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Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as "empty" as it seems. There are potential friends and rapacious foes.

Keira soon finds herself becoming a pawn in a game she could never hope to win, and now the King on the board is a Vampire on a mission. With the only man to stop him miles away from the mountain prison in which she is kept, she must now choose which path to take in order to survive. With enemies at all sides closing in quickly, she must tread carefully, or she might find the only man to save her isn't the White Knight she loves but the Dark King she loathes.

In this second volume of the Gorean Series, Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he has known as a history professor on Earth. Tarl finds that his name on Gor has been tainted, his city defiled, and all those he loves have been made into outcasts. He is no longer in the position of a proud warrior, but an outlaw for whom the simplest answers must come at a high price. He wonders why the Priest Kings have called him back to Gor, and whether it is only to render him powerless.

Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma. Before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it.

Their job should be to kill me. Instead, I have become their favorite toy. The bones of every blood witch mark the entrances to the human villages. Blood magic is forbidden. It's evil incarnate. Everybody knows that. So, on my twentieth birthday, when my coven's sacred blood rite ritual reveals me as the first blood witch to appear in the last twenty years, I fully expect my bones to be added to the pile. What I don't expect is to be kidnapped by three egotistical, frustratingly gorgeous, and devious witch-killing warrior immortals with a peculiar and insatiable taste for my blood.

Demon hunter Sully has accepted his destiny and birthright to protect the balance between Heaven and Hell, a promise made to honor both demons and angels. However, with his alliances tested and his injuries surfacing amidst a Hellish uprising, Sully must once more face his friends and enemies, risking the balance he vowed to protect. The demons unleashed the terrifying Hell Hounds upon Sully's childhood world, while his demonic and angelic alliances faced the test of his loss of Mick and Katarina—the two women he swore to protect.

Welcome to the south, the hidden center of occult America. A wild land where tales of gods and demons, werewolves and shapeshifters whisper though old growth forests. A world where magic is as likely as the Tree of Life. This is Eli Seven Crow’s world, a world that he has both loved and hated for the two hundred years. A world he doesn’t understand. Because though it’s intent on killing him it won’t let him die. He’s experienced the cruel history of America, and fought against the crushing grip of the Mahan Group. An ancient secret society who’s founders are the reason humans fear the dark.

In Blood Eternal, Noosh believes she is headed on a well-deserved vacation (a nighttime tourist view of London) when abruptly she and Sandu and Bagamil are facing new crises and ancient enemies. Noosh reunites with some intriguing characters from Blood Ex Libris and discovers more about her new underground world.

Paris, 1919. Dans une ville brisée par la Grande Guerre et la grippe espagnole, Adèle, une jeune arnaqueuse, est prête à tout pour survivre et aider son frère, revenu traumatisé du front. Lorsqu'elle libère par accident un vampire des catacombes, à la suite d'un vol raté, sa vie bascule. Après le déni et la terreur, Adèle y voit finalement son intérêt. Et si elle parvenait à l'utiliser à ses propres fins ? Mais jouer avec un mort-vivant aliéné à la soif et hanté par la solitude peut engendrer de terribles conséquences...

En un instant, Alex est aspiré dans l'Apocosmos, où notre monde tout entier n'est qu'un éclat au sein d'une tapisserie colorée comptant des millions d'autres. Un multivers régi par un système strict. Où les panthéons nordique, grec et celtique s'affrontent. Où les nains forgent, les dragons amassent et les vampires ne scintillent pas. Un monde aussi cruel qu'épique. Cependant, Alex ne veut rien de tout cela. Il y a de l'argent à gagner dans l'Apocosmos. Alex va profiter du marché comme il le faisait à l'époque des MMORPG, dans un plan qui semble infaillible.

In a world that only appears peaceful on the surface, Anna embarks on a fascinating journey to uncover the secrets of the past. Accompany them on their journey through a story full of fear, destruction and death, in the hope of surviving it all, only glows faintly. Following in the footsteps of radio operator Danny, she comes face to face with the truth and danger with every Step closer.

Mara was once a vampire—spy, assassin, weapon—shaped by Earth’s secret supernatural wars. But when a dying spell rips her from her world and casts her into Greymantle—a land of dragons, guilds, and brutal magic—everything begins to change. Her powers are fading. Her body is turning human. And something ancient is waking within her blood. In a world where vampires are outcasts and mages rule through arcane guilds, Mara must master forbidden magic just to survive.

War looms. Magic stirs. And a girl born of silence may become the storm no crown can command. Hidden away by ancient spells, Lirien has lived her life in shadows, unseen by the courts that dread her awakening. But when battle shatters her sanctuary and chaos spreads across enchanted soil, she's thrust into a destiny she cannot outrun. With Kaelen bleeding at the heart of war and her own magic awakening, Lirien must choose: hide as the world burns--or rise as something the crowns never foresaw.

Luisa Giglione sah im Schein der Lampe, wie eine schwarze, verdorrte Hand durch den Spalt in der knorrigen Tür griff und den Riegelbalken hochschob. Sprachlos vor Schrecken sah die junge Frau sie eintreten... Ein Zug aus sieben grässlichen Gestalten! Eingehüllt in vermoderte, schwarze Kapuzenkutten! Luisa blickte in mumifizierte, grausige Gesichter! Augenlos! Schwarz und vermodert! Und sie schrie!

Zu Füßen der Gipfel des Himalaya in einem hoch gelegenen Tal erhebt sich ein Kuppelbau, der ein jahrtausendaltes Geheimnis birgt. Es ist Mechnal, der Mumien-Dämon mit dem Drachenkopf, der in der Region des ewigen Eises seine Heimstatt hat. Viel zu lange schon hat er untätig und machtlos dort geherrscht. Eine unermessliche Lebensgier flackert in ihm auf.

In Schottland geht das Grauen um. Der Familien-Clan der Abernathys ist Opfer eines jahrhundertealten, blutigen Fluches. Sobald die Dudelsackmusik erklingt, sind sie gezwungen, dem magischen Ruf zum See zu folgen. Dort wartet das Grauen auf sie. Doch handelt es sich hier wirklich um einen Fluch oder stecken andere Gründe dahinter? Die junge Studentin Sheila versucht, dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen. Doch als das erste Mitglied des Clans vor ihren Augen zu Staub zerfällt, muss sie erkennen, dass die Mächte der Finsternis stärker sind als sie.

He was born to kill monsters. Instead, he became one. Ashton Deimos is a Draken Killer by blood—and a traitor by choice. Raised in a royal family built on cruelty, conquest, and the slaughter of drakens, Ashton learned young that mercy is punished and compassion is weakness. When he refused to kill an innocent draken as a boy, his father answered with brutality that never stopped. Now, as the Grand Kermis begins—a deadly month-long trial where princes compete for brides and survival—Ashton is forced to face the legacy he despises. Failure means torture or death.

Urplötzlich war der Sturm da. Ohne Vorwarnung, wie aus heiterem Himmel. Die Yacht hatte keine Chance gegen die mannshohen Wellen. Die beiden Pärchen, die eigentlich geplant hatten, ein paar fröhliche Stunden an Bord zu verbringen, landen als Schiffbrüchige auf einer unbekannten Insel. Dort scheint die Zeit stehen geblieben zu sein. Einzige Spur einer Zivilisation ist ein uralter, heruntergekommener Leuchtturm, in dem sie ihr Lager für die Nacht aufschlagen. Doch dies ist ein schwerwiegender Fehler. Das alte Gemäuer wird zu ihrem Gefängnis.

Keiner von ihnen wusste um die Bedeutung des Spiels. Die Motive begannen sich zu verändern. Es war ihr Mann Andrew. George und Sheila, ihre beiden Mitspieler, waren auf ebenso rätselhafte Weise als Karodame und Karokönig zu sehen. Noch bevor die junge Frau auch nur eine Chance haben sollte, zu begreifen, was sich hier abspielte, brach das Grauen über sie herein. Das kleine Strandhaus, in dem sie sich regelmäßig zu einer Bridgepartie trafen, versank in einem Meer von Blut.

Hillario Mendez ist tot. Kurz vor seinem schrecklichen Ende gelang es Mendez, mit dem Bösen einen Pakt zu schließen, um sich an den Mördern rächen zu können. Die Armee des Todes erwacht zum Leben und beginnt einen mörderischen Rachefeldzug.