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A riddle in the skies. A puzzle spanning worlds. A prize, locked behind seven keys... Serena Carterett leads a team of masqueraders, shapeshifters and reformed thieves. Fighting crime's their job, solving ancient mysteries, not so much. But when the seven dreams riddle lights up the skies, that's got to change. The riddle speaks of treasure, better yet, a door, protecting an unimaginably dangerous power. In the wrong hands, this power ...

When Lokants get involved in our worlds, it always means trouble. They're impossibly powerful, and they definitely know too much.Dangerous. Now Lokant-blooded mortals are going missing, and there's no question where the responsibility lies. But what do the Lokant sorcerers want with their half-blood descendants? On top of which, there's a Master Lokantor showing far too much interest in the realm of Orlind. How the two are connected I do not k...

Draykoni do not die. Not truly. Not forever. So we thought. We have been proved wrong. A killer walks the Off-Worlds, someone with the means and the will to extinguish even the oldest of draykon souls. But why would anybody do such a thing, and how? I am Llandry Sanfaer: Draykon shapeshifter, ambassador, colony leader. My people are dying beyond hope of revival, and it falls to me to stop it. But the killer leaves nothing behind. No hints, no ...

Orlind. Locked behind impassable mountains, buried under the weight of a vast - and terrible - history, the Seventh Realm has remained a mystery all the long ages through.Until now. For the Lokant sorcerers' power and might grows by the day - and all their thought is bent upon Orlind. What secrets lie hidden behind so ancient an enchantment? What powers could be worth a war to win?For war has come to the Seven. The draykoni are on the attack -...

Once naught but a legend, the fearsome draykoni have returned to the Seven Realms.For Llandry Sanfaer, their coming changes everything - forever. Their story and hers are inextricably bound, and there'll be no going back.For Lady Eva Glostrum, questions abound. Who are the enigmatic sorcerers who woke the slumbering draykoni? Their powers break the bounds of possibility. With one dead and one vanished - literally - there's nothing to go on sav...

Ancient legends don't come back to life. Until they do...The vast, winged draykoni once ruled the skies of the Seven Realms, uncontested and unstoppable - so the stories say. But they are only tales. Aren't they?When Llandry Sanfaer discovers a new type of jewel, her life changes forever. Wonderful and terrible, the gem exerts a strange influence over those who behold it. Soon people are dying for it, and Llandry herself becomes a target.This ...

You may have noticed, ' said Maut, 'that the Tree is on the move.'On the edge of the town of Kottow stands the tallest (and oddest) Tree in the land. It's a staid and solid arbour - until the Tree picks up its mighty old roots and wanders off, taking its resident band of misfits away with it. Whither goes the Tree? Not even the wizard can say.'There is something mighty fey about all this, or my name ain't Diggory Stokey.'Far away from Kottow, ...

The Society for Magickal Heritage's best agents are heading back into paradise. Giddy Gods help them all.No one ever said heroic adventure would be easy, but this is ridiculous.Magickal wonderlands aren't meant to have a dark side. Heroes aren't meant to get stranded there, either.Ves may be up for anything, but she hadn't expected that pretty much anything would be up for her.And with a horde of unhappy spirits enjoying a direct line to Zaree...

When it comes to the Wyrde, there is no such thing as harmless. Every single one of us is a walking disaster.'Winter has come to Werth Towers, and brought a deal of trouble with it.Not that any of it is the fault of Miss Gussie Werth. To be a one-woman catastrophe might be seen as a misfortune, but really, there can be no hope of a cure.What with murderous Books on the rampage, Lady Maundevyle brewing plans for Christmas, and a couple of drago...

The fight to save British magick rages on - and it's taking the Society's beleaguered champions away from Home. Far, far away, to worlds long lost, worlds no one could ever have imagined existed.Dangers and mysteries abound, which is way up Ves's street. Jay isn't quite so sure. Severed as they are from the Society's support, will magick's unlikely heroes make it Home unscathed?It'll be fine. After all, these lost magickal domains are the Soci...

If you had not already realised it, this is a very strange house you are come to.'The Scions of the House of Werth are all born normal. It is what happens afterwards that sets them apart.It is not easy being the most supernatural family in England. Nell talks to the dead, Lord Werth is too often to be found out in the churchyard at the dead of night, and the less said about Lord Bedgberry, the better.Only Miss Gussie Werth has missed out on th...

Detective. Judge. Executioner. Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Zolin Conspiracy: Out in the deep snow lies the body of a gentleman - missing his head. Bogdan Zolin's death proves a mystery difficult to solve, for nobody seems to know anything about him at all. Konrad must delve d...

Distantly upon the horizon, bejewelled light shone like stars, tantalising, inviting.Then the palace-in-glass was gone, fading away into the velvet night like a snuffed lamp.Between the sands and the starlight, ancient powers rise, and the oldest of tales become new. An old sorcerer travels the starlight bazaars: cursed and magic-blighted, he has glass where his heart should be.A half-jinni enchantress seeks her missing son: daughter of a fall...

Once upon a chime...Every day at four o' clock, an enchanted twilight sweeps over Vale Argantel. Strange things happen under its eldritch influence: mists boil up out of the ground, rain pours out of a cloudless sky, and the roses grow wild and fey. Such is the way of things.But when her friend falls through a magic mirror and disappears, Margot realises something's changed. An ancient enchantment has gone awry, and chaos quickly spreads. Magi...

From the author of the Tales of Aylfenhame comes a new fairy tale, replete with "large helpings of wit and whimsy" (Publisher's Weekly¿)When the centuries-barren orchards of Berrie-on-the-Wyn suddenly bear fruit, it is clear that something strange is afoot - and something fey, for this is no ordinary harvest. To partake of the fruits of Faerie is to be changed for good, but not necessarily for the better.Whence come the golden apples, the moon...

Detective. Judge. Executioner.Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Corpse Thieves: Danil Dubin is a murderer. He knows this because he's been told - by the many witnesses to his crime. Only, he has no memory of it himself. It's part of a spate of similar killings, and Konrad must act....

Old Magick. New World.In the 21st century, little remains of magick save scattered, beleaguered pockets of magickal community and scholarship - and a vast, but rapidly decaying, heritage. How can any of it survive the pace of modern life? As an agent of the Society for Magickal Heritage, Cordelia "Ves" Vesper has an important job: to track down and rescue endangered magickal creatures, artefacts, books and spells wherever they are to be found....

Detective. Judge. Executioner. Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Rostikov Legacy: When Konrad discovers the body of a wealthy society hostess lying in the cold, mist-shrouded reaches of the Bone Forest, the pressure is on to find her killer. Can he catch the killer without revealin...

The Lincolnshire Wolds, 1812. When housemaid Bessie Bell is thrown out into a cold October night, her prospects could scarcely seem worse. With nowhere to go and no one to help her, how will she survive? But on the road she meets a mysterious gentleman, and her fortunes take an immediate turn for the… strange. For the nightmare horse Tatterfoal stalks the fog-drenched Wolds, and Mr. Green is determined to catch him. But why?Caught up in a dark...

Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1811. Miss Sophia Landon is the unremarkable daughter of an impoverished clergyman. Her father's health is failing fast, but who wants to marry a woman without birth, beauty or wealth? Her prospects are limited indeed - until her friendship with the town's fae denizens earns her passage to the otherworldly realm of Aylfenhame. Could her fate truly lie beyond the shores of England? There she meets Aubranael, a young man wit...