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Nearly two decades after the fall, the transcendent city of Iris is the only place rumored to have a cure to the disease that decimated the world. Beyond Iris are the remnants of the old world, crawling with the Depraved. Infected with Lethe, they no longer remember the people or dreams they were once willing to fight for, and are left, instead, with familiar voices that whisper dark and unfamiliar words within their minds. Instinct is all that keeps the diseased struggling to exist another day.

Mountaintop, the last known refuge of humanity, faces a new cataclysm, and only exiled Icelyn Brathius can stop it. But to do so, she must give up all she loves and journey to an accursed, legendary tower in the middle of an unforgiving desert. Can she endure the nightmares and secrets she confronts - and accept what they teach her about herself?

Cormac’s adventure continues as he, Mal, and Kiera delve deeper into their roles as v-suit pilots. Warning: This novel contains graphic sex scenes and adult situations.

Cormac’s life used to be about racing hover cycles and partying on orbital stations. Fighting Syndicate sponsored assassins, uncovering ancient alien technology, and hiding his identity from Luna’s authorities are rather recent additions to his list of priorities. He’s not alone, but that doesn’t make his life any simpler. Kiera, the exotic Earth maiden more versed in shooting a bow on horseback than riding in the passenger seat of a speeder. Mal, his childhood friend turned famous linestream actress. Nova, the cyborg killer who knows far more than she’s letting on.

Lee’s time at Primhaven has finally come to an end. With his former friend and lover Eliza, now a looming threat to the supernatural world, he’s forced to make a deal with the infamous Dealmaker to have any hope at brokering a resolution. Though, the price may in fact be higher than he’s willing to pay. A new incident puts him undercover and at odds with old friends.

Back at Primhaven, Lee returns to the rhythm of life as an initiate mage. With Genevieve Laughton now serving as the school's Interim Lead Instructor, the rules and boundaries he'd grown so accustomed to ignoring are no longer so easily dismissed. The arrival of a new threat on Primhaven's doorstep also leaves Lee and friends contending with the frozen aftermath of one of Shay Morrigan's ancient enemies.

Christina Creangle stared at the smoldering ruins of her life's work. When the Moufan, an ancient secret society, offered to take care of her senile father as repayment of an old debt, she agreed. The idea of isolation with both her protege and her legendary inventor father was too compelling to question. But the winds of history are blowing fierce after the first airship battle, spreading radical ideas to the ambitious and the fearful.

Eldon Brock goes about his normal life feeling as though a word, or perhaps a name, is on the tip of his tongue. When a hallucination claiming to be a ghost who knows "who he really is" begins stalking him, he's left with an interesting question. Has he lost his mind, or just begun to find it?

With Primhaven under relentless assault by a stream of dangerous specters, Lee Amaranth is back to doing what he does best. It’s no small feat to defend the school while simultaneously staying on top of his studies, but with Tess’s help and a bit of nightly effort, he manages...for a while. A new teacher with an uncanny eye for detail. An old friend with a growing sense of suspicion. A test he didn’t study for. As Lee’s challenges pile up, he’s forced to get creative.

After forming a pact with the ghost of a former student, Lee Amaranth has gained a limited amount of spellcasting ability. It’s anyone’s guess how far three spells per day will take him. Now that he’s serving as an apprentice to Harper, his sister’s former lover and the school’s resident ice queen, the expectations on him are higher than ever. The mystery of what happened to Zoe remains at the forefront of Lee’s mind. When new clues start turning up, he follows them, regardless of where they lead. 

Lee Amaranth is a mystic, not a mage. In fact, he’s never cast a spell in his life...With his sister missing, however, he has no choice but to go on a search that leads him to the locked gates of Primhaven University, a school forbidden to those untouched by arcane potential...Luckily, if he plays his cards right, he might just have some help. It’s up to Lee to decide who to place his trust in as he formulates a plan to fake his way through classes and exams.

Seventeen-year-old Lisa Jacobs is determined to solve her father's gruesome murder. But before she can investigate in her own small town, she is forced to spend the summer with her Uncle Clayton, the owner of Grand Hallow - a massive funeral and mortuary operation the size of a small city. Her move to Grand Hallow only deepens the mystery as she begins to suspect the strange and chilling occurrences there are linked to her father's death. With the help of her acid-tongued best friend and deadbeat brother, Lisa must unravel the secrets of Grand Hallow - before it's too late.

What if a viral pandemic put women in charge of the planet? Athena Vosh lives just like any other teenager from the year 2099. She watches reality shows with her friends, eats well, and occasionally wonders to herself: What would life be like if men were still alive? It has been almost 50 years since an experimental virus accidentally killed all the men on earth. However, a controversial project is currently underway to bring men back. There's just one catch. The project has been sabotaged.

Three lost souls will collide as they navigate through a mysterious town saturated with ash raining endlessly from the sky. They soon discover that they are not alone and will have to work together in order to escape alive. As they uncover clues scattered through the town they will have to decide which is more horrifying, themselves or those who are hiding within the ashes. Heaven is forgetting; hell is remembering.

Follow a billionaire and his supposedly dead wife as they journey through the apocalypse where many people have developed extraordinary abilities in this new pause-resisting adventure romance series.

Homo vigilis. Vigils. A new human species that does not need any sleep to live. Vigils never need to rest, they never feel tired and as opposed to the Sleepers - ordinary humans - they don’t tend to get sick. In addition, their sense of smell is perfect. They appear to be flawless, there´s nothing lacking…maybe except for the inability to dream. But who needs dreams for their everyday lives? A book about imagination being stronger than all knowledge, about dreams being more powerful than reality.

In a hilarious reinvention of classic children’s books characters, this is a tale of a singular family tree from a forest in the Land of Oz that is cut down and carved by a sculptor into wooden puppets and candlesticks. The wooden puppets speak and behave as real children, but the parents, who are made into self-lighting candlesticks, are unable to walk on their own. Enter an unscrupulous pair of characters who, realizing the enormous worth of these rare, beautifully carved candlesticks, kidnap them.

For 17-year-old Candra Lowell, senior year is supposed to be the time of her life. It’s not supposed to include being shipped off to her aunt and uncle’s house for "her own good". At her aunt and uncle's house, Candra is plagued with nightmares of a whispering forest and glowing eyes, as well as a shadowy figure who issues a warning - she needs to leave town. Candra tries to dismiss the haunting images, but when the shadowy figure appears outside of her home, Candra realizes she should've obeyed.  

With dogged determination and heroic bravery, Toto defended Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion against countless enemies while overcoming perplexing obstacles as he steered the way through one perilous adventure after another in the dark and dangerous Land of Oz. At least that is how Toto interprets his role in the adventures with Dorothy.

A book about imagination being stronger than all knowledge, about dreams being more powerful than reality. Homo vigilis. Vigils. A new human species that does not need any sleep to live. Vigils never need to rest, they never feel tired, and as opposed to the Sleepers - ordinary humans - they don't tend to get sick. In addition, their sense of smell is perfect. They appear to be flawless, there's nothing lacking...maybe except for the inability to dream. But who needs dreams for their everyday lives?