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Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever.  

Skylar Gautier doesn’t give a crap about her fated mate. Defying her father to become a New Orleans cop, the wolf shifter ignores her heritage to focus on hunting down crooks. But as she tracks a sadistic killer, she butts heads with a stubbornly sexy guy who has claimed for years he’s her protector….

Perséphone n'est la déesse du printemps qu'en titre. Depuis qu'elle est toute petite, les fleurs se ratatinentà son contact. Après s'être installée à New Athens, elle espérait mener une vie discrète, dans la peau d'une journaliste mortelle. Tout change lorsqu'elle s'assied dans une boîte de nuit clandestine pour jouer une partie de cartes avec un étranger hypnotique et mystérieux. Hadès, le dieu des morts, a bâti un empire du jeu dans le monde des mortels et ses paris favoris sont réputés impossibles. 

I had had a good day. I had helped a homeless man and his dog get into a shelter and then begun to enjoy a serendipitous reunion with DI White. We were a few pints into the session when my phone buzzed insistently. I was called to arms. A crime scene needed my input and a car was sent for me. DI White decided to tag along and, just like that, the band was back together. The bloody mess that had been Father Greenwood hung over the cross behind his altar, something terrible walked the streets Follow Father Steel's fight against the Enemy in the eternal battle between Good and Evil.

Krystal’s life as a vampire werewolf hybrid is not as easy as it looks, but as she looks for an intruder, she mets another hybrid named Karo. They face things together until they rule the packs together as queen and alpha.

A woman who built a fortress around her heart. A man who finds beauty in the broken pieces. Anna Thorne is a brilliant architect living in a world of polished glass and perfect order. For her, "efficiency is elegance, and sentiment is a flaw in the system". The fortress she's built is designed not just for success, but to hide a painful past and keep the world at arm's length. Daniel Harris is a gifted sculptor who lives in the beautiful chaos of his studio.

Know your enemies. It's good advice - and Kate always thought she did. But everything has changed: there’s a new force at the head of the Thrall collective. A force brilliant enough and ruthless enough to hide its sinister plan behind humanitarian work - building and funding halfway houses to ease the victims of drugs and the Thrall back into society

Für sein Reich würde er alles tun. Doch für Persephone ist er sogar bereit, die Unterwelt aufzugeben. Persephone ist die Göttin des Frühlings, doch ihre Magie hat sich bis heute nicht gezeigt. Sie wählt daher den Weg einer Sterblichen, zieht für ihr Studium nach New Athens und hat endlich das Gefühl, in ihrem neuen Leben angekommen zu sein. Aber auf einer Party im Nevernight, dem angesagtesten Club der Stadt, begegnet sie dem geheimnisvollen Hades und verliert eine Wette gegen ihn.

Handsome, powerful Rurik Wilder battles darkness - the darkness without and the darkness within. He possesses the power to transform himself into a fierce bird of prey, and that gift has caused death and destruction. At last he is offered the chance to redeem himself and break the evil pact that has held his family in thrall for centuries. Only one woman stands in his way - Tasya Hunnicutt, a writer determined to wreak revenge on the assassins who murdered her family. Assassins, it’s been rumored, who have powers no human should ever possess....

“…There was a sudden flash, and two large, yellow, cat-like eyes appeared before him in the darkness. Rami stumbled backward, unable to see in the jet-black surroundings. “You killed them Rami, their blood is on your hands …” Rami felt something warm and wet dripping from his hands, and he frantically wiped them on his tunic as he continued to stumble blindly, desperate to escape the eyes. He pitched backwards as the stone give way beneath him, and he tumbled into the darkness. The voice dissolved into harsh laughter, echoing all around him. Then he woke up, screaming…” Alone ...

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Persefone è la dea della primavera, ma solo di nome. La verità è che, sin da quando era bambina, i fiori si avvizziscono non appena lei li tocca. Dopo essersi trasferita a Nuova Atene, la ragazza finge di essere una semplice giornalista mortale, in modo da poter vivere una vita senza troppe pretese. Ade, il dio dei morti, ha costruito un impero del gioco d’azzardo nel mondo dei mortali, e si dice che le sue scommesse preferite siano quelle irrealizzabili.

R. E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, and Solomon Kane. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and others, R. E. Howard was one of the most prominent purveyors of the Cthulhu Mythos (the best-known contemporary author of this fictional mythology is Stephen King). "The Horror from the Mound" and "The Fearsome Touch of Death" are excellent even by today’s standards - and the stories are further highlighted by incredible vocal performances, stunning music, and superb graphics on the cover.

A ruthless assassin. A chance at vengeance. A deadly secret… The slow-burn epic fantasy romance sensation that has gripped readers on Booktok! ‘A great plot, perfect tension, and sweet betrayal’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 🗡️ A cage Owned by a ruthless assassin lord, Scarlett...

In the grocer's unraveling world Cyrus Beaudry is just a grocer in Saint Florentine, Louisiana, trying to save his family's market. But when ancient fig trees begin to whisper dark secrets and unsettling power awakens beneath his skin, Cyrus is thrust into a hidden world of ancestral magic he never knew existed. An ancient, hungry entity, bound centuries ago by the town's founding families, is stirring. Now, with his family's legacy on the line and strange, black veins spreading across his body, Cyrus must unite with a wise, blind rootworker and his estranged, fire-wielding sister to ...

What if you carried an invisible mark so powerful that hell itself dared not cross your path? Imagine walking into a room and every curse, demon, or assignment of darkness immediately recognized a command over your life: Touch not My anointed! For too long, countless believers have struggled with relentless spiritual warfare—witchcraft attacks, generational curses, strange battles in dreams, and constant resistance to their prayers. You fast, you serve, you give, yet breakthrough feels delayed. What if the missing key is not striving harder, but walking in the divine protection God has ...

She was a century-old immortal enforcer who felt nothing. He was a ruthless cartel king who controlled everything. Their collision was bound to be fatal. Seraphina Thorne has survived a century by adhering to two rules: trust absolutely no one, and never break the Blood Oath of Purity. As an elite Enforcer for the Vampire Council, she is cold, lethal, and undeniably efficient. But when a rogue faction of bloodsuckers infringes on the territory of the city's most dangerous mortal, Sera's routine cleanup mission erupts into a violent turf war. Alejandro Vargas, known on the streets as El ...

Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this “haunting, deeply moving” (Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author) debut in the tradition ofCirce,Elektra, andStone Blind. Among the women of Greek mythology, the...

A Storm of Death and Desire Two spellbinding novellas in the Lady of Darkness series: THE REAPER and UNRELENTING WINDS Unrelenting Winds For centuries, the Great War that divided the realm has been over. The Fae Courts and mortal lands alike have been rebuilding, trying to move forward in a...

Brought to you by Puffin. From New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a new standalone adventure featuring two of the most popular characters from the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. ONE PROPHECY. TWO DEMIGODS. A HEROIC QUEST. Nico...

Tristan Jasper is a man driven by vengeance. When his brother is murdered, he begins a relentless hunt for the killer—a woman he knows only by whispers and shadows. But when Tristan finally meets her, she isn’t the formidable opponent he expected. She’s insignificant, almost ordinary, and yet, there’s something about her that doesn’t add up. Instead of ending her life, he’s compelled to uncover her secrets. What starts as a pursuit for justice spirals into an obsession, leading Tristan across the globe and through interstellar gates to alien worlds. As Tristan delves deeper into...