The first book in the Demonata, the demonic symphony in ten parts by multi-million-copy bestselling horror writer Darren Shan... When Grubbs Grady first encounters Lord Loss and his evil minions, he learns three things: * the world is vicious, * magic is possible, * demons are real. He thinks that he will never again witness such a terrible night of death and darkness. ...He is wrong.
Kim Rees became a translator for the glamorous jet-set lifestyle. So, five years later, shes not quite sure how she ended up in a basement flat in Cardiff translating German computer games in her dressing gown. Fortunately her mother has a plan to extract her from her marshmallowy rut: a trip to the magical isle of Capri. At first Kim refuses to wake up and smell the bougainvillea, but as she starts to succumb to the irresistible delights of cocktails on the terrace and millionaire suitors, shes surprised to realise shes changing. And when she meets a man whos tiramisu personified, she finds herself falling in love. But how far is she prepared to go to win her Romeo?
Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they've had enough crap boyfriends and they're ready for crap husbands - all they have to do is find them. So where better than Las Vegas itself, where the air is 70% oxygen and 30% confetti? But as they abandon their increasingly complicated lives in sleepy Devon for the eye-popping brilliance of Las Vegas, their groom-grabbing plan starts to look less than foolproof. And those niggling problems they thought they'd left behind - like Izzy's fiancé and the alarming reappearance of Jamie's first love - just won't go away...
In der Lagunenstadt Venedig dreht sich alles um die trauernde Giulietta, die von vielen umworben wird. Tycho, enttäuscht von ihrer Zurückweisung, plant die Stadt zu verlassen, bis die geheimnisvolle Rosalyn erscheint und den Wettstreit um Venedigs Zukunft neu entfacht.