Ergebnis für "The Book of Curses" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

River Waterborn is the daughter of a Representative. She was born to immense privilege and is cursed with immeasurable power. For the past eight years, she's been trying to atone for the Incident. No matter how many lives she saves or patients she heals, she'll never truly be able to escape the weight of her magic. One night, she loses two patients, and her control breaks. She runs from the hospital to seek the help of the only man she trusts: Nikhail Galebringer.

Luna has freed the charming treasure-hunting werewolf, Duncan, from the magical control device that let their enemies manipulate him. Finally, she can trust him fully, and they can explore a romantic relationship. Or so she thinks. But destroying that device had ramifications… A curse threatens to take Duncan’s life. If they can’t figure out a way to remove it, Luna will lose the man she’s come to care deeply about—maybe even love.

Before Nell Ingram met skinwalker Jane Yellowrock, she had no one to rely on, finding strength only in her arcane connection to the dark woods around her. But now she has friends in the newly formed PsyLED team to keep her grounded - even if being part of the agency responsible for policing paranormals comes with dangers of its own.

Susan's dreams are coming true. Unfortunately... so are her nightmares. Susan Moore is back in her element as the maestro of middle management, relishing her new job as Client Experience and Customer Support Contact Center Department Manager. Things in the supernatural world have quietened down...

When Rowe Branning sets off with her faithful wolfhound, Tris, on a quest to visit a grandmother she hasn't seen in fifteen years, her arrival in Hartford Cove is far less welcoming than she hoped for. Her reason for coming is put into question, and the way the sheriff looks at her makes her feel like prey even as she's drawn to him. Then ghosts from her past return in the flesh, making Rowe question what she remembers of her last visit to this hidden town, when she watched her mother and her best friend be brutally mauled by a monster out of nightmares.

The HOTLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel by the beloved, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series. This audiobook is read by Tony Award–winning actress Sutton Foster “Foster’s evocative and consistent tone throws the reader a lifeline amid a...

A witch hiding a dangerous secret is thrust into an elite magical academy, where survival means risking her life and her heart—in the standalone follow-up to Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things. Dark secrets. Deadly choices. A destiny that can’t be outrun. Welcome to Shadowcraft Academy...

Conrad Edison is cursed. His foster parents die in horrible ways around his birthday, and he ends up back at the orphanage where he and the other children are treated like indentured servants. When a man with the ability to mind control animals inexplicably tries to kill Conrad, the harrowing scrape with death gives him a new perspective on life. Determined to elude his cursed fate, Conrad decides to escape the orphanage once and for all. The phone leads him to a magical place called Queens Gate, and for the first time in his life, he dares to hope for a better life.

The Battle Royale is over. The real war begins. For centuries, the Throne of Aaravath sat empty. Now 12 Houses rise, legends awaken, and Heaven and Hell collide. House Blue barely survived the Royale. Now they must survive what comes next. Because the Throne was never empty. It was waiting. Deep...

In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.—an enthralling, history-bending adventure traversing time and space, fact and fiction, magic and science co-written with #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson—a daring young time traveler must return to Jacobean England...

Edie. My boyfriend is in a coma. And all we know is that there’s dark magic behind it. If we don’t figure out how to break him out, he could be comatose forever. Could the cursed Ancient Egyptian mummy who just woke up be the key to his freedom? Niamh. I need to break the curse, but I also need to pay the bills. I’m pretty sure they won't accept ‘my best friend has been cursed’ as an excuse to default on the mortgage. Working on a building site isn’t my favourite thing to do, but it’s easy money. Or at least, I thought it was. Until I walked head-first into a poltergeist.

The eagerly awaited second novel from GennaRose Nethercott, the award-winning author of Thistlefoot and Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, in which a young woman must embark upon a haunted quest to find her missing friend The frogs of Lonehaven, Vermont have been watching their rural town for...

Wyl Thirsk, loyal soldier of Morgravia, has seen his best friend slain, his sister tortured, and his mentor sent to certain death, all at the hands of his sovereign, the cruel and manipulative King Celimus. Now Celimus, believing himself to be rid of the "moral constraints" of the Thirsk influence, has turned his greedy eye to expansion ... and Morgravia's neighbouring kingdom, ruled by the spirited but inexperienced Queen Valentyna.

Serafina spends her days studying to become an archaeologist like her mother was. If only her mother had lived to see her succeed. But after Sera unearths the find of a lifetime on her summer dig, her dreams of drinking blood and violent magic leave behind an eerie sense of foreboding. Something bad is looming on the horizon. Something ancient and evil. When a well-known antiquities collector takes an obsessive interest in the Roman amulet, Sera suddenly finds her life in chaos.

The Wildwood Coven is in trouble. Robin’s scheming Aunt Shannon has claimed leadership of the coven and now has her sets on Robin’s Head Witch status, too… and Robin knows that if she loses her title and the sceptre that comes with it, the entire town will pay the price. As Robin’s usual team of allies consists of her talking squirrel familiar, her broomstick-riding boyfriend, and her fastidious rule-abiding brother, she joins forces with a group of professional monster hunters who’ve shown up in town.

Something’s not right. My brother is broody, his match isn’t acting crazy, Quin is missing, and the dragons are moping. On top of that, the shifter community is leaderless, the witches are fragmented, and the hybrids are about to be attacked. When I receive a letter from an unusual source, I discover someone has activated an ancient curse that could bring down the entire coalition. To save the people I love, I need to break the curse, gain the hybrids' trust, learn my magic, and eliminate the Bellicose leadership.

When the leader of the local witch coven is murdered, all evidence suggests foul play of the faerie variety. With group of anti-supernatural assassins running around town, I have to figure out their connection with the dark faeries before my best friend Isabel, the new coven leader, becomes the killer's next target. Nobody ever crosses the witches and escapes unscathed, but with the ancient Sidhe, all bets are off. I need to have my wits about me, otherwise one mistake might spell the destruction of our world.

Paege Vailenbyrg has always been an outsider in the Wolf-ruled kingdom. As a half-Fae, half-Human hybrid, she's an aberration. Despite her efforts to discover her place in a world made to reject her, Paege finds herself unexpectedly embroiled in a web of secrets, Wolves, and unreliable magic. All of it threatens to shatter the fragile sense of safety she has managed to build around herself.

When a Revolutionary War reenactment in a small Virginia town turns deadly, Captain Leah Morgan and her Legacy Operations Command team are called in to investigate. The suspect? A man who swears he wasn't in the present when he pulled the trigger. He claims he was fighting in 1781, defending his home from the British—right before he shot and killed a fellow reenactor with a musket that was never supposed to be loaded.

Life is good for Rory Hawthorn. She's progressing well in her magical lessons, and is also finally unearthing her father's long-kept secrets. If not for the Grim Reaper trying to interfere in her love life, things would be perfect. Until the Grim Reaper goes missing, at the same time as a lethal curse is set loose in Ivory Beach, which leaves even Rory's family stumped.