Spider's Trap

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.

In a realm where one’s magical power determines one’s worth, Lady Everleigh’s lack of obvious ability relegates her to the shadows of the royal court of Bellona, a kingdom steeped in gladiator tradition. Seventeenth in line for the throne, Evie is nothing more than a ceremonial fixture, overlooked and mostly forgotten. But dark forces are at work inside the palace. When her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, assassinates her mother the queen and takes the throne by force, Evie is also attacked, along with the rest of the royal family.

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.

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.

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.

Still grieving the death of her guardian and dangerously self-medicating with alcohol, Bleak is snatched from her home by the Commander of the King's Army and summoned to the capital. But the king isn't the only one interested in Bleak's powers. The leader of an infamous society of warriors, the Valia Kindred, lays claim to her as well, and Bleak finds herself in the middle of a much bigger battle than she anticipated.

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.

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.

Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn't the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like mine, I don't have many options. Dangerous or not, the job is mine. And it was going fine, until an old-as-sin vampire stole my mark, and with it, my pay day. Knowing I'm poor and desperate, he has offered me a job. I'll have to work by his side to help solve a top secret case. Everyone knows not to trust vampires. Especially a hot elder vampire.

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.