Cat Barahal was the only survivor of the flood that took her parents. Raised by her extended family, she and her cousin, Bee, are unaware of the dangers that threaten them both. Though they are in beginning of the Industrial Age, magic - and the power of the Cold Mages - still hold sway. Now, betrayed by her family and forced to marry a powerful Cold Mage, Cat will be drawn into a labyrinth of politics. There she will learn the full ruthlessness of...

The werlings, a peaceful group of forgotten forest creatures whose only magic is the ability to change shapes, are unwittingly drawn into the search for a valuable item stolen from an evil queen many years before.

When a mysterious man claims to be their uncle and acquires court custody, Tia and Tony, aware of his evil intent, run away to prevent him from enslaving their unusual powers and to try to find someone who may know something about them.

"Follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant."--

To fight an old enemy, Skulduggery Pleasant persuades Valkyrie to help him for just twenty-four hours.

Valkyrie faces a new level of danger when her little sister Alice is taken by a killer and Valkyrie only has six hours to find her.

"Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer ..."--Back cover.

"A discreet translation assignment enmeshes a linguistics expert and a military intelligence operator in the world-shattering revelation that magic was once widely practiced and can be reactivated if they travel back in time to make historical changes that are complicated by human treachery."--

Set in a world of Holy Wars and apocalyptic consequences, where a powerful warrier philosopher rules everything and uses his skills as a magician to prepare himself for the inevitable final battle of conquest or defeat. In a follow-up to The Darkness That Comes Before, warrior-philosopher Anasrimbor Kelhus continues his quest to reunite with his father, reach the ancient city of Shimeh, and master ancient arts that will enable him to overcome his...

In a world where science and magic are at war, one girl must find a way to save the ones she loves, or lose everything.