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When an old friend reaches out to Ellie, asking for help locating her missing coven members, she's ready for her big comeback. Witchlight is financing the op, and it feels damn good to be official again. But when her friend's lies begin to unravel, Ellie realizes she's let her ego lead her into a trap. And she's brought her coven down with her. With the girls' lives on the line, Ellie has to decide what's more important-reliving her glory days or saving her best friends from a permanent retirement.

Not everything is down to Fate but, when it comes to love, the right people must collide to keep the world running to plan. Immortal cupids, known as Apollo agents, spend their afterlife matching up pre-destined couples to sign off their daily quota. Love cynic, Erron Grover, and hopeless romantic, Casey Hart, are two such agents based in London. They live an afterlife of luxury until several of their assignments result in a bizarre series of deaths.

As one of Earth's Guardians, one girl finds herself in a bond that might be the death of her. Elementals don't mix. They fight over territories constantly and news of their battles is everywhere. Vela, an Earth Elemental, wants two things: to one day run her very own flower shop and get over a devastating fire she experienced as a child. When Linc, a Fire Elemental, strolls into her life, she is immediately thrown into chaos when a bond flares up, connecting them forever. Linc pursues her relentlessly, for connections like this are rare, but Vela wants nothing to do with it or him.

Reeling from the events that revealed other witches were behind the attack on Reuben and Caspian, the White Haven witches don’t know who to trust. The search for those who betrayed them tests their resources and their abilities, and as the fallout shatters alliances, they draw on their friends for support. But it’s not easy. The path they follow is dark and twisted and leads them in directions they can’t predict.

Alice Henderson was a legend at Wicklow College long before she took a header three and a half stories from her apartment window to the sidewalk below. Savanna Robinson has only been teaching at Wicklow College of the Arcane Arts for two months, and the body count is already alarming. Her friend, Kelly Grace, is ghost writing Alice's memoir-filled with illicit affairs and covert espionage while working for the CIA.

Was bist du bereit zu tun, um die zu beschützen, die du liebst? Die junge Hexe und Gerichtsmedizinerin Daphne ist erschüttert: Ihr Chicagoer Hexenzirkel wird von einem Mörder heimgesucht, der eine moderne Hexenjagd veranstaltet und ihre Freundinnen bei lebendigem Leib verbrennt. Um den Unbekannten aufzuhalten, muss sie wohl oder übel mit dem charmanten FBI-Agent Steven Rhys zusammenarbeiten, auch wenn sie sich der seltsamen Anziehungskraft, die sie in seiner Nähe spürt, lieber entziehen würde.

She's back online! Harriet-Jacqui Furl with her twenty-eight original dystopian sci-fi, dark fantasy, and bitter-sweet romance stories. HJ Furl subjects disarmingly vulnerable characters to distressing conflict in a world of isolation and controversy. Is It Today? They meet their fate? What will you do when the harsh realities of modern life become too much for you to bear? Will fantasy be your only salvation? Is It Today?

Kit Melbourne is looking forward to motherhood. So when her cousin-in-law’s bear-shifter children are kidnapped by werewolves, her awakening maternal instincts insist she bring them home. But with a price on their young heads, Kit finds herself in a race against time to recover them before they’re lost forever. Extracting vital information from a pack of vicious selkies, Kit pieces together a trail she hopes leads to the abductees. But with a brutal bounty hunter dogging her every step, it’s not just the lives of the kids in mortal danger …

No demons. No angels. No fairies or mythical beasts of the forest. The only fantastical element in The Wizard Within is Magic itself, a sentient being that lives within all of creation. This truth has been hidden from Eli Stone his whole life, leaving him unprepared to transition from homeless addict to becoming The Red, a leader intended to Pair with his counterpart Thorne Rios and Awaken the magic that has been suppressed in Seattle for over twenty years. Learning to believe in himself and trust others is key.

Eric Carter has a lot on his plate. He's hunting the Oracle of Las Vegas, a literal talking head that manipulates the future to make its prophecies come true. But it has a new trick. It can change the past, too. Now Jazz Age Los Angeles is invading the present. Long gone buildings suddenly restored, decommissioned Red Car trains appearing on paved over tracks, miles of the city changing back to orange groves. Throw in a hundred-year-old doomsday cult, time magic, and a terrifyingly powerful spell to raise the dead and it makes for a busy week.

In einer geheimnisvoll-düsteren Schattenwelt treffen rauschende Feste und höfische Intrigen einer adeligen Elite auf magischen Staub und zwielichtige Drogenkartelle. Was, wenn Albträume Realität werden könnten? In den Schatten von Paris herrscht Krieg. Seit Jahrhunderten halten die Saints monströse Albtraum-Kreaturen davon ab, in die reale Welt einzudringen. Doch während die mächtigen Adelsfamilien damit beschäftigt sind, sich untereinander zu bekämpfen, macht sich eine ganz andere Gefahr breit: Eine neue Droge lockt mehr und mehr Menschen in die Abgründe der Schattenräume.

Emma Case dreht total durch. Von Monstern umgeben zu sein, ist schon riskant genug, auch ohne gegen die Regeln zu verstoßen, aber als das sanftmütige Mädchen einen Welpen in Not hört, kann sie nicht widerstehen, sich auf verbotenes Terrain zu begeben. Nachdem sie herausgefunden hat, dass es sich bei der unglücklichen Kreatur um einen Wolfswandler handelt, ist sie fassungslos, dass das Rudel des Kleinen sie eines Verbrechens beschuldigt und sie entführt, um sie zu verhören.

Der Alchemist Perry Cole wurde durch einen unbekannten Gegner in einen kleinen, wuscheligen Hund verwandelt. Das ist nicht nur außerordentlich unpraktisch, sondern Perry kann so überhaupt nicht zaubern. Also sucht er Hilfe bei anderen Magiekundigen, vor allem der Hexe Miranda und dem grummeligen Zauberer Nexus. Gemeinsam versuchen sie, herauszufinden, was passiert ist und weshalb überall in der Welt Zauberer und Hexen verschwinden.

On the rural coast of Puglia, Italy, Becca and Ric run the Bastion, offering solace and a home for lost souls. Each year they welcome new members to join the Open Feast, where they teach them to release their burdens and create a better world, in a journey of self-discovery and spiritual teachings. But the Bastion has secrets. The Bastion has a destiny. Deep in the Inner Pinewood, a place of real magic and beauty, they are all that stands against the dark forces that would tear the sky wide open.

Quinlan knows the truth about who she is, though there's more going on than she knows about. So many secrets remain. And so many lives will be lost. Fintan and the true Veilman have plans. The human world is their target. Can Quinlan and her group save humanity?

Kelso Hart, the grim Knight of myth and legend, has been grievously wounded and is at death's door. The youngest Princess of the Dark, Ava Pentran, risked it all to save him and will risk yet more to see him recover. Storm clouds gather around from all sides as the two outcasts regroup at a safe harbor, surrounded by friends and companions, old and new. Enemies from the Dark, the Light, and the Other are all on the march, and Ava's shadowed half, the Dark Witch, may be the only force that can save them - but at what cost?

Er hat mich furchtbar schikaniert und mir verbotenerweise ein kleines, geheimes Mädchen geschenkt. Jetzt ist er wieder da, in unserer kleinen Stadt, und mein Rudel zwingt mich, mit ihm zu verhandeln.

Miriam Diaz has it all. Her full magic and knowledge of her past. Her father's love and blessing. Two powerful supernaturals who adore her and want to marry her. Friends who value her for who she is, not what she can do for them. A position on the Supernatural Council of the Americas. An award winning, successful bakery. She's faced the skeletons in her closet and defeated all her enemies. Her daughter is grown and starting her own life.

Боря Шустов — не вполне человек. С детства он знает, что ему предстоит болеть, терпеть и умереть ради того, чтобы мир стал чуточку лучше. Знает, что он и ему подобные нужны для того, чтобы предотвращать беды на планете — и цена этой способности слишком велика. Борина мама рано умерла — но осталась и в нем, и в его папе. В прямом смысле тоже. Борин папа честно старается исполнять свой долг, но он тоже не вполне человек, и долг его несколько выходит за рамки человеческого. Боря думает, что у него есть выбор. Думает, что он может жить отдельно, а мир отдельно.

Paranormal skeptic Zelda Tempest is hoping for a much-needed creativity boost for a new paranormal mystery novel. But despite the alleged magic of her hometown, Moonville, Ohio, she’s as stuck as ever. With two witch sisters, not believing in magic is strange for a Tempest, but no one is more disappointed than Morgan Angelopoulos, the charming man next door.