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When Alex joins Gamemakers Online, she finds there are no newbie areas, no tutorials, and nothing but vicious critters hunting her down. This seems like an impossible task, but Alex is a veteran platinum achievement hunter who has solved previously unwinnable scenarios. She won't give up now. As she delves deeper into the game, she discovers it hides sinister secrets. If she can't survive the first year in Gamemakers Online, then she'll lose more than her own life.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to sipping merlot... surprise! The Backside of Forty uncorked a peaceful wine-tasting weekend only to be poured into a multi-car pileup in a blizzard. So much for a relaxing girlfriends' getaway... Before you can say "cabernet", Fiona, Violet, and Aislinn stumble upon a corpse buried in the snow, and it's buzzing with that unmistakable eau de supernatural. Turns out, the scenic village is more crime scene than picture postcard, with ritualistic killings that make ordinary weekend plans look downright boring.

A sarcastic heroine. A celestial wolf. A shadow hound. A deadly new world where survival means adapting or dying trying. Mara Fiorenza thought the end of Earth was the end of her story. Instead, she wakes in a LitRPG world where forests breathe, shadows whisper, and monsters see her as a snack with legs. Her DNA is rewritten, her once-normal dogs have become bonded familiars, and survival means mastering a game-like system of magic, stats, and spells she never believed in.

When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of her grandmother’s village on the edge of a forest, where she lives a solitary life of herbal...

Once upon a time, villagers would whisper their desires to The Book of Fortunes, and its pages would reveal how to obtain them. All was well until someone used the book for evil. Afterward, the branches of the Forest Grimm snatched the book away and the village withered. The villagers tried to make amends with the forest, but every time someone crossed its border, they never returned. Despite the warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on the journey into the deadly forest to procure the Book of Fortunes – to reverse the curse and save her mother and village.

A new threat stirs in the depths of the Great Western Forest. The largest Beast Wave to ever occur hit Craesti while Aiden was visiting Innovation City. Only extreme measures kept Aiden’s city from being overwhelmed. With the war in Illyria drawing away the majority of Craesti’s military might, Aiden and his team will have to step up to fill the gap. One of the powers of the Great Western Forest, Atzi the Water Waz, remembers Aiden’s ability to find his hidden grotto. Atzi requests Aiden’s help to explore the Forest and find the cause of the Corruption that triggered the Beast Wave.

A land in chaos. A city in ruins. Finn must reach the place where it all began, her peaceful meadow in Greenswallow, hoping to set right the wrongs of her past. Traveling forward blindly, she only wants to retrieve her memories and help Iseult, but little does she know, the fate of men and Faie alike hangs by a string, ready to be plucked by her fingers alone.

Alayiakal, who will one day be known by many names—not all of them flattering—has to climb the ranks of Cyador's Mirror Lancers, fighting against unforeseen weapons and ancient technology. Alayiakal, however, has secrets of his own to protect: his ties to the Great Forest and his magus abilities. He must silently pretend to be a conventional soldier favored by fate—until that very same fate forces him to choose.

One missing human, three meddling fairies, and one introverted gnome wrapped up in a cozy fantasy. One gnome's peaceful existence gets complicated... after three sisters involve him in a murder mystery.

Jamie Blake had life figured out. Parties were easy. Dating was easier. Success came naturally. Then he woke up in Eldara. A living, breathing fantasy world where levels matter, monsters don’t respawn politely, and death is permanent. Worse —Jamie isn’t even himself anymore. Trapped in a body the world insists is a princess, Jamie is forced to survive in a land that judges strength by stats and respect by power. Fortunately, Jamie didn’t lose the one thing that always mattered: his mind.

Rupert didn't especially want to be a prince. And he certainly never asked to be the second son of a royal line that really didn't need a spare. So he was sent out to slay a dragon and prove himself — a quest straight out of legend. But he also discovered the kinds of things legends tend to leave out, as well as the usual demons, goblins, the dreaded Night Witch — and even worse terrors hidden in the shadows of Darkwood.

The surprising history of Balif has finally come to light.... The Journeyman is charged to use the ancient Anvil of Time to travel back along the river of time and find the lost stories that fell between the pages of the history books. One of the most intriguing figures in Dragonlance is that of Balif, the elven general who was an intimate of Silvanos, the first Speaker of the Stars. Balif founded the city of Balifor, granted the kender a homeland, was an advocate for the wizard Vedvedsica, lived under a curse, was altered by the Graygem - but no one elf could do all those things. Or could he?

When Rob of Loxley finds an injured nobleman’s son in the forest, neither he nor his sister Marion understand what befriending young Gamelyn could mean for the future of their beliefs. Already the ancient spirits of the Old Religion are fading beneath the iron of nobleman’s politics and the stones of church subjugation. More, the druid elders warn that Rob and Gamelyn are cast as sworn adversaries, locked in timeless and symbolic struggle for the greenwood’s Maiden.

It has been decades since the Magi waged war with the most powerful weapons in the human realm, amulet stones fueled by Elvin souls, each stone more terrible than the last. So what could a sorcerer do if he was able to combine their powers? In order for Prince Tallen to prevail against such a threat he must find out who is stealing Tallenfolk from their beds and secure the help of new allies, assuming he can convince them his purpose is true.

In the shadowed wilds of the Sunlands, the forest does not forgive mistakes. And it never forgets them. Dannel, a solitary Forester haunted by the death of his Guide, hunts the monsters and giant beasts to protect his people. But when the Lord's law is broken, he faces a choice that will set him...

Book two in the Hellmervick saga and book three in the Black Forest. See dragons burn Spain to the ground, see knights clash in modern times, see the Jester go crazy.

Aiden hadn’t ever felt like he belonged anywhere. Instead, he would lose himself in fantastical worlds within his wild imagination about mischievous fae, daring adventurers, and heroic champions come to save the day. Anything that would allow him to escape from his mundane life and the struggles he faced. Then one day, stricken with curiosity, Aiden ventures into the clutches of an alluring forest, only to become lost in a sea of endless trees. With no hope of escape, he is rescued by a high-spirited girl who shows him that some of his wildest imaginings were, in fact, real all along.

Verngaurd’s soil, already drenched in blood from civil war, hungrily awaits more as hordes of Dark Warriors invade in unimaginable numbers. Every realm must shake loose and empty the dusty corners of their lands for any and all remaining warriors in anticipation of the upcoming battles set to determine the fate of the world. Even if the League completes their quest, how can they survive friend and foe moving to surround them, intent on stealing the source of magic?

A sinister presence has reawakened in the forest, and the mystical felines who once guarded the woods cannot stand against the supernatural wolves sent by a dark being known as the Shadow. Crox and his loyal feline companion, Jax, are called upon to fight this evil force once again. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of their past, they discover something even more terrifying than they could have imagined: a portal to another dimension has been reopened.

Three thousand years from now, civilization regresses into a primitive society where machines are gods. Sana, the chief’s daughter, spends her day fending off her father’s pleas to join the ladies at court. She wants nothing to do with court, preferring a warrior’s life. Sana loses everything to King Shunlin’s ruthless greed after a vicious attack against her tribe. Lurking in the darkness, far more sinister schemes are about to unfold. The king wishes to awaken Abaddon, the sleeping god, who is responsible for nearly ending human civilization.