Urban fantasy

Das Tor zur verborgenen Welt - Nach dem Verlust ihres Papas fand Elly keine Lust mehr am Leben. Ihre Freude schwand mit dem Tag als er verstarb. Doch neue Ziele und Träume halfen ihr dabei nicht komplett in ihrer Trauer zu versinken. Mithilfe ihrer besonderen, magischen Gabe, dem Zauberwald und ihren fantastischen Erlebnissen, konnte sie endlich ihrem Lebensweg, ihrem Lebensplan folgen...Welche Rolle der Detective und ihr Nachbar Lewis dabei wohl spielen?

Telepathic high school teacher Dorian prepares teen witches for professional casting because going in unprepared is what killed one of his partners. But new state mandates on magical proficiency make it nearly impossible, and Dorian worries he can't give his students the education they really need. Seeking a distraction from work, Dorian kisses his still-living on-again off-again clairvoyant boyfriend, Milo. Instead of a distraction, Dorian glimpses Milo's vague vision involving the murder of Caleb-one of Dorian's new students.Already devastated by the loss of his partner, Dorian refuses to stand aside and let Caleb die. He searches for clues by delving into Caleb's mind. Rooting through Caleb's memories alongside teaching classes leads Dorian to two more students: Caleb's ex-best friend turned rival and the prodigy with connections to dangerous warlocks. However, each step further into his students' minds forces Dorian to confront his deteriorating relationship with Milo.After discovering a link involving illegal casting, Dorian resolves to work with Milo to prevent the impending vision. To succeed, Dorian will have to explore the potential of a future with Milo and find closure on their third partner, whose loss looms between them. But meddling with fate to save Caleb inadvertently draws the warlocks near, putting all his students in danger. Dorian will have to risk his life and gamble his second chance with Milo to keep his students alive.

Het leven als ziener is niet alles wat het lijkt te zijn. Vooral als je werkloos bent en je voormalige baasje je overal op de zwarte lijst zet.Of als een legendarische Russische heks een gunst vraagt en ze het ondenkbare eist.Wanneer gevaar iedereen om me heen bedreigt, is er maar één man tot wie ik me kan wenden -en hij is misschien niet wat hij lijkt te zijn.

A Three-Part Urban Fantasy/Paranormal MysteryA flash of something in the pages caught my eye, and I stopped. Thumbing back through the pages again, slower this time, I found it. It was about an inch thickness in... Mom's handwriting... pages of it.When a woman linked to the supernatural, discovers her adoptive mother's journal holds a cryptic mystery, she and her closest friends race to uncover a secret matriarchal society safeguarded by mystical unseen forces.What if Cancer wasn't just an illness or evil sickness that took our loved ones? What if it's something bigger-a sacrifice or choice to keep humanity safe-to keep the balance?Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is considered the 3rd cleanest city in the world and rated the 2nd highest quality of living of any big city in the Americas, but unless you're Canadian you probably wouldn't know any of that stuff. And it's all very nice and well, but boring as hell.... That's what four unsuspecting girlfriends thought, until their good friend Lynn Westlake came home to visit, and they found themselves in the biggest mystery and adventure of their normal boring lives.The Guard is the first book in the N. L. Westaway urban fantasy/paranormal mystery trilogy. If you appreciate brilliant urban fantasy or paranormal mysteries involving everyday people, you'll love this entertaining three-part trilogy.Buy the first book in the trilogy to start the adventure today!Note: it is recommended that you read the books in order as the mystery is in three parts, and not individual stories per book.

Luke E. Mia, Private Eye, has lost it all, including her partner and best friend, Lyle. When a local psychic approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke expects more of the same old, same old, but what she uncovers working for Suzie Q. might get her back everything she's lost. The only question is, would you trust a Magic 8 Ball with your life?

Five Stars: "A wonderful blend of urban fantasy, humour, action, mystery, and heart." -Goodreads ReviewFour Stars: "Written in the best tradition of the old detective novels, with lots of magic thrown in. If you like both detective and fantasy stories, you will enjoy this." -Goodreads ReviewFour Stars: "Mr Sedgwick weaves a great noir fairy tale, in a perfect balance between Philip Marlow and The Brothers Grimm." -Amz ReviewSynopsis:The "Hank Mossberg, Private Ogre" detective series takes place in the gritty streets of San Francisco and in the "undercity," a massive underground home to thousands of fae. Here, nymphs walk darkened streets, imps are slave traders, and gnomes are elite hackers.In "Murder in the Boughs," the hard-boiled ogre/detective must race against time to rescue a kidnapped girl, expose a ring of pixie dust dealers, and find the killer of a high-elf kingpin. While the crimes appear unconnected, each comes with a surprising twist...

Meet Lorenzo Vasquez. He's 23, lives in Coney Island, NYC, and he solves problems for a living. Don't call him a wizard. Don't even mention the word magic. Lorenzo doesn't want to get a lot of attention. He just wants to make a living helping the eclectic characters of Coney Island while discovering intricate new ways of 'nudging' the natural world to do extraordinary, if not magical, things. While solving his cases- puzzle after conundrum, Lorenzo detects the efforts of a greater villainy at work. Step by step, he's drawn closer to conflict with a 'godfather' of Coney Island crime... until finally the two-meet face to face in an epic battle for the soul of Coney Island.

Nicholas Theodoulos is an immortal savior in desperate need of saving. All the power, wisdom, and even the favor of the gods is not enough when 1,700 years of heartache have left marks on his soul. But Noory Abramson, a streetwise woman with a sacred tattoo and a touch of grace, steps from the shadows, not knowing if she's arrived in time to save him or end him for good. With a heart grown as heavy as his, either fate might do.When Noory observes Nick grieving over the body of a young girl in a deserted Atlanta alley, she isn't sure whether he is friend or foe. However, she quickly realizes his special powers to rescue children and rain down vengeance on those that harm them may be the only thing that can help her when one of her charges, sixteen-year-old Grace, goes missing from the local homeless shelter. Soon, Nick discovers Noory has secrets of her own: one that might lead him to redemption, and possibly love, for the first time in his painful existence.In their world, a gift looks a lot like a curse, and Noory must reach Nick before his gift consumes him.

Medusa tries her hand at wedding planner as the gods tear apart her city.My boyfriend's sister, Sandra, is getting married and she's asked for my help. Well, I've seen plenty of weddings over the centuries, so I've got some cool ideas. Only thing is, Sandra and I don't get along.But that's hardly the worst of it. Apparently there's this dwarf with blue skin roaming around Sunland University looking for me so that he can give me Pandora's Jar. Pandora's Jar contains the last drops of nectar, an elixir that can magically turn any mortal immortal. And if you've ever met Persephone's infernal family, they've lived for thousands of years and become a pretty lonely bunch. Because they're awful people.Well, I don't want to have anything to do with protecting their jar. I'd rather plan Sandra's wedding. Unless they threaten my home. If they do that, Medusa's gonna tear them into little pieces.Medusa's back home in Florida in this urban fantasy. But there's a storm brewing. Although Nectar of Ambrosia is chronologically Book III in the Furies series, this book is a stand-alone that was written to be enjoyed without having read the first novel, My Evil Eye.

We thought we hatched the perfect plan. Instead of perfection, Caine was trapped with the enemy and months later I'm no closer to knowing if he or anyone else survived. One life-altering mission is, apparently, not enough. Tearing down the Sovereignty is also on the docket. This is Vincent's priority, but when Donovan's dark-souled mother proposes a truce to save her son and reveals Vincent's dirty little secrets, everyone questions Vincent's. Distracting me from continued failure to reopen the Creation is my all-consuming connection with Donovan. One dampened by a nagging conscious as not even he knows my most dangerous plans. Of all the victims in this growing war, a little boy has lost everything. And since I can't save everyone, I have to save what I can of his innocence.

In a world of magic and modernity, fates are about to collide.Angelina Donati has come to New York to kill a man. She holds the magician Eli Leventhal responsible for killing her friend, and as the gifted problem child of a House of magical assassins, she does not expect that Leventhal's vast age, wealth and power will save him.But Eli Leventhal is gathering great forces to fight a far larger war against his long-time magician foe -- Riley, the recently elected Mayor of New York. On opposing ends of Manhattan Island, the world's two last remaining Grand Magisters are preparing for an epic showdown, with the Earth, and its possible destruction, as their prize.In the middle, deciding the balance, is Angelina. In a world where the magical classes draw power from one of twelve Realms, Angelina's powers are wild and strange. Most Realms are living, while one lies dormant. But it is prophecised that from the Dead Realm, old horrors shall rise...

Cammy and Vlad are back!Cammy is still grieving after violent death of her friend Heather, but her life is about to get way more complicated. First, there's the appearance of children who can turn invisible; then a stalker huldra - a magical creature with a tendency to kill her lovers - follows her to her place of work; and there are all the unanswered questions her friends keep asking her. But it isn't just Cammy having problems; Vlad must deal with a formidable adversary. A draugr is loose in Seattle and is destroying Seattle tourist hot spots, killing anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way or run across his werewolf buddies. Even Dracula cannot subdue him, and a draugr is even harder to kill than a vampire. Unless Vlad and Cammy can figure out a way to stop him, her friends will be in danger, not only from supernatural monsters, but from government agents increasingly desperate to keep the supernatural secret.

The cops and FBI are out to get them. One girl's magic may be the key to the revolution. Oakland, 1969. Eighteen-year-old student and secret sorcerer Jasmine Jones didn't come to town to join a rebellion. But from the moment she sees the Black Panthers in action, she knows there's more she should be doing with her magic. However, not everyone sees the activist group as a force for positive change...The local cops and the FBI are coming for the Panthers, and the G-Men have sorcery of their own. If Jasmine and her new friends hope to survive the forces gathering against them, they're going to have to learn how to fight magic with magic.To Raise a Clenched Fist to the Sky is Book One of this exciting four book alternative history urban fantasy series. Check it out, and join the revolution!

Everything she believed was a lie, and now she is a pawn to be sacrificed...Rina Walcott is stranded in a foreign place, in a strange new body, and wants to find a way back home pronto.To do so, she'll have to overcome Marya Morevna, who has stolen her identity and is a terrible threat to Rina's family.Alexi has been stranded in the dimension where Rina ends up for a decade. He wants his power back from their mutual enemy, and revenge for his exile. He doesn't trust Rina, but he proposes to work with her to achieve their common goal. To his great surprise, he grows to not only trust Rina, but to care for her. Who would have thought it?Can Rina learn her new powers in time to triumph, or will she die trapped in a body not her own? If Alexi has anything to do with it, not only will she triumph, she'll thrive.Uncaged is a thrilling novel set eighteen before Unfazed. Don't miss this amazing prequel.

The only thing Hyacinth wants is her life back. Literally. She and her sister were murdered by demons, leaving her young nephew Geordi to his father's family in the brutal Sicilian Mob. Then Archangel Michael offers her a deal: recapture a powerful rock the demons stole, and she can live long enough to find Geordi a safe home. Refuse, and she'll continue up (or down) to the Afterlife.So, slightly more alive than dead, she heads for Turkey and the demons, taking Geordi, her mysterious neighbor Jason, and a sexy dead guy only she can see with her. But the hardest part won't be battling demons, meeting Satan, or dodging Middle Eastern customs-it will be later, when Geordi is settled, and Michael rips her away again. How can she abandon her nephew? Or can she outwit the Angel of Death himself, and stay with Geordi forever?

Even miracles have a price. One sentence from the newly returned Exceptional sends the compound into a tailspin. Truths they thought fact are turned on their head and suspicion placed on one of their own. They must find the truth before they all perish. Steele is hell-bent on wiping out the Infected. The destruction of one of his compounds has only hardened his resolve. All his plans lie with the secret weapon tucked away where none of the Infected can turn it to their advantage. Since the last big battle where she lost so much, Ilana has fought against her so-called destiny as Guardian of her people. Haunted by her consummate failure where their nearly their entire tribe was wiped out, she's stopped listening to the ancestors that can teach her. They aren't giving up so easily and are trying to make her hear them again. Will the Exceptional be able to battle the threats from Steele, along with those within their own walls? Or will they die trying?

It's 1466, and Caterina Galli is visiting her cousins in Paris. But after an epidemic breaks out in the city, Caterina contracts the plague, and her life is set on an unplanned path where peril lurks around every corner.Thomas has grown tired of the corruption and ever-present shadow that looms over his family-and his father has grown tired of Thomas's constant questioning of authority. In a final effort to quell Thomas's swelling resentment, Priest sends his fifth son halfway across the world to serve as a mercenary to Hernan Cortés. But what Thomas discovers during his time away will change everything he once thought he knew about immortality.In a story that spans centuries, traverses continents and uncovers dark secrets, even the most dedicated of the Family could be destroyed.Ghost is the gripping second installment in The Plagued Trilogy.

An unsolved murder in the middle of downtown Sydney.A deadly attack on the city's Sidhe community.Sidhe sorcerer Riann Donovan has fled a tragic past in the U.S. and established herself in Sydney, Australia, as a photojournalist. Called to work a murder scene, she learns the victim is Sidhe and finds herself on the run from a swarm of demons and Fomhoire conjurers.She turns for help to Carrie Pelsher - new in the city, not Sidhe but possessed of a mysterious affinity for magic.Together they are drawn into a war as old as history itself, caught between forces ancient and deadly, all of them pursuing a treasure of unimaginable power. Failure would mean armageddon; success prolongs the conflict for another day.Our world stands poised on the edge of a blade.About the Author: David B. Coe is the award-winning author of more than two dozen novels and as many short stories, spanning historical fiction, epic fantasy, contemporary fantasy, and the occasional media tie-in. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives with his family in the mountains of Appalachia.

Lucas Rurik faces unwanted celebrity, ancient enemies, and dangerous zealots in a thrilling urban-fantasy noir from the author of the Hellequin Chronicles. Centuries of life experience inside and outside the Rift couldn't prepare former Raven Guild member and riftborn detective Lucas Rurik for his latest set of challenges. First, when his capture of a prominent political figure ?trends? on social networks, he finds himself the target of both the media and the public. Then, Noah Kaya, an Ancient, tracks him down for help on a job. As a rule, Lucas doesn't trust the Ancients; they always seem to have an ulterior motive. But something about this gig just won't let Lucas say no. It seems one of Noah's close friends disappeared right after becoming the lead suspect in a murder case. The problem is the guy in question isn't the type to knock someone off. Not to mention a whole lot of rift-walkers have recently gone missing, the crime scene reeks of pure rift energy, and a deranged killer who Lucas thought was long deceased might not actually be dead after all. Soon, what was originally a simple search for a missing person devolves into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an age-old enemy?and it could bring Lucas face-to-face with Dr. Callie Mitchell, the depraved scientist he's been hunting for months . . . Praise for The Last Raven ?McHugh's pithy prose energizes the narrative, even when there's no superpower on display, and builds intrigue with gradual reveals of Lucas' rift-derived skills and backstory. This slick introductory supernatural tale will leave readers eager for a sequel.? ?Kirkus Reviews ?The Last Raven has the appeal of a great action movie. There is a nice mystery, a compelling lead, strong support, and enough adrenaline to leave you with a pleasant high afterward. . . . Eagerly looking forward to the next installment.? ?The Cosmic Circus ?If you have a friend who loves both speculative fiction novels and thrillers, this is the perfect gift.? ?Medium, ?10 Chilling Books for Mystery/Thriller Lovers This Winter?

È una verità universalmente riconosciuta che uno scapolo provvisto di un ingente patrimonio sarà orribilmente assassinato al ballo.Mina è entusiasta di partecipare all'annuale Jane Austen Experience di Argleton presso l'imponente tenuta Lachlan. È proprio ciò di cui ha bisogno dopo i recenti omicidi: un intero weekend per ballare con Morrie, assistere a letture di poesie con Quoth e aiutare Heathcliff a ricevere proposte di matrimonio da fan adoranti.Ma omicidi e intrighi seguono Mina ovunque. Quando un eminente studioso di Jane Austen viene trafitto con la sua stessa spada, Mina e i suoi amici devono risolvere il mistero prima che l'assassino colpisca di nuovo.I Misteri della Libreria Nevermore sono ciò che si ottiene quando i fidanzati del mondo dei libri prendono vita. Questo libro, scritto da Steffanie Holmes, autrice bestseller USA Today, è ricco di sottovesti e complotti, scene bollenti e relazioni scandalose, buone maniere e misteri, libri magici e stanze che viaggiano nel tempo e una sana dose di ironia alla Jane Austen. Continua a leggere solo se ritieni che un solo eroe sexy non sia abbastanza.

Segui un antieroe tormentato, un maestro del crimine, un corvo impertinente e un'eroina con un cuore grande (e una collezione di libri ancora più grande) in questa nuova e piccante serie mystery paranormale reverse harem.Quando il locale Club dei Libri Banditi perde la sua sala riunioni, Mina si offre per ospitare il gruppo alla Libreria Nevermore (nonostante le proteste di Heathcliff, ovviamente). Non sa che questo club del libro per vecchiette sta per trasformarsi nella scena di un omicidio.Prima la signora Scarlett viene avvelenata, poi le signore del club del libro iniziano a cadere come mosche. Chi mai può essere disposto, nella tranquilla cittadina di Argleton, a diventare un assassino solo per impedire alla gente di leggere qualche vecchio libro polveroso? Mina deve trovare una soluzione in fretta, altrimenti la sua amata insegnante, la signora Ellis, sarà la prossima vittima.Per fortuna, Moriarty, Heathcliff e Quoth possono aiutarla. Sempre che lei riesca a capire cosa prova per i suoi tre uomini di fantasia prima che la magica libreria venga distrutta dalla tensione erotica.Loro la vogliono. Lei non riesce a scegliere.Ma forse... non è necessario che scelga.I Misteri della Libreria Nevermore sono ciò che succede quando gli amori dei libri prendono vita. Una novità dell'autrice di bestseller USA Today Steffanie Holmes. Se anche tu pensi che un solo eroe sexy non possa bastare, continua a leggere!