Books like Magic at the Crossroads (Dark Hearts) by Daniel Parker

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

Kell, a rare Red Traveler who can slip between parallel Londons, is pulled into a perilous adventure when a cutpurse named Delilah Bard joins him on a mission across magic‑filled worlds.

In the chilling third entry of the Dollanganger saga, half‑brothers Jory and Bart navigate jealousy, a new family secret, and a mysterious old neighbor, all while the family's dark past looms.

Psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey must return to the rain‑slick streets of Los Angeles after her husband is found murdered, only to discover her long‑missing daughter may be trapped in a hostile, brain‑washing lab.

In Fear Street Super Chiller – Dead Lifeguard, the young lifeguards at North Beach Country Club dismiss tales of a curse, only to find the deaths coming true one by one.

A French bride becomes a zombie at her 1938 carnival wedding in Jacmel, Haiti, where mystic potions, sorcery, and legends collide, challenging notions of race and sexuality amidst Caribbean magic.

In Berkeley, California, private eye Papa LaBas investigates the death of gumbo shop owner Ed Yellings, confronting Voodooist Oklahoma, militant opportunists, and California politics in a satirical 1960s detective tale.

When Emmy’s new doll gains strange powers, it threatens to control the friendship between Emmy and her best friend Liz, who are drifting apart in seventh grade.

Ages ago, when the First Gods ruled heaven and earth, they created two lesser deities to reign along with them. But these gods, Tharn and Balatur, were flawed. Their madness threatened creation itself -- and thus they were condemned to an eternal sleep. Only an ancient book of spells holds the key to their release.Now an evil necromancer has obtained the book and hastens to Tharn's hidden resting place with a plan as deadly as the god himself. Ancient prophecy points to the exiled prince Calandryll as the only one who can defeat the wizard -- aided by a beautiful warrior woman, a hard-bitten mercenary, and Calandryll's own uncertain powers.But first Calandryll and his companions must travel a kingdom racked by civil war, cross the rolling prairie of the fierce horse clans, and finally venture into the forbidden wastes and uncharted territories beyond. Enemies and foul treachery await, while the mighty Tharn, as if somehow aware of his imminent release, begins to stir...begins to dream...and all creation begins to quake.Dark Magic is the masterful second chapter of The Godwars, a stirring chronicle of high adventure by one of the most exciting new writers of fantasy.From the Trade Paperback edition.