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Unweit vom Schloss Black Mirror erscheint der jung vermählten Cathrin Gordon eine geheimnisvolle Frau. Wer ist die Fremde, die im nächtlichen Wald umherirrt...

Wie digitale Spiegelbilder wissen Mirrors stets, was ihre Besitzer wollen, fühlen, brauchen. Sie steuern subtil das Verhalten der Menschen und sorgen dafür, dass jeder sich wohlfühlt. Als die Journalistin Freya bemerkt, dass sich ihr Mirror merkwürdig verhält, beginnt sie sich zu fragen, welche Macht diese Geräte haben. Dann lernt sie den autistischen Andy kennen und entdeckt, dass sich die Mirrors immer mehr in das Leben ihrer Besitzer einmischen - auch gegen deren Willen. Als sie mit ihrem Wissen an die Öffentlichkeit geht, hat das unabsehbare Folgen...

Detective Cait Reagan, forever changed by her relationship with Marcella Carson, has survived the opening of the Black Gate and the vampire curse. Now, seemingly cured, Cait has a new lease on her mortal life, but difficulties beset her at every turn. Cait’s mother, Róisín, is neurologically devastated, unable to function without constant supervision, and her reunion with Morgan Kennedy, the first woman she ever loved, is downright awkward. In the meantime, Cait struggles to raise Katie, the sixteen-year-old vampire she turned in a desperate bid to save her life.

Tödliche Intrigen, die ihren Tribut fordern. Eine Vergangenheit, die geheim bleiben sollte. Unbändiges Verlangen, das niemals gestillt werden kann. Zurück auf der Insel, behalten die Lords Madison streng im Auge. Sie würde alles tun, um ihren Bruder zu befreien. Und genau vor diesem Fehler wollen sie Madison bewahren. Während der Zeit im Schloss versorgt Madison die Lords, damit sie sich von ihren Verletzungen erholen können. Dabei erfährt sie mehr von ihrer dunklen Vergangenheit und lernt die Abgründe der dunklen Gesellschaft kennen. Doch für sie ist es kein Grund, um zu fliehen, denn obwohl es ihr schwerfällt, sich ihre Gefühle einzugestehen, bleibt sie.

One bitter Midwinter's Eve, everything changes when Bridei finds a child on their doorstep - a child abandoned by the Fair Folk. It is the height of ill fortune to have truck with the Fair Folk, and all in the area counsel the babe's death. But Bridei sees an old and precious magic at work and, heedless of the danger, fights to save the child. Broichan is wary but relents, for Bridei must grow to be his own man and make his own decisions.

You probably won't like my story. Heck, I'm not sure if I even like it myself. Between getting burned at the stake and being drowned, almost twice, it's quite a lot to swallow. I'm not sure where it all went wrong. Everything was going fine my freshman year of college as a history major. I had a full-time job as a paramedic and any girl I wanted was mine. When tragedy struck our family, I found myself in France with my sister, Jules. And she just had to touch that mirror. She had to get us transported to the middle ages. 1155 A.D., to be exact. What. The. Hell.

The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life - until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York...

Years ago, Heart’s Eye, a school built on top of a nexus point, was attacked and captured by a necromancer. The nexus point was snuffed out, the handful of survivors forced to flee, and the once great school turned into a forward base for a necromantic invasion. All seemed lost, until Emily killed the necromancer and retook the school. Now, she intends to lay the building blocks for a university, a place where magical knowledge and mundane technology are brought together for the benefit of all. But dark secrets lie within the shadowed school.

Though relations between Princess Seraphin Fitzempress and her father have been strained, Sera’s royal position has remained unchallenged. Filled with self-doubt, she struggles to grasp the Mysteries - her greatest trial yet. An education in the enigmatic magic is a necessary one, should Sera plan to rise in her station and invoke her powers during war. But the emperor’s death now leaves both Sera and her ambitious father eligible for the throne - a contest the prince regent intends to win. Even if it means an alliance with a rival empire.

Voted the world's most beautiful woman, 23-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, plus top modelling and endorsement deals, Mira's meteoric rise to fame comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life. But celebrity extracts its pound of flesh. Threatened and harassed online, stalked by besotted fans, beaten up by a man who claims to love her, Mira is assailed on all sides. Home isn't safe, friends can't be trusted, freedoms melt away.

A diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past from the authors of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Wife Stalker. ""Jaw-dropping twists with an unsettling edge that you’ll need a few days at the beach to...