Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Fantasy - Contemporary

Peter is interested in just three things: dancing, finding a girlfriend, and hiding his raven soul. Peter is a raven warrior, an ancient race known for their assassination and fighting skills. Through secrecy and strict teaching, they've learned to cope with the modern world. When Peter meets Tamara, he knows she's different. Special. He doesn't learn until too late that she has secrets too. Tamara is a tiger warrior. And her kind are only interested in killing his kind.

In Dreamville, April Norris found her life had become a mysterious dream where she found herself moving between times and places that she had never experienced, including loving a man she had never known until she woke one morning in her own past. She was confused, afraid, and tortured by a vision of a world where her life seemed to end. For Gordon Stewart, her lover, Dreamville was a place that was the product of his own tortured mind, a world where he could not protect the woman he loved from his most horrifying vision - himself. Gordon's nightmares were much different from April's, except...

Ever wondered why the Scottish woods are so wild? Why it's dangerous to be out at night? Why, even on beautiful moonlit nights, it's safer to be nestled up beside a crackling fire? Roberta Arlington and the residents of Ridgewood are about to find out.
Roberta Arlington lives in Ridgewood, a small and sleepy town on the Scottish border, where she is completely content with her life. That is, until she stumbles upon a corpse at the local boarding school and finds that her world starts to unravel into chaos.
As questions begin to emerge as to just how the victim died, Roberta...

Zombie World: Betrayal is the fourth in a series of novellas that takes you into the lives of the human attempt to survive the zombie apocalypse. The human foothold begins to expand as the walls of safety get left behind. Trust becomes a forgotten commodity and love is renewed as Betrayal continues to show the challenges of the new undead world.

Just hours after finding Andromeda and crossing paths with her mother, Sienna Nealon finds herself back at the Directorate and up against a bigger threat than ever before. Omega, the organization that unleashed Wolfe and others upon her, has declared war on the Directorate and the first strikes have already landed. Facing the seemingly unstoppable forces of Omega and Sienna's own mother, the Directorate seems poised for defeat when a new threat rears its ugly head - a traitor in their midst, one that may mean the destruction of everything Sienna has come to care about.

Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined.
It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One With The City.
When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously innocent-looking umbrella behind him, Sharon finds herself promoted. Her first task: find the Midnight Mayor. The only clues she has are a city dryad's cryptic message of doom and several pairs of abandoned shoes ...
Suddenly, Sharon's job feels a whole lot harder.

Shaman Sharon Li's...

Unspeakable horrors threaten the earth in this fantastic new comic fantasy from the author of "Divine Misfortune."
Diana's life was in a rut - she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good to be true - because it was.
The apartment was already inhabited - by monsters. Vom the Hungering was the first to greet Diana and to warn her that his sole purpose in life was to eat everything in his path. This poses a problem for Diana since she's in his path...and is forbidden from ever leaving the...

Twenty years have passed since Rowan Blaize faced his greatest magical foe, but the ancient warlock is still on-the-run with his mortal foundling, Miranda. What better place to lay low than the charming seaside town of St. Augustine, Florida? The Ancient City, however, is already home to voyeuristic ghosts, cocktail-loving vampires, werewolf comedians, and three highly eccentric witches Rowan's monster-mash celebration is all set for Halloween night, but when a cursed ring crosses paths with a beauty pageant brat, a catastrophe is unleashed upon the partying Ancient City ... and possibly the...

John Caldor, tormented by grief after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident, feels his mind break; he can feel the cold breeze blowing through the crack that has opened deep inside his head. It is no huge surprise then, when John meets a beautiful woman that no one else can see: Asha, the imaginary friend of his lost daughter.

Asha shows John her world, the world of the forest. She tells John that she is a narun, a being made of prana - the stuff of life. Her people are the aaranya - dryads. She shows him that she can merge with the trees and share their life. She...

24-year old Sherman Reinhardt dreams of playing professional ice hockey, but after a disappointing career at a backwater Minnesota college, he's going nowhere fast. Nowhere, that is, until he becomes the first North American to play in the mythical Borschland Hockey League. Borschland is a place lost in time, where the locals ride in horse-drawn carriages, fly helium-buoyed airships, and go mad for their ice hockey. Making the team here turns into the least of Sherm's worries-- he's an overnight sensation and his team is skating towards a championship. But almost as fast he's hip deep in...

A brand new love story / thriller from Dan Garmen... Rich Girrard is happily married, a father, relatively well adjusted and owns half of a very successful tech company. Like most people approaching 50 years old, he had a few regrets, things he'd done, things he wished he hadn't. When Rich finds himself again living his life in the 1970s, fully aware that he's doing it for the second time, he discovers the process is far more complicated than he first thought, and struggles to change the things in his past he needs to, while trying to remain the man his family will recognize when he returns...

As the last thunderstorm of summer ravages France's Forest of Fontainebleau, a tiny, lavender faerie seeks shelter inside a hollow oak. It is not long, however, until Fey discovers she is not alone.

Her accidental encounter with an enormous, frightening bat on a solitary journey to the fabled City of Lights has her bargaining for her life by granting him a wish he idly makes-a wish which sends him from a state of spiritual purity to the messy, complicated realm of humanity, a transition he is ill-equipped to deal with. Taken in by a kind farmer, the transformed being, who calls...

As the last thunderstorm of summer ravages France's Forest of Fontainebleau, a tiny, lavender faerie seeks shelter inside a hollow oak. It is not long, however, until Fey discovers she is not alone.

Her accidental encounter with an enormous, frightening bat on a solitary journey to the fabled City of Lights has her bargaining for her life by granting him a wish he idly makes-a wish which sends him from a state of spiritual purity to the messy, complicated realm of humanity, a transition he is ill-equipped to deal with. Taken in by a kind farmer, the transformed being, who calls...

Beyond The Maze When Peter, Jake and their father move to a large house just outside a small town called Little Thornton, England, little did they know how much things would change forever. The adventure starts when the twelve year old twins discover a maze in the gardens of their new home, a home that had a past, a past that went back a very long time. It wasn't always a family home, but had taken on many uses over the years, and within the maze they come across a curious little green gate that is without lock and key. The search to find entry starts with the boys playing detective, along...

She never believed. Not in ghosts, not in friendship, and especially not in love. When Melodie Gibson moves half way around the world to upstate New York, her entire world turns upside down. Living in a quirky castle turned bed and breakfast, she finds herself confronted with someone watching her every move. That someone is Joseph, who captivates Melodie's heart, fulfilling her dreams and drawing her into his world-a world that is beautiful, magical... and treacherous. It will take all the courage Melodie has to face those who will stop at nothing to rip them apart. From the pages of a...

This is the third in a four part fantasy series called The Sanctuary Series. Book three is entitled Starman Heart Stargirl and is taken from a portion of sidewalk at Cal State East Bay in Hayward California. The title underscores the theme that fantasy exists amidst us. This story is how, in the context of the series, that sidewalk etching came to be. S.C. Williams is the author and illustrator of the series.

Life isn't always sweet for magical baker, Cindy Eller. All her life she's been cursed-- every man she's ever kissed has turned into a toad. Love isn't likely to come her way. If that weren't a big enough problem, her 'curse' has come to the attention of the Council of Magic and she may never be able to use her powers. Enter the perfect man-- handsome, sweet, and loves food just as much as Cindy does. It would seem to be a match made in Heaven, or is it? Cindy isn't the only one keeping secrets. With toads, cupcakes, romance, magic and ice cream, life never has time to get dull

Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter and her leading man lothario. As Storm and his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case, sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels, and can either Storm tell the difference? As the truth unravels, Storm must contend with divine double dealings, saving his genitalia, the end of the world, the Second Coming, extremely violent debt collection, sexy dames, the meaning of it all and where the hell he can get a drink So...

Dark Wear is the second book of Tabitca Cope's highly acclaimed Dark Ness trilogy. In this volume Laura and her friends, together with the mysterious Angels of the Talisman, join forces again, this time around Durham and its environs where they find themselves embroiled in the dark forces of witchcraft, Nazis and ancient history. As with Dark Ness, this story grips you from the beginning and takes you on an adventure that you are - in a strange way - sorry to see end. But there is still the final volume to come, and I cannot wait to read it.

In the battle against the vampiric Ticks, humanity was slowly but certainly headed for extinction. For months, twin sisters Lily and Mel had been "quarantined" with thousands of other young people being harvested for their blood--food for the Ticks. Finally escaping with a few friends, the twins are separated--and must continue the fight on their own . . .

After making it to a resistance base camp in Utah, Lily learned to survive at all costs. But when a Tick attack decimates the fighters, Lily and her pregnant friend, McKenna, decide to make the hard trek north to Canada--and...