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19. Jahrhundert. Victoria in Großbritannien. Nach und nach schalten Rack und seine Bande Operationen von "The Stick" aus. Anscheinend können sie tatsächlich so etwas wie Erfolg gegen ihn verzeichnen. Doch Racks geheime Sucht macht ihnen bei einem wichtigen Einsatz einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Als obendrein Lady Cunningham bedroht wird, scheint der Zusammenhalt der Bande vollends auseinanderzubrechen. Episode 4 der alternativen Geschichtenthriller-Reihe Rack von Ann-Kathrin Karschnick.

Das Gefängnis scheint ihnen diesmal sicher zu sein. Zu viele Beweise sprechen gegen ihre Unschuld - sind sie tatsächlich verantwortlich für Inspektor Flannagans Tod? Frost erleidet einen Zusammenbruch. Hat sie wirklich versagt? Wird Payne die Zusammenarbeit mit ihr beenden? Cecilia trifft eine folgenschwere Entscheidung, während Michael Cho eine Verschwörung aufdeckt, die offenen Krieg innerhalb der Dragons bedeuten könnte. Sein Leben ist in höchster Gefahr - und er hat niemanden, dem er noch vertrauen kann.

19. Jahrhundert, Victoria in Großbritannien. Als Rack, Theo und Lady Cunningham in Racks Büro zurückkehren, erkennen sie gerade noch, wie Marcus und Jean von den Bobbys verhaftet werden. Mit ihnen verlieren sie auch potenzielle Informationen, die sie sich zur Aufklärung des Anschlags auf Lady Cunningham erhofften. Im Gefängnis, wo Jean und Marcus hingebracht werden, sind diese Informationen offenbar unerreichbar, da sogar das Gesetz gegen sie arbeitet. Oder gibt es doch eine Lösung?

The Weller is back! Still healing from his battle with the distillers in Iowa City, legendary weller Matt Freeborn crosses into Missouri, where foes both old and new await him. Finding himself dangerously low on precious ammunition for the Well Digger, the desperate weller accepts a perilous job on the mighty Mississippi. Armed with only his wits and experience, Freeborn must descend into places no man dares go and face unknown terrors that hunger and hunt in absolute darkness.

London, 1891. Strange murder appears on the seamy streets. Someone is killing women and gutting them for their body parts. Is it Jack the Ripper returned, or a far more sinister plot afoot than murder? Magician Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, ashamed of his Jewish-Gypsy blood, has fashioned himself into a proper English gentleman, though he harbors a carefully guarded secret; he has learned the dangerous art of summoning daemons and through it, performs real magic. Leopold must discover what is behind the revolting murders.

Our story begins in complete darkness with a death and a vanishing. A man mysteriously drowns in the River Seine and two children enter a dingy sideshow but never come out. In the shadowed world of the Obscura, everything that was once light is now dark and nothing is as it seems. The Gaslampers enforce brutal laws and terrorize the city with their wolves. The Calibrators attempt to resist the evil while they await the return of their hero, the Aigle. And the children desperately search for a way home.

When a group of miners on the sky city of Port Jericho accidentally release an ancient magick, a force they have never dealt with before assaults the Jerachi. As the killings continue, the city of mercenaries and hunters begins to fall prey to the fear. Collapse and utter destruction threaten the city, until unlikely allies set things right and put Port Jericho on a new path. But what if they are faced with a killer they cannot see?

1881 - Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He’s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who’s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau’s history, so this assignment shouldn’t be a problem. But even he’s taken aback by a run-in with the country’s most infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly.

A strange message summons Langdon St. Ives and his companions to the Half Toad Inn in Smithfield, London, and along with the eccentric but fabulously wealthy Gilbert Frobisher, they set out for an uncharted island in the Caribbean, carrying a map that promises a treasure that beggars description. What they find – a terrible, pagan god from the depths of the ocean – leads them back to London, carrying within the hold of Frobisher’s steam yacht a fearsome, tentacled menace that threatens to devastate London.

Nach dem Hauseinsturz wartet bereits die nächste Katastrophe auf Lydia Frost und ihren Partner Jackson Payne. Scotland Yard hat einen Haftbefehl auf sie ausgestellt. Inspektor Flannagan, der ihnen in den hohen Norden gefolgt ist, nimmt die beiden fest. Doch die Reise zurück nach London nimmt ein jähes und vor allem blutiges Ende. Wer ist hinter ihnen her, und warum? Während Frost und Payne ums Überleben kämpfen, freundet sich David im Keller mit Anna an. Kann er mit ihr endlich aus den Händen des geheimnisvollen Mannes fliehen, bevor er am nächsten Experiment stirbt?

Die Fahrt der Nautilus geht weiter. Tempelton Pierce und der undurchschaubare Kapitän Nemo betreten tief im Äther einen scheinbar lebensfeindlichen Asteroiden. Während die Crew sich gegen einen gefährlichen Parasiten wehren muss, sind Nemo und Pierce einem Geheimnis auf der Spur, das sie bis ins Innerste führt. Dort machen sie eine phantastische Entdeckung, die ganz neue Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Doch Pierce beginnt, an den Motiven des Kapitäns zu zweifeln.

All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail. When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced into extreme subterfuge (and some rather ridiculous outfits) Prim must also answer three of life's most challenging questions.

The final book in USA Today best-selling author Kristen Callihan's critically acclaimed Darkest London series!

Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend, Primrose, keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and her obstreperous mother is both. Worst of all, Rue's beginning to suspect what they really are...is frightened.

Contains books one and two of the Renegade series: The Renegade and The Deal.

He thought he defeated the man working against him to change time, but it turns out the plot was much larger all along. This isn't about simply changing time for personal gain. What is it really all about? Frank can't wait to find out. He was a simple college kid, but now? He's on his way to becoming a god.

The complete collection of the best-selling Mission Clockwork series, a steampunk-powered, action-packed adventure featuring brilliant heroes and bloody brilliant villains.

As his sophomore year wraps up, Hugo Malalou - aka Aegis - is living his best life. He’s working with Lady Liberty to protect San Miguel, acing all his classes, and casually dating three insanely hot girls. Until one routine night patrol nearly gets him killed. Before long, he’s pulled into a dangerous pursuit that isolates him from his friends, while his list of enemies keeps growing. And when he becomes the city’s last defense against an all-powerful adversary, he’ll find himself in the fight of his life.

Contains books 1 and 2 of The Game of Gods series. The Beginning, book 1: The gods have gotten bored, and humanity is the answer. Charles earns the ultimate surprise one morning when he awakens to discover the world has ended, or rather the gods of old were bored and decided to redesign how it worked. Only Charles gets cursed by the gods. The Death of Champions, book 2: The gods have begun to change Earth, leaving humanity confused and desperate. Charles and Alli have managed to survive the first week of the apocalypse; unfortunately for them, it isn't over yet.

On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically compromised murder and not a suicide, as the police had assumed. After the shocking revelation contained by the body in question, Alex must put her personal loss aside to uncover the deeper issues at stake, before more bodies turn up.