Urban Historical

Англия конца XVI века. Пылкий аристократ Орландо проводит свои дни в безудержном веселье и бесконечных празднествах, которыми наполнена жизнь двора королевы Елизаветы. Ее Величество настолько увлечена симпатичным шестнадцатилетним юношей, что, умирая, жалует ему большую сумму денег и благословляет на долгую жизнь без старения души и увядания плоти. Королевское слово – закон. И теперь Орландо навсегда останется юным и прекрасным. Но тут происходит необъяснимое. Отправившись в Константинополь Орландо, очнувшись после многодневного сна, обнаруживает, что находится в теле женщины.

No one is at all sure what a book wraith might be, but whatever it is definitely has the battered tomes in the Library of the Sapphire Wind very worried indeed. Figuring out what a book wraith could be is hardly the least of the challenges that the newly formed House of Rough Diamonds will face as the motley assortment of members-including three women who are literally "out of this world"-attempt to secure ownership of the Library.

The year is 1645. A murderous war has been raging through Central Europe for 28 years, and there seems to be no end in sight. After the death of his master, Martin, Gustav is left with nothing. Only Anike is there to console him over the heavy loss. When she asks him to help her possessed father, Gustav realizes that the key to helping her—Martin's Codex Daemonum—makes no sense to him.

The year is 1645. A murderous war has been raging in the Holy Roman Empire for 28 years, and there seems to be no end in sight. Gustav and his master have been banned from the Black Feldsher Guild and have had to take leave of the Swedish army. In the middle of winter, they roam the battle-scarred land as simple healers, helping the war-weary people. But their enemies are still on their trail.

The year is 1642. As a decades-long war rages through Central Europe, military field surgeon Martin shares a shocking truth with his apprentice Gustav: Demons are real, and the victims of battle are their reward for fighting for mankind. A reveal that changes everything.

The Corvo Kingdom is on the brink of ruin. The wasting sickness is spreading, the queen is dying, and the people are living under the constant threat of invasion. The fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a woman reluctant to embrace her destiny.

München 1924: Der 18-jährige Leo und seine Freunde haben mit der Schule abgeschlossen. Die ganze Welt steht ihnen offen. Wenn da nicht die verflixte Sache mit der Liebe wäre: Schon seit Kindheitstagen ist Leo in seine Nachbarin Marilli verliebt. Doch die Liebe bleibt unglücklich. Ablenkung bieten ihm die Tanzabende mit seinem besten Freund Biwi und wechselnden Frauenbekanntschaften. Als eine von ihnen schwanger wird und die Freundschaft zu Biwi zerbricht, weiß Leo keinen Ausweg mehr.

1790s London. Julia Richmond is not the typical society wife. She is a witch in hiding from her husband, her family, and the church. She is called to shed her reclusive life and practice her magic, risking everything she loves to save the family that rejected her before a demon destroys them all. Faced with this choice, Julia travels from the glittering halls of London society to the tropical heat of a sugar cane field. Along the way, she evades pirates, fights demons, escapes religious zealots and confronts black witches.

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.

An historically inspired story about the first woman accused of witchcraft in colonial Salem. Enslaved Tituba has been faithful to a promise to her mama.

Inspired by medieval legends about the poet Vergil, who was revered not only as the author of the Aeneid but also as a powerful necromancer, Davidson embarked on his Vergil Magus series in the '60s with the intriguing novel The Phoenix and the Mirror. In this sequel, Vergil answers a magical summons from Averno, both the wealthiest and the filthiest of cities. The magnates there are worried about the waning and shifting of the natural fires that have fueled their industries and fouled their air.

Un día de otoño de 1686, una joven de dieciocho años llama a la puerta de una casa señorial en el barrio más acomodado de Ámsterdam. Nella Oortman se ha trasladado del campo a la ciudad para convivir con su marido, Johannes Brandt, un hombre maduro y distinguido comerciante que habita en la mansión en compañía de su hermana soltera y rodeado de fieles servidores.

In 19th-century Russia, Nikolai, a lower-level aristocrat, appeared to have it all. Looks, wealth, privilege. And yet he was adrift. As his 30th birthday had come and gone, his father’s insistence that he find a wife and settle down and produce an heir were becoming unbearable. While meandering the palace grounds, he happens upon Tatianya, the duke’s youngest daughter, sobbing, as she had been forbidden to attend the ball. Although totally smitten with Tatianya, Nikolai is seduced into gambling that a single encounter with a vampire will bestow powers beyond his wildest dreams.

When one of the people she loves most dies and begins to appear, wan and beseeching, in the household mirrors, Faith realizes she must act quickly. Accompanied by their wisest friends, she and Jack travel far abroad, seeking the stone that will help her break the 3,000-year old curse that formed Paradoxia. There is no guarantee that they can do it but, with Faith carrying a future bearer, they know they must try.

A very small number of people with IQs of over 1,000 secretly live among us, concealing their extraordinary intelligence and mental powers. They call themselves Geniuses, and have—for millennia—influenced our world. Over the centuries, evil Geniuses have tried to control ordinary people, who they refer to as Ordinaries, and dominate the world. Good Geniuses have opposed them, defending the rights of Ordinaries to control their own destinies and live in freedom. A major confrontation between good and evil Geniuses is about to begin. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

First in a series of 10 titles about the Black Bats (BB) Motorcycle Club by Ochil Kinnaird, this first story unfolds at the start of Shug’s journey into the world of motorcycle MCs…a nostalgic look back at the biker scene in Scotland during the mid-'70s and '80s. It details the life of a young man as he progresses through to adulthood and the effects that being involved in a "biker gang" had on the way his life was continually shaped.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Verano de 1943. Todos los países de Europa han ido cayendo bajo el dominio nazi. El viejo continente, reducido a escombros, se ha convertido en un animal herido que agoniza víctima de los bombardeos y el fuego de artillería.

Heaven lays down the law and Hell gets more hellish in Lawyers in Hell, marking the return of Heroes in Hell - the greatest shared universe of all time. The commandments weren't merely suggestions - and there were over 300 of them. And now, as the higher powers send auditors through the underworlds to dispense yet greater injustice, heroes and villains from all of history are about to be reminded that sin doesn't pay...and in Hell, neither does virtue.

Far in the north, a group of magicians perform a strange dance on a volcanic island intended to open a gateway for supernatural creatures that will allow them to devastate the whole Earth and destroy all life. Not knowing the cause, two young men, Corylus and Varus,and two women, Hedia and Alphena,each separately pursue the answer to mysterious and threatening happenings that prefigure disaster in the great city of Carce, the center of civilization.

When Tokyo falls victim to a deadly terrorist attack, Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro knows who is responsible, even if she doesn't have proof. She urges her commanding officers to arrest the perpetrator - an insane zealot who was just released from police custody. When her pleas fall on deaf ears, she loses her temper and then her badge as well as her best chance of fighting back.