Dark Fantasy

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price_x0097_and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can_x0092_t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can_x0092_t ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _x0095_ THE BOOK BEHIND THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES Don_x0092_t miss the thrilling sneak peek of George R. R. Martin_x0092_s A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Six, The Winds of WinterDubbed _x0093_the American Tolkien_x0094_ by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Fantasy, Urban, Dark lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Dark, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. Criminal mastermind Kelsier teaches Allomancy, the magic of metals, to another Mistborn, urchin Vin 16. The unlikely heroine is distracted by rich Venture heir Elend. Can Kelsier's thieving crew take on the tyrant Lord Ruler and bring back colour ...

Captivating and actionpacked, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected Fantasy, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laura Thalassa. A Maiden_x0085_ Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy_x0092_s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to...

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save ...

In America, demons wear white hoods.In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.Standing in their way is ...

On the distant world of Erna, four peoplePriest, Adept, Sorcerer, and Apprenticeare drawn together to battle the forces of evil, led by the demonic fae, a souldestroying force that preys on the human mind....

Ein is on a mission from God. A God of Death.Time is up for the Emperor of Ten Kings and it falls to a murdered eight year old boy to render the judgement of a God. Ein knows he can't do it alone, but the empire is rife with heroes. The only problem; in order to serve, they must first die.Ein has four legendary heroes in mind, names from story book...

Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent ...

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.On the bloodsoaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is...

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_x0093_The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm._x0094_Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior...

An Alabama boy_x0092_s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times_x0096_bestselling author of Swan Song.It_x0092_s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It_x0092_s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelveyearol...

The ravaged continent of Genabackis is a terrifying new empire, the Pannion Domin, that devours all. An uneasy allliance resists: Onearm's army, Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners and former enemies forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii mages, and the Rhivi people of the plains. And the Crippled God intends revenge....

After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur are united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of the Hiroth. But the price of peace is a pact with a hidden power whose motives may be deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all lesser neighbors except the Tiste Edur....

All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor, while the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against its own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is suddenly blind to the future. Conspiracies seet...

The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medalwinning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, el...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Dark, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace It_x0092_s enough to make a torturer want to run _x0096_ if he could even walk without a stick.Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fir...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Assassin, Fiction, Dark, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Beranabus and Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholy alliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind, held on Earth against his will. Grubbs is mad with grief and spinning out of control.The demons are crossing.The Disciples are falling.The Shadow is waiting.Welcome to the end.Steel your stomachs and grit your teeththe tenth book in the saga of the ...

In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world_x0085_In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen.And in these same Wastelands, others gather to confront their destinies. The ...

King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now_x0097_and king of seven nations. His goal_x0097_revenge against his father_x0097_has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb. Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Dark, Fantasy, Epic lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

An alternate cover edition can be found here.In Northern Genabackis, tribal mountain warriors raid southern flatlands. Years later, Tavore, Adjunct to the Empress, enters the last Malazan stronghold. New to command, she must hone 12,000 recruits to resist the Whirlwind of her sister Sha in the Holy Desert. The power struggle of the seer's warlords ...

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the BloodyNine to come home. With too many masters and too littl...

When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers, " grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular Black Company novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. Ther...

I am Grimalkin, and I have already chosen those I will kill . . .'Grimalkin has made it her lifetime ambition to destroy the Fiend, avenging the brutal murder of her son.Having grudgingly joined forces with the Spook and his apprentice, Tom, and assisted them in the binding of the Fiend, she is now on the run. And her mission is deadly.She has to ...

"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to...

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha_x0092_ik and her followers prepare for the longprophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the Malazan Empire in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known, shaping destinies and ...

"Rich in plot twists, byzantine intrigues and hidden secrets, Imajica is a Chinese puzzle box constructed on a universal scale...Barker has an unparalleled talent for envisioning other worlds." _x0097_ Washington Post Book WorldFrom master storyteller Clive Barker comes an epic tale of myth, magic, and forbidden passionImajica is an epic beyond compare:...

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must undertake a d...

There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan_x0092_s first_x0097_and favorite_x0097_lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Pete...

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father_x0092_s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hu...

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first install...

The second novel in the Night Angel trilogy, the breakneck epic Fantasy, from New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks.Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life. The Godking's successful coup has left Kylar's master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.But when he learns tha...

Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuriesdead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mu...

Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task.Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to send the greatest of his servants against him Siscoi, a Vampire God more ferocious than anything he has yet faced. Tom must risk his life to prevent the ...

He's the seventh son of a seventh son. His name is Thomas J. Ward and he's my gift to the County. When he's old enough we'll send you word. Train him well. He'll be the best apprentice you've ever had and he'll also be your last.'These were the words of Tom's Mam to the county Spook some years ago. As Tom, the Spook and their allies prepare to bat...

It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeenyearold sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.Raffe i...

"Dreams of Steel" is Book 5 in Glen Cook's Fantasy, masterpiece, The Chronicles of the Black Company.Croaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force fro...

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Kerri Maniscalco introduces her next series, a dark tale of a beautiful young witch, a troubled demon, and their epic romance, set against a 19th century Italian backdrop.Emilia and her twin sister Victoria are streghe witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Victoria misses dinner service at the family'...

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art decoinflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both...