Kirjahaku

Author Jeff Powell wakes up to find the impossible has happened. He is within his own novel-summoned into the fictional world of Andvell by a spell he didn't write. One the enchantress hasn't figured out how to reverse.When the villain he's been struggling to develop reveals himself, unleashing waves of terror and chaos, Jeff must use more than his imagination to save the characters he created-and the woman he loves.Trapped within a world of his own creation, he must step outside the bounds of his narrative to helps his characters defeat an evil no one anticipated, even if he must sacrifice his greatest gift to do it. In the end, he has to ask: are novels just fiction or windows into other worlds?

Six months after he returns from his fictional world of Andvell, Jeff Powell is still plagued by nightmares, and an inability to write anything new. Cursed with permanent writer's block, and on the verge of losing the woman of his dreams, he feels his life can't get any more complicated. Until he comes home to find Jayden and Brady in his apartment with news that the evil sorcerer Raul is in Montreal. In their search for the now-powerless villain, they find themselves cast back into Andvell, tasked by the Sisters with finding Raul before he regains his power and destroys the world. As far as Jeff is concerned, he has greater issues. Cassie has a new admirer, his characters are keeping secrets, and he has become the target of a silent assassin. Without his creativity, Jeff doesn't know if he's up to the challenge. If he wants to save his world from ruin, he needs to prove he has more to offer than his imagination.

"If you're reading this note, I'm already dead. I find even more pleasure in the idea that one of you will soon join me."At the precise moment of warlock Jermaine Hershel's death, seven strangers are transported into a magically sealed room with only a letter from the dead man to explain.If they want to go home, the way out is simple: discover the murderer - and kill them.Tensions rise as each stranger reveals their connection with Jermaine, but the puzzle isn't so easy to solve. At least one of them is lying. In an unlikely alliance, they have to act quickly to unravel the mystery before the murderer acts first.

After 900 years, you'd think I'd have cleaned this place up.Believe me, I've tried, and the only thing I've achieved in protecting the balance between magical and mundane is massive burnout.My magic has waned, my motivation is in embers, and my social graces are... let's just say they're lacking.Not helping at all is my ex, the servant of Death binding me to existence. The man I crave with every breath but whose presence in my life risks losing him forever.I'm ready to swear off this world. But when a blood mage with troubling ambitions sets his sights on the city's covens, the voices of my past refuse to let me sit by and do nothing.To stop him, I'll need to dust off decades of indifference, gather whatever allies I haven't driven away, and tap into my forgotten power.It's time to remind myself what I'm capable of. The monsters better start trembling.

How deep do I need to bury the past to make it stay down?Twice in two months, a witch named Abigail has used my dark history to try to destroy me. For weeks, my team has hunted her, but she's as skilled at evading us as I am at stuffing my nightmares where I can't see them.Except she's not evading us anymore. Now she's coming straight for us, and I have to be ready. For every blow she strikes, I need to strike back-even if it means turning my feet in a direction I haven't walked in almost nine hundred years.Emrick and my chosen family stand with me, but I fear they'll get caught in the crossfire. Especially as secrets are revealed and the truth unravels in ways that make my world tremble.Abigail thinks she can use my past to draw blood. I'll make her regret every drop.

As an archer who is deafblind, sixteen-year-old Molly Harris has always lived an exceptional life, but since rescuing the angel-demon hybrid Zachariel and being introduced to the otherworld, she's craved a different kind of extraordinary. On her mission for answers, however, Molly realizes the road to the truth is more treacherous than she expected. Zachariel is a freak of nature who has never fit in anywhere, and he's grown comfortable with his solitary existence. Now, not only does he have a nosy teenager invading his personal space, he's also dealing with a shady demon who wants to recruit him for a secret project - and who won't take no for an answer. As Zach delves into the demon's scheme, he discovers he's an unwilling pawn in a life-or-death game. Zach and Molly may be an unlikely team, but it rests on them to hold back the threat that could shake the foundations of the world.

Ten months ago, a sorceress, a Gorgon-Fae, a succubus, a semi-goddess, a daemelus, a human, and an incubus matched wits to escape a magically sealed room. Six of them survived, believing their association was over. But again and again their paths have crossed, and now sixteen-year-old Molly Harris has been abducted by a demon cartel intent on unleashing the nefarious Project Oracle. To prevent the cartel from tearing apart the balance between the otherworld and the mundane, the remaining five must travel to the heart of otherworldly nightmares, where they are faced not only with the uncertainty of their futures, but also the ghosts of their pasts. Tensions rise as personalities and motivations clash, but as the clock runs down, the Invisible Entente will need to find a way to work together to save Molly and destroy Project Oracle before the final storm rolls in.

Well hello, The Past. I see you're trying to kill me. Again.My sluggish magic has woken up, but of course I'm not able to lounge in bed while I get reacquainted with it. No, instead I have a blaring alarm clock in the shape of a fear demon I banished to hell eight hundred years ago.Someone's summoned him back, and he's picking up right where he left off-wreaking havoc, inciting mobs, and threatening mass human casualties. And he's using a member of my chosen family to do it.It's on me to stop him, and the threats are rising. Emrick, the servant of Death who makes my legs weak, refuses to step aside, but I can't let him help. Not when doing so breaks Death's one rule: don't get involved.To banish this demon, I'll need to do more than get to know my magic again. I'll need to bring hell to earth. Without losing one of my only friends in the process.If I mess this up, millions will burn and my sanity might crack. If I do this right? The only thing fear should be afraid of is me.

What good is gaining immortality when you've lost everything?I'm trapped in a nightmare.I'm a sorceress with no grasp on her magic, my family is dead, and my home is gone. A traitor's ritual bound me to Emrick, a servant of Death, and I follow him with no reason to keep going except my body's inability to die.The only way to put my guilt and grief behind me is to become what I was born to be-a guardian of the balance between magical and mundane. But I quickly learn the world is filled with more evil than I ever imagined, and my power is no match for it.Emrick can teach me, but doing so would require a sacrifice he's not willing to pay. Bond or no bond, I don't know if I can sway him. Especially not as my feelings for him grow as confusing as the rapidly changing world.If I don't find a way to move on, my failure to save my community will haunt me for the rest of my long life. But if I become a strong enough sorceress, a skilled enough hunter, maybe I stand a chance at redemption.Set nearly a millennium before the main series, this exciting Immortal Sorceress prequel offers sorcery, danger, and a love story that spans centuries.