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When I said I wanted an adventure, maybe I should’ve been a bit clearer.... See, I imaged a Harry Potter or Disney-style adventure. You know, the kind that comes with plenty of fun, romance, and the promise of a happy ending. Instead, my adventure is looking like something out of Game of Thrones. My Shade-filled dreams have been replaced with a recurring nightmare, and there’s a random banshee seemingly haunting my and Willa’s house. Just when I think nothing else could happen, Shade literally drops through my roof with not-so-good news.

Portal jumped to an island in a mysterious realm, Elara's life is saved by Prince Kage, who gets shot in the midst of his valiant efforts. Consciousness slipping, his fading words to her are to find the magical flower that can save him. Between the foreign terrain and a growing mountain of enemies, Elara faces crushing obstacles. Things are made far worse by her suppressed abilities and increasingly complicated feelings for the prince.

I’ve finally found my family. Some blood. Some chosen. They’ve stood by my side through everything, never faltering. But what I’ve feared has finally come to pass—my love for them has made them targets. The vampires have taken Cian, and new powerful threats are rising from their ranks. Making matters worse, Dante’s secret has been revealed. The gods know he is really Hades, and they have seized him to unleash their vengeance.

Entrapped in her grief and sorrow, Lexi roams through life with no purpose. She has not been the same ever since an accident took away her high school boyfriend and soul mate. For a while, Lexi could still feel Matt with her and the dreams reassured her that they were still connected, but with time, the dreams started to fade and the pain of his absence deepened. She was convinced that he was gone, and with him, so was part of her soul, the part of her soul that had been imprinted by Matt.

Since the events of her uncle’s wake, things have only grown more complicated for Vexa. The new, uneasy alliance with Gwydion has given her, Cole, and Ethan a tentative hope for a way to break the curse that is slowly turning Ethan into a monster. Unfortunately, that hope is quickly dashed when Gwydion's twin and opposite Gilfaethwy escapes and steals an artifact of incredible importance.

When her parents' company fails, Alex Woods finds herself at the mercy of billionaire Harry Kerrington, who will bail them out but only at a cost. That price? Alex must agree to be engaged to Harry's playboy son for a period of three years. Three years to put her life on hold. Three years where she has to pretend. Three years she won't get back. Daniel isn't happy about the arrangement, either. But he's willing to make it work, to prove to his father that he's ready to run the company. And when the sparks do more than fly, Daniel will do anything to prove to Alex that he's worthy of her.

The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment.

Maria Reyes has fought all her life, to graduate high school on time, to go to college, to get the degree she's always wanted. Yet she still wants more; she wants to go back to school and become a nurse in order to help even more people and, to that end, she’ll show up at her ma and pa pharmacy job and get by day to day. At least she has her work wife, Kim, to help pass the time. So as the normal, typical boring day starts to take an odd, if not horror movie cliche, turn she can only grit her teeth and gear up for another fight. At least she won’t have to fight this fight alone.

In an attempt to save Tyler and Matt, Lexi has made a deal with Scarlett. Now, she is forced to return to a house full of enemies, and she must take part in Anne's twisted games in order to buy herself and her friends time to find a way to void Scarlett's deal, and to protect the ones she love as well as herself. Only this time, Tyler won't allow Lexi to stay at the house without one of his own there to protect her. As Anne takes advantage of Tyler's request to manipulate Loren and Lexi to be around each other, more about a distant past is revealed.

When fairy godmother Lilly Bloom gets her latest assignment, the rules send her into a minor panic attack. She must bring two people together—using as little magic as possible.

I sacrificed everything to end a war that was tearing my home apart. My reward? Being seen as an abomination in the eyes of the people I’d fought so hard to save. After centuries of isolation, I find myself thrust back into the chaos of life because my friends need me and I won’t let them down. Another war is brewing, and this one has the potential to destroy all the realms. But my past isn’t ready to let me go just yet. As I hunt for answers about what the exiled king is plotting in a foreign realm, two complications arise. One an ancient enemy who wants a piece of soul.

Vexa has entered the endgame with her lich ancestor, Aethon Tzarnavarus, and the prize for winning is the ability to determine the fate of the world. Only, Aethon’s targeting her family and Cole’s, and it’s only a matter of time before he takes everyone that they love from them. Ethan’s life under the werewolf curse, Cole’s trepidatious but precious love, and Gwydion’s immortal existence are all at stake, and the community Vexa’s built, the family she’s chosen for herself, may fall apart whether she survives to beat Aethon at the death game or not.

Vexa’s life has always been a bit unconventional, but things have recently taken a sharp right toward the ridiculous. Aethon, her 600-year-old ancestor, has the candle. Vexa's power is bound to it and though she survived, no one knows when he'll show up again to try and break the bond. With the help of rival necromancer Cole, Vexa races to master the powers she's suppressed most of her life. Abrasive and enigmatic, Cole makes her heart race for more than one reason. But Ethan, the gorgeous werewolf who helped her defeat Aethon initially, is in trouble.

After the events of the previous year, Rebecca’s obsession with revenge lures her down a dangerous path of dark magic. To honor Caden’s wish, Justin hunts for a way to protect her from herself.

As London is ravaged by a devastating curse which renders citizens all good or all bad, a mistake by one of the surviving PureHearts puts the whole group in danger, and thrusts Olivia Brown into a leadership position she neither wants nor thinks she can handle. Now, with the help of her loyal PureHeart friends, Olivia must learn to master the gift she possesses, whilst unraveling the mysteries of her past, to learn how to protect those left she cares about, and defeat the vengeful and deranged necromancer who cast the spell.

Vexa Tzarnavaras, funeral home assistant and amateur necromancer, is trapped within her own mind, isolated from everyone who cares about her, unable to help as Aethon, her 600-year-old power crazed ancestor, goes on a destructive rampage. Her lovers Ethan, the cursed werewolf, and Gwydion the exiled Unseelie Fae, worry for her; but only Cole, the once rival necromancer turned ally and lover, can reach her. But the intimacy of sharing minds, and the secrets he hides, makes him reluctant to give Vexa the support she needs.

Ellie Richmond has never been a particularly happy person. When her first vision of death happened at the age of four it was hard not to be jaded. After Ellie’s mom dies and her out of the picture dad shows up at her funeral claiming she’s in grave danger, things are going to go to a whole other level of weird. Even for for someone with Ellie’s abilities. Thrust into the world of angels and demons, Ellie will find herself in the midst the war to end all other wars and she’s the meat the dogs are fighting over.

I never imagined I’d see them fall. After attempting to negotiate peace only to be betrayed by the one woman who promised me everything, Asha, myself, and Commander Dubois’ daughter Mary-Anne are on the run. With nowhere to go but the outskirts of Austin, we flee to the wilds of Lago Vista, Texas in the hopes to find safety, but find only carnage in their wake. A full-scale assault on the planet Earth is beginning. Now in the middle of it all, we have only one choice: to join the revolution and fight for our planet’s safety.

I never expected to be abducted. But here I am, standing on board their ship, facing them down for the first time in my life, seeing the true face of the Earth’s invaders from another world. My task is simple: to act as Earth’s emissary and negotiate peace. But it is far more complicated than it seems. I know nothing of politics, and even little of persuasion, but I have no choice. I must do this to keep my friends, and my world, safe. I cannot afford to fail humanity.

In the whole of Teronda, there is said to be no viler creature than the dretchen. Short, white-skinned, with fearsome teeth and claws, all Day-loving people think they are the worst of the thinking folk, vanguard of the horde of Night-cursed beasts that gathers in the forest to destroy all that is good and pure.