Southern Fantasy

Desiree is a nurse at the children’s hospital. Being a work-a-holic, Desiree has no desire to hit the clubs after a grueling twelve-hour shift but after being persuaded by her best friend, she caves. Dressed in cowboy boots, tight Wranglers, and a cowboy hat, Caleb is the man of Desiree’s dreams. He’s handsome, gentlemanly, and sexy as hell. And has a killer secret. He’s a vampire. Bodies turn up in the streets, drained of blood and missing hearts. The most intriguing part, carved on their foreheads is the Xavier symbol. A symbol Caleb has not seen in five hundred years. When he ...

From the bestselling author of The North Wind and The West Wind comes a sizzling fantasy romance novel featuring a fake engagement and second chance romance, inspired by Sleeping Beauty and the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Led by Athan's father, the revolutionary Safire have launched a secret assault upon the last royal kingdom in the South, hoping to depose the king and seize a powerful foothold on the continent. Athan proves a star pilot among their ranks, struggling to justify the violence his family has unleashed as he fights his way to the capital - where, unbeknownst to him, Aurelia has lived since the war's onset.

Nove personaggi della Napoli di De Crescenzo che per le loro particolarità sono usciti in fantasia ovvero sono un pò matti: un fatto quasi comune in una città pirotecnicamente creativa.

After Windsor Ebonwood’s love life and successful career as a book conservator vanish in one fell swoop, she’s determined to begin anew. Win moves to Darkly Island off the coast of Louisiana, where she’s been bequeathed an unusual bookshop and a charming home on the edge of a dark swamp. Win gets to work settling into her new life in the sleepy Southern town but discovering Darkly’s heartless town alderman impaled on a gravestone wasn’t on the books. Nor was finding out about her family’s legacy as powerful witches responsible for protecting the bookshop at all costs.

Reunited again, Jon, Brooke, and Lucas head to the Los Muertos camp, 80 miles southeast of New Atlanta. Brooke is distraught, still processing her time as a prisoner in the camp, and the reappearance of her husband. With Peter now dead, Brooke must decide whether to face her son with the news. But other decisions loom, as she and Jon have to choose whether to stay with Los Muertos under the threat of another attack from New Atlanta, or head back out on the highways to face the dangers of the world and try to find peace somewhere.

When Karen Paladino, a mild-mannered accountant, started her work week with a simple carpool, who would have know her life would have taken an unexpected turn toward the absurd and the sometimes just plain weird. Thrust blindly into a world of magic she can’t believe or comprehend, Karen is rocketed on a whirlwind journey that will test her sanity her patience and, most importantly, her ability to handle bad puns and pop culture references by a less than amusing mage and his sidekick dragon.

The zombies are slowly disappearing. But are they hibernating? Becoming inanimate? Rotting and decomposing? We don't know. People haven't changed. Well, let me change that. They have changed. For the worse. The remaining population seems to think they are owed something. So, instead of rebuilding, they steal, kill, rape and pillage. The world we live in now is one where you have to fight or die. There are no exceptions. The only thing we can do is continue on and try to rebuild.

Tonia Brown brings you another triple shot of horror, this time with a southern bent. A sheriff of a small town tries to keep the secret of a local bootlegger, but at what cost? A small town sin eater takes on more than he can handle, leaving him sick to the core. While on the run from zombies, Mary stumbles across an old farmhouse. But of course, nothing is as it seems in a post zombie apocalypse world.

Christoph Swift, a sharp young man from the muggy swamps of Fontainebleau, Louisiana, is catapulted into the unknown world of the Traders Terminal—a ruthless, intricate world centered around the exchange of a coveted, yet scarce, gem: minosium. This gem has an imponderable amount of potential energy and is able to power fascinating weapons, machinery, and more. Join Christoph Swift in a grand adventure across the seas from islands of paradise to subterranean caverns in his attempt to join this secretive Traders Terminal.

For over a hundred years, messenger Duncan has wandered the world, searching for the missing pieces of an amulet that will rid him of his curse; a curse that has burdened him with an extreme intolerance of the cold, an unnaturally long life, and the despair of watching all he knew and loved become lost to the ravages of time. He has seen the world around him change, in parts for the better, sometimes for the worse, and all rather different to how he remembered it. But now, with only one part of the amulet remaining to find, Duncan is close to the end of his long quest.

These unforgettable characters are depicted so clearly and accurately as to leave the listener guessing which stories are fact and which are imagined. And whether the teachers in these tales are smudged with the dust of chalk or caked with the mud of the field, their lives and lessons are faithfully recorded here in straightforward prose that evokes a special time and place.

Steve, Alex, and Larry return again on the adventure that they have been waiting for. The war against the South Meadow Zombies has begun, and the opposing army is much stronger than they had ever realized. It will take all of their training and skill to help the village survive. Can they seek a truce with the general of the zombie clan? Will the villagers join in the fight for their own survival?

Perched on the border between civilized ghoulkind and the chaos of the barbaric slickskins, the zombie sheriff must rescue his kidnapped friends from the dastardly McFarland and his notorious gang of outlaws. As the posse tracks McFarland, they soon realize that they themselves are being pursued.

Centuries past, the world of Evos fell into war as its inhabitants battled over the powerful Nios Crystal, said to allow its user to control fear itself. After the crystal was lost and worldwide destruction blanketed the land, a band of survivors founded six great cities across the globe, never leaving their dream of global domination behind.

Aurora Hayes is probably the most agreeable and least judgmental of the Roads Unlimited driving team, but even she has her limits. When something that sure looks like the scary bipedal "myth" called the chupacabra races in out of the darkness in North Texas and jumps aboard her rig, Aurora finds herself stuck with the edgy, bug-eyed little monster on a long haul across the South to Florida. But dealing with the freakish creature, which appears to have no language and seems determined to stay with the truck, is just the warm-up: The thing's master arrives.

Max Griffin rode into the New Mexico desert looking for a killer. He wasn't a handsome man, but he was wise. Someone had been killing cattle, taking a few worthless organs, and leaving their carcasses to rot.

Rich with atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties and New Orleans, A Peril in the Bayou begins when Clover Flanagan, assistant to renowned psychic medium, Daphne Moultrie, travels with her to New Orleans to see a spiritualist leader. Mother Leafy agrees meet Daphne, but on one condition — Daphne must travel a haunted bayou so she will understand those spirits. However, Leafy has a rival who is a dangerous woman. . Despite cryptic warnings from a spirit, they head to New Orleans. In the bayou, Clover’s gifts begin to awaken. So do Voodoo gods in want of a sacrifice, and powerful primeval ...

Eine Liebe, die die Welt retten könnte … oder sie für immer zerstören. Das BookTok-Phänomen von Alexandria Warwick endlich auf Deutsch! Die junge Prinzessin Sarai Al-Khatib lebt unter dem Schatten eines grausamen Fluchs: An ihrem 25. Geburtstag droht ihr der Tod durch die Berührung einer schwarzen Iris. Um ihr Schicksal abzuwenden, soll sie Prince Balior heiraten – doch als ihre einstige große Liebe, Notus, der Südwind, zurückkehrt, beginnt für Sarai ein gefährliches Spiel um Liebe, Macht und Verrat.

The Walpole brothers take their little sister, Dew, out on a johnboat to pirate the waterways for beer and loose change. Dew falls overboard and appears to drown, until two men with gigantic wings swoop down and carry her body away into the sky. The news of her disappearance hits the family hard, driving the mother to fashion wings so she can fly after the men who took her daughter.