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After accepting the responsibility of the Fated One quest, Aderyn, Owen, and their friends must travel north to the Repository, home to strange sources of knowledge. There, they will discover the next step on their adventure. It should be a straightforward journey, with no complications. But antagonistic traveling companions, an old man who knows more about Aderyn than he should, and countless vicious monsters stand in their way.

As the wife of the Fairytale Killer, Melissa is closing out a chapter of her life, one cloaked in horror and guilt. All she wants is to move on and put the past behind her. On leave from his role as a Guardian, an elite group of paramilitary hostage rescue specialists, CJ will finally witness the execution of the man who butchered his baby sister. As Melissa and CJ rebuild the pieces of their lives, a man with the blackest of hearts and an endless capacity to inflict pain changes everything.

11th-century North Africa. Kella is a girl disguised as a boy, traveling the trade routes and beating all comers in the camel races. When her true identity is revealed, she is sent home to the family desert camp to be taught women’s skills. But Kella yearns for her freedom and the excitement of life on the road, and when a mighty army sets out on a holy mission, she risks marriage to its general, Yusuf. While Yusuf conquers the whole of North Africa, Kella finds herself a rival to his infamous queen consort, Zaynab, a powerful and jealous woman.

In returning to the north, Aderyn leaves behind the horrors and personal nightmares she suffered in the Southlands. But going north has its own challenges, because the new Fated One’s Destiny quest says only that they must bring peace to the Northlands. With little information about this mysterious, uninhabited place, Aderyn’s imagination conjures up dread monsters, terrible environmental hazards, and dungeons no one has ever seen.

As a young boy, Gabriel Martinez had his family - his entire life - ripped away from him. Revenge and indignation became his means of survival. Several years later, a series of events leads him to his new family, the Kings of Retribution MC, where he meets Alba Jameson. Heartbreak being the final push, Alba chooses the life her sister worked so hard to give her by going off to college. While trying to bury her feelings for Gabriel, she finds herself faced with the unexpected. Finding strength and courage, she starts to pave her own path in life, until a faceless threat sends her home.

Can Aderyn stop a hidden danger before it destroys those she loves? The quest to discover the truth about the legendary Fated One has taken Aderyn and her friends across a continent and back. They’ve faced monsters, evil humans, and dungeons that nearly destroyed them. Now, they’re ready for something different. A chance meeting with Aderyn’s brother brings them to the city of Finion’s Gate to compete in the Glory Games, where Owen fights a series of duels and the others compete in tiny dungeons, all for the applause of the crowd.

June's got a pretty easy job as the personal assistant to her twin brother, star of the number one nature show on TV. Then he's accused of murder. Which sucks. Networks tend to fire first and ask questions later. And June doesn't want to lose her cushy assistant job. Or, you know, see her twin end up in jail. When she stumbles onto a clue, she's forced to turn to the only person who can prove her brother's innocence: her arch nemesis. Just one problem. Somebody wants him dead.

Dionne Archer is a regular high school girl. For her sixteenth birthday, though, she was gifted a strange mirror and a family secret that would change her life. Faced with new magical powers, Dionne must now team up with others like her to fight the organization known as the Lords of Chaos and keep them from achieving their goals.

Destiny is a strange thing. Changing our life paths dramatically with every twist and turn. Nothing held more true for Captain Kari Hanley. With a mission to complete and people to save, she won’t let destiny stop her. One way or another she will finish what she started. Returning home poses all new problems, putting lives in danger, and causing secrets to be revealed. When an odd ship appears, seemingly out of nowhere, research reveals Captain Kari may have just found the solution to a burning problem her team is facing.

Follow Jareth for the first year after the end of the Baltin Trilogy. From his perfect hideaway on Earth to Rularran, the newly-terraformed city on Mars, Jareth is determined to ruthlessly protect his family from every possible threat.

When Tyran III explodes into cosmic rubble, Dogan MacRae, human and Kereth, a golden Tyran are flung into the vastness of space. After a journey of many weeks, their small scout ship is wrecked against the cliffs of Culdara. Kereth is injured and Dogan, exhausted from carrying her to a safe place find refuge in a small cave. When Dogan is attacked by a cliff panther, he manages to kill the animal with his last bit of strength then collapses beside Kereth in the cave.

After years of intergalactic conquest, cornered war criminal Khair surrendered and allowed her memories to be wiped to save her life. But as the former officer fights for survival, she will discover the war she can’t remember isn’t done with her yet. With her Andromedan Khanate scattered by the bureaucratic United Oversight for Democracy, Khair finds herself drawn into a personal war between Taivan, a fleeing Khanate General, and the powerful UOD pursuing him. But the General, once a Khanate victim and now its greatest champion, will take the war to UOD or die trying.