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Inexperienced but determined, the young scholar, Shannon, answers a call to heal a king wounded by dragons - and pokes her own head into a nearby dragon's lair. She finds an unexpected kindred spirit in Gnaw, a sarcastic dragon with his own agenda. With a crude knight fixing to lop off the dragon's head, Shannon works against her royal employer to keep Gnaw's head at the end of his neck, instead of displayed over the palace gate.

The Supervillain Rehabilitation Project is a character-driven, action-packed superhero series with light romantic elements, snarky humor, and a focus on family bonds.

Five hundred years ago, a band of adventurers known as the Roseguard defeated a powerful sorcerer named Belcorra Haruvex, foiling her plot to destroy the teeming metropolis of Absalom. But this victory came with a great sacrifice, and the surviving members of the Roseguard founded the town of...

A human woman destined for the lucrative meat market is saved by the very Attun trapper who captured her. Ekkatt seeks absolution for his many sins while Mari must deal with her own inner turmoil. After all, she's sleeping with the enemy. Everywhere the couple turns death awaits, either at the hands of law enforcement or the religious authorities. In this far distant corner of the galaxy, despite the dangers posed by the journey, Mari and Ekkatt search the wilderness of Attun-Ra for a rumored sanctuary. They have no other choice.

Once a villain, always a villain? Optimistic and idealistic superhero Prism is determined to redeem her father’s legacy by rebooting his super villain rehabilitation program. To do so, she sets her sights on Fade, the relapsed super villain who was the reason the government canceled the original program in the first place. However, when she petitions for Fade to be released into her custody, she finds out things might not be as simple as she thought.

Four young lives now have to choose where they belong. To choose what and who they will fight for. Because no matter where they turn, the legacy of the past is inescapable. The Newlands already has settlers. The Outlands has a new leader. And danger has arrived in Askala. Hawk, Sam, Mercy, and Luca must work together or be swept away by a world even more divided than themselves. As the fight for survival becomes a fight for the future, as hearts yearn and secrets are protected, loyalties will be tested.

A collection of three short stories devoted to the love of cats...and love itself. Cap Plays Cupid, Whisker Width, and The Unfinished Business of Mystie Whiskers. Purrfect tails for the cat lover and hopeless romantic.

In Gelia City, magic is music: a constant ever-changing melody known as the strains. Hereditary ability to use the strains divides the city into two classes: the wealthy Highmost, who can access the full potential of the strains, and the common tradesmen, who are limited to mundane spells, known as beggar magic. With the help of the strains, common teen Leilani rescues and befriends a gifted Highmost girl, Zebedy.

The survivors at Whitaker Estate are still reeling from the vicious attack on their community, which left three of their friends dead. When the mysterious newcomer Alaina Renato reveals there is a traitor in their midst, it threatens to tear the community apart. Is there truly a traitor, or is Alaina playing them all?

Cassia must grapple with the secrets of her past—before the king puts an end to her future. Cassia is a young healer gifted with miraculous powers at the cost of her early memories. In the face of a corrupt king who threatens her village and family, Cassia joins a band of rebel peasants, impersonating a noblewoman to infiltrate the palace with Guy, her protective and handsome new friend. However, their plot does not end as planned, and she ends up captive to the domineering ruler. King Peter seems like a man who cannot be changed.

In the Valley of the Oaks, seventy-two young women are chosen as Princesses. Every Friday at sunset they sing to the Great Oak. Their voices are the only thing standing between the valley and the Vanishers, who come on the winds twice a year and take whatever they please. A clock. A child. A husband. Whatever will break you. Hawthorne Arden has been a Princess for four years. Then the Vanishers take her song voice, and she’s known all along what that valley does to those the song cannot protect.

Hidden in Jesse's basement is a room the adults can't see, and leading from the room is a massive tunnel. With the help of his new friend Jake, Jesse soon discovers the truth. Ambyth, an eternal city of teenagers, is anything but a safe place for Jesse and Jake to be. Together they must overcome the evil that Jesse's house has been hiding for decades.

Their society was meant to mold human evolution. Their future, and that of Earth, was to be decided by the kindest and smartest. Askala was supposed to be a beacon of hope in a flooded, desecrated world. Except the line between the Bound and Unbound is blurring. The Outlands is no longer some distant, faceless world. And the Remnants have a leader who knows more about them than any Remnant before. In a world devastated by global warming, the fight for survival has always been deadly. Now, the battle for Askala is about to define the very future of humanity.

The Deveraux line is famous...for a family curse. The rich must marry the poor or lose their prosperity. Peter Baring is the last of the Deveraux and sinking slowly into poverty. But will marriage to his icy business partner save him? Beatrice Nottham dreams of leaving Earth for a fresh start. But only married couples are allowed to move off-world. Marrying a man she’s unsure she loves will solve that problem...but at what cost?

Okay, I am finally...officially 17. Now, I want to hear all the family secrets. I looked at them. All of my family looked at me like I had hit the nail on the head. Wait, there really is a family secret?

Ready for a sweet romance with just kisses? Alison is turning 17, which isn't a big deal unless you were born a Storyteller. When a Storyteller turns 17, their powers kick in and every story they tell will come true. The only problem is Alison is about to face the biggest challenge of her life. There is a catch to keeping her story powers she has a Storyteller soulmate. Each couple must spend a year in the village of Angeline to keep their powers, or they will lose them forever.

Every storyteller has a soul mate who is also a storyteller. I froze. I looked at Conrad...then at the ground. I thought about what he just said and I looked back at him. “The only other storyteller that I've met is you.” I told him carefully. He nodded. I shook my head no. He nodded again. “Oh.” I winced and sat back in my seat and looked straight forward. “So you're saying...?” “Yeah.” Conrad nodded.

Crippled by a fear of firearms, James Cowper is rejected by the draft during the Great War. For this, the villagers mark him as a cowardly pariah. Cruelly shamed by them, James attempts a desperate deed by the tombstone of the village's most famous lady, Georgia Palmerton, also known as the Stoweham Ghost.

In his first year with the Department of Super-Abled, Shawn Park, a.k.a. Surge, has two goals: to prove to his team leader that he can fight villains with the best of them and to find the perfect way to propose to his girlfriend, Katie. When a teammate ends up dead with evidence left behind pointing to Shawn's involvement, Shawn's perfect life is knocked for a loop. On the run from his own agency as well as villains, Shawn must prove his innocence or lose his ideal future — and maybe his life.

Three tales - one past, one present, one future - explore what it is to love and just how far someone would go for the love of another.