Zorah has always been special. The immense power that flows in her veins, the power she calls witchcraft, can seduce or destroy anyone. But when she loses Alex, the love of her life, she finds herself powerless to bring him back. Spiraling into overwhelming grief, Zorah's pursuit of her own death wish brings her to Zeke, a vampire with his own seductive power. When Zorah realizes the key to unlocking the doors of the dead may lie in Zeke's veins, her desire for death transforms into lust for power. But her journey to bring Alex back will threaten her sanity, Zeke's immortal life, and the fate of the world itself.

A love worth dying for...twice?Anne Williams is a seer—the rarest, most dangerous kind of magician—gifted with the ability to divine the past, present and future. Anne spent her life hiding her true nature to protect her from those who would abuse her prophetic powers, but with an impending apocalypse on the horizon Anne can't afford to stay in the shadows. Anne steps up the plate to help magiciankind, but someone tries to take her out of the game—permanently. Wounded and with nowhere else to go, Anne finds shelter with chronicler Simon St. Jerome, but with one touch he plunges Anne into a tangled web of secrets and lies. Simon spent centuries concealing his past while recording the history of magician society, but nothing can hide the truth from a seer. As his soul mate, Anne is determined to discover every secret he's buried—including the tale of how she died once before in a failed attempt to spend eternity with her immortal lover.As danger closes in around them, Anne and Simon must overcome the scars of their pasts, or risk never seeing their futures.

Welcome to Dark Rivers, a rustic northern town forgotten by most and beloved by few. At its heart is Cannibal House, a crumbling Victorian mansion lorded over by Old Wick, a mysterious wanderer whose arrival in Dark Rivers signals a change-a strangeness that seeps into the bloodstream of the town. For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren't the strangest things she's ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adolescent girl who has come into her house. Her name is Daphne, and she is a vampire. Daphne talks of Mister Brightbones, the one who gave her the vampire's kiss-that touch of immortality. A gift that could free Nix from from her chronic illness, giving her a second life, written in blood. But every gift has a price. Every choice changes the world. And as Dark Rivers teeters on the edge of annihilation, Nix must decide whether eternity is worth damning herself, and possibly the entire world . . ."Paul Jessup writes like the page just said something rude about his mother." -Jonathan Wood, author of Broken Hero"Paul Jessup is the ghostpoet of weird, writing words of unease that rattle like bones and whisper in dark corners."-Lavie Tidhar, author of The Circumference of the World"[Paul Jessup] uses language to great effect to heighten the more surreal aspects of his world."-Eric Lahti, author of Better Than Dead"Jessup's prose sometimes recalls Harlan Ellison at his most extravagant, invoking a lurid, elastic environment steeped in ritual yet with delirious magic as well as weird science."-Kirkus Reviews for The Silence That Binds"I am not sure Daughter of the Wormwood Star is actually a novel-to read it is to enter a sustained and fevered dream that is not spun out of plot and characters, but instead of madness, bliss, and passion. No, this beautiful book is too weird and magical to be a novel: this book is a spell. Read it and be ensorcelled!"-Wendy N. Wagner, author of Girl in the Creek and The Deer Kings

Traust du dich, das Schicksal herauszufordern?Das Schicksal hält für Grace und ihre Freunde an der Katmere Academy immer neue Herausforderungen bereit: Als wären komplizierte Liebesbeziehungen und der Schulabschluss an einem Internat mit übernatürlichen Wesen nicht anstrengend genug, muss Grace sich auch noch mit einer Reihe anderer Probleme herumschlagen. Dass sie die Erste ihrer Art seit über 1000 Jahren ist und man ihr nach dem Leben trachtet, ist dabei noch das geringste. Grace steht vor einer Entscheidung, bei der ihre Liebe und ihre Zukunft auf dem Spiel stehen ...Alle Bände der Katmere-Academy-Chroniken:Band 1: Crave Band 2: Crush Band 3: Covet Band 4: Court Band 5: Charm Band 6: CherishBand 7: Inside Katmere Academy (mit zwei neuen Novellen)Die Spin-off-Reihe: Die Calder-Academy-Chroniken von Tracy Wolff bei dtv:Band 1: Sweet Nightmare Band 2: Sweet Chaos (in Planung)Band 3: Sweet Vengeance (in Planung)Die Bände sind nicht unabhängig voneinander lesbar.

Ein gefürchtetes Schloss in Transsilvanien. Ein Graf mit einem finsteren Geheimnis. Und eine junge Frau im Bann dunkler Mächte.Der Rechtsanwalt Jonathan Harker unternimmt eine Reise in die Karpaten und trifft dabei auf den unheimlichen Grafen Dracula - allerdings nur zu ungewohnter Zeit zwischen Sonnenuntergang und Morgendämmerung. Was merkwürdig, aber harmlos beginnt, führt Jonathan Harker und seine Verlobte Mina ins Grauen ... Dracula ist mehr als ein Gruselklassiker. Es ist ein literarischer Trip in die Tiefen unseres Unterbewusstseins, unserer unterdrückten Ängste und Sehnsüchte. Ein psychologisches Drama über Begehren, Macht und Identität.Dracula ist Projektionsfläche für das Unheimliche - für alles, was wir verdrängen. Und genau das macht ihn zeitlos.

The young English solicitor Jonathan Harker sets out on a business trip to the Carpathian Mountains, to a remote region that is not depicted on any map. Upon his arrival, he meets the eerie Count Dracula in his castle - though only ever between sunset and sunrise. What begins as a strange yet seemingly harmless encounter soon plunges Harker and his fiancée Mina into a spiralling nightmare ...First published in 1897, Dracula remains one of the most chilling and iconic tales in world literature - as gripping and contemporary today as it was over a century ago. This legendary gothic novel about a bloodthirsty vampire is at the same time a literary journey into the depths of the human subconscious, into our suppressed fears and longings. A haunting drama of desire, power, and identity.

The book's protagonist discovers (at age 33) he is the son of the being upon whom so many tales are based, but this creature is even more powerful and frightening than the myths have made him to be. Ignore the stereotypical shtick cover, Shirley's updated Dracula possesses (or is possessed by) a sexual organ with eyes and inhabited by its own predatory spirit as well as an appreciation of the contemporary submachine gun.