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Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales, hoping Jess can help explain the vivid dreams that preceded the attack – but her sister is nowhere to be found. As Lucy waits for her return, she starts to unearth strange rumours about Jess’s town. Tales of numerous missing men, spread over decades. A baby abandoned in a sea-swept cave. Whispers of women’s voices on the waves. All the while, her dreams start to feel closer than ever…

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation...

All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature - until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. But now a rival court has laid claim to him, and Jade may or may not be willing to fight for him. Beset by doubts, Moon must travel in the company of strangers to a distant realm where he will finally face the forgotten secrets of his past, even as an old enemy returns with a vengeance.

With the last known bastion of The Fallen in ruins and the remaining Greater Devils isolated from civilization by thousands of miles and a monster-filled ocean, Evelyn and her crew set their course for Vigilance, hoping for rest and a chance to build a new life. But this victory has not come without a price. The memories of those she was forced to kill and the devastation she left behind weigh heavily on Evelyn's heart, casting a shadow over her every step.

It only takes one defeat to topple an empire. With Britain still in the grips of World War Two, Georgina Garrett has her own battles to fight. She has made many enemies over the years, and with every victory she's only grown stronger. But following a bitter betrayal, Georgina must find a way to claw herself out of the depths of despair and back to the top position within London's criminal underworld. She'll do whatever it takes to secure her freedom and defeat those who'd rather to see her dead.

If you think Monsters are scary...you don't know Jack! The Tritons are surfacing.... Dr. Obadiah "Jack" Jackson, the smart-mouth cryptozoologist with a penchant for trouble, is back. Now the Field Operations Director for ENIGMA (ENtity Identification and Global Management Agency), he and his team find themselves in way over their heads when they travel to the Greek islands to investigate the sudden appearance of strange aquatic creatures the locals are calling mermaids.

Two women disguised as men collide on a pirate ship: one set on revenge, the other escaping land and the bounty on her head. The two of them quickly find themselves in the middle of a voyage to find the world’s most dangerous weapon: the Kraken’s Fang. Even worse, their evil captain has a far more nefarious plot in mind. Can the two unravel the sea of secrets, and save the world? Or will their budding feelings for each other result in their downfall?

The Theocracy's invasion of Omui thwarted, Haruka is desperate to return to normal life. He's added a new item to his to-do list besides dungeon-crawling and equipment-crafting: the monster forest from when he first landed in this fantasy world! His logging program efforts mean the former death-magnet monster lair is now ripe for construction. Roads, forest parks, a pool resort... The sky's the limit for Haruka's latest project, and his classmates are more than welcome to join the ride!

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK #1 LibraryReads Pick Indie Next Pick A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward. “Narrator Barrie Kreinik offers a first-rate...

The year is Showa 34 (1959 AD). Rising from the ashes of the great war, Tokyo is rebuilding and changing rapidly all around Jinya. As the demon hunter searches for his place in this new world, a rumor reaches his ear--a prostitute with a flower name reminiscent of Magatsume's daughters is working in the Dove District, a flourishing red-light district of downtown Tokyo. But when Jinya goes to investigate, he gets caught up in a strange case that is more than he bargained for.

It's 1872, year five of the Meiji era, and the world is rapidly changing, long leaving the samurai behind--but some things aren't content to remain a memory of the past. Now in Kyoto with his daughter Nomari, Jinya runs a soba restaurant by day and patrols the streets at night hunting demons, which have strangely been increasing in number.

Danblf, stuck in a girl's body and claiming to be Danblf's disciple Mira, has been sent on a journey to find the nine sages. But when she makes it to her first destination, she finds a horrifying surprise--a city overrun by zombies! Deducing that one of the sages—the necromancer Soul Howl—must be nearby, Mira leads her growing party into the depths of a mazelike ancient temple for an all-out assault!

Soul Howl's trail has gone cold, so Mira heads back to Alcait Academy with the few clues she managed to find. With some help from her friend Solomon, they decipher that the answers she seeks are hidden below the Kingdom of Alcait. The Fool's Wunderkammer is a labyrinth full of one-of-a-kind research and dangerous curiosities. Can Mira find what she's looking for there...and make it out alive?

When an alchemist who holds the key to stopping the Chimera Clausen's evil schemes is abducted, Mira and her allies set out to rescue him. As they close in on the kidnappers, the true identity of the enemy leader becomes clear—as does the location of the spirit hunters' final base. In a push to stamp them out once and for all, Mira, Kagura, and their friends mobilize to take down the Chimera Clausen. The final battle approaches!

After recent events, former salaryman Mizuki Ryosuke finds himself the man of the hour! He starts an adventuring business and enters a partnership with the UK government, with Carol's help. Their condition? That he retrieves a broken skill left inside the Omori Dungeon known as "Excalibur." Mizuki's party determines its location, but they aren't the only people on the hunt and a certain familiar face comes to stand in their way. Unluckily for Mizuki, however, there are more threats on this expedition...

After waking up as Weiss Hamilton, a doomed minor villain from his favorite game, one fan has been working hard to rewrite the plot! He's already saved two other characters from their tragic fates and turned his mismanaged territory around. It seems like he's finally avoided certain death--until a neighboring noble declares war! Framed for involvement in the slave trade and isolated from help, Weiss relies on his game knowledge to craft a perfect strategy to save himself from another game over.

Amara Mutar has risen to the highest ranks of Tamar society by her wits and ambition. But it is not high enough to keep those she loves, and herself, safe from a past that will not release her. Cassian Haydar has sunk as low as it is possible to sink, but he intends to take back what is his, and crush those who took everything that mattered from him—after he’s done stealing back all the other lives they’ve robbed.

They may have separate missions, but Lord Werner—a Japanese office worker reincarnated into the world of a classic RPG—and his friend, the legendary hero Mazel, are both working to save the realm in their own ways. While Mazel walks the path of radiance, slaying the Demon Lord's minions one by one, Werner uses his real-world knowledge to help manage the kingdom's internal affairs. Managing refugees, fixing the water supply—it's a lot of work for a supposed background character!

A PopSugar, Oprah Daily, and BookBub Most Anticipated Romance of 2022! Victorian high society’s most daring equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight for independence in the strong arms of London’s most sought after and devastatingly handsome half-Indian tailor. Evelyn...

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire...