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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A shattered sky. A stolen god-shard. A girl carrying power that could save the world-or turn her into the monster everyone fears. Elara survived the fall of Aethelgard, but survival has only thrown her into a deeper war. With the Elder dragon-god Nyrax burning inside her chest, she and her crew cross a broken world of ash, toxic mist, ruined kingdoms, and ancient magic in search of the scattered soul-shards that could decide the fate of the realm. But the next shard has fallen into The Below-a hidden subterranean civilization ruled by fear, guarded by deadly warriors, and powered by the same divine fire Elara must claim before the Elven King Kaelen reaches it first. There, Elara finds more than danger. She finds Mila. Her twin sister survived the collapse of Oakhaven, but she is no longer the helpless girl Elara remembers. Mila has built a new life in the dark, protected by Zev and the Deep Walkers who gave her shelter when the surface world failed her. To Elara, the shard is the key to stopping Kaelen's empire. To Mila, stealing it could destroy the only home she has left. As enemies close in from above and below, Elara must choose between saving the world and saving the people standing right in front of her. Every victory costs lives. Every shard makes Nyrax stronger. And every use of her growing power pulls her closer to becoming something no longer fully human. With Kaelen's Vanguard Sentinels hunting her, the Deep Walkers ready for war, and her own friends beginning to fear what she is becoming, Elara must decide how far she is willing to go before the power inside her consumes everything she loves. Dragon's Tithe Book 2 is a dark epic fantasy packed with dragons, god-shards, underground kingdoms, dangerous magic, found family, betrayal, sisterhood, survival, and a heroine forced to carry the weight of a broken world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kill Zone Pacific is a fast-paced military thriller / political action thriller following Colonel Rafe Vardon, a decorated special-operations commander sent into the Pacific to rescue kidnapped Prime Minister Sienna Vale.The mission quickly becomes personal when Rafe discovers that Sienna is connected to the classified operation that resulted in the deaths of his wife, Nina, and their young son, Owen. The rescue team is drawn into a heavily defended island filled with mines, concealed weapons, surveillance systems, tunnels, and carefully designed kill zones.Meanwhile, Admiral Anika Thorne is using Sienna's captivity to force a public confrontation over a buried military operation and the manipulation of civilian casualties. Rather than simply demanding ransom, Thorne wants the truth exposed before escalating military movements turn the hostage crisis into a wider Pacific conflict.The manuscript combines special-operations combat, hostage rescue, covert military operations, political conspiracy, government secrecy, revenge, guilt, and moral consequences. Rafe's physical mission to reach the hostage is intertwined with an internal struggle over whether following orders is enough when those orders may be part of the same system that destroyed his family.The story also emphasizes the human cost behind military and political decisions. Sienna's perspective exposes the political machinery surrounding the crisis, while Rafe's perspective places the reader directly inside the combat operation. The narrative repeatedly contrasts official language with the consequences experienced by ordinary people.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The rhythmic clatter of tools echoed through the dimly lit garage, where Ethan Rivers found solace in the hum of engines and the scent of motor oil. Here, amidst the grease-stained floors and the comforting anonymity of his overalls, he could forget the weight of expectations that shadowed his every step. But beneath the surface of this unassuming life lay a truth as polished and dangerous as the luxury cars he serviced. Ethan was the hidden heir to the Rivers Corporation, a multi-billion-dollar empire built on the dreams and sacrifices of his ancestors. It was a legacy he had chosen to escape, a burden he had refused to carry-until now.The spark that ignited his internal conflict came not from the roar of an engine but from the cutting words of Lucas Steele, a businessman whose arrogance matched his ambition. Lucas, unaware of Ethan's true identity, had dismissed him with a sneer, a public humiliation that struck at the core of Ethan's carefully constructed façade. In that moment, Ethan felt the sting of his dual existence, the clash between the life he had chosen and the destiny he was born to fulfill.As the city buzzed with the relentless pulse of ambition and power, Ethan stood at a crossroads. The path of humility and anonymity beckoned with the promise of simplicity, while the road to reclaiming his rightful place in the corporate world loomed with challenges and responsibilities. In the shadows of the garage, Ethan grappled with the silent question that gnawed at his soul: Could he remain hidden forever, or was it time to step into the light and embrace the legacy in disguise Will he remain hidden behind the life he chose Or will he finally embrace the legacy he was born to carry Legacy in Disguise is a gripping drama of hidden identity, family legacy, corporate rivalry, betrayal, romance, and one man's fight to protect everything his family built.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A prince cast away for lacking the royal dragon mark returns as a feared mercenary, revealing a hidden power that could either save or doom the kingdom that rejected him.A prince abandoned.A kingdom built on lies.A dragon power that could save the realm. or destroy it.Kaelen was born without the sacred royal dragon mark, the one sign that should have secured his place as heir to the Ember Throne. Instead, he was cast away into the frozen wilderness and left to die.But fate had other plans.Rescued by a disgraced knight and raised in secrecy, Kaelen grows into a feared warrior known as The Ashwalker-a masked mercenary surrounded by rumors, ashes, and blood. For years, he hides from the kingdom that rejected him, burying the truth of his past beneath battle scars and silence.Then his hidden power awakens.When Kaelen returns to the realm that betrayed him, he finds a kingdom rotting from within. Empress Seraphine rules through fear, dark magic, and secrets tied to an ancient force known as the Void. Nobles whisper, allies turn traitor, and the throne Kaelen never asked for may be the only thing standing between the kingdom and destruction.At his side stands Lyra, the Duke's daughter who never stopped believing in him. But love is dangerous in a court of lies, and every choice they make could bring them closer to victory-or to ruin.As forgotten prophecies rise, enemies close in, and Kaelen's dragon blood reveals a terrifying connection to the Void, he must decide what kind of ruler he will become.Will he reclaim the throne as the kingdom's savior Or will the power inside him turn him into the very darkness he was born to defeat The Forgotten Dragon Heir is an epic fantasy tale of betrayal, lost royalty, forbidden power, slow-burning romance, dark magic, and one forgotten prince's fight to reclaim his destiny.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the Empire of Serast, sunlight is controlled, measured, and sold by the Crown. The poor survive on brief, gray allotments while the wealthy enjoy private hours of full daylight.Marek Arden, a palace mapmaker, has spent his life documenting the empire's roads, walls, and hidden infrastructure. When his younger brother, Tovin, is executed for stealing an illegal hour of sunlight, Marek discovers a cryptic map suggesting that the sun in the sky is not the real sun. Beneath the capital, the royal family has imprisoned the true source of daylight-and possibly something far more dangerous.Drawn into a perilous alliance with a rebel prince hiding his identity, a blind dragon-priest, a condemned general, and other revolutionaries, Marek must follow the buried route beneath the palace and uncover the secret behind Serast's artificial daylight. Their quest leads through political betrayal, ancient chambers, rebellion, war, and a truth capable of destroying the empire. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a retired female Navy combat diver finds a ghost ship carrying nine dead mercenaries and an encrypted beacon from her missing daughter, she must lead a deniable assault on a prison hidden inside a condemned oil rig before the governments behind it flood the whole structure and bury every witness under the sea.The ship should have been empty.Instead, it drifts into contested water with its lights dead, its deck slick with blood, nine mercenaries rotting where they fell, and one thing still alive in the silence: an encrypted distress beacon keyed to the daughter Juna Voss has not seen in eighteen months.>Now that story is waiting offshore. The signal leads to a black-site prison built inside an abandoned oil rig beyond any shoreline, any court, any flag worth trusting. Its decks crawl with drones. Its legs are ringed with smart mines. Its cells hold people powerful governments need erased.To get her daughter out, Juna must lead a strike team through flooded ballast chambers, rusting kill corridors, and a private army that knows exactly who she is.The rig was built to disappear people.Tonight, it may disappear her.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A New Orleans homicide detective hunting a string of staged animal-maul murders is forced to trust the wolf-blood heir she should arrest when the bodies form a ritual map beneath the French Quarter-and their forbidden bond may be the final key needed to raise the thing his family has kept buried for two centuries. By the time Detective Esmée Vigne reaches the alley, the victim is already in pieces. The patrol cops call it another animal attack. Esmée knows better. Real animals don't leave symbols in blood. Real animals don't tear out the same bone from every body. And real animals do not drag the dead toward old stone no city record admits exists. Then the prime suspect saves her life. Thierry Marrow is rich, brutal, impossible to read, and tied to every crime scene in ways no innocent man can explain. His confession should end the case. Instead, it rips it open. He is the last living heir of a wolf-blooded house once sworn to guard New Orleans from a hunger buried beneath the Quarter. Someone is recreating an old summoning rite. Someone inside the city wants the lock broken. And Esmée's scent, her blood, her very presence around Thierry is changing the pattern. Now every hour brings another body, another lie from City Hall, another reason to put a bullet in the man she cannot stop wanting. Because if Thierry is telling the truth, the monster beside her is not the thing she should fear most. He is what stands in front of it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - House of the Black Veil follows Ren Moray, a debt-ridden art restorer who unexpectedly inherits the decaying Edevane House from a woman he has never met. The inheritance comes with one disturbing condition: Ren must live in the mansion for thirty consecutive nights and restore a mysterious portrait locked inside the west wing.The portrait depicts Adrian Vossmere, a beautiful young man dressed in black whose painted cuffs mysteriously bleed saltwater. As Ren begins his restoration, the house reveals that it is far more than an abandoned mansion. Mirrors move, windows seem to recognize him, water appears where it should not exist, and Adrian begins to emerge from the boundaries of the painting and mirrors.Ren soon discovers that his family has a dark connection to the house-and that Adrian claims Ren's bloodline was responsible for his murder and imprisonment. Meanwhile, Celia, the woman guarding the secrets of Edevane House, has been hiding crucial information about Ren's inheritance and the supernatural force consuming the estate. Their growing attraction complicates an already dangerous situation.As rival claimant Viola Wren attempts to seize the estate, the house becomes increasingly violent. A hidden crypt, murder documents, Ren's father's journals, and a centuries-old secret reveal that Edevane does not simply contain its dead-it feeds on memory, guilt, blood, and those drawn into its keeping.The story builds toward a catastrophic confrontation as Ren, Celia, Marta, and Adrian become entangled in the house's final reckoning. The west wing ultimately collapses as the characters fight to escape, but the final image leaves the supernatural threat unresolved: something resembling another painted face remains in the surf below the ruined mansion.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Epoch of Hearts follows Silas Brent, a corporate fixer haunted by the death of his younger brother, Luca. When Silas is recruited by Aeon Axis, an elite company offering the wealthy a secret way to travel twelve months into their own past, he discovers that its Yearback technology is far more dangerous than advertised.At Aeon Axis, Silas is forced back into the orbit of Mira Kade, his former fiancée, who now works inside the company and understands the frightening ethical consequences of manipulating time. As Silas investigates Luca's mysterious death, he uncovers evidence that Aeon Axis is not merely correcting personal mistakes-it is manipulating deaths, relationships, records, and even future bloodlines for those powerful enough to pay.Silas eventually faces an impossible choice: use a stolen time-jump to save the brother he lost, or accept that changing one tragedy could destroy countless other lives-including the woman he still loves. The story builds toward a confrontation in which even Silas and Mira's shared history becomes a target for deletion.The result is a tense blend of time-travel suspense, corporate conspiracy, second-chance romance, moral dilemmas, and emotional redemption.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the days after Bellweather Cut, Esmée's circle is fractured, injured, and watched. The wall still bleeds exposed names, Pike Holdings is already moving through lawyers, Savard can barely stand after voiding his command authority, and Milo will not let Esmée mistake apology for repair. Then August's black-marked map begins tapping at Calcite, and Junie traces the exported Bellweather field report to a recipient above Roussel: a Board data architect building something called the Source Model.Calcite is not preparing a public ceremony. There is no bell rope, no memorial unveiling, no obvious sacrificial stage. Instead, the lock is being fed through intake: school hearing tests, child-services interviews, emergency wellness calls, legal depositions, disability evaluations, guardian medical scans, and relief applications. The Board is collecting first fear, delayed answers, breath pauses, refusal timing, guardian resonance, and echo-return distortion. Their goal is not to copy Milo, Noé, or Tavi perfectly. It is to predict when living sources will contest a false yes and preempt that contestation through systems the public already trusts.Esmée arrives with a burned palm and a blackened key that no longer opens seams on command. Milo agrees to help only under the Bellweather contract: if he says stop, she stops her body first. Thierry, Rowan, and Lucien follow guardian pressure into Calcite's old quarry clinic and discover a terrifying invitation. The guardian network is not demanding that they die as payment; it is offering to make living guardians into a regional door, a way for the locks to recognize one another through bodies that survive.Junie, stripped of safe archive authority, must invent a counter-method based on narrow living custody instead of publication. Tavi hears voices after Calcite changes them and realizes the system is testing how to make kindness function as compliance. Noé and Céleste, from Saint Calais, attempt a limited distance refusal but find the Source Model anticipating the shape of Noé's wait.As Odette is forced to reveal August's Calcite name and the history of guardians who died useful, Esmée faces the book's defining crisis: the only fast rescue would require overriding Milo's stop again. To save the sources without owning them, the circle must prove that consent ethics can work against preemption, not just spectacle, and that a living no can still arrive where a system has already predicted it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sable broke the crown to free the realm, but now every scattered spark of imperial breath can make a victim into an heir-and Odran is gathering them for war.The shattered death-cathedral of Veyrith becomes the first battlefield of the crownless age. Witnesses carry competing versions of Sable's act across the Reaches: to some she is the Unkindled liberator who exposed a death economy built on theft; to others she is the girl who murdered succession, loosed plague-fire, and woke whatever waits beneath the world. As the Ashen Conclave fractures and Korrin vault-lords move to contain the scandal, reports arrive of imperial sparks striking common people and old oath-bound places. A bell in one town begins naming heirs. A child's bones glow with crown-law. A dead bridge demands fealty. Villages sheltering awakened living dragons are marked for harvest, execution, or forced coronation.Sable, bonded to a starving and unstable Solace, cannot flee back into secrecy. She also refuses to become queen, saint, or weapon. Instead, she chooses the harder path: reach the spark-touched before the factions do, sever or quiet the crown-fragments, and protect the living proof that death need not be owned. Tavi's knowledge of Korrin mechanisms, Syth's underworld routes, and Jorren's battered honor become essential, but every ally carries consequences. Solace's hunger risks turning rescue into devastation. Sable's gift still costs memory. And Kest, fevered, injured, and still marked by Odran's wounded oath, knows the claimant networks well enough to save them-while remaining a danger Sable cannot fully trust.When Odran reappears, no longer merely a polished political manipulator but a breath-altered claimant able to awaken fragments of imperial command in spark-touched bodies, the conflict escalates from chaos to war. He offers frightened cities the thing Sable will not: order, succession, and a crown that can punish doubt. Rival claimants answer with private armies. Conclave priests declare the sparks a succession plague caused by Sable. Ulm Rask and the Korrin vault-lords seek to seize both Sable and the afflicted before the deeper vault secrets surface.As the crew moves from Reach to Reach, each rescue reveals that the crown-oath did not simply break outward-it cracked downward. The Hollow beneath the Reaches is listening through old dragon bone, and the imperial war may be only the surface consequence of a much older prison failing. Sable must decide whether a broken crown can be made harmless, whether freedom can survive without a throne to enforce it, and whether love can exist beside Kest when his body may still be turned against her.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the Nine Reaches of Auveth, dragons are not ridden by the worthy. They are harvested from the dead.Every person who dies holding an unbroken oath gives one last breath. That breath hardens into kindling. From kindling comes a dragon, carrying a shard of the dead soul and the promise they failed to keep. The Ashen Conclave owns the dying. The Korrin vault-lords cage the unborn. Crowns rise, marriages bind, and traitors burn because every oath in Auveth has teeth.Sable Nhar was raised to sit beside death and collect what the powerful call theirs. She knows better than to love anything she cannot bury.Then she saves a dying soldier by doing the impossible.She wakes his dragon while he is still alive.When a deathwarden's daughter exposes her forbidden power to wake dragons from the living, she must cross a war-torn realm to find the dragon born from her murdered mother's last promise before priest-bankers, vault-lords, and a beautiful spy turn her grief into the next imperial crown. Now every faction in the Reaches wants the girl named in a forbidden prophecy: the Unkindled. Sable wants only one thing-the dragon born from her mother's final oath.\*I'll come back to you.\*Her guide is Kest Vask, a smiling spy with a knife in every truth. He has orders to deliver her alive.And the longer he protects her, the more ruinous that order becomes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Book 2 begins at dawn in the ruined hospital chapel, with Mara wounded, blood-drained, and unable to rest because the plaster-door has opened onto the old street she and Theo escaped years ago. Outside, every person who has broken a promise is turning toward her, not with worship but with need, hunger, accusation, and command. The broken Veyr seal has not freed the city cleanly; it has made Mara visible as a living breach in the Concord's law. Theo is alive, but the gray marks on his wrists answer the laundromat threshold, and the green plastic dinosaur from his childhood abduction waits on the tile as if no time has passed.Mara, Theo, Cassian, Virella, Oriel, Bram, Nerissa, Sel, the WAIT boy, the blind woman, the mother prisoner, and the freed survivors are forced through or toward the old district before the remaining Houses can seal them in the chapel. But the street is no longer stable. Leases rewrite themselves, security cameras record alternate versions of the past, neighbors remember promises they never made, and Forfeits gather in the aisles of the laundromat like stains that learned to breathe. House Truth arrives under emergency authority, claiming the Veyr collapse has created a public narrative hazard. Its agents do not simply lie; they edit testimony, overwrite evidence, and make witnesses remember official versions until reality begins to obey.Theo insists on investigating his own memory rather than being hidden again. He remembers that Ilana did not merely save him from collectors: she hid him from the thing under the promise by burying part of the truth inside him, part inside the laundromat, and part inside a child's toy no vow would think to question. Mara must learn whether recovering that memory will free Theo or finish turning him into an anchor. Cassian, newly blank-palmed, is hunted as proof that obedience can be killed and as an empty vessel another House might claim. Virella's possession of Ilana's true name draws secret-seekers and threatens other Unsworn descendants before Mara can reach them. Oriel warns that the First Oath's pressure is concentrating through Truth, and if Truth cracks, memory itself may become a battlefield.As Evren's STEWARD-voice begins speaking through promise-breakers in the crowd, Mara discovers that Ilana's protection was also a betrayal: the laundromat is an origin threshold, and Theo survived because their mother made a hidden choice that left something unpaid. Book 2 drives toward a siege of memory and testimony, asking whether Mara can uncover the real past without letting House Truth, Evren, or the thing beneath the First Oath turn Theo's remembered childhood into the next open door. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As New Orleans begins to fail from the wounds under its streets, a ruined detective and the guardian she refused to sacrifice must uncover the city's original bargain before its hidden rulers turn them-or the people they love-into the next seal.Weeks after the chamber collapse, New Orleans is outwardly recovering and privately rotting. Flooding patterns shift where they should not, power and transit failures cluster around old routes, people vanish near forgotten church properties, and the city's buried machinery begins answering pressure from below. Esmée, blamed for the overpass disaster and tainted by Delia's death, is forced into hiding near Saint Mercy with Thierry, Odette, Junie, and Milo. She can no longer work as a detective, but she also cannot stop investigating-especially when signs suggest that Alphonse's death removed only one operator, not the system behind him.Thierry's survival creates a second crisis. Contact with the breach has altered him: his instincts sharpen, his control frays under stress, and the bond with Esmée grows more reactive, intimate, and dangerous. Odette believes the breach is testing the weakened lock through him as much as through the city itself. When fragments of Father Noe's missing records and traces of August Vigne's hidden archive point toward a broader map of old civic sites, Esmée realizes the original pact was never confined to one chamber. The seal was part of a larger order in which political stability, economic growth, and controlled sacrifice were intertwined.At the same time, a surviving cover-up faction embedded in city institutions moves aggressively. Their goal is not to heal the breach but to stabilize it cheaply: control the narrative, discredit Esmée, capture Thierry, and force a substitute ritual before the city's decay becomes impossible to hide. Savard becomes part of the pressure-not necessarily as a true believer, but as an institutional actor willing to choose order over truth. Milo and Junie, now impossible to send back to ordinary life, become both assets and targets as they push for agency instead of protection.The search for a permanent solution leads Esmée and Thierry into the truth August died carrying: the old system endured because every generation accepted that love meant offering someone up. Book 2's climax turns on whether Esmée and Thierry will repeat that logic-through Thierry's martyrdom, Esmée's self-sacrifice, or Milo's exploitation-or break it and attempt a more dangerous, unproven resealing based on mutual consent rather than managed loss. They may stop the city from choosing a false solution, but doing so exposes a larger war over what New Orleans is built to feed, and what it would become if the old machinery were truly denied.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Backward Road - Amazon-Ready DescriptionWhen the roads of the city begin walking backward, Mara must find the missing runner at their center before the route turns everyone she loves into the next open door.The escape was supposed to be over.It wasn't.After the events at the laundromat, Mara Vale and the survivors are injured, exposed, and desperately trying to stay ahead of the Houses. But the danger has changed. The city itself is becoming a road-and it is beginning to hunt.Theo's mysterious marks now pull toward impossible intersections. June's CHILD mark grows darker whenever someone tries to decide where she belongs. And the strange dinosaur that once connected them to Theo's lost childhood now carries a route-sign that burns whenever doors, hallways, and transit lines rearrange themselves.Then comes the search for Olan Pike.If Olan is still himself, he may know how the five remaining seals are connected. But if something else is wearing his route, it may be using every promise, debt, and instinct to protect others as a way back to Mara.As House Truth attempts to rewrite reality, House Moth comes to collect its debts, and Alaric Sorn seeks to pull Cassian back into his control, Mara faces a terrifying question: Can she protect the people she loves without turning protection into another form of control The journey takes Mara and her companions through abandoned transit systems, hospital corridors, unstable thresholds, and a bell-marked seal-site where forgotten debts can become visible.And at the center of it all is the backward road.Because the remaining seals are connected by routes built from old debts-and if the road reaches the wrong door first, the next House seal may open itself.The Backward Road is a high-stakes dark fantasy thriller filled with supernatural mysteries, dangerous magical systems, impossible roads, family bonds, psychological tension, and a relentless race against forces that want to turn people into property.…