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Between Two Kings - Split or Swallow 2
From internet sensation and bestseller Lindsay Straube comes the second book in the sexy, biting Split or Swallow series, featuring dangerous basilisks, competitive seduction, and a love triangle that could destroy two kingdoms.
Tem never thought she'd fall in love. But now she's caught between the Serpent King and the newly crowned human king . . . And the war that is brewing between the basilisks and the humans.
Tem led a simple life on the family chicken farm, but now, her eyes had been opened-to love, to lust, to the pull of power, gold, obligation, and the violence of greed and war.
When Tem embraced her basilisk half and crested Leo, she thought she'd set him free. Though it nearly broke her, now he could find his first love again, and she could be happy with Caspen.
But love is complicated. As much as Tem embraces her serpent side, rules and loopholes keep her beholden to Leo . . . despite her marriage to Caspen.
And Tem and Leo's desire continues to smoulder . . . desire that could set the entire kingdom on fire.
Letters From An Imaginary Country
Roam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke''s alternate Europe and the surreal metafictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Deeply influenced by the author''s Hungarian childhood during the regime of the Soviet Union, each of these stories engages with storytelling and identity, including her own. The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thule. Characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz - and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence.
Dreamfever
In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning?s stunning novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin?s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest adventure of her life. MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master?s spell. He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister?s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac?s every thought?and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V?lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister?s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac?s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge. It?s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth?about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons . . . and about the world she thought she knew. Karen Marie Moning?s explosive Fever series continuesDARKFEVER ? BLOODFEVER ? FAEFEVER ? DREAMFEVER ? SHADOWFEVER ? ICED ? BURNED ? FEVERBORN ? FEVERSONG ? HIGH VOLTAGE ? KINGDOM OF SHADOW AND LIGHT
Burning Night
On July 4, 1983, Vivian Carter and her NASA crew of seven set off on an audacious double flyby of Venus and Mars, a two-year mission with repurposed Apollo technology that will push their ingenuity and resourcefulness to the limit. Meanwhile, superpower conflicts escalate on Earth, mirrored by a dangerously unstable arms race and battles for valuable mineral resources on the Moon. Full-up lunar military actions and treacherous sneak attacks decimate Vivian’s friends, allies and colleagues on both sides of the Iron Curtain and threaten everything she has worked to achieve.
Vivian’s odyssey is a high adventure that will bring mankind new knowledge and unimagined insights … just as the risk of worldwide nuclear war has never been greater. Now, on her triumphant return in 1985, Vivian Carter’s path inevitably brings her back to where she began: a desperate rescue mission with no NASA support and no safety net, to a dangerous, war-torn Moon where she will be hard pressed to tell friend from foe.
In the concluding volume of Alan Smale’s highly acclaimed Apollo Rising series ("A nail-biting thriller."−Publishers Weekly) humanity faces a stark choice: a bright new interplanetary future … or nuclear apocalypse on two worlds.
Between Two Kings
To earn the hand of the prince, she''ll have to learn the art of love . . . from a basilisk. The spicy sequel to KISS OF THE BASILISK, perfect for fans of Elise Kova and Katee Robert.Tem''s goal was straightforward: learn the art of love from a basilisk so she could marry the prince. But nothing''s simple when love is on the line. In the all new, explosive sequel to KISS OF THE BASILISK, the steamy romance that broke the internet, Tem will find herself tested in new and extraordinary ways.Readers LOVE the Split or Swallow series!If you don''t end up hissing after you read this book, then READ IT AGAIN. This unhinged, addictive, and smutty book was the highlight of my month! 5 freaking stars!I am not a monster romance girlie but want me to tell you why I railroaded this book in A SINGLE DAY? BECAUSE ITS INCREDIBLE.SOS, I need help because of how in love with this story I am ?????? (put me down)Monster stuff is weird to me and I''m not going to pretend otherwise. I will die on that hill. THIS monster stuff? Give me all of it and more. I will read this again, maybe a third time, before the year is up.Serpent summer FOREVER.miss straube ATE and left no crumbs with this one.
Project Hanuman
Blending Indian mythology and classic space opera, Project Hanuman is a bold new science-fiction novel from Stewart Hotston, perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.The ship needed to hear voices, to know he was not alone. The pilot thought they were going to fight an enemy, to find someone responsible and mete out justice. The Interlocutor thought they were going to help. The ship only wanted to hear the chaos of life and know he wasn?t alone among the stars.The Arcology is a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. Tired of paradise, Praveenthi ?Prab? Saal had herself printed into the physical world of Sirajah?s Reach, working as an Interlocutor ? a go between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood.One evening after a call with her family - who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology, the city stops. Stops completely ? nothing electronic works anymore. Terrified that the Arcology has just up and disappeared, she receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical world. Between them they discover it?s not just her planet, but the entire Arcology that?s gone missing. If they don?t find out what?s going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home. Their only resource is their living ship, into which all the knowledge and culture of the Arcology has been downloaded. Asked to be a life raft for the Arcology, the ship, a frigate without a name, is dying ? slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it?s been asked to carry. Featuring worlds made entirely from gold, an enemy who has no consciousness, allies made of lichen and the grand Ring World of Akhanda - the physical heart of the Arcology. Prab and Kercher will need to put aside their dislike of each other and the Arcology if they?re to help their ship and save anything at all. Can they restore the possibility of hope to their lives?
Opposite World
Piper “Pip” Screed remembers nothing about her mother’s mysterious death or the strange episode that left her in a deep, unexplained sleep. All she knows is that her father uprooted them to a secluded mountain cabin, severed all ties to the outside world, and refuses to answer her questions.Fifteen years later, Pip escapes isolation and discovers The Reverie Cloud—a revolutionary sleep-therapy program that merges the subconscious with virtual reality. Here, users can experience their desires, confront fears, and rewrite their pasts in a dreamscape indistinguishable from reality. But when The Reverie Cloud falls into the hands of those who see her subconscious as a prize, Pip becomes ensnared within its unstable architecture. Now locked inside the program, she must navigate its mercurial layers, face the horrors buried within her subconscious, and unravel the truth about her past before time runs out. Worse, she’s not the only one at risk—her father’s life hangs in the balance, too.But the deeper Pip ventures, the more dangerous the game becomes. If she pushes too far, she may never escape. Yet only by confronting the truth can she hope to uncover what really happened to her mother—before the program consumes her entirely.Blending science fiction with psychological horror, surreal fantasy, and an aching tremor of human longing, OPPOSITE WORLD is an exploration of memory, identity, and the thin divide between perception and reality.FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.
Metal Slinger - Vládca kovu
Romantasy senzácia, plná napätia, romantiky a srdcervúcich zvratov, ktorá ovládla internet.
Brynn prežila svoj život s Alahanmi, aj keď medzi nich nepatrí. Podstúpila výcvik do stráže a čakala na príležitosť zúčastniť sa na každoročnom Trhu, ktorý usporadúva Kenta – práve ten národ, ktorý jej adoptívnu komunitu odsúdil na život na mori. Táto cesta predstavuje akýsi rituál dospievania, ktorého sa mladí strážcovia nevedia dočkať, ibaže Brynn ani nenapadlo, že počas neho narušia storočie trvajúci mier. Ani to, že príde do konfliktu s nepriateľským vojakom, ktorý môže ohroziť krehké spolunažívanie oboch národov – a spochybní všetko, čomu Brynn doteraz verila.
Keď jej vojak, ktorý prisahal, že ju privedie späť tam, kam patrí, odhalí pravdu, Brynnina vernosť voči jej ľudu je vystavená skúške. Po tom, čo len o vlások unikne smrti na rozbúrenom mori, sa jej pochybnosti o väzbách s Alahou ešte prehĺbia, pretože sa dozvie, že vo svete existuje mágia, ktorú jej zatajovali. Kedysi si bola istá svojou budúcnosťou aj tým, kam patrí, no pre tmavé vševediace oči tohto cudzinca spytuje všetko vrátane svojho srdca.
Kniha Vládca kovu plná nebezpečných súbojov a námorných dobrodružstiev je ohurujúcim začiatkom romantickej fantasy dilógie Oheň a kov.
O autorke
Rachel Schneider býva v Južnej Lousiane so svojím manželom a s dcérou. Rada píše akékoľvek príbehy, ktoré jej napadnú, čo zahŕňa aj fantastické svety, strhujúce prekvapenia a komplikované romance okorenené troškou vzrušenia. Ak si nezapisuje svoje bdelé sny, nájdete ju na hokejovom zápase alebo pri dobrej knihe v bublinkovom kúpeli.
Preklad: Eva Piarová
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Čas čarodějnic 5: Sudba černého ptáka
Dlouho očekávaný nový román z oblíbené série Čas čarodějnic. Opět se v něm setkáváme s Dianou Bishopovou a Matthewem Clairmontem, čarodějnicí a upírem, kteří si navzdory tradici a mnoha dalším překážkám vyvzdorovali svůj zakázaný vztah. Nyní vedou spokojený manželský život, věnují se vědě a výchově svých nadaných dvojčat a Diana už léta skoro nečaruje. Potom však do New Havenu přiletí krkavci a všechno se rázem změní. Aby Diana ochránila své děti, musí se obeznámit s minulostí i současností té části své rodiny, o jejíž existenci neměla ponětí, a vydat se do neznámých končin i do vlastního nitra, aby odhalila skutečnou hloubku svých magických schopností. Bude to však stačit? Podaří se Dianě pro Pipa a Rebeccu zajistit šťastné dětství? Uchrání své nejbližší před dlouhými prsty Kongregace i před intrikami starých i nových nepřátel? A co přinesou nově navázané vztahy s příbuznými, jejichž rodová linie se táhne až do doby salemských čarodějnických procesů? A především, dokáže se Matthew smířit s tím, jaká čarodějnice se z Diany stává, a obstojí jejich láska i v této zkoušce?
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Nevěsta 2: Družka
Serena Parisová se rozhodla veřejně vystoupit a oznámit světu, co je zač. Její existence coby křížence mezi vlkodlakem a člověkem měla urovnat staletí trvající rozkol mezi oběma druhy. Místo toho se však stala terčem bezohledných politických machinací. Síť se kolem ní začíná stahovat a zbývá jí jediná možnost – ochrana vůdce severozápadní smečky. Jako každý alfa, vyžaduje Koen Alexander od ostatních naprostou poslušnost. Jeho autorita je natolik bezvýhradná, že ohrozit jeho družku by se odvážil jen naprostý blázen. Nezáleží na tom, že Serena jeho city neopětuje – nic mu nezabrání, aby ji zajistil bezpečí. Jenže mocichtiví upíři a vlkodlaci nejsou jedinou hrozbou, která Serenu pronásleduje. Dostihne ji její minulost, a aby toho nebylo málo, zradí ji i vlastní tělo – a Koen je pro ni možná jediná šance, jak se z toho všeho dostat.
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Alchemised
Helena, kedysi nádejná alchymistka, sa stala väzenkyňou bez spomienok na mesiace pred svojím zajatím. No je skutočne len obyčajnou bezvýznamnou liečiteľkou alebo sa jej v pamäti ukrývajú dôležité informácie? Pošlú ju k jednému z najmocnejších a najkrutejších nekromancerov, aby odhalili spomienky pochované hlboko v jej mysli. Na jeho rozpadávajúcom sa panstve sa začína Helenin boj. No tajomný dom i jej väzniteľ ukrývajú vlastné tajomstvá, ktoré Helena musí odhaliť, nech to stojí čokoľvek.
Enigma
Salem Salazarovú fascinuje smrť. Ako čierna ovca zámožnej rodiny preslávenej škandálom, prichádza na Univerzitu Mortimer pripravená odhaliť, čo sa stalo s jej staršou sestrou. Tam však zisťuje, že jej sestra nie je jedinou študentkou, ktorá na škole zmizla. Salem je ochotná urobiť čokoľvek, aby odhalila, aké temné sily majú zákerné úmrtia na svedomí. Dokonca aj použiť samu seba ako návnadu.
Tam si ju však všimne Cazimir Van Der Waal – záhadný umelec a asistent učiteľa s temnou milosťou, ktorý zo začiatku nemá so zlatookým dievčaťom čisté úmysly.
Spolu tvoria explozívnu kombináciu – kde ona je ľad, on je oheň. Ona je organizovaná, on zasa chaos. Kým ona dbá na precíznosť, on sa riadi vášňou. Ich osudy sú navzájom prepletené, obaja vydaní napospas tajomným spolkom a smrti, ktorá ich prenasleduje na každom kroku.
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Brimstone - Fae & Alchemy 2
DON'T MISS OUT ON THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT.
Prepare for the #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling sequel to the runaway global phenomenon Quicksilver.
Duty. Blood. Honour. Power.
Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court's lips, but now that she's been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she's discovering that a queen's life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders.
Her ward - and her brother - need her back in her homeland . . . but the changes that have strengthened Saeris have also made her weak. Born under blazing suns, Saeris will surely die if she makes her way home through the Quicksilver. Which means that, once again, she must send someone else in her stead . . .
'Keep your mouth shut. Stick to the shadows. And for the love of all seven Gods, do NOT crack any jokes.'
Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City. Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate again.
A darkness falls across Yvelia. The realm and their friends are in danger. Together, Saeris and Fisher will pass through fire and brimstone to save them.
Fairy Tale Retellings, Volume I
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair comes a beautiful hardcover bind-up of the first two novellas in the Fairy Tale Retellings series, Mountains Made of Glass and Apples Dipped in Gold, with exclusive new art.
Once upon a time, there were seven brothers…
Mountains Made of Glass
All Gesela's life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn't a single curse?it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager. When it is Gesela's turn to save her town, she kills a toad who turns out to be an Elven prince. As punishment, the prince's brothers banish Gesela to live with their seventh brother, the one they call the beast. But rather than hold her captive, the beast offers Gesela a deal. If she can guess his true name in seven days, she can go free. Gesela agrees, but there is a hidden catch?she must speak his name with love in order to free him, too.
Apples Dipped in Gold
Orphaned at a young age, Samara has been left under the care of her horrible brothers for many years. When a handsome prince offers for her hand in marriage, she hopes her new kingdom will be her salvation, but on her way, her carriage is ambushed by Lore, the wicked Prince of Nightshade. Samara believes that Lore is punishing her for her crimes against his kind, but the truth is that the Elven Prince has pined after Samara for seven long years. His power over poisons rivals none, but Samara is a new kind of toxin in his blood. Can the Prince of Nightshade find a remedy, or will he succumb to her love?
Full of spellbinding romantasy, high heat, broody princes, and familiar fairy-tale stories, these novellas are perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Katee Robert, and Laura Thalassa.
Brigands & Breadknives
Return to the cosy fantasy world of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree, a freshly baked adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern.
Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller's life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend's coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!
If only things were so simple...
It turns out that fixing your life isn't a one-time prospect, nor as easy as a change of scenery and a lick of paint.
A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior surviving on inertia, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely thumping hangover.
As together they fend off a rogue's gallery of ne'er-do-wells trying to claim the bounty the goblin represents, Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when nothing seems inevitable . .
Lightbreakers
Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, are happily married. But beneath the surface of their wedded bliss is a third rail: Serena, the lost child that Noah had with his ex-wife.
When Noah gets a call from an eccentric billionaire asking him to participate in a clandestine project aiming to unravel the secrets of time and consciousness, the couple agrees to relocate to the Janus Lab, deep in the desert, and Noah finds himself drawn into a dangerous kind of time travel that could result in seeing Serena again.
But Janus lab is not what it seems, and soon Noah and Maya are drawn into its dangerous web, where they must grapple with their pasts and plumb the depths of human connection to find their way back to one another.
I, Medusa
From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine.
Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else's story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters, she dreams of leaving her family's island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as a priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home. Flourishing in her role as Athena's favoured acolyte, all it takes is one fateful night to irrevocably alter the course of Meddy's promising future forever.
With her locs transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit, Meddy must embrace a new identity - not as a victim, but as a vigilante - and with it, the chance to write her own story as mortal, martyr and myth.
Exploding with rage, heartbreak and love, I, Medusa reimagines the iconic figure from Greek mythology as a young Black woman caught in the cross currents between her heart's deepest desires and the cruel, careless games the Olympian gods play.
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Daughters of Nicnevin
Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers face threats from both the Black Watch and raiders, and the women are confronted with their vulnerability. They enlist the help of Nicnevin, fae queen of witches, to bring men made of earth to life to help protect their village. But just who do they need protection from? And what will happen when the village men return?
Winner of the Independent Publisher of the Year Award, 2024, FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
Sci-fi žáner poznáme aj pod pojmom vedecko-fantastická literatúra, poprípade science fiction. V týchto dielach sa dostaneme do budúcnosti, pričom dej sa opiera o súčasnú vedu, techniku a o predpoklady jej ďalšieho vývoja. Medzi hlavné témy sci-fi patrí pokročilá veda a technológia, prieskum vesmíru, cestovanie v čase, paralelné vesmíry a mimozemský život. Sci-fi má pravdepodobne svoje korene v antickej mytológii. Súvisí s fantasy, hororom a fikciou o superhrdinoch. Sci-fi v literatúre, filme, televízii a iných médiách sa stala populárnou a vplyvnou vo veľkej časti sveta. Nazýva sa tiež „literatúra myšlienok“ a často skúma potenciálne dôsledky vedeckých, sociálnych a technologických inovácií.
Medzi najznámejších autorov sci-fi žánru patrí Isaac Asimov, Octavia E. Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, William Gibson, Herbert Frank, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwoodová a Karel Čapek.
Fantasy literatúra sa zaoberá fiktívnymi svetmi, bytosťami a udalosťami Tento žáner obsahuje prvky nadprirodzena, mágie, mýtov, legend a imaginárnych bytostí, ako sú napríklad draci, víly, čarodejníci, orkovia a ďalší.
Fantasy literatúra vytvára bohaté a detailné fiktívne svety, ktoré sa líšia od realistického prostredia. Príbehy z tohto žánru sa často zameriavajú na hrdinské cesty, dobrodružstvá, boje medzi dobrom a zlom, epické konflikty a príbehy o nadprirodzených schopnostiach a magických predmetoch. Fantasy literatúra má dlhú a bohatú históriu, pričom mnohé jej klasické diela vznikli už v 19. a 20. storočí.
K najznámejším autorom fantasy pattrí J. R. R. Tolkien, autor kultového fantasy Pán prsteňov. Určite poznáte tiež J.K. Rowlingovú, ktorá vytvorila zázračný svet Harryho Pottera.ďalšími známymi autormi sú napríklad George R.R. Martin a jeho Pieseň ľadu a ohňa známejšia pod názvom sfilmovaného seriálu Hry o tróny, C.S. Lewis, ktorá napísal Kroniky Narnie, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. Le Guin, či Robert Jordan.
