Ergebnis für "The Double" in Urban Fantasy

Choosing a college when your family is struggling can be difficult, but it isn’t supposed to be world ending. And the falling meteor is seriously limiting Matt’s options. Now in the aftermath, his home city is locked down by a mysterious dome, corporations are looking to monopolize a wealth of new untapped resources, and people are suddenly developing powers via a System that seems to have borderline sinister intentions.

Echo and Morrow can’t catch a break. A new jewelry shop is all the rage in town, selling cute collectible charms that mesmerize anyone who wears them. It's a familiar and potentially volatile flavor of magical mind control. They should have eliminated the Goddess of the Valley when they had the chance. Echo has enough problems with goddesses to begin with. Freyja keeps following him around, tempting him with forbidden knowledge. A magical education, but at what cost? And Morrow is being far too friendly these days. Echo’s straitlaced partner might not be so straight, after all.

A fast-paced, genre-bending debut from the winner of the 2023 black&write! Fellowship. 'I remembered a dream I had been having: a mountain, covered in trees, swelling up out of a plain like a tidal wave. But peering out from the underbrush was a row of eyeless faces looking past me out into the...

Daniel Faust - sorcerer, thief, and newly-minted Las Vegas crime boss - has debts to pay. One of those debts has just come due, an IOU to be paid in the form of a high-risk heist, and it's a job he can't refuse. The mark? Daniel's arch-nemesis, a man with a Cheshire smile and the powers of a living god. The score? A sacrificial dagger buried under layers of electronic, occult, and human security, snug on the far side of a custom-built deathtrap.

It takes two to tango. Jericho “Echo” Frost can copy any spell he sees. His arcane duplication makes him popular with those who can afford his mimicking magic (and tolerate his motor mouth). Theodore Morrow is a top Occultech field agent, tasked to collect enchanted objects for the mysterious corporation’s stock. His magical scrolls make him the perfect partner, doubling Echo’s firepower. There’s just one problem: they absolutely cannot stand each other. When enchanted objects go dangerously haywire in the city, the director of Occultech forces them on a mission.

A delightful and hilarious supernatural adventure featuring a lady-in-waiting who must keep the court safe from murder, from the author of The Rook. Alexandra Dennis-Palmer-Hudson-Gilmore-Garnsey (call me “Alix”), the twelfth Lady Mondegreen, has never had any control of her life. Her...

Half-human/half-monster Cal Leandros knows that family is a pain. But now that pain belongs to his half-brother, Niko. Niko's shady father is in town, and he needs a big favor. Even worse is the reunion being held by the devious Puck race - including the Leandros' friend, Robin - featuring a lottery that no Puck wants to win. As Cal tries to keep both Niko and Robin from paying the ultimate price for their kin, a horrific reminder from Cal's own past arrives to remind him that blood is thicker than water.

l can’t wait to knock the socks off an acclaimed fae food critic. She’s even called in a world-class-barista friend from America to help WOW! the critic. But just as she proudly finishes polishing her Welsh café’s cups, the anxious witch is horrified to find the critic’s archnemesis dead in a nearby alley. She has to hide the magic of her village from her American friend while the deceased demands answers. It’s up to April to filter through her town’s suspects and roast the Killer.

Justine Jones lived her life as a fearful hypochondriac until she was lured into the web of a mysterious mastermind named Packard, who gifts her with extraordinary mental powers - dooming her to fight Midcity’s shadowy war on paranormal crime in order to find the peace she so desperately craves.

Magic gifts are rare, and they're a closely guarded secret for mystos—the name for those who possess such abilities. Wyatt Glasson's talent is speculomancy—an uncommon type of magic that grants him the ability to see any reflected image. Modern civilization and its reflective surfaces mean people are always in view of Wyatt's magic.

In Book 3: Double Lives, MeeMa, the family's wise matriarch, takes center stage in this installment, revealing her deep spiritual gifts and the secret practices she weaves into her Pentecostal faith. Set against New Orleans mysticism and modern-day tensions, MeeMa bridges ancient traditions and the restrictive church. The novel explores her powers as she uncovers hidden truths about the family, including the secrets of her grandson, Jr., and his fiancée, Nicole.

A trail of bodies reveals the M.O. of a serial killer. It can only be the work of a copycat. After all, the real killer died years ago. If that’s true, then why are his prints left at the crime scenes?