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Keiran of the Night Vale has staved off death for two thousand years. His mind and his magic remain as sharp as ever, but his body is old, worn out, and failing. What he needs is to reincarnate into a new, young body, and he bends his prodigious talents towards doing exactly that.

After a short-sighted endeavor, Maxis finds he has become a target of The Brotherhood of Cain—a violent gang led by a man renowned worldwide as The Grim Reaper. Luck appears to be on his side, however, as a girl with her own agenda comes to his aid. Together, they enter a three-way stalemate between the embodiment of death itself, a worldwide organization of religious zealots, and a woman who fancies herself a Goddess.

All Erevan wanted to do was to become a blacksmith and work in his father’s smithy, the Enchanted Forge, but sometimes fate has a different plan. After a tragic mistake, Erevan finds himself transported to the work camp in Altheria. To the nobility, it’s an island-bound rehabilitation complex run by a powerful warden and staffed with short-tempered guards. To the inmates, ‘Alty’ is really a massive, city-sized prison.

Keiran, millennia old archmage, has managed to successfully control the reincarnation cycle and retain all of his memories and skills. That’s about the only thing that’s gone right. Mana seems to have all but disappeared, and a cabal of mages from a nearby city have been using the villagers of his new home as a mana farm for their own purposes. How long was Keiran gone? Where did the mana go? Does it have anything to do with the missing moon from the sky or the bizarre loss of the written language from his first life? Why are the best mages on the level of bumbling apprentices?

With the awakening of the lich lord Ammun Nescect, Keiran must contend with his greatest challenge yet. His former apprentice, an archmage in his own right, stands between Keiran and his goals of tearing down the tower rooted in the world core itself.

There are no more answers to be found at home, and it’s time Keiran sees what’s out there with his own eyes. Armed with more mana than ever, he leaves his sanctuary to explore what’s left of the old kingdoms of the world and plumb their depths for lost secrets.

After the Heart of the Forest was destroyed, hope crumbled with it. Now, Erevan—blacksmith, exile, and reluctant hero—must journey through the ashes of his failing kingdom to reforge what was lost. But steel alone cannot stand against the tide of darkness.

Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them - and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

All I wanted was to finally say hi to my longtime crush. Instead, I slipped on a puddle of coffee and landed in the arms of Finn Reynolds—the infuriatingly charming newcomer in town. When I tried again, I got utterly tongue-tied. Now I’m blushing, flustered, and somehow caught in Finn’s ridiculous proposition. With plans to become our library’s next director, Finn has one major hurdle: winning over the standoffish locals. If I agree to shift popular opinion in his favor, he’ll become my personal dating coach.

I have two responsibilities as the new heir to the throne: Get married and ave babies. Sure, becoming queen one day is part of those new responsibilities, but as long as King Theo is in charge, I don't have to add a coronation to my list.

When Talin, a bullied outcast, unexpectedly plunges into the portal and is chosen to fill the long-vacant role of island Healer, the reluctant teen must make a difficult decision: accept his destiny, or let the power that comes with it fall into the evil hands of his rival, who believes he is the next Healer.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Lost to the Moon and experience the compelling world of The Mate Games: Pestilence.

Roslyn Blackthorne is dead. I should know, I watched it happen. My twin and I didn’t believe we’d ever meet our mate, and then she showed up in our bar, and the world as we knew it changed. Fate hadn’t been kind to us. Not once. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that we lost her as soon as we claimed her. I spent so much time worried about her manipulative demon, I didn’t anticipate it would be my own sordid past that killed her.

Journey with children, fae creatures, and gods alike as they navigate the joy of friendship, the struggles of finding identity, and the unclear pathways of strange new worlds. From best sellers to rising voices, 11 terrifically talented authors explore the many faces of whimsy and wonder, mischief and misdoings.

Once, I believed the planes between the witches' and warlock’s realms were separated by happenstance, like some sort of cosmic yin-yang. I was woefully naïve back then. The summer of my 24th birthday, the head of our coven made me a proposition. A 17-year peace deal is ending, and they must deliver a witch-bride to the warlock king in the parallel plane within six months’ time.

Everything is falling apart just as I thought it was coming together. The Mercer twins say I’m their mate. I believe them, even if I can’t let them claim me. No matter how badly my soul yearns to be theirs.

Assistant antique dealer by day, cat burglar by night, Sable Devereaux has lived in the shadows for years. With one final heist, she can walk away from a life of crime and open her own antique store, retiring to the quiet existence she has always dreamed of. But during her last theft, she witnesses a murder and goes on the run to escape the cross-hairs of some very powerful people.

When Michael “Sixx” Gentry lost control of the beast inside, he walked away from the best thing to happen to him in 500 years. Twenty-four years later, someone points out that Sixx has a doppelgänger. When he hears the man’s name, Sixx realizes 24 years too late that the best thing to ever happen to him had been pregnant with his son when he walked away.

Join a crew of rough spice traders aboard a Spanish ship supposedly bound for the legendary Spice Islands of the Far East in the year 1519. As their supplies run low, the crew is concerned and angry and, fearing death, wants to return to Spain. Yet their mad captain refuses to retreat, sparking unrest. Little does the crew know, the captain has discovered and is pursuing his true hidden desire: a mysterious island, revealed to him through the shimmering stars.

It was supposed to be the final mission. Seduce the physicist, acquire the information, delete the mark. But things do not always go according to plan. She has no name, only a number: 22324. Trained from a young age to locate, seduce, and eliminate her targets, she’s one of the most successful assassins doing the bidding of the Agency. But this mark is different. For the first time, she’s met someone that sees her mind as well as her body. Someone whose touch she not only feels but longs for.