Robert Asprin

First in a brand new series from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Myth and Phule novels.A low-stakes con artist and killer poker player, Griffen "Grifter" McCandles graduated college fully expecting his wealthy family to have a job waiting for him. Instead, his mysterious uncle reveals a strange family secret: Griffen and his sister, Valerie, are actually dragons.Unwilling to let Uncle Mal take him under his wing, so to speak, Griffen heads to New Orleans with Valerie to make a living the only way he knows how. And even the criminal underworld of the French Quarter will heat up when Griffen lands in town.

E. Godz, Inc.'s stock-in-trade was magic. When Edwina Godz had inherited the family corporation after her parents were killed in an accident, she had put to work all the sorcerous techniques that she had learned during her Spiritual Quest period, taking all the shamans with the Right Stuff on board as subsidiaries, and raking in all the benefits of the material world, including big profits and a high-selling stock. Unfortunately, Edwina's two children, Dov and Peez, hated each other's guts, to put it mildly, and if she stepped aside and let them take over the company, it was certain to go down the tubes. So she pretended to be dying from a disease that neither science nor sorcery could cure, and let the two of them fight it out for dominance using all the tricks of both corporate in-fighting and wizard warfare that she had taught them. No holds barred-and may the most evil and ruthless sorcerer win!

It's a nightmare when master magician Skeeve and Aahz the Pervect fall into Dreamland...Massha gets married with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blew...up.Bunny turns to Skeeve for help when an inter-dimensional beauty contest turns ugly.Reality shows were never quite like this. Eligible bachelors vie to win Princess Gloriannamarjolie's hand-if not her heart...Join Skeeve, Aahz, Massha, Tananda, Bunny, Gleep, the Fairy Godfather, and random myth-ical creatures in eight stories that span the manic MYTH universe. Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye have compiled their favorite tales-and concocted some new ones-for this hilarious collection of myth-adventures...

Kurzbeschreibung Insel der Sehnsucht (Sanctuary) - Nora Roberts Die erfolgreiche Fotografin Jo Hathaway hat ihr Leben fest im Griff - jedenfalls bis zu dem Tag, als sie in ihrer Post anonyme Fotos findet: Schnappschüsse und Nahaufnahmen von ihr selbst. Sie ist zutiefst beunruhigt - wer konnte ihr unbeobachtet so nahe kommen und diese Bilder machen? Als dann auch noch die Fotos einer wunderschönen, nackten, toten Frau geschickt werden, bricht Jo zusammen - diese Frau war ihre Mutter. Jo war noch ein kleines Mädchen, als ihre Mutter eines Nachts spurlos verschwand. Der schmerzliche Verlust entzweite und zerstörte die Familie Hathaway. Daraufhin floh Jo, wild entschlossen, ihre Familie und ihr Elternhaus nie mehr wieder zu sehen. Widerstrebend beschließt sie nun, wegen dieser Fotos nach Hause zu fahren, um dort die Antwort auf ihre Fragen zu finden. Ihr Elternhaus auf der wildromantischen Insel Desire ist mittlerweile ein kleines Hotel, das ihr Bruder führt. Die Begegnung mit den Geschwistern und dem Vater führt erneut zu geschwisterlichen Rivalitäten, Eifersüchteleien, Schmerz und Bitterkeit. Aber auch auf Desire ist Jo nicht sicher; wieder tauchen Fotos auf. Jos Freund aus Kindertagen, der Architekt Nathan Delany, steht ihr zur Seite und aus Zuneigung wird schnell Liebe. Nathan aber scheint nicht nur über die Geheimnisse von Jos Seele Bescheid zu wissen ... In der Konfrontation mit dem Mörder muss Jo sich schließlich ihrer eigenen, tragischen Vergangenheit stellen...

Skeeve is a magician’s apprentice (and a wanna-be thief) until an assassin’s bolt kills his master, Garkin. Along with Aahz, the green-scaled, purple-tongued demon and master magician summoned by Garkin, he sets out on a quest to get even. The road to vengeance is bound to prove rocky, however, because Skeeve can barely light a candle with his beginning magic, and Aahz has lost his own considerable magical abilities as a consequence of Garkin’s summoning spell. Before they can confront the power-mad wizard who ordered Garkin’s assassination, they must survive a trip to a weird alternate dimension, encounters with Impish hit-men and a somewhat dull but persistent demon hunter who rides a friendly war unicorn, outwit a sharp-dealing Deevel, and deal with other uncanny enemies and even stranger friends... all without killing each other in the process!

FROM THE PAGES OF THE HEX-FILES Someone or something unseen has been attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for the Irish acid-folk rock band Green Fire. Now she's on tour in the United States, about to play the biggest concert of her career — and she's in fear for her life, because that something has followed her across the ocean. All that stands between her and an all-too-real magical death are two offbeat government agents: Liz Mayfield, special agent for the British Government Office of Occult & Paranormal Sightings Investigation. Little did she imagine when she was given her dream assignment that she'd face the most fearsome magical onslaught of her life. Or that she'd run into an old friend … Beauray Boudreau, Liz's American counterpart from the FBI, where he's known as "Boo-Boo" Boudreau. And he doesn't have that nickname for nothing … If this unlikely duo can't solve the mystery of Fionna's invisible attackers, the singer will have a lot more to worry about than MTV.

Kenneth "Kit" Carson was one of the best, if not the best, time scouts. But the career of a time scout is limited, and now Kit runs a small hotel in one of the Time Terminals, TT-86. His life is turned upside-down when his granddaughter - a granddaughter he never knew he had - shows up. She want's to be a Time Scout. And if being a Time Scout didn't kill Kit Carson, caring about his granddaughter may!