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What do you desire in exchange for your soul? Everlasting youth? A million dollars? Women? Power? Bored high-schooler Adam Staples wants for nothing. Such an offer could only be a prank, right? Who would have thought that the prankster is a demon in disguise? After selling his soul and turning into a half-demon, Adam finds himself orphaned and dragged into a realm outside of the world he knew. Training under his benefactor and enrolling in a school made for those who were gifted with powers, Adam ventures around the Outworld to hunt down the demon that turned his life inside out....

Embracing chaos makes her dangerous, AWAKENING makes her unstoppable. She is not your savior. She is not your chosen one. She is the blade no one saw coming—the wound and the weapon. And this story cuts as deep as it heals. Savaé is curseborne, branded in gold and wrapped in pastel ruin. Trauma shattered her into jagged ice, and survival reforged her sharp as steel. A Fae with one goal: survive the brutal entrance trials of the Gildorea Universitás of War, earning her chance to rise to the skies. Fail, and she’s nothing.

It has been thousands of years since beast-kind were united under one banner. The empire encompasses most of the known world, driving out or enslaving the lesser races without mercy. In a state of constant war and conquest, they have perfected the art of battle. For commoner wolf-kind Valian, being accepted and trained in a noble house's army was a dream come true. Without wealth or a family, it was his best shot at attaining honor and glory. Until fate intervened. When Valian discovers he's descended from an ancient and long-thought-extinct line, everything changes.

The dead are rising from their graves. Somewhere beneath the land of Terrassia, something stirs from its ages-old slumber. Leighandra Evenstar planned to attend the resulting summit of nations simply to chronicle the problem and the suggested solutions. Soon, however, she finds herself wrapped up with a group of young heroes intent on making solutions rather than talking about them. They are an odd assortment - humans, an elf, and one of the wolf-like luranar - and yet Leighandra finds purpose in the unity of peoples and nations.

Texas archaeology student Nicolas Murray has an ironic fear of the dead. A latent power connecting him to an ancient order of necromancers floods his mind with impossible images of battle among hive-mind predators and philosopher fishmen. When a funeral service leaves him shaken and questioning his sanity, the insidious power strands him in a land where the sky kills and earthquakes level cities.

I was born a Beta, but I lived like an Omega—the pack’s disgrace, wolfless, and rejected by my own fated Alpha. For years, the future Alpha, Brandon, tortured me for it. But on the night of my nineteenth birthday, the pack’s cruelty pushed me past breaking point… and unleashed the ancient power I was never meant to possess.

In a Post-Apocalyptic world of Magic and Machinery, Jack Knight is an orphan who finds himself caught between a life-altering decision. Join the military and fight the demon hordes or sell his soul to the Corpos. Both options having minimal appeal to a shut-in like Jack. Thanks to the high cost of living, and his sister’s medical expenses, Jack has never given much thought to what he’d want to do with life, always living paycheck to paycheck, scrounging just enough to keep the lights on and his sister safe. However, an Angel presents him with a third option.

When Sia Mason lost her twin sister Mia in a car accident, she thought the grief would define the rest of her life. Years later, the truth crashes into her world with shattering force: Mia isn’t gone. She has been remade as a demon, bound to Hell itself. Determined to save her sister’s soul, Sia steps into a hidden world of dragons, paladins, and magi. Ancient orders wage silent wars, and the balance between Heaven and Hell is always on the edge of collapse.

Anja’s Awakening is a slow, merciless descent into vengeance—not justice, not reckoning. Vengeance. They thought she was nothing—cornered, broken, discarded. They believed they would never answer for what they did. But Anja is no longer something to be thrown away. She is something to fear. Shadows coil at her feet, drawn to the fury in her blood. Power ripples beneath her skin, sharpening with each name added to her list. She was forced to live like prey—now, she hunts without hesitation, without mercy. The air shifts when she’s near—thick with dread, humming with the promise of suffering.

When an ancient power wakes inside the wrong cadet, fate doesn't whisper—it detonates. Step into a world where magic chooses its host… and the choice is never accidental. Prepare to feel the ground tremble beneath your feet. This is a story that ignites the senses—every crackling spell, every pulse of mana, every breathless moment as destiny hunts a boy who never asked to be found. You'll feel his fear, his defiance, the slow-blooming fire of power he doesn't understand… and the fierce bonds forged in the crucible of danger.

Aranel has everything anyone could dream of: a nice castle, a happy kingdom, and loyal friends. But this bubble of happiness has been pricked by darkness. One enemy is lurking in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to rise to power. A reborn god or a well-mastered lie? Aranel, Falf, Oaris, Opera, and Asia have different stories, but destiny decided to unite them in Helipsia. One prophecy will shape their curse, enveloping them in a plot of mysteries and danger.

The battles she fought in the faerie courts may be over, but the war for the world has only just begun. After millennia of planning, Lucifer has finally broken out of his prison. Fortuna knows his arrival brings bad tidings, especially now that he has Oliver at his side. But the odds of survival aren’t in their favor. Fortuna’s family is still reeling from loss, and she has enemies everywhere she turns. She’s afraid of her own power and the darkness it brings out of her. Then there’s Collith and Laurie—each one complicated, each one in love with her. Fortuna fears losing them. 

Eunora Dawn is just a child. She was born a noble in the kingdom of Maeve, with 5 siblings and a shy personality. At a glance, her life was meant to be rosy. But, when Eunora unlocks the [System] on her 8th birthday, she gains more than she expected. Memories of her past life as a strong-willed and fulfilled woman flood her mind and all but overwrite her personality.

"Listeners, especially fans of the author's other works, will be entertained." - AudioFile SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE. From Jennifer L. Armentrout, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, comes the beginning of a searing fantasy romance for...

For centuries, vampires have ruled from the shadows. They are patient. Calculating. Eternal. The wolves, divided by instinct and pride, have survived in fractured packs—powerful, but disorganised. An uneasy silence has held between them. Until something ancient begins to stir. When dormant bloodlines awaken and forces long buried beneath history begin to move, the fragile balance collapses. Predators who once hunted in secret are drawn into open conflict. Old rivalries reignite. New powers emerge. And neither side fully understands what they have unleashed.

After years of slavery, subjected to torments of body and spirit by the inhuman Kin, Travis Sterling can barely recall his old life. Memories of Earth, and of disappointing his family barely seem real anymore. But even without the occasional voice in his head, Trav knows he’s different. A vast amount of rune crafting knowledge has mysteriously taken up residence in his mind; too bad he doesn’t have any mystical power. If he could find a way to actually use any rune magic, his situation could change.

She comes to him in a dream: her creamy skin delectably cool, silky raven hair smelling of the sea, and ocean-blue eyes reflecting the depths of her passion. She is everything Kalen has been desperate to capture in his art - and in his bed. In reality, when Christine finds his remote Scottish castle, it is to persuade the immortal warrior to help repel the darkness spreading around the world. But Kalen has a vindictive Sidhe trying to steal his powers and a dark secret of his own to battle before he and Christine can give in to - the awakening.

When seventeen-year-old Caelan Vey is taken to the hidden Blackthorn Academy after surviving a terrifying supernatural storm, he discovers a world of forbidden resonance magic, ancient secrets, and dangerous powers buried beneath the mountains. But Blackthorn was never just a school. Deep below the Academy lies a forgotten city, a living Heart pulsing beneath the earth, and a growing corruption known as the Veinblight.

In this second volume of the GemQuest series, the battle lines have been drawn. The Dark Lord reaches beyond his realms in search of the heir, and the disparate nations of the world begin to recognize the magnitude of his evil. They rise up united and renew their bonds. From the dazzling ice kingdom of Eleutheria to the magnificent tree-top city of Seramour, revived allies succor and protect the Twins during the preparation for their all-important quest for the Gem of Eternity.

The year is 1625... It is a time of great sickness as the black plague holds all in its grip. a hardy band of vampyres: the kindred, Nosferatu, Soul-Eaters... a living human vampyre born from blood, and a trio created from experiments by an ancient one... One who seeks to control all. This is the story of Emeline Gardner and those that contributed to her path. it is a dark path with many directions that they could go. But the time will come for her to awaken and become... during a war between the breeds.