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The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent...

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna - a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction.

Nach ihrer Wiedergeburt weiß Abby nicht mehr, wer sie ist. Auf der Suche nach Antworten fährt sie nach Bletchley Manor, um ihren Großpa um Rat zu bitten. Doch der Besuch bei ihm wirft nur noch mehr Fragen auf. Abby ahnt, dass es nur einen Ort gibt, an dem man ihr helfen kann: das Anwesen der Calverts – der ältesten und mächtigsten Vampirfamilie dieser Zeit. Zum Glück wird sie nicht allein sein.

Dory Quillin, nineteen years old, her white-blonde hair ruffled by the gentle breezes of a June evening, lies dead in the parking lot of a lesbian bar. Her bewildered silver-blue eyes stare beseechingly into the mind and soul of the woman who kneels beside her: LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield. The investigation is far from a simple matter. Kate uncovers shocking facts about the brief life of the murdered young lesbian.

The Blackwood family and their magic have edged our lives since Jamie discovered the pendant. Now, they've found me, and I'm in more danger than ever. Trapped with Tobias inside the Blackwood estate, I'm subjected to the family's chilling magic and meet their disturbing associates. Andrei, Jamie, and Ash take a dangerous risk in their attempt to rescue me from an unknown fate and only succeed with help from an unexpected source.

Rheia Corbin came to Gravewater Academy to study omens in a gothic magic tower—not to be claimed by the dead thing living under the lake. On her first night, the Bottomless Lake calls her name. Faces drift beneath the black water. A drowned prince with green eyes whispers mine inside her skull. When a scarred Veilrunner drags her back to the shore, Rheia’s skin lights up with sigils she never learned and a fever that feels like a curse. The professors have an old word for it: Vessel. A girl whose body, Bonds, and pleasure can pull spirits through the Veil and bind them to her forever. ...

I came to Gravewater to start over. Then the sealed wing opened the night I arrived—like it had been waiting. I’m a healer. Trained, competent, and running from the ashes of the institution that made me. I transfer to Gravewater Academy mid-term with grief in my ribs and thorn-pattern veins under my skin that darken every time I’m afraid. Or aroused. I barely survive my first night before the bricked-up west wing parts for me like a mouth, and four figures step out of centuries of patient hunger: Renaut—the crown of the court, elegant and controlled, with a gaze that reads my pulse ...

In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War. With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she...

I’ve been seeing things in the dark since I got to Gravewater. The question isn’t whether they’re real. It’s whether I want them to be. The shadows that lean too close. The reflections that lag behind by half a heartbeat. The eyes that flood black when I look too hard at the Veil. I’m not fine. And whatever is watching from the dark knows it. Then a presence touches me in a dream—and leaves bruises I can’t explain away: Sevrin—composed and devastating, with the patience of something that has been waiting inside my walls for months. Kavren—broad, armored in shadow, a shield...

I told myself the scar was from an accident. I’ve been lying since first year. I’ve spent a year at Gravewater Academy pretending the branching burn on my ribs is nothing. Pretending the stolen relic token, the forbidden circle, and the thing that branded me through the floor never happened. Then the ground splits open during a Summoning drill, and something climbs out of the sealed depths beneath the dead city. Not something—multiple entities. And they already know my name: Belisar—a war-forged demon with ram-swept horns and hands that burn through every lie I tell. Cyranth—cold,...

Sable Morcant came to Gravewater Academy to outrun the words in her blood, not let them write her into a monster’s favorite story. Most students at this elite dark academia just stress over exams, house rivalries, and avoiding the ghosts in the Necropolis. Sable has a bigger problem. Every fear, every lie, every secret crush appears to her as floating text over people’s heads—and the academy’s most dangerous grimoire has recognized her name. The Palimpsest of Whispers was built to cage a word-born horror. Now its chains are failing, and its ink wants out. The more Sable studies ...

Laurel Voss came to Ashbourne University for dead languages, not living magic. She’s a scholarship girl with ink on her fingers and a strict promise to her parents: real subjects only. No dueling circles, no dangerous spellcraft, and definitely no getting attached to anyone with power over her future. Then she takes an archives job beneath the gothic library and finds a thin, nameless book that hums in her hands. To everyone else, its pages are blank. To Laurel, the runes blur into meaning—whispers of foundations that remember, “anchors” made of flesh and will, and a hungry presence...

Abby dachte, endlich richtig an der Nightwood Academy angekommen zu sein. Doch zu früh gefreut, denn alle Fragen, denen sie nachgeht, werfen nur noch weitere auf. Die Beziehung zu Ryder entwickelt sich ebenfalls in eine ungeahnte Richtung. Abby weiß nicht mehr, wo ihr der Kopf steht und welche Entscheidungen sie lieber mit dem Herzen treffen sollte.

Laurel Voss is supposed to be a student, not the spine of a haunted university. After surviving Ashbourne’s living foundations, Laurel knows the campus isn’t just cursed—it’s watching, remembering, and writing its own story through the runes carved into her bones. Now the High Arcanum has arrived with gray coats, null-stone, and polite threats. To them, Laurel is a rare asset: the girl who hears the Hollow breathe, a problem they can relocate to a lab or seal under stone. To the Hollow, she’s something worse and better—its chosen anchor, the one person who can nudge the ...

The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn’t count on anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and yellow lights shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and the perfect escape.

Laurel Voss survived binding the monster under Ashbourne. Now the Arcanum wants to turn her into a manual. Almost a year after the infirmary circle, Laurel is back to lectures and late nights in the archives, carrying two heartbeats in her chest and a script along her bones. Ashbourne’s hum has settled from teeth to spine, and she’s clinging to the illusion of a “normal” life with ink-stained notes, stolen hours with Professor Graham Ellis, and a Covenant that’s supposed to keep both her and the world safe. Then other places start to go wrong. Mislabeled shelves in a sleepy town ...

Die Nacht wartet auf dich – betritt die Tore der Nightwood Academy! Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Mutter bricht für die 20-jährige Abby eine Welt zusammen. Verzweifelt nach Antworten suchend, beschließt sie, an der Nightwood Academy zu studieren. Dem Ort, an dem ihre Mutter das letzte Mal lebend gesehen wurde. Hinter den ehrwürdigen Mauern der schottischen Universität verbirgt sich jedoch weit mehr als eine elitäre Bildungseinrichtung.

Nachdem Abby den vollkommen entstellten Charlie erblickt, hallt ihr lauter Schrei über das gesamte Gelände der Akademie. Zum Glück ist Ryder in der Nähe, um sie zu beschützen. Seine Anwesenheit wirft aber auch Fragen auf. Neben den grausamen Visionen, die Abby immer wieder ereilen, hat sie noch ganz andere Sorgen: Maisie scheint spurlos verschwunden zu sein und Blake ist nach wie vor hinter ihr her. Die Tagebucheinträge ihrer Mutter hingegen geben endlich Antworten. Mithilfe von Lucian findet Abby heraus, welche Kräfte in ihr wohnen.

Abby ist schockiert, dass sie den Verrat ihrer eigenen Familie nicht kommen sah. Ihr Dad, den sie seit Kindertagen nicht gesehen hat, steckt mittendrin und scheint mit den Lykanern gemeinsame Sache zu machen. Abby erhofft Antworten bei ihrem Grandpa in Bletchley Manor zu erhalten, nicht ahnend, dass die Verwurzelungen des Übels tiefer gehen als alles, was sie sich jemals vorstellen konnte. Parallel dazu überschlagen sich die Ereignisse im Haus des Blutes und Lucian trifft eine folgenschwere Entscheidung.

Abby stürzt aus dem Turm im Haus des Steins und glaubt bereits, alles verloren zu haben. Doch in letzter Sekunde entfalten sich ihre Gargoyle-Kräfte, und sie entkommt dem Tod nur knapp. Aidan spielt ein gefährliches Spiel mit ihr – sein nächster Zug ist ein Versteckspiel, dessen Ziel über das Leben ihrer besten Freundin entscheidet. Er lässt Abby mit einem Rätsel zurück, das sie nur mit Blakes Hilfe lösen kann, um Maisie zu finden. Ihre Suche führt sie tief unter die Gewölbe der Akademie, wo ein noch viel größeres Geheimnis lauert.