Urban fantasy

Ein Buch in göttlicher Schrift. Zwei vergessene Drachen. Zwei Welten am Rande des Abgrunds.Elusyan ist am Boden zerstört. Die Götter scheinen ihn zu hassen, denn sie versteinern nicht nur Svejas Körper, was ihren Tod endgültig besiegelt. Zu allem Unglück schwebt ihr unwiderstehlicher Duft dauerhaft über dem Altar und erinnert ihn daran, was er verloren hat. Politische Unruhen erschüttern weiterhin das Land genauso wie zwei längst vergessene Wesen, die ein ganzes Gebirge niederreißen. Als Elusyan vor einem breiten Abgrund steht, durch welchen seine Welt mit Svejas verbunden ist, beginnt ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit, um diesen zu schließen. Schafft er es nicht, löschen sich beide Welten gegenseitig aus.Wie soll ihm da ein Buch in göttlicher Schrift helfen?

It's a world where danger and spells often entwine, and Murphy Blackwell figured shedding her role as a chaos witch meant her troubles were over. But becoming a Summate, one who wields every variety of power in the craft, has unveiled some new-and daunting-challenges.A love spell gone haywire, an ominous spirit's warning of a rival coven's deadly intentions, and a malevolent scheme poised to plunge the world into anarchy mark just the start of her worries. As Murphy's very life and the fate of the world hang in the balance, she must draw upon her newfound Summate abilities and rally the strength of the entire Lughaidh coven to navigate the treacherous path ahead.

I open my eyes. The room is dark and I can see no windows, only stairs leading up to a metal trapdoor. From the shadows, a figure emerges. A little girl with long, pale hair. She smiles at me. "Are you my new mommy?" she says.A young woman is missing. And Rylan Flynn was the last person to see her alive.Nobody has heard from Bess Freeman since Rylan saw her leaving a bar and walking into the night with a stranger. Normally quiet and shy, Bess would never skip out on her family and friends like this. The small town of Ashby is in shock.While the police struggle to find leads, it's immediately clear to Rylan that this is no ordinary abduction. Her ability to see ghosts reveals sinister clues on all sides.In the basement of an abandoned church, Rylan finds the spirit of another young woman who may be a victim. And when the police uncover human remains beneath a barn, a male figure watches them closely, then disappears.Ashby's handsome head detective, Ford Pierce, is as reluctant as ever to involve Rylan in the case.But when another woman's body is discovered hidden in a derelict family home, it's clear that Bess is in mortal danger. And her time is running out.For years, a killer has been lurking in Ashby, driven by a darkness that is more than human.Desperate to find Bess before another innocent life is lost, Rylan must work with Ford to unravel a dangerous web of lies. But is she drawing closer to the truth or walking into the killer's trap?A gripping paranormal thriller packed with dark secrets, danger and slow-burning romance that will keep you turning pages late into the night. Fans of Wendy Wang, Heather Graham and Dean Koontz will love The Shadow Girls.See why readers love Dawn Merriman's Rylan Flynn mysteries:"I. COULD. NOT. PUT. THIS. BOOK. DOWN!!!... I was constantly kept on the edge of my seat and needed to know what happened next... my time while reading it flew by. Loved Rylan's character and I can't wait to see what happens next for her. Will be looking out for the next book in this series for sure!" Goodreads reviewer ¿¿¿¿¿"Heart-pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Definitely one of the best books this year." washingtonlife.com ¿¿¿¿¿

Embark on an adventure with Ellie and her unusual group of friends in the captivating world of "Ellie and the Underworld."The tragic death of her mother drives Ellie McKay to seek out an adventure. This quest brings the mysterious Underworld into her front room.After meeting the enigmatic Octavian, Ellie uncovers a secret world of elemental magic hidden under the old oak tree, where hybrid beings and talking animals exist. Alongside her friends, Dad, and beloved Grandpa Jo, Ellie, who is soon to be sixteen, must develop her power to confront the treacherous Forbidden Underworld.Ellie and her friends venture through underground passages and confront the dark powers that threaten their lives. They will confront their fears, summon their strengths, forge unbreakable bonds, and discover the depths of their courage.Will Ellie and her friends overcome the sinister forces that stand in their way, or will they be destroyed by the evil Katia and her band of followers?Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey where secrets, danger, and redemption await at every turn.

The spell-casting detective and his demonic partner go to Hell on a fact-finding mission in this ';pleasantly suspenseful ... fantastical mystery' (Publishers Weekly). For years, the embarrassing secret of the Singapore Three police department was Detective Inspector Chena specialist in the supernatural whose jurisdiction extended to Heaven and Hell. But when a rampaging goddess nearly destroyed the city, only to be stopped by Chen and his demonic partner, Zhu Irzh, the department was forced to reward them, resulting in the kind of attention that both cops loathe. Their new assignment is an affair of state, escorting the Heavenly functionary Mi Li Qi on a diplomatic mission to the underworld. By the time they're finished, Chen and Zhu Irzh will wish they had remained forgotten. Soon after they check in to their hellish hotel, Miss Qi vanishes into the abyss. They follow her into the bowels of the demonic bureaucracy, where they will be forced to dodge all manner of otherworldly dangers if they wish to avoid a political incident with apocalyptic implications. Precious Dragon is the third of the five Detective Inspector Chen Novels, which begin with Snake Agent and The Demon and the City.

Introducing Singaporean DI, Wei Chen. ';This exotic amalgam of police procedural, SF, comic fantasy, and horror is a delight from start to finish' (Locus). When the fourteen-year-old daughter of Singapore Three's most prominent industrialist dies of anorexia, her parents assume that Pearl's suffering has come to an end. But somewhere along the way to the Celestial Shores, Pearl's soul is waylaid, lured by an unknown force to the gates of Hell. To save their daughter from eternal banishment, they come to Detective Inspector Wei Chen, whose jurisdiction lies between this world and the next. A round-faced cop who is as serious as his beat is strange, Chen has a demon for a wife and a comfort with the supernatural that most mortals cannot match. But finding Pearl Tang will take him further into the abyss than ever beforeto a mystifying place where he will have to cooperate with a demonic detective if he wants to survive. It's easy, Chen will find, to get into Hell. The hard part is getting out.Snake Agent is the first of the five Detective Inspector Chen Novels, which continue with The Demon and the City and Precious Dragon.

Not everything is as it seems.A carnival birthday party for a one-year-old turns terrifying when a little girl lets out a scream from within the funhouse. Samantha and Kathy rush in to rescue her, only to find a demented clown hovering over the girl, feasting on her screams. He gets away, leaving the sisters scratching their heads as to who or what it might be.After asking around, the staff all claim that there are no clowns employed by the carnival, which doesn't explain what the girls witnessed. To make matters worse, Kathy is pulled away after her friend has a surprising revelation about her boyfriend, Jeremy. That leaves Samantha, whose powers haven't been working exactly right ever since she became pregnant.As the sisters struggle to find answers, another kid is found unconscious deep inside the funhouse tent. With hundreds of children arriving at the carnival for fun and games, the clock is ticking for the sisters to find a way to stop what lurks inside. And its only a matter of time before he gets what he's after.Trickster is the eighth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.

You never know what will follow you home.While touring a fixer-upper they're considering buying, Samantha and Steven both have bad feelings about the house. Samantha, who is seven months pregnant, feels a wave of energy come over her as Steven and the realtor go down to the look at the basement without her. Deciding to pass on the abandoned house, Samantha and Steven later return home without a second thought about the house.Meanwhile, Kathy has been busy planning Samantha's baby shower with Steven's mother. It's not until Steven points out Samantha's odd behavior that Kathy begins to notice it too. As the baby shower looms nearer, Kathy is determined to figure out what's going on with her sister before Samantha is the center of attention in front of everyone.When Kathy and Steven consult a medium about what might be going on, they learn that Samantha is very likely possessed by a poltergeist. And with her growing baby in her belly, the evil spirit may prove impossible to exorcise.Poltergeist is the ninth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.

It's better not to know things sometimes...Suspecting she might be pregnant, Samantha seeks out Vanita, an oracle, to ask whether she and Steven are even ready to have kids. During the reading, Samantha receives a vision of a man bleeding out on the ground. Learning from past mistakes, Samantha recruits Kathy's help to track him down.After searching for hours in the frigid winter night, the sisters come up empty. Samantha returns to Vanita for further answers and learns that the man in the vision is none other than Vanita's brother, Oren. When the sisters enact their plan to save Oren, they discover that Vanita isn't as innocent as she let on. Right in front of the sisters' eyes, she stabs her brother and steals her family's powerful amulet to wreak havoc with it.The sisters are ready to launch into a search for Vanita, but must tend to Oren's physical injuries, as well as some of their own intangible ones as Kathy finds Steven in a compromising situation, which erupts in the biggest marital spat he and Samantha have ever had. The sisters must pull together their emotions and trust each other if they're going to get the amulet back. Otherwise, the world as they know it could be over.Oracle is the seventh book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.

Reject Heritage ¿ Hostile Magic ¿ Incompatible Worlds As life catapults her into a magical world at war, Kori Ember must recognize her existence isn't conventional. The life of her sister, Alivia, and the fate of all Spellbinders depends on Kori. And if that isn't complicated enough, an unforeseen chemistry between Kori and the sinister Belamey Adelgrief, son of her known enemy, adds confusion. What starts out for Kori as a rescue mission, turns into a series of events that will change her life forever. Surrounded by mysterious threats, passion, and violence, Kori knows that her only chance for survival is to accept the two incompatible worlds that make her so unique.

Dave Marwood's trapped in a soul-crushing dead-end job. He's in love with his work colleague Melanie and his only friend Gary is a conspiracy theory nut.His life is going nowhere until he has a Near Death Experience - though Death thinks of it as a Near Dave Experience. Soon, he discovers gifts he never knew he possessed and a world he never dreamed existed. One where the Grim Reaper is a hard-drinking, grumpy Billy Joel fan and the undead are bored, lonely, and dangerous.They're saving the world from ghosts, zombies, vampires, werewolves, and medium-sized apocalypses. After a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.What readers are saying about the first three parts of the How To Be Dead Comedy Fantasy Series: How To Be Dead, Paper Cuts, and Old Haunts:¿¿¿¿¿ "Dave Turner is a funny man and 'How To Be Dead' is a brilliant read."¿¿¿¿¿ "If Neil Gaiman and Simon Pegg sat down to write a story together they might come up with something like this."¿¿¿¿¿"Hilarious and unexpectedly moving."¿¿¿¿¿ "Laugh out loud funny... It's been a while since an author has made me laugh more than Pratchett does."¿¿¿¿¿ "Each part of this trilogy is a compelling story which seems to gather pace."¿¿¿¿¿ "If you like Tom Holt, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, Dave Turner's books will fit perfectly into your collection."

Immortality has its perks. Dealing with vampires is not one of them. After nine hundred years protecting the balance between magical and mundane, I do my best to avoid squabbles among the fanged variety. They're overdramatic, dress better than I do, and never have simple problems. My oldest friend included. But when Adrian asks me, his favourite sorceress, to do him a favour and help find a missing vampire queen, what can I do but say yes? Especially when my sort-of protégé has a vision about all the ways the city will go sideways if we don't get her back on her throne. The missing person's case quickly devolves into a free-for-all as a horde of rogue human thralls decides I would better serve the vampires dead. Who's giving them orders? Because it certainly isn't the queen. Not helping matters is my ex, a servant of Death, who refuses to stay where he's supposed to: in my past. With the city on the brink of war, the vampire nest on the edge of collapse, and my suitcase at serious risk of running empty before this problem is resolved, I have to put the pieces together before it's too late. Oh yeah. Adrian owes me big time.

Newly Revised Edition with 45,000 words in New, Improved, and Expanded Scenes (released September 2023)!Cassie was never able to experience the life that many take for granted, the freedom to dictate her own journey. No, her life had been spent sheltered, protected from an inevitable fate that would come for her regardless of what anyone could do.After her medical condition goes downhill, she is left with a few years of breath in her lungs and a choice: die alone, without ever experiencing what it truly means to feel alive and free; or to find that light, that missing puzzle piece, that feeling of not feeling so alone in her final days.When Damien appears in her life, her world turns upside down when he shows her the hidden magic that lies in the shadows of her world and within herself. Suddenly plunged into a hidden war that has raged for countless centuries between gods and monsters, Cassie begins to feel the weight of her secret, which she has kept hidden all her life.Cassie must embrace the tragic, dark history that runs through the blood in her veins or risk her world falling into darkness.

A world the gods forgot.Of all the worlds and life they created, the gods favored their children the most. But with that favor came the fear that their Legacy would one day become too powerful and overthrow them. Devram was created. A realm hidden amongst the stars. The gods gave their Legacy the best of all the worlds, and then they left, a sworn agreement to never return and to never interfere.A historical event.Forced to a life of servitude, the Fae are required to provide for the Legacy in more ways than one. Every five years, the eligible Fae are gathered for the Selection and assigned to serve in one of the six Kingdoms. To be chosen as the personal Source for a Kingdom Heir is the greatest honor, and for the first time in a millennia, all six Kingdoms have heirs choosing a Source. But their selections could tip the power balance a little too far.A chosen that was never meant to be.Tessalyn Asura was as forgotten as the realm. But when she finds herself the personal Source to the Heir of Endings, she winds up serving in the darkest Kingdom of them all . The secrets within the Arius Kingdom are meant to be learned and kept, but this was never the life she wanted. Fighting not only the fate thrust upon her, but the temptation to lose herself to desire, Tessa will do anything to escape her new destiny. Until she starts to realize maybe their world wasn't as forgotten as they thought, and maybe she's the reason why.

They'll do anything to outsmart each other. Anything, except fall in love.Kim Hani - the once-terrible gumiho known as the Scarlet Fox - spends her days working at a café and trying not to let a certain customer irk her. Seokga - a trickster god thrown from the heavens for his attempt at a coup - spends his days hunting demons and irking a particular gumiho. When a demon of darkness escapes the underworld, and the Scarlet Fox emerges from hiding before quickly vanishing, Seokga is offered a chance at redemption: kill them both, and his sins will be forgiven. But Hani is prepared to do anything to prevent Seokga from bringing her to justice, even trick her way into his investigation. Anything, that is - except fall in love . . .

Scarlet likes the life she shaped. It has its challenges, family stuff, a belligerent boss, and the ability to see the paranormal. But she handles these problems with an unhealthy mixture of neglect and denial. Then on a trip to Europe with her loving boyfriend, Juan, she runs into a troll and everything changes.Donya is the troll. She is small and mean. Her life also has challenges, but she won't neglect or deny them. No, she is going to face and overcome them by stealing Juan. Not in a romantic way-no, she wants to eat him.But what Scarlet and Donya don't know is those past challenges will soon feel small compared to what lies before them. Both will encounter mythic beasts and ancient kings. But which one will come out on top? And what will happen to poor Juan?

One day at the height of summer, a group of restaurant employees in a small college town in northern Missouri wake up to a world that has changed: random people have vanished and been re-placed by strangers. But these replacements are strangers only to them; the rest of the world sees nothing amiss, the replaced American president, professional athletes, and actors and entertainers wiped from their memories. As the summer progresses, the staff discover that they can each return one person's memory. But who will each of them choose, and why?Joe Baumann's is the author of three collections of short fiction, Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, and Hot Lips. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others. He possesses a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. His debut novel, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, is forthcoming from Deep Hearts YA. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.

At first glance, his life seems quiet, serene, and uneventful. Malachi McKellan, a 65-five-year-old widower and author of esoteric books, lives largely as a recluse in a house situated just off the banks of Bayou St. John in New Orleans. But unbeknownst to most, he is also a bit of a detective, a specific kind of detective whose specialty is psychic attacks. Alongside his lifelong companion and spirit guide, Simon Tull, a nineteenth-century, twenty-something English gent, Malachi battles the unseen. He is an unacknowledged hero to the most vulnerable - most of the population who have no idea what is really happening beneath the surface of the world in which they live.In this collection of adventures, Malachi McKellan and Simon Tull wage war against the most insidious elements of the paranormal. In "The Three," Malachi and Simon come to the aid of a young woman being victimized by a group of dark witches. An old apartment building is the scene of an unimaginable battle against monstrous forces in "The Lost Soul." Malachi and Simon find themselves strategizing against a psychic vampire in "Obsession," and "The Hotel" turns back to the 1980s, when Malachi confronts a demonic spirit. In "Between," a past life is revisited as Malachi attempts to rescue a beloved sister from committing her existence to vengeance, and "The Wedding" takes a personal turn when Malachi must confront painful truths while endeavoring to protect his niece from a potentially devastating union. Travel into the Breach with a pair of paranormal warriors who choose to confront overwhelming forces on a battlefield unsuspected by most.