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Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father.

Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills. Nobody fights the...

They told David it was impossible - that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet, Steelheart - invincible, immortal, unconquerable - is dead. And he died by David's hand. Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life more simple. Instead, it only made David realize he has...

1192 AD - David de Lohr, the younger brother of the great Christopher de Lohr (Rise of the Defender), is a man who has lived his entire life in his prestigious older brother's shadow. While his brother was nicknamed "The Lion's Claw" as the right hand of Richard the Lionheart, David was nicknamed "The Lion Cub" because of his youth.

As the Uncrowned King tournament reaches its final rounds, tensions between the competing factions are higher than ever. The outcome may determine the power balance throughout the rest of the world. Each Monarch schemes to seize any advantage they can...while far away, a Dreadgod stirs. When the tournament ends, the Dreadgod will rise. Whether it will be driven back into the sea or allowed to rampage depends on the Monarchs. And on which of them is left standing.

Quaestor Grayson Steel hat Gefallen an der Arbeit als Ermittler in der magischen Gemeinschaft, der Nebula Convicto, gefunden. Seine Quadriga und er suchen weiterhin nach den Hintermännern rund um Sophias Entführung, welche beinahe zu einem Zusammenbruch der magischen Weltordnung geführt hätte. Während sie im Schwarzwald nach einem entlaufenen Basilisken suchen, werden Grayson und sein Team plötzlich unfreiwillig in eine abenteuerliche Schnitzeljagd hineingerissen. Bis zum nächsten Neumond sollen sie ein gestohlenes Artefakt zurückholen.

In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....

Ein halbes Jahr ist vergangen seit Inspector Grayson Steel und sein Team die Magische Hanse und ganz Norddeutschland gerettet haben. Grimmig sind sie auf der Spur der Verschwörer, die nun schon zweimal versucht haben, die Ordnung der Nebula Convicto zum Einsturz zu bringen. Daher ist der Ermittler gar nicht angetan, als er auf einmal zu einer diplomatischen Mission nach Paris entsandt wird, einem Ort der Waffenruhe zwischen den Wesen der magischen Gemeinschaft.

Diez años atrás, Calamity irrumpió en la ciudad en la forma de una explosión en el cielo que otorgó a algunos seres poderes extraordinarios. A estos se los empezó a llamar Épicos, y pronto subyugaron a la población empleando sus increíbles poderes con el afán de gobernar la voluntad de los hombres y conquistar el mundo.

With her death foretold, Althea Zoltaire only has three years to become what shes always dreamed of being: a warrior legend. Women are forbidden to wield blades, so she has trained in secret her entire life. Now racing against the clock, she fights to secure her place in the elite guild charged...

Die Warrior sind nicht länger allein. Die Huntress kommen! Als Senator Murano die Huntress als Geheimwaffe nach White City schickt, endet ihre Mission im Desaster: Gefängnis. Nur Rhona gelingt die Flucht. Der Warrior Steel, berüchtigt für seine Entschlossenheit, stellt ihr eine Falle und hält die widerspenstige Jägerin in der ehemaligen Vergnügungseinheit fest. Sein Auftrag: Informationen aus ihr herauszuholen – auf seine ganz eigene Weise. Doch Rhona ist nicht nur schlagfertig und stur, sie trägt auch ein Geheimnis in sich, das die Welt erschüttern könnte.

An android named Harley Doon finds himself caught in a battle between human and alien. It’s not his fight, but somebody has to save the world. Years ago, when humans and androids crash landed onto the planet Zuul, whatever remained of their society quickly succumbed to the ravages of earthquakes and a never-ending winter from volcanic dust clouds. As humans and machines scavenged to stay alive, they also faced the Zid, an alien race that abhors all technology with religious fervor.

He said he’ll destroy me, and he did. I might have lost the battle, but the war is far from over. They say it starts with one move to dethrone the king. No one mentioned he’ll yank me with him on the way down.

My mates rejected me, and now they’ve come crawling back. It’s too little, too late.... When the men I’d been falling for spurned me and then left me in the woods to die, I vowed to cut them out of my life for good. But the Moon had other plans for me.

Dragons rule the world. Their claws are into every aspect of human life, from government to industry. But Kristen Hall is about to throw a wrench into all of that. Because she's a dragon, too. She just doesn't know it...yet! A dragon raised by humans, in the human world. After graduating from the police academy, she's dropped right into the ranks of Detroit's elite SWAT team. A rookie, in SWAT? Unheard of. But what the dragons want, they get. The reasons behind their machinations become clear as her dragon powers begin to surface. Will Kristen rise to the challenges of her new life?

Leon Jäger, a stoic and unyielding knight, lives by a simple code: repay kindness with a river of ambrosia, and slights with total destruction. When an unexplainable force pulls him into a foreign world where magic flows and monsters roam, his creed will be tested like never before. Struggling to comprehend powers beyond his imagination, Leon must master the mystical art of Qi cultivation while hiding his abilities from those who might exploit them.

Enter a world ruled by tyrants and thieves, where magic is outlawed, revolution brews, desire is dangerous, and an impossible cure may prove deadlier than the curse. Never run. Never bow. Never die. Reya Connery became the Crimson Dagger, the most notorious thief in Rhiterra, by following a...

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny … Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a...

Mercedes Jenkins ist jung, schön und als Clubmädchen ein Teil des Demons Hell MCs. Obwohl die junge Frau nach außen hin tough wirkt, sieht es in ihrem Inneren ganz anders aus, denn sie leidet bereits seit ihrer Kindheit an schrecklichen Albträumen. Und als ob das noch nicht genug wäre, muss sie ständig einen Blick über ihre Schultern werfen, in der Angst, dass ihre Vergangenheit sie einholt. Einzig Steel, dem Vize der Demons Hell, hat sie sich seinerzeit anvertraut, nachdem er einen Überfall auf sie vereitelt hat.

Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteran of the wars against the lizards he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life...