Fantasy Realism

Seventeen-year-old Xochi is on her own in San Francisco. On a visit to Golden Gate Park, she meets Pallas, a precocious 12-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas's live-in governess and quickly becomes part of the band's household. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a pagan ritual that unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures devoted to righting the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence.

Discovering his powers was just the beginning. Now the real test begins. Tristan Davids has become a school hero. He may be the most powerful metamorph on campus. But danger is on the horizon. An explosive new teammate. A deadly new nemesis. A mysterious prophecy that will change everything. Can Tristan stop a madman who can predict his every move? Can he halt the apocalypse?

These are the final days of the tsars and Alexei Shafirov, an infirm skeptic, is bedridden after a fall. Throughout the long recovery his loved ones speak to him of fables, uprisings, and a royal family under house detention. At the heart of their stories is Alexei Romanov, the heir apparent. Like him, the Romanov boy is a hemophiliac, near the center of a decades-old political cabal. Both children are prone to mischief, self-indulgence, and illness. But some insist their connection runs deeper than that.

Das Leben der 23-jährigen Fiona Carter, gelangweilt und auf Krawall gebürstet, gerät jäh aus den Fugen, als ihr junger Bruder scheinbar bei einem Autounfall stirbt. Doch als Fiona auf eigene Faust nach dem flüchtigen Unfallfahrer sucht, sticht sie in ein Wespennest. Die Ereignisse bringen sie nicht nur an ihre Grenzen, sondern über sie hinaus. Sie ahnt nicht, dass es nur der Beginn ist. Auch nicht, dass sie ihre Kräfte nicht nur dem Kampfsport verdankt. Ebenso ahnt sie nicht, dass der geheimnisvolle Drol Wayne sehr viel damit zu tun hat, wer und was sie tatsächlich ist.

Hackers, fae, and a new breed of corporate greed battle over the future of the human race....Hacker couple Jack and Rosie crack technology, but the newest device, the Phaethon, isn't like other phones. The parts are junk, yet it can do the impossible. Through gentle prodding and data theft, they learn it's powered remotely...by a living creature.

Twenty-year-old Aerie hates running collateral recovery for her father’s magical supply shop. Repossession is a nasty business, even when you’re good at it. Her dream job? The store’s new acquisitioner, but Pop says that job’s for someone who finds things, not loses them. When a mysterious amulet must be found, Aerie sees an opportunity to prove her worth to him.

It’s been over a decade since a catastrophic earthquake created Devil’s fork - a canyon so deep that it had been impossible to explore until now, as scientists Keith Weber and Michael Mcloughlin have discovered a new world beneath our own. The deeper they go, the more they discover that what they thought were things of myths and legends are actually real. Things forgotten will be found and mysteries that had no answers will be solved and with it, put into motion a chain of events that will change both worlds forever!

30-year-old Bronwyn Artair, feeling out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT, drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor, Diane Fenwick. After a year of living alone in Southern New Hampshire, enduring the indignities of her job, dumped by her boyfriend, she discovers her deep connection to the natural world has given her an ability to affect natural forces. When she finally accepts she really possesses this startling capability, she must then negotiate a new relationship to the world. Who will she tell?

It’s 1984 in Los Angeles. Jake Maldemer’s first book, Tales from the Back of a Bus, is a hit. It's a darkly comic, genre-bending roman à clef in which aspiring writer Jack Moses meets an odd little man name Kobold who keeps randomly feeding him handwritten horror stories as they travel across Los Angeles in the back of an RTD bus. Just as the life of Jake’s storybook-self gets stranger and more chaotic, so does Jake’s real life.

Eighteen-year-old Cori has been tucked into a corner of Verbena her entire life. With no memory of a father and an abusive mother, her escape came in the form of living and working in her town's inn, a place that happens to be owned by her best friend. Cori was all but resigned to the uneventful and dutiful life as a barkeep. That is, until a hooded stranger showed up - just in time to witness an incident Cori herself cannot believe - and changed everything.

Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina's cruel father and start over. But before they could even leave town, Bina had a new stepfather, two new stepsisters, and a humming sense of betrayal pulling apart the bond with her mother - a bond Bina thought was unbreakable. Eight years later, after too many lies and with trouble on her heels, Bina finds herself on the side of the road again, the city of her dreams calling for her.

Amanda has been told her 10-year-old witch child, Lizzy, is fated to someday become one of the planet’s most powerful witches. If she lives. If the world survives. Because the world is being threatened by an Antichrist called Reuben who is prophesied to bring the end of the world by destroying everyone and everything good - including the white witches and warlocks of the world - unless he can be stopped.

The millennium is approaching and 23-year-old Amanda, a gifted mathematician and amateur astronomer, cannot seem to move forward with her life. Her obsession with astronomy and the power of imagination break through boundaries to reveal a family secret her parents, unable to deal with, have never discussed.

From the appearance of a mysterious egg to the onslaught of a vicious storm, Alador must now decide when to move against his Uncle. How will he protect Rena's egg? Can he save people from a storm of his own making, from the winter before? Can he really eliminate the well-entrenched High Minister, who also happens to be his uncle? This last task must be done...or he will fail his Geas given by the Blue Dragon. Failure of a major geas only ends in death.

A small group of commuters and tube workers witness a fiery apocalypse overtaking London. They make their escape through a service tunnel. Reaching a door they step through...and find themselves on a wild shore backed by cliffs and rolling grassland. The way back is blocked. Making their way inland, they meet a man dressed in a wolf's cloak and with wolves by his side.

The Sword of Goliath focuses primarily on a man named Jacob Stanton, who is spending his days in San Quentin Penitentiary for a crime he did not commit. Jake was wrongly accused, unfairly tried, and unreasonably sentenced for the murder of his wife, and he’s just lost his final appeal. As Jake begins to mentally prepare for life inside the walls of San Quentin, he’s assigned a new cell-mate, Stephen Stross, who convinces him that he is a member of the Shaddai.

In the late Jurassic Period, an Allosaurus lives, thrives, and rules. One hundred and fifty million years later, in a bizarre twist of fate, Dylan Armitage's life becomes entwined with this ancient predator. Over the years, this carnivore grows ever stronger, faster, and fiercer. She is a monster and she is coming for Dylan and his family. Dylan's father always said, "There are different kinds of men in this world." Turns out, there are also different kinds of monsters. The question that haunts Dylan is, what kind of monster must he become to protect everyone he loves?

After his mother's death, 12-year-old Samuel Chambers would do anything to turn back time. Prompted by three strange carnival fortune-tellers and the surfacing of his mysterious and reclusive neighbor, Samuel begins his search for the Tree of Life - the only thing that could possibly bring his mother back. His quest to defeat death entangles him and his best friend Abra in an ancient conflict and forces Samuel to grapple with an unwelcome question....

Something is wrong with Samantha McCallister. Her baby brother is dead, and she has only one memory of the accident: the canned version her parents impressed upon her. But Sam struggles to make sense of it. Cast aside by her self-involved family, Sam seeks out a friendship with the next-door neighbor, Hazel, until Hazel inexplicably goes missing, leaving nothing but a note and a jar of jam. Determined to uncover the truth about Hazel's disappearance, Sam finds out more than she bargained for.

This is the year Emily Ross takes control of her destiny and learns to deliberately shape the future. Emily has always known she is different. She attracts spirits, has prophetic dreams, and can sense people's thoughts. Longing to fit in, she hides her true self. But this changes when she takes a job at the fabulous curio shop owned by Henry Paradis, an occult scholar who becomes her spiritual mentor. Recognizing her talents as the valuable gifts they are, Henry teaches Emily to accept her magical nature and "look forward".