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Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow...where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles, and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.

Seventeen year-old Lark Goode wants only one thing: to escape her small town of Cutwater and the history of her family name. It’s a history that began during the Dutch tulip mania of 1636, when Lark’s ancestor stole the last remaining tulip bulbs and fled to America. But when the tulips bloomed on American soil, madness sprouted from their snowy white petals. The madness was love. Now, generations later, the Goodes remain cursed—the unnatural flowers outside their home causing locals to fall helplessly in love with anyone carrying Goode blood in their veins.

Vega has lived in the valley her whole life—forbidden by her mother to leave the safety of its borders because of the unknown threats waiting for her in the wilds beyond. But when Vega sees an omen in the sky—one she cannot ignore—she is forced to leave the protective boundaries of the valley for the first time. Yet the outside world is much more terrifying than Vega could have ever imagined. People are gravely sick—they lose their eyesight and their hearing, just before they lose their lives.

Long ago, a village made a bargain with the devil: To ensure their prosperity, when the Slaughter Moon rises, the village must sacrifice a young man into the depths of the Devil's Forest. Only this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early. Bound by duty, secrets, and the love they share for one another, a spirited witch, the expected saint, and a restless outcast will each have a role to play as the devil demands a body to fill the bargain. But the devil these friends find is not the one they expect, and the lies they uncover will turn their town - and their hearts - inside out.

Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother's and her own musical careers. Although she is determined to look forward and not behind, life in the world above is not as easy as Liesl had hoped. Her younger brother, Josef, is cold, distant, and withdrawn, while Liesl can't forget the austere young man she left beneath the earth and the music he inspired in her. When troubling signs arise that the barrier between worlds is crumbling, Liesl must return to the Underground to unravel the mystery of life, death, and the Goblin King.

Deep in the wood lives a witch queen and her eight tree siren daughters. For centuries, they have harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow their ever reaching kingdom of ash, birch, and oak. Owen Merrick lives at the edge of the forest, mapping the stars for the king in his father’s observatory. For years, he has resisted venturing over the garden wall, until one day he must enter the woods to find his missing sister. But one of the witch’s tree siren daughters, Seren, decides to save his life instead of end it.

All her life, 19-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family's inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Kathe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above.

There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, it's not just a story. As the day of her twin brother's wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she's willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom.

Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to blame. All appear to have been poisoned - and every death was accompanied by a mysterious note.

Darren is going back to where it all started, back to where he was reborn as a child of the night. But like Darren, the town has changed a lot over the years. Back home, old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night. Travel home with Darren in this, the penultimate book in the saga.

Dead if he loses - damned if he wins. The time has finally come for Darren to face his arch enemy, Steve Leopard, and fight for control of the night. One of them will die. The other will become the Lord of the Shadows …and destroy the world.

Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach. Then Mer’s old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both.

"If you step through after Harkat, you might never comeback. Is your friend worth such an enormous risk?" Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls. Will they survive the savage journey full of killer animals, monstrous mutants, and fiery winged beasts? And what awaits them in the murky waters of the dead? The two companions must unravel the riddle of Harkat's identity before they are destroyed. Be careful what you fish for.

Fie abides by one rule: Look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime. When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses - and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: Protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns.

Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Straford resign at the height of his career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly reject him? Why, 70 years later, should people go to such lengths to prevent the truth coming out?

Jude tenía siete años cuando sus padres fueron asesinados y, junto con sus dos hermanas, fue trasladada a la traicionera Corte Suprema del Reino Feérico. Diez años más tarde, lo único que Jude desea, a pesar de ser una mera mortal, es sentir que pertenece a ese lugar. Pero muchos de los habitantes desprecian a los humanos. Especialmente el Príncipe Cardan, el hijo más joven y perverso del Alto Rey. Para hacerse un hueco en la Corte, Jude deberá enfrentarse a él. Y afrontar las consecuencias.

Tras un largo recorrido entre pantanos, Ofelia conoce al hombre que será su padrastro, un despiadado capitán del ejército español. Para él, el inquietante y oscuro bosque donde viven es como una jaula, que tan solo sirve de escondite para los combatientes de la resistencia en la interminable y sangrienta guerra civil. Pero Ofelia está embelesada con su mágico hogar.

Jude ha llegado a un acuerdo con el rey malvado, Cardan, y se ha convertido en el poder en la sombra. Navegar en un mar de alianzas plagado de traiciones constantes ya es lo bastante complicado, pero Cardan, encima, es terriblemente difícil de controlar y hace todo lo que puede para humillar y minar a Jude, aunque su fascinación por ella permanece intacta. Cuando resulta evidente que alguien cercano a Jude planea traicionarla, lo que no solo pondrá en peligro su vida sino también la de aquellos a los que más quiere, Jude deberá desenmascarar al traidor.

Durante casi toda su vida, Elisse ha sido acosado por criaturas horripilantes que al parecer nadie más puede ver ni escuchar. Desesperado por huir tanto de ellas como de su pasado, decide marcharse de la mística India para sumergirse dentro de la Gran Hechicera Nueva Orleans, con la esperanza...

"Obligado a separarse de su familia, Elisse abandona la fantasmagórica ciudad de Nueva Orleans para arrojarse en una salvaje contienda a través de Estados Unidos, con el único propósito de proteger a quienes ama de los inquietantes misterios que envuelven su existencia. Pero Elisse no viaja...

Alina Starkov no espera mucho de la vida. Se quedó huérfana después de la guerra y lo único que tiene en el mundo es a su amigo Mal. A raíz de un ataque que recibe Mal al entrar en La Sombra, una oscuridad antinatural repleta de monstruos que ha aislado el país, Alina revela un poder latente que ni ella misma sabía que tenía. Tras ese episodio, Alina es conducida a la fuerza hasta la corte real para ser entrenada como un miembro de los Grisha, un grupo de magos de élite comandado por un individuo misterioso que se hace llamar El Oscuro.

Cuenta la leyenda que, en el valle del Baztán, los dioses convivían en hermandad y las criaturas del día y de la noche podían vivir en armonía. Pero Gaueko, el temible dios de la noche, empezó a atemorizar a los humanos con su séquito de lobos y la diosa de la tierra, Mari, engendró la Luna y el Sol para protegerlos de la oscuridad. Sin embargo, las ansias de poder de Gaueko le llevaron a tramar un plan para raptar al Sol y así instaurar de manera definitiva su reinado de las sombras.

Alice acaba de cumplir la edad para el cambio de rastro como loba, y sus hormonas están desbordadas. Su familia quiere protegerla de la tentación, por lo menos hasta que vea qué quiere hacer con su futuro emparejamiento. "Lo que ellos no entendían, porque era un tabú que había reprendido desde que tenía memoria, era que mi tentación más fuerte, solía estar a dos puertas de distancia." Jude es huérfano pero tiene una familia de acogida que siempre le ha dado todo, quizá por eso le parece de vital importancia proteger a su "hermanastra" Alice. Hay amores prohibidos... La manada ...

Ahora que todo el mundo sabe que ella es la Bruja Negra de la profecía, Elloren Gardner ha huido sin saber si en su camino hallará amigos o enemigos. Ahora que su pareja, Lukas Grey, puede estar muerto o en manos del Gran Mago Marcus Vogel, Elloren sabe que la única forma de darle la vuelta a la guerra que se avecina es encontrar aliados dispuestos a escucharla en lugar de asesinarla a sangre fría. En el Reino de Oriente, la fae de agua Tierney Calix y Trystan, el hermano de Elloren, se han unido al wyvernguard, y se están preparando para el ataque de Vogel.

Elloren Gardner esconde el más poderoso secreto de toda Erthia: ella es la Bruja Negra de la Profecía, y está destinada a triunfar o bien a ser utilizada como la última arma de destrucción. Separada de todos aquellos a los que ama, deberá recurrir a la última persona en la que puede confiar: su compañero Lukas Gray. Con las fuerzas de Gardneria preparadas para conquistar Erthia, Elloren no tendrá más remedio que aliarse con Lukas para protegerse de las garras del líder gardneriano.

Libro 3 de la saga la Estirpe Dorada La batalla final contra el poder de Xaruk se acerca, aunque las traiciones corroen hasta al más fiel de los guerreros. Pareciera que todos los esfuerzos que se hacen son en vano, y que es imposible impedir el avance del norte. El final de una era se acerca, por lo que necesitarán de la ayuda de todo aquel que sea capaz de luchar. Dragones, guerreros, magos y espectros se unirán para lograr vencer a una diosa que lleva siglos atacándolos.

En el bosque hay un ataúd de cristal. Está en el suelo, y en su interior duerme un muchacho con cuernos en la cabeza y orejas puntiagudas… Hazel y su hermano Ben viven en Fairfold, donde los humanos pueden coexistir en armonía con los habitantes del aire. Desde que eran niños, Hazel y Ben se han estado contando historias sobre el chico del ataúd de cristal en las que este es un príncipe y ellos son sus valientes caballeros. Creen que este príncipe es diferente de otros feéricos, los que hacen tratos crueles, se ocultan entre las sombras de los árboles y llevan a la perdición a los turistas.