Science Fiction City

Now that Kal has become chipless and The City's tyrants have turned against their own people, the time for action has come. Amber receives news of her father's faltering health and can no longer put off her plans to rescue him from the High Professor's captivity. Together with two New City survivors, Kal and Amber embark on a long and dangerous journey. But their plan to penetrate The City and expose how the High Professor manipulates the citizens he had sworn to protect runs into a string of obstacles that threaten to end their mission before it starts.

Jetzt war da etwas, das uns beweisen konnte, ob ich die ganze Zeit über recht gehabt hatte mit meinen schlimmsten Befürchtungen. Nein, nicht etwas. Jemand. Ein Happy End mit Will schien so nah. Doch plötzlich ist da Marcia, die genau wie Kia das Kind zweier verschiedener Elemententräger und zu allem Überfluss auch noch wunderschön ist. Und genau wie bei Kia ist es Wills Bestimmung, sie zu schützen und in ihrer Nähe zu sein. Keine einfache Situation für Kia, zumal Will auf einmal verändert scheint.

Vampires have come out of the shadows but are illegal everywhere except Georgia, where they have congregated in the city of Acheron. When vampire-hating detective Iliana Dawn is assigned a case involving “Fangers”, as she calls them, she reluctantly accepts assistance from one of the despised group. Little does she know the deadly repercussions this case will have for her....

Outside the walls of the gate of the deep, death awaits a sacrifice, a boy-yet-to-be-king. As a heavy snowfall settles across the silence of an English countryside, Nicolas Bennett finds himself at home on Christmas Eve, struggling with the possibility of forever having lost his once-found-new friends, Benjamin, Adelaide, and Ranulf.

Nicolas is prophesied to become one of the greatest of all Dragon Nightfalls - but only if he can kill the recently awakened overlord dragon, Arnyek Tolvaj. Known as the Shadow Thief, Arnyek Tolvaj is the doom of Telluric Grand and a looming threat to Relic, the City with Seven Gates. Joined by three new friends, Nicolas sets out on a dangerous journey, determined to accomplish the impossible. When he finally comes face-to-face with the Shadow Thief, Nicolas truly understands the private agony of what it means to be a savior.

“Find the stolen goods or die.” This is the ultimatum the Council of Elders gives reluctant vampire and former police detective Iliana Dawn. Murdered while investigating a crime scene involving a substance the Council wants in its possession, Dawn was “made” into a vampire, but “unauthorized” vampires are illegal.

The people won and now Mareth is Lord Protector of Edland. But winning an election is a lot different than governing a country, especially when the empire of Pyrfew is expanding into the Sapphire Sea. In the interests of peace, Mareth must dispatch Alana to Ioth, city of a thousand lights, to convince the ruling merchants to turn their back on the empire. Neenahwi, armed with the knowledge revealed in her coming of age ceremony, desperately wants to determine Pyrfew's plans and to take the fight to the emperor.

In einer geheimnisvoll-düsteren Schattenwelt treffen rauschende Feste und höfische Intrigen einer adeligen Elite auf magischen Staub und zwielichtige Drogenkartelle. Was, wenn Albträume Realität werden könnten? In den Schatten von Paris herrscht Krieg. Seit Jahrhunderten halten die Saints monströse Albtraum-Kreaturen davon ab, in die reale Welt einzudringen. Doch während die mächtigen Adelsfamilien damit beschäftigt sind, sich untereinander zu bekämpfen, macht sich eine ganz andere Gefahr breit: Eine neue Droge lockt mehr und mehr Menschen in die Abgründe der Schattenräume.

The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation and Arian Athensor has made it her playground. In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a life wrapped in danger and trained towards survival. She’ll steal anything for the right price, and if she runs fast enough, she can almost escape the fact that her mother is dead, her father is missing, and her brother, Liam, is tamping down a wealth of power in a city that has outlawed magic.

Hokuren is a Seeker, a private investigator with a fledgling business. She's finally getting her first big break: a case that will make her name and skills known to all in Velles, the cosmopolitan city of fading magic. The princess of Velles has absconded with the Captain of the Guard, and Hokuren's been hired to track them down. But they didn’t run off together for some fairytale tryst. They have much more sinister plans, involving magic thought to no longer be possible, soul destruction, and the goddess of the elves, missing for thousands of years.

Cor, Ellie, Zach, and Gabe thought they were in the clear, but their bad luck said otherwise. As soon as they stepped foot on land, the four were arrested for a new crime they didn’t commit, and there was only one person who would have the resources to turn another town against them.

A dazzling journey into the hidden lives of synanthropes, the wild animals who've found ingenious ways to survive and thrive in human communities—from award-winning writer and epidemiologist Dan Werb Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the tapestry of our lives. They are the...

Arnau de Vallbona and his fellow Templar Brother Ramon are bound for the Holy Land to take part in the great Crusade when fate intervenes. Delayed in Cyprus, they learn of a growing rift in Christendom: the crusading army has diverted from its course and threatens Rome's allies in the Byzantine Empire. Arnau and Ramon, alongside the irascible Preceptor Bochard, race to Constantinople, encountering a grand and crumbling world of alliances and betrayals, emperors and armies.

"Und dann ist da noch die Sache mit ... Niyol." Es kostete ihn sichtlich Überwindung, den Namen auszusprechen. "Er verwirrt dich noch immer. Das verstehe ich. Er war der Erste, für den du echte Gefühle hattest. Für mich bist du dieser Mensch." Nach Wills furchtbarem Verrat versucht Kia, ihm so gut es geht aus dem Weg zu gehen. Das ist gar nicht so einfach, wenn alles in ihr nach seiner Nähe schreit.

Two years ago, Cal Kinsey was an up-and-coming cop in the Aurora Police Department. But during a fateful nighttime stakeout in search of a prolific killer, Cal witnessed the darkest corner of his dreams come to life. A rogue vampire slaughtered his partner - to put it nicely - and introduced Cal to the supernatural world he never knew existed in the shadows.

Found wandering the Witch Woods as a child, everything about Sophia is a mystery. With no memories and no family, she’s raised in secret by the professors of Nighthelm Academy...all of whom know far more about her than they’re letting on. But Sophia does know one thing: she’s a contritum, a magical being with a broken soul. Her very existence is illegal, and until she finds the other piece of her soul, her uncontrollable magic will only grow more deadly and untamed. Then she discovers three men who hold a mysterious sway over not just her soul, but also her heart.

This trilogy is a modern reimagining of timeless fairy tales, where love is tested by passion, danger, and the unpredictable forces of fate. Will these couples defy the odds and find their happily ever afters, or will they be consumed by the shadows lurking in the city? Only the strongest hearts will prevail.

Imagine Camelot but in Gotham: a city where Arthurian knights are the celebrities of the day, riding on motorbikes instead of horses and competing in televised fights for fame and money. Imagine a city where a young, magic-touched bastard astonishes everyone by becoming king - albeit with extreme reluctance - and a girl with a secret past trains to become a knight for the sole purpose of vengeance.

Hearts of a Vanishing City is a sweeping narrative that brings the brutal censorship of Fahrenheit 451 to a disease-ridden world where a zombie-like virus hides more secrets than Girl with all the Gifts. One hundred years after outbreak nearly destroyed humanity, society is changing again as a new disease spreads. Four different couples navigate impossible choices, pitting their own survival against a dangerous future. The governing DDC has designed a society to keep people safe: the clinics, the rules, the curfews, even the education system.

Decades after the Haywoodian Menace threatened our reality and safety and freedom… In Zenith City, a new hero rises with the assistance from his uncle and best friend as they protect the city's right to be different and special, which is being challenged by a tyrannical media mogul, Dr. Katz.