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Working as overnight tech support, James Lyle has long said he’d do anything to escape the boredom. But his commitment to excitement is tested when a slight coincidence one shift sends him to a different part of his office building . . . and he discovers a stairwell that contains not stairs but rather a landscape of seemingly infinite cubicles against a distant horizon. Unwilling (and unable) to stay away, James and a few of his trusted friends begin to explore this endless maze of supernatural business ennui.

What Happens When A Book Nerd Reincarnates Into A Magic Fantasy World? Being a book nerd as he was, Anthony's life couldn't have been better. Reading books all day, and all night, until he fell asleep with the book in his hands was his every day life. Things would've been great, and he would've enjoyed his quiet, sixteenth birthday if not for his twin sister having an outrageous birthday party. Unfortunately, the birthday party didn't end well, and Anthony's sister ended up in the hospital fighting for her life. As her brother, Anthony didn't hesitate to offer his blood to save his sister.

Lightning should have killed Marcus Shaw. Instead, it wakes something inside him. A hum in his chest. A power that amplifies every mage he touches, turning wards into weapons and sparks into infernos. Fenwick Academy calls him a Class-Five Amplifier — the first in sixty years. The Department of Magical Affairs calls him a threat. Four strangers call him family.

When Benjamin Nickels discovers he's the proud new owner of a derelict hobby farm, inherited from a crazy uncle he's never met, he's too excited to question his good fortune. He tells off his boss, quits his job, and heads out of town to Lucky Nickel Acres.

He came to Mosswhistle for a dry meal. The village gave him a class, a ledger, and a very smug job board. Oren Vale used to break siege walls for the crown. Now he wants nothing more than a quiet road, a cracked campaign mug, and the freedom to be nobody important. Then the Mosswhistle Helpful Board rings. One failing roof beam later, Oren is accidentally bound to the village as an Unlisted Helper, a civic class that rewards repairs, restraint, and public usefulness instead of combat. No kill credit. No heroic loot drops.

Harrick Gallow spends a century as the strongest warrior alive, though only the elites know he exists. So he does exactly that. Harrick Gallow, now Garrick Hallow, leaves the known world behind and retires to a frontier town, where he opens a repair and herb shop. Yet that is far easier said than done when you are the strongest person alive. Worse, trouble has a habit of following him wherever he goes.

The Demon Lord is dead. The System is broken. Somehow, Elias Hearthsong is neither of these things, despite being at the final battle of the Demon Wars. He is a Master Enchanter, perhaps the last one alive. Determined to keep a promise, he crosses the continent to protect his dead friend's legacy: a crumbling orphanage run by a beautiful kitsune. He isn't a teacher, nor does he have experience with children. But with the love of a few good women, anything can become possible.

Valdis Wolfbane is renowned through the lands for his physical prowess and mighty conquests, but he's willing to give it all up to purchase a farm and settle down.

Exchanging a sword for a plow, he's set on turning the dilapidated farm into something he can live off for the rest of his peaceful life.

What he didn't bet on was finding love after all these years of fighting. Now that he has the time, he's about to discover that two is better than one... and three makes for a life well lived.

Howdy, friend. I'm Rusty, and so is my big-rig's engine. When the old girl finally gave up the ghost in the middle of nowhere, I wasn't expecting to get a tow from an alien mothership. But the next thing I knew, me and my buddy Mike were halfway across the galaxy in an oversized hubcap full of the weirdest space creatures you ever did see. Turns out aliens are mighty friendly folks, but they can't fix their tech to save their lives.

Change is coming to the wilds. Things are taking a turn that Tanner wasn't expecting. From homestead to town, he has a multitude of new faces and races to take care of. Thankfully, he has training in managing domains. With his peace broken, he'll have to find a balance of taking care of the town, letting his aides do what they were hired for, and growing his skills to better everyone.

A midnight witch hunt had an unexpected final destination: Ben Ford's living room. Ben was a simple man. He enjoyed video games, his dog, cooking, and suffering through each week of work so he could relax on the weekends. His simple life was upended when three gorgeous witches suddenly arrive in his living room via magical portal. They told him the gods had determined he was their protector. Once the proverbial dust cleared, he realized that building a life with these three women would be harder than anticipated; they didn't exist in the legal sense, after all.

Harrick Gallow spends a century as the strongest warrior alive, though only the elites know he exists. He kills dragons when they attack the countryside, defeats necromancer hosts of hundreds of thousands of undead, slaughters beast tides that threaten to swallow the kingdom whole, and saves humanity time and again. He breaks past the impossible Level 99 barrier and reaches Level 105, something long believed to be unattainable. Recently, he kills the Demon Lord. Except, unlike before, no one has an inkling that the Demon Lord is dead yet.

After years on the run across the multiverse, I'd genuinely hoped the quiet coastal town of Arkley would be the perfect place to settle down. I just wanted somewhere to take it easy on the morning school run, to pile the hot chocolate high with marshmallows, and to enjoy a few high-stakes games of Keepy Uppy with my daughter, Edie. Oh, and being able to keep my Supremacy-grade magic strictly hidden away wouldn't go amiss either. But the powers-that-be had to go and make life complicated, didn't they? You see, our new backyard sits right on top of a dimensional tear.

One minute, Maya was staring at a spreadsheet and nursing a lukewarm coffee; the next, she was staring down the mandibles of a cannibalistic beetle in a pitch-black cavern. Death was supposed to be a release, not a lateral move into a nightmare. But when the universe reincarnates you as a Void-Insectoid Queen in the middle of a battle royale, you don’t file a complaint. You organize. Prepare to be dragged into the bioluminescent depths of the Underdark, where the air smells of ozone and old blood.

The Final Examination for my first year at Krysfelt is coming up! My freshman year has been anything but orthodox: ogres, a draconic bloodline, and a nest of corrupted bureaucrats who'd love to see me fail. I've survived it all thanks to the team at my side—loyal, lethal, and lovelier than I ever thought I deserved. Now we have to prove we belong here in a trial designed to break squads that aren't perfectly in sync. And we're about to add a new piece to the puzzle: Seema, a late-starting lionkin with almost a whole year to make up for.

She keeps the roads honest, and the spirits on speaking terms. When wagons bog down, animals panic, or the Wilds turn hostile, caravan shaman Anya Stormbloom does what ledgers and swords cannot. She bargains with Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Spirit. What should have been a routine run to Redstone turns into a gauntlet: shade-tainted paths, wildfire country, flooded crossings, and a market town on the brink. Each solution adds a line to her oath-ledger, and reveals a storm no shaman should face alone.

Anika DuPont just knows she's bound for stardom. As Magical Girl Understudy, she's already a big deal in her hometown, and now that she's eighteen, she's heading to Tokyexico University, where the real action is. Every superhero on Earth is jockeying for better roles in a global reality show created for the amusement of alien children, and Annie's trying to keep her secret identity hidden while she makes her way out of dead-end Little League roles.

A cozy home in a small town, a lake for fishing, and a few friendly neighbors — that's all Sean needs. And that's exactly what he's hoping to find in the quiet town of Waycross. But when he discovers a mysterious book in the attic of his new home, strange things start to happen. Strange and magical things. With magic in play, Sean's priorities and ambitions might just shift. The one thing he is getting, though, are those friendly neighbors. And he'll be needing them, too.

The farm made it through winter and Kain his first full year. The debt didn't go anywhere. Kain owes fifty silver on a horse and has four new plots that won't plant themselves. The east side of the property sits on a clay hardpan that nobody mentioned when he bought the place. Breaking through it is weeks of pickaxe work he didn't plan for.

Alden is drained. A dead-end job in a grey city is sucking the life out of him, and he’s a breath away from snapping. So when a mysterious letter arrives with a hundred-year-old deed to a magical farm, the choice is easy. He’s trading the city's grime and grind for a fresh start. But Starshine Farm is a wreck. The fields are barren, the buildings are collapsing, and the nearby villagers are openly suspicious.