Band 1 : Was, wenn du dir Gefühle für einen Vampir einfängst? Und er obendrein dein Ehemann ist ... Die spicy RomCom erscheint als hochwertig veredelte Klappenbroschur und erhält einen dreiseitigen Motiv-Farbschnitt sowie einen ablösbaren Duftsticker auf dem Cover in der ersten Auflage, nur solange der Vorrat reicht. Der Duftsticker riecht beim Drüberreiben nach Jasmin – eine Blüte, die den Beginn der Liebesgeschichte ausmacht. Persönliche Leseempfehlung von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Beril Kehribar: »Wenn ihr schon immer wissen wolltet, was passiert, wenn eine spitzzüngige Heldin und ein grumpy Vampir eine Fake-Ehe eingehen, lest dieses Buch! Es ist witzig, magisch und – Vorsicht! – bissig.« Studentin Katherine Campbell hasst Vampire. Doch beim Versuch, ein Zauberbuch aus der geheimen Universitätsbibliothek zu stehlen, befreit sie einen Fluch. Gerettet wird sie ausgerechnet von ihm: Ethan Hawthorn, seines Zeichens Chef-Bibliothekar, mächtiger Vampir, unnatürlich attraktiv und ihr größter Feind an der Darkthorn University. Um den Fluch in Schach zu halten, muss ihr chronisch miesgelaunter Retter sie regelmäßig beißen – absolut illegal seit 1899. Das Schlupfloch? Eine Heirat. Von jetzt an muss Ethan alles mit Kat teilen. Auch sein Bett. Egal, wie sehr Kat an seiner Selbstbeherrschung zerrt. Egal, wer noch Interesse an ihr und dem Fluch zeigt. Fest steht, er wird seine Frau um jeden Preis beschützen. Auch, wenn ihre Ehe nur ein Fake ist. Oder nicht? »Bite the Bride« ist eine Vampir-Romantasy mit düsterem Setting: eine Dark Academia der schottischen 1920er Jahre. #HatersToLovers #FakeMarriage #TouchHerAndDie #ForcedProximity #GrumpyxSunshine //Dies ist der erste Band der »Darkthorn Archives« von Penny Juniper. Alle Bände der düsteren Fantasy RomCom: -- Darkthorn Archives 1: Bite the Bride -- Darkthorn Archives 2: Fall for Fangs Die beiden Bände können unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden, zum besseren Verständnis empfiehlt sich aber die Lektüre in der chronologischen Reihenfolge.//

A deadly coup within the Wizard's Guild leaves the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, gravely injured, and his ward Ciri missing in the third novel of Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.    The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup, an uprising that has left Geralt seriously injured.  The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered. While war rages across the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl—Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra—until a rumor places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor. Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands. Witcher collections The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Witcher novels Blood of Elves The Time of Contempt Baptism of Fire  The Tower of Swallows Lady of the Lake Season of Storms Hussite Trilogy The Tower of Fools Warriors of God Translated from original Polish by David French

Seit sie denken kann, ist Hyde Katrinas Zuhause gewesen. Hier ist sie aufgewachsen, mit ihrer Schwester Zoe und ihrem Vater. Jetzt ist Hyde verschwunden – und Katrina auf sich allein gestellt. Von dem, was geschehen ist, weiß sie nur noch Bruchstücke. Als sie beginnt, ein verfallenes Haus zu renovieren, mit dem sie sich auf seltsame Weise verbunden fühlt, führt sie dies auf die Spur eines ungeheuren Geheimnisses. Ist sie überhaupt diejenige, die sie glaubt zu sein? Brillant und mit großem Gespür für ihre Figuren, lässt Antje Wagner aus dem Alltäglichen das Unheimliche erwachsen, dessen Faszination sich niemand entziehen kann.

A legendary competition. A mesmerizing romance. An unbreakable bond between two sisters. Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show—are over. But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner. Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. Nevertheless she becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic. And whether Caraval is real or not, Scarlett must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over or a dangerous domino effect of consequences will be set off, and her beloved sister will disappear forever. Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance. Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again... Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was…. Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.

Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out--he's been working two jobs since his family's business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up.... again. So when Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They'll ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they've barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say... Until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school--and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it's about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common. They all have a connection to the dead kid. And they're all hiding something. Now they're all wondering--could it be that their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all? From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand-new pulse-pounding thriller. It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off with murder when three old friends relive an epic ditch day, and it goes horribly--and fatally--wrong.

Gegen wen spielst du wirklich? 2126, New London: Als die siebzehnjährige Cass in die niedrigste Klasse der Gesellschaft verstoßen wird, weiß sie, dass es nur einen Weg gibt, dieser Hölle zu entkommen: Sie muss es in die nächste Gameshow schaffen. Wer an der Gameshow teilnimmt, kann ein Ticket nach ganz oben gewinnen – oder bezahlt die Chance mit dem Leben. Cass bekommt unerwartet Hilfe von Jax, dem besten Gamer in der Arena. Die beiden werden Verbündete im großen Spiel um ihr eigenes Leben und gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg. Doch ihr Deal und auch ihre Gefühle füreinander beruhen auf einer Lüge, die alles, was sie sich gemeinsam erkämpft haben, zum Einsturz bringen könnte. Ein kraftvolles, actionreiches Debüt über ein perfides System, das nur funktioniert, weil menschliche Gier keine Grenzen kennt.