Urban Historical

Ein Bombenangriff legt Bingen in Schutt und Asche. Im letzten Augenblick können Arthur und Martha, die sich seit einem halben Jahr auf dem Dachboden in Arthurs Elternhaus verstecken, vor der SS fliehen. Zusammen mit der jüdischen Familie Diestelzweig tauchen sie in der Parallelwelt des Schwarzen Turms unter. Hier sind seit Arthurs letztem Besuch unglaublicherweise achtzig Jahre vergangen. Längst bewohnt nicht mehr Marthas Familie Martens Hof, und man gewährt ihnen nur widerwillig Unterschlupf.

Oliver Caradog saves a small boy from a white dragon. Unable to find his family and suspecting him to be not entirely human, he names him Jude and takes him home to be cared for by his wife in the realm of the tyrant King Vortigern. This is a fantasy fiction short story based on the real history of Wales, a beautiful and wild country where dragons have always lived.

Paul is a reincarnated Knight Hospitaller from the 12th century. He is also a nurse, or the historical equivalent, in all of his incarnations. After so many lives, he just wants to die and get off the rebirth wheel. Then he becomes a father, and everything changes. Paul must train his adopted daughter to be the first new K-Nurse since the Crusades, but in teaching her to use her magic and in training her to fight, he must bring her into his own deadly world.

Jennifer Knight, aspiring magic-wielder and recovering kleptomaniac, has been living large ever since accepting her invitation to attend a prestigious wizard college in northern Pennsylvania. But when her goblin boss disappears, the magical portal in her backyard stops working, and her enigmatic shape-shifting protector warns her to avoid wizards at all costs, she begins to worry she’ll never make it to orientation.

James Dual, inspired by the racially integrated punky ska revival in England, starts the ON Klub, a ska, soul, and reggae club at the rough and ready pre-gentrified Silver Lake end of Sunset Blvd. He and partner in crime, Drea Dresden, try their best to make the transition out of the '70s in one piece. A journalist friend brings a mob-related music man connected to Bob Marley to visit the club, who becomes obsessed with the charismatic young Jamaican singer Loraine Sulley, who is performing that night.

When the physical forces of multiple worlds come into conflict, magic appears. Certain humans can control this energy to fight back the threat. In Ravenslake, home to a small university, a new generation of mages has been called forth as an ancient enemy of Earth returns. Alex Adams now has at least some control over her magical powers, though magic lessons with Merlin and Morgana are still on the agenda. The more she learns about the war she’s now a part of, the less confident she grows.

For 1600 years, Nick Medea has guarded the gate between our world and Feirie, preventing the Wyld - the darkest Feirie of all - from coming into Chicago to find human prey. But since he defeated Oberon, more and more Wyld have been slipping through. Nick and his Feirie companion, the shapeshifter, Fetch, have been busy hunting them down. Nick keeps coming across the Dacian Draco, the sign of his ancient enemy Galerius, including a tattoo worn by a human thug. Unfortunately, every trail ends as if years old.

Die prächtige Stadt Vhindona blickt voller Stolz auf technische Errungenschaften und reiche Händler - alles Magische wird dagegen misstrauisch beäugt. Deshalb versucht Aurelia, ihre Begabung geheim zu halten. Doch als sie Zeugin eines Mordes wird, kommt dabei auch ihr Geheimnis ans Licht, und Aurelia wird dem mächtigen Nekromanten Marius Cinna als Schülerin zugeteilt. Als die wissbegierige junge Frau herausfindet, was wirklich hinter einer unheimlichen Serie von Ritualmorden steckt, und welche Rolle Marius dabei spielt, muss sie sich entscheiden: für ihren neuen Meister oder für ihre Heimatstadt.

It is 1925. The First World War has ended, and a second one looms on the horizon. Even as an orphan, Stephen always knew he was different, the voice in his head told him so. When Stephen is adopted by the mysterious Bethany Andrews, he is thrust into a magical world that coexists alongside the mundane world. After his adoption ritual, he utters a prophecy. The lowborn children shall come, winter will guide them. The children of space and time will hide them. The queen of summer will find them, and the golden kingdom will bind them.

Evolution Device is an entertaining mix of backstage drama and spiritual fantasy, imagining a quintessential 1970s rock 'n' roll success story from the not-quite-real perspective of an artistic muse who makes the music possible. Taking off from a fictionalized amalgam of Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, and Heart, mixed with a bit of Janis Joplin and a dash of the Jefferson Airplane, Lif Strand introduces an unusual (but refreshingly original) angle of Native American mythology into the more familiar behind-the-music elements.

In 19th century Scotland, surgeon Edgar Price has only days to live. He has become host to a revenant that will corrode both his body and soul. Edgar’s fatal mistake has not only doomed him, but also released six more of these malignant wraiths onto the world. In his remaining time, he has vowed to stop the revenants from claiming other victims. His perilous travels lead him to the Witches’ Wood, a haven for a sisterhood of powerful enchantresses. There he meets Ainsley, a witch with a fiery spirit and strong distrust of outsiders.

Can Jaxon Hampton love the Moon Queen enough? If Zeth, the servant of her enemies the Shadow Giants, defeats Jaxon in battle, the Shadow Giants unleash chaos on Earth and destroy humanity. Every night Jaxon experiences vivid recurring dreams in which, 10,000 years ago, he escorts a beautiful woman through many dangers to the top of a cliff overlooking the Nile River. How come his boss's daughter dreams the same story? And why does a strange man hypnotize Jaxon to take the young woman to a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River during the next full moon?

Most writers choose the endings to their stories...most writers are not Weavers. Laney Holden is a freshman at Madison College whose life goes from normal to paranormal in a matter of seconds. When the antagonist in the book she’s writing shoves her down the stairs at the subway station, she learns she is a Weaver. Weavers bridge the narrow gap between fantasy and reality, bringing their words to life. Laney soon meets William whom she also suspects is a character from her book - one she’s had a mad crush on since her pen hit the paper.

En 1923, Helena Lennox tiene 17 años y un único deseo: sustituir las calles de Londres por una vida de aventuras y excavaciones en tierras lejanas. En consecuencia, cuando sus padres se marchan a la India para investigar la desaparición de unos arqueólogos, ella decide acompañarlos…unos días después y a escondidas. Son muchas las leyendas que circulan en torno a la ciudad fantasma de Bhangarh, pero Helena nunca ha creído en las supersticiones. No obstante, el príncipe Arshad de Jaipur (sí, ese que odia a los ingleses) le insiste en que se equivoca: Bhangarh está maldita.

Since he became the guardian of the Gate between our world and Feirie 1600 years ago, Nick Medea, once Saint George, has battled to keep the darkest Feirie - the Wyld - from invading the mortal plane. With the dragon an unwilling part of him, Nick maintains balance between realms, often at great cost to him and those nearest to him. Nick and his ragtag confederates - including the shape-shifter Fetch and Nick's reincarnated love, Claryce - have battled the Wyld, but mortals as sinister as the darkest Feirie.

Jasmine is adjusting to the reality of being a dragon-shifter. She's training to embrace the destiny imposed on her by the gods. But something is brewing. Doom is just beyond the horizon. It's apocalyptic in nature. Could it be Jasmine's mate's intrusive mother, Lady Hel, the Norse goddess of death, or might it be more than just her scheming? When Erich disappears, Jasmine is forced to travel back in time to 1799, France, where Lady Hel's maniacal brother, Fenrir, the wolf-like monster awaits. Fenrir's more than dangerous. He's pure destruction.

Kellan Thorne labors beneath the burden of Chaos he accepted in order to both save Shannon and destroy the previous Sentinel of Chaos. Now he is trapped in the brutal life of a slave and gladiator within Claudius’ Rome. Meanwhile, in 2020, Shannon McLeod Thorne struggles with both the loss of her husband and the responsibilities of being Creation’s new Sentinel of Order. However, like many times before, strange events conspire to cast light in dark places.

One year ago, Sergeant Rosemary Booker violently ended crime lord Erkan Waldemar’s reign of terror - and in doing so, unwittingly awakened in his wife, Isabel, the sleeping soul of the legendary Blood Countess Erzsébet Báthory. Hellbent on avenging her husband’s death, Báthory sets out to gather to her side history’s most notorious criminals and killers - an army of the damned to carry out her vendetta against Rosemary. The sins of Rosemary’s past are returning with a vengeance.

Merlin’s final words haunt the Sentinel’s dreams. Kellan’s eidetic memory replays them with perfect clarity each night since he breached the guff and withdrew three human souls. Now, more than a year later, both he and his Soulborn wife are visited by an entity who channeled Universal power to enter our world from another. This Emissary of Destruction provides the young Sentinel with a gift of unimaginable power and a dire warning. This combination sets Kellan on a journey which takes him to the land of Fae. There he must gain support from the Fairy King and Queen.

Speakeasy manager Clara Woodsen will do anything to save her silent film idol from an untimely death. Even summon a demon. Even bet her soul she can teach his half-human/half-cheetah assistant to foxtrot. But people around town are acting strange. Have Clara's efforts unleashed a zombie plague? Or are her customers just really bad at dancing the Charleston? And can Clara find true happiness with the man of her dreams if she uses her...brains?