Fantasy Realism

All Anna wants is to grieve her sister in peace. But peace is the last thing she'll get. After the tragic accident shatters her world, her life takes an even darker turn when her father is imprisoned in the castle and her mother is summoned by the ruthless queen. Terrified of losing what's left of her family, Anna demands to go with them, despite the dangerous path ahead. As a shapeshifter who can't transform, she's already a target under the queen's brutal laws—and the castle is the last place she wants to be.

The tales collected in Julie Rogers's Seven Shorts can be compared to a wintry landscape: what lurks beneath is cloaked by deceptive beauty. They hold literary garments elegant and genteel, belying curves and forms patiently waiting at any moment to shock, or even enlighten. Cover your eyes, spin you a few times, and shove you into a room with . . . never mind.

Billy Blackburn hat einen Traum: Er möchte die Pflege und Zucht magischer Pflanzen erlernen, und das ausgerechnet beim berühmtesten Vertreter dieser seltenen Kunst, Mr Turner. Nur gibt es dabei zahlreiche Hürden zu überwinden, denn erstens kann er keinen berühmten Fürsprecher für ein Empfehlungsschreiben gewinnen und zweitens zieht er in der magischen Welt vor allem Spott und Häme auf sich.

Her true purpose is far greater than what she could ever imagine. The brilliant apprentice seer Aqila has always understood her destiny, to follow in the footsteps of her mentor to serve as the next Seer. After striking a near immediate friendship with Jai, Aqila is hesitantly on her own journey. That is until her fate violently twists. After receiving a grim vision from the Heavens, she finds herself struggling in the delicate limbo of life and death.

Anessa receives the shock of her new life during her engagement. Before she can recover, tensions rise further as war breaks out! During her school's martial and leadership training, her future and power become clear. As a spirit from the past guides her way, she finds out who she must kill to claim what's rightly hers. Is Anessa ready to answer destiny's dark call as the champion of Death?

If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don’t polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks.Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh’s childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist...

Im Dschungelkönigreich Elámon werden Gestaltwandler wie Gottheiten verehrt. Eine von ihnen ist die junge Jaguar-Wandlerin Kitana, die mit ihrer Familie ein sorgloses Leben im Tempel führt. Bis zu dem Tag, als eine Intrige des Ersten Priesters Kitanas heile Welt zerstört und sie zwingt, in den undurchdringlichen Urwald zu fliehen. Dort sucht sie Hilfe bei einem Clan von Panther-Wandlern, der zurückgezogen im Dschungel lebt und sowohl den Jaguargöttern als auch den Menschen misstrauisch gegenübersteht.

“My Legacy” by Geromin Reyes, a captivating tale of soul discovery and celestial revelation, is part 2 of the Kharak & Ter series. The story follows Maly’s soul, embarking on a transcendent journey alongside Kharak & Ter, Dark & Dess, and other mystical beings in the soul realm. However, an unexpected event shatters their unity when Maly vanishes in a bolt of lightning during a crucial ceremony.

A tarnished, old mirror and a mysterious light send Annie on a fearsome journey to an unfamiliar world where good meets evil. With the captivating young Phoenix as her guide, Annie is forced to trust a supernatural stranger in the battle for her life. But she and this angelic protector have more in common than she knows.… Can she summon the inner strength to fight her demons, redeem both of their past mistakes, and make it back home before it’s too late?

Aurora and Leela have succeeded in their quest to balance work and family. Aurora has risen in the ranks at her company and has become a well-known environmental advocate. Leela’s business has grown and is the president of the farmers’ market. They have done this all while raising their conceived-by-magic eleven-year-old daughter, Kari. However, the time has come for them to tell Kari about her mystical origins, as Kari’s mind and body start to evolve in powerful ways.

Tracers are the foundation of Emilyn’s world. The ability to see into the soul of another and project what is found for all to see has become a staple of what it means to create art in Unity Falls. But souls work in mysterious ways. What is one’s memory is not meant to become another’s tool. When this power is abused, heroes rise.

Yolanda Álvarez está teniendo un buen año. Comienza a sentirse como en casa en la Secundaria Julia De Burgos, su escuela en el Bronx. Tiene a su mejor amiga Victory, y tal vez algo con José, un jevito de último año que está conociendo mejor. Confía en que su iniciación en la tradición de brujas de su familia sucederá pronto.

It’s 1987, and sixteen-year-old Gracie Byrne wishes her life were totally different. Shy and awkward, she has trouble fitting in at her new school, she’s still reeling from her parents’ divorce, and her grandmother Katherine’s Alzheimer’s is getting worse. So when Gracie finds a blank journal in Katherine’s vanity drawer, she begins writing stories about herself—a more popular version of herself, that is. But then the hot guy in her art class describes a dream he had about her—the exact scene she wrote about him in her journal—and Gracie realizes that she can create any reality she wants.

Getting through a day without being attacked by Fairy assassins, mages or demons was becoming a rarity for Dalton Graham. Today was no exception. Ever since he had faced down the youngest scion of House Temil, using magical powers he never knew he possessed, things had gone from bad to worse.

En Manhattan, un joven estudiante de posgrado sale del tren y se da cuenta de que no recuerda quién es, de dónde viene ni su nombre. Pero sí que es capaz de sentir el latir del corazón de la ciudad, ver su historia y percibir su poder. En el Bronx, la directora lenape de una galería de arte encuentra unos extraños grafitis que adornan toda la ciudad, tan maravillosos y poderosos que se podría decir que la pintura la llama, literalmente. En Brooklyn, una madre y política descubre que oye las canciones de la ciudad, que resuenan al ritmo de los tacones de sus Louboutin.

Jameson Innis is different. As graduation from the esteemed Academy looms near, all students must bind virtues—bestial manifestations of the twelve base elements. To each student a single virtue is given to decide their future and career. Jay, however, seeks to do the impossible: bind them all.

In the gripping conclusion to the Otherside series, Mikey Black, burdened by the darkness within himself, faces his ultimate challenge: uniting the fractured realms against the Devouring, an ominous force born from the God of Death. As the threat looms, alliances must be forged, old wounds healed, and sacrifices made.

Nate was always more reckless than his sister, so it’s surprising to him that she is called away on an adventure while he gets to do nothing but wait for her return. That is, until events outside of his control threaten to separate the two of them forever. Nate takes fate into his own hands and finds himself entering a world he is not prepared to protect himself from. With the mysteries of her past on the verge of unraveling, Kal must stop a war that has been brewing for centuries. But how do you do so when the very people you're trying to save don't want to be rescued?

Take a deep breath and begin the fourth and final installment of the Calladon Chronicles. They conclude in this sweeping, fast-paced, gasp-out-loud-in-disbelief book that pulls from your emotions to weave its story. With the fate of past and present contingent on her choices, Kal makes a final confrontation against the Dark that holds a fractured world on the edge of oblivion. With her past returned to her, and as the next Seer, she refuses to give up, no matter the cost. She’s already paid too high a price to back down.

When four guilty men are acquitted of a horrific crime, a prophetic vision is set in motion and a group of magicians must trust in each other to prevent a powerful beast from being released, a demon hell bent on destroying what remains of the human race and reclaiming this planet as his once and for all.