Contemporary fantasy Books

Die böse Fee Nüssli hat die Prinzessin von San Lorenzo mit einem Zauber belegt, der sie daran hindert, den Weg ihres Glücks zu finden. Doch die gute Fee Lamina und der Zwerg Jorge zeigen ihr neue Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten, das Leben zu verändern. Nur...

The worst is not what happens.The worst is what every mother fears could happen.Imagination collides with maternal fear in this bold collection of troubling, twisted tales from a fiction writer who isn't afraid to plumb the often terrifying emotional...

Erik West ist ehemaliger Kampfsanitäter. Er und sein bester Freund Jimmy Rugrat Rodriguez, Scharfschütze des US Marine Corps, sind in eine andere Welt geschleudert worden. Sie sind zu Verfluchten geworden. Nun müssen sie sich in dieser fantastisch...

Welchen Preis würdest du zahlen, um die System-Apokalypse zu überleben?Die Onlivik-Sporen sind besiegt und der Dungeon wurde gezähmt, aber der Preis dafür war hoch. John und seine Freunde sind von den Verlusten geschockt, aber der Countdown zur vollen...

A different kind of fae.Mysterious and tragic, Madame Tan's menagerie is a twilight zone between two worlds. It's filled with fantastic animals never before seen on Earth. But Madame is a sinister creature. She also displays sentient beings she steals...

More than commentary on today's society, this dystopian novel which comes to pass in the future of our world defines the dynamic problems assaulting our basic societal drives. Transpiring simultaneously during the dramatic events of Purgatory One, the...

Alien rights advocate Rowan Layne feels as if she's spiraling down a rabbit hole when two hot-as-lava males approach her in Las Vegas, revealing where they're from and what they seek-without her having to ask myriad questions.In this sixth Other Worldly...

<b>SOME ARE LED BY DESIRE,</b>After the mysterious death of the kingdom's queen ushers in a deadly plague, Carnaxa, Princess of Antalis, is promised to a rival kingdom. As ancient prophecies unfold, not only is Carnaxa in danger, but the fate...

Ingrid Torfudottir juggled two separate lives for the longest time. In one life she struggled at aspiring to be a professional book illustrator, living with her grandmother in a Minnesotan fishing town on the North Shore of Lake Superior. In the other,...

Open a book. Read a spell. Whoop, there he is... a demon.The last single friend in her group and tired of being stood up by her girls, a drunken Rayna turns to her first love, a book. After jokingly casting a spell her favorite character used to conjure...

Reva Quinn has good reason not to believe in magic. With her life in Seattle in pieces after a mental health spiral, she has nowhere to go but to her eccentric Aunt Sandra's all-women commune on the Oregon coast. But this refuge isn't just for women;...

A perfect comedic fantasy for fans of Gaiman and Pratchett's GOOD OMENS, SHAUN OF THE DEAD and THE WORLD'S END.Arthur Crazy is drunk and seeing ghosts.This is not a metaphor. The dead are walking and talking, and it doesn't matter that Arthur doesn't...

Where do you hide when monsters threaten humanity?You don't!Ride along as Red teams up with the Angel of Death to take the fight to the Infected.Scan, using his Gift to see magical threads, fights to save the once fame-hungry dwarf, Harry. Grundle, the...

Return to the Shelter of HomeA month after returning to Lightning Gap, Virginia, Kim Mullins finally feels at home. Relaxed. Ready to recover from years of hectic city life and too many broken hearts.Steph Holfield needs the shelter of her family to heal...

What does it take to wake a sleeping demon? A couple of college kids, a lot of angst, and a bit of karma.Joanie pays her tuition bills with her body. She keeps work and life separate till she meets Clayton. At first glance, he's a typical college john,...

Two swords stand in a pool of blood. A ring lies in a pile of ashes. Has the promised legacy come to a gruesome end?When evil marched on the homestead of a family friend, Dar called in blood oaths sworn to him to defend the castle. Now he's imprisoned,...

Her brother is alive. But his path has been dark. Will it be the reunion of her dreams or a killer nightmare? Shortly after Dar and Etain return home, his mind begins to unravel. As the brutal past ravages into the present, grisly visions threaten his...

When the river rises, there'll be blood on my hands.The Penhaligons are tracking the coven as they wreak havoc abroad-creating new vaewolves, attracting wraiths, building an army.Violet knows this: an attack will come when the river rises.What she...

Perry Jacobs is a witch with a secret - namely, she's cursed with eternal bad luck.It's only natural that Perry has made it her mission to hunt magical monsters, since she already attracts them in droves, but she doesn't expect her latest assignment to...

As the town of Fairy Falls holds the paranormal world's annual Halloween celebrations, Blair finds herself playing host to the leaders of the region's most prestigious witch covens. Donating her room to a grumpy elderly witch is bad enough, but when a...

Blair Wilkes faces her toughest challenge yet: meeting her boyfriend Nathan's family. That means being on her best 'normal' behaviour -- no weirdness, no magic, and definitely no unexpected appearances from her unpredictable cat, Sky.Blair's life is...

Blair's life is starting to look up. Life is back to normal, she's found a clue about her family history, and her relationship with Nathan might finally be getting somewhere.Naturally, that's when a dead body shows up in her boss's office.With the...

Another day, another magical monster to hunt.Perry and her new team have barely had time to recover from their first mission before they're assigned to another - this one taking them outside of their castle as they travel to a small fishing community to...

Welcome to Hawkwood Hollow, where the dead outnumber the living.Maura has faced her fair share of monsters since moving to the haunted town of Hawkwood Hollow. When a series of disappearances in the area suggests a more sinister cause than a simple...

What's it like to live forever?Alicia is about to find out...Just because you don't grow old, it doesn't mean you won't die a violent death at the hands of your broodmates. Or the Queen who laid your egg.From the moment she hatches in the Derwent Sídhe,...

Welcome to Soulshade Academy, where the ancient arts of witchcraft and spiritual energy converge to illuminate the path towards mastery and enlightenment; where the veil between worlds is thin, and the possibilities are endless...Late for class due to a...

What the Giants were Saying was simultaneously David Rix's first book and the first release from the quietly maverick Eibonvale Press back in 2005. A ferocious, visceral and shocking fable on art and creativity ... and blood, and flesh, and madness, and...

No one returns from Ikiri.Reece's gang of criminal jazz musicians have taken shelter in the wrong house. There's a girl with red eyes bound to a chair. The locals call her a devil - but Reece sees a kid that needs protecting. He's more right than he...

A journey through the realm of the dead.A threat that will change the world.A choice that might save everything-or end it all.As natural disasters sweep Earthside, a mutant army rises in the Borderlands, driven by the dark force behind the Shadow...

People are supposed to be thrilled about getting shiny new magical powers.At least, that's what reluctant shaman Joanne Walker always imagined. But shamanic healing comes with expectations and duties way beyond her comfort zone, and she would like...

Then the school bell rang, indicating the start of school.My mrst class was anthropology. Sometipes I wondered why theschool had this subject. I realized that this school is a prestigiousschool with high standards, but the subject was thoroughly useless.

"What would you like to have miss?" She asked me politely."Red wine please," I answer softly. She comes back a minute laterwith my drink in hand and sets it on the table. "Thank you." I breathe.I take a sip of my drink as I feel a man walk up to me and...

I was seeing Vera for the last time, she's going under, wanting toraise her unborn child in bliss, with a different name, skin, story. Witha different life."I won't show my new face to anyone, not even you. Cut I promiseyou, when I see you I'll make sure...

But not as much as the look, over the years I had gotten extremelygood at znding this look. It was very Jeeting and if you blinked you'dmiss it, you'd miss the moment where their eyes went wide and theirskin ghostly pale. It was the look they gave when...

Le nain tournait en rond, nerveux. Il ne pouvaits'empêcher de penser que c'était de sa faute."Il ne faut pas s'inquiéter, chercha à les rassurer le pyromage. Il acertainement pris un peu de retard pour rentrer, il va revenir. Il nedoit pas être loin.

Feeling my heart drop from my chestb I closed the door and strug-gled to breath as I ran back to my room and fell down on the bed.what is wrong with me?The only person I knew I needed right now was my mom.

Don't look back.Twenty-year-old Léa Young is conflicted. Making an alliance might not have been the worst idea in the world, but it has come with some complications. Niesha has a plan to escape the Rift Zone, but it depends on all of them being able to...

Shattered Secrets ▪ Malevolent Life Forms ▪ Perilous MissionsThe fate of the world is in Kori Ember's hands again. She is about to embark on the longest seven days of her life. Kori, no longer the reluctant heroine, is making a life for herself when a...

Dougal, leads a quiet, unexceptional life with his rescue dog, Bounce, at least he did! But after getting a visit from a peculiar looking dwarf, and finding out he is being hunted by entities from a shadow realm. He begins to realise; reality is not...

GOD LOVES YOU JUST AS YOU ARE, RIGHT NOWTHE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell, is an allegorical Fiction/Fantasy/Science Fiction tale which finds ANN NELSON, who is in HEAVEN, preparing her new life game (one life-time on the planet you choose - Ann chooses...

Asher Paterson who is just thirteen years old is taken between the stars, time, and space, to a dimension known as The Portal Realm! One thing is certain he'll never be the same again!Asher Paterson lives in Neptune City, New Jersey. He has just turned...

When Sasha starts to investigate a series of murders she finds herself caught in a web of danger and deception - and it'll take everything she's got to stay alive.

Welcome to a world in which only one percent of the population is human, where fighting for survival doesn't always mean staying alive, and where dying is just another part of everyday life. Enter at your own risk if you dare!

Smart people say the Chicxulub impactor asteroid that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula sixty-five million years ago, give or take, wiped out the dinosaurs, along with most other life on the planet, this unfortunate occurrence known today as the...