Moderne fantasy

From Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out, comes an anthology of brand new stories showcasing the best Black talent from across contemporary horror writing.

A lost fire goddess. An arrogant new ally. And a secret magical society on the brink of extinction.All Jayne Thorne wants to do is work with her sister to track down their missing father. But instead, she is tasked with another assignment from the CIA: go to Rome and acquire a necromantic grimoire linked to a lost fire goddess.As Jayne struggles to work with her new partner, a smug and infuriating magician who knows exactly how to push her buttons, she realizes this mission may reveal clues to her father's whereabouts. To make matters worse, the deadly terror organizations have caught wind of this powerful grimoire, and their dark magic has created all manner of terrifying new obstacles for Jayne to overcome.The closer Jayne gets to finding her father, the more she uncovers about the secret society he was part of. When she realizes their enemies are closing in on these hunted magicians-and targeting her sister, too-she must expand her magical abilities, trust in her partner, and risk her life for the truth... or else the power of the fire goddess could wind up in the wrong hands.

Her world is grim. Her allies are divided. Can she be the voice of peace and prevent their utter annihilation?Bintou Sissoko is caught in the middle of an epic mess. Long gone are the days when she could peacefully lose herself in ancient texts, yearning for the quiet life. Now, she's the liaison for the old gods, a promotion she never asked for.As the master translator, Bintou knows her skills are crucial, but she's not exactly thrilled when everyone around her gets mesmerized by a war goddess on a serious power trip.With her desperate warnings falling on deaf ears, Bintou has no choice but to dive deeper into her research, cataloging the true intentions of these freshly risen deities. But unless she can somehow get her own kind to join forces with their sworn enemies, humanity is headed straight for annihilation.Will Bintou manage to wrangle people together and convince them that it's time to set aside their differences? Or is the world doomed to become a demonic playground?All's Fae That Ends Fae is the whirlwind final installment in the Guardians of PHAE Irish contemporary fantasy trilogy. Brace yourself for heart-pounding action, war-torn factions, and a world so gritty you'll need an industrial-strength broom to sweep up the aftermath.Start reading All's Fae That Ends Fae and hold on tight for a wild ride!Trigger warnings: violence, war, PTSD, gore, sexual abuse

One binding destroyed her family; could another save it?At thirty-six-years-old, history professor Aurelie is resigned to a childless existence. It's not her age - it's the absence of male Unseen. Her species has been so desperate to hide among humans that it is quietly dying out. Now her family is broken; eager to leave behind a painful past, Aurelie accepts a teaching position in Nara, Japan. But she's unprepared for the future she finds...Twenty-two-year-old Kazuki is the favored son of the Hayashi family - a clan of Unseen that has not only survived in Japan, but thrived. Though he knows hundreds of Unseen, he's unprepared for Aurelie and the overwhelming attraction he feels for her, a biological imperative to mate.Or perhaps a magical one because, as Kazuki and Aurelie grow closer, the reasons for hiding come out.And they are hungry.

When Roger Carrington, a successful CEO, loses everything after putting his own financial security ahead of his company's survival, he is reduced to living in a cardboard shack under a Seattle freeway. In order to survive, he must adapt quickly to his new reality. His growing friendship and interdependence with a small band of people who share the overpass with him challenges his conservative values and narrow notions of homelessness. He finds himself reexamining his self-centered past and discovering a new purpose.

Fifteen-year-old Caleb Hideki Smith is a loser's loser. As one of the few half-Japanese residents of Portersville, North Carolina, Caleb has accepted that he will never fit in. He's not popular, can't play football, and the girl he likes doesn't know he exists: and that was before he accidentally burnt down the town's most beloved landmark. But that same day, Caleb and his sister Emily stumble upon a Shinto shrine deep in the Great Smoky Mountains, a shrine Caleb knows for a fact wasn't there the day before. Things get only stranger from there, as Caleb finds he has developed some unusual abilities and his sister is doing her best not to accidentally turn into a fox. They need answers, and that means tapping into a family heritage they know nothing about, and fast. Something unspeakable has been trapped under the mountain. But it has found a way out... If Caleb and Emily are going to stop the disaster threatening Portersville, they are going to have to start figuring out who they really are. Hideki Smith, Demon Queller is the new mythological fantasy from New York Times bestselling author A.J. Hartley, with family members Hisako Osako, and Kuma Hartley. Covert art by Jeff Langevin

Magic is all around you. Most of you don't see it and will never see it, not without some very expensive and large scientific apparatus. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist of course, just that most people aren't equipped for it. We call it magic. I guess a scientist would call it something else.

There's a deepening mystery that the world's written language kept disappearing for good, with no explanation. Schoolgirls Davidia and Slirander catch a perpetrator finger-licking his way through a book, making the words disappear, and were puzzled. They spring into action to find the cause of the destruction and find themselves on a journey, trying to solve the puzzle of the disappearing words. A Moonah tree whose leaves represent the letters of the alphabet help them on their journey, transforming them to strange and mysterious places where they find the fateful pit of lost letters, but not before they had to escape the traps set for them by the different keepers of the alphabet who hung tenaciously to their letters. All the while they had to outsmart their adversary, the enemy who had stolen the written word from the world. Who was this character? Were the girls successful in their mission to save the language of the world?

Stressed with school and her step mother's cruelty, seventeen-year-old Ruby Jenkins just wants to finish high school and get the hell out of Ohio. But when Ruby discovers that she is anything but normal, nothing she wants seems to matter anymore.A realistic dream, new student, and inexplicable secrets thrust her into a world of the unknown. Having to leave her whole life behind to stop her newly discovered uncle from creating a world of devastation, Ruby and her new allies are forced to find others like them for help. And when someone from her old life can't seem to let her go, saving the world gets a lot more complicated.Will Ruby be able to put her past behind her and fight with her new family before chaos erupts?

Julia is a crossbreed, they are rare and often killed at birth because they are considered unnatural. She is one of the lucky ones, her father has killed to keep her alive after her mother abandoned her. Julia doesn't have an animal side she can shift into but she has a different magic. A magic that her father's pack has hidden from the world, for everybody's safety. Now Julia will need to hide her true capabilities while dealing with all vampires, shifters, immortals and different species of Weres at a new school. These people are very different to the Dingos she grew up with. Being allowed to join the Supernatural College of Medicine in Brisbane an honour. Being allowed to leave the Channel Country and the restrictions of her father's pack is exciting. But leaving the protection of her family might not be the best decision she's ever made. Her siblings wouldn't make her start this new adventure alone though... but they might create more problems than she bargained for.

We are blood. And so are they...We're finally free-and we intend to stay that way. But our most dangerous enemy has plans that could upend the entire world.To carry out those plans, he's making more like us. More people twisted into something monstrous and forced to serve his psychotic ends.My guys and I have to stop him. It's our only hope of getting the peace we've dreamed of-for us and everyone else we've come to care about.But how can we even fight when the foes standing in our way... are shadowbloods just like us?*Fearsome Dream is the final book in Shadowblood Souls, an urban fantasy series for those who love savagely possessive men and fierce heroines who'll fight for what's theirs.*

Students of a small college, known for thinking outside the box, are challenged to think about what is Time. The challenge develops into a workshop which impacts the Board of Trustees, individual members, and one desperate professor.

Her long-dreaded date with Thorandryll complicates Discord Jones' final case of the year: locating a stolen magic mirror. While searching, Discord discovers a secret battle raging beneath the quiet surface of Santo Trueno, one which could change it forever.Discord's efforts to oust her unwelcome visitor only emphasizes how far down the supe-world rabbit hole she's fallen. The struggle to understand how the past year's events will impact her future begins as she accepts a new bond-with the gargoyles.

It's been labelled a doomsday cult, but the Bastion might behumanity's last hope. Amidst all the lies and chaos, come hear theirtrue story, in their own words.On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion,offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcomenew members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them torelease their burdens and create a better world, in a journey of selfdiscoveryand spiritual teachings.But the Bastion has secrets. The Bastion has a destiny. Deep in theInner Pinewood, a place of real magic and beauty, they are all thatstands against the dark forces that would tear the sky wide openAnd what of those who call Becca and Ric liars? Cult leaders andcon artists? What of those who tried to leave the Bastion? As itbecomes increasingly difficult to tell truth from fiction, who can youtrust to save us all?

The board is set. The pieces are in place. There will be no stalemate in this endgame.Journalist Tierra Campos and FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen make a last-ditch effort to stop a coup against the incoming president of the United States in the fifth book of this high-octane political thriller series.As the calendar marches toward the Electoral College vote that will solidify the cabal's control, Tierra's and Victoria's ad-hoc alliance must roll the dice to stave off disaster. Everything will come down to one moment where the only possible result is checkmate. In a months-long struggle defined by countless moves and countermoves, which side will prevail when both sides play for keeps in the decisive endgame?Revealed Secrets is the final novel in a five-book serial drama. Readers are encouraged to begin the journey with Justifiable Deceit and enjoy the Tierra Campos Thrillers in the order they were written."True freedom is laying your king down before someone does it for you."The election is over, and the attempt to thwart the oncoming coup has failed. With the ringleader exposed as a powerful manipulator, the stakes are even higher. While the cabal has positioned itself to cement its stranglehold on the new president-elect, journalist Tierra Campos is left with one more daunting puzzle to solve - why she's still alive.With the transition beginning and the victor suffocating under the crushing weight of extortion, the online news organization Front Burner must again fight for its survival. Elements in the government are determined to silence while training their sights on another target - FBI agent and heroine Victoria Larsen, who has now been labeled a domestic terrorist and America's most wanted fugitive.When the noose tightens around Victoria as she uncovers concrete evidence of the plot, Tierra hatches a desperate, last-ditch plan to exploit the only crack in the powerful cabal's armor. New friends, old enemies, and ardent adversaries must unite for a common purpose to expose the coup and save the presidency while not shattering the people's confidence in their government.Revealed Secrets is a fast-paced political suspense thriller with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final chapter.The Tierra Campos Thrillers (in order):Justifiable DeceitDevious MeasuresVital TargetsRevealed SecretsDecisive Endgame

Remember that sense of wonder you felt when first reading a truly magical book? Rediscover it in the pages of Liz Williams' Fallow Sisters novels. The Fallow Sisters: Bee, Stella, Serena, LunaFour Fey Sisters whose lives straddle the contemporary and the 'otherworld' -- comprising the past and alternative realms. In this concluding volume of the magical quartet, new dangers arise as the focus shifts from the family home of Mooncote in rural Somerset to the rugged coastline of Cornwall. The sisters and their friends -- Ace, Ver, Dark, Davy, Nick, Laura, and Kit Coral - find themselves embroiled in a deadly struggle between the land and sea: the Wild Hunt and the Wreckers and Pirates, a conflict that reaches down through the ages. Their mother, Alys, claims amnesia after being thrown from a horse, but is she faking it? Who is the sinister Morlaker who first warns them off and then invades Mooncote itself, whose very presence chills them to the bone? Who is the mysterious woman - first glimpsed in the crowds at the Wimbledon tournament - who so resembles their deceased nemesis Miranda? And what part does Good Queen Bess have to play in all this? Is she all that she seems, or more than she seems? And then there's Hob, can he be trusted?The most pressing question, of course, is: will all four sisters survive this latest adventure?

Follow the journey of Cameron, Geremy, Lance and JimYun as their friendship is put to the test by a mysterious beautiful young woman they come across when camping in the woods.After fighting each other like never before and splitting ways, they discover a curse upon themselves. To figure out what truly happened on the trip, the four must come togather and retrace their steps back into the woods where a horrifying shock awaits them.

Why are wizards turning up dead?Working homicides in New York City, there will always be disquieting cases, but this one has me in a cold sweat.Killers tend to prey on the weak. So, when Bishop and I discover a high-ranking wizard has been tied down and tortured as part of some unhinged ritual, we know all hell is about to break lose.What's worse, our lead suspect is a member of the Arcane Council and when you cross the Council you tend to disappear without a trace.Victims deserve justice, it's my job, but one wrong move will see me share their fate.Curl up with One Foot in the Grave and discover the true motive behind this unusual case.

Reality isn't just one existence but layers of truth, realms drifting apart and colliding together.Realms collide in every dreamer's soul. A rollercoaster ride of imagination, with every twist and turn shaped by a different perspective, interpreted in the same unique ways that make each of us one of a kind.Collecting a year of monthly stories (plus one) author Michelle Lee brings her signature magical realism and emotional depth to bear in "When Realms Collide," an eclectic showcase of her best short works to date.

In a tale of connections and loss, sixteen magical beings try to find their way through life, as hard and complicated as it may be. A modern fantasy novel, with an all LGBTQ+ cast, you are in for quite a ride.

Die 21-jährige Studienanfängerin Johanna stolpert mit großen Erinnerungslücken durchs Leben, die sie sich nicht erklären kann. Sie lebt zusammen mit ihren Tierarzt-Eltern in einer Kleinstadt. Ihre Eltern verbieten ihr strikt den Kontakt zu den beiden Brüdern Adam und Toni Cadeesh von nebenan, obwohl sie einst Sandkastenfreunde waren - doch das Warum bleibt bei jedem Gespräch unbeantwortet. Schade, denn in einen der beiden ist Johanna verknallt, seit sie sich im Alter von sechs Jahren zum ersten Mal begegnet sind.Nachdem Johanna durch einen Unfall vorübergehend an den Rollstuhl gefesselt ist, fallen mit Hilfe der beiden Brüder allmählich die Mauern ihrer behüteten Erinnerung, und sie beginnt zu erkennen, was hinter all den verlorenen Erinnerungen steckt - und wer sie wirklich sein soll.Altersempfehlung 18+. Dieser Roman enthält potenziell triggernde Inhalte.

In "The Shadow's Blade: A Tale of Magic and Betrayal," a young woman is entrusted with a powerful crystal that has the ability to defeat the darkness that has consumed her city. As she embarks on a dangerous journey to use the crystal's power for good, she learns the true price of magic and the cost of betrayal.Through battles with armies and encounters with dark magic, the woman discovers the strength and courage within herself to fight against the darkness and to protect those she loves. But as she struggles to maintain her own integrity and trust in others, she faces the ultimate betrayal from someone she thought was a friend.With the fate of the city resting in her hands, the woman must confront her own fears and make a desperate gamble to uncover the traitor and save the city from complete destruction. As she fights against the darkness and confronts the truth about herself and those around her, she learns that the cost of victory is often high, but the price of inaction is even higher."The Shadow's Blade" is a thrilling tale of magic, adventure, and the power of the human spirit to overcome even the darkest of obstacles. With intricate world-building, dynamic characters, and heart-pumping action, this book is a must-read for fans of fantasy and adventure novels.

¿How much courage does it take for a sidekick to become a main character?Juliette has always longed for everything she experiences in her beloved books-grand adventures, heroic deeds, passionate love, and making a meaningful difference. She wants it all. Yet, despite her found family, her dream bookshop, and a burgeoning connection with a sweet man, chronic anxiety keeps her tethered to a safe and predictable routine.Until her life is upended when an unexpected magical ability surfaces.Now gifted with the power to locate lost things, Juliette's world becomes a blend of wonder and anxiety. Along with her ability to help clients find misplaced belongings, certain items compel her to reunite them with their owners. As her powers grow, so do the panic attacks lurking at every turn, threatening to overwhelm her.Amidst the chaos, an infuriatingly arrogant and seductive man repeatedly challenges her. As she navigates her own fears and doubts, the stakes become higher than ever. The longer it takes her to reunite lost items with their owners, the more the magic hurts. However, there are ethical dilemmas surrounding the potential misuse of magical objects.As her internal conflict mounts, will Juliette muster the courage to step out of her comfort zone and embrace her true potential as a heroine?Magic Hidden, Magic is the first book in Wyrd Words & Witchcraft, a new paranormal women's fiction series set in the same world as the delectable Baking Up a Magical Midlife series.Join Juliette as she steps into a world where magic intertwines with the ordinary and dreams have the potential to become reality in this cozy paranormal women's fiction magical realism story that will make you feel like you're having coffee with your best friend.

Elwyn is remarkably unremarkable, and she prefers it that way. What more could a thief hope for than to pass through life unseen? Upon fleeing a violent life with her invisible friend-a clever and capricious creature who's only grown more real with time-she is plunged into an adventure rife with otherworldly beings both beautiful and beastly. As the Greyscale' most cutthroat assassin, Brannon has a bone to pick with Elwyn-and several to break. Tasked with hunting down his errant colleague, he soon finds himself in a magic-steeped hamlet where he encounters creatures even more deadly than himself. To survive, he must rely on the very rival he's been sent to capture. Little Lydia has a chilling secret, and even she doesn't know the whole of it. Her unusual appearance has earned her the nickname "monster," and there may be some truth to the slight. When she caves to the whispers that have slithered through her mind for months, she loses everything she knows and must start anew in the company of criminals. Bored by his charmed existence, prince Aedyn slips into the lives of these three misfits only to learn of schemes that place both the Mortal and Faerie Realms in peril. If he can help the others work together to thwart the plans of two feuding fiends, they might just manage to save multiple worlds...provided they don't kill each other first.