Urban Historical

Smugglers. A kidnapping. A fire-breathing fairy dragon? The Blue Order is falling apart at the seams. After months in Bath mentoring Dragon Keepers and Friends, Dragon Sage Elizabeth Darcy actually anticipates traveling to London for the Keeper’s Cotillion. Which says a great deal considering the she-dragons who make up the Cotillion board would very much like to show the Sage her proper place. The she-dragons, though, are no match for what Sir Fitzwilliam Darcy finds waiting for him in London.

Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan's elite Narcotics unit - and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he'll lift the bounty only if she retrieves an ancient iron demon mask that was stolen from him in a daring raid. However, Mariko has no idea of the tumultuous past carried within the mask - or of its deadly link with the famed Inazuma blade she wields.

Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth. Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer—a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

In Prague researching the legend of the Golem, a fantastical "living" creature made of clay, archaeologist Annja Creed is faced with an even bigger mystery on her hands when someone begins murdering the homeless. And every day there's a fresh corpse. As the suspicion that Golem is behind the deaths circulates quietly on the streets of the city, Annja cannot resist unraveling the thread that binds science to superstition. According to Czech history, these aren't new attacks.

Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it's up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind. But for Hayden, Isla is more than a sworn enemy. She is temptation.Taking Isla captive, Hayden hopes to avenge his kinsmen who died by Druid magic. But when he looks into Isla's eyes, he sees the secrets of her past. When he touches her skin, he feels the passion in her soul. And soon Hayden comes to realize that this beautiful, beguiling woman is not his enemy at all - she is his destiny.

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?

Behind every myth there is a spark of truth.... There's nothing special about Ben Garston. Or so he'd have you believe. He won't tell you, for instance, that he's also known as Red Ben. Or that the world of myth and legend is more real than you think. Because it's his job to keep all that a secret. But now a centuries-old rivalry has resurfaced, and the delicate balance between his world and ours is about to be shattered.

Hex is a visceral depiction of what happens when a society is consumed by fear and superstition, exploring how the terrible force of a king's violent crusade against ordinary women can still be felt, right up to the present day.

There are all kinds of detectives. Some are tougher than others. But Frank O'Brien is a strange anomaly of toughness mingled with compassion, resulting from his unusual background. After 12 years in a Jesuit seminary, Frank left to pursue a career in the FBI. Now, teamed up with his wife Mary Teresa, a teacher at St. Joseph's School, he uses both his knowledge of the human soul and his experience in the crime lab to track criminals.

When the lucky survivors of the world’s most infamous maritime disaster were plucked out of the freezing ocean by the passenger steamship Carpathia, they thought their problems were over. But something is sleeping in the darkest recesses of their rescue ship. Something old. Something hungry.

Four months ago, Cassandra Harwood was the first woman magician in Angland, and she was betrothed to the brilliant, intense love of her life. Now Cassandra is trapped in a snowbound house party deep in the elven dales, surrounded by bickering gentleman magicians, manipulative lady politicians, her own interfering family members, and, worst of all, her infuriatingly stubborn ex-fiance, who refuses to understand that she's given him up for his own good.

The Herbarium, an enchanted sacred text written by the ancients, is safely hidden in a monastery outside of Chartres, or is it? In present day California, thirty-something Paige Delaney is struggling to cope. Since the death of her husband, she's felt lost, aimless, and frustrated. At the urging of her best friend, she accepts an invitation to join a Wiccan ceremony. And it's a night that changes everything. Haunted by the vivid apparition she sees in the bonfire, Paige is sent reeling when her mother reveals a long-kept family secret: that Paige is a descendant of a powerful line of witches

Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. But when Hal and Roberto find Cleo murdered in the forest near her home, it appears she may have been telling the truth. Her last request sends them journeying to Egypt, where it quickly becomes clear that Cleo has set them on the search of a lifetime: the search for the lost graves of Marc Antony and Cleopatra.

En el verano de 1940 Vivian Morris llega a Manhattan con 19 años y tan solo una maleta y una máquina de coser, empujada por sus desesperados padres. Aunque su especial talento con la aguja y su dedicación a lograr el peinado perfecto no le han servido de gran cosa en la prestigiosa universidad de Vassar, la convertirán en la modista estrella del Lily Playhouse, el decadente teatro de variedades de su poco convencional tía Peg.

When the war-scarred Viscount Penrydd washes up in 1799 Newport minus his memory, Gwenllian ap Ewyas decides not to tell him he owns, and threatened to sell, the property she’s made a refuge for her and other lost souls. Gwen found healing from her haunted past by making St. Sefin’s into a sanctuary for the hurt and abandoned, and she’ll do anything to preserve the place—including lie to the English lord who owns it until she can win him to her cause. But making Penrydd her stableboy is a dangerous game, especially when he’s a target for an outside menace moving into Newport.

Band 2 der Daevabad-Trilogie. Jetzt da sich die Heimstätte aller Dschinns – Daevabad – in den Nachwehen einer verheerenden Schlacht befindet, steht die junge Heilerin Nahri vor der wichtigsten Entscheidung ihres Lebens. Doch wenn sie ihr Erbe – und damit gleichsam unermessliche Macht – annehmen sollte, wartet ein goldener Käfig auf sie – argwöhnisch beäugt von einem Herrscher, der auf dem Thron sitzt, der einst Nahris Familie gehörte. Epische Fantasy überbordend gefüllt mit schillernder Magie, mächtigen Intrigen, unvergesslichen Charakteren und großartigem World-Building.

Daevabad ist gefallen! Nachdem die Stadt durch eine brutale Eroberung ihrer Magie beraubt wurde, müssen die Anführerin der Nahid, Banu Manizheh, und ihr wiederauferstandener Heeresführer Dara versuchen, ihr zerrüttetes Bündnis zu kitten und ein zerstrittenes, kriegerisches Volk zu einen. Doch der Blutzoll des Angriffs auf die Stadt und der Verlust seiner geliebten Nahri haben die schlimmsten Geister aus Daras dunkler Vergangenheit entfesselt. Um sie auszulöschen, muss er sich unangenehmen Wahrheiten stellen und sich der Gnade derer ausliefern, die er einst als Feinde betrachtete.

Band 1 der Daevabad-Trilogie. Nahri hat nie an die Magie geglaubt. Sie besitzt zwar gewisse Kräfte und gilt auf den Straßen Kairos im 18. Jahrhundert als äußerst talentierte Frau, doch sie weiß es besser. Denn sie schlägt sich nur mit billigen Tricks und Handlesen durch. Als Nahri jedoch versehentlich Dara beschwört, einen ebenso gerissenen wie unheimlichen Dschinnkrieger, sieht sie sich gezwungen, ihre Ansichten zu ändern.

Der Busausflug nach Prag und ins Banat läuft anders, als der junge Len sich je hätte ausmalen können. Auch wenn seine Großmutter immer behauptet hatte, er sei ein Drăculești und der letzte Nachfahre von Vlad II, hat er selbst nie daran geglaubt. Bis er in Prag von Vampiren gejagt wird – denn Vlad und seine Familie galten als erbitterte Feinde der Blutsauger. Nun fürchten sie, dass Len ein Vorbote ist: für die Rückkehr der Schwarzen Königin! Sie wollen über ihn an die alten magisch-alchemistischen Aufzeichnungen der geheimnisvollen Herrscherin. Dumm nur, dass Len nicht den blassesten Schimmer hat.

Chicago socialite and art patron Geneva Langley has brought scandal to her family for the last time. Her latest and boldest act of immodesty is too much for her father to bear, and he banishes her to Seattle, along with her scheming, ambitious husband, Nathan. Seattle is a far cry from Chicago—the streets are muddy, the society backward, and Ginny feels stifled and alone.