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Of all the worlds and life they created, the gods favored their children the most. But with that favor came the fear that their Legacy would one day become too powerful and overthrow them. Devram was created. A realm hidden amongst the stars. The gods gave their Legacy the best of all the worlds, and then they left, a sworn agreement to never return and to never interfere.

When Daisy's family lose their croft on the Connemara coast, her Aunt Jane, housekeeper to Dr. and Mrs Venables, offers to take Daisy back to Liverpool.

Aufgewachsen in einer psychiatrischen Anstalt, verkauft an einen Zirkus, ist die Menschenfrau Tule gezwungen, den unsterblichen Wycca zur Unterhaltung zu dienen. Der rote Mond kündigt das Veri an: ein Fest, das die Jagd auf Menschen feiert, bei der die Wycca die Eleganz des Tötens zur Schau stellen. Tule findet sich inmitten des Veri wieder. Um zu überleben, ist sie gezwungen, sich von dem Wycca Rusc ausbilden zu lassen. Doch die beiden fügen sich mehr als nur fatale Wunden zu.

Stillsitzen, lächeln, nicken. Erzogen zur perfekten Mafiabraut warte ich seit zweiundzwanzig Jahren auf den alles entscheidenden Tag. Wird der zukünftige Capo mich wählen – oder eine der anderen Frauen, die ihm angeboten werden? Unberührt, rein, arglos. Noch bevor die Entscheidung fällt, hat er bereits für mich getötet. Und das nicht zum ersten Mal. Unsere Verbindung reicht länger zurück als es die Tradition seiner Familie erlaubt. Elegant, betörend, gefährlich. Trotzdem – oder vielleicht gerade deswegen? – entscheidet er sich für eine andere.

It's not easy being king. Especially when you've got an allergy to sunrise and sunset, a fire goddess for a mother-in-law, demonic adversaries, random assassins, and a basement full of insecurities to cope with. Add to that his daughter, the fire priestess/princess; a couple of lightly deranged professional magicians; a whole city full of wizards; and enough squabbling princes to resemble a kindergarten argument. It's enough to make a man want to just go home.

My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas. It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows it is little more than a golden cage.

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Read by Fiona Button (This Is Not a Pity Memoir, Your Word Or Mine)...

The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive. Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she’d come to love. But she was wrong. Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don’t trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive. Welcome to Shadows, the second book in the haunting apocalyptic Ashes Trilogy.

Hello to all you Gremlins and Humans! Sunshine and Shadows is a true crime podcast examining cases that have taken place throughout our home state of Florida, hosted by Florida natives and best friends. Join us in the chaos that is our lives as we dive into cases that prove you can't have sunshine without the shadows.

A terrifying entity stalks the small town of White Castle, leaving a blaze of blood and destruction in its wake. My home is ground zero for the malevolent power capable of corrupting a symbol of purity.

Dawn belongs to a secret group of teenagers who play a cloak and dagger game on their cell phones. Her world is turned upside down when the players' actions begin to affect reality, and not in good ways.

Feeling unwanted and still reeling from his encounter in the Garden of Clarity, Trent Embra leaves the city to find out what else the world has to offer. Making his own decisions for the first time, an adrift Trent latches onto the quest in his status telling him to survive alone on the wilds for two weeks. With only the doctrine of Sergeant Cullen to guide him, and a sword to depend on, Trent puts his back to Al’drossford and heads south to find out how different life as an adventurer is compared to the one he has been leading.

The gods are dying. But for one man, death is only the beginning. Murdered as a ritual sacrifice, amateur thief and professional charmer Dustin Graves mysteriously survives, finding himself gifted with strange, dark magic. Then more dead bodies turn up. Some are human, but one is a god of the old world, slain at his own doorstep.

Während sie durch den Himmel zu den eisigen Bergen von Andhera schwebt, weiß Zarya, dass nur sie ihre Welt vor der Vernichtung bewahren kann. Unbarmherzige Armeen jagen ihre Freunde, und giftige dunkle Magie breitet sich über das Land aus und verzehrt alles, was sie berührt. In einem Palast aus schwarzem Marmor trifft Zarya schließlich auf ihren Vater, den geheimnisvollen Raja Abishek. Jahrelang hat man ihr gesagt, dass sie diesen Mann fürchten muss – jetzt hat sie keine andere Wahl, als ihm zu vertrauen.

"From Shadows to Sunshine: Navigating the Leadership Labyrinth" is a thought-provoking exploration of the vast and intricate world of leadership. This insightful book offers a comprehensive journey through various leadership styles, from the commanding shadows of authoritative 'Sith'-like approaches to the illuminating sunshine of empathetic and inclusive 'Saint'-like methods.

Jamie is under pressure from his father to succeed. In the competitive world of squash, his dad is determined that where he failed, Jamie should succeed. The emotional and physical bullying that Jamie has to endure makes him recoil into himself until he feels backed into a corner and doesn't know where to turn. Then he discovers the girl hiding in his shed and sees an opportunity, not only to help her, but to get away from his own life, too. Together they go on the run - but danger is coming after the girl and it's surely only a matter of time before they're both discovered.

New York, 1908: The days are getting longer—and warmer—in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn’t want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she’s expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County. Molly tells herself it won’t be so bad, after all the countryside is pretty, and she’s determined to make the best of it. Even if she’s leaving her husband, Daniel, behind. And at least she’s not the only one heading north. Her great friends, Sid and Gus, are headed to the Catskills to visit Sid’s family.

Ryker Faulkner has built his empire by being ruthless. No one knows the full extent Ryker has gone to in order to build himself up from nothing to one of the most powerful men in the country. So when someone comes after him, everyone knows the last thing Ryker will do is sit back and watch it burn. Kenzie Carys was used to being in the shadows. She was a nurse on night shift. Then you save the life of the man one of the hospital wings is named after and suddenly Kenzie finds herself face to face with Ryker Faulkner being gifted an award for saving his life.

"Wir sind Nachtgeschöpfe. Nicht, weil uns die Sonne verletzen könnte, sondern weil die Nacht nun mal natürliches Habitat der Jäger und Mörder ist." Mit übersinnlichen Ereignissen hat Amelia garantiert nicht gerechnet, als sie ihr Studium an Harvard aufnimmt. Ihre Sorge war eher, dass sie keinen Anschluss finden würde. Bald häufen sich unerklärliche Vorkommnisse, weshalb das ihr geringstes Problem ist. Als sie den unwiderstehlichen Dalton Selway kennenlernt, tritt ihr Studium mehr und mehr in den Hintergrund.

Drawing upon her background in ancient history and her experiences on archaeological digs, author C.S. Harris crafts authentic, compelling novels that appear regularly on best-seller lists and have won numerous awards. In 1812, surgeon Paul Gibson discovers a stiletto wound in the base of a corpse’s skull and immediately contacts Sebastian St. Cyr. And when another body turns up with the same injury, the lives of St. Cyr’s family are threatened if he doesn’t back off. Now, the pressure’s on to find the culprit before anyone else gets killed.