. It’s a race to save the world they know, but with magic gone wild, dangerous foes and pesky gods determined to meddle, will they survive to complete their quest?

Grail Academy's final year is about to begin when Annabel receives an invitation to attend the crown confirmation ceremony of Prince Daniel, the man she was engaged to and who'd destroyed her kingdom during her past life. Also invited is Princess Karina of Nigren, the cause of Annabel's imprisonment and Ed's death. But the Karina Annabel meets this time around couldn't be more different—she's bubbly and sweet!