Fantasy World

Welcome to the Sorrows—where nightmares bleed into reality, and nothing is what it seems. Maddie Monroe is twenty-two, stuck slinging coffee in a graveyard-shift diner and clinging to dreams of escape. But when she defends a scarred, cryptic stranger from a brutal attack, her life is ripped apart—and hurled into another world. The Sorrows is not a place for the weak. It's a realm of twisted magic, broken souls, and creeping madness. Maddie has no map, no allies—except for a band of misfits who are each more dangerous than they appear: – a disgraced royal advisor haunted by his past ...

“The Dragon World of Tone” is the complete two book set of the epic fantasy about the life of Terra, the human whose fate is tied to the Dragon World of Tone’s future. "The Dragon Healer of Tone" is book 1 in the “World of Tone” Series. Many seasons ago, a powerful human wizard started a war that drove the humans to the misty valleys along the coast of Tone's fast single continent. Hundreds of sets of seasons after the final great battle Terra was born, the first male with the magic of healing. He is the hope of the world, even though few know of his existence. As a child, he was ...

War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves' World® anthology compiled by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Phule's Company series. The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering façade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don't take kindly to an invasion—well-meaning or otherwise.

In a hidden city where ancient treaties keep werewolves, vampires, and witches from annihilating each other, a fragile peace hangs by a thread. When a brutal murder breaks the truce, each faction blames the other. War is inevitable — unless someone can uncover the truth. Enter Kieran — a brooding vampire prince exiled from his court, haunted by his past, and craving power. Enter Ash — a fierce, impulsive werewolf pack beta, heir to a pack that sees him as a threat. Enter Thorne — a soft-spoken but deadly witch marked by a prophecy he doesn't understand.None of them trust the others....

Coventina Hollow is doomed to darkness. And so is Everly... Abandoned by her family on the shores of Avalon--the heart of Coventina Hollow--Everly becomes a peculiar fosterling in a legendary coven afraid of her natural magic. When a fiery streak across the sky signals the arrival of the chosen one--a child who can bring light back to a shadowed world where Fae, human, and witch alike have learned to live in darkness-- Everly's life goes from bad to worse. Now her coven has the opportunity to rid themselves of her and test the veracity of the prophecy all at once. But even if she can ...

It's beginning to look a lot like Faerie. The Faerie Realm is experiencing a growth spurt. Fertility is always welcome among the Fey but this fertile magic has outgrown the realm and is seeping into Earth. Vervain and the God Squad head to the Human Realm to hunt down the wild magic and attempt to send it back to Faerie. But the harder they try to control it, the wilder the magic becomes until it manifests in the most shocking way. Will the Godhunter and her friends be able to tame the magic or is the Earth doomed to become a fey new world?

After Worlds Collide picks up the story of its predecessor When Worlds Collide. This sequel tells the story of the survivors' progress on the new world Bronson Beta after the destruction of planet Earth by a rogue planet.

"Something Passed By", a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in his short fiction collection Blue World and was selected for inclusion in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection.

Presenting the book World of Warcraft fans have been clamoring for - the true story behind one of the Warcraft universe’s most terrifying villains, Arthas the Lich King.

In this sequel to the best-selling fantasy thriller Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what’s left of the modern world. When a group of people capture Penryn’s sister Paige, thinking she’s a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken. Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody?

Ottanger is a rebel and mutant on an Earth governed by a ruthless Committee. But after its Inspectorate experiments on him, Ottanger realizes the mutation allows him to reach alternate worlds. The multiverse is revealed in all its glory and terror—and he understands that he can finally flee his timeline. Then Ottanger meets the Fenris, an evolved human, visiting his Earth from the far future. He'd engineered the original world walking mutation, so those altered could escape the Committee's nightmarish regime. And Ottanger sees that that Committee will become unstoppable if not destroyed.

In Soul Harvest the world is reeling from a great earthquake. As Nicolae Carpathia begins a worldwide rebuilding campaign, his rage is fueled by an evangelistic effort resulting in the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen. Meanwhile Rayford Steele and Buck Williams search for their loved ones who haven't been seen since before the earthquake.

Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery, but an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry is diagnosed with cancer and strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure—but only if George brings Winthrop back from the dead.

Against all odds, Rob and the Deserters have survived their second encounter with the eldritch abomination–known as the Blight–only for Rob to make first contact with the gods of Elatra in a very...aggressive way. His enemies keep on piling up, and things are looking to get even tougher from here on out. If Rob and his friends want to survive their upcoming trials, they'll need to gain Levels, make new allies, and travel to the ends of the world and back again.

When a coming-of-age tradition sends young Floyd on The Journey, he soon encounters a fantastical world filled with mythical creatures and real danger. Unfortunately, he also attracts the attention of a violent press gang intent on making him a galley slave. With a little luck and the help of a magical elf in disguise, Floyd escapes and finds himself aboard a ship bound for the Far East. Let the adventure begin! Onboard, Floyd befriends a fellow passenger named Jonathan Swift, a young writer suffering from debilitating writer’s block. When the ship wrecks on an uncharted island, Floyd ...

Can he be forgiven? Mike Washington was a carefree young man who drifted through life without purpose—until the day everything burned. When Houston was reduced to rubble by a sudden nuclear strike, Mike should have died. But a mysterious man pulled him from the fire. Grateful and desperate, Mike pledged to serve him, no questions asked. He never imagined that promise would cost him his soul. In the wake of global devastation, the man who saved Mike—known only as the Master—seized the chaos to build a terrifying new order. Twisted by brainwashing and dark power, Mike becomes one of the...

Woodlands is where city-dwellers go to die if they're dumb enough, and where those who can't live among the populace stay to remain hidden. As a child, Nyssa entered the Woodlands, forced into them by a past she can't remember. Years later, she is dragged out of them as an adult with no concept of what it means to be "normal". Armed with a new witch bestie who refuses to leave her alone, Nyssa slowly begins building a life for herself in Teragona.

Low-stakes magic, crafting cocktails, and discovering the power of who we truly are. Emma grew up as a Hunter of the Cursed—those charged with eradicating monsters and magic from the Kingdom. She's good at it too and is revered as one of the King's most skilled hunters. At least she was—until she discovered she possessed magic herself. Before anyone else can discover her secret, Emma abandons her post and flees to the far edge of the Kingdom, where she hopes she can settle down and live a quiet life as a bartender, out of the Hunters' watchful eye.

Ayn Rand's famous 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, has become more widely read and influential with each passing year, thanks in part to its brilliant dramatization of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and its celebration of self-reliance, integrity, rationality, and productive effort.

Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. But the bloodletting and loss of his beloved Nahri have unleashed the worst demons of Dara's dark past. To vanquish them, he must face some ugly truths about his history and put himself at the mercy of those he once considered enemies.