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Surely she'd gone completely mad. Claire Manning can't imagine what she was thinking when she decided to help the escapee from her company's lab, but after seeing him caged like an animal, her humanitarian compulsion could not be overridden - even by the arrogant, scowling 18th-century Highlander Hugh Urquhart turned out to be. His entire life has been taken away from him, and Claire understands the pain and torment of loss.

From the haunted hills of Roman Britain to the sewers of occupied Warsaw … in the bloodied streets of Revolutionary Paris, and the anarchy World War II Shanghai … out of the wilds of America, India, Africa and Europe … down the long savage darkness of the centuries, monsters have fed upon us. They are shapeshifters, vampires, sorcerers and spirits—things named only in myth, and things for which we have no name. They are our demons, our reflections, our desires and our nightmares. And all too often, they are … only human.

In 1800s New York, Ophelia Dannan is suffocated by the vigilance of her watchful family. She craves freedom from their onerous farm, unaware that she is being hidden there from a sinister king of Magus—a realm where magic is slowly dying, enslaved to the monarchy. A scholar, a smuggler, and a soldier have sworn to protect Ophelia from the armies that hunt the woman who's unlike anyone in the worlds.

Every choice has consequences - but 17-year-old Layla faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness. Wickedly sexy demon prince Roth or Zayne, the gorgeous, protective Warden that she never thought could be hers. Hardest of all, Layla has to decide which side of herself to trust. Layla has a new problem, too. A Lilin - the deadliest of demons - has been unleashed, wreaking havoc on those around her, including her best friend.

If you make a deal with the devil, can you still save your soul? To avoid becoming the love-slave of a depraved criminal vampire, bounty-hunter and witch Rachel Morgan is cornered into a deal that could promise her an eternity of suffering. But eternal damnation is not Rachel's only worry. Her vampire roommate, Ivy, has rediscovered her taste for blood and is struggling to keep their relationship platonic; her boyfriend, Nick, has disappeared – perhaps indefinitely; and she's being stalked by an irate pack of werewolves.

Iza's love life is a disaster. Tired of dating all the wrong men, she longs to find a nice, dependable partner to build a future with, though they're hard to come by these days. At this rate, she'd be lucky if a man just magically appeared out of thin air. To Iza's shock, a stranger with a devilishly sexy smile and an insufferably carefree attitude suddenly turns up in her flat claiming to be her personal wish-granter. Willing to play along, only if to get Beckett out of the way, she wishes to find her dream boyfriend - the kind that solely exists in books.

An accidental discovery allows real-time monitoring of historical events, but the regime is wary of its potential effects and bans its use for anything other than Reichsführer-approved criminal investigations. But the young scientist who discovered it, Leigh Wilson, has her own secrets and is determined to use what she has found for the greater good.

The Seljuk Empire is on fire and the king is on a rampage after learning of his wife's infidelity. Unsated by her execution, he has gone on to wed and behead a new wife night after night. Fear spreads through the city and Shaherazade must do something, anything, to halt the horror she has set in motion. When the king starts searching for his next bride, Shaherazade steps forward. As the sun sets on her wedding night, she begins to weave a tale that will go down in history.

In Every Which Way But Dead, witch and former bounty hunter Rachel Morgan's managed to escape her corrupt company, survive living with a vampire, start her own runner service, and face down a vampire master. But her vampire roommate Ivy is off the wagon, her human boyfriend Nick is out of town indefinitely and doesn't sound like he's coming back while the far-too-seductive vampire Kisten is looking way too tempting, and there's a turf war erupting in Cincinnati's underworld.

The Actual Star takes listeners on a journey over thousands of years and six continents—collapsing three separate timelines into one cave in the Belizean jungle. An epic saga of three reincarnated souls, this novel demonstrates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, love and hate. The book jumps forward and backward in time among a pair of twins who ruled a Maya kingdom, a young American on a trip of self-discovery, and two dangerous charismatics in a conflict that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.

Axel Hunter Radcliff has trained his whole life to be a hero. Once every generation, someone in his family is called upon to be a Chosen One, and Axel’s prepared himself extensively, just in case it’s him. He just wasn't prepared for the portal. Now he's in another world brimming with dangerous monsters beneath a sky full of magic portals ... and with no idea what he's been summoned to do. All he knows is that every Chosen Radcliff has been aided by a support staff of skilled women.

My name’s Bill Ryder and I’m having a hell of a week. Magic is back, my new roommate is a blob of yellow snot, and my friend Sally has been entombed alive in solid rock. Oh, and I’m dead again, or undead anyway. Life’s not quite finished taking a dump on me yet, because now something is hunting vampires in New York City. A smarmy-ass wizard has been called in to investigate – one who’s got a closet full of skeletons and eyes for my girlfriend.

A plucky farm boy will find more than he's bargained for on his quest to awaken the sleeping princess in her cursed tower. First there's the Dark Lord, who wishes for the boy's untimely death...and also very fine cheese. Then there's a bard without a song in her heart but with a very adorable and fuzzy tail, an assassin who fears not the night but is terrified of chickens, and a mighty fighter more frightened of her sword than of her chain-mail bikini. This journey will lead to sinister umlauts, a trash-talking goat, and the Dread Necromancer Steve....

Desperate to prove that he has found the unified field theory in the Bible, young mathematics prodigy Jacob Saylor runs away to the Middle East. But when he and his brother venture into the desert they disappear, only to return years later with no memory of where they have been. Then a group of cybernetic terrorists calling themselves The Embodied attack. Having discarded their humanity for bodies of living technology they serve their masters by secretly manipulating world events, eliminating enemies, and toppling nations.

Layla est confrontée à des dilemmes plus préoccupants que la plupart des adolescents de son âge. Comment choisir entre le sexy Roth et Zayne, son amour d'enfance ? Pour compliquer les choses, un Lilin - le plus meurtrier des démons - a été libéré, faisant des ravages sur son entourage… en particulier sur sa meilleure amie. Pour la sauver d'un sort bien pire que la mort, Layla doit conclure un accord avec l'ennemi. Déchirée entre deux mondes et deux hommes, bouleversée par le poids des secrets, elle devra se battre et suivre son cœur.

¿Chicos guapos que se convierten en vampiros? Vamos, ¡eso ya pasó de moda! Además, realmente no creo que alguien sea guapo todo lleno de sangre ¡puaj! ¿Chicos fuertes que se convierten en lobos? Táchalo. ¿Demonios sexys? ¿ Ángeles encantadores? ¿Qué es esto? ¿Una loca película épica? No. Mejor sal a pasear, y quizás te encuentres con un gato que te cambie la vida. La vida de Ginger jamás hubiera sido digna de contarse en una novela, hasta que se encuentra con un extraño gato callejero al que decide adoptar y al mismo tiempo mantenerlo oculto de la vista de sus restrictivos padres.

"Баронские будни" - фантастический роман Серга Усова, вторая книга цикла "Попаданец в Таларею", жанр боевое фэнтези, попаданцы.