FANTÁSTICA JUVENILES Y JOVEN ADULTO

Ricos e inteligentísimos, los hermanos Lively -Hades, Apolo, Hermes, Afrodita y Atenea- son muy populares, aunque nadie osa acercarse a ellos: todo el mundo los conoce, pero la gente procura evitarlos. Cada viernes por la noche organizan unas veladas conocidas como los Juegos de los Dioses, y se muestran implacables con sus adversarios. No hay modo de vencerlos. Cuando Haven llega al campus en su primer año de universidad, los Lively le provocan una mezcla de fascinación y de temor, hasta que Hades se fija en ella… Entre ambos surge un amor irrefrenable, que pronto se convertirá en un auténtico descenso a los Infiernos. En realidad, los juegos que practican en Yale solo son una minúscula parte de lo que hay oculto tras ellos, la apuesta es muy alta y Haven ignora que la pieza principal de la partida es precisamente ella.

Desde el momento en que Julianus Dakkia, sobrino del emperador, vio a Malina Bihari por primera vez, quedó prendido de ella. Años después, la bella bailarina dacia reaparece en un campo de batalla a punto de perder su vida, y él instintivamente se transforma en dragón para salvarla. La acción podría costarle su cargo de general, y su vida, pero tiene una cosa muy clara: Malina es suya. Impresionada por el general en el campo de batalla, Malina no puede creer que este sea el mismo hombre que hace años le dio un talismán secreto y que ahora la protege. Pero no puede negar que su alma siempre ha anhelado la de Julianus. En un mundo en que los dragones conquistan, saquean y queman todo a su paso, el amor de Malina y Julianus prenderá una llama que solo podrá acabar con la muerte o el desamor. O ambas.

En la Noche de Kupala, Dymitr llega a los bajos fondos de Chicago, rebosantes de magia y monstruos, con una peligrosa misión: recoger la flor del helecho y ofrecérsela a una criatura maldita a cambio de que le ayude a encontrar a la legendaria bruja Baba Yaga. Ala es una zmora, una criatura que se alimenta del miedo humano, y sufre una maldición familiar que la está matando lentamente. Está lo bastante desesperada como para acceder a lo que le pide Dymitr, aunque no conozca sus motivos. Durante el transcurso de una noche, ambos arriesgarán sus vidas para encontrar a Baba Yaga e iniciarán una frágil amistad… Pero si Ala descubre el secreto que Dymitr está escondiendo, podría ser el fin.

Penny Albright es una hija del aquelarre de las espinas, forzada a recorrer el velo entre el reino de la Vida y el reino de la Muerte. Cada noche, una bruja de las espinas, y solo una, debe cruzar el velo y para ello arde en la hoguera. Cada mañana, esa bruja vuelve a vivir gracias a la magia. No seguir estas reglas pone en peligro el velo y supone un riesgo para todas. Pero, una mañana, Penny ve que su hermana favorita, Ella, no regresa. Esa misma noche, decidida a encontrarla, Penny rompe las reglas. Arde en secreto. Y descubre que algo extraño está sucediendo. Su viaje la conduce hasta Malin, un poderoso noble con muchos secretos, y hasta Alice, una misteriosa profetisa cautiva. También descubre que hay una rebelión que se está preparando entre las sombras que hay bajo la ciudad. Y Penny va a tener que tomar una decisión devastadora, porque no es solo la vida de su hermana de aquelarre la que está pendiendo de un hilo. Es el destino de toda la magia. Solo hace falta una bruja, y una hoguera, para que el mundo entero arda.

Cuando el príncipe del reino más poderoso alcanza la mayoría de edad, las familias nobles se desviven por conseguir que sus hijas se casen con él y poder así ascender al trono. Los destinos de tres jóvenes se entrelazan desatando rebeliones y pasiones inesperadas. Alyhia solo tiene un objetivo: no ser elegida. Puede propagar el fuego, y ser descubierta sería una sentencia de muerte segura. Pero Efia, en cambio, se muere por hacerse notar. Casarse con el príncipe es su única oportunidad de escapar de sus padres. Y Sybil tiene una situación muy distinta: heredera de un reino frágil, necesita esta alianza si quiere seguir siendo libre.

Imperio de Yithia, año 1400 de la Era Solar. Cinco siglos después, la heredera al trono Ashbree Aldair posee un extraordinario don que podría destruir el corazón del Señor de las Sombras y acabar con el conflicto para siempre. Pero no es fácil que el futuro de toda tu raza dependa de ti y menos aún si tu padre se encarga de hacerte saber, cada vez que fracasas en tu cometido, que eres una vergüenza. Un inesperado ataque a la capital lleva a Ashbree hasta la primera línea de combate, donde conoce a Ilian, un elfo oscuro con demasiados secretos. La futura emperatriz deberá tener cuidado, porque la sangre de plata que recorre el cuerpo de su atractivo contrincante podría convertirse en su perdición y, por ello, en la de todo el reino.

Nía Blanco llega para revolucionar el panorama literario. Un romantasy con edición especial y cantos tintados que será el éxito del verano. ¿Te atreves a vestir la Piel de Cuervo? Entrar en el Abismo es una sentencia, pero Lhyss ya está condenada. Disfrazada como sus enemigos, Lhyss se une al plan suicida para descubrir la identidad del Príncipe Cuervo y vengarse de aquellos que le arrebataron a su hermana cinco años atrás. Su odio es lo único que la ha mantenido viva durante este tiempo, pero en el Abismo no existen las reglas y los secretos entre los participantes serán tan mortales como los monstruos que lo habitan. Su plan es simple; sin embargo, el destino que la espera podría ser más oscuro de lo que jamás imaginó. A veces, para destruir a un monstruo, debes convertirte en uno. Aunque el amor ponga en peligro todos tus planes.

Everything is finally going right for Emry Merlin. Now that Arthur is the king and her wayward magic is under control, she’s enjoying life as Camelot’s official court wizard—and as Arthur’s girlfriend. But when an unexpected visitor arrives at court, Emry finds her hard-won position threatened. And Arthur is torn between listening to his advisors and following his heart. Even more troubling, war is on the horizon, with King Yurien’s access to dark magic ensuring Camelot’s doom. That is, unless Emry, Arthur, and Lance can find a way to defeat the evil sorceress Bellicent with magic from her own world. But undertaking a quest to Anwen is perilous business, and our young heroes will face many obstacles on their journey—from dangerous beasts to suspicious nobles to cursed maidens determined to find someone to marry. Can Emry and Arthur save their kingdom and fix their relationship, or will they have to choose between their future and Camelot’s?

Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers. Her days are consumed by the search for knowledge about the strange mark—an untranslatable Hin character—burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died. Zen is a practitioner—one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. He’s never seen anything like Lan’s mark, but he knows that if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime. Yet, both Lan and Zen are hiding secrets—secrets that are buried deep within them. Secrets that even they have still to unearth. Both hold the power to liberate their land, if they don’t destroy it first. Now the battle for the Last Kingdom begins.

Following the events of The Beautiful, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. The price of loving Celine was costly. But Celine has also paid a high price for loving Bastien. Still recovering from injuries sustained during a night she can’t quite remember, her dreams are troubled. And she doesn’t know she has inadvertently set into motion a chain of events that could lead to her demise and unveil a truth about herself she’s not ready to learn. Forces hiding in the shadows have been patiently waiting for this moment. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to uncover the danger around them, they learn their love could tear them apart.

Following the explosive events of The Damned, Odette faces a vampire’s final death. The Court of the Lions have done everything they can to save her but have failed. A healer from the Sylvan Vale could help her, but only Arjun Desai, as a half fey, can cross the boundary between realms. The Sylvan Vale is a world Arjun despises, and in return, it despises him. But knowing it could save Odette, he returns to the Vale with all haste, leaving the mirrored tare between the two worlds open and unwittingly setting the stage for both love and war. It’s mere days until Pippa Montrose is to wed Phoebus Devereux and become a member of his well-heeled family, offering salvation to her own. But Celine is missing. Pippa has no idea where her best friend has gone, but she’s certain it’s in the company of vampire Sébastien Saint Germain and that Arjun can lead her to them. Pippa enjoins the help of Eloise, the daughter of a powerful sorceress, to discover the gateway Arjun uses to travel between worlds. Pippa, tired of hesitating in life, marches right through in search of her friend. But what she discovers on the other side is a dangerous, duplicitous world full of mischief and magic she doesn’t understand, and most unexpectedly, she finds love.

Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose… It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if handto- hand combat with her mom wasn’t bad enough, Rose’s tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason’s got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks…. This year, St. Vlad’s annual holiday ski trip is mandatory. But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price…

Mara is dead—mostly. Infected with a virus that broke the world and turned her into a monster, Mara awakens in a facility to learn a treatment has been found. No longer a Tick, Mara is placed in an experimental relocation program. But she’s sent to live with the best friend she hasn’t seen since the world ended. Since their first and only kiss. Rory is alive—barely. And her nightmares are as vicious as the Ticks that infected Mara and permanently injured Rory. Even after the Island—one of the surviving communities—rebuilds itself, Rory fears a Tick attack from the mainland at any time. But the Ticks that show up are medicated—not quite themselves but no longer raging monsters. Among them is the first girl Rory ever loved...the one she thought was gone forever. As Mara and Rory struggle with the violence they’ve inflicted and experienced, they must lean on each other to survive their brutal world—or risk losing each other all over again.

Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly. So when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen’s Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic—one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlock—she finds herself living her worst nightmare. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. But in Ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. There’s nobody she can trust. Nobody, that is, except wanted criminal Jericho Nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. And though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho, Joss is desperate enough to accept. But Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. The closer she grows to Jericho and the more she sees of the world outside her pampered life in the city, the more Joss begins to question the beliefs she’s always taken for granted—beliefs about right and wrong, about power and magic, and even about herself.

In order to protect her kingdom from the wrath of a vengeful goddess, Princess Candra must remain locked inside a tower for seven years. Seven long years without a friend―or a lover―by her side. And shut inside the tower with her? A Fellian, the enemy of her people, a fearsome warrior race complete with wings and claws and fangs. Nemeth is terrifying, cruel, and disturbingly magnetic. Candra should kill him for his supplies, but she’s desperate for his company…and his touch. As time inside the unchanging tower rolls on, Candra uncovers the man behind the stony facade. And when their tenure hits an unexpected snag, Candra and Nemeth are forced to make a difficult choice. They’ll need to face an outside world they no longer recognize, one that threatens their lives and their surprising love.

Their union is his revenge. Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. But her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. Except it isn't the court she fears most—it's Adrian. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king—fierce, savage, merciless—chose her as consort. The answer will shatter her world.

Lyra Bien intended to live a quiet life to avoid the attention of the magic-obsessed king in the fortress of Stonegate. Until Roark Ashwood—the prince’s silent guard and rumored killer for the crown—invades her village and uncovers the truth behind the silver scars in her eyes. To save her best friend from death, she’s forced to reveal her abilities, and is immediately claimed by the crown as the next melder. To be the King’s melder is to be revered and feared in equal measures, but above all it is a slow death sentence. Lyra is determined to find a way to free herself and her friends from bondage. But first she must get more information from the silent, brooding sentry who first took her captive: Roark. As Lyra gets closer to Roark, she soon learns he’s nothing like she assumed—and in fact everything she needs. The more they work as allies, the harder it becomes to ignore the growing passion between them. After a sinister truth is revealed, Roark and Lyra must choose to stand against all they know, or accept their dark destiny.

A weekend partying at a remote cabin is just what Mackenzie needs. She can't wait to let loose with her friends. But a crazy night of fun leaves two of them dead—murdered. With no signs of a forced entry or struggle, suspicion turns to the five survivors. Someone isn't telling the truth. And Mackenzie's first mistake? Assuming the killing is over...

Imani is a magic-wielding warrior sworn to protect her land from the monsters that roam the desert. But an even worse enemy now threatens the Sahir. As the powerful Harrowlanders march south with their greatest weapon—spice magic—Imani knows it’s only a matter of time before their invasion of her land begins . . . and it will be a losing battle for her people. But Imani also knows that one way to fight magic is with monsters. If she can restore Qayn’s stolen powers, together they can summon a supernatural army to defend the Sahir from the Harrowlanders. Forming an alliance with a djinni king is risky, but Imani will do anything to save her people, even embarking on a dangerous quest beyond the sands to find the magical jewels of Qayn’s lost crown. As Imani journeys far from home, she will discover monsters that warriors have only heard about in myths . . . monsters that can strike at any moment. Meanwhile, her rival, Taha, has been captured and is on a dangerous mission of his own. One wrong move could cost them their lives—and everyone they love. But they may find that there is more than meets the eye crossing the Serpent Sea . . . and betrayal cuts deeper than any dagger. In this richly imagined Arabian-inspired fantasy told from a riveting dual perspective, critically acclaimed author Maiya Ibrahim dives into the complexities of love and war.

A soldier raised as heir to an empire, Zarrah is motivated by two truths: The first is that the Veliant family murdered her mother. The second is that her pursuit of vengeance will put every last one of them in their graves. The Endless War between Maridrina and Valcotta has raged for generations, leaving thousands of Zarrah’s people dead and still more orphaned. So when she’s given command of the contested city of Nerastis, Zarrah is prepared to do whatever it takes to destroy the Maridrinian forces who oppose her—and to kill the Veliant prince who leads them. Yet a chance encounter with an anonymous and handsome Maridrinian causes Zarrah to question whether the violence she’s perpetrated is justice or a crime. And as she continues to meet the nameless man each night, she finds common ground—and fiery passion—in his arms. But when identities are revealed, Zarrah must decide whether to embrace a chance at peace or march to the drums of war.