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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.

Luz Concepcion returns to Guatemala to murder Martin Benavides, the man who destroyed her family. Benavides, who rose from insurgent fighter to president, controls a major drug network. The Guatemala contact for her mission is Evan McManus, an expat painter who pursues Luz, hoping to persuade her to model for him - and more. Complicating matters, Luz conceals from all sides her clandestine contact with her surviving cousin, Antonio Torres, a guerrilla leader fighting the government propped up by the Benavides and their drug money.

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.

Second law of the Valkyrie: Don't question the gods. Whelp, I broke another one. Questioning the gods is the least of my problems. Freya is about to flip her lid. Odin wants my man in his super army. And then, there's Heimdall, a gangster goddess with a gold grill for teeth who runs this swanky New York restaurant (which also happens to be the Bifrost).

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.

Lynn the Fox has been a Kazak for several years and thought she had seen it all. She was, after all, a Master Kazak having killed more than five Assassins - professional killers with wizard-like talents. But life is unpredictable and the unthinkable is about to happen. Events that will not only put her in unexpected danger but also threaten the existence of the Kazak organization.

Maeve of Carn is a warrior of warriors, but she’s no hero. Born with superhuman strength, she sells her abilities to mercenaries and warlords in exchange for wealth. Until the night of the full moon. In the midst of a raid, led by the warlord she just might be falling in love with, Maeve is taken by the Dark Fae. After leaving her to rot in the dungeon of the damned, they offer her a deal. Freedom. If she finds a divine relic rumored to have the power to break all curses.

Surviving the training program was dangerous - even the first challenge to gain entrance to the school could get you killed. But the training was the easy part. Staying alive afterward was the hard part. Kazaks guarded individuals whose lives were deemed critical to the security of the United States. As such, Kazaks attracted fanatics and the best professional assassins money could buy - liars who could tell lies you believed, ghosts who could become nearly invisible, and Illusionists who could appear to be anyone.

What would it be like to be able to tell any individual's future - everyone except your own? Reene sees it as an opportunity to help people and agrees to accept the legacy from her grandmother. Of course, the true extent of the gift must be kept secret or chance being enslaved and at the will of the government, criminals, or someone with money and power. Besides her best efforts, a mysterious group discovers her gift and decides she can help them attain their goal - one with global consequences.

Zenaida's father was murdered, leaving her alone in the outback of the civilized systems called the Rim. There, smuggling, bribes, and a Wild West "live-free-or-die" attitude prevails, and an eye-for-an-eye is the preferred method of retribution. For Zenaida, a child of the Rim, the death of her father requires retribution. But, she must first learn how to survive while trying to track down her snow leopard's stolen litter and her father's killers.

The first law of the Valkyrie is "Don't fall in love." I messed that one up...big time. I failed my sisters and fell in love with William Johnson. I've watched him for three lifetimes and a little piece of me broke every time I had to let him die. I paid the price for breaking the first law of the Valkyrie. I lost all the memories I had of Will. That's why Sam is keeping tabs on me. She's an ever-present shadow during my time at Mattsfield High. Sam is the perfect Valkyrie. Tall. Beautiful. Heartless.

What if an uncontrollable zombie outbreak took place in a world that contains vampires? In Dominion of the Damned, the vampires seize their chance to overpower humanity, herd them into labor camps, establish blood mills, and prevent the extinction of their only food supply. Hannah Jordan is a human survivor whose sole mission is to stay alive so she can prevent her orphaned baby brother from becoming monster food.