Angelika Rust

Grief is never an easy thing to carry. Any distraction is welcome. Alice wishes for change. Too bad she doesn't know her friends have been running a bet on whose troubled past will come knocking first. A forgotten portal opens, and more than one repressed secret steps through.

Little children shouldn't be sent into the woods all alone. Grandma isn't the only wolf out there.A collection of nine different girls, and nine different wolves.*This is not a book for children.*

Time is back on track. The horrors of the past have long turned into nothing but random nightmares.No one has tried to kill Alice in more than three months.Another half year and she'll be done with high school.It's Christmas, too, and her mom is finally coming home.Dreams can come true after all.Guess what? So can nightmares.

Summer is over. Going back to school should be a walk in the park.Unless it's not.After all, Alice's world has changed. The cops have her number, time and fate are conspiring against her, and Trouble is her constant companion.

"Tell me, Miregente...what will happen if you remove the Piper? Will the rats turn in their weapons, and resume life as good, honest citizens? Or will they fight for supremacy, until one of them has proven himself the strongest and meanest?"After three attempts on his life, the ruler of the underworld decides to die. One man steps up to fill the void Vicco Cambrosi has left behind. Some follow, others oppose. Full-scale war among the rats threatens to rage over Istonnia. And Vicco's ghost haunts the ratpaths, taking out the traitors, one by one.Nivvo, meanwhile, has troubles of his own. Wanted for murder, he boards a ship to the enemy city state of Bared . Only a handful of people know he's not really on the run. He's on a mission, and Istonnia's future hinges on his success.

The tyrant is dead. Istonnia is free, and peace has returned to her streets. Yet war is just a spark away.Having forgone his own freedom for the sake of those he cares for, Nivvo, the young thief, wants nothing but to lie low until the rumors have died down.But then a crossbow bolt flies true, and a rat dies.Someone, somewhere, wants revenge.

An average abusive childhood, a tendency towards depression. Annalee's life could be normal. If only she could get rid of the dwarf.Annalee doesn't mind what people call her. After all, a name's just a name. What she does mind, though, is the dwarf trying to wall her in. Struggling between reality and hallucination, a black cat and a talking skeleton her only companions along the way, Annalee fights for her sanity, and a way out.

A young thief, caught between the rightful regent and the lord of the underworld. Fantasy novel with a touch of mafia and mystery.The city state of Istonnia is suffering, its people cowering under the thumb of a despotic ruler.Nivvo is a young thief, not interested in anything except keeping himself and his sister alive. That changes when he accidentally overhears a conversation.Now Nivvo finds himself up to his neck in trouble. He has only one night to find the rightful heir. He has to smuggle him out of the city before the tyrant and his black-clad soldiers kill them both. And he has to avoid the crime lord's watchful eyes, for if Vicco Cambrosi catches them, they might be better off dead...