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Seventeen-year-old Dylan Bennett thought restoring the Time Sigil was hard. Now he's facing something worse: centuries of systematic psychological torture designed to convince the Matter Sigil that all cooperation is just sophisticated exploitation. The entity that holds physical reality together has been taught to doubt its own judgment, shown carefully selected examples of partnership gone wrong until it believes connection itself is the problem. The culprit is Corvus, a corrupted apprentice who's spent seven hundred years perfecting his brainwashing techniques.

Assassin priests, mad kings, and the goddess of death collide in the first book of the Dreamblood Duology by NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin. The city burned beneath the Dreaming Moon. In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its...

The viral TikTok fantasy romance, now in a special print edition with bonus material! As dark forces gather to claim the realms, Ryker, Kya, and Zalen must master their own deadly challenges to stop them in this pulse-pounding second book in the Realms In Peril series. Ryker, a Worthy fae sworn...

Salem's guide to making a dragon break up with him: Step 1: Don't sleep with him. (No, seriously, don't). And definitely don't let him into your apartment; he won't leave. Step 2: Deny being mates and don't fall in love with him. Steps one and two failed. Gregori is too stubborn and irresistible.

Alyc Halcyon is born of grief and prophecy. Raised in the war-hardened kingdom of Emberfall, she is a child of steel, trained by her swordmaster father to fight before she can even mourn. Her life is a series of traditions and combat, a rigid path meant to forge a champion for the sacred Trials of Valor. But when the Trials begin, assassins move in the shadows, champions die, and the throne itself turns traitor. In a moment of horrifying betrayal, Alyc's father is executed. Hunted and alone, she flees, vanishing into the underbelly of a world on the brink of war.

A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this stranger's past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. In the city of Shadow...

High in a secluded tower, Prince Sigismund lives in quiet exile. He is an outcast in his own kingdom—his black eyes feared as the harbinger of the ruin that has swept across the land. Alone and blamed, he watches the world from afar, haunted by a fate he never chose. When his eighteenth birthday arrives, he knows he is out of time. Forced to make a daring escape from death or exile, he finds a world on the brink of war. On his perilous journey he meets others like him, and discovers their stories are bound by the same dark omen.

A missing king, a dark order, and three fragments of a demon king’s soul… a group of misfits must save Al’terra before a conquering demon is resurrected. The Ranger’s Guild has fallen. The enduring peace that has lasted two thousand years is now under threat. A dark order with one goal—bring back a demon king who nearly destroyed the world—rises to power.

In the midst of a bloody war between witches and witch-hunters, all Isla Byrne wants is to survive, and she has a plan to do it. Avoid conscription. Pickpocket to stay afloat. Keep her best friend, Minnie, safe. But all of that is thrown out the window when the unthinkable happens: Minnie enlists. Isla is left with little choice: She needs to save Minnie before she’s shipped off to the war front, or resign herself to losing her best friend to the war that took her father. But even if she can come up with a plan to get them both out alive, Minnie will be hard to convince.

Aten the Knight and his comrades are exhausted, yet determined. Pallas has burned down, many loved ones have passed, and they still don’t have enough information to defeat Apophis the Dragon. But they do know where to find it—in The Dragon War, a book said to be in the catacombs of Torn’s capital. While Vesta haunts Aten’s dreams and Apophis puts a bounty on Aten’s head, the travelers take on a treacherous journey to find answers. Will they get the information they need to defeat Apophis? How will they escape the bounty hunters desperate to turn Aten in?

Aten the Knight has returned to his village, Pallas, after a successful quest. But in the midst of his peoples' praise, Aten hears a large shrill far off in the forest. Another dragon realizing Aten's actions and seeking revenge. Aten warns the people of Pallas, but some are reluctant to believe in a new threat so soon. Aten and his fellow knights are left to come up with a desperate plan to escape the dragon's wrath. With his battle wounds still fresh, can Aten successfully survive and discover a way to defeat something more powerful than Vesta?