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Was weißt du über den Elite Kings Club? Als Madison Montgomery nach einem schrecklichen Schicksalsschlag in die Hamptons zieht, will sie nur eins: unsichtbar bleiben und keine Aufmerksamkeit erregen. Doch bereits am ersten Tag gerät sie ins Visier des Elite Kings Club - einer Gruppe gefährlicher Bad Boys. Bishop Vincent Hayes, der Anführer, zieht sie wie magisch in seinen Bann aus verbotenen Gefühlen, Macht und Geheimnissen. Geheimnisse, die mit den Elite Kings anfangen und enden und die Madisons Welt für immer aus den Angeln heben.

Vertraue niemandem. Belüge jeden. Und was auch immer geschieht: Verliebe dich nicht in deinen größten Feind. Wren Darlington hat ihr gesamtes Leben im Verborgenen verbracht. Sie unterstützt das Rebellen-Netzwerk Uprising, das seit Beginn der Neuen Ära Widerstand gegen General Redden leistet. Gleichzeitig muss sie ihre telepathischen Fähigkeiten verstecken. Denn auf dem Kontinent zu den Modifizierten mit übernatürlichen Kräften zu gehören, bedeutet den sicheren Tod.

Madison Montgomery comes from money and power, but when someone close to her commits the ultimate crime, Madison must live with her tainted name for the rest of her life. When she begins Riverside Preparatory Academy, the private school her father has swept her into in The Hamptons, she hopes for a fresh start. What she wasn't hoping for was the pack of bad boys who run the school - 10, to be exact. When Madison gains the attention of their leader, Bishop Vincent Hayes, a whole new world that she didn't think existed is exposed to her.

In the first book of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival: Trust no one. Lie to everyone. And whatever you do, don’t fall for your greatest enemy. TRUST NO ONE. Wren Darlington has spent her whole life in hiding, honing her...

Swans Song - Buch 1: Nach dem Ende der Welt. Der legendäre Endzeit-Thriller. Düster, brutal und mit epischer Wucht erzählt. In diesem Endzeit-Thriller beschreibt der Bestsellerautor die Welt nach der atomaren Apokalypse. Die menschliche Zivilisation bricht zusammen und die wenigen Überlebenden werden in eine vorindustrielle Welt katapultiert, in der sie zu hungrigen Bestien mutieren. Der nukleare Winter senkt sich wie ein Leichentuch über die verkohlte Erde.

Humans have been pushed to the brink of extinction by an ever-evolving demonic threat. Portals are opening faster than ever, Towers are bursting into the skies, and Dungeons are being mined below the last safe havens of society. The demons are winning. Quest Academy stands defiantly against them as a place to train the next generation of Heroes. The Guild Association is holding the line but is in dire need of new blood and the powerful abilities they could bring to the battlefront. To be the saviors that humanity needs, they need to surpass the limits of those that came before them.

Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's...

The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile...

Alexander Feldmann is a revered and sought-after performer whose prodigious talent, striking good looks, and worldly charm prove irresistible to all who hear and encounter him. After years of searching, he acquires a glorious cello, the Silver Swan, a rare Stradivarius masterpiece long lost to the world of music. Mariana is Alexander’s only child and the maestro has large ambitions for her. By the age of 19 she emerges as a star cellist in her own right, and is seen as the inheritor of her father's genius. There are whispers that her career might well outpace his.

That moment when your spectacular one night stand turns out to be your sexy, older new boss. FML. Brantley Phipps doesn’t want a boyfriend. In his line of work, relationships are impossible. All he wants is one night of fun before he starts his 10-week rotation as assistant hotel director on a cruise ship. He scores the jackpot with a hot older guy who hits all his yes, please buttons and who wants the same thing as him. Their chemistry is explosive, hot damn. Talk about a night to remember. That should last him a while.

Er ist der Mann mit dem scharlachroten Auge, der Mann der vielen Masken. Er vereint die Kraft der menschlichen Gier und des Wahnsinns. Er durchstreift das nuklear verstrahlte Land auf der Suche nach einem Kind, dem Mädchen mit dem Namen Swan. Das Kind muss vernichtet werden, denn es besitzt die Gabe. Swan kann dem toten Boden wieder Leben geben und den Menschen somit Rettung bringen …

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen - from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City - will fight for survival. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity.

Sie ist das dunkle Geheimnis der königlichen Familie - doch sie wird niemals ihre Marionette sein. Emilia Lancaster hätte nie gedacht, dass sie eines Tages Kronprinzessin sein würde - eine Rolle, die sie niemals wollte und auf die sie nie vorbereitet wurde. Ihr neues Leben im Palast könnte der Anfang eines Märchens sein, doch Emilia merkt schnell, dass sie von Intrigen und Machtspielen umgeben ist. Ganz besonders Carter Thorne scheint ihre bloße Anwesenheit als Provokation zu empfinden. Anders kann sich Emilia seine dunklen Blicke, die sie beinahe körperlich spüren kann, nicht erklären.

From USA TODAY bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes a brand-new duet audio edition of this #BestofBookTok favorite—an angsty, slow-burn, second-chance love story about lovers continually fighting the curse of the right person at the wrong time. Brecks Kennedy has spent years writing the...

London is Lydia Crow’s city so when a man is found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, she takes it personally. Even when it seems as if the Silver Family might be involved, Lydia refuses to back down. The Silver Family, who run the finest law firm in London, have a gift for persuasion. In the 'Bad Old Days' it was said they could make a man jump off a roof by convincing him he could fly. But that's all in the past...isn’t it?

On the battlefields of Aexe Cardinal, the stalwart forces of the Imperial Guard are locked in a deadly stalemate with the dark armies of Chaos. Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his regiment, the Tanith First and Only, are thrown headlong into the living hell of trench warfare, where death by an unseen enemy is always just a moment away. The only chance for Gaunt and his lightly armed scouts to survive is to volunteer for a mission so dangerous that no one else dares accept it.

Der Auftakt von Bestsellerautorin Alexandra Brackens neuem Fantasyepos, inspiriert von der Artuslegende und voller Action, Verrat und Liebe. Eine zynische Außenseiterin, ihr verfluchter Bruder, der arrogante Goldjunge der Schatzjägergilde und eine naive Zauberin – sie alle haben unterschiedliche Ziele. Doch nur gemeinsam können sie Avalon und ihre eigene Welt retten. Ohne die Fähigkeit, Magie zu sehen, gilt Tamsin als Außenseiterin unter den Hollowern. Das hindert sie jedoch nicht daran, wie die anderen Mitglieder der Gilde die ganze Welt nach legendären Artefakten zu durchkämmen.

Mercy is smart enough to realize that when it comes to the magical Fae, the less you know, the better. But you can't always get what you want. When she attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down. It seems the book contains secret knowledge—and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn't take enough of Mercy's attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side—leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam's life forfeit.

Dante Galand has cured the sickness that trapped him on the Plagued Islands. Now it's time to leave. And kill a priest. The target is Gladdic of Bressel. Gladdic, who executed Dante's friend, the pirate Captain Twill. Who all but enslaved the Plagued Islands. And whose visions of empire are far from over. But Gladdic is trained in both ether and nether - and a darker magic than Dante has ever known. He's the most dangerous foe Dante has faced. And if Dante falls, so will an entire kingdom.

View our feature on Patricia Briggs’s Silver Borne. All-new action in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore...