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Dirk Lloyd has a dark secret. He is the earthly incarnation of a Dark Lord, supreme ruler of the Darklands and leader of armies of orcs and warriors intent on destruction. Following a final battle between the forces of good and evil, the Dark Lord was defeated and hurled into the Pit of Uttermost Despair. At the bottom of the Pit is a supermarket car park in the town of Whiteshields, in modern day England. When he is found, and tries to explain that he is the Dark Lord, people think he means Dirk Lloyd.

Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want - except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice.

A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to fight. Pursued by dark forces, Will and his allies must leave the safety of the Hall and travel to the heart of the ancient world, making new and dangerous alliances and revealing the shocking secrets of the past. But Will is carrying a dark secret of his own – his true identity. Drawn to the beautiful and deadly James St Clair, Will is pulled ever deeper into the web of the past and finds himself tempted by the darkness within.

The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember. For centuries they have kept vigil, sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run in London, pursued by the men who killed his mother. When an old servant urges him to seek out the Stewards, Will is ushered into a secret world, where he must train to fight for the Light in the oncoming war.

I’m a headline in the town of Maywood Heights and known by a name I’ve never heard. They tell me I was taken, stolen, but none of this makes sense. I’m not who they say I am. I’m not a…twin, but even those close to me seem to believe the rumors swarming around me.

I had one job - kill the king, and I failed. I’d once thought ending King Zephyr’s reign would be enough for me to move beyond my past, but the longer I’m within the fae realm, the more I realize nothing is as simple as I’d hoped. My first attempt to take down the castle might have been unsuccessful, but I refuse to accept defeat. The only problem...sea creatures and unknown fae insist on getting in the way, and my path back to the castle proves harder than I like.

Annika shouldn't have been able to kill the vampire queen Laila - such a task can only be done by the Nephilim, whose race is extinct. But somehow, she did kill the queen. Now she's the number one target on multiple hit lists, and she's alive only because she's a fugitive at the neutral kingdom of the Haven.

In the aftermath of a catastrophic EMP attack, sixteen-year-old Serenity Jones finds herself thrust from the hardships of homelessness into a harrowing struggle for survival in a world plunged into darkness and chaos. Serenity is a fierce and resilient young woman tempered by a life that has demanded nothing less. Serenity bears the weight of experiences that have conditioned her to be suspicious, calculating, and somewhat ruthless when circumstances require.

In the backwoods of Upstate New York, the six remaining Creswell children live under the strict rule of their father. Castley, Caspar, Jerusalem, Mortimer, Delvive and Hannan. Someone needs to save the Creswell children. Castley Creswell, a girl equal parts humour and longing, loves her extraordinary family but knows something is missing from her closeted life. Forced into a real school, Castley feels more like a freak than ever.

Korrash, an adventurer from the kingdom of Eastmere, is bored. In the weeks since the pitched battle with the Ghoul Nurse-matron, he’s cleaned up so many vampire infestations that he’s on auto-pilot. He’d rather be out honing his heroic magic into something truly legendary. Occasionally, he remembers that his name is Arthur Mallory: a real person with a family, and maybe even some friends. Trapped in this virtual world, his attempts to log out have ended only in failure and migraines. He must embrace every source of power he can find if he expects to stop them.

Nineteen-year-old Myla Lewis is loving life - she’s now a wife, mother, and Queen of the Thrax. Oh yeah, and being a super-powerful demigoddess who moves souls into Heaven or Hell doesn’t suck, either. In fact, everything is pretty much awesome. Until something craptastic happens. Her honorary older brother, Walker, enters the Dark Lands, home to the rule-loving ghouls, and vanishes without a trace. Now, it’s up to Myla to solve the mystery of Walker’s disappearance. Of course, Myla likes interacting with ghouls about as much as elective dental surgery.

An academy cloaked in supernatural secrets awaits one girl with the power to destroy or unite them all... In a world where magic whispers beneath the surface, Aria Brightmoore's life shatters on her 16th birthday when her latent powers roar to life, thrusting her into a captivating and dangerous new reality. Aria's awakening magic marks her as a force to be reckoned with, drawing her into the alluring halls of the Aurelian Academy of Magic.

A virtual world filled with horrors. The real world is doubly so. A terrifying body count is rising. Arthur Mallory is trapped in a heavenly prison, a virtual-reality game, forced to play as Korrash: a powerful elven mage. He’s desperately waiting on his friends and family in the real world to rescue him, but they don’t have the faintest idea where he actually is...or just how high the stakes truly are. The answers are held by the OneiroSoft corporation: Arthur’s employer-turned-kidnapper. The game world, Nightfall, is consumed by change.

Le Terre degli Uomini sono ormai in mano al Male e, ora, l’occhio di Draug è rivolto al Mondo Magico. Aurian e Moran-dum non hanno mai tremato come in questi giorni bui, dove la minaccia di una guerra civile si fa sempre più concreta, forte del ritorno di Urgor e i suoi Rinnegati. Chi è il Principe delle Tenebre che gli incubi di On continuano a nominare? Un segreto che solo pochi conoscono, capace di svelare le vere regole della Caccia e le radici oscure da cui trae nutrimento.

Von der "New York Times"- und "SPIEGEL"-Bestsellerautorin von "Girl in Pieces". Das passiert, wenn deine Mutter stirbt: Es ist der hellste Tag des Sommers, und draußen ist es dunkel. Es ist dunkel in deinem Haus, dunkel in deinem Zimmer und dunkel in deinem Herzen. Du hast das Gefühl, als würde die Dunkelheit dich auseinanderreißen. So fühlt es sich für Tiger an. Es waren immer Tiger und ihre Mutter gegen die Welt. Dann, an einem Tag wie jedem anderen, stirbt Tigers Mutter. Und jetzt ist Tiger allein. Und muss lernen, sich mit der Dunkelheit anzufreunden.

Der fesselnde Abschluss des New York Times- und SPIEGEL-Bestsellers. Die junge Tee-Magierin Ning ist auf der Flucht. Etwas Böses hat sich über das Königreich Dàxi gelegt, und der "Verbannte Prinz" hat den Drachenthron an sich gerissen. Gemeinsam mit der rechtmäßigen Prinzessin des Reiches sucht Ning nun nach Mutigen und Verzweifelten, die sich ihnen anschließen, um den Thron zurückzuerobern. Doch noch etwas Anderes, das sehr viel älter ist als die kleinlichen Konflikte der Menschen, ist erwacht und verfolgt Ning in ihren Träumen.

En cavale à travers l’Europe, Naz et Oliver voient leur amitié mise à rude épreuve. Traqués par des vampires, ils n’ont d’autre choix que de rester discrets. Mais lorsque les temps désespérés appellent des mesures désespérées, ils se retrouvent plongés dans un dangereux circuit clandestin de combats.

After Claudia and Ben stumble upon Dorian's secret, they are taken prisoner. Food and supplies are running low, and Dorian's ultimate goal is survival of the race - and the fittest.

After the Death Asteroid strikes Earth, Claudia is stranded on a rooftop near Denver International Airport surrounded by the cold waters of the "new" Atlantic Ocean. She and four other misfits have managed to escape the wrath of destruction and must now put the pieces back together. Are there any other survivors?

Long, ago, upon an alternate Earth, around the ninth millennia BCE, on the continent of Africa, dark magic and monsters of legend exist. For thousands of years, a malevolently powerful voodoo master held their motherland in his firm evil grip. It was an era of fear and doom, until the leaders of two dominant tribes joined clans, defeated the immortal voodoo king, and took the Dark Grimoires (his most extensive book of supreme dark magic).