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When the fourth princess of Istalam is due to dedicate herself to a path serving the crown, she makes a choice that shocks everyone, herself most of all: She leaves. In hiding and exiled from power, Miyara finds her place running a tea shop in a struggling community that sits on the edge of a magical disaster zone. But there's more brewing under the surface of this city—hidden magic and hidden machinations—that threaten all the people who've helped her make her own way.

Miyara saved the city of Sayorsen and the dragons. She was happy with the place she'd made for herself. But every action triggers consequences. Her older sister comes to drag her back to the palace and the meaningless life she hated. The tea guild won't support her unless she succeeds on her own in their chosen challenge: a tea tournament and the international politics and unrest that come along with it. To top it all off, the border protecting the remaining world from the magical disaster zone is suddenly failing.

Alaria Hartwood vanquishes a legendary kraken, becoming a Tentacle Mage. Her newfound talents and wealth bring hope of a quiet retirement but fate has far different plans. While Alaria wants to turn her retirement dream location into a place where she can focus on enchanting, potion making, and spell crafting it won't be easy. She quickly finds herself having to vanquish orcs and demons with a vibrant assistant. Mia is a great student, and a gifted soul, but even with her help, it seems like Alaria's shop on Brighthill will have to wait for the brewing storm to calm.

Everyone wants a piece of the magical disaster zone for their own agendas, and some will stop at nothing to destroy the border and bring catastrophe down on the world. It's up to Miyara to host a summit, bringing all the players to one place so she can find out what's going on and forge the connections necessary to stop it before it's too late for everyone.

Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration. Contains The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective.

Alaria Hartwood vanquishes a legendary kraken, becoming a Tentacle Mage. Her newfound talents and wealth bring hope of a quiet retirement, but fate has far different plans.

After a life of itinerant adventuring, Alaria has used her tentacle magic and her elemental powers to clean up Brighthill village. She wants nothing more than a quiet life in her new home with her two lovers. But when a desperate plea for rescue comes from a very unexpected quarter, Alaria, Mia, and Beth are the only ones who can help.

Lem and the rag-tag gang of galactic adventurers on the starship Teapot are set to become roadies for the galaxy’s hottest band—but an urgent call from Bexley’s family means the rock stars will have to wait. Bexley’s soon-to-be-born sibling has a big secret: wings. On planet Hwin, skeledivergence is outlawed, so the Teapot crew swoop in to help the family escape. But their planet won’t let them go that easily. Hunted across the galaxy by a fanatical and eerily familiar cop, the Teapotters must find a way to outwit their pursuer and secure a future for skeledivergent people everywhere.

Lem is adapting to her new home aboard a strange spaceship in an even stranger universe, where the misfit crew of the Teapot have more than enough trouble on their hands running their interplanetary charter service. But when they accept an urgent assignment, they have just one week to save a race of cat-people from certain destruction. Stuck with a disaster-platypus of a project manager and a population seemingly determined to thwart their own rescue, the Teapotters face the impossible job of herding cats and evacuating the planet before it’s blown to smithereens.

In ihrem luxuriösen Teehaus empfängt Arthie Casimir, Waise und kriminelles Superhirn, tagsüber die Reichen der Stadt – und gelangt dabei an so manches brisante Geheimnis. Nachts jedoch verwandelt sich die Teestube in ein illegales Bluthaus für die verachteten Vampire. Als ein geheimnisvoller Fremder das Teehaus bedroht, muss Arthie einen unmöglichen Job annehmen: Sie soll ein Buch aus dem Athereum stehlen – der verführerischen Unterwelt Ettenias, die von mächtigen Vampiren beherrscht wird. Zusammen mit ihrem engsten Vertrauten Jin stellt Arthie eine ungleiche Crew zusammen.

A Tibetan prince escapes a palace coup and is raised as a slave far away from the palace. He finds freedom on the Tea Horse Caravan trails that criss-cross the Himalayas and their foothills. He becomes a mercenary leading a 200 man army and wins an important battle against the Chinese, who then take exquisite revenge. He learns many lessons in his beloved sacred mountains. Many ballads are sung of his adventures, which live on longer than he does.

Out in the vast emptiness of the galaxy, anything can happen. It’s a fact that Lem and her trusty companion Spock know all too well. Sometimes, the things lurking in the darkness are all in your head. Then again, maybe there really is something out there.

A cozy neurodivergent fantasy. Sometimes, the best adventures come in the form of a good book and the perfect cup of tea. Mahkai, a neurodivergent, bookish minotaur, has never quite fit in with his battle loving clan. He much prefers drinking tea in peace and sketching his ideas and discoveries in his notebooks. After missing an important family event and nearly destroying a neighboring clan's camp in his pursuit of answers to his never-ending questions, he embarks on a journey to gather honey for his tea rather than face his family's ridicule.

The real Florida lies far from the interstates, where there are no dancing mice, bikini-covered beaches, or shopping malls. If you listen closely, beneath the cries of hungry gulls and the rustle of wind through the palm fronds, you might hear it whisper its secrets.

Locked away in the seclusion of the Terem Apartments, the Romanov Tsarevnas were no threat to the crown. Yet the same Romanov blood flowed through their veins, and they weren’t so easily forgotten - one of them ruled Russia for seven years. Maria Alekseyevna writes her deepest thoughts in her diary, hides away to read, and has a forbidden love that lives in her secret script. Natalya Alekseyevna has dedicated her life to her sister, Anna Alekseyevna, who suffers from a condition that claimed her brother, Tsar Feodor Alexeyevich.

Boston, 1773 - The city is restless, torn between loyalty to England and a rising independent spirit. Caught uncomfortably in the middle, Constance Pruitt is the governor's cousin and a widowed tea merchant who struggles to sustain her business. Her family would prefer she relinquish any notion of liberty and settle down—preferably with a husband—but Constance turns to smuggling for the Sons of Liberty instead.

For the ladies of the Suite Tea Society, nothing comes easy. Trina Cantrell, Danielle O'Connell, Gwen Didier, and Gabrielle Dodd thought they'd endured the worst life had to throw at them, coming through stronger and better. Now, just when it feels like everything is falling into place, the unthinkable happens. While Gwen is finally accepting her role as a new mother, her love for Baby Fiona grows and, despite the thorn of Robert's ex-wife Leah lurking at their sides, brings her family closer together. It is a new day for Gwen until she discovers Baby Fiona has been kidnapped.

Welcome to The Suite Tea Society, where the loyal, dutiful wives of billionaires have their secrets too. These ladies have no idea the secrets they would unearth, and the lives that would be affected.

When Emily wakes up in a hospital room on Hilton Head Island, she has no memory of how she arrived there. Suddenly, she has a fiancé and a new life in South Carolina. What happened to her husband in Cornwall, and why can't she remember anything? Come visit Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for a romantic beach murder mystery.

Follow five best friends who sign up for a treasure hunt, rent a dilapidated RV, and head out on the search. After experiencing enough losses for a lifetime, Nels Ware does not take things for granted, especially his family of friends. So when a $50,000 treasure hunt grabs his attention, he recruits them for the rollicking quest.