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In a world of beauty, a ceramic-made ballerina awakens atop her music box. She must dance for her elven owners, and so her ballet goes on and on. They praise her elegance, her poise and balance, until one day she falls and her ceramic fractures—but the ballerina dances again, ignoring her ever-increasing fissures. The music plays, captivating and demanding... but should she dance? Even when what she once loved becomes a trap? A clever, dark, psychological fairy tale for adult listeners.

Simon Peter, Heaven’s hardest working saint, is maxed out on vacation. Forced to take a holiday, he goes to Earth to reconnect with his humanity. A Room of Steve’s Own, or Give Us Some Space! Steve, Heaven’s Emissary to Hell, tries to find office space. Instead, he and an old friend are sent on a quest to retrieve a stolen object. Bringing Up Baby in Hell, or What’s the Matter?

She escaped from a temple and her grandmother's knife, but the goddess has not forgotten her. On a lonely island in the western Mediterranean, in the dark days before the great empires of Greece and Rome, the first settlers struggle to survive. Kaly is headwoman of the fragile colony, trapped between the sea and the endless pine forests whose smoky clearings hide a lawless clan of woodsmen, plotting her downfall. When a storm-battered tradeboat runs aground, spilling a crew of rough sailors, the uneasy peace explodes.

The steamy mythology of Neon Gods meets the dark academia of The Coven in this dark contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author S.A. Barnes. Jocasta’s carved out a normal life for herself—well, as normal as she can get with a name like Jocasta and being the one and only child of...

Det er år 885, og der er fred i England. Landet er delt i to: det danske rige mod nord og det saksiske rige Wessex mod syd. Uthred har slået sig ned; han har kone, børn og har fra Alfred fået til opgave at holde grænsen mod Themsen. Men noget ulmer - vikingerne er kommet tilbage for at besætte London. Deres mål er at erobre Wessex, og til dette skal de bruge Uthreds hjælp. Alfred har en anden plan: vikingerne skal drives ud af London. Det er en farlig tid, og Uthred må beslutte, hvor meget hans ed binder ham til kongen.

Cursed by revenge, hunted by darkness, bound by love. Isabelle’s transformation into a beast was the price she paid for revenge, but it may cost her everything. As her humanity fades, she finds herself entangled with a skilled archer who sees beyond her monstrous form. But the curse grows stronger with every heartbeat, and the darkness within her threatens to consume them both. Together, they must face the dark forces hunting her—but the greatest battle may be within herself.

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A young couple is about to get married. Paul is nearing graduation on an MBA while Lisa has recently become a certified schoolteacher. Both hail from Kansas City, but Lisa has had longings for the South since a little girl. As if ordained, she found a job as a teacher in the small municipality of Springhill, Louisiana, not far from Shreveport. An incredibly great bargain was offered to them as they looked for a home in their soon-to-be community. An old Southern mansion offered at what surely was half price. Paul delighted at such a bargain, but Lisa became skeptical.

Während Felder verdorren, Flüsse austrocknen und Städte fallen, begibt sich Taar Wax mit seinen Gefährten auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, um ein lange gehütetes Geheimnis zu ergründen: Wie können die Todesgötter wieder gebannt werden? Dabei planen sie nicht nur den Nekromantenkaiser ins Leben zurückzubringen, sondern versuchen auch die Ursprünge der Nekromantie zu verstehen.

When tragedy strikes Lucas Mack's young life, he desperately yearns to escape its sorrow, and takes an improbable leap through the mythical maelstrom. Rather than splashing down on the far side like his neighbors, he's transported to a magical realm where he has the power to redefine not only who he is, but the world in which he resides.

I thought surviving the first few months at Discordia was a win—until The Caliphate Games were announced. Now, I'm being trained to fight in a deadly competition I shouldn't qualify for, juggling bloodthirsty rich jerks, sneaky headmasters, and living with seven demon hybrids who are way too hot for my sanity.

Weyward meets Atonement in a shimmering debut novel of first love, betrayal, and revenge set on a crumbling British estate Suffolk, 1937. As the English countryside swelters in a historic heat wave, preparations for a party at Snare House are in full swing. The Winthers’ only daughter, Joanie...

A subterranean realm. Creatures of the dark. Traps that lay in wait. Líf and the small band of survivors have fled the surface world and entered a vast realm of labyrinthine tunnels and darkened corridors. There is no time to mourn their losses. To gain the object they seek, they must complete a formidable task set by the dwarven king. Their safety is far from guaranteed. With the odds against them, the dwarves offer little assistance, and the fate of humanity rests on the weary shoulders of a handful of humans and a few begrudging elves.

Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice steps through a mirror into a fantastical world that's a reverse reflection of her own. In this strange land, everything is backward, time moves oddly, and life plays out like a giant chess game—with Alice herself as a pawn working her way to queen.

Kidnapped by a serial killer, Feather has lived in a remote cabin for years, surviving by cleverness and caution. One night, she unwittingly summons a Fae demon known as Krampus, who enacts vengeance on her kidnapper and leaves Feather free...but with nowhere to go and no memory of the family from which she was stolen.

The youngest siren sister, Ceto is weary of an existence driven by hunger, no better than a fish. She trades her tail for legs, marries the first man she meets, and bears a daughter—only to find domesticity as suffocating as the sea. Craving more, Ceto flees with her daughter Naia back to the ocean, where she reinvents herself as the star of a mermaid burlesque, performing in a lavish tank carved into the limestone cliffs above the waves.

When Professor R. Mullins of the University of York went missing in 1972 on the site of the area known as Black Meadow atop of the North Yorkshire Moors, he left behind him an extensive body of work that provided a great insight into the folklore of this mysterious place. Writer Chris Lambert has been rooting through Mullins' files for over ten years and now presents this collection of weird and macabre tales.

Ashe, a child of five years, woke to screams of his fellow villagers and animal growls. Terrified, he asked what was going on, but his mother grabbed him and fled their village with his father in hopes to escape the lizardmen that were raiding it. They weren't fast enough. After a plan was made up to split up and meet in a cave not too far away, Ashe's mother rushed towards that direction. Ashe felt better because they were losing the lizardmen, but she tripped and found that her ankle was at an odd angle.

Det er fortællingen om den viking, der senere blev dansk konge efter en magtkamp med faderen, Harald blåtand (som han myrdede!), og grundlagde Danmark. Han indtog dele af Norge og Sverige og hele England, hvor han i 1013 - året før sin død - blev anerkendt som kongen over alle engelske. Romanen er resultatet af flere års research og må betragtes som det første opgør med den historieopfattelse, ifølge hvilken Sven Tveskæg kun var en brutal parentes i dansk og nordeuropæisk historie.

Vinterkongen fortæller historien om England i 400-tallet, og i særdeleshed historien om den legendariske Kong Arthur og hans kamp for at forene de britiske kongedømmer. Historiens fortæller er en ung mand, Derfel, som den store druide Merlin har taget under sine vinger. Da historien tager sin begyndelse, dør kong Uther af alderdom. Uther har ingen direkte arving, men hans afdøde søn har efterladt sig en gravid hustru, som til alles glæde sætter et drengebarn i verden, Mordred. En kommende konge! Men den spæde dreng har mange fjender, som gør, hvad de kan, for at sætte ham ud af spillet.