Urban Contemporary Fiction

Grand centre culturel et marchand du désert, la cité de Sharakhaï est dirigée depuis des siècles par douze rois immortels, cruels et omnipotents. Ils ont écrasé tout espoir de liberté avec leur armée, leur unité d'élite de guerrières et leurs spectres protecteurs, les terrifiants Asirim. Çeda, jeune fille des quartiers pauvres, va pourtant braver leur autorité. Le lien qu'elle découvre entre les secrets des tyrans et les énigmes de son propre passé pourrait bien changer son destin... comme celui de Sharakhaï.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Everything the pack has been fighting for, they finally achieved. But it wasn't the end. It was nothing like they expected. There are consequences for every action, good or bad, and Amber must now face down the inevitable fallout from her choices. She asked her allies to trust her. To follow her. And they did. Now they're all paying for it.

When marine private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the marine barrack bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to heaven, which, while nice, might be a little boring, or return to earth. The Boss has a mission for him, and he's to look for a sign. He's a marine: He'll choose the mission. Unfortunately, the sign he's to look for is "57". Which, given the food services contract in Bethesda Hospital, creates some difficulty. Eventually it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called Monster Hunters International.

Après leur combat victorieux contre la Pythie-Silence, Richard et Kahlan, contaminés par une mortelle souillure, sont tous deux plongés dans une inconscience proche du coma. Par bonheur, Zedd, Nicci et leurs compagnons arrivent à temps pour sortir leurs amis de la tanière de Jit. À présent, il faut les ramener le plus vite possible au Palais du Peuple, où Zedd et Nicci pourront mobiliser leur magie afin de les arracher à la mort. Mais une attaque inattendue et brutale, sur le chemin du retour, change la donne.

Sur une planète baignée de lumière et écrasée par la chaleur, Yumi est une yoki-hijo, une prêtresse qui invoque les esprits pour venir en aide à son peuple. Dans une cité froide entourée de ténèbres perpétuelles, Peintre repousse chaque jour les manifestations physiques des cauchemars des habitants grâce à ses pinceaux. Tout les oppose, ils ignorent même jusqu’à l’existence du monde de l’autre. Pourtant, leurs destins vont littéralement s’entremêler le jour où ils commencent à échanger leur place à chaque réveil.

When Gunnar learns the king of Highcastle will grant an audience to anyone who wins an arena championship, he decides to enter the competition as a gladiator. If he can earn a meeting with the ailing king and persuade him to stop Dryden before his dragon flies, he can save Edgewood and countless lives. He'll also get his name posted in every arena, which could lead Rachel one step closer to finding him. Does Gunnar have what it takes to become a champion, or has he bitten off more than he can chew?

In her ninth adventure, Sookie has just tied on her cocktail waitress apron for a night's work when a special report comes on the television. The time has come. The wereanimals have revealed themselves.

Jane Yellowrock is the queen of the vampires, and that makes her a target as she fights to maintain control and keep peace in the city of New Orleans. She has enemies at every turn, because vampires live forever, and they keep their grudges alive with them. That includes the Heir, the vampire sire of the Pellissier bloodline, which gave rise to Leo Pellissier himself—Jane’s old boss and the former master of the city.

Diviner Alex Verus finally made one too many enemies on the Council of Mages, and now one of them is angry enough to have him executed. Fighting for his life is nothing new, but this kill order also calls for the death of Alex's dependents - and there's no way that he'll let Luna, Anne, and Vari take the heat. With only a week before he's history, Alex will have to figure out how to disassociate himself from his friends, scrounge up allies on the council, and hopefully keep his head attached to his body.

Kyle Riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight. The ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak. The good news is that Kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive. The bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out there.

Peu avant que le Gouverneur ne débarque à Terrilville avec ses galères chalcédiennes, le Parangon réarmé prend enfin la mer pour accomplir sa mission de sauvetage de la Vivacia avec Brashen, Ambre et Althéa à son bord. Les difficultes qu'ils affrontent sont innombrables. Le capitaine Kennit, dont les ambitions se précisent, voudrait faire du Jeune Hiéman son prophète. Tous ignorent que, pendant ce temps, des événements tragiques se déroulent dans leur port d'attache : la ville est attacquée et incendiée.

Revenu dans sa famille pour assister au mariage de son frère aîné, Jamère se trouve en butte au mépris et à l'hostilité de tous à cause de son inexplicable embonpoint. Son père n'accepte pas que son fils soldat laisse libre cours à son appétit et l'accable de son profond mépris ; sa sœur Yaril ne lui cache pas la répugnance qu'il lui inspire et sa fiancée Carsina lui tourne le dos. Nul ne veut entendre son explication : il doit sa corpulence à la magie ocellionne, théorie dont sa part gernienne a du mal à se convaincre. Il a beau travailler comme un forcené aux champs, se priver de nourriture, rien n'y fait pour qu'il maigrisse.

Newborn Dungeon Cores must choose what entity they help contain, and that choice determines what monsters they are able to summon. After being executed for crimes forgotten in death, Tira is given the chance to make that choice. Tira chose Acekorah, the Primeval Terror, a being so dangerous few cores will risk trying to contain it.

For a vampire killer like Jane, having Leo Pellisier as a boss took some getting used to. But now, someone is out to take his place as Master Vampire of the city of New Orleans, and is not afraid to go through Jane to do it. After an attack that’s tantamount to a war declaration, Leo knows his rival is both powerful and vicious, but Leo’s not about to run scared. After all, he has Jane. But then, a plague strikes, one that takes down vampires and makes their masters easy prey.

Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different - and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that he would never show a talent, never form an "outself"....

Dans la fabuleuse cité de Kelsingra, Alise consigne pour la postérité toutes les merveilles qu'elle découvre, car elle sait qu'une fois le monde informé des trésors que la cité recèle, plus rien ne sera comme avant. Déjà des rumeurs sur sa découverte courent dans le Désert des Pluies et atteignent des oreilles cupides à Terrilville et au-delà ; aventuriers, pirates et chasseurs de fortune affluent pour piller le lieu, y compris Hest Finbok, le mari d'Alise.

Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life. He tried to destroy the evidence, and has been on the run ever since. Now trained as an assassin, he allows no one to threaten him. Ever. He is the darkness that swallows his enemies whole. Shahara Dagan is the best bounty hunter in the universe. When Syn comes back on the radar, she's the only one who can bring him to justice. There's only one problem: Syn is a close family friend who's helped out the Dagans countless times. But if she saves him, both of their lives will be on the line.

When souls are tied, it's never goodbye. A boy I was that summer evening I met you, pulling your belongings out of the truck and into your new home. I knew it was love then. A whole man I was the day that you met me at the altar and agreed to love me until death do us part. A shell of a man I've become since it did, unable to move on, move forward, or progress in any way until I discovered that not even death was permanent enough to keep us apart. A better man I'm destined to be, knowing that, at some capacity, you're still with me. Our love is one that never dies.

The vampires of Asheville, North Carolina, want to establish their own clan, but since they owe loyalty to the Master Vampire of New Orleans, they must work out the terms with him. To come up with an equitable solution, he sends an envoy with the best bodyguard blood money can buy: skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. But when a group of local campers are attacked by something fanged, Jane goes from escort to investigator. Is it a rogue-vampire, shapechanger, or witch? Or something else magical?

Fraa Erasmas est un jeune chercheur vivant dans la congrégation de Saunt-Edhar, un sanctuaire pour les mathématiciens et les philosophes. Depuis des siècles, autour du sanctuaire, les gouvernements et les cités n'ont eu de cesse de se développer et de s'effondrer. Par le passé, la congrégation a été ravagée trois fois par la violence de conflits armés. Méfiante vis-à-vis du monde extérieur, la communauté de Saunt-Edhar ne s'ouvre au monde qu'une fois tous les dix ans.