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When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teen from the Denver suburbs. She definitely didn't expect to be transported to a magical alternate dimension, inhabited by monsters and presided over by a mysterious System. Here, people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens. Grappling with the mechanics of the elusive System isn't the only challenge Alice faces. It seems an underground organization known as the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions.

Transported from Earth to an entirely new planet, filled with magic and monsters, Alice Verianna has not only had to figure out how to survive but to learn and grow while she's at it. But what's really driven her from the time of her arrival is the desire to investigate—and determine the true nature of—the seemingly omnipotent System that holds sway over all things in the world of Luliv.

Since she arrived in the alternate dimension of Luliv, Alice Verianna's scientific exploration of its magical properties has yielded fascinating results. She has uncovered many secrets behind the mysterious construct—known as the System—that connects all of Luliv, and her own abilities to harness this magic have flourished in unexpected ways. But the System is failing. And as Alice desperately races to get to the bottom of why, she's finding more questions than answers while its people go mad and monster attacks become more frequent and deadlier than ever.

Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world of The Conductors, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic...if not murder. In the 1960s, the world was caught up in reaching beyond our planet and into the...

When Lady Arabella Trunkett's father, the High Lord Minister of Urbannia, is kidnapped, all clues point to the mysterious country of Gandiss, throwing the world into political upheaval. Arabella is convinced that the more sinister nation of Carabarras is actually to blame, urged on by a mad scientist seeking revenge. So, she sets out on a perilous airship journey across a variety of exotic locales to save him, and to halt the potential world war.

Not all diseases are known to the public eye, and perhaps they are better left that way. Some substances have disastrous consequences when mixed with human blood and can cause bizarre infections that bring humans closer to their animalistic side. Bad Blood (2020), the first installment of the Scientist & Girl Series trilogy, follows a teenage girl and her scientist guardian on their quest to rid the world of such a disease, or die trying.

No one believes what five-year-old Bennett Asherton spotted among the dense brush in the lowly rural town of Lindlow. Fourteen years later, he is determined to bring to light old memories, devoting his young life to proving what he saw that night was not just a tale brought about from his vivid imagination. But perhaps some memories are better left in the past.

After abducting Arthur of Brittany from his own time in 1203, thereby creating the mystery that partly prompted the visit in the first place, Alice and her team discover that they have inadvertently brought the smallpox virus back to 1780 with them. Searching for a future vaccine, Prudence finds that the various factions in the future time war intend to use the crisis to their own advantage.