Urban For Children

In all the 6,000 years that the Children of Lilith have walked among us, there has never been an unwilling vampire...until now. Carl Morgan has lost everything. His wife and children were killed in a senseless accident. Then he witnesses the murder of his sister at the hands of a beautiful and mysterious woman named Rebecca. When the police cannot locate the killer, Carl takes matters into his own hands. But his search for justice costs him everything he holds dear.Carl is unknowingly transformed into the world's first and only unwilling vampire.

Gemütliche Abende bei Kerzenschein, lange Spaziergänge im Wald... Es könnte alles so romantisch sein! Doch Alahrians traumatische Vergangenheit steht noch immer zwischen ihm und seiner Liebe zu Lilly. Ausgerechnet Alahrians stets cooler Bruder Morgan scheint der Einzige zu sein, der etwas Licht in diese für Lilly unverständliche Zeit bringen kann. Und dann erweckt ein Kuss Mächte, von denen Alahrian und Lilly nichts geahnt haben...Das Hörbuch zur romantischen Elfenblüte-Reihe von Julia K. Knoll mit Musik von Frédéric Chopin, gespielt von Anastasia Huppmann.

Jax had a life that consisted of endless moving to hunt the creatures of the night that feed on unsuspecting humans. He has only ever known life as a hunter raised by his single, night human hunter mother. The only problem is, to be a full member of the hunter clan, you need to be female. As he comes to realize there’s no place for a son in the matriarchal hunter world, Jax decides it’s time to take off on his own and see where he came from. Perhaps his father’s side of the family would be more willing to have a place for a son… but first he needs to find his father.

Months ago, Nicole Cassidy's life was turned upside-down when she discovered that she was a witch descended from the Greek gods. Now the Elementals must stop Typhon - the most dangerous monster in the world - from rising, and seal the portal to the dangerous prison world of Kerberos. But they won't be able to do that without facing their hardest decision yet...a sacrifice so great that it may be one they're not willing to make.

The Royalton Family have purchased an old Victorian style house that they hope to fix up. There is a lot of work ahead, but they are confident they are up to the task. As for the attic, the children are not only finding it a fun place to play, but it also happens to be a portal to another world. Despite the children’s adventures to the divine, the Royalton family is experiencing great turmoil and darkness. With struggles against disease, infidelity, and a wayward teen, the Royaltons find themselves fighting forces that appear beyond their control.

How do you kill a god, a Greek god, one of the Ancients? The professor had never been asked that before. Jim Burges and his wife, Sally, eagerly awaited the answer. Jim claimed to have a murderous god stalking him, and he needed to know. The professor swallowed hard before proceeding. He knew they weren’t going to like his response.

Anthony Sinclair, master magician and prophesized Oracle, did everything to protect those he loved. He thought he had planned for every possible outcome for the future...everything except his soul being torn in half after his death.

The vampire king's promise of sanctuary, a safe haven for all nonhumans, hangs in the balance. Reluctantly, he sends his youngest agent to retrieve and hide a maddened werebear. If she can't keep him out of the public eye, then all will be lost, and she's not doing so good. The bear is elusive, savage, and on a killing spree. If the humans find out about nonhumans, they will hunt them into extinction.

He's a young man coming into his own. He's also a werewolf whose alpha nature is rising. She's an older woman coming to terms with a major life change. She knows she has to deal with him, and she knows she shouldn't, but she finds herself falling for the guy. It's never easy.

The Wild Things - based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze - is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him. At the same time, Max finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: He wears a wolf suit, bites his mom, and can't always control his outbursts.

Who can you trust when everyone has the face of an Angel? Angels, Demons, Guardians, brooding guys with green eyes - 18-year-old Grace is sick of the lot of them. All she wants is a normal life, but when tragedy strikes, Grace and her foster family are hurled head-first into a world of magic, intrigue, and deceit. As the threads of her life begin to unravel, Grace finds herself at the epicenter of a battle to save those she loves.

Death didn't solve anything for Claire. Now condemned to an eternity of roaming the Earth as a 16-year-old, she has to figure out this whole ghost thing from the other side. Lesson one: Memories are power. Lesson two: This sucks.

Things have changed for Atticus Higginbottom. After the near catastrophe in the Fourth Reality, Tick’s being homeschooled in the fields of science, trying to master the mysterious Chi’karda. But just as he begins to make progress, Mistress Jane reappears, now hideously scarred and much more powerful. She has tapped into the universe’s darkest secret to create the Blade of Shattered Hope, and in her quest to attain a Utopian Reality for the future of mankind, she’s ready to risk billions of lives...

Last spring Claire's seemingly normal - if not totally screwed up - life was tossed on its head. For five years she'd been one of the damned - a human that knows the truth about the otherworldly among us. She'd worked for The Boss - the Demon King himself - as his administrative assistant, handling everything from early retirements, to Maintenance's incessant requests for dental. No one gets dental.

Ten years after leaving his ancestral homeland, Michael Singleton returns—haunted, hunted, and running out of time. Marked by a deadly curse, Michael is doomed to have his soul claimed by the Shadowlands, the eternal domain of the Witch Goddess. His only hope lies in opening a portal to the Otherworld, the realm of Corvus, god of beasts. The key to this spell is a secret known to only one man: the powerful Guardian of the Dead.

Emma and her friends have survived the Necromancers sent to the city to kill them. They've gone to ground in a cottage north of the city, but time is not on their side. There are no barriers that can keep the dead out, and the dead obey their Queen. It's only a matter of time before they're found. Nathan has been blessed by the Queen of the Dead. She has granted him a physical body. He can eat, he can breathe, he can speak and be heard. The Queen calls this resurrection. Nathan calls it Hell. The living think he's alive. He's not.

Every state has an urban legend that evokes fear and curiosity in equal parts, and we've chronicled all of these logic-defying horrors here in the Haunted States of America anthology. From the Jersey Devil to La Llorona, each story included introduces a new chill inducing, stomach churning monster, specter, or poltergeist certain to keep you up at night. A broad ranging collection of authors, including seasoned veterans and some first timers making a fright-tastic debut, have all united to unearth the scariest lore from each state in the US, as well as D.C. and Puerto Rico.

Something evil has haunted a ghost town in the mountains of Oregon for a long time, few if any who visit that town return alive. The Hawk and Wolf lead a team into that forest to investigate, and there they find vestiges of an old evil. Even worse, treachery coming from within the team. Can they do the job? Can they even survive the savagery that comes at them? This mission will test them beyond reason.

Evil hides in plain sight. Can Ana find the killer before it's too late? Ana Price has never lived in one place for more than six months at a time. For as long as she can remember, her mother’s paranoia has led them across the country in a game of cat and mouse, fleeing from an unseen force too terrifying to describe. As Ana struggles with her resentment towards her mother’s seemingly baseless worries, her parents decide to return to their hometown - the quaint little town of Clermont.

Aspen is a Norm. A non-magic. A human. And in the magically hidden boroughs of New York City, that's a quick way to wind up dead. Or worse. So instead of magic, Aspen relies on her skills as a thief to stay alive. She didn't plan to get caught stealing from Lucien Dunadine, one of the strongest members on the Council of Mages. She really didn't plan on him blackmailing her into being his apprentice. But with the Council demanding Lucien present a candidate for a competition to become their newest Mage, neither one of them has much choice.