Moderne fantasy

From the author of cult favourite The Wishing Game comes a Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobe door . . . you know, just in case.Fifteen years ago, two boys went missing at a state park in West Virginia. Six months later they mysteriously reappeared. Jeremy wouldn't say where they went and Rafe was unable, having no memory of their time lost in the woods though he bears terrible scars on his back that no one can explain. Now adults, Jeremy is a missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find lost and kidnapped girls. Meanwhile, Rafe has become a recluse, an artist unable to stop creating fantastical paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. When Emilie goes to Jeremy, seeking help for her older sister who was kidnapped eighteen years earlier, he recognizes her as the girl he's been questing for all these years. Emilie is the lost princess of Shanandoah, and her sister is the Queen of the fantasy world where he and Rafe spent those six magical months when they were missing. Their return should have been a joyful one but when they arrive, they learn an old foe of Rafe's has returned and only he can save them all and their world . . . but only if he can remember who he truly is. Only then will they get back everything and everyone they've lost.

STEP INSIDE THE DARK ACADEMIA NOVEL WHICH HAS EVERYONE TALKING THIS SPOOKY SEASONPERFECT FOR FANS OF LEIGH BARDUGO'S NINTH HOUSE AND NETFLIX'S WEDNESDAYAn elite academy. A secret society. A sister who will stop at nothing to discover the truth.A deliciously dark and atmospheric read. I tore through this gothic tale of a sister's love and the monsters she will face to unearth the shocking truth - Frances White, Sunday Times bestselling author of Voyage of the Damned'Eerie, intense, and mysterious with immersive world building and mythology. The fast pace kept me turning pages, and I'd follow Jae pretty much anywhere' Stacia Stark, bestselling author of the Kingdom of Lies series---Hell is empty and all the devils are at Ravenswood Academy . . .Mourning the sudden death of her sister, Andy Emmerson knows she must come to terms with a life without Violet. But on the day of the funeral Andy is shocked to discover one thing: the person in that casket is not her sister.Is Violet alive?Convinced her sister's elite boarding school is covering up the truth, Andy enrols at Ravenswood Academy to discover what really happened and find Violet.The school is as beautiful and haunting as the students within it and Andy learns that it's not just good grades that drives these pupils.Something much darker is at play.After discovering a cryptic note from her sister, Andy must follow a set of clues to unlock the truth. This will bring her into contact with secret societies, ancient magic, demons and monsters. And a charming senior named Jae Han who has his own reasons for finding out what happened to Violet . . .Soon Andy realizes the price she must pay to bring her sister home is darker and more dangerous than she ever could have imagined.---Readers are loving All The Devils'Wow, wow, wowwwww!!! I did not expect how this book was going to play out, I couldn't put the book down' 5 ***** Reader Review'I have read almost every dark academia or dark academia adjacent book and All The Devils was SOOO refreshing. The romance, the storyline, the plot. I practically devoured it!' 5 ***** Reader Review'Dark academic? Witchy vibes? Art history? Sprinkle of romance? All a recipe for a 5* read in my opinion. The characters and the scenery were all exquisitely, especially when we went to the Underworld. The twists just kept coming when it came to Jae and I spent a good deal of time picking my jaw up off the floor' 5 ***** Reader Review'If you love dark academia, secret societies and the supernatural then this book is perfect for you. I adored this book and won't be forgetting it anytime soon' 5 ***** Reader Review

Galego ist ein unbekannter Held. Er träumt davon, die Welt zu retten. Oder zumindest sein Umfeld in der Favela. Wenn er nur seinen grünen Umhang trägt und laut Brasil ruft, wird alles gut werden. Aber selbst Helden brauchen Hilfe. Wo wird er sie finden? Wer wird ihm zur Seite stehen? Seine Freunde? Seine Mutter? Oder doch der kleine Held aus dem Tijuca Wald? Und vor allem, wer ist diese junge Frau, von der er unentwegt träumt. Das Mädchen von Ipanema. Eine Geschichte von Mut und Liebe.

Lennart, ein ganz normaler 33-Jähriger Mann, der eigentlich ein ganz überschaubares Leben führt, gerät eines Tages, durch eine Autopanne und weiteren Verstrickungen von Zufällen, in einen alten unentdeckten Nazibunker der Anlage des Fort Hahnebergs in Staaken bei Berlin. Dort findet er eine Maschine vor, die ihn ungewollt nach Allcon, in eine 40 Lichtjahre entfernte Zivilisation katapultiert. Die lebensfeindliche Umgebung macht Lennart die Rückkehr, trotz vieler kreativer Versuche, praktisch unmöglich. Lennarts Leben verändert sich schlagartig. Doch dann lernt er Zafina kennen, eine Allconerin, an die er sein Herz verliert. Wird sie seine Liebe erwidern? Wird er es schaffen zurückzukehren? Begleiten Sie Lennart auf dieses Abenteuer!

Teruki a encore dépassé les bornes.Son entêtement nous met tous en danger.Alors que je faisais tout pour nous protéger de cet amour interdit, voilà qu'elle n'en fait qu'à sa tête.Nous avons enfin identifié nos ennemis. Et Teruki a disparu.Il nous faut agir vite avant que mon amazone ne coure un plus grand péril !Léo va-t-il réussir à tenir son engagement envers son Sensei et mettre son clan à l'abri pour l'éternité ?Plongez dans le dernier tome de Sangs Eternels Forever et vivez une aventure palpitante.Bit-lit - romance - vampire - sorcière - loup-garou

** Faoladh - L'intégrale au format semi-poche ! **"Depuis le lycée, je souffre de ce que l'on appelle des tocs. Il paraît que ça a quelque chose à voir avec la perte de contrôle... On sait, au fond de soi, que ce que l'on fait ne sert à rien, mais on ne peut pas s'en empêcher. On le fait quand même, juste au cas où... Après tout, ce serait bête de risquer la mort de tata Eglantine en ne tournant la poignée que cinq fois au lieu de six."Après avoir passé une enfance compliquée à Madadh, Ella a décidé, il y a six ans, de s'installer à Boston. Avec le soutien de Johan, son meilleur ami, elle tente d'y vivre une vie la plus normale possible.Vivre normalement, il faut avouer que cela relève pratiquement de l'impossible lorsque l'on est une jeune Faoladh qui, en plus d'être un peu trop humaine, souffre de troubles obsessionnels compulsifs.Quand un message de sa soeur vient perturber l'équilibre précaire de sa vie, Ella doit remettre ses choix en question et surmonter sa peur du changement.Cette intégrale comprend les romans suivants :1) Retour aux sources2) La Prophétie du Croissant de Lune3) L'Ascension

Azíl's teapot is missing, and the clock is ticking to get it back.With the teapot missing, it's a race against the clock for Willow and Azíl to find it before the unthinkable happens. Though it would help if they had any idea where to start.With the threat of Azíl being banished back to captivity hanging over their heads, they have more than ever to worry about.Can they find a solution before it's too late?-Cinnamon Cocoa and Far To Go is book four of the Cauldron Coffee Shop Series, a cozy urban fantasy featuring a coffee-shop-owning witch, an ancient warlock cursed to live in a teapot, and a cheeky cat. It includes an m/f romantic subplot.If you love cozy urban fantasy, coffee shop settings, low-stakes adventures, cat familiars, and a warm and fuzzy feeling vibe, start the Cauldron Coffee Shops series with Pumpkin Spice And All Things Nice.

After spending a day at the Oregon zoo with 5-year old Gracie, Anna Sanders reaches a decision: she will risk anything and everything to give her daughter and her granddaughter the chance of a livable future.But first she has to come to terms with her past. She reaches out to two childhood friends who she was in college with: Mac, a hard-drinking, pot-smoking professor of physics and climatology in Wisconsin, and Danny, an introverted college dropout working as a landscaper in Arizona. She asks to set up a meeting with them, and while both men fear such a reunion will wake the sleeping dragons of their collective history, old loyalties, and old fears, propel them forward.In a desert house in Four Corners, New Mexico, the three come together for the first time in nineteen years. There, they reconnect, open old wounds and reveal deep secrets that shaped their pasts and will transform their futures in ways none of them could have imagined.

"Al MacBharrais has a most unusual job: He s a practitioner of ink-and-sigil magic, tasked with keeping order among the gods and monsters that dwell hidden in the human world. But there s one supernatural mystery he s never been able to solve: years ago, someone cast twin curses on him that killed off his apprentices and drove away loved ones who heard him speak, leaving him bereft and isolated."--

When Max and Sandra moved to North Carolina, they walked into a world of ghost, witches, and curses. Over the years, and with the help of the ghost of 1940s detective Marshall Drummond, they have fought to build a life for themselves.But now, it all goes on the line. No fight of their past can match what awaits when the Hull family and the Magi Group go to war. Caught between the magic and muscle of these groups, Max and Sandra will have to call in all the help they can find if they are to survive.Only one thing is for sure. Everything will change.

Grimsby, a junior Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself on the other side of the law in this spellbinding urban fantasy.Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby may have one case under his belt, but he’s still a novice Auditor in Boston’s Department of Unorthodox Affairs. And he’s already made mistakes.Desperate to repair his fraying friendships, he doesn’t ask too many questions when a mysterious patron offers him the chance to join a heist of an otherworldly vault—and in the process find answers that could make things right. Complications arise when Grimsby learns that his partner, Mayflower, is keeping secrets about his past. Between facing new demons, old horrors, and monsters—both Usual and Unorthodox—Grimsby soon realizes nothing is how it appears and that not asking enough questions just might be his downfall.

The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel WickedTen years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts.What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape -- but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?For the countless fans who have been dazzled and entranced by Maguire's Oz, Son of a Witch is the rich reward they have awaited so long.

Wenn die Dunkelheit dir zuflüstert, folgst du ihr?Die spannende Romantasy, die dich in eine andere Welt entführtSeit ihrer Kindheit muss Lenna dabei zusehen, wie den Menschen, die sie liebt, schreckliche Dinge passieren. Denn dunkle Visionen prophezeien ihr die furchtbaren Schicksale ihrer Mitmenschen. In der Hoffnung, die Visionen endlich hinter sich lassen zu können, rennt sie an ihrem 18. Geburtstag davon. Doch ausgerechnet eine ihrer Vorhersehungen sorgt dafür, dass sie in jener Nacht stirbt. Nach ihrem Tod erwacht sie in Ankrov, einer Stadt in der Zwischenwelt, die von Gestaltwandlern beherrscht wird - den Krähen. Hier muss Lenna sich nicht nur ihren Visionen stellen, sondern auch den Launen ihres Mentors. Allerdings bringt dieser ihre Gefühlswelt schneller durcheinander, als Lenna lieb ist. Zumindest bis sie herausfindet, dass er Geheimnisse vor ihr verbirgt ... Ist ihr Tod vielleicht erst der Anfang?Dies ist eine überarbeitete Neuauflage des bereits erschienenen Titels Das Flüstern der DunkelheitErste Leser:innenstimmen„Die Zwischenwelt, in der Lenna landet, ist hingebungsvoll beschrieben. Es war großartig, in diese fantastische Welt abzutauchen!"„Spannende Idee, noch spannender umgesetzt. Konnte die Shapeshifter-Story kaum aus der Hand legen."„Romantasy, wie ich sie liebe und gerne empfehle. Am Ende war ich traurig, dass es vorbei war."„Mysteriös, aufregend und verzaubernd - genau was ich von einem guten Fantasy-Roman erwarte!"

Old Tragedies, New HorrorsMax and Sandra Porter have encountered many frightening things in North Carolina -- witches, curses, covens, and evil families to name a few -- encounters that left them broke and broken. Now, just as Max and Sandra are getting their lives back together, they meet a pregnant woman convinced her house is trying to possess her baby.But this is no ordinary haunted house.Every avenue they investigate leads Max to the same daunting conclusion -- there is no ghost doing the haunting. Yet something supernatural clearly is involved. Along with his trusty partner, the ghost of a 1940s detective named Drummond, Max will use all his skills and the aid of those he cares about to uncover the truth. But a long-hidden truth is a dangerous thing.For Max and Sandra, it might even be deadly.

Forsyth Turn had no desire to be a hero, but that's what he became. Bevel Dom spent his whole life telling stories, never realizing he was part of one of the most popular ones of all time. Kintyre Turn never thought he could be more than a wandering hero with a sword, until he reinvented himself as a compassionate Lord and kind father. And Lucy Piper never believed that magic, quests, or The Tales of Kintyre Turn truly existed; but they do, and they shaped her life in ways she never could have foreseen. J.M. Frey never expected her meta-fantasy novel about the relationship between author and fan, creator and creation, to become the sweeping, multi-book adventure that Readers have come to enjoy. But, just like her characters, this path has taken her to wondrous places. Now, fans can hear from the author herself. Offering insight and behind-the-scenes commentary on the events that happened both on and off the page-and a brand-new exclusive novella-Frey invites readers to return to the world of Hain one last time, and discover The Accidental Turn that launched a series.

Forsyth Turn never wanted to be a hero. After their last adventure in Hain, Forsyth expected to return to the life he'd built with Pip and Alis, his days of magic and heroics behind him. But then Pip begins suffering night terrors laced with images of glowing ivy, and Elgar Reed starts to experience bizarre threats, hounded by a man garbed all in black. But there is no magic in the Overrealm. Forsyth refuses to believe that anything other than mundane coincidence is at work-until Elgar's stalker leaves him a message too horrific to ignore. Now he has to face the possibility that Pip's dreams and Elgar's fears are connected . . . and that maybe they weren't the only ones to escape the pages of The Tales of Kintyre Turn. If that's the case, it's going to take more than a handful of heroes to save the day this time. It's going to take an army. Luckily, Reed fans are legion.A stunning conclusion to the series, The Silenced Tale is a genre-blending whirlwind that breathes life into the idea that the power of story lies not just with the creator, but also within the fans who love it.

Times are rough for Max and Sandra. They've lost their income, live in a trailer, and struggle to make ends meet - all due to the resurrected Tucker Hull. To make matters worse, the ghost detective, Marshall Drummond, refuses to move on and resides in their trailer.Barely able to afford food, they are desperate to get back on their feet. So, when Max's sole client is murdered in the mysterious Baxter House, he knows they've reached the breaking point. And there's only one way out - push on through.Max, Drummond, and Sandra will face secret societies, stolen gold, hidden codes, the darkest magic, and of course, the Hulls. The only question - will they live through it all?Mixing real North Carolina history with ghosts, witches, magic and more, Southern Gothic continues the supernatural thrills and mystery you've come to expect from Max Porter.

”FREMRAGENDE … EN VOLDSOMT SKRÆMMENDE DEKONSTRUKTION AF ILLUSIONEN OM SELVET.” – The New York Times SIDSTE HUS PÅ NEEDLESS STREET af Catriona Ward er helt igennem original, dybt foruroligende og hundrede procent hjerteskærende. Det er psykologisk horror, når det er allerbedst. I et tilskoddet hus på en blind vej i udkanten af de vilde Washington-skove bor en familie på tre. En teenagepige, der ikke længere må gå udenfor. En mand, der drikker alene foran sit tv og forsøger at ignorere hullerne i hukommelsen. Og en huskat, der elsker at tage lange lure og læse i Bibelen. En ubeskrivelig og grufuld hemmelighed binder dem sammen, men da en ny nabo flytter ind ved siden af, kan det, der ligger så dybt begravet ude blandt birketræerne, komme tilbage og hjemsøge dem alle. ”Den mest spændende bog, jeg har læst siden Gone Girl!” – Stephen KingCATRIONA WARD er født i Washington, D.C., og voksede op i USA, Kenya, Madagaskar, Yemen og Marokko. Catriona vandt August Derleth-prisen for bedste horror-roman i 2016 for sin debut, Rawblood, og igen i 2018 for Little Eve, hvilket gjorde hende til den første kvinde, der fik prisen to gange. Little Eve vandt også den ansete Shirley Jackson Award for bedste roman og var på The Guardians liste over bedste bøger i 2018. Last House on Needless Street blev fremhævet i Richard & Judy Book Club, kom på bestsellerlisten i The Times og på Kindle, blev årets thriller i både The Times og The Observer og vandt August Derleth-prisen for bedste horror-roman i 2022. Sundial var bl.a. på Apple Books liste over ”Best Books of 2022” og toppede Kindle listerne i flere lande. - VINDER AF BRITISH FANTASY AWARD for BEDSTE HORROR-ROMAN! - WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST! - STEMT IND SOM EN AF ALLETIDERS ”25 BEDSTE HORROR-ROMANER” af Esquire!”Læseren er i hendes hænder, men føler sig aldrig manipuleret – det her er horror med integritet. Afsløringerne skal ikke bare chokere, men også vise os, hvad der virkelig foregår.” – The Times, Book of the Month ”Den mest vidunderligt komplekse, konstant vekslende historie; inderligt foruroligende, men samtidig sært opløftende.” – Alison Flood, The Observer

Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchetts legendary Discworld series.Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis (noble dragon for those who dont understand italics) has appeared in Discworlds greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power?Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more?

Bue kan befale over andre med sit ord. Om halsen bærer han et sanjategn. En nøgle af ben, der i hans verden viser, at evnen har afsløret sig i ham. Men han forstår ikke at styre sine kræfter og kommer ved et uheld til at dræbe sin onkel.I Danmark er en seriemorder på fri fod. En såkaldt copycat, der benytter samme fremgangsmåde som en seriemorder tilbage i 1800-tallet. Fælles for ofrene er, at de alle kort før deres død har påstået at være udødelige. Ligene bliver desuden altid fundet med et sanjategn om halsen.I Den Gamle By i Århus mener museumsdirektøren, at nutidens morder er den samme som dengang. En udødelig, der slår andre udødelige ihjel. Agnete, hvis far er et af ofrene, ved ikke, hvad hun skal tro. Snart må hun dog sande, at Den Gamle By i Århus ikke er, hvad den giver sig ud for at være. Museets hemmeligheder snævrer sig ind omkring hende, og inden længe kastes hun ud i et kapløb mod tiden for at standse morderen.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️““Sanjategnet” var helt fænomenal. Charmerende, dybdegående og morderisk, ulig noget dansk litteratur jeg har læst.”Ida Maria Mortensen, voresbogreol.dk⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“Hvis du skal læse en fantasybog i år, så lad det være Sanjategnet. Det vil du ikke fortryde. Den største anbefaling herfra.”Else Leegaard Flamsted, @bogstoettenelfie

Somewhen Else is a story of Dave Heston and Laura Benson, who may have never met. Dave and Laura are each having intimations of a life in which they did meet while passing through the Philadelphia International Airport in 1983. Living thousands of miles apart, both seem to recall that after having talked in an airport restaurant, they canceled their respective flights and together booked a flight to New Orleans. Have they met? Will they meet? Somewhen Else is a story about stories. We all have stories. Both Dave and Laura tell us their stories, as well as tell us the stories told to them by people they meet and love. But all the stories can't be true. Can they? Following the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria, Dave, a widowed retired lawyer. lives in the cistern of his storm ruined home overlooking Coral Bay on St. John in the Virgin Islands. A poem and musician, in his youth he headed up "Big Dave and the Hestones," a band that opened for Bill Haley in the early 50s.Laura, also widowed, is a retired newspaper reporter living in a restored log home on Clarks Creek in Valle Crucis an unincorporated community in the northwest North Carolina mountains. She has been working on a book detailing a horrific murder and the subsequent trial of the killer. Like Dave, she is determined to live a full and independent life.In a third part of the narrative, David Henson and Laura Benson, longtime residents of New Orleans, are threatened by Reuban Beachamp. Beachamp, who has killed and evaded conviction was wrongly convicted of and imprisoned at Angola for a murder he did not commit.Somewhen Else is more than the story of Dave and Laura. Place and the relationship between place and human beings is central to the novel. Dave is a north American living in but not of a community that resulted from the displacement of people during the period of enslavement and abandonment, one that is in many ways a colony of the United States. In lesser ways, the same is true for the Appalachia where Laura was raised, has lived and worked. Both St. John and northwest North Carolina have seen their local cultures and mores affected by a colonizing tourist industry.Somewhen Else is a story about the importance of stories. It has a complex narrative structure. The first part of the novel is told in the third person by a journalist Dave Heston meets on a delayed flight as he travels from St. John to visit his son in Pennsylvania. Feeling he is losing control of his story; Dave cancels his agreement with the journalist and takes control of his narrative. The second part is his first person retelling. Laura's narrative is fully in the first person. Section three, written in the third person, tells of the life David and Laura have lived most of their adult years in New Orleans living in an apartment in the French Quarter.