In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption… or a dark love that defies the gods themselves

Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire – her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her, redemption feels impossible.

But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she’s forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.

Yet, Mische’s punishment may be the key to her salvation. In a secret meeting, her sun god commands her to help Asar in his mission, only to betray him… by killing the very death god she’ll help resurrect.

Mische and Asar must travel the treacherous path to the underworld, facing trials, beasts, and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts. Yet, most dangerous of all is the alluring call of the darkness – and her forbidden attraction to Asar, a burgeoning bond that risks invoking the wrath of gods.

As her betrayal looms, the underworld closes in and angry gods are growing restless. Mische will be forced to choose between the redemption of the sun or the damnation of the darkness.

Als Sloane – besser bekannt als »Blackbird« – auf den »Butcher« Rowan trifft, finden die beiden rivalisierenden Serienkiller etwas Unerwartetes: das Verständnis einer gleichgesinnten dunklen Seele. Kurzentschlossen beginnen sie ein Spiel, das sie quer durch die USA führt. Von den dunklen Gassen Bostons bis zum ländlichen Texas treffen sie in einem jährlichen Wettkampf aufeinander, bei dem sie gegen die gefährlichsten Mörder des Landes antreten. Während ihre freundschaftlichen Gefühle immer leidenschaftlicher werden, sind die Killer, die sie zu Fall bringen wollen, bereit, mehr als nur die aufkeimende Liebe von Sloane und Rowan zu zerstören. Haben die beiden zwar einander, aber am Ende auch ihren Meister gefunden? Klar ist: Jedes Spiel braucht einen Gewinner …

Jedes Jahr steht Blue Sargent neben ihrer hellseherisch begabten Mutter, während die Geister derer vorbeiziehen, die im kommenden Jahr sterben werden. Blue selbst sieht sie nie - bis zu diesem Jahr, als ein Junge aus der Dunkelheit auftaucht und sie anspricht.

Sein Name ist Gansey, und Blue findet bald heraus, dass er ein “Raven Boy” ist - ein reicher Schüler von Aglionby, der örtlichen Privatschule. Eigentlich hält Blue sich von Aglionby fern, denn Raven Boys bedeuten nichts als Ärger. Und Gansey ist nicht allein: Gemeinsam mit Adam, dem Stipendiaten, der sich über die Privilegien um ihn herum ärgert; Ronan, dessen Emotionen von Wut bis Verzweiflung reichen; und Noah, dem schweigsamen Beobachter, der vieles bemerkt, aber wenig sagt, ist er auf einer geheimen Queste.

Solange sie sich erinnern kann, wurde Blue gewarnt, dass sie den Tod ihrer wahren Liebe herbeiführen wird. Sie dachte nie, dass sie sich verlieben würde. Aber jetzt, als sie in die geheimnisvolle Welt der Raven Boys gerät, ist sie sich nicht mehr so sicher.

To learn what she can become, she must first discover who she is.

Katyani’s role in the kingdom of Chandela has always been clear: becoming an advisor and protector of the crown prince, Ayan, when he ascends to the throne. Bound to the Queen of Chandela through a forbidden soul bond that saved her when she was a child, Katyani has grown up in the royal family and become the best guardswoman the Garuda has ever seen. But when a series of assassination attempts threatens the royals, Katyani is shipped off to the gurukul of the famous Acharya Mahavir as an escort to Ayan and his cousin, Bhairav, to protect them as they hone the skills needed to be the next leaders of the kingdom. Nothing could annoy Katyani more than being stuck in a monastic school in the middle of a forest, except her run-ins with Daksh, the Acharya’s son, who can’t stop going on about the rules and whose gaze makes her feel like he can see into her soul.

But when Katyani and the princes are hurriedly summoned back to Chandela before their training is complete, tragedy strikes and Katyani is torn from the only life she has ever known. Alone and betrayed in a land infested by monsters, Katyani must find answers from her past to save all she loves and forge her own destiny. Bonds can be broken, but debts must be repaid.

From an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy comes The Raven Scholar, a masterfully woven and playfully inventive tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar’s quest to uncover the truth.

Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, Bersun the Brusque must end his reign. In the dizzying heat of mid-summer, seven contenders compete to replace him. They are exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists—the best of the best.

Then one of them is murdered.

It falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor’s brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer before the trials end. To do so, she must untangle a web of deadly secrets that stretches back generations, all while competing against six warriors with their own dark histories and fierce ambitions. Neema believes she is alone. But we are here to help; all she has to do is let us in.

If she succeeds, she will win the throne. If she fails, death awaits her. But we won’t let that happen.

We are the Raven, and we are magnificent.

Amerika in den 30er Jahren. In die idyllische Südstaaten-Kindheit der achtjährigen Scout und ihres älteren Bruders Jem drängt sich die brutale Wirklichkeit aus Vorurteilen und Rassismus. Scouts Vater Atticus, ein menschenfreundlicher Anwalt, soll den schwarzen Landarbeiter Tom Robinson verteidigen, der angeblich ein weißes Mädchen vergewaltigt hat. Tapfer versuchen Scout und ihr Bruder, das demokratische Gerechtigkeitsempfinden ihres Vaters zu unterstützen, und geraten dabei selbst in große Gefahr.

The city of George Iowa wasn’t known for much, but that all changed when the naked body of a headless woman was discovered tied to a cross in the middle of an Iowa cornfield with the numbers 317 branded into her chest. Local Police Chief Dale Morgan finds himself way in way over his head (pun intended) and he wasn’t afraid to admit it.

Special Agent Nathan Blackwood, of the FBI, is called into assist in the investigation. Given the ritualistic display, Blackwood surmises that the killer, who the media has dubbed the Scarecrow, is leaving a message for someone. But to who, and why are a mystery. But the most important question on everyone’s mind is how many more messages will he send.

Agent Blackwood finds himself immersed in a fast paced, ever unfolding investigation spanning three states and multiple jurisdictions. Will he be able to clip the Scarecrow’s wings before he can fly the coop, or will the killer leave more bodies in their wake that even a parliament of crows couldn’t eat?

A future chieftain.

Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.

A fugitive prince.

When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses—and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns.

A too-cunning bodyguard.

Hawk warrior Tavin has always put Jas’s life before his, magically assuming the prince’s appearance and shadowing his every step. But what happens when Tavin begins to want something to call his own?

Dangerous magic, a tormented romance, and lethal betrayals come to a head in the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow.

As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she?s hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the beginning of Queen Rhusana's ruthless bid for the throne.

Queen Rhusana wins popular support by waging a brutal campaign against the Crows, blaming them for the poisonous plague that wracks the nation.

A desperate Fie clings onto a prophecy that a long-forgotten god will return and provide a cure to the plague. Fie must team up with old friends? and an old flame? to track down a dead god and save her people.

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series.

Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.

The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies—known as the kindly ones—against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three will emerge.

The Academy’s halls run with blood. The few that survive its decade-long nightmare have been forged on the sands of the Wound Garden. They have learned ancient secrets amid the necrotic fumes of the Bone Garden. They leave its gates as avatars of vengeance, bound to uphold the oldest of laws.

Only the most desperate would sell their child to the Kindnesses. But Rue … she sold herself. And now, a lifetime later, a long and bloody lifetime later, just as she has discovered peace, war has been brought to an old woman’s doorstep.

That was a mistake.