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What do an intergalactic art thief, a snarky AI, and a sexy protestor have in common? It’s up to them to save the universe! Mathia thinks stealing Princess Rosalie’s spaceship will lead to a peaceful protest.

Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz has vowed to bring the Villalobos crime family to justice, but when a wave of violence in the city escalates, she is forced to confront her darkest fear. Adolfo Villalobos is a crime boss who's determined to stake his claim. To prove that he's ready to run his family's sprawling criminal empire, he devises a plan to silence his siblings and destroy Veranda, leaving a trail of destruction through downtown Phoenix that makes national headlines.

I always knew I’d marry Simon. We may not love each other, but as my father’s sole heir, a union with Simon will ensure our family’s fortunes remain safe. Only there’s nothing safe about the man standing opposite me on the altar. This man speaks words of love and passion. Words I know Simon would never say. Then my groom kisses me, and my world breaks apart.

Luna McGraw struggles to conquer the addictions that destroyed her marriage and caused her to lose custody of her beloved daughter, Joy. After eight years, Joy is back and Luna aims to rebuild everything that fell apart. She has a therapeutic job as a florist, a loving mother’s support, and a new man in her life who makes Luna feel things she’s been afraid to feel since forever.

Marriage and children aren’t in the cards for family law expert Georgina Swofford, but that didn’t stop her from butting in just enough to ensure her friends from The Homegrown Café Book Club found their "happily ever after". Hers will have to be fake - with the man she almost bankrupted in divorce court five years ago.

Claire, like everyone else in Mega City Houston, believes she and her husband are free. They live normal lives, going to work and coming home to their giant apartment complex. But when a devastating hurricane sweeps through Mega-City Houston, it leaves behind an item from another city that shows maybe things aren’t as them seem.

Paranormal Private Investigator (PI), Rayne Martin races against the clock to solve a case that is becoming more complicated by the moment. What started as a simple missing grimoire and stolen ancestral necklace has now morphed into a potentially debilitating new reality for magic users. Now, young women are missing. Others are turning up stripped of their magic and raving about monsters. Stealing magic once seemed inconceivable, but it is now a very real threat. It’s up to Marty to find out who is stealing magic.

Anna's perfect life has become a category 5 disaster. A hurricane destroying her home is only the beginning of Anna's troubles. Her ex Eric plasters private photos of her on billboards all over the city and across the internet. The backlash against her makes the storm look tame: She's suspended from her job. Her current boyfriend dumps her. The cops blame her for the pictures. Her friends vanish.

A creepy boss and men who steal my work send me running to IEP and away from science. I want a new life, and I’m going to another planet to find one. One rule: no more science. But when I end up on Macros, nothing has changed, and I’m forced right back into the lab. I don’t want to be a biologist. And I refuse to fall for my boss. But Rahl is nothing like the guys back on Earth. Maybe, life on Macros is what I’ve been searching for, after all.

Freedom has been gained, but at a terrible cost. The price of chaos. When the Prophecy of Erinyes comes true, something worse than the Dark Fae enters the land. Maeve and her newfound friends prepare for war, with the hope that the celestials will fight with them. As Maeve braves one death defying situation after the other, she comes face to face with her own humanity and discovers what it means to let go of self-serving quests and become noble.

After journeying to the land of darkness and defeating the Necromancer, superhuman detective Isabella Espinoza faces danger once again. Now she and Amari must race back to their own world to warn people of the coming danger: a horde of new, terrifying monsters spilling across the portal. These creatures threaten to overwhelm the unprepared people in the nearby settlements just as Isabella’s old nemesis resurfaces. Camilla Arkwright plans to use these new monsters as a way to seize power over the remaining pockets of civilization in the area.

After superhuman detective Isabella Espinoza and smuggler Jack McCrae rescue Amari from a camp of slavers, she presents them a new case. Her own murder. Amari believes she was killed and resurrected by a mysterious figure known only as the Necromancer. As his first success, the Necromancer wants to recapture Amari, and he’ll stop at nothing until he has her.

Maggie Porter lives with her father, the town sheriff, and celebrates what is supposed to be an epic senior year with her best friend, Nancy. However, gang violence and high school drama become the least of their worries when members of the town, including her father, start getting threatening notes written in blood, and the person writing them is dead set on getting revenge. Pandora's box is opened, and lies that were told 40 years ago begin to unravel. And not even the dead can keep chaos from unfolding around them.

Alisha is the newest Talon of the Raptor Clan, mercenaries prized by rulers, nobles, and the wealthy as elite bodyguards. Her skill with a blade and her foresight won her a prized place as a Talon, but unlike other Talons, she has a unique magical sigil given to her by an unnamed goddess. Alisha's first assignment for the clan is guarding a spoiled young princess. Surrounded by dangerous plots, keeping the girl alive takes all of Alisha's guile.

The threat from the JPU has been eliminated and the empires should be at peace, but fractions within the SAS have revised old resentments against the Riss and Freeland. These anti-Riss groups have distorted the facts of the war with the JPU and dispute the Riss' right to quarantine JPU, insisting the SAS should have exclusive rights to the JPU and the Riss quarantined. While the SAS plots against the Riss, an alien force enters SAS space and is annihilating inhabitable systems.

With the galaxy-traveling aliens defeated, Nadya feels it's time that a new leader be appointed to guide the Riss into the future. At last, they have the freedom to explore the stars with their own navy and their own home planet of Freeland. In the process of defeating the aliens, a friendly alliance between the Sadr Alliance of Stars (SAS), the United Free Nations (UFN), and the Riss nation developed.

With invading aliens determined to confine humans to their planets, one thing is certain: the Aliens' force is technologically superior to the SAS, and even with the new Riss technology the clans have developed under Nadya Reese's supervision, the SAS cannot defeat them alone. But forging an alliance between the SAS, UFN, and JPU will not be easy. It will require the empires to put aside their long history of border wars and mutual dislike. Worse, many in the SAS hate Riss-humans, especially Nadya.

After a portal opens to spread darkness and monsters into the world, a bite transforms former Detective Isabella Espinoza into something both more and less than human. Things get worse when she returns home to discover her best friend has been intimidated into doing dangerous research on the creatures that now prowl the darkness.

After being devastated by the Dark Fae, Maeve is forced to continue working for them. Her newfound knowledge causes even more confusion and she’s haunted by nightmares that just might be from her past. But that isn’t her biggest problem. Maeve is left in orc territory and forced to trust two brothers she has an uncanny attraction to, even though they just might be her worst enemy. Along with a beast she should kill — but can’t bring herself to — Maeve’s adventures come to a startling twist when she reaches the kingdom where she was born.

To everyone’s astonishment, the party girl and can't-make-up-her-mind Megan not only survived the Hill, the name for the Kazak School, but loves her job and enjoys learning about the lives of the VIPs she is assigned to protect. The most exciting part is the cat-and-mouse game with the Assassins and terrorists intent on killing her clients. Megan the Wolf - sociable, sexy, sly, and lethal - is the newest Kazak Guardian.