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Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And then Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift"....

Something ancient and evil has awoken from beneath the world of Erdas. Shrouded in shadow and older than memory, just a sliver of its power can destroy with a touch. Even the spirit animal bond, the sacred link between humans and animals that keeps Erdas in balance, is under threat.

Cass (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob) is in Paris, where Cass’s parents are filming their show about the world’s most haunted cities. Sure, it’s fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there’s true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs. When Cass awakens a frighteningly strong spirit, she must rely on her still-developing skills as a ghost hunter - and turn to friends both old and new to help her unravel a mystery. But time is running out, and the spirit is only growing stronger.

Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while traveling for her parents' TV show. But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colorful, grisly local legends. And the city's biggest surprise is a foe Cass never expected to face: a servant of Death itself.

Aria Blue seems like an ordinary 12-year-old. She loves music, and colorful shoelaces, and taste-testing various types of cookies. But there is much more to Aria than meets the eye. She can use her shadow like a door to travel from place to place. She can dream things into existence. And she can see when certain people need help. Because Aria is a guardian angel. Her mission? To find and guide three different girls - Gabby, Caroline, and Mikayla - through their different problems. If she succeeds, Aria will earn her wings.

Dunkle Tunnel, mysteriöse Unfälle, eine Stadt voller Geister. Cassidy Blake (und ihrem Geisterfreund Jacob) bleibt keine Zeit, sich von den Ereignissen in Edinburgh zu erholen, denn die Geister-Fernsehshow ihrer Eltern führt sie direkt zum nächsten Drehort: nach Paris. Klar macht es Spaß, Croissants zu essen und den Eiffelturm zu erklimmen, doch tief unter der Stadt wartet in den Katakomben auf Cassidy eine besonders unheimliche Gefahr.

Monster, Monster, klein und groß, werden dich packen und lassen nicht los. Der Gesang der Kinder in den Straßen ist verklungen. Verity City ist zerstört. Jede Nacht werden weitere Monster geboren. Aber Kate und August kämpfen unerbittlich. Sie haben beschlossen, keine Angst mehr zu haben. Da erhebt sich eine mächtige Kreatur: Sie ernährt sich von den verdunkelten Herzen der Menschen. Und sie wächst und wächst.

"Dieses wilde, wilde Lied: Monsters of Verity" ist der Auftakt einer neuen Urban Fantasy-Reihe, in der die Grenzen zwischen Moral und Sünde verschwimmen. Auf mitreißende Weise erzählt New York Times-Bestsellerautorin Victoria Schwab von einer düsteren Zukunft, in der Monster aus uns Menschen entstehen und uns die eigenen Abgründe aufzeigen. Die perfekte Lektüre für Fans von Cassandra Clare und Maggie Stiefvater! In der geteilten Metropole Verity City herrscht ein erbitterter Kampf ums Überleben. Denn jede neue Gewalttat der Menschen bringt leibhaftige Monster hervor, welche nachts den Bewohnern der Stadt auflauern.