Ergebnis für "The Spell" in Belletristik

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty. The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin; Robin's twenty-two year...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes an evocative, compelling novel of lost love and the unravelling of a small town and its many secrets. Emery Blackwood's life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of...

Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends. When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola's lives become intertwined.

When Ensign Bluemage Honor Renn is rescued from the wreckage of her first naval post, she expects death or disgrace. Instead, she wakes aboard the Touchstone, a mythic vessel whispered of in dockside ballads and royal war rooms alike. With a crew of misfits. A mysterious, elven captain. And a mission tied to the Dreadwall, the crumbling barrier that has kept the Overland and Nethersea from open war for a hundred years. But the tragedy that sank her last ship didn’t just take lives―it left something behind.

Emma Hart schwelgt im Glück! Ihre Verlobung ist offiziell, und die ganze Stadt freut sich mit ihr. Doch das Verbrechen in Spellbound fordert ihre Aufmerksamkeit. Die Leiche eines Pixies wird gefunden, und es sieht nicht nach einem natürlichen Tod aus. Schnell steckt Emma mitten in der Mordermittlung. Erster Ermittlungsort: Das Spellbound-Casino, wo das Opfer mit einem Leprechaun Streit um Geld hatte.

In Spellbound bleibt es mörderisch und magisch! Emma und ihre Freundinnen aus dem Hexen-Nachhilfeunterricht machen einen aufsehenerregenden Fund! Durch Zufall entdecken sie in einem alten Grimoire eine geheime Buchseite. Darauf könnte sich ein Hinweis befinden, mit dem sich der Fluch von Spellbound endlich brechen lässt. Emma stürzt sich in diese Aufgabe. Doch sie ahnt nicht, welche Gefahren dabei auf sie warten ... Und als wäre das nicht genug, stolpert sie während eines Besuchs bei Agnes im Spellbound-Pflegeheim über die Leiche eines alten Satyrs. Emma hofft, dass wenigstens dieses eine Mal jemand eines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist.

Das Finale der ersten Staffel um die verhexte Stadt Spellbound und ihre liebenswerten, magischen Bewohner! Emmas großer Tag rückt immer näher und ihre Freundinnen schmeißen für sie sogar eine Junggesellinnen-Party! Doch Emma wäre nicht Emma, wenn es nicht jemand auf sie abgesehen hätte. Denn auf der Party jubelt ihr jemand einen Zaubertrank unter, durch den sie all ihre wichtigen Erinnerungen verliert.

Für Emma hat sich einiges verändert, seit ihr Geheimnis gelüftet wurde und ihr Liebesleben eine dramatische Wendung nahm. Doch noch immer hat Emma nicht alle Geheimnisse ihrer Vergangenheit aufgedeckt. Und eine weitere Veränderung steht an: In Spellbound soll der nächste Bürgermeister gewählt werden. Emmas Freundin Lucy kandidiert, und Emma hilft ihr fleißig bei der Kampagne. Die Stimmung während des Wahlkampfes ist aufgeheizt. Und dann wird auch noch einer der Gegenkandidaten ausgerechnet mit dem Pfahl von Lucys Wahlplakat gepfählt.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia. Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fight for the...

Die angehende Hexe Emma beschließt eine Therapie zu machen und hofft, dass ihre Vampir-Therapeutin sie nicht aus Versehen aussaugt. Zuzutrauen wäre es ihr. Zum Glück sorgt ihre Freundschaft mit dem Architekten Markos, dem begehrtesten Minotaurus von Spellbound, für Abwechslung! Als jedoch in dessen neuestem Projekt der Bauinspektor tot aufgefunden wird, findet sich Emma schnell in ihrer nächsten Mordermittlung wieder. Leider ist sie so abgelenkt wie noch nie, denn sie muss ständig an den Engel Daniel und dessen Verlobung denken.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love...

Brought to you by Penguin. Have you ever had a break-up so bad you wish the whole relationship had never happened? Well, Gemma's wish has come true. After one too many margaritas lead to her mystical aunt reading out a drunken spell, she wakes up in a parallel world where she didn't give years...

A cursed witch must team up with a rival coven leader to save her small town in this atmospheric tale of magic, love, and self-discovery—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic. “Absolutely irresistible . . . I was enthralled...

Getting hexy for the holidays! Five sexy stories set in the Stay a Spell world you don’t want to miss, where mischief and mayhem dominate the holiday season for the Savoie sisters of New Orleans.

Gwen Harper left Pendleford thirteen years ago and hasn't looked back. Until an inheritance throws her into the mystical world she thought she'd escaped. Confronted with her great-aunts legacy, Gwen must finally face up to her past. The magic she has long tried to suppress is back with a vengeance but, gift or burden, for Gwen it always spells trouble. She has to stay—she has nowhere else to go—but how can she find her place in the town that drove her out after branding her a witch?

Like a gender-flipped Saltburn set amidst the moss-draped, haunted beauty of Savannah, this intoxicating blend of Southern suspense and modern witchcraft from bestselling author Emily Carpenter casts a spell of class, power, and possession. In a city where ghosts linger in the moss and money...

‘A perfect festive read for fans of Gilmore Girls and Charmed’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review Delilah hates Christmas. She’s a strong independent witch who has finally left her hometown of Oak Haven and is off forging her own path. But an emergency drags her back just in time for the...

“An absolute delight of a magical tale.” —Louisa Morgan, author of The Age of Witches Is her magic a threat to witchkind…or is she simply powerful enough to save the world? Rebekah Wilde was eighteen when she left St. Cyprian, officially stripped of her magic and banished from her home...

In 1976, four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them. And repercussions are just what Guy doesn't need: his wife, Jane, is moving swiftly from slightly eccentric to downright peculiar, their three-year-old daughter seems set on destroying Jane's sanity, and now even God's gone quiet on him. As for Nina, she's having enough trouble with her son, James. He's got exams looming, a new girlfriend with pneumatic breasts, and now, it seems, he's on drugs. Nina certainly won't welcome any ghosts from the past.

Carrie Morgan expects trouble when she returns to Woodsmoke after ten years. What she does not predict is the beautiful stranger who walks into her life with the first frost and with whom Carrie begins to fall in love. Bound to her family’s book of spells and a deep magic that flows from the mountains, Carrie’s family warn that her new love is a curse who will disappear when the frost thaws.