It's not as great as you'd think, living in a tourist town that's known as "the most magical place in America". Same boring high school, just twice as many monsters under the bridges and rival Families killing each other for power. I try to keep out of it. I've got my mom's bloodiron sword and my slightly illegal home in the basement of the municipal library. And a couple of Talents I try to keep quiet, including very light fingers and a way with a lock pick.

Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful and ruthless Assassin's Guild, Celaena yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer for hire, Sam. When Celaena's scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, she finds herself acting independently of his wishes - and questioning her own allegiance. Along the way, she makes friends and enemies alike, and discovers that she feels far more for Sam than just friendship.

Die 17-jährige Lila Merriweather verfügt über außergewöhnliche Talente. Sobald sie einem Menschen in die Augen blickt, kann sie in dessen Seele lesen. Zudem beherrscht die Waise sogenannte Übertragungsmagie - jede auf sie gerichtete Magie macht sie stärker. Doch Lila hält ihre magischen Fähigkeiten geheim, denn sie hat einen nicht ganz ungefährlichen Nebenjob: Sie ist eine begnadete Auftragsdiebin.

Mit ihrer "Frost"-Reihe begeisterte Jennifer Estep unzählige Fans in Deutschland. Doch ist der Kampf gegen Lokis Schnitter wirklich vorüber? Auf der Mythos Academy in Colorado geschehen besorgniserregende Ereignisse, aber nur wenige erkennen die Zeichen. Rory Forseti ist eine von ihnen. Trotz ihres jungen Alters hat sich die Spartanerin bereits im Kampf gegen Loki bewiesen. Dennoch ist sie eine Außenseiterin an ihrer Schule, denn ihre Eltern waren Schnitter - Verbrecher im Dienste Lokis. Rorys Vorsätze, endlich Freunde zu finden, werden über den Haufen geworfen, als sie Zeugin eines Mordes wird.

They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South -- when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don't use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.

Since the moment I was ripped from my mother's womb, I've been an outcast among my own kind. The Sidhe might possess magical Gifts, unbelievable wealth, and unfathomable power, but I don't want a thing to do with them. I ran away from their lands in the Highlands of Scotland when I was 11 years old, and I've never looked back. I don't need a clan. I've got my own family of highly skilled thieves who mean more to me than any Sidhe ever could.

It all started when infected bats bit a small group of humans and created what are now called vampires. Then, the male vampires knocked up some female humans, and the result was a gorgeous race of all male ash - superhuman freaks that had looks to kill. Charlie is the first female ash, aka unicorn of the Hive - the gated compound in Portland that the humans have designated to isolate vampires and ash from society.

These Royals will ruin you...Ella Harper is a survivor - a pragmatic optimist. She's spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she'll climb out of the gutter. After her mother's death, Ella is truly alone. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums.

Mack might be, to all intents and purposes, a normal looking human, but she lives with a pack of shapeshifters in Cornwall in rural England after being dumped there by her mother when she was just a young child. She desperately wants to be accepted by her surrogate family, not least because a lot of them hate her for merely being human, but for some reason her blood just won't allow the transformation to occur.

In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa. Her life will be one of servitude to the sols, the magic-blessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods. At least her outer village is far removed from the cities of the sols, and she won't ever be forced to present herself to them... Until one small mistake changes everything, and Willa is awarded a position to serve at Blesswood, the top sol academy in the world - a position that she definitely did not earn.

Gin Blanco ist eine Auftragsmörderin, bekannt unter dem Namen "Die Spinne". Geduldig liegt sie auf der Lauer, nähert sich ihren ahnungslosen Opfern und schlägt im richtigen Augenblick zu. Gnadenlos. Doch als sich ihr neuester Auftrag als Falle entpuppt, stürzt Gins Welt ins Chaos. Welcher ihrer unzähligen Feinde kennt ihre wahre Identität? Um ihren Gegner zu enttarnen, muss die Spinne ihr Netz verlassen und die Seite wechseln. Doch das Letzte, was man im Kampf gegen übermächtige Elementarmagie braucht, ist Ablenkung - besonders in Form des sexy Detectivs Donovan Caine.

Silberglanz ist eine beschauliche Stadt in einer winterlichen Welt. Doch die Schönheit der von glitzerndem Schnee bedeckten Landschaft ist trügerisch. Seit Jahrzehnten ist das Land im ewigen Winter gefangen, es droht unter den Schneemassen zu ersticken. Alles ändert sich, als die 24-jährige Emma in die Chocolaterie von Madame Weltfremd kommt und diese ihr ein Märchen erzählt, das Märchen der silbernen Königin.

Saiya Buchanan is a wraith, able to detach her shadow from her body and send it off to do her bidding. But, unlike most of her kin, Saiya doesn't deal in death. Instead, she trades secrets - and in the goblin besieged city of Stirling in Scotland, they're a highly prized commodity. It might just be, however, that the goblins have been hiding the greatest secret of them all. When Gabriel de Florinville, a Dark Elf, is sent as royal envoy into Stirling and takes her prisoner, Saiya is not only going to uncover the sinister truth.

Bo Blackman is a rookie private investigator working for the London based firm of Dire Straits. She doesn't often get triber-based assignments, which is just as well. Vampires and daemons don't interest her as much as humans do... However, when she has to serve a summons on a dodgy daemon called Devlin O'Shea and she ends up saving his life instead of being framed for his murder, her life takes a shocking turn for the worse.

Something has always been missing from my life. A hole that I could never seem to fill. When I accidentally turn a coven of witches into nightmares, I find out what that something is. Magic. And it turns out, I have a crap load of it. As a latent power awakens deep inside of me, I'm exposed to one of the most powerful and corrupt organizations in the magical world - the Mages' Guild. Barely knowing a spell from a few swear words and luck, I won't be able to evade them alone. And that's when I meet him.