Category: Contemporary Fantasy

The Serpent Queen (Gotrek & Felix Book 15) by Josh Reynolds

By Josh Reynolds

Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or not anything greater than universal thieves and murderers? the reality maybe lies someplace in among, and relies totally upon whom you ask... vacationing to the mysterious south looking for a powerful demise, the Slayer Gotrek Gurnisson and his human spouse, Felix Jaeger, locate themselves stuck up in a conflict among warring kingdoms. Captured through the sinister Queen Khalida and compelled to do her bidding, the adventurers needs to courageous the horrors of the sun-soaked Land of the Dead... And the useless don't relaxation easy.

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Stories set within the Land of the useless are few and much among, and people that includes the notorious Khalida are even rarer! And during this story, seeing Gotrek compelled to paintings for somebody he'd fairly see lifeless is so much a laugh indeed…

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Unexpected by Leonard Streitfeld

By Leonard Streitfeld

The twelve tales during this ebook are of a psychic nature and all have a unique subject. A resume of 1 of the tales provide you with an idea of what to anticipate.
THE CLOSET …Agatha and her husband Conrad have been asleep while there has been a deafening scream. They quick ran to Carri’s bed room to discover their 3 12 months outdated daughter sitting in mattress, deathly white with fright. She didn’t converse yet pointed to the closet.
“What happened?” cried Agatha.
There was once silence. Carri stored pointing to the closet.
Conrad went to the closet and slowly opened it with apprehension and…

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White Lotus (The Lotus Series Book 1) by Catherine Richards

By Catherine Richards

whilst the 1st Outlander came across herself falling into the twisted panorama of Wonderland, she brought on a disturbance that might final for generations. Now, it’s Alyce Aerion who unearths herself during this wondrous yet tainted position years later. As her time there raises, she turns into increasingly more reluctant to come back to her personal global; yet transforming into extra connected to Wonderland comes with a cost. The longer she remains the extra harmful the sport those humans play turns into- pushed via a gloomy remnant of Wonderland’s prior referred to as the White Lotus. It’s a curse forcing the realm to copy what as soon as was once, and as Alyce turns into desirous to unfastened her pals from what chains them to their earlier, she turns into at risk of a insanity that’s sweeping the land. the one approach Alyce can maintain her head during this unusual international is to play the sport as the entire others do; yet she quickly may well come to gain the dream she fell into has develop into a nightmare.

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Fayd by Peter Rubenstein

By Peter Rubenstein

We input FAYD in the course of the tale of a bit lady, ten 12 months previous April Roze, who has run clear of the boarding university the place her widowed father positioned her. April hasn't had any touch along with her father, Thomas Roze, nonetheless despondent over his wife's demise, in some distance too lengthy. Roze is trying to bury his grief within the out of the country paintings he and his spouse begun jointly, that of unearthing the reality of a protracted believed `myth' that divides their humans, now settled conveniently in the USA. This legend is one in every of attainable mass homicide, which at the present time has shut ties to either the present management cadre in their humans at domestic and a good funded bandit working out of the ruins in their ancestral birthplace.
April, wearing whatever she believes may perhaps carry her father domestic, begins her seek within the urban the place Thomas was once final visible and the place her deceased mother's dual sister, her aunt Fay d'Wallach, nonetheless lives. yet her aunt is having difficulties of her personal, either actual and fiscal and the very last thing Fay wishes during this time of obstacle, is a trip from a self-possessed 10 yr outdated with an adventurous schedule. while the kid arrives, she bonds tighter to her aunt's upstairs neighbor than with Fay, a girl that she does not belief on sight.

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Conducting Business with Professor Spice by Daniel Lafferty

By Daniel Lafferty

each Thursday, Gerald Gladwell visits Professor Anson Spice's tobacco store. Gerald supplies the professor an envelope from his enterprise, Mr. McGulliver, and Spice provides Gerald a small velvet pouch of tobacco. In nearly years of finishing this weekly errand, Gerald hasn't ever wondered the contents of both the envelope or the pouch. yet one specific Thursday, a query from a pal piques Gerald's interest: 'When have you visible Mr. McGulliver smoke a pipe?' This likely blameless query convinces Gerald that there's extra to his timid supplier than he had formerly suspected. whilst he discovers his lacking sister's diary in Mr. McGulliver's workplace, he's unwittingly drawn right into a international of event, secret, and magic. If Gerald ever desires to see his sister back, he will need to face grotesque truths approximately these he trusts so much. In a twisting, amazing sequence of trials that exams his loyalties and bounds, Gerald learns that he will desire the entire support he can get to accommodate the implications of accomplishing enterprise with Professor Spice.

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SOCIETY RULES by Katherine Whitley

By Katherine Whitley

"Forty 12 months previous Indie Taylor had some time past given up puzzling over why she was once assorted. On her marriage ceremony day, a bit over ten years earlier than, Indie made up our minds to concentration her stressed strength on growing a twin of the appropriate spouse to her husband, Will, and later, mom to her liked and eagerly awaited twins. although, issues have been surfacing that she may well now not forget about.
First, used to be the easy proven fact that she’d looked as if it would cease getting older. This, coupled along with her well-hidden mystery from youth, that she by no means truly slept, used to be checking out Indie’s skill to stay the lie. yet she used to be attempting. after which he stumbled on her.
The guy who’d looked for her for a life-time, to inform her of her fantastic ancestry, and the intense nature of the activity she used to be born to accomplish; the security of Humanity.
But Jackson Allen had one other undertaking. He had come to say what belonged to him; and what he claimed . . . used to be Indie!

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The Time of Troubles I (Videssos Book 1) by Harry Turtledove

By Harry Turtledove

whole Novels within the well known Videssos Series.

The Stolen Throne
The fragile peace among the Empire of Videssos and the state of Makuran had shattered. conflict got here, and the King of Makuran lay useless at the box of conflict. Worse, a power-mad minister had seized the throne and the rightful inheritor had disappeared.

Abivard, son of a Makuran lord who additionally had fallen within the similar conflict, discovered that his in basic terms desire of saving his kin and his land was once to discover the lacking inheritor, notwithstanding that might suggest he will be branded traitor and develop into the objective of each armed guy who served the usurper—and of his nation's strongest sorcerers.

Abrivard's merely desire lay within the kind of a difficult prophecy of a box, a hill, and a defend shining around the sea. If the prophecy was once actual, it may possibly lead him to the rightful ruler of Makuran—but first, he must continue to exist lengthy adequate to resolve its riddle.

Hammer and Anvil
The once-mighty Empire of Videssos had a despot on its throne, the pretender Genesios who loved the opulent wealth at his command whereas barbarian attackers and invading enemies ravaged Videssos' borders. a few questioned if Videssos could even exist prior to many extra years had passed.

None in the empire dared oppose Genesios, yet younger Maniakes, exiled together with his father to a remote island, raised an army strength and got down to unlock his fatherland. The forces opposed to him have been ambitious, he confronted Videssos' exterior foes in addition to the legions of the tyrant, and a former good friend might turn out to be his most deadly enemy.

At the publisher's request, this name is bought with no DRM (DRM Rights Management).

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The Clan by Stephanie Villanueva

By Stephanie Villanueva

The McFaddens are a different extended family of peaceable vampires residing in eire. Their lives quickly take a flip and are replaced perpetually as they need to face the various demanding situations of affection, loss, and warfare. Follow
the lifetime of Laoise McFadden, the one hundred seventy 12 months outdated Irish vampire, Elisa, the newly became vampire murderer, and Airlea, a being from one other international decided to save lots of her kind.

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Curse of the Kin (Return to Jamaica) by Colin Andrews,Avril Collins

By Colin Andrews,Avril Collins

Michael Campbell, an absentee father, makes a decision to make up for misplaced time along with his relatives by means of taking them on a cruise to the Caribbean. either his spouse, Elizabeth, and his 13 yr outdated son, Andrew, are delighted they usually gladly settle for. The cruise will take them to 3 ports of name; the old city of Falmouth in Jamaica, Labadee in Haiti and Cozumel in Mexico.
When they come at Falmouth, Andrew pretends to be ailing in order to not accompany his mom and dad to shore. He in its place opts to visit a supervised zone of the send to play with different young ones yet fast turns into bored. At this aspect he schemes with different children to get move the feared door keeper and they're ultimately profitable in leaving the realm, yet he may by no means have imagined that his cronies could scouse borrow off the send to boot. Hesitantly he follows them onto land, basically to listen to an individual shouting his identify. it's a above all dressed woman with a fair extra odd accessory. She is elegantly robed in a flamboyant frock and she or he proceeds to guide him in the course of the city.
Not very lengthy afterwards, Andrew encounters a gaggle of raucous childrens enjoying within the streets. the gang is led by means of a feisty tomboy, Evonna, who quick takes a likeness to him, and he likewise. As they begin speaking the most eldritch factor occurs to Andrew......
As this can be taking place, Andrew’s mom and dad are on their option to journey an previous English plantation a couple of miles open air of city. once they get there, they're first taken into the grand outdated residence that used to be a satisfaction and pleasure in instances previous. surprisingly, even though, fastened on a wall within the front corridor is an image of 1 of the sons of the past due proprietor that has a notable resemblance to Michael. This all looks yet an insignificant accident, until……. Michael starts to change.... and Elizabeth panics.....
With time speedy operating out, the tale climaxes with a fight to unfastened Andrew and to trap the villain prior to both father or son dies. They nearly fail other than that support comes correct in time from unforeseen locations. The Campbells all go back to the send no longer figuring out what awaits them in Haiti, however it doesn’t subject now because the Cruise send sails out of Port.

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