Arctis

WINNER OF THE BEST DANISH FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD Nightshade is the exciting and dramatic culmination of the Rosenholm fantasy trilogy, the bestselling Danish series full of magic, Nordic mythology, mystery and love, which takes the classic boarding school setting and turns it into its very own.Four girls. Four fates. A hunt for the truth. The first will go into darkness. The second must choose between those she loves. The third must give an offering. And the fourth will pass judgement. In this final book of the Rosenholm trilogy, the four friends have finally found out who murdered the young woman Trine in the 80s. However, it quickly turns out that the murder was only a small part of a dark and macabre past at Rosenholm, and several puzzles must be solved before Trine can get her revenge. They do their best to work around the new guidelines Jens has put in place in order to make room for the darm branches of magic. Nightshade draws on myth, folklore, and history, making for a compelling story from start to finish.

A stirring and touching reminder that lasting love can exist after all, against all odds. Told in reverse chronology, this novel follows Alice and Jules, who are eighty-five years old. They meet on a bench in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Children are playing by the pool, a ray of sunshine breaks through the leaves of the trees. Is it déjà vu? Because what they now risk forgetting, and what began sixty years ago, started here: their life together. Step by step, from the end to the beginning. Age, routine, affairs, jealousy, becoming parents, marriage, passion: the two of them experienced all of this against the backdrop of Paris and the major historical upheavals of the last decades. This hopeful and tender book asks how love can endure and what holds us together.

Alea has found out she is a mermaid! She finally knows why she always felt so strange. But what happened to her mother more than ten years ago? And why does the entire underwater world seem almost extinct? Alea can''t possibly be the last of her Sea People in the world. She sets off with her friends, the Alpha Cru, to a mysterious lake. Alea isn''t the only one hoping to find answers there. Lennox wonders whether he is a merman. Is that why he and Alea both feel magically attracted to one other?