Time is running out for Jane and her team. Mr Bone, their former employer and founder of The Frontier, has got what he wanted, and now he can put his dark plans into action. Their union will be their strength, but is such a notion even possible as the masks come off and the past inexorably catches up with the members of their group? The bandits’ honor is a legend they’ll have to overcome to write their own… or simply survive.
Eigyr
Fifth-century Great Britain. After centuries, the Romans have withdrawn from the island. Saxons have arrived from the European mainland, some of the native Britons have been Christianized, and others have maintained their pagan ways. The great wizard Merlin has fallen on the field of battle, and soon thereafter a prophecy—or a rumor—begins to circulate: Merlin will be reincarnated in a newborn. The hunt is on for the baby whose promised greatness would disrupt the power-grabbing plans of the different peoples. The pregnant Eigyr becomes the prey, and with the help of an archer and a priest, she must try to stay alive long enough to deliver destiny.
Sur la piste des Anciens
In 1863, during the Civil War, Terence Jackson becomes the first African-American captain in the Unionist army. His first mission: to accompany a scientist who is searching for the remains of an ancient tribe of giants deep in Confederate territory. Their guide is Laurence Beckwing, a native of this wild and mountainous country, where the Confederates are not the only danger that awaits them…
Le Voyage vers le Sud
In the heart of the Forest of Time, the village children thought they’d spend eternity studying under the Venerable. But then the unthinkable happened: a thief broke into the village, the crystal was broken and… For Théo, this story is like déjà vu! If he could just remember what happened, he could change the course of events. An accident. A detail. This time, it’s Max who stays in the village and Miléva who takes the lead. And everything becomes possible again…
Contre les machans
Life still sucks, but Billie can now count on the active support of Marto, her best and most monstrous friend. Of course, the school bullies cry harassment and the adults cry imaginary friend. But Billie can’t be frightened by a school shrink! Unfortunately for her, adults have many other tricks up their sleeves. So when the things get really tough, there’s only one solution: Bang bang!
Les nouveaux Russes
The 1990s, in the heart of Russia.
No one heard from Lavrine since his heated confrontation with Slava.
If he can’t be found, it’s because he’s been abandoned by Troubetskoï in a remote outpost, two fingers amputated and penniless.
Mired in his solitude, Lavrine is a shadow of his former self. If he manages to bamboozle the good souls who offer him help, his heart is no longer in it. He’s lost the appetite for gain and swindling that always served as his reason for living… Will he find the breath he needs to finally reveal himself?
As for Slava, he’s more focused on his clandestine passion for Nina than on concluding the deals he’s initiated with Troubetskoï to save the mine. He has to redouble his ingenuity to prevent Arkady, his impetuous lover’s fiancé, from discovering their romance…
The second volume in Pierre-Henry Gomont’s tragicomic trilogy, in which the author depicts, with his characteristic verve and talent, the troubled destiny of this Slavic duo, colorful and endearing.
Le Souffle des choses
Once, people had roads, cars, tanks, electric scooters, espresso machines, fridges, and toasters. Then, one Thursday (or was it Friday?) a century or two ago, the Great Mist swept them all away, wiped them out, swallowed them up and spewed out monsters that devoured everyone that might have survived, except Temperance—a tiny troll who was rescued by the witch known as Grisette the Reaper and taken to her village in the mountains. There, the girl lives peaceably among all the old witches, who consider themselves protected by Grisette’s magical powers. Until one day, when the terrible Mist finally descends on the village and carries off the weakest of witches.
Forced by the resulting animosity, Temperance is determined to solve the mystery of the Great Mist. Accompanied by the caustic Asma, the bizarre Helen, the mischievous Ezilda, and her crotchety old grandma Grisette, young Temperance leaves the forest in search of human beings… if there are any left.
Aurora Crux
In the grip of a visceral anger, Vesper fights ardently to prevent her inner chimera from taking over her personality. The discovery of what remains of Prince Crimson Nyx, after the ordeal of the “deliverance of the martyrs”, breaks down the last ramparts of the rage she can no longer contain. Cornered by her darker side, Vesper summons the Archimerist, the demon who can bring anyone back to life.
Harlem – tome 2
The daring and secretive Stephanie St. Clair, known as Queenie, rules Harlem thanks to the underground lottery of which she is the mastermind. A lottery that offers hope of a better life to the community of this poor, socially ostracized neighborhood.
Both female and black, Queenie annoys not just the police, but also Dutch Schultz. This white mafioso does everything in his power to take over the Queen of Harlem’s flourishing business.
Menji et les ruines du Mont-Mystère
This is it! The long-awaited moment has arrived: the serpent-dragon has awakened!
And it was Menji who, with the help of his friends, managed to get his hands on this strange creature who thinks he’s his mother. But Menji is not out of the woods yet: the slimy emperor Raâna IV is determined to recover the dragon and use its powers to establish his domination over the archipelago.
